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We are not alone...and Nick Redfern can prove it.
Contactees contains the fascinating stories of the select group of people chosen by visitors to Earth to spread their message. Are aliens really among us? Don't be too quick to dismiss their claims.
Truman Bethurum was divorced by his wife because she believed he was having close encounters of a very personal kind with a beautiful extraterrestrial "space captain" named Aura Rhanes. Is he nuts? Prescient? An omen?
A band of eerily human-looking, blond-haired aliens-later known as the Space-Brothers-informed other contactees that they were concerned by our warlike ways and wished us to live in peace with one another. Acting on the advice of the Space-Brothers, contactees such as George Van Tassel and George Adamski went out and spread the extraterrestrial word to anyone and everyone who would listen. And many did, including U.S. government agencies.
More than half a century later, the contactees are still among us, still telling their tales of personal alien encounters, and still maintaining their cult-like status in the world of UFOlogy. Nick Redfern's Contactees relates their thought-provoking, lluminating, controversial, and sometimes bizarre stories in all their appropriately out-of-this-world glory.
Introduction 13
Chapter 1 Early Encounters 17
Chapter 2 The Ultimate contactee 25
Chapter 3 The FBI Takes Note 33
Chapter 4 Close Encounters with the captain 47
Chapter 5 Orfeo and the aliens 57
Chapter 6 Rocking With Giants 69
Chapter 7 Alternative Aliens 85
Chapter 8 "I am Diane. I come from Venus 95
Chapter 9 Prince Uccelles 103
Chapter 10 Close Encounters of the Sexual Kind 109
Chapter 11 Aho, Let's Go! 117
Chapter 12 E.T. Infiltration 125
Chapter 13 Aliens on the Mountain 133
Chapter 14 "Believe in us, but not too much." 141
Chapter 15 Saucers In the '70s 147
Chapter 16 Circles and Space-Brothers 155
Chapter 17 Altered States 163
Chapter 18 Space Aliens or Secret Agents? 175
Chapter 19 Manipulating the Mind 181
Chapter 20 Inventing Aliens 189
Chapter 21 Space-Brothers vs. Crypto-Brothers 197
Chapter 22 Ghost-Lights 205
Conclusions 221
Resources 227
Index 241
About the Author 249
Overview
We are not alone...and Nick Redfern can prove it.
Contactees contains the fascinating stories of the select group of people chosen by visitors to Earth to spread their message. Are aliens really among us? Don't be too quick to dismiss ...