Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: FURTHER EARLY ENCOUNTERS
Howard Menger’s second self-reported encounter with an extraterrestrial being occurred in 1942, while he was serving in the US Army in an armour division near El Paso, Texas. He was wandering through the nearby Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez one night when a taxi pulled over to the kerb and the driver pointed to a man sitting in the back seat.
The man had long blond hair which hung over his shoulders, and suntanned skin. Taller and heavier than the average Mexican, he spoke in English with a slight Mexican accent, inviting Menger to get inside the cab with him as he needed to talk to him. Menger declined, but later wondered if he had made a mistake. Could this man have been one of the ‘others’ referred to by the lady on the rock?
Some time later, while posted in military service at Camp Cook, California, Menger was greeted by a uniformed man who initially addressed him telepathically, then verbally, confirming that he knew about both the earlier encounters with his people. In appearance, the man was rather unusual, said Menger:
He was a fine looking man. Although there was something definitely unusual about him, he could have passed ¯ and did ¯ for an ordinary GI. The singularity of the man probably was not because of the finely chiseled features and the luminous, almost liquid quality of his eyes, but in the communication I felt. I could sense that the man was kind, wise, emotionally and spiritually developed beyond anyone I had ever met. Although a kind of reserve he wore as if a part of him set him apart from an ordinary person, I somehow accepted with no surprise the emergence of an underplayed, yet natural sense of humor . . .
In referring to the Juarez contact with one of his people, the spaceman began by saying that he fully understood Menger’s reluctance to get inside the cab with such a man (We told him he should cut his hair’!). He also appreciated the fact that Army regulations encouraged caution in such areas and that Juarez was hardly the best place for an interplanetary meeting.
The stranger went on to explain that his people had established contact with humans in Mexico many centuries earlier. Long before the time of the Conquistadores, we made contact with the Aztecs. We helped these people in many ways, and it is too bad the conquerors came in war instead of good will and friendship; for there were many things the Aztecs could have taught them. Instead, they withheld these secrets, and these perished with the civilization.
Some of these secrets supposedly related to the use of sound and light to produce power and run machinery. A number of the space people came from a planet (which he did not name) to contact ‘remnants of his own people still living on Earth, descendants of an ancient race which originally came here from his own planet’.
The spaceman told Menger that his Army unit would soon be moved to Hawaii, and that he would be put on detached service with special duties which would give him more free time for ‘certain tasks’ he was to perform, and where he would have yet another contact. These events, as it transpired, came to pass.
In Hawaii, Menger became a battalion topographical draughtsman. Later, he told me, he was transferred by regimental headquarters and put on detached service working with Naval Intelligence and his Army battalion on various top- secret inventions.
On ‘impulse’ one evening, he borrowed a jeep and headed for a cavern area several miles away from the battalion headquarters, where he encountered yet another gorgeous girl from elsewhere.
She was dressed in a sort of flowing outfit of pastel shades. Under a kind of flowing tunic, translucent and pinkish, she wore loosely fitted pajama-type pantaloons. She stood about five feet six inches, with the dark, wavy hair falling over her shoulders and the tunic floating gracefully around the shapely contour of her body . . . this girl, too, exuded the same expression of spiritual love and deep understanding. Standing in her presence I was filled with awe and humility, but not without a strong physical attraction one finds impossible to allay when in the presence of these women.
Menger emphasized that the space people he claims to have met, though far superior to us in terms of physical, mental and spiritual abilities, were still much like us. At first he found it daunting that these visitors were able to read his every thought, but ‘one suddenly realizes he cannot hide anything, and becomes completely honest, both with himself and the visitors’. During the lengthy discourse, the ‘Martian’ space-woman foretold, correctly, that Menger would be posted in early April 1945 to Okinawa, where he served with the 713th Tank Battalion.
Menger had his first close encounter with the horrors of war when shrapnel from an exploding shell entered his eye, causing infection and temporary blindness. During his stay in hospital, he relates that one of the Army nurses who looked after him, whom he believes may have been from somewhere else, assured him that his sight would be restored. She also predicted correctly another contact near the time of his release from hospital.
Two weeks after his release, Menger claims he was nearly bayoneted by three Japanese soldiers, but managed to overpower them. During the skirmish, he was filled with a strong impression that he should not kill the soldiers — an impression he attributed to the mental influence of his space contacts.
Menger alleges that the following night he had yet another contact, in the northern part of Okinawa, with a very tall man dressed in Army khaki.
Eventually, the man claimed that he came from Venus. One of his predictions, according to Menger, was that the Japanese would soon surrender, ‘for they are about to be blasted into submission by a power which will shock the world’. A few weeks later came the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After the war, Menger says he had his first encounter with a landed spaceship and its crew. In June 1946 he was visiting his parents in High Bridge, New Jersey, when a craft, similar to Adamski’s famous ‘scout’, landed. Two men, dressed in blue-grey ski-type uniforms and with long blond hair, stepped out of the craft through an opening on the flange, followed by the same girl Menger had encountered in 1932. ‘This lovely creature had not changed at all,’ said Menger. Although looking only about 25, she claimed to be ‘more than 500 years old’! (In later contacts, the space people generally were much ‘younger’, e.g., 79 Earth years.) During the ensuing conversation, Menger was told that he would have continuing contacts which would ‘further instruct and condition’ him.
In late 1947, two supposed space people met Menger and showed him to a secluded farm area, one of several sites to be used for future landings and contacts, where no one could be harmed by ‘the electromagnetic force which emanates from our craft’. Menger would be advised of these appointments by telephone.