Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: WITNESS TESTIMONY
Howard Menger’s claimed liaison with the space people — and there were many more contacts — continued until the late 1950s. A month after his assumed visit to the Moon, Menger met Marla (Connie) Baxter, whom he married after divorcing Rose, his wife of 17 years, in 1958. Connie helped Howard run his sign-painting shop in Somerville, New Jersey, and also became deeply involved in his less down-to-earth pursuits. In company with many people in Menger’s study group, she had some extraordinary experiences which tend to support some of her husband’s claims, and which are now published, together with a fully updated version of the original book, entitled The High Bridge Incident.
Several individuals claiming to have witnessed some of Menger’s contacts came forward and spoke on The Long John Party Line, hosted by ‘Long’ John Nebel on radio station WOR, New York City. One of these witnesses was Menger’s father. Here follows part of that interview:
EBEL: Would you say these were normal-sized people?
MENGER Sr.: Oh, no. I would say one was about six-feet-two or three, and the other was about six feet.
NEBEL: Were you close enough to observe their features?
MENGER Sr.: No, that I wasn’t.
NEBEL: Did you notice what they wore?
MENGER Sr.: To a certain extent, yes. As far as I could see, they wore something similar to ski-suits, tight at the wrists and ankles . . . It was a dark night . . . but these people seemed to have a glow to them. That is how we discovered they were coming toward us — by the glow. When these people left us, the grass there (and I know positively because I had cut some of it) was three feet high. And they went through that grass like it was a nice concrete walk, with no exertion at all .
NEBEL: You have seen the ships, too, haven’t you?
MENGER Sr.: Oh, yes, I have seen them in the air and in the daytime I saw them, and at first I was very sceptical.
Witnesses were not restricted to Menger’s family. ‘I had many witnesses — sane witnesses,’ Howard told me when I interviewed him in 1978 One was a doctor’s wife, one was a physicist at Princeton University, and they all saw it. They all said the same — which is unusual — on radio, to back me up. I had photos and movies. In other words, in my case, there was definitely proof that we were being visited, not necessarily by aliens from another planet, but people who were more advanced than we were in technology, spirituality, and general human engineering, and that all this evidence would be admissible in a court of law . . .
The physicist referred to was ‘Dr Tom Richards’, at the time a graduate student at Princeton (and whose real name is Richard Berry,Menger told me). In September of that year, with the permission of thespace people, he and others were invited by Menger to witness one of his contacts. ‘The visitors landed about a quarter of a mile to the rear of thehouse in a secluded wooded area,’ wrote Menger. According to investigator Peter Jordan, Richards first sighted two disc-shaped objects, about six feet in diameter, which pulsated irregularly and hovered silently only 20 feet in front of him, radiating a variety of bright colours. These were also observed for nearly twenty minutes by Menger and his wife, Rose, and a young high-school student named Hotchkins.
Because Menger had not permitted any of the witnesses to come closer than 20 feet to the objects (due to the potentially dangerous level of electromagnetic energy he believed surrounded them), Richards’ scientific scepticism was never completely dispelled. ‘But,’ said Jordan ‘Richards admits that he did find the experience striking, and finds difficult, given the incredible sophistication of the display, to accept allegations of fraud freely advanced by so many of Menger’s detractors!’