SALVATION FROM SPACE Every summer contactees—people who believe they have communicated with god¬ like space people—flock to the Rocky Mountain Conference on UFO Investigation, held on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie. All these people have remarkable stories to tell: stories of personal transformation that sound like classic religious experiences in Space Age guise. … Read more
SPACESHIP CRASH IN 1884? On June 6, 1884, as a band of cowboys rounded up cattle in remote Dundy County, Nebraska, a blazing object streaked out of the sky and crashed some distance from them, leaving (according to a contemporary newspaper account) “fragments of cog-wheels and other pieces of machinery . . . glowing with … Read more
FROM OUTER SPACE TO YOUR WALLET Consider the case of George Adamski. Born in Poland in 1891, Adamski came to America in his infancy. He received a spotty education and developed an early interest in occultism. By the 1930s Adamski had established a niche as a low- rent guru in Southern California’s mystical scene. He … Read more
THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND THE YENESIANS George Adamski was one of the most famous—or notorious—figures on the flying-saucer scene from 1952 until his death in 1965. In books and lectures he recounted his meetings with friendly Venusians, Martians, and Saturnians. He also claimed that high government officials—themselves in contact with “Space Brothers”—secretly knew he was … Read more
INTO THE WILD RLUE – THE DIRTIEST HOAX OF ALL From the beginning the urge to spin yarns proved irresistible to some. Like weeds in saucerdom’s fertile ground, hoaxes, tall tales, rumors, and other silliness sprouted and spread. One of the most notorious—and successful— liars, the late Fred L. Crisman, actually bridged the gap between … Read more
MENACE OF THE IINDEREARTHERS Before there were little green Martians and tall blond Venusians, there were deros. In the 1930s a Pennsylvania man named Richard Sharpe Shaver overheard them speaking through his welding equipment. And the voices—singularly unpleasant ones, obsessed with torture and sexual perversion—would not shut up. Their incessant chatter drove Shaver to desperate … Read more
THE SAUCERS OF S4 On November 11 and 13, 1989, viewers of KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, heard an incredible story from news reporter George Knapp: A scientist had come forth to reveal that the U.S. government possesses the remains of extraterrestrial vehicles. From these vehicles have come extraordinary technological breakthroughs. The scientist, Robert Scott … Read more
UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – CLOSEST ENCOUNTERS On the evening of September 19, 1961, while driving home to Portsmouth through rural New Flampshire, Barney and Betty Hill sighted a pancake-shaped UFO with a double row of windows. At one point they stopped their car, and Barney got out for a better look. As … Read more
THE CASE OF THE MISSING WATER The sounds of frightened cattle woke a rancher from a sound sleep in the early morning of September 30, 1980, near Rosedale, Victoria, Australia. When he went outside, he was astonished to see a domed disc with orange and blue lights gliding about ten feet above the ground. It … Read more
HIGHWAY HIJACK Sandy Larson, her 15-year-old daughter, Jackie, and Jackie’s boyfriend, Terry O’Leary, awoke early that morning, August 26, 1975. Mrs. Larson, who lived in Fargo, North Dakota, was planning to take a real- estate test in Bismarck, 200 miles away. At 4 A.M., 45 miles west of Fargo on Interstate 94, they encountered an … Read more
