Contactee

Flying Saucers Over Papua | Cruttwell Report, 1960

The 56-page Cruttwell Report bound 79 sightings across Papua New Guinea between 1953 and 1959, including the Boianai close encounter of 26 June 1959 witnessed by Father William...

The Desert Center Contact | California, 1952

On 20 November 1952, the amateur astronomer George Adamski said he met a being from a 'scout ship' in the California desert near Desert Center, witnessed by six companions who...

Whitley Strieber, Communion | Upstate New York, 1985

In December 1985, horror novelist Whitley Strieber experienced a visitation at his cabin in upstate New York that would become the bestselling book Communion and embed the image of...

Art Bell | Biography

Art Bell (1945 to 2018), the Pahrump, Nevada broadcaster whose overnight radio programme Coast to Coast AM ran from 1988 to 2007 across more than five hundred American stations and...

Credo Mutwa | Biography

Credo Mutwa (1921 to 2020), Zulu sangoma, sanusi, and one of the principal twentieth-century transmitters of southern African oral cosmology into print. Indaba My Children (1964),...

George Van Tassel | Biography

George Van Tassel, aircraft engineer turned 1950s contactee, founder of the Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention and builder of the Integratron at Landers, California.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | Biography

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the Russian-born co-founder of the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 with Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge. Author of Isis Unveiled...

Nikola Tesla | Biography

Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical engineer, inventor of alternating current and the Tesla coil. The wireless-power years at Wardenclyffe, the 1899 Colorado Springs Mars...

Otis T. Carr | Biography

Otis T. Carr (1904 to 1982), the Baltimore engineer and self-described Tesla student whose OTC Enterprises promoted the OTC-X1 flying-saucer prototype across the late 1950s,...

Terence McKenna | Biography

Terence McKenna, ethnobotanist, philosopher, and lecturer. The 1971 La Chorrera expedition that catalysed his and his brother Dennis's published work on novelty theory. The 1992...

Thomas Edison | Biography

Thomas Alva Edison, the Ohio-born American inventor of the phonograph (1877), the practical incandescent light (1879), and approximately 1,093 patented devices across a working...

Saucers (Max B. Miller)

Saucers, edited by Max B. Miller for Flying Saucers International from 1953 to 1960, tracks in real time the seven-year transformation of American civilian UFO research from...

UFO Contactee

UFO Contactee is the English-language edition of the GAP-Japan bulletin, published from Tokyo under the editorship of Hachiro Kubota, the Japanese co-worker who corresponded with...