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Person claiming contact with extraterrestrial beings
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Contactees are persons who claim to have experienced contact with extraterrestrials. Some claimed ongoing encounters, while others claimed to have had as few as a single encounter. Evidence is anecdotal in all cases.
As a cultural phenomenon, contactees perhaps had their greatest notoriety from the late 1940s to the late 1950s, but individuals continue to make similar claims in the present. Some have shared their messages with small groups of followers, and many contactees have written books, published magazine and newspaper articles, issued newsletters or spoken at UFO conventions.
The contactee movement has seen serious attention from academics and mainstream scholars. Among the earliest was the 1956 study, When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, which analyzed the phenomenon. There have been at least two university-level anthologies of scientific papers regarding the contactee movements.
Contactee accounts are generally different from those who allege alien abduction, in that while contactees usually describe positive experiences involving humanoid aliens, abductees rarely describe their experiences positively.
Contactees are persons who claim to have experienced contact with extraterrestrials. Some claimed ongoing encounters, while others claimed to have had...
to come from the Pleiades, who resemble Nordic-Scandinavians. Alleged contactees describe them as being 6–7 ft (1.8–2.1 m) tall with long blond hair, blue...
Wellington Van Tassel (March 12, 1910 – February 9, 1978) was an American contactee, ufologist and author. Van Tassel was born in Jefferson, Ohio in 1910...
American contactee who claimed contact with extraterrestrial beings. He was one of the more obscure members of the 1950s wave of contactees who followed...
(1899-1961) founder of Universal Fellowship. British Canadian Ufologist. Contactee. Prolific author and lecturer on the subject. Igor Volke (b. 1950), ufologist...
Daniel William Fry (July 19, 1908 – December 20, 1992) was an American contactee of the 1950s who claimed he had multiple contacts with an alien and took...
planets. Adamski was the first, and most famous, of several so-called UFO contactees who came to prominence during the 1950s. Adamski called himself a "philosopher...
structure with a diameter of 55 feet (17 m) designed by ufologist and contactee George Van Tassel. Van Tassel claimed the Integratron was capable of rejuvenation...
the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies) and alleged contactee whose UFO photographs are claimed to show alien spacecraft. Meier claims...
avoiding alien abductors". Matheson writes that when compared to the earlier contactee reports, abduction accounts are distinguished by their "relative sophistication...
(May 9, 1946 – December 22, 2015) was an American self-described alien contactee, author, and radio host. Martin was the author of the book The Coming...
as Clarion. A recently published book, Aboard a Flying Saucer by UFO contactee Truman Bethurum, described his alleged interactions with beings from the...
Nancy Lieder, founder of the website ZetaTalk. Lieder claims she is a contactee with the ability to receive messages from extraterrestrials from the Zeta...
Howard Menger (February 17, 1922 – February 25, 2009) was an American contactee who claimed to have met extraterrestrials throughout the course of his...
Louis Whitley Strieber (/ˈstriːbər/; born June 13, 1945) is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion...
the fifth kind is also referred to as human initiated close encounter. Contactee Narrative of the abduction phenomenon Identification studies of UFOs First...
by George Van Tassel, a friend of Critzer's, a purported flying-saucer contactee and organizer of UFO conventions. In 1947, Van Tassel, a former aircraft...
playing around it". The term mothership was also popularized in UFO lore by contactee George Adamski, who claimed in the 1950s to sometimes see large cigar-shaped...
September 2021. Ramirez, Patricia (4 July 2016). "Zimbabwe UFO Mass Sighting Contactee Speaks Publicly For The First Time [Video]". The Inquisitr. Archived from...
contemporary UFO legend and lore in N. America, including the so-called "contactee cults". The author traveled the United States with his camera and tape...
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