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Contactee, the Glossary

Contactees are persons who claim to have experienced contact with extraterrestrials.^[1]

61 relations: Academy, Aladino Félix, Alien abduction, Anecdotal evidence, Barney and Betty Hill incident, Billy Meier, Buck Nelson, Carl Sagan, Christopher Partridge, Curtis Peebles, Daniel Fry, David M. Jacobs, Dwight York, Elizabeth Klarer, Emanuel Swedenborg, Extraterrestrial life, Fermat's Last Theorem, Fortean Times, Gabriel Green (ufologist), George Adamski, George Hunt Williamson, George King (author), George Van Tassel, Gloria Lee, Goldbach's conjecture, Henry Riecken, Howard Menger, Human, Humanoid, J. Allen Hynek, J. Gordon Melton, Jacques Vallée, Leon Festinger, Live Science, Men in black, Mojave Desert, Nova (American TV program), Nuclear weapons testing, Orfeo Angelucci, Outer space, Philip Schneider, Raël, Reinhold O. Schmidt, Riley Martin, Samuel Eaton Thompson, Sixto Paz Wells, Stanley Schachter, Steven M. Greer, Sun Ra, Susan Clancy, ... Expand index (11 more) »
Alleged extraterrestrial encounters
Contactees

Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership).

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Aladino Félix (March 1, 1905 November 11, 1985), better known by his pen name Dino Kraspedon, was a Brazilian writer, right-wing paramilitary leader, and self-proclaimed messiah of the Jewish people, who claimed in a 1959 book to have been contacted by an extraterrestrial from Jupiter. Contactee and Aladino Félix are contactees.

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Alien abduction

Alien abduction (also called abduction phenomenon, alien abduction syndrome, or UFO abduction) refers to the phenomenon of people reporting what they believe to be the real experience of being kidnapped by extraterrestrial beings and subjected to physical and psychological experimentation. Contactee and alien abduction are alleged extraterrestrial encounters.

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Anecdotal evidence

Anecdotal evidence is evidence based only on personal observation, collected in a casual or non-systematic manner.

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Barney and Betty Hill incident

Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple who claimed they were abducted by extraterrestrials in a rural portion of the state of New Hampshire from September 19 to 20, 1961. Contactee and Barney and Betty Hill incident are contactees.

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Billy Meier

Eduard Albert Meier (born 3 February 1937), commonly nicknamed "Billy", is the founder of a UFO religion called the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien" (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies) and alleged contactee whose UFO photographs are claimed to show alien spacecraft. Contactee and Billy Meier are contactees.

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Buck Nelson

Buck Nelson (April 9, 1895 – 1982) was an American farmer who claimed to have had an encounter with an unidentified flying object and its human crew in 1954 while living in Missouri. Contactee and Buck Nelson are contactees.

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Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator.

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Christopher Partridge

Christopher Hugh Partridge (born 1961) is an author, editor, professor at Lancaster University, and founding Co-director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Popular Culture.

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Curtis Peebles

Curtis Peebles (May 4, 1955 – June 25, 2017) was an American aerospace historian for the Smithsonian Institution, a researcher and historian for the Dryden Flight Research Center, and the author of several books dealing with aviation and aerial phenomena.

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Daniel Fry

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 a ride in a remotely piloted alien spacecraft. Contactee and Daniel Fry are contactees.

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David M. Jacobs

David Michael Jacobs (born August 10, 1942) is an American historian and retired Associate Professor of History at Temple University specializing in 20th-century American history.

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Dwight York

Dwight D. York (born June 26, 1945),Philips, Abu Ameenah Bilal.

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Elizabeth Klarer

Elizabeth Klarer (Woollatt; 1 July 1910 – 9 February 1994) was a South African woman who, starting in 1956, publicly claimed to have been contacted by aliens multiple times between 1954 and 1963. Contactee and Elizabeth Klarer are contactees.

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Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg; (29 January 1688 29 March 1772) was a Swedish Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic. He became best known for his book on the afterlife, ''Heaven and Hell'' (1758). Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist.

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Extraterrestrial life, alien life, or colloquially simply aliens, is life which does not originate from Earth.

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Fermat's Last Theorem

In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers,, and satisfy the equation for any integer value of greater than.

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Fortean Times

Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort.

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Gabriel Green (ufologist)

Gabriel Green (November 11, 1924 – September 8, 2001) was an American 1950s UFO contactee who claimed contact with extraterrestrials. Contactee and Gabriel Green (ufologist) are contactees.

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George Adamski

George Adamski (17 April 1891 – 23 April 1965) was a Polish-American author who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he displayed numerous photographs in the 1940s and 1950s that he said were of alien spacecraft, claimed to have met with friendly Nordic alien Space Brothers, and claimed to have taken flights with them to the Moon and other planets. Contactee and George Adamski are contactees.

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George Hunt Williamson

George Hunt Williamson (December 9, 1926 – January 1986), aka Michael d'Obrenovic and Brother Philip, was an American flying saucer contactee, channel, and metaphysical author who came to prominence in the 1950s. Contactee and George Hunt Williamson are contactees.

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George King (January 23, 1919, Wellington, Shropshire – July 12, 1997, Santa Barbara, California) was a British author, esotericist, and spiritual figure who founded the Aetherius Society, a new religious movement, during the mid-1950s.

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George Van Tassel

George Wellington Van Tassel (March 12, 1910 – February 9, 1978) was an American contactee, ufologist and author. Contactee and George Van Tassel are contactees.

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Gloria Lee

Gloria Lee (March 22, 1926 – December 3, 1962) was an American airline flight attendant and a follower of Oahspe who became part of the 1950s contactee movement in 1953. Contactee and Gloria Lee are contactees.

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Goldbach's conjecture

Goldbach's conjecture is one of the oldest and best-known unsolved problems in number theory and all of mathematics.

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Henry Riecken

Henry William Riecken (November 11, 1917 – December 27, 2012) was an American psychologist.

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Howard Menger

Howard Menger (February 17, 1922 – February 25, 2009) was an American contactee who claimed to have met extraterrestrials throughout the course of his life, meetings which were the subject of books he wrote, such as From Outer Space To You and The High Bridge Incident. Contactee and Howard Menger are contactees.

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Human

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.

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Humanoid

A humanoid (from English human and -oid "resembling") is a non-human entity with human form or characteristics.

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J. Allen Hynek

Josef Allen Hynek (May 1, 1910 – April 27, 1986) was an American astronomer, professor, and ufologist.

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J. Gordon Melton

John Gordon Melton (born September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History with the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas where he resides.

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Jacques Vallée

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.

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Leon Festinger

Leon Festinger (8 May 1919 – 11 February 1989) was an American social psychologist who originated the theory of cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory.

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Live Science

Live Science is a science news website.

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Men in black

In popular culture and UFO conspiracy theories, men in black (MIB) are government agents dressed in black suits, who question, interrogate, harass, threaten, allegedly memory-wipe or sometimes even assassinate unidentified flying object (UFO) witnesses to keep them silent about what they have seen.

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Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert (Hayikwiir Mat'aar; Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States.

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Nova (American TV program)

Nova (stylized as NOVΛ) is an American popular science television program produced by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1974.

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Nuclear weapons testing

Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance, yield, and effects of nuclear weapons and have resulted until 2020 in up to 2.4 million people dying from its global fallout.

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Orfeo Angelucci

Orfeo Matthew Angelucci (Orville Angelucci) (June 25, 1912 – July 24, 1993) was an American author, lecturer, and one of the so-called UFO contactees who rose to prominence in the 1950s. Contactee and Orfeo Angelucci are contactees.

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Outer space

Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.

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Philip Schneider

Philip Schneider (first name also Phillip;Pioneers of St. Michael's. Sign posted at Saint Michaels Cemetery. November 30, 1826 – January 12, 1902) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.

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Raël

Raël (born Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon, 30 September 1946), Agence France-Presse. Contactee and Raël are contactees.

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Reinhold O. Schmidt

Reinhold Oscar Albert Schmidt (1897–1974) was a convicted embezzler and fraudster who claimed to be a UFO contactee. Contactee and Reinhold O. Schmidt are contactees.

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Riley Martin

Riley Lee Martin (May 9, 1946 – December 22, 2015) was an American self-described alien contactee, author, and radio host. Contactee and Riley Martin are contactees.

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Samuel Eaton Thompson

Samuel Eaton Thompson (1875? – 1960?) was an American contactee who claimed to have been in contact with extraterrestrials. Contactee and Samuel Eaton Thompson are contactees.

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Sixto Paz Wells

Sixto Paz Wells (born December 12, 1955) is a Peruvian author and lecturer focused on the UFO phenomena, particularly alien contact, from a spiritual viewpoint. Contactee and Sixto Paz Wells are contactees.

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Stanley Schachter

Stanley Schachter (April 15, 1922 – June 7, 1997) was an American social psychologist best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion in 1962 along with Jerome E. Singer.

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Steven M. Greer

Steven Macon Greer (born 1955) is an American ufologist and retired physician. Contactee and Steven M. Greer are contactees.

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Sun Ra

Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances. Contactee and Sun Ra are contactees.

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Susan Clancy

Susan A. Clancy is a cognitive psychologist and associate professor in Consumer behaviour at INCAE as well as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University.

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Ted Owens (1920-1987) was an alleged UFO contactee who claimed paranormal powers. Contactee and Ted Owens (contactee) are contactees.

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Telepathy

Telepathy is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

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Temple University

Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Chronicle (Centralia, Washington)

The Chronicle, formerly the Daily Chronicle, is a local newspaper in Centralia, Washington, US.

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Thermonuclear weapon

A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Truman Bethurum

Truman Bethurum (August 21, 1898 – May 21, 1969) was one of the well known 1950s UFO or alien "contactees"- individuals who claimed to have spoken with people from other inhabited planets and entered or ridden in their spacecraft. Contactee and Truman Bethurum are contactees.

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Ufology

Ufology is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary origins (most frequently of extraterrestrial alien visitors).

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Wayne Sulo Aho

Wayne Sulo Aho (24 August 1916 – 16 January 2006) was an American contactee who claimed contact with extraterrestrial beings. Contactee and Wayne Sulo Aho are contactees.

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When Prophecy Fails

When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse.

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Whitley Strieber

Louis Whitley Strieber (born June 13, 1945) is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his alleged experiences with non-human entities. Contactee and Whitley Strieber are contactees.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactee

Also known as Alleged contactees, Contactee movement, Contactee religion, Contactees, List of Contactees, List of alleged contactees, UFO contactee.

, Ted Owens (contactee), Telepathy, Temple University, The Chronicle (Centralia, Washington), Thermonuclear weapon, Time (magazine), Truman Bethurum, Ufology, Wayne Sulo Aho, When Prophecy Fails, Whitley Strieber.

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