Before Alien Abduction: The UFO Contactee Movement

Before the Betty and Barney Hill story kicked off the alien abduction phenomenon, there were UFO contactees. Who were they and what claims did they make?

What more recent, but not more rational, books on UFOs and flying saucers dismiss in a couple of sentences as an embarrassing artifact of the naive 1950s is actually part of a wonderful social history of crackpots, cultists and conmen operating with a nakedness and simplicity that wouldn't get the money in the US today. Maybe in Switzerland.... Read more