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Contactees is a study of those people who have met with aliens from other worlds. The Contactees first surfaced in the early 1950s, and maintained that they had spoken with very human-looking aliens who were concerned by our war-like ways, and the fact that we had recently developed the atom bomb. Since then, literally thousands of people across the world have claimed contact with these particular aliens; who have become known as the “Space-Brothers.” The book studies and dissects the major cases and reveals the nature of the experiences and the human-alien relationship.

Truman Bethurum was divorced by his wife because she believed he was having close encounters of a very personal kind with a beautiful extraterrestrial "space captain" named Aura Rhanes. Is he nuts? Prescient? An omen?

A band of eerily human-looking, blond-haired aliens-later known as the Space-Brothers-informed other contactees that they were concerned by our warlike ways and wished us to live in peace with one another. Acting on the advice of the Space-Brothers, contactees such as George Van Tassel and George Adamski went out and spread the extraterrestrial word to anyone and everyone who would listen. And many did, including U.S. government agencies.

More than half a century later, the contactees are still among us, still telling their tales of personal alien encounters, and still maintaining their cult-like status in the world of UFOlogy. Nick Redfern's Contactees relates their thought-provoking, lluminating, controversial, and sometimes bizarre stories in all their appropriately out-of-this-world glory.

Originally from England, and now living in Dallas, Texas, Nick Redfern is the author of many books on UFOs, cryptozoology, unexplained phenomena, and conspiracy-theories, including Contactees; Memoirs of a Monster Hunter; Strange Secrets; There's Something in the Woods; A Covert Agenda; On the Trail of the Saucer Spies; and Science Fiction Secrets. He writes regularly for Fortean Times; UFO Magazine; and Paranormal Magazine.