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Contactee UFOnauts

Reported from their close encounters of the friendly kind

This is a dossier on UFOnauts reported by various UFO contactees, people who claim to have had close encounters of the friendly kind with extraterrestrial visitors.

UFOnauts are notoriously camera-shy, meaning that nearly all the depictions that we have of them are artist’s conceptions. I have found several artist’s conceptions of contactee UFOnauts, but I’ve found some gaps. I hope to fill some of them.

I am very bad at freehand drawing and painting, though I am reasonably good at vector graphics, both 2D and 3D. For that reason, I have used dollmaker software here. It is a computerized version of paper dolls, though often with a wide selection of body features and clothing parts. However, even such wide selections have limits, and I have noted where I’ve departed from the original descriptions.

I have found several artist’s conceptions for George Adamski’s claimed encounter with Orthon in the southern California desert, chronicled in Flying Saucers Have Landed. However, I have found only a few for his later claimed adventures, and I discuss them in more detail in Inside the Spaceships. I have also done a presumed off-duty outfor for Orthon, alongside his first-contact jumpsuit. Every artist’s conception of Orthon I’ve ever seen does him only in his famous first-contact jumpsuit.

For Aura Rhanes, reported by Truman Bethurum, there is a picture that some people have posted online that is allegedly a portrait that someone made of her. However, I have been unable to track it down to some primary source. So I’ve made a full-length artist’s conception here, though with the red-trimmed black beret replaced by a small red hat. I have also imagined what might be appropriate socks and shoes.

Billy Meier’s mutilated state is a result of his losing his left arm in a bus accident in Turkey in 1965. Some of his supporters claim that that had made it difficult for him to fake his numerous UFO pictures and videos, but some skeptics disagree.

Elizabeth Klarer claimed that she had some amorous spaceman’s baby.

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