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Dentons’s Martians and Venusians
In America during the nineteenth century,
spiritualists and other psychics proliferated.
Among the most prominent were William
Denton and his son Sherman. They called
themselves “psychometers,” which meant that
they could discern any truth, however distant
in time and space, by touching a physical object
or, if it were out of reach, at least focusing
on it. In this way they learned that Mars and
Venus were inhabited.
As the elder Denton put it, “A telescope
only enables us to see; but the spiritual facul-
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ties enable their possessors to hear, smell,
taste, and feel, and become for the time
being, almost inhabitants of the planet they
a re examining.”
In 1866, as the two men were standing out
in a field watching Venus rise in the evening
sky, the father asked the son to study the
planet and tell him what he saw. After a few
minutes, Sherman described trees, water that
was heavy but not wet, and animals that had
the features of both fish and muskrats.
Other experiments soon followed. Sherman
left his body and traveled to Mars, where
he saw a thriving civilization consisting of a
race that looked much like humans. “They
soar above traffic on their individual flycycles,”
he reported. “They seem particularly
fond of air travel. As many as thirty people occupy
some of the large flying conveyances.”
The Martians also had a particular fondness
for aluminum, which they employed in building
houses and machines.
See Also: A l l i n g h a m’s Ma rtian; Au rora Ma rt i a n ;
Brow n’s Ma rtians; Ho p k i n s’s Ma rtians; Khauga;
Ma rtian bees; Mi n c e - Pie Ma rtians; Mo n k a ;
Mu l l e r’s Ma rtians; Sh a w’s Ma rtians; Sm e a d’s Ma rtians;
T h o m p s o n’s Venusians; Wi l c ox’s Ma rt i a n s
Further Reading
Steiger, Brad, 1966. Strangers from the Skies. New
York: Award Books.
Diane
According to contactee Dana Howard, Diane
was a Venusian who began appearing to humans
in 1939. She returned in 1955 and was
seen many times after that. “Diane came in
the same miraculous manner as the Lady of
The Lourdes and Our Lady of Fatima,”
Howard wrote. “To all appearances She is a
physical being like ourselves, yet She is obviously
created of substances not of this earth”
(Howard, 1958).
Howard, who claimed to have visited
Venus, reported that on October 3, 1957, as
she was lecturing at the Women’s Clubhouse
in Fontana, California, she felt a strange
warmth come over her. After the meeting, several
audience members rushed up to her to say
that they had seen an apparition of a young