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In the 1980s, the legend grew as a rightwing conspiracy theorist named Milton William Cooper claimed to have seen supersecret documents attesting to an agreement between the U.S. government and malevolent aliens. According to Cooper, the first Holloman meeting happened in 1954. Officials and aliens agreed that in exchange for the freedom to abduct humans without interference, the extraterrestrials (from a dying planet that orbits Betelgeuse) would provide the government with advanced technology, so long as it kept silent about it. Subsequently, Cooper would write in a wild book allegedly documenting the sinister machinations of the “secret government” that the agreement broke down; according to Cooper, aliens and government entered into conflict over who would get to control and manipulate the human race. Among other bizarre allegations, Cooper stated that President Kennedy was assassi- Books on the hollow-earth theory (Fortean Picture Library) Hollow earth 121 nated because he planned to expose the scheme to the American people. Further Reading Brookesmith, Peter, 1996. UFO: The Government Files. New York: Barnes and Noble Books. Cooper, Milton William, 1991. Behold a Pale Horse. Sedona, AZ: Light Technology Publishing. Emenegger, Robert, 1974. UFOs Past, Present and Future. New York: Ballantine Books. Howe, Linda Moulton, 1989. An Alien Harvest: Fur - ther Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms. Littleton, CO: Linda Moulton Howe Productions. Jones, William E., and Rebecca D. Minshall, 1991. Bill Cooper and the Need for More Research (UFOs, Conspiracies, and the JFK Assassination). Dublin, OH: MidOhio Research Associates. Hollow earth A long mythological tradition holds that supernatural beings dwell beneath our feet, either in caves and caverns or in the earth’s inte-
122 Hollow earth rior. Some beliefs have it that the spirits of the unsaved dead live on in gloom or torment beneath our feet. The most famous scientific proponent of a hollow earth, Edmond Halley (1656–1743), best remembered for the comet named after him, argued that within the earth’s sphere there were three other, smaller ones, all harboring intelligent beings. Theories about a hollow earth, while dismissed as physically impossible by scientists, continue on the fringes into modern times. John Cleeves Symmes (1779–1829) became a notorious figure in early American history as a vigorous publicist for the notion first proposed by Halley, of an earth whose interior consisted of concentric spheres. According to Symmes, the interior could be entered through four-thousand-mile-wide holes at either pole. Symmes hoped to lead an expedition into the earth, and he lectured widely, all the while lobbying for funding. In the face of national ridicule, he argued that the people of the interior amounted to a vast new market for American goods. Symmes inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write the classic proto-sciencefiction novella The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838). Symmes’s son Americus kept the faith after his father had passed on. As late as 1878 he published a collection of the elder Symmes’s writings and lectures. The 1870s and 1880s saw a hollow - e a rt h re v i val with the publication of still other books championing the notion, including M. L . Sh e r m a n’s The Ho l l ow Gl o b e (1871), a channeled work, and Frederick Cu l m e r’s The In n e r Wo rl d (1886). Helena Bl a vatsky incorporated the hollow earth into her two popular and influential occult texts Isis Un ve i l e d (1877) and The Se c ret Doctrine (1888). Another import a n t book, William Re e d’s The Phantom of the Po l e s , was published in 1906, the first of a small lib r a ry of hollow - e a rth volumes to be issued t h rough the twentieth century. By the late nineteenth century, a re l i g i o n based on the hollow earth was formed by Cy ru s Teed (1839–1908), after a vision in which the Mother of the Un i verse told him he would save the world. He went on to lead a utopian com- An illustration of the hollow earth from Phantoms of the Poles by William Reed, 1906 (Fortean Picture Library) munity in Fo rt Myers, Florida, devoted to “Kore s h a n i t y.” Ko reshanity held that not only is the e a rth hollow, humans live inside it, orbiting the sun, which is at the center of the world. T h e stars, planets, and moon are also within the e a rt h’s shell. Marshall B. Ga rd n e r’s book A Jo u r - ney to the Ea rt h’s In t e r i o r (1913) agreed with Te e d’s views to the extent that Ga rdner was willing to acknowledge an interior sun, though it was not t h e sun, and another race, not humans, get their heat and light from it. This other-race l i ves in a pleasant, tropical climate. Other fringe thinkers, notably H. Spencer Lewis and Guy Warren Ballard, wrote that Mount Shasta in northern California is an entrance to the interior, where a colony of survivors from the lost continent Lemuria live on. Ballard claimed to have personally met super beings under the mountain, including golden-haired, angelic Venusians such as those George Adamski and later flying-saucer contactees would claim to know. Ballard, his wife Edna, and their son Donald founded a popular Theosophy-based (and fascist) movement around these experiences and doctrines. Ballard died in 1939, but his organization, the “I AM” still exists. In the 1940s the pages of the science-fiction pulps Amazing Stories and Fantastic Ad -
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EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS An Encyclo
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viii Contents Bashar, 39 Being of L
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xiv Introduction Though I never for
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EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS
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2 Abductions by UFOs In the first c
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4 Abductions by UFOs tion. Few obse
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6 Abductions by UFOs the Roper Orga
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8 Adamski, George See Also: Lemuria
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10 Aenstrians Europe. In May of tha
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12 Affa Saturn. In 1954 Aetherius m
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14 Agharti The hidden world of “S
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16 Alien diners Klarer, Elizabeth,
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18 Aliens and the dead feel it in h
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20 Alyn ening encounter on a Virgin
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22 Angel of the Dark pears in conta
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24 Anthon tion from an old age to a
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26 Arna and Parz Arna and Parz Betw
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28 Ashtar worldly entities, only As
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30 Athena was released. By this tim
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32 Atlantis That is not all the dia
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34 Aura Rhanes stroyed. Like the Il
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36 Avinash not suffer from mental i
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38 Azelia turn to show him his offs
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40 Being of Light was led to parano
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42 Bermuda Triangle have arrived ov
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44 Bird aliens same kind of trees w
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46 Blowing Cave In 1966, the group,
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48 Brodie’s deros fense Research
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50 Brown’s Martians were still in
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52 Buff Ledge abduction wild, if so
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54 Bunians Meanwhile, her relatives
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56 Calf-rustling aliens An example
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58 Cetaceans Steinman, William S.,
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60 Channeling Gerry Bowman channeli
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62 Close encounters of the third ki
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68 Contactees tained a number of bo
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Page 133 and 134: 116 Grim Reaper The Vision of Death
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174 Michael Carlos Santana, the mos
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176 Mince-Pie Martians Midlands, on
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178 Mothman sand feet the occupants
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180 Mount Lassen A Morlock (with vi
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182 Mount Shasta A nineteenth-centu
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184 Mr. X See Also: Atlantis; Bonni
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Noma In 1961, investigating the Bro
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Nostradamus, shown in magician’s
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192 OINTS In time Wo o d rew learne
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194 Oleson’s giants Jones, Huffor
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196 Oxalc concrete proof of his con
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198 Oz Factor From left to right: P
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202 Prince Neosom Landscape with vo
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204 Puddy’s abduction Aliens, or
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R. D. In both abduction reports and
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Asia, and South America. The “tho
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about communication or interaction
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An artist’s rendition of the “L
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Saint Michael Saint Michael the Arc
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animals go, it does not have human,
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cal changes now that it has been pe
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Shaver was also vague on what was h
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At this point the beings—whom Sha
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UFO Experiences.” Journal of UFO
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242 Thee Elohim woman, Sanaya Roman
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244 Tibus “Centralian Tells Stran
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246 The Two educated at the Sorbonn
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248 The Two Dallas-Fort Worth and e
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250 Ummo One of several UFO photogr
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252 Unholy Six of the UMMO author
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254 Val Thor own falsifications. He
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256 Vegetable Man George Van Tassel
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258 VIVenus three-inch-wide belt ar
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Walk-ins Ruth Montgomery popularize
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not all) local police officers and
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A dramatization of the abduction of
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walk. Three crew members stepped ou
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Xeno In the early morning hours of
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Yada di Shi’ite Yada di Shi’ite
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Zagga Zagga hails from the planet Z
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“A,” 1 Abducted! (Lorenzen and
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Borderland Sciences Research Associ
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Eddy, Mary Baker, 261 Ekker, Doris,
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Juliana, Queen of Holland, 10 Jung,
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O’Barski, George, 67 Observers, m
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Spaceships, xvi, 62-64 abductions b
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