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J. W.
In 1953, a voice in her head identified itself to
Gloria Lee, a former child actress and model,
as that of “J. W.,” an inhabitant of Jupiter.
Not quite convinced, Lee demanded physical
evidence of J. W.’s existence. Some days afterward,
J. W. alerted her to the presence of a flying
saucer passing over her backyard in
Westchester, California. Lee went on to form
the Cosmon Research Foundation, which attracted
as many as two thousand members, as
a forum for the distribution of J. W.’s teachings,
essentially a variation of Theosophy. She
also wrote Why We Are Here (1959), a book
widely read in early contactee circles.
Lee became a martyr to the contact movement
in 1962 through tragic circumstances.
J. W. had provided her with spaceship blueprints
and instructed her to take them to
Washington, DC, to show officials. But when
she and associate Hedy Hood went there, no
one was interested in meeting them. Lee told
her friend that J. W. had now informed her,
“The space people are going to invade the
earth and establish a peace program” (Barker,
1965). She was also ordered to go on a fast for
peace that would end when a “light elevator”
(spaceship) arrived to transfer her to J. W.’s
home planet. The fast began on September 23
and lasted till November 28, when Lee’s
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alarmed husband had her rushed to a hospital.
She died there on December 7.
In less than two months, according to a
Florida-based contactee gro u p, Ma rk - A g e
Me t a C e n t e r, Lee herself was sending psyc h i c
messages from Ju p i t e r. She promised that
spaceships would land on Earth within six
months if they we re re c e i ved in peace and good
will. She also mentioned that the recently deceased
Marilyn Mo n roe had just arrived. Ove r
the years, Ma rk-Age would publish five vo lumes
of Lee-generated channeled material.
See Also: Contactees
Further Reading
Barker, Gray, 1965. Gray Barker’s Book of Saucers.
Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian Books.
Lee, Gloria, 1959. Why We Are Here: By J. W., a Being
from Jupiter through the Instrumentation of Gloria
Lee. Los Angeles: DeVorss and Company.
———, 1962. The Changing Conditions of Your
World, by J. W. of Jupiter, Instrumented by Gloria
Lee. Los Angeles: DeVorss and Company.
Mark-Age MetaCenter, 1963. Gloria Lee Lives! My
Experiences since Leaving Earth. Miami, FL:
Mark-Age MetaCenter.
———, 1969–1972. Cosmic Lessons: Gloria Lee
Channels for Mark-Age. Miami, FL: Mark-Age
MetaCenter.
Jahrmin and Jana
In 1940, according to an account he would relate
many years later, Jananda Korsholm, a