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set to receive their transmissions. For the first
time, he saw the beautiful Linn-Erri and was
shocked to learn that she was seventy-four
Earth years old.
In due course, Renaud was meeting personally
with the Korendorians, riding in their
ships, and learning their science and philosophy,
which was essentially indistinguishable in
its essentials from that widely recounted in
saucerian literature. He stayed away from the
contactee lecture and convention circuit and
confined his public activities to a series of articles
about his alleged experiences in a metaphysically
oriented saucer magazine. He also
produced dubious-looking photographs of
supposed spacecraft.
To outward appearances, nothing distinguished
Renaud from many others making
outlandish and not very believable claims.
Still, ufologist Allan Grise, an interested but
highly skeptical observer of the contactee
scene, found Renaud a fascinating and enigmatic
figure. “If Renaud was engaged in
fraud,” he said years later, “it was preposterous,
unrewarding fraud.”
Grise visited Renaud at his home and
found, as the contactee’s writings asserted, a
basement room full of electronic equipment,
including the television set and the short-wave
radio over which the communications supposedly
were effected. Grise, an engineer by
profession and ham-radio buff by avocation,
found that “everything seemed to make sense.
The circuits were all appropriate to extend the
receiving range.” In other words, if he was
getting messages from an aerial source, he had
the equipment with which to receive them.
More remarkable, however, were the books
Renaud was writing on Korendorian life and
philosophy. There were a dozen or so of them,
all single-spaced, each five hundred to six
hundred pages long. There were, so far as
Grise could discern from studying their contents,
no typographical errors. But that was
not all.
“When he wrote those books,” Grise recalled,
“it was like his hands belonged to
someone else. He’d sit there in front of his
Luno 159
typewriter and pay no attention to what was
coming out of him. He’d be on the phone or
talking with me, and all the while his hands
are going, producing this perfectly typed,
clearly written stuff on alien philosophy. It
was just unbelievable.” Renaud seemed singularly
uninterested in promoting himself and
volunteered nothing, though he would answer
questions.
Renaud also had a large collection of tapes
allegedly of his space communications. Grise
listened to some of them and heard what was
supposed to be the voice of Linn-Erri. The
recordings, of excellent quality, carried a voice
with “a kind of hesitancy in speech patterns
suggesting a foreign person doing well in English.
It had a singsong, melodious quality.”
Soon afterward, Renaud broke off his brief
association with Grise. He ceased all contact
activities, telling his publisher that he had
done his part and wanted no more of it. By
the end of the 1960s, Renaud had dropped
out of sight. In 1985, Renaud still puzzled
Grise. “Something quite out of the normal
was going on,” he said. “Whatever it was.”
See Also: Contactees
Further Reading
Clark, Jerome, 1986. “Waiting for the Space Brothers.”
Fate Pt. I. 39, 3 (March): 47–54; Pt. II. 39,
4 (April): 81–87; Pt. III. 39, 5 (May): 68–76.
Luno
Luno was one of a number of Space Brothers
who communicated through Lorraine Darr of
Rochester, Minnesota. In the mid-1970s, she
and her husband, Victor, performed psychic
healing under the direction of friendly extraterrestrials
whom the couple occasionally
glimpsed in apparitional form. Vic also underwent
out-of-body trips that took him into
spaceships. Sometimes they took him to
Venus, where he used his healing talents to
cure ailing natives. The couple also believed
that while in meditative states they entered
other dimensions. Other Space Brothers who
helped the Darrs included Becovol, Norbol,
Muello, Maynell, and Julo.