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“A” is the pseudonym Ann Grevler (a writer
who uses the pen name “A n c h o r”) gives the
Venusian whom she allegedly encountere d
while driving through South Africa’s Eastern
Tr a n s vaal on an unspecified day in the 1950s.
Gre v l e r, a flying-saucer enthusiast sympathetic
to the contactee movement (contactees are individuals
who claim to be in regular communication
with kindly, advanced extraterre s t r i a l s ) ,
met A when her car inexplicably stopped on a
rural highway. As she was looking under the
hood, she became aware of a buzzing sound in
her ears and looked up to see a smiling spaceman
standing not far away. Then a spaceship
flew tow a rd her and landed, and she and A
stepped into it. With A and another spaceman,
B, Grevler flew into space. They appro a c h e d
what Grevler describes as “a positively huge
Mother Sh i p,” which tinier ships, similar to the
one they we re aboard, we re entering.
Once inside the mother ship, Grevler and
her friends went to “the Temple, visited by returning
crews to thank the Creator for a safe
voyage.” Subsequently, either in the mother
ship or in the smaller scout craft (her account
is vague on this detail), she visited Venus and
saw beautiful buildings and a kind of university.
At the latter, students were taught universal
knowledge and trained in extrasensory per-
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ception. They also learned “Cosmic Language—which
is expressed simply by symbols
of various forms and colors, so that meanings
are the same in any language” (Anchor, 1958).
Grevler had other space adventures. One
was a visit to a depopulated, destroyed planet,
the dreary result of science gone amok.
See Also: Contactees
Further Reading
Anchor [pseud. of Ann Grevler], 1958. Transvaal
Episode: A UFO Lands in Africa. Corpus Christi,
TX: Essene Press.
Abductions by UFOs
Since the mid-1960s a number of individuals
around the world have reported encounters in
which humanoid beings took them against
their will—usually from their homes or vehicles—into
apparent spacecraft and subjected
them to medical and other procedures. As
often as not, witnesses spoke of experiencing
amnesia, aware at first only of unexplained
“missing time” (a much-used phrase that has
become almost synonymous with abduction)
consisting of a few minutes to a few hours.
Later, “memory” would return, sometimes
spontaneously, sometimes in dreams, and
often (and most controversially) through hypnotic
regression.