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serting that he had participated in an elaborate
hoax at the instigation of a secret government
agency that wanted to test human reactions
to extraterrestrial visitors.
How a rd and Connie Menger moved to
Ve ro Beach, Florida, where they lived quietly
for more than two decades. In 1990,
they re s u rfaced at the National UFO Conf
e rence in Miami Beach and began publishing
materials that again presented the space
contacts as authentic. They also appeared in
the 1992 Di s c ove ry Channel documentary
Fa re well, Good Bro t h e r s . They make occasional
appearances on the saucer and New
Age scene.
See Also: Adamski, George; Contactees
Further Reading
Baxter, Marla [pseud. of Constance Weber Menger],
1958. My Saturnian Lover. New York: Vantage
Press.
“Contactee Letters,” 1957. Confidential Bulletin to
NICAP Members (September 6).
Dove, Lonzo, 1957. “Menger’s Adamski-Type
Saucers.” Saucer News 4, 2 (February-March):
6–7.
Menger, Howard, 1959. From Outer Space to You.
Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian Books.
Moseley, James W., 1966. “Strange New Ideas from
Howard Menger.” Saucer News Non-Scheduled
Newsletter 26 (January 25).
Nebel, Long John, 1961. The Way Out World. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Schwarz, Berthold E., 1972. “Beauty of the Night.”
Flying Saucer Review 18, 4 (August): 5–9, 17.
Merk
According to George Hunt Williamson,
eighteen thousand years ago a Venusian
named Merk flew a “Light Ship” to Telos, an
eastern section of Lemuria in what is now Arizona,
initiating a period of cordial and productive
relationships between Venusians and
Lemurians, who then had developed flight
but not space flight. The Lemurians built a
memorial to commemorate the spot where
Merk’s craft had landed.
See Also: Lemuria; Williamson, George Hunt
Further Reading
Williamson, George Hunt, 1959. Road in the Sky.
London: Neville Spearman.
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Mersch
Ac c o rding to Colorado contactee Da ve Schultz,
six extraterrestrial races are visiting Earth. On e
is the Mersch. The Mersch are six feet tall,
weigh two hundred pounds, and have bald
heads and slanted eyes. Their home planet is in
the constellation Scorpio. They are active in abductions
and mutilation of cattle and other animals
in western states.
See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Contactees; Olliana
Olliana Alliano
Further Reading
Sprinkle, R. Leo, ed., 1982. Proceedings: Rocky
Mountain Conference on UFO Investigation.
Laramie, WY: School of Extended Studies, University
of Wyoming.
Metatron
Metatron is a “divine interface between God
and the outer worlds—meaning us on the
outer layers of physical creation—the hardened
shell around the cosmic egg of Light”
(Arvey, 1994). Metatronic energy is transmitted
once a week to the Earth, and seekers can
gain access to it if they are attuned to the
proper frequency. Much of the information
Metatron sends is of a densely technical nature.
A good part of the channeled material
comes through James J. Hurtak, who records
it in The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch
(1982). Hurtak, however, is far from the only
Metatron channeler.
The most famous communicant with
Metatron is the rock guitarist Carlos Santana.
Santana claims that Metatron was responsible
for the restoration of his career in 1999 and
2000. During a meditation session Metatron
told him, “We want to hook you back to the
radio-airwave frequency” and to “reconnect
the molecules to the light,” presumably meaning
renewed airplay and popular attention
(Gates and Gordon, 2000).
The name Metatron comes out of traditional
Jewish mysticism, where Metatron is
depicted as an archangel, perhaps the highest
of them all. Some mystics believe that on
Earth he was the prophet Enoch whom God
took directly to heaven without the transi-