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Noma
In 1961, investigating the Brown Mountain
lights (believed by most authorities to be refractions
of distant light sources such as passing
automobiles) near Morganton, North
Carolina, Ralph Lael discovered that if he sent
telepathic messages to the lights, they would
respond. One light urged him to enter a door
concealed on the mountainside, where the entities
responsible for the lights operated. Lael
passed into an eight-foot-square room with
transparent walls. There a voice told him that
the human race had come into being on a
planet once known as Pewam, now the asteroid
belt between Mars and Jupiter. On a subsequent
visit not long afterward, Lael boarded
a flying saucer and was taken to Venus. There,
besides meeting the direct descendants of Pewamites,
he encountered a lovely, scantily clad
woman named Noma. His hosts also showed
him footage of Pewam’s destruction and of
early Earth humans.
Further Reading
Machlin, Milt, and Timothy Green Beckley, 1981.
UFO. New York: Quick Fox.
Nordics
Nordic is a name given to a kind of alien
being reported in UFO encounters that range
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from contact claims to close encounters of the
third kind to abductions. The term did not,
however, come into general use among ufologists
until the 1980s. Nordics are said to resemble
Scandinavians, at least in a generic
sense; they are tall, blond, fair-skinned
(though sometimes described as deeply
tanned), and attractive-looking. Witnesses
often claim that their eyes are different from
northern Europeans in being somewhat
slanted or even almond-shaped.
The beings that would later be called
Nordics were first known as Space Brothers—
often, though not always, from Venus—when
1950s contactees such as George Adamski and
Howard Menger reported meetings with
friendly extraterrestrials, with whom they
traveled into space and had other adventures.
Though conservative ufologists rejected these
claims as absurd hoaxes, generally similar figures
were reported in the testimony of witnesses
who did not fit the contactees’ flamboyant
profiles.
In one such incident, a farmer near Linha
Vista, Brazil, while working in a field heard a
sewing-machine sound. When he looked to
its source, it turned out to be a strange craft,
“shaped like a tropical helmet,” hovering
nearby. A man could be seen inside the UFO,
another stood near a fence, and a third was