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member of the royal family of the planet
Tythan, eight and a half light years from
Earth. Neosom said he had replaced the body
of a stillborn child (Childers). He also claimed
that he could travel instantaneously through
space simply by closing his eyes and wishing
himself to other planets. Three times, he said,
the men in black had killed him, and three
times a rejuvenation machine had brought
him back to life.
At the peak of his brief moment in the
spotlight, Neosom/Childers was brought to
New York City to lecture. In December 1958,
he appeared on Long John Nebel’s popular
WOR radio show, which catered to the eccentric
and the esoteric, but he managed to get
thrown off the air before his allotted time was
up; his stories were too outlandish even for
the famously tolerant Nebel. By this time,
Childers had left his wife and five children
and taken up with Beth Docker, soon renamed
Princess Negonna, whom he soon
married and honeymooned with on Tythan.
Childers’s career on saucerdom’s fringes
continued until the early 1960s.
See Also: Men in black
Further Reading
Barker, Gray, 1959. “Chasing the Flying Saucers.”
Flying Saucers (May): 19–43.
Mann, Michael G., 1960. “Prince or King, He Isn’t a
Spaceman!” Saucer News 7, 1 (March): 5–7.
Mapes. D. O., 1959. Prince Neosom, Planet: Tyton
[sic]. Buffalo, NY: self-published.
Psychoterrestrials
New Age psychologist Michael Grosso uses
the term “psychoterrestrials” to describe a
range of anomalous and paranormal entities,
including UFO beings, Marian apparitions,
and men in black. He believes that such entities,
though “mythic constructs,” are able to
assume a quasi-physical reality because of the
deep resonance they have in humanity’s collective
psyche. Another name for psychoterrestrials
is psychic projections.
Grosso believes that UFOs and other exotic
phenomena are “forces of rebirth” that the
Psychoterrestrials 203
An artist’s impression of a gray alien, based on witness
descriptions, an example of a psychoterrestrial being
(Debbie Lee/Fortean Picture Library)
“ultradimensional mind” has conjured up to
transform mass consciousness in order to save
the human race for otherwise certain selfdestruction.
“Given the timeless, spaceless nature
of ESP and PK [psychokinesis], perhaps
some (or all) human minds form a system—a
parallel universe of mind, a distinct entity
with its own properties. . . . It would be a
mind with properties distinct from component
minds, on the assumption that the whole
is greater than the sum of its parts. . . . Perhaps
this is the entity that holds the secret to
the UFO mystery” (Grosso, 1991).
In his view, psychoterrestrial phenomena
are so powerful that, for example, in their
UFO manifestation they are even able to
show up on radar. Grosso drew inspiration in
his speculations from the celebrated Swiss
psychologist and philosopher C. G. Jung. In
his own reflection on the UFO phenomenon,
however, Jung, who thought UFOs were
probably of extraterrestrial origin, rejected the