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In both abduction reports and contactee stories,
claimants sometimes report seeing
human beings onboard a UFO and in the
company of aliens. One such incident is said
to have occurred on June 5, 1964, in Argentina.
At 4 A.M., a doctor and his wife were
driving a few miles from the airport at Pajas
Blancas, in Cordoba province, when their engine
failed. A huge, extraordinary-looking
craft landed on the highway in front of them.
For the next twenty minutes the couple stared
in puzzlement and unease at the UFO. Then,
according to a press account, a man walked
out of it and spoke to them in Spanish, “Don’t
be afraid. I am a terrestrial. My name is R.
D.” Apparently the man gave his full name,
but published accounts give only his initials.
He went on, “Tell mankind about it, in your
own fashion” (Creighton, 1974).
The man walked slowly back toward the
UFO and was joined by two gray-clad beings
who had suddenly appeared. They boarded
the ship, and it flew rapidly away, a violet-colored
trail in its wake.
See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Contactees
Further Reading
Creighton, Gordon, 1974. “The Humanoids in
Latin America.” In Charles Bowen, ed. The Hu -
manoids, 84–129. London: Futura Publications.
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Ra
Ra channeled through Carla Rueckert. Ra was
not an individual but a group entity, part of
the “Confederation of Planets in the Service
of the Infinite Creator” (Rueckert and Elkins,
1977). The goal, Ra said, was to “give instructions
to those of planet Earth who would seek
the instructions for how to produce within
themselves the vibration that is more harmonious
with the original thought.”
Further Reading
Rueckert, Carla, and Don Elkins, 1977. Secrets of the
UFOs. Louisville, KY: L/L Research.
Rainbow City
Rainbow City was the ancestral, earthly home
of the human race, according to a mystically
inclined couple, W. C. and Gladys Hefferlin.
It was located in Antarctica before the Earth
tipped on its side, and the continent became
the uninhabitable place as it is known today.
The Hefferlins surfaced in 1946, in short
pieces published in Ray Palmer’s Amazing Sto -
ries, then publishing a series of stories detailing
the Shaver mystery, a supposedly true account
of Richard Shaver’s adventures with
good and evil races living in caverns under the
earth. After W. C. Hefferlin made a passing
reference to “Rainbow City,” Palmer ap-