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more fantastic interactions with “the visitors,”
as Strieber calls them. By the time he published
Secret School in 1996, he was claiming
that aliens had been interacting with him all
of his life, beginning in his childhood when
the visitors instructed him and other San Antonio
children on their missions as adults.
See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Extraterrestrials
among us; Hopkins, Budd
Further Reading
Conroy, Ed, 1989. Report on “Communion”: An Inde -
pendent Investigation of and Commentary on Whit -
ley Strieber’s “Communion.” New York: William
Morrow and Company.
Strieber, Whitley, 1987. Communion: A True Story.
Beach Tree/William Morrow.
———, 1988. Transformation: The Breakthrough.
New York: William Morrow and Company.
———, 1995. Breakthrough: The Next Step. New
York: HarperCollins Publishers.
———, 1996. The Secret School: Preparation for
Contact. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
Strieber, Whitley, and Anne Strieber, eds., 1997. The
Communion Letters. New York: HarperPrism.
Swords, Michael D., 1987. “Communion: A Reader’s
Guide.” MUFON UFO Journal 229 (May): 3–6.
Sunar and Treena
Dean Anderson of Egg Harbor, Wisconsin,
was atop a riding lawn mower at a golf course
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when a flying saucer landed. It was 4:15 A.M.,
August 22, 1976. A door opened, and two beings,
a man and a woman, floated out on a
beam of light. As they stepped toward Anderson,
the saucer vanished. They shook Anderson’s
hand, and the man said, “We come in
peace. I am Sunar, from Jupiter. This is
Treena. She comes from Saturn” (Bartholomew
and Howard, 1998). Sunar, who had
copper skin, said he was more than two hundred
years old. The lightly tanned Treena, clad
in a one-piece, skin-tight, green, glistening,
metallic suit, looked, Anderson thought, like
Elizabeth Taylor.
The space people told him that they had
come to Earth to gather specimens. Be f o re
they left, they handed him an envelope with
i n s t ructions not to open it for five Eart h
days. After waiting for the designated period,
Anderson found a golden amulet inside. On
one side there was a bird resembling a dove .
On the other, a message read, “Peace and
friendship fore ve r, Treena and Su n a r,” with
depictions of Saturn and Jupiter beside the
n a m e s .
Further Reading
Bartholomew, Robert E., and George S. Howard,
1998. UFOs and Alien Contact: Two Centuries of
Mystery. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.