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Charles Moody had confided to them that the
previous August 13, he saw a UFO in the
New Mexico desert and was taken aboard. In
early November, in a letter to the Lorenzens,
he had this to say of the occupants: “The beings
were about five feet tall and very much
like us except their heads were larger and hairless,
their eyes very small[,] and the mouth
had very thin lips” (Lorenzen and Lorenzen,
1977). Moody’s description is virtually identical
to the one Walton gave to the first group
of humanoids he allegedly encountered. Walton’s
also anticipated later abduction lore in
claiming to see both little gray entities and the
more humanlike beings whom some ufologists
would call Nordics aboard the same ship.
See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Nordics
Further Reading
Barry, Bill, 1978. Ultimate Encounter: The True Story
of a UFO Kidnapping. New York: Pocket Books.
Bullard, Thomas E., 1987. UFO Abductions: The
Measure of a Mystery. Volume 1: Comparative
Study of Abductions. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases.
Mount Rainier, MD: Fund for UFO Research.
Clark, Jerome, 1998. “Walton Abduction Case.” In
Jerome Clark. The UFO Encyclopedia, Second
Edition: The Phenomenon from the Beginning,
981–998. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics.
Gansberg, Judith M., and Alan L. Gansberg, 1980.
Direct Encounters: The Personal Histories of UFO
Abductees. New York: Walker and Company.
Klass, Philip J., 1989. UFO Abductions: A Dangerous
Game. Updated edition. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus
Books.
Lorenzen, Coral, and Jim Lorenzen, 1977. Abducted!
Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space. New
York: Berkley.
Persinger, Michael A., 1979. “Possible Infrequent
Geophysical Sources of Close UFO Encounters:
Expected Physical and Behavioral Biological Effects.”
In Richard F. Haines, ed. UFO Phenomena
and the Behavioral Scientist, 396–433. Metuchen,
NJ: Scarecrow Press.
Walton, Travis, 1978. The Walton Experience. New
York: Berkley Medallion Books.
———, 1996. Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experi -
ence. New York: Marlowe and Company.
Wanderers
Wanderers are extraterrestrials who traverse
the cosmos in search of what George Hunt
Williamson calls “trash can worlds”—in other
words, backward planets such as the Earth.
When they find such a world, they offer their
souls to the reincarnation cycle. On Earth
their leader was the Elder Brother—also
known as the Son of Thought Incarnate and,
in a later life, Jesus Christ. The Elder Brother
came to this planet accompanied by one hundred
forty-four thousand Lesser Avatars. Over
the centuries, many forgot their cosmic origins
and mission, but some kept the faith.
After World War II, with the coming of flying
saucers, the seeding process accelerated. A
“space friend” told Williamson, “Many of our
people are in your world now. There are
nearly ten million of them, with six of those
million in the United States itself.”
See Also: Williamson, George Hunt
Further Reading
Williamson, George Hunt, 1953. Other Tongues—
Other Flesh. Amherst, WI: Amherst Press.
White Eagle
White Eagle, believed to represent the New
Testament’s Saint John, was channeled
through British spiritualist medium Grace
Cooke (also known as Minesta) from the
1930s until her death in 1979. By the 1950s,
White Eagle’s teachings had found their way
to North America. White Eagle taught an
eclectic mix of Christian-based ideas and reincarnation
theories as well as the occult doctrine
of the Great White Brotherhood. He advocated
kindness toward one’s fellows and
vegetarianism, and love for animals.
Further Reading
Melton, J. Gordon, 1996. Encyclopedia of American
Religions. Detroit, MI: Gale Research.
White’s little people
One August night in 1891, hours before he
would leave his native El Dorado, Kansas, to
m ove to Kansas City and become one of Ameri
c a’s most highly re g a rded journalists, Wi l l i a m
Allen White was awakened by the bright
moonlight streaming in through his back wind
ow. He was about to turn his head in the op-