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sincere, even by skeptics who tended to see
him as something of a religious visionary in a
flying-saucer context rather than as a cynical
exploiter of the credulous. Angelucci's initial
contact allegedly occurred on May 24, 1952,
in Burbank, California. Driving home from
work at an aircraft factory, he saw a saucer,
which emitted two small globes. The globes
approached him, and a masculine voice assured
him that he had nothing to fear. Angelucci
saw a crystal cup materialize, and he
drank a delicious, healing liquid from it. A
screen appeared before him, showing a striking-looking
man and woman who seemed to
read his mind. Another visionary experience,
initiated like the first time by a “dulling of
consciousness” (Angelucci, 1955), occurred
two months later. On August 2, he had a
physical encounter with space people for the
first time.
Angelucci soon went public with his experiences,
warning that a world war was imminent.
From the ruins of the world, a “New
Age of Eart h” would arise. He also re l a t e d
that after six months of unusual psyc h o l o g ical
symptoms, as well as “vivid dreams of a
hauntingly beautiful, half-familiar world,” he
was transported to a beautiful otherw o r l d .
He learned that he had lived there in another
life, when he was known as “Neptune.” Angelucci
wrote two books on his experiences
and became a prominent fig u re on the contactee
circuit. With the passing of the initial
w a ve of enthusiasm about contactees, Angelucci
became little more than a distant
m e m o ry of saucerd o m’s heady early days. Hi s
death in Los Angeles on July 24, 1993, was
little noted.
In his time, however, his claims attracted
the attention of the celebrated psychologist
and philosopher C. G. Jung, who wrote about
them in one of his last books. Jung observed,
“The individuation process, the central problem
of modern psychology, is plainly depicted
. . . in an unconscious, symbolic form . . . although
the author with his somewhat primitive
mentality has taken it quite literally as a
concrete happening” (Jung, 1959).
The cover of The Secret of the Saucers by Orfeo
Angelucci (Fortean Picture Library)
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See Also: Contactees
Further Reading
Angelucci, Orfeo, 1955. The Secret of the Saucers.
Amherst, WI: Amherst Press.
———, 1959. Son of the Sun. Los Angeles: DeVorss
and Company.
Jung, C. G., 1959. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of
Things Seen in the Skies. New York: Harcourt,
Brace and Company.
Anoah
Anoah, associated with the Melchizedek
Order of the White Brotherhood, consisting
of wise extraterrestrial and spiritual entities,
channeled through Austin, Texas, psychic
medium Jann Weiss in the 1980s. The Planetary
Light Association, which at its peak had
some 3,200 members around the world, distributed
books and tapes of these channeling
sessions. It also held workshops at which enthusiasts
listened to Anoah discuss the transi-