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never be confused. They have light skin, eyes
bigger than humans’ and no hair.
See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Allingham’s Martian;
Aurora Martian; Dentons’s Martians and
Venusians; Hopkins’s Martians; Khauga; Martian
bees; Mince-Pie Martians; Monka; Shaw’s Martians;
Smead’s Martians; Wilcox’s Martians
Further Reading
Brown, Courtney, 1996. Cosmic Voyage: Scientific Re -
mote Viewing, Extraterrestrials, and a Message for
Mankind. New York: Dutton Books.
Bucky
Buck Nelson, a sixty-five-year-old bachelor
who lived on a remote farm in the Ozark
Mountains of Missouri, met Bucky of Venus
on March 5, 1955. But his first sighting of
spaceships took place when three of them
hovered over his farm on July 3, 1954, and
one shot a beam of light at him, healing his
lumbago and restoring his eyesight to the degree
that he no longer needed glasses. The following
year on February 1, a saucer returned.
This time a voice, speaking in clear English,
came through a loudspeaker to ask if Nelson
were friendly. The voice went on to explain
that the saucer’s crew was from Venus. Nelson
glimpsed three human-looking, muscular
men inside the craft. Around midnight on
March 5, the three men, with their dog, 385pound
Big Bo, entered Nelson’s house and
conversed with him. All three men were nude,
carrying their clothes on their shoulders; before
putting their uniforms back on, they explained
that they wanted to assure Nelson
that except for their place of origin they were
normal men. One of them said his name was
Bucky.
Bucky—sometimes referred to in subsequent
accounts as “Little Bucky” to distinguish
him from the much older Buck—said
he had been born nineteen years earlier on a
Colorado farm. In 1940, a Venusian spaceship
landed on the family property, and members
of the crew offered to fly the whole family to
their home planet for a visit. Only Bucky,
then four years old, wanted to go. The Venusians
agreed to return one day when he was
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old enough to make a mature decision on the
matter. They came back in 1953, and Bucky
accompanied them to Venus, where he had
resided for two years before Buck Nelson met
him. Besides Bucky, Nelson’s visitors included
Bob Solomon, a two-hundred-year-old Venusian,
and an old man who, his age notwithstanding,
was a trainee learning how to fly a
spacecraft. After an hour the visitors left, but
not before telling Nelson that they would fly
him to other planets, Nelson wrote later, “if I
would tell about it to the world” (Nelson,
1956).
Around midnight on April 24, Bucky and
his friends arrived to take Nelson into space.
He and his dog, Teddy, went to Mars. There
Nelson ate a delicious meal and talked with
the friendly human inhabitants, and then the
ship went on to the Moon for another meal
and a good rest. He, Teddy, and Big Bo went
for a short walk before embarking for Venus.
During one brief stop they saw the “ruler” of
the region engaged in painting. He was clad,
like Nelson himself, in bib overalls. Venus,
like Mars and the Moon, turned out to be a
pleasant place without war or conflict, where
people lived in harmony under the Twelve
Laws of God (essentially the Ten Commandments
and a couple of verses from the New
Testament). On Venus, the races were strictly
segregated. Nelson also was told that his own
parents were Venusians.
Bucky became a regular visitor at Nelson’s
house. They spent Christmas 1956 together.
On another occasion, he brought a fully
cooked Venusian turkey with him. On yet another
Christmas, Bucky took Nelson to his
home on Venus.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Nelson
was a minor celebrity on the contactee scene.
At one point, he sold packets of hair reported
to be from Big Bo, who, he said, had been left
in his custody for a time. New York City radio
personality Long John Nebel, who met Nelson
at the Fourth Interplanetary Spacecraft
Convention at Giant Rock, California, in
1957, said: “It is my impression that Buck
Nelson has made very little money out of his