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76 Cyclopeans
crossroads. A “ship or shuttle” then took the
boy and his charge apparently into space, but
Strieber’s correspondent had no memory of
anything except being dropped off and seeing
Curry again. Now Curry was wearing a hood
that covered everything but his eyes.
This was only the first of a number of paranormal
encounters the correspondent would
have over the years, though this one, apparently,
was his last with Curry. He refers to
them as “dreams, or experiences, depending
on how you want to look at it.”
See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Strieber, Whitley
Further Reading
Strieber, Whitley, and Anne Strieber, eds., 1997. The
Communion Letters. New York: HarperPrism.
Cyclopeans
Argentine ufologist Fabio Picasso coined the
term “Cyclopeans” to characterize one-eyed
aliens whose alleged presence is the subject of
a handful of South American press accounts.
Picasso acknowledges that some accounts are
certain or likely hoaxes, and others have not
been well investigated. Nonetheless, as of
1992, he had found eleven such reports.
One such case is said to have occurred on
August 28, 1963, at Sagrada Familia, Br a z i l .
T h ree boys witnessed the sudden appearance
of a beam of light in their backyard. In s i d e
the light, a transparent, ball-shaped object
h ove red. Inside it, four one-eyed entities,
t h ree males and one female, clad in tight coveralls,
we re visible. One stepped out of the
UFO and floated in the air, communicating
first by gestures, then by telepathy, to the
c h i l d ren (the content of the message is not
s p e c i fied). The being returned to the craft,
which then depart e d .
At Torrent, Argentina, in February 1965,
farm laborers, returning home late at night
from hunting, noticed five small figures.
When one of the hunters acted in a threatening
matter, the shapes suddenly grew larger
until they were around eight feet tall. The beings
chased the hunters to a house. Later, one
man escaped from the house with the one-
eyed entities in hot pursuit. One managed to
grab him with its hairy hands, but the man
broke loose and got away. Subsequently, the
others effected an escape by van.
“ Cyclopean beings can be classified into two
subtypes,” Picasso writes. “T h e re are short Cyc
l o p e a n s. . . and tall ones. . . . The latter beings
often behave aggre s s i ve l y” (Picasso, 1992).
Further Reading
Picasso, Fabio, 1992. “Infrequent Types of South
American Humanoids.” Strange Magazine 9
(Spring/Summer): 34–35, 55.
Cymatrili
Enid Brady was a spiritualist medium who led
a small church in Holly Hill, Florida. In the
early 1950s, she began to experience telepathic
communications from the “master
teachers of Venus.” One of them was Cymatrili.
He and his companions were based in a
giant ship in orbit above the southeastern
United States. Venusians look much like humans
but are finer featured. Their civilization
is advanced, peaceful, and free of disease,
poverty, and conflict. Venusians live to be several
hundred years old.
Brady was little noted outside contactee
c i rcles until the summer of 1957, when a ret
i red army major, Wayne S. Aho, took tape
re c o rdings to Washington, DC, of Br a d y’s
communications from Cymatrili, Hu m a
Matra, Mandall, and John (the latter two
“ve n t l a”—saucer—pilots). Aho visited the
Pentagon. He persuaded Defense De p a rtment
personnel to listen to an hour and a
h a l f’s worth of the tapes. A spokesman pronounced
the messages “u n i m p re s s i ve and unc
o n v i n c i n g” (“Pentagon,” 1957). Aho later
p l a yed the tape for a United Press In t e r n ational
re p o rt e r, who wrote a tongue-in-cheek
piece on the experience.
In other channelings, Brady’s Venusians related
that in 1955, Martians had landed at
Edwards Air Force Base in southern California
and were taken into custody. Engineers
from the air force learned a great deal about
extraterrestrial technology from studying the