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Extraordinary Encounters: An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings

Jerome Clark · author

Jerome Clark's encyclopedic reference work detailing historical and modern accounts of extraterrestrials, occupant encounters, close encounters of the third kind, and anomaly reports across global ufology.

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Extraordinary Encounters: An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings

Publication: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Edition verification: corroborated
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CLAIM-870001 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“number ranges from a few dozen to as many as two hundred from year to year— are in regular contact with benevolent extraterrestrials.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 3: IntroductionCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870002 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“The aliens communicate through channeling, automatic writing, dreams, visions, or voices in the head.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 3: IntroductionCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870003 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Few of the contactees assembled in Laramie matched the stereotype of the flamboyant charlatan or nut case.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 3: IntroductionCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870004 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Abductions by UFOs”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 3: IntroductionCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870019 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“A divine figure or being encountered during near-death experiences, often described as a bright, loving light.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 9: Excerpts from Various Anomalous PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870020 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“A region in the Atlantic Ocean where ships, planes, and people disappear without a trace, surrounded by legends of mysterious events.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 9: Excerpts from Various Anomalous PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870022 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“My window was down, and I leaned my head out slightly to see what was the matter; it was then that I saw beasts, some kind of bizarre animals, with the heads of birds, and covered in some sort of plumage, which were hurling themselves from two sides toward my car.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 10: Bird aliensCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870023 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“They we re jabbering together but we could not understand a syllable they said.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 11: Calf-rustling aliensCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870024 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“The occupants suddenly turned a search-light on the trio, and the ship got closer to them.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 11: Calf-rustling aliensCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870025 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“The ship got closer to them. The witnesses then noticed a calf caught in the fence, with 'a cable . . . fastened in a slip knot around her neck one end passing up to the vessel and tangled in wire.'”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 11: Calf-rustling aliensCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870026 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“They tried to cut the cable, but when they failed, they watched as it and the ship sailed away.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 11: Calf-rustling aliensCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 13: Close Encounters of the Third KindCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870039 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“People who claim to have been taken against their will by UFOs and have had encounters with extraterrestrial beings.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 14: Contactees and AbducteesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870041 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Images of fairies taken by two Yorkshire girls in 1917, which were initially believed to be genuine but later revealed to be a hoax.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 14: Contactees and AbducteesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870042 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“An anonymous correspondent who claimed to have had an encounter with an otherworldly being named Curry as a child.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 14: Contactees and AbducteesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870043 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“One-eyed aliens reported in South American press accounts.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 14: Contactees and AbducteesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870044 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“A spiritualist medium who claimed to have received telepathic communications from Venusian beings.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 14: Contactees and AbducteesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870046 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“The Earth Coincidence Control Office, in Lilly’s phrasing) seek to influence human evolution in such a way that humans do not become enslaved to their technology.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 16: Further ReadingCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870049 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“The Elder Race, also known as Els, was the first extraterrestrial group ever to arrive on Earth.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 16: Further ReadingCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870073 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“The Goblin Universe is a concept of fantastical and potentially real entities and creatures that exist outside our ordinary understanding of reality.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 19: Anomalies and Unexplained PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870076 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Great Mother is a powerful feminine energy or being.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 19: Anomalies and Unexplained PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870078 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“One hundred fi fty thousand years ago, the Great Mother, then living on Uranus, gave birth, via parthenogenesis (self-fertilization), to the first members of a race of superwomen.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 20: Alien Encounters and PropheciesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870086 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Symmes hoped to lead an expedition into the earth, and he lectured widely, all the while lobbying for funding.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 21: Hollow earthCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870087 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Shaver asserted that he had been inside vast subterranean caverns, where remnants of an advanced race that had once populated the surface still lived.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 21: Hollow earthCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870097 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Strange lights and disembodied footsteps frightened him, and once glowing eyes, accompanied by a stench of sulfur, stared at him.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 23: Alien Encounters and PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870101 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“They were working at something, but Lethbridge was not close enough to see what it was.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 26: Lemuria and Related LegendsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870102 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“They 'jabbered furiously to each other in a strange lingo—Welsh or something else; it was certainly not English.'”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 26: Lemuria and Related LegendsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870103 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Retrieving something on the ground, they ran to a carriage underneath the object, which then ascended in a zigzag motion.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 26: Lemuria and Related LegendsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870104 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“The first New World appearance of the BVM is said to have taken place five miles north of Mexico City just after dawn on December 9, 1531.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 27: Marian apparitionsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870105 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Though the BVM appeared, no one but the children saw her, and the communication, which predicted the deaths of the two younger children in the near future (they died in 1919 and 1920), occurred through the oldest child, Lucia de Santos, who was told that she would live long as a witness to the living reality of Mary.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 27: Marian apparitionsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870106 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“On the evening of August 21, Mary Beirne, a middle-aged housekeeper for the local priest, was walking by the chapel when she was surprised to see three 'beautiful' figures, one resembling the BVM, the other St. Joseph, the third a bishop, standing motionlessly near an altar.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 27: Marian apparitionsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870107 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“It was all black, about the size of a human but without a head. It seemed to have wings like a bat on either side and came stumbling towards us.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 29: Anomalies and Unexplained PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870112 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“OINTS are any beings that are on Earth but are not human. He did not confine his definition simply to extraterrestrial visitors, who in his view are only one among a variety of beings present on this planet.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 31: OINTSCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870118 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“They . . . were covered with a natural growth . . . as soft as silk to the touch, and their skin was like velvet.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 36: Shaw's MartiansCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870119 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Their faces and heads were without hair, the ears were very small, and the nose had the appearance of polished ivory, while the eyes were large and lustrous.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 36: Shaw's MartiansCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870120 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“They had small hands, delicate-looking and without fingernails, and long, narrow feet.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 36: Shaw's MartiansCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870121 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Each of them had swung under the left arm a bag to which was attached a nozzle, and every little while one or the other would place the nozzle in his mouth, at which time I heard a sound as of escaping gas.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 36: Shaw's MartiansCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870122 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“They . . . were nearly or quite seven feet high and very slender.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 36: Shaw's MartiansCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870125 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“The majority of Amerindian Medicine People believe that Star People—individuals who many lifetimes ago came to Earth with a mission from their home worlds—are 'becoming active at this time in an effort to aid mankind [in surviving] a coming Great Purification of the planet.'”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 37: Aliens and the deadCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870126 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Springheel Jack is a mysterious leaping figure in Victorian folklore.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 37: Aliens and the deadCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870127 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Witness claimed encounter with a mysterious pilot named Smith.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 37: Aliens and the deadCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870128 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Witness claimed encounter with beings from Jupiter and Saturn.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 37: Aliens and the deadCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 38: Alien Encounters and PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 38: Alien Encounters and PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 38: Alien Encounters and PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 38: Alien Encounters and PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 38: Alien Encounters and PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 38: Alien Encounters and PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870139 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 38: Alien Encounters and PhenomenaCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870142 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“The Ummo symbol appeared on many pages of discourse on Ummite life, society, science, technology, language, and politics.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 39: Alien Encounters and CultsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870143 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“According to George Hunt Williamson, six solar systems housing planets peopled by 'negative space intelligences' exist in the Orion nebula.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 39: Alien Encounters and CultsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870144 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Vadig introduced himself as Vadig and communicated with a contactee through a prank call.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 39: Alien Encounters and CultsCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870146 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“T h e re are Walk-ins on this planet. Tens of thousands of them. Enlightened beings, who, after successfully completing numerous incarnations, have attained sufficient awareness of the meaning of life that they can forego the time-consuming process of birth and childhood, returning directly [to] the adult bodies.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 41: Walk-insCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870147 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Walk-ins, according to M o n t g o m e ry, include Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Christo- pher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, G a n d h i , Ma ry Baker E d d y, Thomas Jefferson, B e n- jamin Franklin, and others who have play e d large roles in politics, religion, the arts, and other aspects of human life.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 41: Walk-insCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
CLAIM-870155 · extraordinary encounters an encyclopedia of jerome Observation
“Xeno and his companions were light-skinned and resembled human beings except for unusually sharp chins and noses.”
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SRC-002039 · Chapter 42: Alien Encounters and ContacteesCLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
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