Truman Bethurum publishes 'Aboard a Flying Saucer'

When: 1954
Sources: 2 public sources

Contactee Truman Bethurum at the 1954 Giant Rock convention, the year his book appeared Don Dwiggins, or another Daily News photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Truman Bethurum, a road-crew worker, published a book claiming he met Aura Rhanes, captain of a craft from a hidden planet he called Clarion, who described a peaceful world. He later lectured with Adamski and other contactees at Giant Rock.

Sources

PressGiant Rock, Space People and the Integratron (opens in a new tab)PBS SoCal Artbound (Kim Stringfellow) / 2018-05-15
OtherAboard a flying saucer. Non-fiction; a true story of personal experience (catalog record, LCCN 54009642) (opens in a new tab)Library of Congress / 1954

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Earlier in Close encountersGeorge Hunt Williamson's 'The Saucers Speak!' published1954 Later in Close encountersUnarius Academy of Science founded1954

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