What About Female UFO Contactees?
Regan Lee has an article up at UFO Digest on Dana Howard, one of the few 1950s contactees who happened to be a woman. Lee looks at the issue in the context of manifestations of the Virgin Mary.
Here she is selling copies of My Flight To Venus at George Van Tassel’s Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention in 1955.
Howard is at right. That’s (former) Bluebook commander Edward J. Ruppelt peeking over the car.
I can only think of one other woman from the classic contactee era who produced any public record of her experiences. In the heavily male-dominated world of 1950s America, Howard stands out in a field where contactees often lingered on descriptions of their encounters with shapely space babes. The account that Lee provides has no real overt sexual overtones, unless you think that Dana Howard was a lesbian. Howard described her “Diane” as
…a woman being of unsurpassed loveliness. Her head was radiant with a crown of fire, strands of golden hair cascading gently over her beautiful, slightly olive-tinted shoulders. The strange mystic light flooding her dark, prophetic eyes, added a wistful something to all her other charms.
As Lee reports, Howard also claimed a materialization of this being at a 1955 seance in Los Angeles. I wonder if the “Church Of Divine Light,” where this incident took place, still exists? Perhaps it was simply medium Reverend Bertie Lillie Candler’s home, but I’ll take a drive over there soon and have a look. (1/5 - It’s there!)
Like George Adamski and his first contact in the California desert, Howard also had multiple witnesses to the spirit’s appearance. Unlike Adamski, they were apparently not simply other contactees and highly interested parties. Does this mean that Howard is more believable, or that she and the Rev. Candler hoaxed their audience?
Read Lee’s excellent article and decide for yourself.
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A bit of thinking and looking reveals other women in the contact business, even before the 1950s. I would class Theosophical founder Helena Blavatsky as a contactee, and Catherine Muller (aka Helene Smith) profiled in From India To The Planet Mars, believed that she had lived on the Red Planet in a previous life. Edna Ballard, wife of Guy Ballard, presided over the I AM movement and also channeled extraplanetary spirits.
Moving into the 1950s and ’60s, other women on the space brother scene included Hope Troxell, Aleuti Francesca, and Gloria Lee. Like their forebears, their contacts consisted wholly of channels and spiritual episodes. In 1972, perhaps the most famous female contactee, Ruth Norman, took over the reins of the Unarius Academy, after the death of her husband Ernest. In the 1970s, Thelma B. Turrell channeled the edicts of beings from the Ashtar Command.
It is interesting to note that almost none of the female contactees actually claimed any physical contact with space people, Dana Howard and Mollie Thompson being the sole standouts. What this may indicate is a basic difference in psychology between the sexes. Perhaps women feel that a spiritual/ mental bond with their channeled contacts is just as important (perhaps more so) than males.
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Jan 04 2008 
January 4th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Helen and Betty Mitchell come to my mind as female contactees. Their story has apparently slipped into the public domain and is located at http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/wmsp/index.htm
I have my Modern American history students read it. Many of them are satisfyingly perplexed.
January 5th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
ajg,
Hadn’t even heard of them. Thanks for the info. The drawing on the website you referenced looks like it was done by Gene Duplantier, a Canadian who illustrated many of Gray Barker’s books.
January 5th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Thank you for the nice comments Greg.
Great find, that picture of Howard.
January 6th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Female contactee singing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8yxoXdlQGc
January 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Yeah total alter-ego stuff. Doppleganger as tulpa.
January 7th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Elizabeth Robinson, author of “Secrets, Truth and Destiny” is more recent, but I’ve met her personally several times, and find her to be credible in the sense that she believes her own story, and has been gifted with psychic healing powers as a result of her contacts. Her story of having half-breed children that she has been allowed to see is very compelling.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Miles,
I think I was wrong about where that clip of Mollie Thompson came from. It’s wasn’t from “Farewell Good Brothers.” Thanks for putting it up! What show DID it come from?
January 8th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Drew,
And what chance is there that the male contactees were victims of your theory as well?
January 8th, 2008 at 12:42 am
elidumitru,
Thanks for bringing Robinson up. I don’t know what to make of abductee claims. I think that many of them believe their recollections, but the idea of alien abduction/ crossbreeding has permeated the culture so much that whatever is going on outside of the experiencer’s consciousness may be unrecoverable at this point i.e. people may be making their experiences fit a mold that has been provided for them. The subconscious may have a large part in this.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Greg — The chances about males being victims of my theory are way over 100%! I mean modern people are so cut off from their repressed emotions — so disconnected from their natural sense of bliss as sublimated sex energy — that modern males are basically the walking dead. UFOs are not much more than the product of pimply teenage males salivating over auto-car magazines (with the same fascist implications as Ford). And just as cars dominate the modern world so too are ufos a central motif for analysis, but the basic mechanisms are unfortunately rather simple. If I’m sitting in public having what I call full-lotus “O at a D”s with females — the “rational” males have hissy-fits. The “primal” males tend to start seeing me as “jail bait.” haha. The reactions are cultural, psychological and physiological, etc. — it’s too complicated to pin down out of context of course.
The basic Gurdjieff harmonics are impersonal, simple and best explained in the book “Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality” trans. by Charles Luk. As Gurdjieff states kundalini (the sublimated sex energy visions that define our sense of three dimensional reality) are not real (this includes ufos, aliens, cars, the internet) — only consciousness, as female formless awareness, is real (meaning doesn’t change). Females have a psycho-physiological advantage over males when it comes to connecting with the cosmological source that bends spacetime and matter-energy. (This explains your comment about less need for physical contact). Modern science, by definition, cuts us off from the natural resonance which builds our connection with female formless awareness, thereby rendering modern males (and their alien abduction ufo experiences) to be nothing more than the fantasies of cosmic dust mites. In the scope of female formless awareness this is something of a tautological paradox.
A really excellent book on this modern male (tantric technological) fall into the true foundation of reality is called:
THE BONES OF THE MASTER: A SECRET JOURNEY INTO INNER MONGOLIA (by George Crane, 2000)
January 10th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
I’m a female. I’ve been abducted. And I don’t care if people believe me. And I don’t have psychic powers because of my experiences or a new religious belief, or anything new-age-ee. I’m just a person who works, eats, shits, and bleeds who happens to have had some experiences that’ve made me believe at times that I’m nuts. But, since at times certain events have been corroborated with others and there’s too much circumstantial evidence having been reported over the years, of events similar to my own, it’s hard for me not to believe that what I’ve seen, touched, smelled,and tasted isn’t real. So forgive me if people like Dana Howard and comments like, “and find her to be credible in the sense that she believes her own story” make me feel rankled.
January 11th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
It’s not a coincidence that “rankled” comes from the Latin for coiled serpent.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
abducted,
I apologize if you are annoyed with what seems to be a condescending attitude, at least on my part. Personally, I am giving the benefit of the doubt to people who claim any contact with non-human intelligence. Since this is not an experience everyone has had I have no frame of reference, and therefore try to honor the assumed sanity of the experiencer by suspending any disbelief until we can all agree that this sort of thing is anywhere near what it appears to be.
Also, please see my previous comment to “elidumitru” above.
Thanks for commenting on our site, and good luck with all of your endeavours.