In the early 1950s, numerous people throughout the world claimed contact with a breed of extraterrestrial that purportedly bore an eerie resemblance to the human race. In many cases, those who maintained that they had met such beings asserted that the aliens were highly concerned about our warlike ways and our ever-increasing nuclear arsenals. Thus was created the cult of the contactee.

Some of the better known contactees, such as George Adamski (co-author with Desmond Leslie of Flying Saucers Have Landed, describing Adamski’s supposed meetings with aliens; see FT160:49) claimed that their alleged extraterrestrial friends had Communist-style governments, which led them to be closely monitored by the FBI for decades (see my book, On the Trail of the Saucer Spies).