The Bessor Tapes: 1987 Cassette Voices and John Philip Bessor’s Ongoing Paranormal Fascination

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John Philip Bessor’s 1987 home cassette recordings reveal hours of distorted electronic voices, including the name “Maiva Nye,” illustrating his lifelong obsession with UFOs and paranormal phenomena and raising questions about whether the voices are genuine or artifacts, a question echoed by Curt Collins’s tracing of his activities back to 1980.

John Philip Bessors mysterious electronic voices (The FATE Files Vol. 1 No. 4)
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John Philip Bessors mysterious electronic voices (The FATE Files Vol. 1 No. 4)

John Philip Bessor (1914-1989) is best remembered for his suggestion that UFOs might be space animals, a theory he proposed in a letter to the Air Force as early as 1947. Most agree that the “space critter” idea, seen in Hollywood movies like Nope, originated with him. He wrote a full article about atmospheric beasties for FATE in 1955, but it wasn’t his first piece for the magazine. As early as 1950 he was submitting work about a variety of paranormal phenomena. However, we aren’t unpacking his