Channeling Aliens and Occult Roots: The 1950s UFO Contactee Movement

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The UFO contactee movement is a modern occult‑tinged religious trend that claims ongoing personal contact with extraterrestrials, led by George Adamski and George Van Tassel and drawing on Emanuel Swedenborg, Helena Blavatsky, and Guy and Edna Ballard, with messages that offer salvation or guidance, and Christians view it as nonbiblical New Age spirituality that conflicts with Scripture.

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The “contactee movement” arose in the early 1950s as a direct response to the flying saucer phenomenon. In the context of UFO phenomena, a contactee is an individual who claims to have direct and/or personal contact with alien entities (a close encounter of the third kind, CE-III) on a recurring basis. These people assert that UFO occupants have “contacted” selected human beings in order to convey critical information through them to the entire human race. Over a forty-year period the movement has experienced advances and declines in popularity, but it remains a phenomenon deeply rooted in occult-based religion. This article will explore the contactee experience by briefly tracing its development as an occultic religious movement, inspect the typical contactee scenario, and provide a Christian assessment of this unusual UFO-related phenomenon.