Just recently, I re-read a few books from the early years of Ufology, including Harold T. Wilkins’ Flying Saucers Uncensored, Gray Barker’s They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, and The Humanoids, edited by Charles Bowen. And, on doing so, something important struck me. Back in those bygone days, when face-to-face alien experiences were all the rage, the ET’s very often provided the witnesses with names. Unlike today’s modus-operandi of, mostly, downright extraterrestrial anonymity.
While those early alien monikers often sounded like they came straight out of the world of science-fiction (and maybe, in some cases, they did!), the fact of the matter is that, today, even in close encounter cases of a definitively alien kind, the entities seem to be far more anonymous in nature than they were in decades-past. And there’s certainly no better way to gain an understanding of the sheer wealth of curiously-named ETs of the past than An Alien Who’s Who, by Martin S. Kottmeyer, which is published by the good people at Anomalist Books.
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