Subject: The Howard Menger Story. Parts 3 and 4. Dec. 17, 2003.
I once met Howard Menger and talked with him at a convention of
people who believe in UFOs in Phoenix, Arizona more than 10 years
ago. Howard is a big, rough, tough, sort of a person.
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Subject: Howard Menger - Part 3
Howard Menger's incredible experiences continued into the 1950's,
as he became increasingly involved in helping the space people
establish themselves on our planet. Such tasks were not without their
moments of humor, Menger recalled:
"Often I purchased clothing and took it to the points of contact.
Visitors just arriving from other planets had to be attired in
terrestial clothing so they could pass unnoticed among people. I
remember one time when I was asked to purchase several complete
outfits of female clothing. Feeling it would be embarrassing and
somewhat difficult to explain why I was buying so many outfits, I
purchased them in seperate shops.
I bought what I thought was the appropriate size and showed up
at the point of contact. The women went into the next room from
which I soon heard a series of giggles and groans. Finally the
door opened and the bras were flung out. They apologized, saying
they just could not wear them, and they never had. They also had
difficulties with high heels. They teetered and wobbled and
suffered, but took it in good humor. They realized they would have
to learn how to wear them, though they often complained, 'Why can't
your women wear sensible shoes!'
On several occasions, Menger says he acted as barber for some
of the new male arrivals.' I don't know if they save their hair or
not,' he remarked, 'however, all evidence of the meetings was always
carefully gathered up by the space people before they departed.
'Some of the men had unusually fair skin, without hair on their
arms or faces, and apparently they had no need to shave.' After
three months on Earth, however, they became hairy and grew beards.'
Some of the visitors requested dark glasses; some specifically of
red glass, though the reason for this was not given.
'Thus I had the opportunity to meet people from other planets in
all stages of progress and development,' claimed Menger, 'from
those who spoke not a word of our language to those who spoke it
fluently; scientists and technicians to helpers and assistants. I
briefed them on our customs, slang and habits. Although they
utilized instruments to learn a language quickly, the machines
couldn't always cope with the colloquialisms.'
Although acting as one of the space people's liason men,
Menger says that he was never asked to obtain identification
papers, nor to seek jobs for them.
occasionally, Menger was asked to bring food for the space
people.
"They asked mainly for frozen fruit juices, canned fruit and
vegetables, whole wheat bread, wheat germ and the like. They
refused to drink milk, avoided fresh oranges, lemons and
grapefruit. They preferred tree-ripened fruit when I could find
it. I remember one time I bought five bushels of tree-ripened
apples from the local orchard. They tested the apples and found
the mineral and vitamin content much lower than similar fruits of
their planets. This was due, they said, to our poor soil. They
explained that chemical fertilizers were not the correct answer to
the problem because they did not replenish the organic materials
our soil sadly lacks."
While chemical fertilizers have widely been regarded as unhealthy
for many years, it should be pointed out that this was not the
prevalent view in 1959, when the above information was published in
Menger's first book, From Outer Space to You. He continued:
"Most of the time they brought their own food, in a dried,
preserved state. I sampled some of it and while it was tasty, it
was hard and dry. I tasted other food which was delicious. They
had put the dry foods through some sort of processing which returned
the moisture and at the same time expanded it to its natural size
and state. I ate one of their tubers which was far superior in
protein and mineral content than any vegetable we now have. We
could grow the same here, they said, if our soil were healthy."
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From: J
Subject: Howard Menger - Part 4
During a contact at one of the landing sites in April 1956, Menger
claims to have been shown an 'observation disc' at close quarters,
similar to those reported by George Adamski. The object seemed to be
lying on the ground. 'It appeared to be a circular, translucent
object about a foot thick and three or four feet in diameter,' he
reported. 'It was pulsating different warm colors. As we approached
it, the colors changed from white to blue and back to white with a
tinge of yellow.'
According to Menger's contact man, the disc was controlled
remotely from a nearby spaceship, and was capable of recording all
emotions, thoughts and intentions. 'Don't worry, it's white,' said
the spaceman. 'When it changed to white I knew you were all right',
adding that the same colors were being displayed on an instrument
panel in the ship and would be recorded permanently.
During several contacts, Menger was able to take a number of
photographs and films of the spacecraft and on a couple of occasions
their occupants; alas, only in silhouette, owing to the darkness. At
00.45 on 2 August 1956, for instance, he took Polaroid photos of one
of the craft as it came in for a landing.
"I snapped away, hardly able to wait for even a minute while the
pictures developed, but in the darkness could not see just how I
was doing. I noticed that one of the three ball-like objects under
the craft became distorted and looked like rubber as it seemed
to stretch and grasp the ground. I could see the other two balls
through the translucent flange. I wondered how they could make
metal appear translucent, and also become plastic, certainly
alien to our earthly physics...
An opening appeared and a man stepped out. He stood tall and
straight, his long, blond hair blowing in the soft warm summer
breeze. I could see the beautiful structure of his body; his broad
shoulders, slim waist, and long, straight legs. He approached
and when he was about 50 feet away I snapped his picture. He
was silhouetted against the glowing craft, a dramatic pose which I
hoped would turn out better than my previous picture. But in the
picture the craft seemed distorted and looked as if a gaseous,
swirling haze encircled it." (see photo section of this club)
The spaceman explained that the pictures had come out slightly
distorted 'due to the electromagnetic flux around the craft', an
effect which is seen clearly in the frames from the 8mm movie
taken by George Adamski in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1965.
The following evening, Menger was taken on board one of the
spacecraft for the first time; a short hop from one of the landing
sites to another. Just before entering the craft, one of the
spacemen pointed an instrument at Menger and a bluish beam
of light struck his head, producing a rather pleasant tingling
sensation. ( Notice the similarity with the R.O. Schmidt case)
'We projected the beam on you to condition and process your
body quickly so you could enter the craft,' Menger was told. 'What
actually happened was that the beam changed your body frequency to
equal that of the craft. Thus you felt entirely comfortable inside
the craft and suffered no ill effects.'
In the small hours of 5 August 1956, Menger says, he was taken
for a longer ride.
"We stepped into a large circular room. In the center of it was an
ample-sized round table made of translucent material. Under the
table-top pulsating lights of many colors moved. The dowel-shaped
stem supporting the table was set in what appeared to be a huge
magnifying glass, itself set into the floor. Approximately one
third of the circular room was devoted to instrument panels
containing many colored lights blinking on and off. In front of the
control board was a frame containing what I guessed was some kind
of viewing screen."
One of the spacemen waved his hand over a section of the table
and two chairs came out of the floor. Menger and his guide sat down,
and on the screen appeared a scene on Earth. After take-off, the
magnifying lens on the floor zoomed in to reveal another terrestial
scene, with two people whom Menger knew, driving along a highway.
'The image appeared as if in broad daylight,' said Menger.'I could
see everything clearly and I could hear the two voices as if the
people were in the ship with us...'
In the second week of August 1956, in the Blue Mountains area of
Pennsylvania, Menger claims that, together with two other people he
knew (not named), he was taken into space aboard another craft and
shown the Moon, as well as large meteorites, through a viewing
screen.
Like Adamski, Menger reported seeing colors (blues and greens) in
a crater on the Moon. But his description of what Earth looked
like is interesting, in that it conforms to what our planet does
actually look like in photographs taken years later by the
astronauts: 'At one time we caught site of Earth in the distance,
glowing bluish-white with tinges of red, floating like a tennis ball
in an inky black pool...
Menger took five photographs of Earth and the Moon through a
porthole, of which three came out. Unfortunately, as he himself
admits, these particular photographs are blurred and do not furnish
satisfactory evidence.
Source: Timothy Good - Alien Base
http://www.ufoevidence.org/books/book105.htm