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1932, High Bridge, New Jersey, USA, Howard Menger:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Howard Menger, born 1922, was a famous US alleged "contactee" who told nonsense all his life.

Yet, his first alleged encounter with aliens appears in few ufology texts as if there was any value in the claims.

One ufology catalog of the 2000's says that near High Bridge, New Jersey, in 1932, in the afternoon, in a quiet wooded area, 10-year-old Howard Menger encountered, sitting on a rock, "the most exquisite woman he had ever seen." She had golden hair and eyes, and wore a shiny nylon-like seamless outfit similar to what a skier would wear. She said, "I have come a long way to see you, Howard... and talk to you." Menger claimed she knew all about him and what his purpose would be on Earth. She told him, he claimed, that her people had been watching him for a long time and "we are contacting our own." (Menger claimed he and his wife were Venusians.) It is claimed the "woman was able to answer questions before he could ask them; she seemed to read all his thoughts. She told him they would meet again and warned of future wars and destructions."

Basic information table:

Narratives:

[Ref. bh1:] ROBERT E. BARTHOLOMEW AND GEORGE S. HOWARD:

[Ref. go1:] GODELIEVE VAN OVERMEIRE:

[Ref. go2:] GODELIEVE VAN OVERMEIRE:

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that near High Bridge New Jersey, in 1932, in the afternoon, "In a quiet wooded area, 10-year old Howard Menger encountered, sitting on a rock, "the most exquisite woman he had ever seen." She had golden hair and eyes, and wore a shiny nylon-like seamless outfit similar to what a skier would wear. She said, "I have come a long way to see you, Howard…and talk to you." She knew where I had come from and what my purpose would be on Earth. She said her people had been watching him for a long time and "we are contacting our own." The woman was able to answer questions before he could ask them; she seemed to read all his thoughts. She told him they would meet again and warned of future wars and destructions."

Albert Rosales indicates that the source is "Howard Menger, From Outer Space".

[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The source is indicated as: "Rosales, Albert, Humanoid Sighting Reports Database".

Points to consider:

Howard Menger (Below) was born on February 17, 1922 in the state of New York, USA, who in the manner George Adamski did, made a career by claims of alien contacts.

Howard Menger

Professionally, he entered the United States Army after leaving high school and was attached to the 17th Tank Battalion. Later life he was often employed as a sign painter. He died on February 25, 2009, at the age of 87.

He claimed to have met "Venusians", "Martians", "Saturnians" and "Jupiterians" all his life. When everybody realized that there are no "Venusians" living on Venus, no "Jupiterans" etc., he claimed he had misunderstood where they came from - after having filled two books and given many lectures in which he had repeated this "misunderstanding" repeated after many encounters.

All his claims were totally ridicule.

What Albert Rosales [ar1] listed here was Menger's first alleged "contact", when he was 10-year-ols then and had moved with his parents to the rolling hills of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA. He told about it in two books, "From Outer Space To You" and "The High Bridge Incident".

This so-called CE3 occurred while he was playing in the woods near his home. He came upon a beautiful golden-haired woman, sitting on a rock. He wrote:

[she] "was the most exquisite woman my young eyes had ever beheld! The warm sunlight caught the highlight of her long golden hair as it cascaded around her face and shoulders. The curves of her lovely body were delicately contoured-revealed through the translucent material of [her] clothing... "

And:

"... an incredible wave of warmth, love and physical attraction emanating from her to me."

The woman told him:

"Howard, I have come a long way see you... and talk with you. We are contacting our own."

She explained that when he would grew older, when he could understand their teachings, which would include the knowledge of his purpose on Earth and what would be expected of him as a messenger of the Space People, he would be contacted again...

During a Venusians visit at his home, he had given Venusians fruit juice, he said, because they had forgotten to bring their own food and drink.

A Venusian told him that in ancient times, some men of the Earth had lived for hundreds of years on Earth, because at that time, the Earth's atmosphere was still similar to that of Venus...

In 1956, he began traveling to Venus, among other planets. Sometimes he gets there in two hours, sometimes it starts with a 15-day treatment, the time, he explained, to adujst the body to "a change of polarity and vibratory frequency."

Venus is a paradise, of course, with lakes, forests, flying cars and beautiful cities.

He brings back potatoes that grow on the moon, which he shows to the Press, assuring that "analyzes" have proven that these Moon potatoes have far more protein than any other terrestrial species. The moon has clouds, a breatheable atmosphere, a yellow sky; which he saw himself.

He meets a Saturnian who taught him to play the piano in one day. A piece of music is created; which Mengers release on disk under the title "Music from another planet". He soled the disk at his lectures.

Also in 1956, while he and his followers were at his farm near High Bridge where another contactee, George Van Tassel, was giving a lecture, Menger notices a slim and attractive young woman with whom he falls in love at first sight. He later told that at her sight, he remembered all of a sudden all his past lives as extraterrestrial, that she was the sister of the first Venusian whom he met there in 1932, that they have been in love since hundreds of years since the times he was a "Saturnian spiritual instructor named Sol da Naro" and she was a Venusian. Her real name is not "Marla" and she is obviously not Venusian, she is Connie Weber, recently widowed. They become lovers although Menger is married and has children. Menger will divorce and marry her. In 1958 Connie Weber published a book on their relationship under the name "Marla Baxter", titles "My Saturnine Love."

Example of Menger literature:

"There is a very powerful group of people in the world who are extremely knowledgeable in technology, psychology, and, worst of all, in tele-influence, and who lead prominent people in government positions. This group is related to the Anti-God, it is in some way the instrument of your mythical Demon. They handle not only the inhabitants of this planet but also the inhabitants of Mars, and also other beings who live on our own planet, but of which you have never heard of, beings that until now have been neither observed nor discovered. A kind of underground people. This group has infiltrated religious organizations to deceive your people by their infusing a false conception of the truth that had already circumnavigated our humanity thousands of years ago, they use the credulity and faith of the masses to achieve their goals."

In 1965, while nobody except some crackpots believed him anymore (everyone has understood that the surface temperature on Venus is 400°C and there is no atmosphere on the Moon), he stated on television, that he had actually never met true extraterrestrials, and that all the encounters, including that of High Bridge, were staged by the US secret services to test the psychological reactions of people to possible extraterrestrial visits. With Connie, he retired in Florida and no longer talked about his Venusian friends... until 1991 when he published a new book and returns to his earliest claims, asserting that his encounters with the extraterrestrials were entirely real.

See:

Official website: https://www.howardmenger.com
Howard and Connie Menger on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowardMenger

Books by Howard Menger (Actually, Connie Menger says she wrote them):

• 1991 - The High Bridge incident: The story behind the story
• 1967 - From Outer Space - Secret of the Flying Saucers
• 1967 - Secrets of the Flying Saucers From Outer Space
• 1967 - From Outer Space - (original) From Outer Space to You
• 1959 - From Outer Space to You - An Account of Visitors From Space
• 1959 - From outer space to you

Howard Menger died in 2009.

List of issues:

Evaluation:

Tall tale of the "contactee" kind.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

• [hm1] ? "From Outer Space", book by Howard Menger, Saucerian Press publishers, USA, 1959.
• [hm1] ? "From Outer Space", book by Howard Menger, Pyramid Books publishers, USA, 1967.
• [hm2] ? "The High Bridge Incident", livre par Howard et Connie Menger, à compte d'auteur, USA, 1991.
• [jc1] ? "L'Enigme des Extra-Terrestres", book by Jean-Francis Crolard, Guy Trédaniel publisher, France, page 145, 1995.
• [ug1] ? UFO Geheimnisse UFO magazine, Germany, January 1998.
• [bh1] * "UFOs and Alien Contacts - Two Centuries of Mystery", book by Robert E. Bartholomew and George S. Howard, Prometheus Books publisher, New York, USA, pp 288-289, 1998.
• [go1] * "Chronologie OVNI", compiled by Godelieve Van Overmeire, Belgium, circa 1999, was on the web.
• [go2] * "Chronologie OVNI", compiled by Godelieve Van Overmeire, Belgium, circa 1999, was on the web.
• [ar1] * "1932 Humanoid Reports, compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2006, at www.aforteanosla.com.ar/albert/anuarios/1932%20Humanoid%20Reports.pdf
• [ud1] * "1932 - High Bridge, New Jersey, USA, case record at the UFOdna website, USA, circa 2009, at https://thecid.com/ufo/uf19/uf4/194812.htm

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