The secret of the saucers (Unknown Binding)

by Orfeo M Angelucci (Author)

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This is one of the best contactee accounts of the 1950s. Mr. Angelucci's Secret of the Saucers is a memoir of a more innocent time, and a tale of spiritual growth. It was edited by Ray Palmer, the gray eminence behind FATE magazine, the publisher of the first flying saucer accounts, and the Shaver mythos before that. In fact, Angelucci's name doesn't appear on the title page, simply Palmer as editor. Angelucci is, strangely, only listed as a copyright holder. The well-named 'Orfeo' (see Orpheus and his journey into the underworld) was, like Shaver, a regular guy, a swing-shift line worker at a Lockheed factory in southern California. On Friday, May 23, 1952, by this account, he was strangely drawn to a remote location in Griffith Park; actually not a bad place to land a UFO in Los Angeles. He was contacted by an alien entity named 'Neptune.' Later he is taken aboard a spaceship, gets to visit their paradisiacal home planet by exchanging bodies with Neptune, meets Jesus, and gets to see the end of the world ( --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Unknown Binding: 167 pages
• Publisher: Amherst Press (1955)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0007EHL0Q
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #549,471 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you , Orfeo, October 17, 2007

By	Patricia Knoebel (Albuquerque, NM, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Yes, Orfeo's experience is extraordinary. He comes across as a blessed soul with integrity and courage. Why courage? Simply because so many people in this 3-d world accept only the 3-d plane as reality and unfortunately in ignorance, use ridicule as a weapon. But each of us is not just a 3-d creature but the sine qua non of every person and animal (and plant?) is a higher density form. i.e., the soul.
The higher density (dimensional) souls (people) who interacted with him were truly angels. And now I do not mean souls of merely the 4th-d plane , nor those of the God-level i.e., the highest. The small world which was or is a remnant of Maldek (Lucifer) exists in several densities as do perhaps all worlds or what we call planets or stars. That rainbow colors emanated from the plants, the crystal-plastic type substance of the buildings which were of great beauty both indicate a heaven-world. Swedenborg described the lovely emanations; Betty Andreasson the plastic-glass appearance of all trees and man-made structures.
I hope that Mr. Angelucci is enjoying one of those heaven worlds now.

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2.0 out of 5 stars In some ways the oddest..., April 15, 2006

By	Rory Coker (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you're unfamiliar with the mid-1950s "contactees" beginning with good old George Adamski, these are strange characters who claimed to have been contacted by wise, friendly and entirely human "space brothers" and to have been given rides in their flying saucers. In many ways, Orfeo Angelucci is the strangest (and today also seemingly the least known) of all these very, very deviant personalities. Angelucci is the first of the "classic" contacties to have his space brothers and their vehicles be from "higher dimensions," so that meetings with them and rides in their vehicles are indistinguishable from dreams. This became a cliche of much later "alien abductions" of the 1990s. Angelucci also reports an H. P. Lovecraft-style "mind swap" with space alien "Neptune," which allows him to live for a week in Neptune's paradisal home on "the largest asteroid." In the midst of his monthly visits from space brothers, Angelucci also is visited by Jesus Christ in the flesh, and let's just say JC fits right in, both as regards space-brotherly appearance and as regards cosmic message. Angelucci is also the first 50s contactee to repeatedly use the now-familiar term "New Age" in his book.

The writing style is very, very, very odd and I suspect publisher-editor Ray Palmer had to give it an extensive workover.