Howard Menger (1922-2009).
documentedsource_actorContactee & UFO Religion
New Jersey sign-painter and Adamski-style contactee; author of From Outer Space to You (1959). Notable for later partially recanting his claims. Documented figure; claims unverified and later disavowed in part.
[DOCUMENTED] Real person; rose to prominence in the late 1950s describing chats with Venusian 'Space Brothers'; book From Outer Space to You (1959, Gray Barker's Saucerian Books), likely ghost-written largely by his second wife Connie Weber ('Marla Baxter', author of My Saturnian Lover, 1958); also issued a record of 'authentic music from another planet'. [CLAIM] Said his first contact (age ~10, 1946, High Bridge NJ) was with a 500-year-old blonde Venusian named Marla, and that he is the reincarnated Saturnian 'Sol du Naro'/'Alyn', his wife the reincarnation of Marla. [DOCUMENTED] On a Long John Nebel broadcast he largely backtracked, saying the government had asked him to claim he fabricated it all; later he said he had 'misunderstood' the aliens' origin.