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Writer Attends UFO ConclaveEDITOR'S NOTE: MarvHyre, Point Pleasant correspondent for The Messenger,has written many stories in the past eight months about CKO sightings in the Mason County area. Cast week she attended a t to watchers’ convention in New York (itv. In this storv, she describes her experiences.)By MARY HYRE%Point Pleasant CorrespondentCast Saturday night I was invited by John A. Keel, a well-known writer, to appear withhim on the Long John Nebel radio show on NBC which has an endless parade of saucerpersonalities.A strange woman also appeared on the show who claimed she was Miss Venus from the planet Venus.Others on this show who questioned Miss Venus for over four hours were sports broadcaster Mel Allen, the popular raoio and TV personality Art Ford and writers of New York papers While none believed her story, it did leave everyone baffled just who she was and where she came from. She also appeared at the UFO convention the next day. This is the storv she told and some of theWquestions she was asked.Miss Venus claimed she came to Earth on Sept. 27, seven years ago as double for a girlon that date and has lived with the girl’s parents, who are riot aware that she is not their daughter. She has worked at various jobs using the other girl's name and Social Security number, which she would notgiri who committed suicidereveal because she said she didn’t want to hurt the parents.Came By SaucerI asked Miss Venus how' she came to Earth and she said bv a flying saucer, but they call it the Swoope, and landed not far from New York.She claims that there are 15,000 Venusians here on Earth to redevelop people and enlighten the “love,” and that she has a task to awakenpeople.When asked why she hadlt;•waited seven vears to make herself known she said it had taken that long to do some of the work that had to be done. She claims she had to live the life of the people here on Earth. She said she is 27 years old, Earth years, and 54 years by Venus count.She was asked to speak something in Venusian, but said that no one would know if she was speaking it or not. hut did write what she claimed was the writing of a Venusian.in describing life on Venus,she said there is no crime, no money, no pain, no time, no greedy people and all live b the power of thinking. She saidthey do mM eat meat, onts vegetables and fruit. There are no wars nor poverty according to her. They have baseball, butonly play five innings. She said they have many of the same things we do.She answered some of the questions very quickly and at other times she would studyUrthe question or rather had a look of amazement and didn't appear to understand what they were talking about. She was really questioned, but always came back to the part of love and that there is only oneGod.A Great PlanetMiss Venus said the Earlh is a great planet, but the people are lost here and that the Venusians will help them. In answer to Mel Allen’s question about transportation, she said they travel by horse, camel and walking.In a personal interview with her Sunday I asked if he thought we would ever go to Venus, and she replied no She also said that she will not go back to Venus, but will die on earth. I asked her if she wassad because she had left Venusarid she said no, that everything was controlled by the mind there and she is happy to help others.In a question and answer period at the UFO convention she said that she wouldn’t want people to believe immediately who she was, and she did not care if they believed sheonly cared who they were. She said there is only one mind and if you let go and believe in one mind you will not be rich, butyou will live bv nature andloveShe also noted that in tying((ontinued on Page 24)
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Athens Sunday Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Sun, Jul 02, 1967
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