Gloria Lee learned to fly before she could drive a car. Married to an aeronautical engineer, she became entranced with the subject of UFOs and became actively engaged in psychic research and the study of esoterica. While endeavoring to develop her own extrasensory perception, she made contact with a mysterious being who claimed to be from the planet Jupiter. Gloria s original contact with the entity, who identified itself as J.W., took place in Los Angeles International Airport, where she was working as a ground hostess at that time. The entire communications and the book were done solely through mental telepathy, for which the Instrument, Gloria Lee, was specifically trained and developed over a period of four years. Lee admits this may seem incredible to some minds, but it must be remember that some of the Space People are over one million years in advance of our evolution have developed faculties many of us are not even aware exist. Unlike many who wonder what is happening in the sky, Gloria very successfully established a legitimate contact through mental telepathy. Not that the communications was all that successful at first, but some compelling inner force kept her continuing her search despite the fact that her family and friends tried to discourage her from digging deeper into the unknown. My hurt was overcome by the belief that here was Truth, sometimes highly priced, but always well worth the effort for the knowledge gained, she shamelessly noted. On the other hand, Dana Howard's contacts seemed to be highly evolved. In fact, the author of the exceedingly hard to find first edition of "Diane-She Came From Venus" speaks of her alien friends with high reverence as if they might be God's angels: All over the world an auspicious new day is dawning. A triumphant spiritual victory is soon to be won. Many earthlings will live to see it emblazoned across the morning skies commingled with the dazzling radiance of the sunrise. With trumpets and fanfare the New Age will be ushered in. When that wonderful day arrives those from ON HIGH will descend earthward. They will help to release all the human family to a new octave in living. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of the trumpet, and they shall gather together. His elect from the four winds. . . (Matt. 24: 31.) Unlike the odd looking humanoids and grey aliens of today, the saucer pilots of the contactee era were so human in appearance that it is said they could easily blend in with your average American, walking down the streets of Any Town, USA totally undetected. They were mostly Caucasian looking, had long, wavy, blond hair with piercing blue or green eyes. Most of the contactees were male, but as researcher/blogger Regan Lee points out in her postings at orangeorb.blogspot.com/, Dane Howard was an exception. Her story was perhaps a bit more romantic, a bit more New Age, with its talk of cosmic love from the stars, and its visions of a Marian-like space being who materialized before her as early as 1939. In her part of this historic tome, Dana discusses her transformation from a normal person, to one consumed by universal laws, teleportation, space travel, and things most women of the era would not have had an understanding of or liking for. I would dare say Dana Howard was the Shirley MacLaine of her time! As an example of her prose, Dane expresses her feelings about her trip to our sister planet, either as an astral or physical experience we can only deliberate: During flight we seemed to penetrate many dimensions of abstract space. There was no static. No interference. Then something happened. It was a gentle explosion of colors accompanied by an experience akin to an orgasm of spirit and matter. There was no time after that. No space in the usual connotation of space. All was consciousness.
