The Andreasson Affair: The True Story of a Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind

127 Pages·2016·1.72 MB·English

by  Raymond E. Fowler

THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR
THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR
THE TRUE STORY
of a
CLOSE ENCOUNTER of the FOURTH KIND
By
RAYMOND E. FOWLER
Foreword by J. Allen Hynek
Copyright © 1979, 2015 by Raymond E. Fowler and Betty Andreasson
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Transcripts of hypnotic and debriefing sessions © 1978 Raymond E. Fowler, Joseph Santangelo, and Fred R. Youngren.
Excerpts from UFO Report No. CE111/MA-77 (67-41a), “A Close Encounter of the Third Kind: UFO Report Involving
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fowler, Raymond E., 1933-
The Andreasson affair: the true story of a close encounter of the fourth kind / by Raymond E. Fowler ; foreword by J. Allen
Hynek.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60163-346-0 -- ISBN 978-1-60163-440-5 (ebook) 1. Alien abduction. 2. Luca, Betty A. (Betty Andreasson),
1937- I. Title.
BF2050.F678 2014
001.942--dc23
2014021301
Also by the Author
UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors
The Andreasson Affair: Phase Two
The Melchizedek Connection (A Novel)
The Watchers
The Watchers II
The Allagash Abductions
The Andreasson Legacy
UFO Testament
Synchrofile
Dedicated to the
memory of Betty Andreasson’s father,
Waino W. Aho,
and of her two sons,
Todd and James Andreasson, Jr.
Raymond E. Fowler
Acknowledgments
Harold Edelstein, Joseph Santangelo, Jules Vaillancourt, David Webb, and Fred Youngren, for their direct participation in the
investigation, and for providing significant data for use in this book.
Ernest C. Reid, for providing his services as Psychological Stress Evaluator Analyst.
Faith Youngren, who, with her father, Fred Youngren, developed the clay bust of Quazgaa shown.
Waino Aho, Eva Aho, and Rebecca Anderson, for their cooperation during the investigation.
Michael Andolina, George J. Bethoney, Susan Caddy, Nancy McLaughlin, Eugene Mallove, Peter Neurath, Virginia Neurath,
Joseph Nyman, Merlyn Sheehan, Joan Thompson, Debbie Vaillancourt, Janet Walbridge, Evelyn M. Youngren, William Zarr, and
the psychiatrist (who has requested anonymity), for providing valuable services to the investigators.
George Briggs, Gary Lehman, and Frank Pechulis, for reading and commenting on the manuscript.
Special acknowledgments to Dr. J. Allen Hynek for his kindness in providing the Foreword to this book; and to my dear
wife, Margaret, who spent many hours proofreading the manuscript and providing encouragement when needed most.
Contents
Foreword by J. Allen Hynek
Chapter 1: Prologue to the Incredible
Chapter 2: Uninvited Visitors
Chapter 3: On Board
Chapter 4: The Examination
Chapter 5: Trip to an Alien Realm
Chapter 6: A Vision of the Phoenix
Chapter 7: The Return
Chapter 8: Quazgaa’s Farewell
Chapter 9: Messages for Humankind?
Chapter 10: The Blue Book
Chapter 11: Preliminary Correlations
Chapter 12: Hints of an Earlier Encounter
Epilogue: A New Investigation
Appendix A: Additional Biographical Data for Principals in the Andreasson Affair
Appendix B: Rekindled Memories
Appendix C: Fred Youngren’s Reconstructions
Appendix D: A Fifth Entity?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Foreword
The UFO phenomenon, in its totality, is surprisingly complex. Understandably, this is not recognized by the general public.
Although various opinion polls indicate that the majority of the population feel that “UFOs are for real,” only patient study, and—
even more important—direct involvement with the witnesses to this greatly perplexing phenomenon can demonstrate the extent of
the complexity. The man on the street’s simple opinion that either UFOs are all nonsense or that visitors from outer space do exist
is brutally destroyed by close study. But this is not a new insight: In science, it is well recognized that investigations into many
subjects spawn more questions than they answer. In the area of UFOs, deeper acquaintance reveals a subject that has not only
potentially important scientific aspects but sociological, psychological, and even theological aspects as well.
The Andreasson case involves all these aspects—so much so, and in such bizarre fashion, that in the past I frankly would not
have touched an invitation to write the foreword for a book treating “contactees,” abduction, mental telepathy, mystical
symbolism, and physical contact and examination by “aliens.” But across the years I have learned to broaden my view of the
entire UFO phenomenon, and I now realize that it is a composite of many “inputs.” It does not seem to be just one single thing,
but—as has often happened in science—what at first seemed to have just one component has turned out to have several.
This book really started with a letter to me from the principal witness. At that time I had neither the spare hours nor, I
confess, the inclination to follow it up, and I let the letter lie for some time. Then one day I reread it. Here was a sincere person
asking assistance, not knowing where to turn, and I felt I could not be callous and consign the long-unanswered letter to the
“circular file.” It occurred to me that because Ray Fowler and his associates were not too far from the witness, they might do the
Center for UFO Studies and me a favor and discharge the obligation that the letter implicitly imposed. I am glad that Mr. Fowler
undertook what at first must have seemed an unwelcome task. But he and his associates did, and there has resulted a most
interesting book. No, “interesting” is not sufficient; it is a book that will captivate, bother, intrigue, and even frighten as one
pursues it and contemplates its implications.
Fowler is to be complimented on his perseverance in the investigation of this case of very high “strangeness.” It leads down
many paths that make Alice’s wanderings in Wonderland pale by comparison. And those who still hold that the entire subject of
UFOs is nonsense will be sorely challenged if they have the courage to take an honest look at the present book. For whatever the
UFO phenomenon is (or are), it is not nonsense. It would take an imagination of the highest order to explain the reported
happenings described herein as mere misidentifications of balloons, aircraft, meteors, or planets! Neither is there the slightest
evidence of hoax or contrivance.
The present work will also challenge those who consider UFOs solely synonymous with physical craft that transport flesh-
and-blood denizens from distant solar systems. A former book by Mr. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, upholds this
more popular concept of UFOs, and many of the cases he describes tend to give strong support to that hypothesis. But here we
have “creatures of light” who find walls no obstacle to free passage into rooms and who find no difficulty in exerting uncanny
control over the witnesses’ minds. If this represents an advanced technology, then it must incorporate the paranormal just as our
own incorporates transistors and computers. Somehow, “they” have mastered the puzzle of mind over matter.
Of course, all this is predicated on the premise that this entire series of adventures is not the result of some complex
psychological drama played in concert. If so, it would still be a fine case study in abnormal psychology. But more and more of
these high-strangeness cases are surfacing. Like the Andreasson case, they outrage our common sense, and they do constitute a
challenge to our present belief systems. Readers who become intrigued by the Andreasson narrative would be well advised to
acquaint themselves with accounts of other Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind—not only those in which regressive hypnosis is
the chief source of information, as in the present case. One can dismiss the hypnosis reports as unreliable and fanciful, but this is
much more difficult to do where the data source is the witnesses’ conscious mind. Such information is available through serious
UFO organizations like MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) in Seguin, Texas, of which Mr. Fowler is one of the directors, and
CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies) in Evanston, Illinois.
Readers who delve further into the fascinating world of the UFO phenomenon will come to understand for themselves the
worldwide scope of the phenomenon, and the problems and challenges that it presents.
J. Allen Hynek
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois