Orfeo Angelucci’s Secrets of the Flying Saucers – A Return to the Days of the Early Contactees
By Sean Casteel
'Son Of The Sun'
After covering UFOs, alien abduction and many other paranormal
subjects for over 25 years, I thought I’d seen it all. But once again,
publisher, editor, writer and talk show host Timothy Green Beckley has
shown me just how wrong that assumption can be. Tim recently sent me a
book that contains two full-length tomes by the late contactee Orfeo
Angelucci combined in one volume. Though the books were originally
published in the 1950s, they contain so much that is relevant and
precious about UFO contact and the mortals who come under their purview
for reasons they themselves do not comprehend.
In the case of Orfeo Angelucci, I would hazard a guess that he was
chosen because of his sincere, guileless innocence. Orfeo was 39 years
old when he had his first consciously-recalled alien encounter, but
there is an undeniable childlike quality that comes across in his
writing that makes it difficult to imagine he was seeking fame or
attention or money. He honestly believed that the Space Brothers – who
had walked into his life from out of the blue – had charged him with the
mission of making their presence and good intentions for mankind known.
Orfeo’s first book was called “The Secret of the Saucers” and came
out in 1955. He begins by telling the story of his childhood, which he
spent a great deal of in bed due to a poorly diagnosed aliment the
doctors called “constitutional inadequacy.” The symptoms included great
physical weakness, lassitude, lack of appetite and malnutrition. He
tired easily and the slightest physical effort left him weak and
exhausted. He also suffered from migraine headaches and it seemed at
times that his every nerve and muscle ached with excruciating pain.
When Orfeo was in the ninth grade, his doctors advised that he leave
school and continue his studies at home. Orfeo liked the arrangement
because it allowed him to do all the reading in the various sciences
that he wished. After a year of plenty of rest and a weight-building
diet, the doctors said he could return to school. But since his family
had suffered some financial reverses in the meantime, it was decided
that he should instead go to work for his uncle’s flooring and stucco
company. Which again left him with the freedom to voraciously read books
on science.
In 1936, Orfeo met his future bride, Mabel Borgianini, an Italian
girl who he says was a direct descendant of the famous Italian Borgias.
Her happy, cheerful disposition helped keep Orfeo from brooding over his
ill health. A year after their marriage, they had their first son,
Raymond. But a short while later, Orfeo had a complete physical
breakdown that left him bedridden in a hospital for 18 months. His body
and mind were so tortured that he longed for the release of physical
death. When he recovered, against all odds, he returned to work and
began classes in night school, determined to pursue his interest in the
sciences.
Orfeo had had a lifelong phobia about thunderstorms, which had caused
him miserable physical and psychological symptoms since he was a child.
Because his beloved native New Jersey was often subject to violent
thunderstorms, he was glad when Mabel began to talk of moving to the
West Coast, where thunderstorms rarely happened. In November 1947,
Orfeo, Mabel, Richard and their second son, Raymond, set out by car for
Los Angeles. After spending some pleasant, “touristy” time exploring the
region, the Angeluccis decided to make their home there.
This period, 1947 and afterwards, was when flying saucers first began
to make headlines worldwide. Orfeo was completely disinterested in the
phenomenon and figured they were only a new type of aircraft being
secretly developed and that the information would come out in due time.
Orfeo found work at the Lockheed Aircraft plant in Burbank in their
metal fabrication department and, later, their plastics division,
working the swing shift.
Orfeo Angelucci
In “The Secret of the Saucers,” Orfeo recalls the exact date –
Friday, May 23, 1952 – when his journey of discovery and revelation
began. He was at his job at Lockheed when, around 11 P.M., he felt an
odd pricking sensation running through his hands and arms and up to the
back of his neck along with a slight heart palpitation and a sense of
his nerves being on edge. These were the familiar symptoms that always
came before a bad electrical storm. He expected to see heavy threatening
clouds in the sky, but the Southern California night was exceptionally
clear and the stars were bright. He was puzzled but continued working.
When the quitting whistle sounded at 12:30 A.M., he was exhausted almost
beyond his capacity to endure.
As he drove home, he felt increasingly nervous and tense and said he
sensed a force of some kind around him. He wondered if his old illness
was returning and whether he might again be confined to bed with
excruciating pain. He noticed that his eyesight was glazing over and the
sounds of the traffic around him were strangely muffled and far away
now. The night seemed to be growing brighter, as though enveloped in a
soft golden haze.
Next, he saw a red, faintly glowing oval-shaped object that began to
increase in brilliance. The object stayed in view as he continued to
drive home until it hovered over a deserted stretch of road called
Forest Lawn Drive. As the pain of his symptoms increased, the object
veered sharply to the right. It was then that it occurred to Orfeo that
he might be seeing a flying saucer, the sort of thing he had read about
for years. Two smaller objects, green in color, came out of the red
object and hovered only a few feet away. They were three feet in
diameter and hung there silently while their green light fluctuated
rhythmically.
Then, from what seemed to be an area between the two eerie balls of
green fire, came a masculine voice speaking perfect English. Orfeo
writes that at that point he was in a state of shock and therefore
cannot report the conversation verbatim. He does recall, however, that
the first words spoken to him were, “Don’t be afraid, Orfeo. We are
friends!” Then the voice asked him to exit his car, which he did, in
spite of feeling so weak and shaky that he could barely stand.
The kindly voice told Orfeo that the green objects were “instruments
of transmission and reception” unlike anything developed on Earth and
that they were being used for Orfeo to communicate with “friends from
another world.” Orfeo dimly remembered thinking that he should say
something but was stunned into utter silence, wondering if he had
completely lost his mind.
The voice began to speak to Orfeo about things no stranger could
know, at which point all traces of fear left Orfeo. But he suddenly felt
thirsty. The voice, apparently reading his mind, directed Orfeo to
drink from a goblet that suddenly appeared on his car’s fender. Drinking
the delicious beverage caused his various discomforts to vanish
completely and gave him a sensation of strength and well-being. He
thanked the voice and the goblet disappeared.
Then, in the area between the two green fireballs, a luminous,
three-dimensional television screen began to gradually take form. Images
of the heads and shoulders of two persons appeared on the screen, one
male and one female. The two figures struck Orfeo as “being the ultimate
of perfection. There was an impressive nobility about them” and they
“emanated a seeming radiance that filled me with wonder.” Orfeo also had
the confusing feeling that the two figures were familiar, as though
previous encounters with them were stored in his memory.
They seemed able to read his mind at its deepest levels, and Orfeo
felt he stood before them in a “kind of spiritual nakedness.” There
seemed to be a telepathic exchange of information happening, with
thoughts and understandings that would have taken hours of normal
conversation passing between Orfeo and the people on the screen in mere
seconds. Then the two figures faded and the screen vanished. Orfeo was
on the point of blacking out when the initial voice spoke again, saying
that Orfeo was understandably confused but that he would comprehend
everything that happened later on. “The road will be open, Orfeo,” the
voice assured him.
The thought flashed through Orfeo’s mind, “Why have they contacted me – a humble aircraft worker – a nobody?”
The voice explained that their selection process was not conducted
with the limited senses of man but was based on their superior
understanding of what an individual Earthling really is.
They were also
aware of how flying saucers were a source of humor to most people, as it
was meant to be. Earth was supposed to become accustomed gradually to
the idea of space visitors, and it was good that they be taken lightly
at first for the sake of human civilization’s stability.
Although the Space Brothers would help mankind as best they could,
there were cosmic laws that prohibited interfering too directly in the
evolution of a given planet. Earth must work out its own destiny, but
the danger is greater than people realized. The voice alluded to an evil
enemy that was preparing secretly and in vast numbers to do what damage
it could to the people of Earth. This is interesting because it
involves a more complicated moral scenario than mere alien saviors
preaching an impossible kind of “sweetness and light.” Instead, they
freely acknowledge that there are many battles to be fought and that
mankind is up against subtle, insidious influences intended to lead him
on the path to his own destruction.
“As I listened to that kind, gentle voice,” Orfeo writes, “I began to
feel a warm, glowing wave of love enfold me; so powerful that it seemed
as a tangible soft, golden light. For a wonderful moment I felt
infinitely greater, finer and stronger than I knew myself to be. It was
as though momentarily I had transcended mortality and was somehow
related to these superior beings.”
The voice told Orfeo that he would be contacted again and said a warm goodnight, calling Orfeo “friend.”
“Bewilderment, incredulity, shock and stark fear flooded over me,”
Orfeo writes. “I had the sudden conviction that I had lost my mind and
gone raving mad. What I had witnessed, I felt, just couldn’t have
happened.”
He got in his car and drove home, desperate to return to “the world
of sane reality.” Mabel asked why he was so late and looked so
terrified. He said he would tell her tomorrow, which he spent in bed,
still feeling the aftereffects of what he’d experienced. When he told
Mabel the incredible story the following day, she believed him, saying
he had always been truthful with her.
From a Flying Saucer, Orfeo Was Able to View Earth From Space
Two months later, in July 1952, Orfeo had an experience onboard a UFO
in which he was able to view the Earth from outer space. Again, an
alien voice spoke to Orfeo as the awestruck mortal sat in a form-fitting
chair on the craft: “Orfeo, you are looking upon Earth – your home!
From here, over a thousand miles away in space, it appears as the most
beautiful planet in the heavens and a haven of peace and tranquility.
But you and your Earthly brothers know the true conditions there.”
As he listened to the tender, gentle intonations of the wonderful
voice, Orfeo began to be overwhelmed by sadness and wept, something he
had not done since childhood. The tears worked to cleanse and purify him
and to free him from the unfeeling shell of “The Reasoner” he had come
to pride himself on being as an adult.
The voice seemed to join in Orfeo’s weeping and said, “For all of its
apparent beauty, Earth is a purgatorial world among the planets
evolving intelligent life. Hate, selfishness and cruelty rise from many
parts of it like a dark mist.”
Again, the Space Brothers acknowledge their opposition to a dark and
evil force working in our world, something similar to the war between
the Archangel Michael and Satan prophesied in the Book of Revelation.
The allusion to an armed conflict between good and evil over the destiny
of mankind adds a degree of moral complexity to the overall mix that
ups the realism factor greatly.
Orfeo is then taken further out into space and shown demonstrations
of various other types of alien spacecraft while the voice continues to
speak of the love for mankind that is inherent in everything the Space
Brothers do. Orfeo hears beautiful music as he flies out into deep
space, the music of the spheres, an expression of how vibrantly alive
the stars and planets are throughout the universe. But he continues to
cry in shame, as though repenting for the sins of all mankind at once.
“I wondered how those great beings could love such a one as I,” he writes, “or any of mankind.”
This echoes the Bible, Psalm 8: 3-4, “When I look at thy heavens, the
work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast
established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of
man that thou dost care for him?” This is a recurring pattern among many
contactees of Orfeo’s period and after him as well.
Their experiences
relate to what is found in ancient scriptures, including the Bible,
seamlessly and without apparent conscious effort on the contactee’s
part. One is therefore led to conclude that the Space Brothers of our
present era are the same entities we call Ancient Astronauts when they
appear in the context of our earliest religious writings. The fact that
they also seem to be at war with some form of devil – with mankind as
the battlefield – also speaks to their timeless presence among us. They
are more ancient than we know what ancient means.
Orfeo then undergoes a baptism not in water but in light. He sees his
entire life flash before his eyes in a panoramic vision and fears that
he is dying. He regains something more like normal consciousness and is
returned home. He had felt a burning sensation below his heart during
his profound “initiation,” and as he undressed for bed he saw a circular
burn about the size of a quarter in that same place. He felt it was a
sign from the Space Brothers intended to help him remember that the
experience had been physically real as he faced the cold light of the
coming days.
Orfeo’s next adventure with the Space Brothers was a face-to-face
meeting with a being he called Neptune.
It was August 2, 1952, and Orfeo
was taking a late evening stroll near the Hyperion Avenue Freeway
Bridge, where he had earlier seen the ship that took him out into space.
Neptune appeared from out of the darkness and called out, “Greetings,
Orfeo!” The Space Brother had the same noble, handsome countenance as
the figures Orfeo had seen on the mysterious viewing screen during his
first encounter.
After some introductory chitchat, Neptune began to deliver the same woeful message about Earth and its dark future.
“I may tell you,” Neptune said, “that, to the entities of certain
other worlds, Earth is regarded as ‘the accursed planet,’ and ‘the home
of reprobate, fallen ones.’ Others call your Earth ‘the home of
sorrows.’ For Earth’s evolution is evolution through pain, sorrow, sin,
suffering and the illusion of physical death.”
One is reminded that one of the most basic tenets of the Buddha is
that, “All life is sorrowful,” but Neptune also prophesies that mankind
will survive the inevitable warfare of Armageddon and rejoice in the
coming of the New Age in which people will forget their bitter hurts and
build constructively together upon the solid foundation of the
Brotherhood of Man. He tells Orfeo not to doubt the reality of what he
is experiencing and that Orfeo’s account of his encounters will give
greater faith and inner conviction to only a few – but it is an
important few.
“The road is open now,” Neptune said. “Walk it as you will.”
Orfeo had been writing about his experiences and hoped to find a
publisher willing to believe his story enough to print his manuscript
and get it out before the public. When there were no takers, he began to
consider the idea of self-publishing his narrative in newspaper form
and calling it “The Twentieth Century Times,” in spite of Mabel’s
objections.
Orfeo was already suffering a great deal of “ribbing” about his
interest in UFOs from his coworkers, and seeking further public
attention would make life even more difficult for his sons, whose
schoolmates had learned of his flying saucer fascination. But the Space
Brothers had given him such an intense sense of mission about spreading
the word about them that he pressed on heedlessly in his efforts to get
his story out. He was also giving weekly lectures about the Space
Brothers to increasingly larger crowds at a local social club and was
pleased to find a sympathetic, believing group of kindred spirits.
Orfeo and others at Giant Rock
With the help of Max Miller, the president of Flying Saucers
International, an organization devoted to the study of UFOs, Orfeo put
together the Flying Saucer Convention at the Hollywood Hotel. The
featured speakers included Frank Scully, George Van Tassel and George
Adamski, some of the biggest names in the field at the time. The crowds
overflowed out onto Hollywood Boulevard to hear the message, but there
were also the obligatory negative voices being heard as well. A woman
who had been continually buttonholing Orfeo to quote the scriptures and
in general revile his efforts finally succeeded in getting Orfeo to
display some real anger, an unusual emotion for him to feel.
“When at last I literally blew my top,” Orfeo writes, “she joyfully
picked up her data and departed, shouting that my temper proved I was an
agent of the devil.”
Orfeo also reports on attending a convention of science fiction
writers at the Hotel Commodore in Los Angeles where he was surprised to
learn that UFOs were now a taboo subject for this particular kind of
literati. Orfeo says this was most likely due to the fact that the Space
Brothers are beautiful, heavenly entities but it was tales of horror
and fear that sold books.
“But the joke is on them,”Orfeo writes, “for reality has slipped
quietly past them and established new frontiers of its own. The
science-fictioneers were induced by subtle forces to ignore flying
saucers, as were many other materialistic sources of information. During
the welcome lull, the actual flying saucer phenomenon and the
extraterrestrials were left to the inexperienced but honest handling of
rank amateurs. At first these men were inept and inarticulate, but they
are finding their voices and their numbers are rapidly increasing. The
Space Brothers had actually only cleared the atmosphere for them. Had
the professional spinners of horror fiction stuck to the theme of flying
saucers, the true contacts should never have been able to perform their
missions.”
Whitley Strieber, the abductee whose bestseller “Communion” put the
alien abduction phenomenon in the spotlight for a new and sizable
audience in the 1980s, once made a similar remark. He said the Visitors
had ultimately bypassed the government and the media and gone straight
to the people who interested them, what we might call a “populist” or
grassroots effort independent of the sanctions of officialdom.
There is much more to the story Orfeo Angelucci tells in “The Secret
of the Saucers,” including a brief but beautiful conversation with the
living Jesus Christ and a short visit to the paradise that is the Space
Brothers’ home world. Orfeo died in 1993 at the age of 81 and presumably
went to dwell there with them as he awaits the New Age on Earth that
his life and work were part of creating.
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