The Andreasson Affair

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RAYMOND E. FOWLER

Foreword by J. Allen Hynek

Copyright © 1979, 2015 by Raymond E. Fowler and Betty Andreasson

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Cover design by Howard Grossman/12E Design
Printed in the U.S.A.

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 Betty Andreasson and Her Family,” © 1978 Raymond E. Fowler and Fred R. Youngren. All rights reserved.

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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

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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

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.

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

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