by Bryant & Helen Reeve

We shall now discuss Orfeo Angelucci and his truly remarkable saucer experiences. We became acquainted with him through the assistance of mutual friends who are themselves deeply interested in saucers and know many saucerers (contactees) personally. We feel very grateful for the help they have given us in preparing this work. On September 19, 1955, we drove to our friends’ home in Los Angeles, where we spent some very profitable hours with both Mr. & Mrs. Angelucci. We feel that no saucer researcher can afford to neglect Angelucci’s great contribution to our human knowledge of this subject.

We found the Angeluccis to be very charming, home-loving people of Italian ancestry and the parents of two boys. They had come to California about eight years previously from Trenton, New Jersey. We asked him how he had come by the unusual name of “Orfeo”, and he told us it was based on the name “Orpheus” from the old legend of “Orpheus and Eurydice”.

Angelucci’s background is not too different from that of many others who grew up in middle class American homes. He quit school in New Jersey at the ninth grade, went to work and later married. He has always had an avid interest in scientific things, particularly the nature of the atom, and he has studied and experimented in his spare time. His big problem has always been his precarious health and his extremely nervous sensibilities, which have caused him endless suffering and pain both preceding and during any thunderstorm or electric storm. Whenever an electric storm approaches he goes through a regular series of distressing “symptoms” starting with a prickling sensation in his hands, arms, back and feet. It was this physical problem that led the family to move to California where storms are less frequent. We mention this because these physical symptoms later were to become, for Angelucci, an almost infallible warning of the approach of a space craft or prelude to a space contact.

Angelucci is a trim slender man with fine clean-cut features and deep expressive eyes. Humanly, we found him a very friendly and down-right likable sort of person – not at all difficult to meet or to make friends with. But as the evening wore on and the conversation turned to the higher aspects of the flying saucer phenomena, we discovered that we were indeed talking with an individual of great spiritual advancement, discernment and experience. By this we do not mean that he was what people call a “religious” person – far from it. There is a tremendous gap between religious orthodoxy and the type of cosmic advancement we found in Angelucci.

We were grateful that our meeting with this advanced saucerer had come when it did – toward the end of our saucer pilgrimage. We realized that if it had come at the start, it would have been too much for us, too advanced, and we probably would not have been able to follow or understand or appreciate his experiences because most of them typified the supra-physical aspects of saucers rather than the physical. One good way to learn, however, is to get acquainted with the men having the more advanced type of saucer experiences. So here we were talking with a man who for about nine years had been under the direct observation of extraterrestrial beings and who had been privileged to have at least eight contacts or intimate personal experiences with them.

These experiences are set forth in detail in his book The Secret Of The Saucers, which he published in 1955. In our estimation Angelucci has done an exceptional and courageous job in revealing the intimate details of his experience and the nature of the advanced space-beings he has contacted – their greatness, their perfection, and their compassionate love for mankind. Few books reveal what, for want of a better word, we might call the “sacred” nature of such contacts between a space being and an earth being.

It seems to us that Angelucci’s experiences and his forthright and honest revelation of them belong not to the multitude of unawakened humans who invariably classify everything beyond the range of the five physical senses as either buncombe or heresy. Rather they belong primarily to those with a certain natural or acquired capacity for understanding them. The saucer enthusiast who is still in that mental state where he absolutely insists that the saucers be served down to him, flat on the ground, and brim full of material sauce will doubtless find little that is either appetizing or palatable in Angelucci’s saucer experiences. After all, if one’s viewpoint is “flat on the ground”, that fact alone prohibits one from being able to follow saucers into the higher realms of life and consciousness from which many of them, but not all of them do come.

Others who have a certain degree of spiritual attainment of their own, or those who are familiar with states and stages of consciousness or who are students of metaphysics or philosophy will have no trouble in understanding this unusual saucerer. Those who are familiar with the attainments of the masters or the advanced yogis or swamis, or those who are familiar with the works of Edgar Cayce, or those who have themselves more or less pierced the veils which hide the frequencies of life – such people will not only profit by Angelucci’s experiences but will be very grateful for his efforts to share them with others. These people will take Angelucci to their hearts. They will see in him a modern “revelator” – a veritable modern “dweller on two planets”, and they will rejoice in his revelations.

To the earnest saucer researcher who is not afraid to follow the truth into the reaches of outer space but who has difficulty in understanding Angelucci, we have this to say. The study of saucers is a subject of vast extent, in fact a study of cosmic proportions. One would not expect to understand calculus without first learning step by step all the intermediate phases of mathematics. In the same way one’s understanding of advanced saucer experiences must come step by step. We must climb the ladder of cosmic truth one rung at a time. We feel that Angelucci’s experiences are not for most beginners, but of course there are exceptions. For those who are starting from scratch but sincerely wish to understand, the following three suggestions might prove of value:

1. First, study the physical aspect of saucers. They have a definite physical side. Learn all about this from every possible source – study the sighting and the ABC books.

2. Then progress gently from the physical aspects, which are the least important to the supra-physical aspects. Our book has been designed to help the reader do this. Gradually study the more advanced books, and above all try to grasp the outstanding cosmic fact that life exists in octaves or bands of vibratory frequency. These correspond to different planes of consciousness.

3. Then realize this. In most of Angelucci’s contacts the great space beings did not “descend” fully into our octave of life or into our octave of vibratory frequency to meet him. The space beings came “down” only part way. Thus they met on a plane of frequency or of consciousness slightly above the physical – where complete three-dimensional solidity, tangibility and visibility were not attained and were not necessary. As Angelucci himself has expressed it, “I saw them clearly – but as though I were viewing them through rippling water.” It reminded him of an imperfectly tuned television set.

ANGELUCCI’S EXPERIENCES

Let us now briefly review a few of his remarkable experiences. His first flying saucer experience took place way back in Trenton, New Jersey, on August 4, 1946. Please remember that this date was months before “flying saucers” were heard of or even so named by modern man. At the time Angelucci was quite an experimenter in certain scientific fields, and he was particularly interested in the subject of fungi and mold cultures. Desiring to learn the effect of upper atmospheric conditions on certain mold cultures, he bought some “Navy-type” balloons with the idea of carrying the cultures, packed in baskets attached to the balloons, to predetermined altitudes and then hauling them down for further study.

The balloons, however, with their attached baskets broke away and he and his family and friends sorrowfully watched this seemingly unhappy ending to his scientific efforts. As the balloons rose higher and higher in the sky, they all noticed a strange aircraft hovering overhead near them. It actually seemed to be following the balloons. The craft was round, and it had no wings! They watched and wondered about it, but it soon disappeared in the distance. In the days that followed most everyone forgot about the incident. How could Angelucci know then that he had just seen a “flying saucer” – or that a day would come years later when he would meet the space being controlling the strange craft!

Almost six years elapsed before his second experience. Those who are so impatient for saucer experiences may well ponder this fact. He had moved to California and was working in the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation plant at Burbank in the suburban area of Los Angeles. On May 23, 1952, late at night he felt the strange physical symptoms which usually preceded an electrical storm. He went outside the plant to investigate and was surprised to find an unusually clear and beautiful night. It puzzled him that there was no storm to account for the distressing symptoms.

His shift ended at 12:30 a.m., and he started driving home in his car following well known city boulevards. The painful symptoms still persisted. As he neared the city limits of Los Angeles, he caught sight of an oval-shaped object traveling ahead of him in the air. It was luminous and was emitting a red color. Apparently no one else noticed it. He followed it across the Los Angeles River to the outskirts of a park region. Here the object veered off the main highway, down a lonely park drive, and finally hung motionless over a field. Angelucci decided to follow it and parked his car a short distance from the amazing, hovering, pulsating object which seemed only partially solid.

Suddenly it shot skyward at an angle, then paused while two smaller objects like balls of fire came from it. Then as the original object accelerated out of sight, the two fireballs descended and hovered in the air only a few feet from the astounded Angelucci. They were fluorescent green in color and about three feet in diameter.

The contact that followed was both audible and visual. The visual phase came about though a luminous screen effect between the glowing spheres in which Angelucci saw projected a “picture” of his space visitors as on a television screen. This phase, however, lasted only a few minutes. But a voice came from the glowing green objects and the two-way communication which ensued lasted for almost an hour. Some of the highlights of this contact may be of interest.

First, Angelucci learned that these beings were none other than those controlling the “saucer” which followed his lost balloons back in New Jersey in 1946. Moreover, he had been under their observation ever since that event. Oral speech hardly seemed necessary. Before he could voice a question the answer would come. Apparently he was in some sort of telepathic communication with them. He experienced the uncomfortable feeling that they knew his every thought, his past, everything about him – even things he did not know about himself. The green spheres were explained as instruments of transmission and reception which were used to relay visual, auditory and telepathic impressions to a “mother-ship” for permanent recording. Angelucci was not the only earthling this group of space beings was in the process of contacting – there was another individual in Italy, and still another in India. The chief basis of these contacts was “higher vibrational perception” on the part of these earthlings.

Angelucci was told that the space beings had noted man’s humorous and skeptical treatment of “flying saucers” on earth but they did not criticize this because of the need of our becoming gradually aware of them. Space craft of other planetary evolutions were also visiting the earth, all on a friendly and helpful basis. Many have seen them, but the ships were capable of various states of invisibility. Speeds approaching that of light could be attained by many space craft. However, the more advanced space beings function in dimensions unknown to man and have no need of space craft of any type but on occasion employ them for purposes of material manifestations to men. In the higher phases of life the time dimension becomes non-existent, and there are incredibly rapid means of travel – beyond man’s present comprehension. The reason for their coming is that life evolution on earth has reached a dangerous crisis.

We have given the above with some detail in order to convey to our readers something of the great range of information which it is possible to obtain through a space contact.

Angelucci’s third experience was a trip in a remote controlled flying saucer. It took place on July 23, 1952, two months after his audio-visiual contact. The take-off and landing points were in a secluded spot along the dry river bed of the Los Angeles River only a few blocks from his home – well within the city limits of Los Angeles. Before he saw the saucer on the ground he experienced the familiar tingling sensation in his arms and legs. The shape of the craft resembled an “Eskimo Igloo” about thirty feet high and thirty feet in diameter at the base and appeared to him to be constructed of a translucent substance.

He boarded the craft, was taken to an elevation of about one thousand miles and was able to view the earth from this altitude through a section of the ship’s wall which became transparent. He carried on a combined audible and telepathic communication with his space friend who was located in the control ship. They also played music for him. At one point he caught a view of the control ship, and of several saucers. He also obtained a magnificent view of outer space. He received further valuable information regarding the space ships and the present situation on earth which brought them there. During this trip he was put through a certain type of “initiation” and returned to earth with a mark on his body, which later served him as an exceedingly necessary and solid reminder of the “reality” of this experience.

His fourth experience was an especially memorable one for him because it brought him face-to-face with his space friend for the first time, and he was able to give his friend a name. This contact occurred on August 2, 1952, only ten days after his saucer trip and at approximately the same location. It was late evening and he was walking toward his home. He heard solid footsteps approaching and was greeted by the owner of the voice he had heard in his previous contacts. His space friend was taller than Angelucci, well-built and wore a tight fitting uniform without seams. However, he did not appear to Angelucci to be in a state of complete human (material) solidity, as both the visible outline and color seemed to waver slightly. Angelucci wondered at this and was told that he was seeing “an approximation” of the space being.

The communication this time centered mostly on the critical situation on earth. Angelucci was told that our earth is often called “the home of sorrows”, and that we face a crisis which in history will be called “The Great Accident”. The space people are here to assist us all they can, within the bounds of cosmic law, during this critical period. Then came this outstanding pronouncement showing that the space people have no illusions as to the difficulty of awakening mankind from its three-dimension dream:

“Few will believe or even hear your account of our meeting – your story will no way change conditions upon earth.

“Neither will any actual Earthly event be either hastened or retarded because of our meeting.

“At most your story will give only greater faith and inner conviction to the few – but it is an important few!”

Angelucci’s fifth experience came late in October of 1952. In this case he ran into his space friend at the Greyhound Bus Terminal dressed in a smart business suit, a felt hat, and carrying a briefcase – the epitome of a successful business man! Angelucci states that the purpose of this brief contact was to show him, once and for all, that space beings can appear and function as solid beings when they wish to. In his other contacts they appeared in a semi-solid form.

Angelucci’s story of his experiences offers to the reader an opportunity to study the problem which the space people themselves evidently face in trying to reveal their own true nature to the men of earth. Even with a spiritually advanced individual like Angelucci, they had a problem in revealing themselves to him without his slipping into doubts, fears, and even worrying about his own sanity. This is no laughing matter. Many outer space communications messages state that the greatest barrier to earthmans’ entering outer space is the psychological barrier – his uncontrollable fears when he finds out how different outer space is – and the actual danger of insanity.

Modern psychologists might be interested in studying Angelucci’s efforts to convey to others the knowledge he has received from the space beings and the ridicule and scorn which not only he but his wife and children have to face. Those who complain that the space people are not doing all they should in revealing themselves should study these things.

Now in order to illustrate something of the exalted nature of the space beings whom Angelucci has contacted and the high quality of these communications and the information he has received from them we have his permission to quote the following random passages from his remarkable book:

“Man believes himself civilized, but often his thoughts are barbaric and his emotions lethal.

“The aggressive men of Earth want our scientific advancements. For these they would shoot our crafts from the skies – if they could.

“Already man’s material knowledge has far outstripped the growth of brotherly love and spiritual understanding in his heart. Therein lies the present danger.

“To add to the destructive phase of man’s scientific knowledge is not permitted. We are working now to turn that knowledge into constructive purposes upon Earth.

“Earth’s evolution is evolution through pain, sorrow, sin, suffering and illusion of physical death.

“Every person upon Earth and its adjoining planes of manifestation are definitely arrayed upon either the positive side of progression toward good, or the negative side of regression toward greater evil.

“At this moment we weep with you for Earth and her Children. 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.

“Believe me, all evolutions are not similar to Earth’s despite the present belief of your scientists.

“His (man’s) one purpose upon Earth now is to attain reunion with his immortal consciousness.

“All intelligences capable of space travel can read thought and see emotions.

“You can rise above the inadequacies of your physical body.

“Many have actually seen our discs. Some have seen us clairvoyantly. Others have communicated with us clairaudiently. Still others recognize the truth of our existence and greater scope of our being through the intuitive perception.

“But as far as official proof of ourselves for which so many clamor, we cannot offer that. Official proof of the existence of our discs will come. But for us to attempt physically to contact mankind through any so-called authoritative source would be only useless and possibly disastrous for them.

“Nearly all three-dimensional beings have no concept of, nor could they possibly understand, extra-dimensional beings.

“We see the individuals of Earth as each one really is – and not as perceived by the limited senses of man.

“Also we hope to give men a deeper knowledge and understanding of their own true nature and a greater awareness of the evolutionary crisis facing them.

“Your Teacher has told you, God is love, and in these simple words may be found the secrets of all the mysteries of Earth and world beyond.”

In closing, may we say that we are grateful indeed to have met this saucerer, and we sincerely hope that our humble efforts here may help open the treasure chest of his experiences to others who are interested.

Excerpt from Flying Saucer Pilgrimage