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215 the contactees was Orfeo Angelluci. Orfeo became my friend. Van Tassel had always stimulated my mind, but Orfeo had touched a deeper level of my being. Orfeo had answers to the flying saucer mystery that embraced all of mankind within its scope. He often met with a visitor he called, "Neptune" as the name had some meaning for him. Neptune had told Orfeo that he was functioning in dimensions unknown to our world. Orfeo was astonished once to notice that Neptune's uniform looked like it wavered as if seen through rippling water and its color did not remain solid and uniform, but changed in spots. One of the precocious revelations that Orfeo revealed in his book was that the flying disks that he had seen were a product of organic technology, that they were grown in chemical baths and all systems were grown into their seamless structure. Orfeo bore a large share of ridicule from the disbelievers. Another, little-known California contactee of the fifties was Calvin Girvin. Calvin reported many contacts with a human saucer pilot named Cryxtan. Calvin also reported going aboard one of the scout ships. Calvin was also in the Air Force and was interrogated by the AF Office of Special Investigation. Last heard from, he was living somewhere in Hollywood. From time to time present-day abductees report an encounter with Nordic-looking alien beings that bear a resemblance to the ones described by the contactees of the fifties. Recently, a coffee shop friend found out that I was a field investigator and was eager to tell me of the odd events that had entered his life when he was a pre-teen. Like the old-timers, he claimed that a man from Mars came to visit him, and, one day, took him for a ride to the planet Mars where they entered an opening in the ground. A shaft descended five miles toward the planet's interior where he encountered the inhabitants of an ancient underground Martian civilization. The contactee experience has its own characteristics. Some of these characteristics are shared with the abductee experience, but most are unique to a contactee scenario. Most Ufologists of the nineties have been led to believe that the contactees were charlatans out to spread religious philosophies, and this has proven a stumbling block to any proposed scientific investigation of the contactee's claims. A typical contactee scenario usually proceeds in this fashion: 1) The contactee has an urge or impulse that he or she perceives to be coming from an outside source and this urge seems to direct them to some remote location. There is an air of expectancy. 2) The contactee is usually approached by a human being wearing a one-piece uniform that has disembarked from a flying saucer. The human can access the contactee's mind with telepathy. The visitors do not display any difficulty with English or any other spoken language. 3) Either the meeting terminates or the contactee is taken on a tour of the ship or a ride to a a 1 mothership. 4) The contactee does not experience a loss of time or lapse of memory. 5) The contactee is usually given a message or project to accomplish. One of the common themes of the messages given to the early contactees is that we are upsetting the balance of nature. Many Ufologists who study abductee (or, using the newer term -- experiencer) cases generally accept that there were no legitimate contactees and that there is no precedence for the abductee scenario. Objections to the case for the contactees are: 1) The contactee doesn't have any first-hand eye witnesses. Although true of the vast proportion of abductees as well, it was felt that the contactee should have someone else that would attest to the reality of the experience. As we have related here, George Adamski, for one, had six eye witnesses to his first contact. 2) The early contactees claimed that the visitors came from planets in our local solar system such as Mars and Venus. Space probes have proven that other planets in our system could not sustain life as we know it. It might be possible that humans with advanced technology could build protected habitats on or under the surface of neighboring planets, but they would not have originated there. Other possibilities include coming from a different