Liberal theology, UFO contactee style

"We met the Space People" is a very short book, really just a pamphlet, written by Helen and Betty Mitchell. The authors were residents of Clarksburg, West Virginia. The tract was published in 1959 and is now in the public domain on the web. The Mitchell sisters seem to have been quietly forgotten, since I haven't been able to locate any further information on them, despite the fact that they regularly appeared at UFO conventions during the Cold War.

Most of "We met the Space People" is the usual contactee fair, with beautiful aliens in uniform-like dresses from Venus warning humanity not to test nuclear weapons. Helen Mitchell gets to ride onboard the alien crafts, and discovers that the Venusians play shuffleboard using psychokinetic powers. A number of prophecies about a peaceful new world are also given, although the Mitchells are careful to make their predictions conditional on humanity giving up nuclear testing...

On one point, "We met the Space People" does stand out, at least among the contactee literature I'm familiar with. The Mitchells admit that some aliens are evil. Indeed, humanity is at the centre of a battle between the good space people from Venus, and "the fallen angels" from distant solar systems (or perhaps from the planet Lucifer). The evil aliens sometimes pose as good, but the Mitchell sisters apparently couldn't be fooled. Nor could they be pressurized into writing a book on behalf of the fallen angels. They did start to write such a book, only to burn the manuscripts shortly afterwards. Helen and Betty also deny a rumour that the "Men in Black" threatened them in the hope of stopping the sisters to appear at UFO conventions. It seems the sisterhood was pretty tough! The evil aliens are said to have influenced Atlantis, with well-known results, and are still trying to influence all negative and evil people on our planet.

Although "We met the Space People" is frankly unbelievable, I nevertheless found this particular aspect refreshing. The usual strategy in these circles seems to be to either deny the existence of evil aliens altogether (alien abductions must be the result of a government conspiracy to discredit the luminous Venusians), or to somehow claim that the aliens aren't evil even when they kidnap and torture people (sic). The Mitchells are also astute enough to realize that some "good" aliens are impostors, while other contactees and channelers are completely uncritical to whatever "spiritual" entity they claim contact with.

Is this actually something as strange as "UFO contactee liberal theology"? ;-)

It's difficult to rate a short and somewhat naïve publication like this, but for the effort, I give it three stars.