Howard Menger

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name = Howard Menger
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1922|2|17|mf=y
birth_place = Brooklyn, New York
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spouse = Connie Menger (Maiden name, Weber)
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children = Eric Menger (Son)
Heidi Menger (Daughter)

Howard Menger (born on February 17, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Contactee who claimed to have met extraterrestrials throughout the course of his life, meetings which were the subject of books he wrote, such as "From Outer Space To You" and "The High Bridge Incident". Menger, who rose to prominence as a charismatic contactee detailing his chats with friendly Adamski-style Venusian "space brothers" in the late 1950s, has been widely dismissed as a charlatan who simply jumped on the bandwagon in the wake of publicity following publication of George Adamski's wild stories of chit-chatting with Nordic-looking spacemen, and during at least one live TV appearance he admitted as much. Nonetheless, his various stories, photographs and films have been accepted by some UFO believers. While most contactees have religious revelations to impart after their "experiences," Menger came back from his saucer-rides with a far more practicalmessage: a new outer-space-approved diet for losing excess weight. Later he issued a 33-1/3 rpm recording of "music composed by space aliens."

When he was still young he moved with his parents to the rolling hills of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. His first alleged contact with a person from another planet was at the age of ten, in the woods near his hometown High Bridge. Shortly after leaving high school, he entered the Army and was attached to the 17th Tank Battalion. In later life he was often employed as a sign painter.

References

Lewis, James R., editor. "UFOs and Popular Culture" Santa Barbara, CA.ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2000. ISBN 1-57607-265-7.

External links

* [http://howardmenger.com Howard Menger's Website]
* [http://www.algonet.se/~hermesat/bridge.htm The Menger Contact]
* [http://www.goddardmultimedia.fsnet.co.uk/atpai/menger.htm A page on Menger]
* [http://www.astrosciences.info/Martians.htm Meetings with 1950s Contactees, Including Menger]
* [http://mimufon.org/1960%20articles/ContacteesIHaveKnown.htm Long John Nebel's radio interviews with 1950s contactees]