Howard Menger’s Photographs of Venusians, Space People, Flying Saucers, a Lunar Base, a Free-Energy Motor, and More — New Jersey & Pennsylvania, 1956–1958

In 1956, New Jersey contactee Howard Menger photographed and filmed a series of objects he identified as extraterrestrial spacecraft, including a human-looking occupant he described as a Venusian man and a second figure identified as a space woman. Menger later published the photographs in his 1959 book From Outer Space to You, together with motion-picture frames, photographs he said were taken during trips to the Moon, and a device he described as a free-energy motor built under the directio...