The Hum and the Silence, Vol 24: The Extraterrestrial Saints of Norman Harrison

About this episode

This episode explores Norman Harrison's claims of receiving messages from extraterrestrials in the 1970s and the implications of those messages.

“This earth is now under close surveillance and profound scrutiny by alien intelligence from distant star systems. I am NOT being silly. I know what I am saying and doing as well as you.” Norman Harrison, 1977 In the early 1970s Norman Harrison started to receive messages from extraterrestrials about such things as... earth's destruction. Were these messages the product of genuine contact, or the result of one man's struggles with life? Research on this episode was done by the great Jeff Demers Source: "A Stranger in the City" by Nigel Watson, MUFOB , New Series 14, Spring 1979 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud , iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

People in this episode

Host: Rob Kristoffersen

Topics covered

• extraterrestrial contact
• UFO history
• psychological struggles
• alien intelligence
• 1970s phenomena

Keywords

• extraterrestrial
• UFO
• Norman Harrison
• messages
• 1970s
• alien intelligence
• psychological struggles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MUFOB

Books & works: A Stranger in the City

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