Elizabeth Klarer
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Elizabeth Klarer (née Woollatt; 1 July 1910 – 9 February 1994) was a South African woman who claimed from 1956 that she had been contacted by aliens many times. She said that she had a love affair with a spaceman named Akon and bore his son on his home planet. She was the best-known South African contactee of the 1950s.[1][2]
Early life
Klarer was born at Mooi River in Natal, the youngest daughter of a veterinary surgeon who became a cattle farmer near Rosetta. She studied art and music in Florence and then took a diploma in meteorology at Girton College, Cambridge. Her first husband taught her to fly.[1] During the Second World War she held a responsible post in RAF intelligence.[1] She said that she and her sister saw a silver disc over the family farm when she was seven, and that she and her husband saw a saucer during a flight in 1937.[1][2]
Claimed contacts
Klarer said that on 27 December 1954, on a hill on her sister's farm in the Natal midlands that she called Flying Saucer Hill, she saw a craft hover close to the ground with a man visible through a porthole.[1] She said that in April 1956 the spaceman, Akon, took her aboard his scout ship and on to a large mothership. Sources give the date as 6 or 7 April. She said he told her she was a reincarnated Venusian and his soulmate.[1][2] On 17 July 1956 she took a series of photographs of what she said was Akon's ship.[1]
She later said that in 1958 her relationship with Akon became physical and that she became pregnant. She said she was taken to his planet, Meton, orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system, where she gave birth to a son named Ayling, who stayed there to be educated.[1][2][3] She described Meton as a peaceful world without cities or money.[1] She did not tell this part of the story publicly for years. Her book Beyond the Light Barrier was published in English in 1980, after a German edition in 1977.[1]
Later life
Klarer spoke at UFO meetings in South Africa and abroad. In 1975 she addressed an international congress of UFO research groups in Wiesbaden, Germany, at the invitation of the rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth.[1] George Adamski visited her during his world tour in the late 1950s.[1] She returned each year on 7 April to Flying Saucer Hill. She died of breast cancer at 83, leaving a second book, The Gravity File, unfinished.[1]
Assessment
Researchers who knew her were divided. Some witnesses supported parts of her account, including two early sightings attested by her sister and first husband, but there is no confirmation of her pregnancy. Her son David has said he remembers nothing that fits it.[1][3] Ufologist Cynthia Hind believed Klarer was sincere but thought imagination might explain much of the story.[1] Philipp Human, at first a supporter, later dismissed her photographs as pictures of a car hubcap. Another ufologist, Edgar Sievers, argued that she could not easily have thrown a hubcap and photographed it at the same time.[1] Her claims to have addressed the House of Lords and to have had a paper read at the United Nations have never been confirmed.[1]
In 2023 the South African director Uga Carlini released a documentary, Beyond the Light Barrier, about Klarer. It combines archive interviews with accounts from her friends and family.[3]
References
- Elizabeth Klarer — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Klarer, Elizabeth (1910–1994)", Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, via Encyclopedia.com · encyclopedia.com · archived copy
- "Doccie interrogates alien birth in South Africa", The Citizen (19 Jan 2024) · citizen.co.za · archived copy
This page was last edited on 31 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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