UFO ENCOUNTERS OF THE FOURTH KIND by Art Gatti

UFO SEX MISSION TO EARTH! Another Zebra Special, this one by poet/academic/radical Art Gatti, who bundles up some very close encounters with apocalyptic plans by the Demon Others to breed hybrid Star People out of their hapless victims. Also serves up some heady mythological history of sexual congress between Gods and Men, the standard Ancient Astronaut narrative, and instructions on astral projection (OBE or Out of Body Experiences) for the purpose of mind expanding sex!

Gatti quotes extensively from the UFO fringe literature, including block quotes from Donald Keyhoe, Jacques Bergier, von Daniken, W. Raymond Drake, Warren Smith's UFO Trek, the Lorenzens' Abducted!, Otto Binder's Flying Saucers Are Watching Us, and Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour's Flying Saucers Are Hostile, along with Steiger's big New Age/starseed hit Gods of Aquarius. Joan's name is typo'd as Writenour.

The "UFO rapes" profiled include heavy hitters Betty Hill and Antonio Villas-Boas, Carl Higdon, the fictional tabloid story of Marlene Travers of Australia, and too many other apocryphal cases to list. Travis Walton's then-recent high profile abduction is included for additional marquee value, despite the author's admission of a distinct lack of sexual content. Still, forty years on Gatti's work seems ahead of the curve, as the Biblical/hybrid/UFO abduction mishmash has staked out a major claim to modern UFOlogy. Gatti also sneaks in an attribution to his friend Mario Savio.

Table of contents:

Introduction (5)
1.  The Old Gods and Their Children (8)
2.  The New Sexuality: The Human Envoys (38)
3.  Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Our Women (50)
4.  Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Our Men (88)
5.  The Demon Others (105)
6.  OOBESEX - Blissed Right Out of Your Skin (134)
7.  Astral Travel Instructions (151)
8.  Offspring of the Others ... and the Mystery Baby Boom (166)
9.  Explanations and Other Anchors in Reality (179)

Zebra Books, 1978