Case file · Close encounter
Elizabeth Klarer and Akon
A South African woman claimed a Venusian scientist named Akon took her to his planet and fathered her child.
1956 CE · -29.00, 29.40 · status: claim
The account
Elizabeth Klarer went public in 1956 with claims of contacts in the Drakensberg mountains from 1954 to 1963, set out in her book 'Beyond the Light Barrier' (1980). She lectured internationally, including to a House of Lords UFO study group in 1975, and is remembered as one of the first women to describe a sexual relationship with an alien.
The sceptical view
No evidence supports any part of the story, and Venus is now known to be uninhabitable. Her account belongs to the 1950s contactee movement.