Frances Swan

The Frances Swan story is a 20th-century legend of a Maine housewife who, in 1954, claims to receive messages from extra-terrestrials via automatic writing.[1] Allegedly instructed by the messages to contact the Navy, the housewife reaches out to her next door neighbor, a retired admiral, who arranges for Naval investigators to interview the woman. Using automatic writing, naval investigators summon a UFO.[2]

The story was publicized in a 1974 film hosted by Rod Serling (of Twilight Zone fame). Later accounts would label the housewife as "Frances Swan" and the Admiral as "Herbert Bain Knowles".[3][4]

The story would become widespread in UFO folklore, featuring in the writings of ufologists including Stanton Friedman and Jacques Vallee.[5]

  1. ^ Clark, Jerome (June 1, 2010). Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds. Visible Ink Press. ISBN 9781578593385 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference UFOPPF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Friedman, Stanton T.; Marden, Kathleen (April 1, 2021). Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience (60th Anniversary Edition): The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction. Red Wheel/Weiser. ISBN 9781632657480 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "A Contactee Album!". web2.ph.utexas.edu.
  5. ^ Vallee, Jacques (September 1, 1992). Forbidden Science: Journals, 1957-1969. North Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781556431258 – via Google Books.