Elizabeth Klarer (née Woollatt; 1 July 1910 – 9 February 1994) was a South African woman who, starting in 1956, publicly claimed to have been contacted by aliens multiple times between 1954 and 1963.
[3][4] In her book Beyond the Light Barrier, she strived to convey a message of peace, love, understanding and environmentalism, which she credited to the superior wisdom of an advanced and immaculately utopian Venusian civilization.
[5][6] She promoted conspiracy theories of an international cover-up that kept vital information from the public,[7] and claimed to have been threatened with abduction to press her into revealing details about alien technology.
SB was a pioneering veterinary surgeon who subsequently settled at Connington farm near Rosetta in the Natal midlands, where he became a successful shorthorn farmer, and as a dedicated polo player, introduced young people to the sport.
[10] While feeding their Sealyham puppies outside the farmhouse, Elizabeth and her sister claimed they witnessed a silver disc bathed in a pearly luster which swooped over them.
[11] In 1954, Klarer's sister May, then residing on the farm Whyteleafe in the Natal midlands, relayed to her that the native Zulu people were reporting appearances of the lightning bird in the sky.
[11] On 17 July, 1956,[16] after their family farm was sold, Klarer revisited the area, and claimed to have taken a series of seven photos of Akon's scout ship using her sister's (or daughter's) simple Brownie box camera.
[3] She claimed that vivid light flashes turned into a dull grey craft enveloped in a shimmering heat haze, and that for an hour the disc darted silently over a rise near the farmhouse, making several weaving detours, and shone like silver in bright sunlight before streaking away out of sight.
[18] Edgar Sievers, a ufologist from Pretoria, said that Klarer's family saw her leave the homestead alone, and suggested that the frail Elizabeth would have found it difficult to throw a car hubcap and photograph it at the same time.
Klarer claimed that Akon's visits culminated in a day-long rendezvous with Elizabeth on the high plateau of Cathkin Peak, that he presented her with a silver ring that enhanced their telepathic connection, and that their love was consummated and a child was conceived.
There was an abundance of all things needed by civilization – food, water and all materials for building, an unlimited supply of energy on tap from the atmosphere and the Universe, no shortages of any kind and no monetary system at all.
On his world lecture tour in the late 1950s, George Adamski made a point of visiting South Africa and looking up Klarer for a chat on their variety of experiences with the friendly, wise "space brothers".
[22] Ufologist Kitty Smith established contact with Elizabeth after reading about her in Outspan magazine,[23] and claimed her own sighting of Akon's ship in January 1984.
[15] When another South African, Ann Grevler, claimed alien contact in the late 1950s, Elizabeth was outspoken and issued various challenges to her to defend her statements in an open forum.
[12] On one occasion she befriended SAAF helicopter pilots who sought shelter on the farm during a storm, and they facilitated visits to the hill when a ride on horseback became too difficult for her.
[5] The book filled in the gaps of the first, besides elucidating the military and political aspects of UFO research, and explaining Akon's "electro-gravity propulsion" technology.
[11] Ufologist Philipp Human initially heaped effusively praise on Elizabeth, but later changed his stance: "I do not believe one word of her supposed […] contacts and it was a standing joke the way she was helped to photograph an ordinary motor car hubcap.
[12] Hard evidence for her claim that she addressed the House of Lords in 1983, and that a paper of hers was read during that year at a UFO congress at the United Nations, has not been found.
[6] Supposed hard evidence presented by Elizabeth included her set of 1956 photographs, the ring she received from Akon, a space rock or crystal, and a fern from Meton.