Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults
Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1979.
First edition, cloth issue. Signed by Vallee on half-title in black ink. viii, 243 pp. Light tan cloth lettered in gilt on spine, issued sans jacket. A Fine copy. Front and back boards are slightly different lengths; spine not at all cocked as the different board lengths make it appear at first glance. Jacques Vallee, the information researcher who inspired a major character in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, critically examined the late '70s UFO contactee movement and its associated religions in this book. Among other cults Vallee warned readers about were Heaven's Gate, 18 years before their mass suicide made headlines, and the Raelians.
Price: $750.00