Elizabeth Klarer and Akon of Proxima Centauri: Auerbach's objection and Hind's reply

What was reported

Klarer's contact claim surfaces three times. The editorial notes that her lover Akon is supposed to live in the Alpha/Proxima Centauri system about four light years away. In the letters, Professor T. Auerbach of Switzerland corrects Hind's BUFORA 1991 slip naming Alpha Centauri and argues that Proxima, giving only a seventeen-thousandth of the Sun's light and orbiting erratically in a triple system, could never support life, so any planet there would swing between roasting and freezing; Akon, if real, must be feeding Klarer invented tales, and Karl Veit's sectarian circle taints those he championed. Hind answers that she never doubted Klarer had an experience but finds her too gullible, her later contacts spiritual, and her dramatisation unhelpful. Elsewhere Klarer is the sympathetic ear who first listened to the 1988 mother-and-daughter abductees.

What Hind made of it

Hind questions aspects of Klarer's contact but has never doubted she had an experience; she finds Klarer far too gullible, thinks many of her later contacts spiritual in nature, and says dramatisation never helped any witness.

Explanation offered
invented stories told to a gullible contactee (Auerbach); spiritual rather than physical later contacts (Hind)

In their words

• Akon, assuming he exists, tells Mrs Klarer some freely invented stories, knowing that she cannot disprove them.

• I have never doubted that she had an experience.

• dramatisation of events never helped any witness.

Cross references

• BUFORA Conference 1991 proceedings (Hind's paper)
• Karl Veit, UAP Nachrichten
• Abduction case in South Africa, spread 17
• Editorial, spread 03

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 6 (July 1992), spread 03, 17, 19