books, wrote the afterword. According to Krebs, Bethurum was so obsessed with Captain Rhanes, he hired a secretary who physically resembled his description of the sexy alien. Bethurum's second wife, Mary, divorced him in 1955, citing jealousy over Captain Aura Rhanes in the divorce petition. Bethurum often remarked in his later lectures that his wife divorced him due to jealousy over the beautiful Captain. In 1960, Bethurum remarried a third time, the wedding taking place at George Van Tassel's then-popular annual Giant Rock Spacecraft Convention near Landers. See also When Prophecy Fails (a book about Dorothy Martin who claimed to have received prophetic messages from the planet Clarion) References Further reading Lewis, James R., editor, UFOs and Popular Culture, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2000. . Story, Ronald L., editor, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, NY, NY: New American Library, 2001. . Bethurum, Truman, Messages from the People of the Planet Clarion, New Brunswick, NJ: Inner Light Publications, 1995. . A currently available reprint of Bethurum's last book. External links Overview of 1950s Contactees Bethurum scrapbook Long John Nebel's radio interviews with 1950s contactees Bethurum in Weird Las Vegas and Nevada UFO religions Contactees 1898 births 1969 deaths