Rev. Henry B. Standing Horse: Oklahoma Contactee, 1959

See the previous entry on the Oklahoma Space Convention of 1960 (Jan.2022). 

Standing Horse claimed his first sighting was in 1949, then one in 1956, and finally on July 12, 1959, he encountered a crew of three alien beings who looked very human. With them he traveled to the Moon, Mars, Venus, "Clarion" and to a planet at the far edges of the galaxy, "Orion." He blasted off from Earth near Sapulpa, Oklahoma where he was pastor of  The Holy Church of God, that was open to Native Americans and African Americans (an oddity in an era of wide-spread racism). 

From research by Marilyn A. Hudson for her upcoming, SOONER SAUCERS, Vol.2

For More information on the Famous and Infamous Corps of Contactees in the 1950's through the middle of the 1960's visit the following pages:

A Contactee Album! (utexas.edu)

1950s Contactees (utexas.edu)

When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That ... - Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter - Google Books