Elizabeth Klarer

South African alien contactee claimant (1910–1994)

Elizabeth Klarer ( 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. Her first visitation supposedly occurred when she was seven, and she was one of the first women to claim a sexual relationship with an extraterrestrial. She promoted an ideal of a better world and beliefs in a cosmic consciousness. the youngest daughter of Samuel Bancroft ("SB") Woollatt and Florence Woollatt. 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. It was there that, at age seven, Elizabeth and her older sister Barbara claimed to have had their first UFO encounter. 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. Simultaneously a giant, orange red and cratered planetoid was observed orbiting and rotating high in the atmosphere. Klarer graduated from St. Anne's Diocesan College in Pietermaritzburg, and moved to Florence, Italy, to study art and music. She then completed a four year diploma in meteorology at Girton College, Cambridge, and was taught by her first husband to fly a Tiger Moth light aircraft. During a 1937 flight from Durban to Baragwanath in a Leopard Moth aircraft, Klarer and her husband reportedly saw a saucer that approached, coasted along, then departed.

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. In response, Elizabeth and her children travelled from Johannesburg to the farm, and she ascended Flying Saucer Hill the following day, 27 December. There she claimed to have seen the starship descend. It hovered three metres above ground, emitting only a soft hum a craft some 60 feet (18 m) in diameter. Inside, she met a second pilot, stocky and darker skinned than Akon, who was supposedly a botanist as well as an astrophysicist. She was allegedly shown a lens that offered views through the craft's floor. With only a hum emanating from below and no sense of movement, they were transported to the enormous cigar shaped mother ship which had a garden like interior. After meeting its inhabitants, she was returned to the hilltop, 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. He also stated that no type of hubcap was known to sufficiently resemble the disc in the photos. The whole trip, delivery and return trip supposedly took no more than four months, but due to differences in space time, allowed her a nine year stay on Meton. about her extraterrestrial adventures. 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". By that time, Klarer was not the only Adamski follower to experience claimed space motherhood.

After her sister and brother in law died, Elizabeth returned from Natal to Johannesburg. There she worked for a time in a CNA book store, Ufologist Kitty Smith established contact with Elizabeth after reading about her in Outspan magazine, and claimed her own sighting of Akon's ship in January 1984. Elizabeth faithfully commemorated the 7 April anniversary of her union with Akon by returning to Flying Saucer Hill.

Ufologist Thomas Streicher concluded that Klarer's claims are generally poorly substantiated, despite some of them being corroborated by witnesses. Her sister and first husband for instance attested two UFO sightings, but witnesses are lacking to confirm her pregnancy, and it remains unknown whether it was ever documented. He speculates that she was perhaps a fantasy prone individual who merely imagined most of her experiences.