Mystery AtlasWhitley Strieber
An American author whose 1987 book Communion, marketed as a true account of his own encounters with grey-skinned beings, became one of the most influential and commercially successful works in shaping the modern popular image of alien visitors.
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- Betty and Barney Hill Abduction Case19–20 September 1961 (incident); publicised from 1965
Whitley Strieber is frequently compared to Betty and Barney Hill Abduction Case — The two most influential first-person American accounts shaping the modern abduction narrative, a quarter-century apart.
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Whitley Strieber popularised Grey Alien Image — His 1987 book Communion and its cover image cemented the modern grey-alien face in mass popular culture.