Elizabeth Klarer was born in 1910, and her varied career has encompassed such diverse jobs as piano teacher, meteorologist, light aircraft pilot and intelligence officer in the South African Air Force. She claims numerous encounters with benevolent extraterrestrials, maily between 1954 and 1963. The central part of her story involves an encounter with an attractive male humanoid, with whom she fell in love. She apparently became pregnant, and before the birth she was taken to the alien's home planet, where her baby was born – and supposedly still lives. The planet, like so many of those described by the contactees, is free from war, poverty and disease. Such claims inevitably lead to suggestions that the contactees are constructing fantasies, rather than recounting actual events.