About the Author

Ann Druffel (1926-2020). Her interest in the UFO phenomenon dates back to 1945, when, as a schoolgirl, she viewed a bright yellowish object over Long Beach, California. In 1957 she became one of the first investigators for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena and remained with that organization until its demise in 1973. Since then she has been an investigator for the Mutual UFO Network and other scientifically minded organizations. She has written more than 200 articles in UFO journals and is the author of six books on UFOs and other paranormal subjects, including How To Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction, and Firestorm! Dr. James E. McDonald's Fight For UFO Science. D. Scott Rogo was one of the most widely respected writer-journalists covering the field of parapsychology, as well as an active scientific investigator. He published papers in refereed parapsychological journals and was active in field investigations of hauntings and poltergeist activity. Rogo was also a leading authority on the history of psychical research. In the course of more than twodozen published books, including The Haunted Universe, Rogo sought to broaden the range of topics worthy of paranormal research.

Reviews

"Whatever your attitude towards the alien abduction scenario (literal truth or hypnosis hooey?), The Tujunga Canyon Contacts is a seminal must-read for anyone interested in the subject...The particular value of this book is that alien abductions were still new on the scene when [Ann Druffel and Scott Rogo] carried out their research, which means the experiencers would not have been contaminated by all the abduction scenarios that have since become so familiar..." - Paranormal Magazine"Looking back over the early reports of alien abduction from time to time also allows us to glimpse elements of the phenomenon with a degree of clarity and un-obfuscated detail. Such is the case with Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo's modern classic, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts... [in which] the reader is taken along on a wild, probing encounter with what is arguably one of the earliest reported abduction encounters with the 'gray aliens' of popular lore...Altogether, the surreal, lucid-dreamlike quality that these encounters bring to the study of alien abduction make for an intense, sometimes frightening read, but not at all in a conventional way. If anything, the precedent set by Druffel and Rogo in this modern classic among abduction reports makes other literature regarding the phenomenon pale in comparison. Even three decades after its publication, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts raises the bar as to where and how proper scientific study of alien abduction can-and no doubt should-continue, and it stands alone as one of the finest texts to ever delve into the subject at length." - Micah A. Hanks, The Gralien Report "The Tujunga Canyon Contacts centers upon the experiences of two young women abductees whose UFO encounters began in 1953 in their Tujunga Canyon, California, cabin; and these were followed by repeated, related events involving three additional women, all of whom were interviewed and studied over many years by Ann Druffel and, later, also with Scott Rogo... [These two authors] ask all the questions that are usually thought of - and many more. They do not eschew the several, often taboo, areas. For example, psychopathological factors as well as various and sometimes omitted, or unintentionally minimized, medical data are discussed. These scholars have done their homework... There are no minced words... The authors are to be commended for presenting their data in a highly readable, responsible narrative. They tactfully interweave the often disparate lives of the five women in proper chronology, which subdues an otherwise nearly unfathomable, circuitous complexity: the type of situation that scares away many other investigators... This sensitively written documentation probes the deeper recesses of the mind, and human-UFO experiences... Great Work!" - Dr. Berthold Schwarz, The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies