How Liberace returned to Earth in a banana-shaped UFO
In 1989, a small town in Alabama experienced a UFO flap – but when a British tabloid newspaper suggested that the late entertainer Liberace had descended from a banana-shaped UFO, things got a lot weirder. JEFFREY VALLANCE explores the emergence of a cosmic archetype: “Space Liberace”.
Over the years, there have been countless stories that I have immensely enjoyed in Fortean Times, but I have to agree with Paul Sieveking’s choice as one of his favourites, from “Here Is the News” [ FT390:45]:
Liberace Returns
On 10 February 1989 the inhabitants of the tiny town of Fyffe in Alabama witnessed the return to Earth of the late glittering pianist Liberace – double-size, 12ft (3.6m) tall – who descended from a golden banana-shaped spacecraft via a moving stairway and played a medley of Hollywood showstoppers with glowing fingers on a floating piano. Talk of the apparition brought chaos to the town with 4,000 cars jamming the main street on 6 March. A “UFO expert” said: “Too many people have seen strange things for it to be a hoax.” (Portsmouth) News, Daily Star, 7 Mar 1989 [original report FT55:33].
The report involving Liberace’s glorious return to Earth aboard a UFO at first seems totally unbelievable, until the component details of the story are broken down into separate sections – with the 12-foot-tall glittering Liberace apparition, the bananashaped spacecraft, the moving stairway, the glowing fingers, and the importance of the Fyffe landing site, along with the ensuing chaos in Alabama.
WładziuValentino Liberace (American pianist, singer and actor) known as “Lee” to his friends and “Walter” to his family, was born on 16 May 1919 in West Allis, Wisconsin (a suburb of Milwaukee), and died on 4 February 1987 in Palm Springs, California; or, if you would rather believe Liberace is not of this Earth, on 4 February 1987 he returned to his homeworld, the planet Pompadore.
It is no coincidence that Liberace appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show on CBS on 25 November 1967. As any UFO buff knows, in 1969 Jackie Gleason was invited by
President Richard Nixon to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida to view the dead aliens recovered from the Roswell crash of 1947. Gleason even constructed his house in the shape of an UFO, naming it “The Mothership” (for the full story, see FT366:30-36). In what I believe is Liberace’s most memorable movie scene, he played the part of a casket salesman in The Loved One (1965), based on Evelyn Waugh’s satire of the funeral industry and Forest Lawn Cemetery in Southern California. And, as life imitates art, Liberace’s body is presumably entombed with those of his mother and his brother George, at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, in Los Angeles. In 2009 at the Leicester Square Theatre in London, Liberace: Live from
His reappearance as an apparition can be likened to a divine vision
Heaven, began its run, depicting the entertainer’s heavenly “trial” following his death. Whether it is labelled “Heaven” (the abode of God and the blessed dead), “the heavens” (the expanse of sky and space over the Earth), or a “heavenly body” (a planet, star, or other celestial body), Liberace is in the Great Beyond. Thus, his reappearance as an apparition can be likened to a divine vision of a saint or other religious figure.
THE LAS VEGAS TRIANGLE
Here I must disclose that in 1995 I moved to LasVegas, near the Liberace Museum. At the museum, I curated an infiltration/intervention/exhibition entitled “Mr Showmanship”, which featured Liberace-themed artworks from local and internationally known artists. The artworks were mingled with Liberace’s glittering costumes and opulently lavish objets d’art. It was hard to tell which pieces belonged in the museum and which were art. The museum’s director, Dora Liberace (wife of Liberace’s late brother, George), told me: “Liberace is smiling down from Heaven”. At the time, I didn’t think to take it literally.
From 1974 till his death in 1987, Liberace lived in a fabulous mansion close to his museum and the UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) campus, where I was teaching. After 31 years, the museum closed its doors for the last time in October 2010. Maybe it closed due to waning interest in the performer, as younger people didn’t know who he was, but I believe the closure was due to the fact that the museum never acknowledged that he was gay. At the museum, Liberace could have been honoured as a gay icon from a nonetoo-distant era when sexual gender identity
had to be communicated via coded language and innuendo. The museum might have flourished and stayed relevant and more lifeaffirming if it had become LGBTQ-friendly, sponsoring festivals, Liberace lookalike contests andVegas-y Pride parades.
The region in and around LasVegas is known as a major UFO hotspot, with Area 51, the Nevada Test Site, the Extraterrestrial Highway and the Little A’Le’Inn all nearby. One day in 1998 while driving home from teaching, I saw what looked like an enormous white paper airplane hovering motionless in the midday sky above McCarran International Airport. I could tell it was huge, as it had the same haze (aerial perspective) around it as the nearby mountains. Airplanes landing near the object appeared the size of flies. As one sees a lot of weird stuff every day inVegas, I thought nothing of it and nearly forgot about it. It wasn’t until I got back to my apartment and turned on a local talk-radio programme that I heard people reporting the object as a triangular UFO. Then WHACK! It dawned on me what I had just seen. It seemed that, as my brain had no compartment in which to file the strange occurrence, my memory of it had been almost wiped clean – like a fading dream. The triangular UFO mothership, over a mile long, took a position in the centre of something like a “LasVegas Triangle,” with McCarran Airport, UNLV and the Liberace Museum at the vertex points. My apartment in the Living Desert complex and Liberace’s mansion were both contained within the obtuse triangle, with the UFO at the centroid position.
THE BATTLE LORD OF THE POMPADORANS
On the Internet a new mythology is evolving to fill in the gaps of the life and exploits of Space Liberace. According to Encyclopaedia Daemonica, “Liberace, before he returned to his homeworld, revealed to sources that he was, in fact, not of this Earth. His home planet, ‘Pompadore’ as it would sound in the human tongue, went to war with their Sun. Being for that reason alone, Liberace departed from us in the physical sense and now fights the good fight elsewhere in the Galaxy. His fans may now know that in addition to being a Master of the Ivories he is, in reality, also a noted Battle Lord of cosmic proportion. He alone is credited with the sacking and total annihilation of 17 races of beings throughout the cosmos. He has earned a reputation as a sadistic, enigmatic commander.” Liberace often said, “If you do not know tragedy, you cannot know FAAAAABULOUS”.
As a child on Earth, Space Liberace mastered the art of makeup to cover his greyish alien skin, so he could play with the other children. It took him 15 years to emulate the way the human body moves. As he was learning, he was the subject of a tremendous amount of teasing by schoolyard bullies.
And his penchant for eccentricities and attention-getting practices that earned him some popularity also made him the object of ridicule.
It was during his teen years, in his human lifespan, that he took a keen interest in Renaissance France, noting, “They had the best hair.” The pompadour is a hairstyle named after Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764), the mistress of Louis XV. Today, most people refer to the pompadour as a man’s hairstyle with extra volume on the top. Related is the Pompadour Bird or pompadour cotinga ( Xipholena punicea), a small bird from the Amazon rainforest; the males exhibit sexual dimorphism with elaborate bright reddishpurple plumage, similar to a Liberace costume. In addition, Liberace owned a rare Conover “Pompadour” model piano, named after the 18th century French design it emulates. This model’s soundboard is directly in front of the pianist’s head (like the hairstyle), so the sound is very immediate and direct. It is thought that there are only three pianos of this kind in the Universe. And besides, Liberace was such a neat freak that he designed and patented a “disappearing toilet” that would fold up and retract into the bathroom wall. Regarding his triumph, Liberace would often say: “There’s just no reason why you should walk into a bathroom and see a toilet”.
Early in life, Liberace recognised that musical notes were a type of language. He adopted the piano as his instrument of communication. Musical notes on planet Pompadore are used to coordinate military strikes with their grand space armadas. Many interstellar wars were carried out behind the veil of hisVegas Shows. Liberace, known as the “King of Bling”, had extravagant tastes. His philosophy was “too much of a good thing is wonderful.” As for his over-the-top performances, he’d say, “I’m a one-man Disneyland”. And, according to Daemonica, “He danced and sang his way into our hearts, all
the while annihilating civilisations throughout the cosmos”. He was staging invasions on a galactic scale right from the stage during hisVegas performances!
It is a documented fact that Liberace had an identical twin that died at birth. Could it be that his twin didn’t really die, but it was him that was abducted? And like the scenario of the “Evil Twin” plotline, there is both an earthly benevolent Liberace and an evil Space Liberace?
UFO OVER FYFFE
The small town of Fyffe in DeKalb County, Alabama, made news in 1989 when local residents reported a series of UFO sightings. On 11 February, a woman called the Fyffe Police Department and reported seeing a strange light in the sky. Later the police reported seeing a large lighted object silently passing over them in the direction of a local landmark called Lookout Mountain. A call over police radio from neighbouring Crossville described the same object crossing over their town. Numerous other strange sightings were reported. By the next day, more than 100 residents, including the town’s police chief and his assistant, had reported seeing an object in the sky. It was described as metallic, triangular or boomerang-shaped, hovering at an angle and outlined by green lights with a bright red light centred on its underside. One witness described the craft as bananashaped. For several weeks, it appeared over Fyffe every Friday night like clockwork, setting off a frenzy of interest, with as many as 5,000 sightseers and hundreds of news organisations descending upon Fyffe.
When the British tabloid Daily Star reported that Liberace was seen stepping out of a UFO to play a floating piano, thousands more people flocked to Fyffe, crowding the streets in hopes of experiencing their own sighting. The roads around Fyffe were jammed, with six miles of Alabama State Highway 75 clogged with RVs, motorhomes and satellite TV trucks. Helicopters soared overhead like an invasion of locusts. Hordes of tourists looked skyward as they tramped through cow pastures. In commemoration of the sighting, Fyffe now annually celebrates the UFO Days Festival, standing for the “Unforgettable Family Outing.” Fyffe thought it was time to capitalise on the notoriety it received during the UFO-sighting craze. The Fyffe festival features hot air balloons shaped like space aliens, arts and crafts booths, face painting, children’s games, food vendors, an antique tractor display, and kiddie train rides. The festival also includes Mr Andy Woods (from the nearby town of Fort Payne), as a “Barney Fyffe” impersonator, (the character “Barney Fife” was made famous by Don Knotts on
The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s). The town of Fyffe has greatly benefited from the Liberace UFO sighting, with revenues from the festival funding a 220-acre industrial park, two miles of paved streets, an extended sewer line, and Fyffe’s first traffic light on Highway 75. In 1989, the Alabama state senate officially designated Fyffe as “The UFO
Capitol of Alabama”. More recently, when Fyffe Mayor Howard Mitchell was asked about the Liberace UFO experience, he lamented, “I wish we could get somebody to see another one.” And noted cryptozoologist and lake-monster researcher Scott Mardis recently stated: “If there wasn’t a real Space Liberace, we would have to invent one.”
As Space Liberace flies a banana-shaped UFO, he obviously must have thought it was a great prank to land in Fyffe, a name synonymous with bananas. It is no coincidence that Space Liberace chose Fyffe, Alabama, as the first landing site for his banana-shaped UFO. In April 1989, Jenny Randles reported in Northern UFO News: “The one time I agreed to speak to the [ Daily] Star was when they asked for my comments on the UFO that was shaped like a banana. It landed, you see, to disgorge dead pianist Liberace playing Singing in the Rain and the theme from Dr Zhivago in front of astonished Alabama witnesses. When they told me that the town was called Fyffe and I casually pointed out that the link with Fyffes bananas the reporter said, ‘Oh – we never noticed that’ – but they carried the story anyway as ‘Liberace back from the dead in a UFO’ [7 Mar] (without either my, or anyone else’s cautionary remarks, needless to say).”
Fyffes is a well-known banana company owned by the Japanese Sumitomo Group and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. In 1888, Edward Wathen Fyffe, a London food wholesaler, founded Fyffes in Britain. In 1929, Fyffes was first to use blue stickers on bananas. The company currently markets bananas in Europe and the United States. In 1990, a brutal “Banana War” broke out between Fyffes and Chiquita Brands International for dominance of the banana industry. Chiquita initiated the war with rival Fyffes over the limited banana supply. Chiquita began illegally seizing and destroying Fyffes’ shipments. A full-blown conflict ensued, with an attempted car bombing, kidnappings, military dictators, Communist revolutionaries, terrorist groups, as well as weapon smuggling, and drug smuggling with ties to Mexican drug baron Joaquín Guzmán (“El Chapo”), leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. The banana industry was fraught with corporate and political greed, horrific violence, and egregious violations of basic human rights. Banana plantation workers protested until the army of General CortesVargas, the leader of the Colombian military forces, opened fire on a group of families after their Sunday morning Mass, killing over 1,000 people. The appalling incident was known as the “Banana Massacre”.
BANANA-SHAPED UFO
Many people have ridiculed the Fyffe banana-shaped UFO account. However, according to one of the now published reports from the British Ministry of Defence of previously classified UFO documents, a banana-like object was also seen over London. In May 1989, The RAF reported aerial phenomena in the form of a crescent-shaped object like a banana that was blue in colour with appendages hanging from its lower end.
The RAF station located in West Drayton, within the London borough of Hillingdon, serves as the main centre for military air traffic control in the UK. The RAF UFO report included a sketch of a banana-shaped object with little spindly arms and legs dangling from the bottom end. Which brings us back to Fyffes bananas, whose corporate mascot is amazingly similar to the banana-shaped UFO because of its banana costume complete with gangling arms and legs.
There is another flying object nearly identical to the banana UFO seen over London: that is the Ascender 36 Airship by JP Aerospace of Rancho Cordova, California. The aerospace firm, funded by the US Department of Defense, is developing a whole new way to reach space. They are testing the high-altitude orbital airship to float on the top of the atmosphere, and then slowly accelerate using hybrid electrochemical rocket engines until it reaches orbital velocity. For the diaphanous hypersonic airship to fly at the edge of space it will need to be over a mile long and incredibly light. Ascenders are “V” shaped airships designed to ultimately replace rocket-launched space vehicles. Ascenders climb vertically until they reach peak altitude. Research balloons have carried people and machines to the edge of space for over 70 years and JP Aerospace is developing the technology to fly an airship directly to orbit. Remarkably similar to the banana UFO seen by the RAF over London, the Ascender 36 Airship has a blue outer skin with overhanging apparatuses that look similar to dangling arms and legs – and when viewed at a certain angle, it can appear banana-shaped. Furthermore, Charles Fort wrote of “phantom airships” appearing out of nowhere over England in New Lands (1923) and Lo! (1931). The objects were described as gigantic sausage-shaped craft with extremely powerful searchlights. The sound of a motor or small engine was heard overhead. Fort speculated that these intelligently controlled objects could be of extraterrestrial origin.
TIN FOIL ALIEN
On 17 October 1973, in Falkville, Alabama, Chief of Police Jeff Greenhaw received an emergency call from a woman who claimed that a UFO had just landed in a field. When Greenhaw arrived at the scene, he saw a humanoid entity wearing some kind of silvery, metallic suit that resembled thick aluminium foil. He immediately grabbed his 400 Series Polaroid Countdown 90 camera and shot one controversial blurry photograph. The flash of the camera startled the entity and it began running across the field faster than humanly possible, using spring-like jumps. Greenhaw leapt into his police cruiser and took off in pursuit of the “tin foil man”, who outran the vehicle and disappeared into the darkness (for more metallic/silvery aliens, see FT196:29, 286:28-29, 305:28, 29, 397:36-41, 399:69, 400:72-73).
The Liberace UFO appeared over Fyffe, Alabama, which is 73 miles (117km) from Falkville, where the “alien” in the silvery suit was sighted. In his concert performances, Liberace would often wear a silvery sequined and rhinestone-studded suit.
On 23 April 1955 in LasVegas, Liberace met Elvis and they exchanged suit coats. Afterward, Elvis was inspired to create his own rhinestone-encrusted jumpsuits that he’d often wear while performing inVegas. Liberace’s glittery outfits have inspired legions of entertainers like David Bowie, Elton John and Lady Gaga. In Lady Gaga’s song Dance in the Dark (2010), she sings the line, “We’ll haunt like Liberace”. (Lady Gaga is summoning one of her foremost muses: the spirit of Liberace. It is reported that Mr Showmanship’s ghost haunts the bedroom of the Liberace Mansion inVegas). Could it be possible that, in the dead of night, an unexpected appearance of Liberace in a sparkling suit could be confused with an alien creature from outer space? What would be easier to write on a police report relating to a UFO landing – encountering a metallic alien or seeing an apparition of Liberace wearing a silvery outfit?
On 14 March 1989, The BBC interviewed Fyffe Assistant Police Chief, Fred Works, concerning the Liberace UFO event. Officer Works said that he’d like a rational explanation of what he saw, but he knows it was not
Liberace. “It was really Elvis,” he snapped over the air. Which reminds me of a popular song by American Country singer-songwriter Ray Stevens entitled, I Saw Elvis in a UFO
that includes the verse:
I saw Elvis in a UFO singing them rhythm and blues
And Liberace was there and he had on a pair of Imelda Marcos’ shoes
FLAMBOYANT ALIEN ARCHETYPE
The character of “Space Liberace” is developing into a new kind of archetype: an extraterrestrial that wears extravagant glittering outfits with fabulous pompadoured hair. One of the first Space Liberace archetypes appeared in “The Squire of Gothos”, an episode of Star Trek that first aired on 12 January 1967. Actor William Campbell stars as the flamboyant Liberace-like character, Trelane, who plays the harpsichord clad in extravagant 18th century attire. And which Guardians of the Galaxy character is basically Space Liberace? In the film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), according to the original script, the character “The Collector”, played by Benicio Del Toro, is likened to an “outer-space Liberace”. Blogger Jacob Shelton writes in his online Groovy History”: “WładziuValentino Liberace, the pianist who made the whole world love classical music, and cried all the way to the bank, may have seemed like an alien from outer space, but he actually came from Wisconsin, of all places”. A couple of outer-spacy songs have been written expounding the exploits of interplanetary Space Liberace. In 1999, the Seattle-based improvisational quartet Ponga released their interstellar tune “Liberace In Space”, although the 2009 “party mix” version is more otherworldly and technoalien-sounding. More recently in 2020, singer-songwriter Spooks McGhie came out with the album Gefilte Fish that includes the especially ethereal track “Space Liberace”.
The character of ‘S pace Liberace’ is developing into a new archetype
According to the Daily Star (7 March 1989), when Liberace landed in Fyffe, he wore a sparkling gold lame suit and descended on a moveable staircase performing a rendition of Singing in the Rain and Lara’s Theme on a floating piano. He had a lovely smile as he flexed his long bony fingers. Note: Space Liberace is not to be confused with a weather balloon – the typical UFO excuse; since Betty Furman, a research scientist at the National Scientific Balloon Facility (a NASA contractor) reported that what people saw in Fyffe on 10 February 1989 could not be a weather balloon, as all SFRs (scientific research balloons) were accounted for, deflated, and retrieved prior to that date.
On 4 April 1989, the Weekly World News reported that the recently deceased Liberace was not really dead, but had in fact been kidnapped by aliens. He had returned briefly to Earth in a UFO that hovered over a cornfield near Cotija de la Paz, Mexico (a region known for its strong salty cheese). Incidentally, the menu of the “World Famous” restaurant in Athens, Georgia, features dishes with “Liberace Sauce” and cotija cheese. According to Tripadvisor, “the Liberace sauce is fantastic.” In Mexico, a local farmer named Miguel Ortiz Diago and his wife Maria both beheld the Liberacian apparition (bringing to mind Juan Diego’s Marian apparition of theVirgin of Guadalupe). The flamboyant entertainer arrived like a flash in the night sky in a banana-yellow flying saucer, the door opened and out he came in a glittering silver suit – he was literally walking on air. He then sat on an invisible seat and played on an invisible piano “the most beautiful music they had ever heard”. Maria noticed that when he smiled his teeth sparkled like diamonds. After a 15-minute performance, Liberace reentered the spacecraft, the door closed and it ascended straight upward and vanished in the heavens. A few minutes later, a neighbour named Pablo deVega arrived on the scene to say that he too had witnessed the astounding appearance of the lateVegas entertainer.
The 24 October 2005 edition of the
Weekly World News reported that on 29 July 1989, the third landing of Space Liberace was witnessed in a field north of Toulouse, France. According to the report, Liberace was not dead, but aliens had abducted him and he had returned to Earth in a gleaming silver UFO. Over 2,000 people attending the Toulouse d’Été outdoor music festival saw the glittering Showman. Liberace descended from the craft to land onstage, where he stole the spotlight. The former mayor of Toulouse, Guy Favier, said: “He walked to the stage, where he approached the grand piano, sat down and began to play – I must say, he never sounded better.” The concertgoers were so excited that they wanted to mob the stage,
but nobody could move, as if they were held in place by a forcefield or an “unseen hand”. Liberace played for several minutes without saying a word, then casually strolled back to his starship – which instantly zoomed away at warp speed.
And there may be a fourth sighting of the fashionable alien in a silvery outfit. The 9 October 1989 edition of TASS (the Soviet press agency), reported that on 27 September of that year, a UFO landed in a park in the Russian city ofVoronezh, 300 miles (480km) southeast of Moscow. Lieutenant Sergei A Matveyev of theVoronezh District Police said he saw the spaceship and ‘‘it was not an optical illusion. It certainly was an object flying in the sky, moving noiselessly at very high speed.” According to the official report, the alien was 9ft to 12ft (2.7-3.7m) tall, “fashionably dressed in silvery overalls and bronze boots”, and arrived in a “banana-shaped” spaceship. (Sounds like another manifestation of the King of Bling). Correspondingly, in the same year, Space Liberace was seen in Fyffe with a banana-shaped UFO – he was also 12 feet tall and wearing a stunning silvery outfit. Maybe the Russians are not that familiar with Liberace so they could not identify him correctly. Could this Russian report be describing a different interpretation of the same event?
THE UK CONNECTION
And there is an intriguing British connection to the Fyffe Liberace UFO incident. America’s love for Liberace is only rivalled by Britain’s adoration for the flamboyant performer. In 1960, Liberace performed at the London Palladium in an acclaimed “command performance,” now known as the Royal Variety Performance for Queen Elizabeth. Her Majesty was such a big fan of Liberace that she presented him with a Welsh corgi.
About his royal audience, Liberace said: “I love pomp and ceremony.”
One afternoon, when Liberace was house shopping in London, he took the British drag entertainer, Danny La Rue, along with him to see the Tower House in Holland Park. While in the strange Gothic Revival building (with creepy murals painted on the ceiling), a paranormal event occurred: Danny and Liberace encountered the forlorn ghosts of children who belonged to the grim orphanage that once occupied the site. (It is whispered that a child is buried somewhere in the tower).
As I stated earlier, a London banana monger named Edward Fyffe founded the Fyffes Banana Company in Britain in 1888. Between 1909 and 1913 a series of unidentified “phantom airships” were seen manoeuvring over England. It was the Daily Star that first reported the Liberace Fyffe UFO story, which was followed up by a BBC broadcast on the topic. In May of the same year, the RAF reported a banana-shaped UFO over London. In 2009, the play Liberace: Live from Heaven began at the Leicester Square Theatre in London. The UFO incident started in Fyffe, Alabama, but it was expanded and amplified through the British tabloid press.
The Liberace UFO appearance, at first, seems absolutely absurd, but if one breaks down each individual detail, then it appears possibly more plausible. Some famous people seem larger than life, including figures such as JFK, Elvis and Liberace – hence the 12-foot-tall Liberace apparition. And it is hard to believe that certain beloved celebrities have passed away, so consequently people repeatedly see Liberace returning to Earth. Does it feel better to believe that aliens have abducted him, rather than knowing for sure that he is dead?
And in troubling times people see visions of exactly who and what they need to see. The Space Liberace archetype has become familiar to us, as he appears on the pages of comic books, as well as on television and the silver screen. Three songs have been written on the theme of extraterrestrial Liberace. And Mr Showmanship is known for his out-of-thisworld costumes; that’s why while flying his UFO, he just has to wear something fabulous. On stage, Liberace would often use a theatrical stunt to fly around by way of a harness (concealed under his costume) attached to high-tension wire, so the image of him flying (or floating) has already been established.
There have been many documented reports of UFOs in crescent or boomerang shapes as well asV-shaped experimental airships (like the Ascender 36); and these, when viewed at certain angles, could appear essentially banana-shaped. Metaphorically, Liberace’s banana spaceship can be seen as an enormous Freudian phallus, while conversely the town’s name “Fyffe” is unmistakably synonymous with Fyffes trademark bananas. In his magnificent mansion, Liberace loved to pose for photos on his grand staircase – correspondingly, flying saucers have been reported with retractable access ramps, so in this manner the space-entertainer disembarks his spacecraft via a moving stairway. And what would Space Liberace do once he exited the craft? Of course, he would entertain onlookers with a marvellously camp medley of Hollywood showstoppers. Similar to E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial, Space Liberace has glowing fingers – while on the other hand, ravers at dance parties wear (commercially available) gloves with glowing LED fingertips. Space Liberace plays a floating piano; then again keyboardist Keith Emerson (of Emerson Lake & Palmer) played a flying piano on stage at Madison Square Garden. It is said that Space Liberace appeared not in-the-flesh, but took the form of an “apparition”, a ghostlike figure, phantom, vision, or spectre – like someone you see or think you see but who is not really there. It is well documented that hundreds of townsfolk in Fyffe reported seeing UFOs, which caused a great deal of chaos when thousands of sightseers jammed the streets of the small town. In the Daily Star, the “UFO expert” (who still remains unidentified – surely not Jenny Randles) was quoted: “Too many people have seen strange things for it to be a hoax”. Taken individually, every facet reported in the
Daily Star is hypothetically possible. The only question is: “Do you want to believe in Space Liberace?”
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JEFFREY VALLANCE is an artist, writer, curator, explorer and paranormal experiencer. He has published over 10 books, including Blinky the Friendly Hen, Relics and Reliquaries and The Vallance Bible. He is currently working on a new anthology, Selected Spiritual Writings.