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Renaud, Robert

Bob Renaud is a contactee from the 60s whe met people claiming to be from Korendor. 

Who He Was

Renaud was a young high school graduate living in his parents' basement in Massachusetts and working for General Electric in a radio assembly plant. He had built his own radio and television sets from kits.

The Initial Contact

In July 1961, 18-year-old ham radio operator Robert Renaud was browsing the shortwave bands when he suddenly heard a high-pitched beeping followed by a female voice saying: "I am called Linn-Erri, and my associates and I come from the planet Korendor." Linn-Erri then shared detailed instructions on how to modify his radio equipment to better facilitate space communications.

The Korendians

According to Renaud, he was contacted by humanoids from a planet known as Korendor. They are described as perfectly human in proportion, yet only 4–5 feet tall on average. The Korendians claim alliance with the Arcturians and are part of a massive collective federation of worlds that leans toward non-intervention. Korendor is allegedly an inhabited planet about 400 light-years from Earth in the Boötes constellation.

Escalating Contact

Later that year, Renaud received instructions on how to adjust his television set to receive visual transmissions, and Linn-Erri soon appeared on screen. In the early morning hours of December 22, 1962, an ordinary-looking car carrying Korendorians in disguise picked him up and drove him to an isolated area for a demonstration. His contacts evolved to the point where he regularly went aboard their craft and to their facilities. He claims to have been the first Earth man to "walk in space" when he stood on top of one of their craft on February 4, 1964. He was eventually taken to their home planet of Korendor.

Underground & Underwater Bases

Renaud claims he was taken to view the Korendians' Moonbase, their underground operations base beneath Massachusetts, and their underwater operations base in the South Pacific.

How He Came to Public Attention

Gabriel Green, editor of UFO International Magazine, published Renaud's story and investigated it, along with Wendelle Stevens, both of whom found him a credible first-hand witness. A UFO investigator named Bob Grise, a fellow ham radio enthusiast, inspected Renaud's shortwave setup and found that the circuit modifications "were all appropriate to extend the receiving range." Grise also noted that Renaud showed no inclination to profit from his material, and had it not been for Gabriel Green discovering and promoting his work, he probably would have remained in obscurity.

His Written Output

Renaud maintained a large collection of Korendian tape recordings and had channeled a series of books about Korendor via "automatic typing," each single-spaced and roughly 500 pages in length. His accounts were eventually published in a multi-volume book series, UFO Contact from Planet Korendor, co-authored with Wendelle Stevens.

Skeptical & Analytical Reception

Like many contactees, Renaud's story got a skeptical However, various thinkers have offered their own interpretations — Whitley Strieber noted that "Lin-Erri" phonetically translates to the Gaelic for "body of light," drawing parallels to ancient fairy lore, while UFO theorist John Keel suggested that such beings across history might be "ultraterrestrials" — entities of a semi-material dimensional reality bordering our own.

Renaud is notable for being a contactee who was active from the 1960s all the way into the 21st century, which is quite unusual in this field.

In sum, Bob Renaud occupies an interesting niche in UFO history — a quietly persistent, apparently non-commercial figure whose claims were elaborate and long-running, and who was taken seriously enough by some investigators to be documented in book form, even if mainstream science and most of the public would regard his accounts with considerable skepticism.

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