Tomschi, Albert

Albert Tomschi was an Austrian contactee who had an encounter with beings from Harus.

He is a relatively obscure figure in the European contactee literature. Unlike better-known contactees such as George Adamski, George Van Tassel or Billy Meier, Tomschi left little material that has been widely reproduced in English. Nevertheless, he is listed in specialist UFO bibliographies as an Austrian UFO contactee, and his name is associated with a body of material concerning extraterrestrial or otherworldly beings, telepathy and a purported planet called Harus.

Biographical data

The biographical information available on Tomschi is surprisingly sparse. He appears to have been Austrian and to have lived in Upper Austria. Contemporary directory material identifies an Albert Tomschi in Linz, while other records associate an Albert Tomschi with Traunkirchen in Upper Austria. A local historical register for Traunkirchen also records Albert and Sybille Tomschi at Mitterndorf 32. These records are useful indications of identity, but they do not by themselves establish that every record refers to the UFO contactee.

Tomschi is primarily known through his publications rather than through a substantial biographical record. One of his books is Der Weltraum ruft ("Space Is Calling"). Copies are still occasionally offered on the Austrian second-hand market, although the book is described as long out of print.

Another work associated with him is Gorohs. A surviving description of the book characterizes it as dealing with "spirit beings" communicating information through telepaths. This is significant because it suggests that Tomschi's material occupied a somewhat unusual position between conventional UFO contact literature, telepathy and spiritualism.

The Spanish ufological bibliographer Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos explicitly lists "Tomschi, Albert, UFO contactee" in his large catalogue of ufologists, contactees and spiritualists. The fact that Darnaude included him is useful evidence that Tomschi was known within international contactee circles, even though he never became a major figure in English-language ufology.

Case information

The central feature of the Tomschi material is his alleged communication with beings associated with Harus. Harus appears in specialist UFO literature as a purported extraterrestrial world rather than as a recognized astronomical planet. Exopaedia, for example, includes Harus in its index of contactee-related subjects, although its general contactee page does not presently provide a detailed account of Tomschi's particular case.

This makes Tomschi interesting because his case seems to belong to a somewhat different strand of the contactee phenomenon from the classic "space brother" narratives. In the better-known cases of Adamski, Fry, Van Tassel and others, the alleged extraterrestrials generally arrive in physical spacecraft and communicate directly with the contactee. Tomschi's published material appears to place considerably more emphasis on telepathic communication and spiritual or non-ordinary beings.

The title Gorohs is particularly revealing in this respect. The surviving description says that "Geistwesen" report or communicate through telepaths. In German, Geistwesen can mean spirit beings, entities or beings of a spiritual nature. That terminology does not necessarily mean that Tomschi regarded the beings as ghosts in the conventional sense. Within the contactee literature of the period, extraterrestrial beings, higher-dimensional entities, spiritual intelligences and inhabitants of other planets were often incorporated into a single cosmology.

Tomschi's material therefore seems to belong to what might be called the borderland between UFO contact, telepathy and esoteric cosmology. The alleged beings from Harus were not simply presented as visitors from another astronomical location. The broader context suggests communication involving consciousness and telepathy, which was a recurring feature of mid-20th-century contactee and occult literature.

Case evaluation

Tomschi did not present any evidence to support his case, and there is very little to be found online about it. Treat with caution.

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