Wiesengrun, Martin

Martin Wiesengrün (a pseudonym) is a German UFO contactee who claims to have met beings from planets called Arian and Uru, circling Aldebaran, in 1957.

He claimed that in July 1957, when he was a 15-year-old living on the island of Rügen on East Germany's Baltic coast — at the time, an isolated part of the Soviet-controlled DDR, completely cut off from Western UFO culture. The contact reportedly happened in the summer of 1957 in Glowe, on Rügen island.

He says he was repeatedly visited by tall, human-looking beings who claimed to come from the Aldebaran star system, and he was reportedly taken aboard their craft multiple times, including a 50-meter shuttle that docked inside a larger mother ship. On one occasion he reportedly stayed with them for three days. The beings were said to come from a planet called Arian, with other crew members from a second world, Uru, also orbiting Aldebaran. Uru is said to be the second planet circling Aldebaran, with its inhabitants looking like regular humans.

The story was eventually written up as a book, "UFO Contact From Planet Arian of Aldebaran," translated into English and published through Wendelle Stevens' UFO Photo Archives (Stevens was a well-known compiler of contactee accounts). A German-language version, "Mein UFO-Erlebnis auf Rügen," was also published. In the German edition's foreword, the author explains his reasons for using a pseudonym — he says discussing it openly back then could have risked his existence, and he still prefers to discuss it with only a few people, though the first name used in the narrative is his real one.