The Andreasson Affair

Record summary

Raymond E. Fowler’s The Andreasson Affair, published in 1979, documents Betty Andreasson Luca’s reported 1967 abduction and visionary experiences, including religious imagery, beings, and an otherworldly journey. Although the alleged event predates the requested period, the North American account became a major 1970s publication and influenced later abduction and apocalyptic-spiritual narratives. Its evidentiary basis includes interviews, hypnosis, drawings, and author interpretation. Researchers should separate the original report from later editions and from claims that its imagery represents literal religious or extraterrestrial revelation.