A TIME OF INNOCENCE

Ida M. Kannenberg (self-published), 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Small Quarto, 10.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 196. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Dark gray boards with gilt title to spine. Protected in mylar. The exceedingly rare self-published autobiography of Ida M. Kannenberg's rural upbringing in Iowa, with no references to her later claims of alien abduction or her many publications regarding UFOs. Not listed in WorldCat. "This story reveals the role and importance of family values in the psychological development and destiny of its members."

A pioneer researcher of the UFO enigma, Ida M. Kannenberg sponsored with Dr. Leo Sprinkle the First Rocky Mountain UFO Conference in 1980 at the University of Wyoming. At the historic conference, she introduced the time travelers that contacted her in 1940. "Like most UFO abductees or contactees, she [Kannenberg] sees herself as an unobtrusive, unimportant, 'everyday person,'" wrote Dr. Leo Sprinkle. Kannenberg wrote about UFO encounters as she experienced them, information conveyed by the time travelers, and observations about them. She puzzled over composite human nature, humanity as a species, how the species came to its present evolution, and the individual as an existential filament of physical and spiritual worlds. Yet, Kannenberg puzzled in down-to-earth terms and called herself a little old lady in tennis shoes. She extended a steady hand in support of fellow contactees and abductees, and her first book was a manual for UFO experiencers. A tireless researcher, she wrote seven books about UFO contact, psychic development, extraterrestrials, ultraterrestrials and time travelers. Her books include "UFOS and the Psychic Factor"; "Project Earth from the ET Perspective"; "Time Travelers from Atlantis"; "Reconciliation"; "My Brother Is a Hairy Man", "A Son of Old Atlantis"; and "The Alien Book of Truth". Ida Kannenberg was born October 27, 1914 in Iowa. She passed from this life on May 17, 2010. (from Google Books).