A dossier-style rendering of a Janosian crew member as described in Frank Johnson's The Janos People (1980).
THINK ABOUTIT’S ALIEN TYPE SUMMARY
Janosian
On a June night in 1978, on a quiet road in Oxfordshire, a family of five lost fifty-five minutes they could never account for — and under hypnosis, began to recover the memory of a dying world called Janos, a fleet of ring-shaped ark ships, and ten million refugees now waiting in Earth’s own backyard for somewhere to land.
Name: Janosian
AKA: The Janos People
Location – Home System: Planet Janos. No constellation is specified in sourcing.
Distance from Earth: Described in primary case testimony as “several thousand light-years.” Current position alleged to be high orbit within our own solar system.
Attitude: Diplomatic, cautious, non-hostile. Described in sourcing as peaceable and averse to violence even under extreme duress.
Motives: Survival and resettlement. Sourcing describes an offer to exchange advanced technology for a place to live on or beneath the Earth’s surface.
Physical Appearance: Sourcing is internally inconsistent. Secondary compilations (Bibliotecapleyades, Exopaedia) describe them as “like Terrans, although somewhat oriental and slender.” The primary 1978 case account describes the beings as “Europeans of a Nordic type,” fair-haired, blue-eyed. See Researcher’s Notes.
- Average Height: Not specified in sourcing.
- Average Weight: Not specified in sourcing.
- Body Temperature: Not specified in sourcing.
- Pulse/Respiration: Not specified in sourcing.
- Blood Pressure: Not specified in sourcing.
- Life Expectancy: Not specified in sourcing.
- Hair: Described in the primary case account as flaxen/fair-haired.
- Skin: Not specified beyond general “Terran/European” appearance.
- Eyes: Described in the primary case account as pale blue.
- Sex: Male and female, per witness testimony.
Other Physical Information: Witnesses in the 1978 case reported crew wearing close-fitting silver uniforms, some with integrated hoods resembling a balaclava. Later portions of the case narrative describe hooded, monk-like protective garments worn by rescue crews during the radiation crisis on Janos itself.
Special Traits and Abilities: Not specified beyond advanced spaceflight and communication technology described in sourcing.
Communication Type: Primary case account describes both spoken English (by crew) and a distinct thirteen-word vocabulary attributed to the Janos language, described by the investigating author as cohering into a plausible linguistic family.
Origin: Terran-descended, per the contact narrative — sourcing holds that the Janos people’s remote ancestors originated on Earth in the prehistoric past before colonizing Janos.
Life Form Type: Humanoid.
Subspecies: None documented in sourcing.
Most Common Species: Not specified in sourcing.
Level of Species: No technological or evolutionary classification is offered in any source. Not applicable.
Habits: Described in sourcing as highly disciplined and averse to conflict; the primary case narrative repeatedly emphasizes a cultural refusal to make war even to obtain what they most needed.
Transportation Type: A single massive ring-shaped flagship — described in sourcing as “a veritable city in space” capable of holding the planet’s entire surviving population — accompanied by smaller lens-shaped ferry craft used to shuttle refugees from the planetary surface. Witness testimony from the 1978 case put the ferry craft encountered at roughly 350 feet in overall diameter, with a more sharply curved central section around 200 feet across, and a crew of approximately fifty.
Witnesses Reports: CONTACTEE CASE — WITNESSES ANONYMOUS BY REQUEST. 19 June 1978, near Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England. A family of five — referred to in the source material only as John, Gloria, Frances, and children Natasha (age 5) and Tanya (age 3), surnames withheld at the family’s request — reported being taken aboard a craft for approximately fifty-five minutes of unaccounted time while driving home from Reading. The case was investigated by author Frank Johnson, working with hypnotherapist Geoffrey M’Cartney, following a referral from Jenny Randles of UFOIN (UFO Investigators’ Network). The account was published in Johnson’s 1980 book The Janos People, now out of print. This site hosts the full text of that book, along with Johnson’s closing “Open Letter to the Janos People,” under Related Cases below.
Special Features/Characteristics: Named crew members recalled by witnesses under hypnosis include Akilias, Anouxia, Uxiaulia, and Serkilias. Witnesses reported a badge or insignia motif of a downward-diverging beam worn on crew uniforms.
Summary/Description: According to the account compiled in Bibliotecapleyades’ “A-Z of Alien Species,” a group of refugees left the planet Janos centuries ago aboard a huge, roughly donut-shaped carrier vessel after an asteroid or meteor shower devastated the planet’s surface and triggered a chain-reaction failure across its nuclear power grid, releasing radiation into the atmosphere and into underground tunnels and cities built beneath the surface. The refugees are said to have retained knowledge of the star-route back to Earth and are now reportedly in high orbit near our planet, seeking contact with Earth governments to trade technology for a place to live, on or beneath the surface. That same source notes that, absent confirmation from other contactees, the account might represent a staged Draconian propaganda operation, though it may equally be genuine. This summary traces directly to the 1978 Oxfordshire case detailed above.
Source: Frank Johnson, The Janos People (1980, out of print — full text hosted on this site); Bibliotecapleyades, “A-Z of Alien Species Active in Earth’s Evolution”; Exopaedia, “Janos”; cross-referenced via Jake Muller, A Guide to ETs/Star Nations and Beings, Vol. 1 (2023).
Related Cases: The Janos People (full primary source text) · An Open Letter to the Janos People
DETAILED REPORT
The Janosian case rests on one of the more thoroughly documented contactee accounts in this archive: a full-length book, written by the investigator himself, with witness testimony gathered over thirteen months and more than seventy hours of recorded interview. On the night of 19 June 1978, a family of five — John, his wife Gloria, John’s sister Frances, and the two children Natasha and Tanya — were driving home to the Gloucester area after a family funeral in Reading when they noticed a light pacing their car near Faringdon, Oxfordshire. What followed, by the family’s account, was nearly an hour of missing time, later partially recovered through spontaneous dreams and, subsequently, hypnotic regression conducted by Gloucester hypnotherapist Geoffrey M’Cartney.
Under regression, the family described being lifted by a beam of light into a large disc-shaped craft, examined by crew in silver uniforms, and shown film and still imagery depicting the history of their home world. That history, as relayed to the family, describes a planet called Janos, orbited by two small moons. The inner moon, Saton, gradually spiraled inward until tidal forces broke it apart, raining debris onto the planet’s surface. The resulting impacts struck the planet’s nuclear power infrastructure, triggering a cascading chain-reaction of explosions that blanketed both the surface and the underground tunnel systems — where much of the population had sheltered — in lethal radioactive dust. A fleet already under construction in orbit, anchored around one immense ring-shaped flagship, evacuated as many survivors as could be reached before the fleet set course for Earth, a world the Janos people’s own history reportedly identified as an ancestral homeland.
The witnesses named several crew members under hypnosis — Akilias, who examined the children; Anouxia and Uxiaulia, who spoke respectively with John and Frances; and Serkilias. Frances recalled Uxiaulia stating that the refugee population was large enough “to fill one of your large cities,” which the investigating author took to mean roughly ten million people. The book closes with an open letter from the author to the Janos people, proposing possible resettlement locations and inviting further contact.
No government agency investigated the case. The Royal Air Force, contacted by the family shortly after the sighting, confirmed no aircraft had been operating in the area at the time. The case has not been independently corroborated by other contactees, and Bibliotecapleyades’ own compiled summary — which most closely matches the language used in earlier versions of this page — explicitly raises the possibility that the account could represent a staged deception rather than a genuine encounter.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
The Oxfordshire Ark — 1978 and the Anatomy of a Contactee Case
- Source Chain, Corrected: The summary paragraph carried on earlier versions of this page traces cleanly to Bibliotecapleyades’ “A-Z of Alien Species” compilation, which in turn compresses Frank Johnson’s 1980 book. That chain is now attributed properly. This is one of the few entries in the archive where the primary source — a full book, hosted in its entirety on this site — is directly available for cross-checking rather than inferred from secondhand summaries.
- Fabricated Data Removed: The previous version of this page included specific biometric measurements (height, weight, body temperature, pulse, blood pressure, life expectancy), a two-tier subspecies structure (“Ark-Guardians” and “Janos-Caste”), and a Kardashev-style “Level II” species classification. None of these appear in Johnson’s book, the Bibliotecapleyades compilation, Exopaedia, or Muller’s cross-reference. They have been removed.
- A Real Physical Description Conflict: Secondary compilations describe the Janos people as “oriental” in appearance. Johnson’s original 1978 case account describes them as Nordic-European, fair-haired and blue-eyed. This is a genuine inconsistency between the primary source and the secondary summaries built on top of it, and it is presented here as such rather than resolved in either direction.
- A Competing, Incompatible Account: Elena Danaan’s A Gift from the Stars describes a people she calls the Jadaii Anunakene, who she says originate in the Jada (Aldebaran) system and first made contact with a Terran psychic in 1919. This account shares only a destroyed planet supposedly once called “Janos” in common with the Oxfordshire case — the location, timeline, and contact circumstances are entirely different. It is noted here as a separate, unverified claim, not merged into this profile as fact.
- An Unresolved Research Thread: Exopaedia’s entry on the unrelated Norca case states that researcher Wendelle Stevens treated Janosian “immigrant” reports as a potentially genuine parallel case. This connection has not been independently verified against Stevens’ own published work and is flagged here as a lead for further research, not a confirmed fact.
This remains, by the standards of this archive, an unverified contactee account resting on hypnotic regression and the word of an anonymous family — but it is an unusually well-documented one, with a named investigator, a named hypnotherapist, and a full published record available for anyone who wants to check the case against its own source rather than a secondhand summary.
“There are enough of us to fill one of your large cities.”
— Uxiaulia, quoted by witness Frances in Frank Johnson’s The Janos People (1980)
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