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Gloria Lee Byrd was an American airline flight attendant who was one of the most prominent figures of the contactee movement in the 1960s. She founded and lead the Cosmon Research Foundation, headquartered in Torrance, California. Lee claimed to receive automatic writing and later telepathic communications from a Venusian entity named J. W.; she wrote two books which she claimed were dictated to her through automatic writing. Her group had up to 2000 members.