Phillip Krapf

Phillip Krapf is a former Pulitzer Prize-nominated editor at the Los Angeles Times who claimed to have been contacted by an extraterrestrial race he identified as "the Verdants," documenting his alleged experiences in The Contact Has Begun. As a guest on late-night radio, his unique background as a mainstream journalist lent an unusual credibility to his account and made his story one of the most intriguing contact narratives of the late 1990s.