Wayne Sulo Aho

Wayne Sulo Aho (August 24, 1916 – January 16, 2006) was one of the 1950s wave of contactees who claimed to have contact with extraterrestrial beings. He was one of several contactees of this period who appeared following George Adamski and Truman Bethurum. He later became involved in the New Age movement and founded a religious group, the Church of the New Age.

Early life Born in the state of Washington, on August 24, 1916, Aho was one of seven children of Finnish homesteaders and worked for most of his life as a logger. He was born simply "Sulo Aho" but the name led to him being constantly bullied by his classmates, and so changed his first name to Wayne. Contactee career Aho spoke mainly about a contact he claimed occurred in 1957.

Aho soon became involved with Otis T. Carr. Carr claimed to have built a functioning full-size flying saucer. After a suitable amount of money had been fleeced from gullible elderly attendees at Aho and Carr's lectures, they announced the Carr saucer, piloted by the two men, would take off from a fairground in front of thousands of witnesses and fly to the moon and back in a few hours, returning with incontrovertible proof of the trip. Criminal charges against both Aho and Carr resulted from the inevitable public fiasco, but Aho was later judged to be innocent, himself duped by Carr's improbable claims.