Gloria Lee Byrd March 22, 1926 - December 3, 1962 was an American airline flight attendant and a follower of Oahspe who became part of the 1950s contactee movement in 1953. Lee, a native of Los Angeles, claimed to be in telepathic communication with an entity known as JW, who lived on the planet Venus, and began to assemble a book of his spiritual teachings as dictated to her. At his direction she founded the Cosmon Research Foundation for the purpose of publication and study of JW's superhuman wisdom, much of which bore some resemblance to the 1882 teachings of Oahspe.Membership in Lee's organization rose sharply after advertisements were regularly carried in Ray Palmer's monthly occult magazine Fate. She hit the contactee lecture circuit and attracted considerable public attention. During her lectures, Lee sold copies of her book of revelations, Why We Are Here! 1959. The year of her death, a second JW book was published, The Changing Conditions of Your World! 1962.She developed a pl