In 1986, Omnec Onec published her autobiography, From Venus I Came. In just 280 pages, she rattled through a quite extraordinary life: her birth, 250 years previously, in the Venusian city of Teutonia; the day, in 1955, she arrived on Earth and assumed the identity of a young girl who had just died in a bus accident; and, crucially, the moment she remembered why she was here at all.

Onec claimed she’d been sent to Earth to spread a message of peace. It was certainly exciting stuff but even this otherworldly beauty, with her glossy hair, full lips and piercing eyes, had her troubles. “I found that cow-meat was difficult to chew at first,” she writes. “Some of it got stuck in my teeth.”