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The so-called “contactees” of the 1950s have always amused and fascinated me, since my childhood days. In recently scouring the internet for more information on these individuals, such as George Adamski, Truman Bethurum, Daniel Fry, Orfeo Angelucci, etc., etc., etc., I was very dismayed to see that 95% of what turned up was just various recyclings of Wikipedia entries, that in fact were almost all originally written by me! Talk about self-pollination! On this page I’d like to provide some sidelights to this amazing era— afterthoughts, new insights, and additional background. And at the same time I want to focus on some of the almost forgotten contributors to the “contactee” ferment that lasted roughly from 1953 to 1965.

GLORIA LEE stood out among the contactees of circa 1960 in more ways than one. First, she was female, and second, she was a beautiful brunette. She was employed as an airline stewardess until her marriage in 1952; she then began to take an interest in the claims of George Adamski to have met and talked with entirely human-appearing men from the planet Venus. Gloria Lee seems to have earlier studied the synthetic religion of Oahspe (1882), as devised by a character named J. B. Newbrough (1828 – 1891).

Newbrough’s holy text, created by him supposedly via automatic writing, falls about halfway in terms of content between Joseph Smith’s Book of Mormon (1830) and H. P. Blavatsky’s roughly contemporary Isis Unveiled (1877) and The Secret Doctrine (1885). As soon as Lee decided to make psychic contact with a space alien, she wound up communicating daily via automatic writing with an inhabitant of the planet Jupiter, known as J. W., whose teachings and wisdom bore a very marked resemblance to the teachings and wisdom of Oahspe. When J. W. transmitted plans for “a space vehicle,” Lee tried to bring them to the attention of “authorities in Washington DC,” with no success and with tragic consequences for Lee, who died in 1962 during a protest fast.

Before her death, Lee established the Cosmon Research Foundation to promote J. W.’s various ideas and teachings and provide practical applications. [Cosmon, aka Kosmon, is a term having meaning only within the religion of Oahspe, where it signifies something like “universe.”] Strangely, all of the wise Jupiter native’s ideas turned out to be completely worthless. Oahspe itself has very few followers these days, as well.

DANA HOWARD was a follower of spiritualism, and specifically of spirit medium Rev. Bertie Lilly Chandler. During one of Chandler’s weekly seances, in the mid 1950s, the Reverend accidentally managed to summon up and materialize a spectacularly beautiful, 8-foot-tall blonde Amazon from Venus, who immediately befriended Dana Howard. How spirit mediums, who professionally are supposed to communicate with the spirits of the dead, could materialize a living native of the planet Venus, did not seem to puzzle Howard or anyone else in the congregation.

Perhaps the Venusians, as taught by Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophy, are so spiritually advanced that they coexist as “pure spirit” and as living being! Howard soon learned to communicate with the Venusian, Diane, simply by laying down and closing her eyes. She also conveniently “remembered” past meetings with Diane, stretching back to her childhood, when she had been carried to Venus in the flesh in a flying saucer made of transparent crystal. Naturally, after some additional instruction by Diane, she was eventually able to visit Venus herself at will via astral projection. 

Howard was a prolific author, publishing something like eight different Venusian wisdom books or pamphlets between 1954 and 1964. However, I find virtually no information on the Internet about her. Too bad, because I would particularly like to know if she ever met four other infamous Venusian women, Jill,ViVenus,Christina and Onmec Onec! [And that’s not even counting the wife of Howard Menger.] Or even the amazingly, exotically beautiful Dolores Barrios, who by accident resembled a painting of a Venusian that Adamski often exhibited during his talks.

HOWARD MENGER followed so closely in the footsteps of George Adamski that he often seemed to be consciously or unconsciously parodying him. While Adamski talked and telepathed to and chummed about with Venusians, Menger said he had married one! He was also given the secret of a perpetual motion machine (which, oddly enough, never seemed to work), a sure-fire extraterrestrial weight-loss diet, and new methods of farming! In his most amazing feat, he even brought back music as composed and performed on the planet Saturn, re-created by him for a 33-1/3 rpm LP record album, which he sold during his lecture tours. Occasionally (for example in 1960)

Menger would confess in public, during an interview, that he was obviously making it all up— again, perhaps following in the footsteps of Adamski, who was fond of shocking new acquaintances by confessing in private that he was inventing everything connected with his contactee claims… for a good cause, of course, namely the popularization of the profound teachings of the various religious cults he had led since the 1930s. It is possible that Menger played a key role in a famous contactee hoax, involving self-proclaimed Venusian ambassador Valiant Thor. Menger was the only one of the 1950s contactees to live into the 21th Century, dying at the age of 87 in 2009, and still publishing saucer books almost to the very end.  If you search, you can find some YouTube interviews that he and his wife did during the past decade.

ORFEO ANGELUCCI always seemed to make the best impression in person of any of the mid-1950s contactees. The general impression I get from reading accounts of these gentlemen’s interview and platform styles is that George Van Tassel made the worst overall impression, speaking in a strained voice and never making eye contact with the audience (I diagnose stage-fright), while founding father George Adamski was always genial and laid-back, but Orfeo (also known as Orville) Angelucci radiated enthusiasm, sincerity and humility, in a very winning combination. 

It didn’t hurt that Orville was thin and aesthetic-looking.  The usual contactee was a taxi-driver, mechanic or sign-painter in daily life, and it always showed. Angelucci didn’t found his own religious cult, unlike most of the contactees, but he did use his space-brotherly communications to give validation to the many strange ideas about physics, astronomy and biology that he had been “working on” for decades before his initial contact claims.

GEORGE ADAMSKI is shown here with fellow Theosophist and contactee Dan Fry (with camera) at the third of George Van Tassel’s Giant Rock Saucer Conventions, in 1955, and with Theosophist and co-author Desmond Leslie (seated) during a 3-month visit to Adamski’s California home in 1954. As the Godfather of the Contactee movement, Adamski exhibited a charming “let a hundred flowers bloom” attitude. Instead of treating the contactees whose claims followed almost immediately upon his own as competitors and upstarts, he was generally sympathetic and supportive when he met them in person. Truman Bethurum was particularly nervous about meeting Adamski, since his claims weren’t really in any way compatible with Adamski’s, but he nevertheless got a warm welcome when he and his wife very hesitantly paid a visit to Adamski’s Palomar Gardens commune.  The only 1950s contactee Adamski didn’t seem to approve of was (inevitably) George Van Tassel.

TRUMAN BETHURUM— In time order, Bethurum was the second in line of the 1950s contactees, and he seemed to want to make his account as different from Adamski’s pioneering story as possible. While it is difficult to rank the contactee stories according to level of absurdity, since they are all at some level utterly absurd, still the stories of Bethurum and of Buck Nelson stand out as falling far into the decidedly comic category. This uncredited illustration from Gavin Gibbons’ They Rode in Space Ships captures the comic aspects pretty well. The saucer’s crew of spacemen, according to Bethurum were dressed “like bus drivers,” while the Captain of the particular small saucer he was invited inside was a beautiful and sexy woman who dressed in terrestrial style and spoke standard English, but in rhyme.

The artist has for some reason given her a halo! Bethurum was the first of the contactees to establish what soon became the standard “repeater” pattern— that is, he said he had had regular visits from and conversations with the space people, up to a dozen by the time he hesitantly visited George Adamski.  Bethurum was  nearly the only contactee who didn’t base his story in whole or part on Theosophical lore, especially lore about the planet Venus and its godlike inhabitants.

GEORGE VAN TASSEL tended not to make a good impression when speaking about his Venusian contact experiences, and especially when “channeling via tensor-ray beam” messages from various Cosmic Masters of Wisdom such as Ashtar and Solgunda; this unintentionally very comical performance was a regular feature of his Giant Rock, CA flying saucer conventions held yearly from 1953 to 1978. Apart from Giant Rock itself, and George’s cafe, the only attraction in the vicinity was George’s Integratron, a small building shaped vaguely like an astronomical observatory.

The secret of its construction was, of course, supplied by the Masters of Wisdom, aka the Council of Seven Lights, but somehow it never seemed to get finished, and what it was supposed to do once finished was left extremely vague. James Moseley, the great historian of what he aptly calls Ufoolology, explained why the conventions came to an end: “What killed it was that there were a lot of hard-ass bikers showing up and raising hell and it wasn’t the sort of gentle, New Age crowd that Van Tassel was catering to, and he sort of got tired of it. While it was going on, it was a wonderful circus, with thousands of people, each on their own wavelength, who would come out there and camp. He wouldn’t charge them, except if they ate food at the diner he had out there. He didn’t really make a lot of money on it, he was just a nice guy, and I really liked him.” 

Van Tassel died about a year after the final convention was held. Attendee Gregory Bishop gives the following sample of what Van Tassel’s sessions were like: The speaker’s makeshift platform stood high against Giant Rock itself. The interminable preparations came to an end and George Van Tassel climbed up to speak. Shortly, he was heard to say, “Yes, we are here. Who am I talking to?”For several minutes listeners heard only a one-sided conversation. “NOW who am I talking to? Well, somebody else keeps butting in! CONFOUND IT, YOU KEEP SWITCHING AROUND ON ME! Let’s settle on who is to do the talking tonight!”

Suddenly, Van Tassel began speaking in a loud, harsh voice which identified itself as ‘Knut’.”I AM KNUT. I BRING YOU LOVE.”Knut proceeded to tell the assembled party that he was stationed in a “300-foot supply ship, approximately 200 miles to the south, and 5260 feet high.” When the group [turned] to look for this miraculous craft, they were rewarded with nothing more than the beauty of the desert night and a few shooting stars.

GEORGE KING— 1956 ~ British taxi driver and yoga enthusiast, came a bit late to the Contactee Circus, making his first claims in 1956, but he quickly founded a fairly successful religion, which continues to the present day, and got his followers involved in some unique ways in various highly original projects. In one of the efforts, which occupied 1958 through 1961, King was obeying the commands of the Cosmic Masters of Wisdom to climb something like 18 small peaks, all very conveniently located in Great Britain, so he could use his powers as a “channel” to charge these pinnacles with pure cosmic energy.

These mountains are apparently now safe for all to climb and sit down to meditate and absorb or send out their own energies. However, there’s no definitive list anywhere of specifically which peaks were energized, or even how many. King’s most famous innovation, very likely, was the Prayer Battery. It looks like a small empty box, but for many years, in regular services, scores of followers charged the prayer battery by directing toward it all manner of powerful prayers and mantras.

This collective energy should be able to alleviate all the evils, miseries and disasters of the world, but somehow it never has. King died in 1997 at the age of 78, and without his continual guidance, his official cult, the Aetherius Society, has pretty much gone adrift. The official web page has not been updated since 2006.If you’re interested, the principles of his cult as laid down by King are the usual mix of Theosophy [which seems to be at the basic core of all the 1950s contactee messages] and pantheism, but it also incorporates a variety of other New Age beliefs, plus a few quirks unique to King himself. Alice A. Bailey has a lot to answer for, since her fingerprints are all over the typical spectrum of beliefs of most of the UFO religious cults, including King’s.

FRANCES SWAN ~ 1954. Frances was certainly among the most obscure of the classic 1950s contactees, those ill-assorted individuals who claimed to have established direct personal contact, or some other form of regular communication, with friendly extraterrestrials. When Mrs. Swan came to the attention of flying saucer researchers in 1954 she was a housewife living in Eliot, Maine, reportedly not too far from later contactee/abductee Betty Hill. Mrs. Swan, like a number of other 1950s contactees, particularly women, used somewhat esoteric methods in her communications with space aliens.

While others used the Ouija board or trance channeling, Mrs. Swan used the spirit-medium’s old standby, automatic writing. In April 1954, Mrs. Swan began to receive messages from Affa of Uranus, who was in command of spaceship M-4 currently orbiting the earth, and later from Ponnar, commander of another orbiting ship, L-11. (The names of Mrs. Swan’s extraterrestrial contacts suggest that she had just finished reading The Saucers Speak (1954), by George Hunt Williamson and Alfred J. Bailey, which reports Ouija-board contacts with dozens of space aliens, including Affa and Ponnar.) Mrs. Swan’s Affa had the usual Space-Brotherly messages from his “Universal Association of Planets,” such as that earthmen needed to be sternly warned against further experimentation with nuclear weapons.

Surviving letters from Mrs. Swan to highly gullible Canadian saucer researcher Wilbert B. Smith indicate she was hostile to most of the other 1950s contactees, and particularly to George Van Tassel. She later claimed to have once met Affa in the flesh, when he walked into the Grange Hall in Eliot which she was decorating for a party, and conversed for a few moments about generalities, back in the fall of 1953. At that time he did not identify himself as either Affa or a space alien. Swan happened to live next door to a retired USN Admiral, Herbert B. Knowles, and used him as a connection to try to bring Affa’s messages to the attention of the US government. [Knowles inevitably later got involved with Betty and Barney Hill.] When Affa conspicuously failed, on June 10, 1954, either to appear personally or to make a radio broadcast, as promised to officials through Mrs. Swan, Affa’s five minutes of fame seemed to be over.

Perhaps he felt a sense of desperation when on July 28, 1954 he revealed that “This earth is really going to end as stated in the Holy Bible around 1956.” Affa’s messages generally had the same total and complete lack of coherent content as the standard communications from the spirit world conveyed by mediums in the period 1850 – 1940. A sample: “Hello folks…. Always remember I do not work through any forces like the spirits or feelings of compulsion on the part of anyone…. Never fear— do as you please. All I ask is that you stand by. All is the same as it has been. Now off, love, Affa.”

Affa’s somewhat testy remarks about “spirits” and “feelings of compulsion” were apparently triggered by the fact that a number of other individuals near the US-Canada border, including Wilbert Smith himself, had started “receiving” their very own messages signed “Affa,” via automatic writing, Ouija board or trance channeling.  Attempts to contact the friendly aliens by shortwave radio had been pioneered by George Hunt Williamson, but always resulted in pops and static being proclaimed to be Morse code, which when transcribed oddly enough never seemed to make any sense whatsoever.

Frances Swan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Swan

The Frances Swan story is a 20th-century legend of a Maine housewife who, in 1954, claims to receive messages from extra-terrestrials via automatic writing.^[1] Allegedly instructed by the messages to contact the Navy, the housewife reaches out to her next door neighbor, a retired admiral, who arranges for Naval investigators to interview the woman. Using automatic writing, naval investigators summon a UFO.^[2]

The story was publicized in a 1974 film hosted by Rod Serling (of Twilight Zone fame). Later accounts would label the housewife as “Frances Swan” and the Admiral as “Herbert Bain Knowles“.^[3][4]

The story would become widespread in UFO folklore, featuring in the writings of ufologists including Stanton Friedman and Jacques Vallee.^[5]

Initial narrative[edit]

In the 1974 film UFOs: Past, Present, and Future,^[6] retired Lt. Col. Robert Friend, former head of Project Bluebook, relates that “a retired Rear Admiral had information about a woman in upper Maine that purported to have contact with extraterrestrial beings. Two Naval Intelligence officers were sent to investigate. The naval officers met with the woman and she went into a trance, supposedly to establish contact with the purported extraterrestrials, and then they asked her scientific and technical questions that a woman of her education could not possibly know the answers to. Yet as the questions were put to her, she was able to answer easily, with seeming-telepathic help from these extraterrestrials.”^[2][7]

Friend reports the supposed-‘extraterrestrials’ allegedly identified by names such as “Affa of Uranus”, “Crill”, and “Ponnar”; Affa and Ponnar were names that had been featured in The Saucers Speak (1954) by alleged-contactee George Hunt Williamson.^[8]

Friend continued “Then an unexpected turn took place. One of the naval officers was informed by the woman that they, the extraterrestrials, were willing to answer questions directly through him, a Naval Commander and Intelligence officer with no prior experience in telepathic communication. He took over and attempted to write down the answers to questions put to him by his fellow naval officer.”^[2]

Friend tells of a subsequent incident involving this officer: “The group asked if they could see a spaceship and the Commander, still in a trance, told them to go to the window where they would have proof. The group moved to the window where they supposedly observed a UFO”.^[2]

Subsequent lore[edit]

The story was later featured in a 1979 issue of Second Look magazine and a 1980 book.^[9][10][11] The housewife was labeled “Frances Swan” in Jerome Clark‘s 1992 book The Emergence of a Phenomenon–UFOs from the Beginning Through 1959 and other subsequent publications.^[8][12][13]

In 2003, ufologist Grant Cameron released documents purportedly from the Swan incident.^[14][15] In 2007, ufologist Stanton Friedman reported that Admiral Knowles had attempted to introduce Swan to UFO abductees Betty and Barney Hill, but Swan refused. Betty Hill recalled:

“A few miles from Portsmouth is a woman who claims she is in contact with the occupants of UFOs, through automatic writing. Almost daily she sits and receives messages. Although she and I share some of the same friends, we have never met. She refuses to meet me, for she believes that Barney and I met the wrong ones—the evil ones, the ones of wrong vibrations. Hers are different types, who are kind, loving, concerned for all; who give her messages of brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. Barney and I both agreed that we had never seen those of a different vibration! But, in those days, we had never heard of George Adamski.”^[16]

The Swan story has been featured in the writings of Nick Redfern, Brent Raynes, and numerous others.^{[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]} The Swan story was the basis for a 2013 episode of the series Wisdom Teachings.^[24]

References[edit]

1. ^ Clark, Jerome (June 1, 2010). Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds. Visible Ink Press. ISBN 9781578593385 – via Google Books.
2. ^ Jump up to:^a b c d “UFOs: Past, Present, and Future (1974) – IMDb” – via www.imdb.com.
3. ^ Friedman, Stanton T.; Marden, Kathleen (April 1, 2021). Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience (60th Anniversary Edition): The True Story of the World’s First Documented Alien Abduction. Red Wheel/Weiser. ISBN 9781632657480 – via Google Books.
4. ^ “A Contactee Album!”. web2.ph.utexas.edu.
5. ^ Vallee, Jacques (September 1, 1992). Forbidden Science: Journals, 1957-1969. North Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781556431258 – via Google Books.
6. ^ “UFO’s (It Has Begun) Past, Present, and Future Documentary” – via www.youtube.com.
7. ^ Collins, Paul D.; Collins, Phillip D. (November 22, 2020). Invoking the Beyond:: The Kantian Rift, Mythologized Menaces, and the Quest for the New Man. iUniverse. ISBN 9781663213549 – via Google Books.
8. ^ Jump up to:^a b Clark, Jerome (September 1, 1992). The Emergence of a Phenomenon–UFOs from the Beginning Through 1959. Omnigraphics. ISBN 9781558887411 – via Google Books.
9. ^ Second Look magazine (Vol. 1, No. 12) Randall Fitzgerald
10. ^ Roberts, Anthony; Gilbertson, Geoff (September 1, 1980). The Dark Gods. Rider/Hutchinson. ISBN 9780091387709 – via Google Books.
11. ^ Wilson, Robert Anton (September 1, 1977). Final secret of the illuminati. Falcon Press. ISBN 9781561840038 – via Google Books.
12. ^ Christopher, Paul (September 1, 1998). Alien Intervention: The Spiritual Mission of UFOs. Huntington House Publishers. ISBN 9781563841484 – via Google Books.
13. ^ Fitzgerald, Randall (September 1, 1998). Cosmic Test Tube: Extraterrestrial Contact, Theories & Evidence. Moon Lake Media. ISBN 9780963916129 – via Google Books.
14. ^ https://www.turbulence.org/studios/crawford/38_messages.pdf^{[bare URL PDF]}
15. ^ Crawford, David (August 1, 2008). 38 Messages from Space: The Wilbert Smith Archives Remixed. David Crawford. ISBN 9781438263403 – via Google Books.
16. ^ Friedman, Stanton T. (January 28, 2009). Captured!: The Betty and Barney Hill Ufo Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition. ReadHowYouWant.com. ISBN 9781442961692 – via Google Books.
17. ^ “Contacting Extraterrestrials by Automatic Writing – Allegedly | Mysterious Universe”. mysteriousuniverse.org.
18. ^ Redfern, Nicholas; Redfern, Nick (August 1, 2013). Final Events and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife. Anomalist Books. ISBN 9781938398117 – via Google Books.
19. ^ “AP Magazine”. www.apmagazine.info.
20. ^ Joyce, Judith (January 1, 2011). The Weiser Field Guide to the Paranormal: Abductions, Apparitions, ESP, Synchronicity, and More Unexplained Phenomena from Other Realms. Weiser Books. ISBN 9781609252984 – via Google Books.
21. ^ Martinelli, Michel Zirger and Maurizio (February 9, 2016). The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson: Mystical Journey. Verdechiaro Edizioni. ISBN 9788866232612 – via Google Books.
22. ^ Holcombe, Larry (March 17, 2015). The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to Obama. St. Martin’s Publishing Group. ISBN 9781466835870 – via Google Books.
23. ^ Gooch, Stan (February 7, 2007). The Origins of Psychic Phenomena: Poltergeists, Incubi, Succubi, and the Unconscious Mind. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781594777486 – via Google Books.
24. ^ “”Wisdom Teachings” The fifth kind (TV Episode 2015) – IMDb” – via www.imdb.com.

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DOROTHY MARTIN became infamous under the “name-changed-to-protect-the-guilty” cognomen of Marion Keech, in the pioneering sociological study When Prophecy Fails (1956). Martin was born in 1900 near Mt. Shasta, CA, and quickly fell under the spell of the I AM religious cult founded by Guy and Edna Ballard. She went on from I AM to more mainstream Theosophy, to the variant teachings of Alice A. Bailey, and on again by the 1940s to various other crazes of the day, such as L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics, but after reading Truman Bethurum’s first contactee book she turned to automatic writing to communicate with the spiritually-advanced Wise Men of the planet Clarion.

The resulting messages from “Sananda” (a formerly VenusianTheosophical guru who was once incarnated under the more familiar name Jesus) made Martin the titular leader of a small religious cult, the Seekers. By this time she was a housewife in suburban Chicago, where the newspapers found space for her most infamous prediction from Clarion, that the earth would be destroyed on December 21, 1954. Needless to say, members of the Seekers who followed certain simple rules would be saved, when a saucer from Clarion landed in Mrs. Martin’s back yard just before the end, to take everyone on board.  Nothing happened, of course, and the Seeker membership gradually dwindled away as Mrs. Martin’s messages from Clarion became ever more vague and inconsequential— one might say she had learned her lesson.

Dorothy Martin becomes very difficult to trace through the next few years. A rumor that she was going to be arrested and confined to a mental hospital spread through her acquaintances and followers, and she dropped out of sight. Sources disagree as to where she spent the next 10 years. One report is that she moved to Arizona, renewed her interest in Dianetics and went on to get involved with Hubbard’s infamous Church of Scientology.

Her own later claim was that she spent years in Peru trying to help contactee pied piper George Hunt Williamson set up a monastery! Those who were actually with Williamson in Peru don’t recall Martin; Williamson spent most of his time wandering around looking fruitlessly for traces of ancient cities built by Cosmic Masters of Wisdom, as guided by jungle Ouija-board sessions. However, Martin did definitely know Williamson, and she learned a major life lesson from him… to start over, you have to change your name… as many times as necessary. [Williamson became known after the 1950s under a variety of assumed names, including Brother Philip.]

However Martin spent the decade, she came back strong, popping back into public sight in Arizona in 1965 as Sister Thedra, and founding a new religion, the Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara, yet another variant of the already-variant-Theosophical dogmas that almost all of the classic 1950s contactees were using as an underlying basis for the Masterly Wisdom communicated to them by Space-Brotherly sources.

Breathlessly she related to new converts that while she had been in South America somewhere, or maybe Yucatan, she had suddenly developed incurable cancer and that almost at once, good old Sananda had appeared in the flesh to heal her completely, and to permit his photograph to be taken! You will be disappointed to see, if you look up the photo on the internet, that it’s just a standard pencil sketch of the standard Sunday-School version of Jesus. It’s not even autographed! After relocating the cult from Arizona to her old stomping grounds near Mt. Shasta, she relocated it yet again, this time to Sedona, Arizona, where she continued in the role of Cosmic Mother Superior and Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel for the rest of her long life, dying at the ripe old age of 92.

WILLIAM DUDLEY PELLEY had a significant impact on the early 1950s contactee movement, although it’s difficult to document from surviving sources just how the influences flowed to and from Pelley. At about 20, Pelley entered journalism as a career, editing small-circulation magazines and small-town newspapers, eventually becoming a mildly-famous foreign correspondent in the days immediately following World War I. Upon his return to the US, he started a new career writing novels, short stories and silent film scripts; you can find his fiction in many large-circulation slick and pulp magazines in the 1920 – 30 era.

In 1928, he asserted that he had been spiritually transported to Heaven for 7 minutes, where he was greeted warmly in person by all three members of the Trinity, and returned to found a new religion that was a bizarre mix of fundamentalist Christianity, Spiritualism, Theosophy and Theocracy. The Theosophy he had probably picked up during his years in Hollywood. There was practically a revolving-door relationship between Pelley’s cult and the I AM cult created by Guy and Edna Ballard. Pelley also had many bizarre political and social ideas, not completely dissimilar to ones espoused by current congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul. Pelley took Adolf Hitler as a particular inspiration and as a role model, and in 1933 he founded the Silver Legion, aka the Silver Shirts, a militant fascist organization, as well as a political party, the Christian Party.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the US entry into World War II, saw Pelley disbanding the Silver Legion. But he had continued to issue a variety of magazines and newsletters throughout the interval of 1928 – 1942, and most of these publications called for some overthrow of the U.S. government by peaceful or violent means; convicted of sedition and insurrection, Pelley spent 1942 – 1949 in a federal prison. Once out, Pelley promptly founded a new organization known as Soulcraft, with regular newsletters, magazines and pamphlets galore, and he also quickly wrote and published a seminal but little-remembered work called Star Guests (1950), which consists almost entirely of communications via automatic writing from intelligences on other planets, and seems to constitute the first appearance in print of many now-familiar pseudoscience themes that were developed by others in tremendous elaboration between 1952 and the 1970s.

From his prison release until his death in 1965 at the age of 75, Pelley tended to dial back a bit on direct far-right-wing commentary on political and social topics. Instead, he continued as a regular champion of Theosophical Spiritualism and practitioner of automatic writing, communicating interchangeably with both godlike spirit entities and spiritually advanced beings of other planets, thereby profoundly influencing George Hunt Williamson (who worked on the small staff producing Pelley’s newsletters), George Adamski, Dorothy Martin, and many others in the very early (1952 – 6) days of Contactee fever.

Almost everything I have found on the internet about Pelley is either wrong, garbled or incomplete. Only one scholarly biography of him exists, which I haven’t seen. If scholarly biographies of George Adamski and George Hunt Williamson are ever written, we might discover that Pelley was the unsung creator of and direct stimulus for the entire Contactee movement of the early 1950s.

AUTOMATIC WRITING appears so often as a medium of communication on this page that a short history of it is advisable, particularly since I can’t find any good discussion of it anywhere on the internet. During the half-century from 1850 to 1900, the craze of Spiritualism swept the world, and spirit mediums scrambled to find an efficient yet impressive means of creating the illusion that the “information” they conveyed to sitters did come from a supernatural source rather than the medium herself. [Almost all the famous mediums were female, with a few notable male exceptions such as Henry Slade and Daniel Home.] One early solution was the stylus planchette. This was a miniature table, which rolled easily on top of the table around which the sitters were seated. The medium, and one or two other sitters, placed their fingers lightly atop the planchette, and a piece of paper was pinned to the tabletop.

Then, once spirits were contacted, the planchette began to move apparently on its own and actually write messages on the paper… messages from the Spirit Realm! In practice, this turned out to be fairly clumsy, so various mediums began simply to hold a fountain pen directly in their hands, but in an unusual grip, or using a specially-made holder. The medium then simply wrote the spirit messages straightforwardly on a piece of paper, which she held fixed with her other hand. The final evolution of the scam was for the medium just to hold the fountain pen normally and write normally, while going through the ritual of establishing communication with a specific spirit before beginning the writing. However, there was a parallel development, which has never been very popular among mediums. 

Typewriters were evolving rapidly throughout the 19th Century, and by the post-Civil-War era, male American mediums like J. B. Newbrough, the creator of Oasphe, were doing their automatic writing efficiently, legibly and rapidly on the typewriter!Use of a typewriter actually solves a problem that mediums encountered when faced with intelligent and/or skeptical sitters. It was easy to see that if an opaque barrier were placed between the medium’s face and her hand doing the writing, the writing quickly devolved into an unintelligible scrawl, indicating to all but the most stupid that it was the medium herself and not some imaginary supernatural source, producing the messages. However, once the typewriter keyboard design had been standardized, it was easy to learn to type by touch, which meant that the typist did not need to be able to see the keyboard or his or her fingers in order to type texts. [Of course this raised the separate question of how a spirit dead for many years, or a space alien from another planet, knew how to type rapidly on a late 19th or early 20th Century typewriter!]

Throughout the 20th Century, female mediums have almost invariably preferred the traditional versions of automatic writing for sitters, using either the increasingly rare fountain pen, or an ordinary pencil if necessary. [Fountain pens are still the most popular devices for the purpose, since they can be adjusted to require little or no pressure between pen tip and paper to provide a bold, legible line.] I haven’t yet encountered automatic e-mails, or automatic text messages from the Spirit Realm or the Space Brothers… but it may be only a matter of time.

Some books by George Adamski: –Questions and Answers by The Royal Order Of Tibet (1936) –Wisdom of the Masters of the Far East (1936) –Pioneers of Space: A Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus (science fiction, 1949) –Flying Saucers Have Landed (with Desmond Leslie, 1953) –Many Mansions (1955) –Inside The Space Ships (1956) –Telepathy: The Cosmic or Universal Language (1958) –Flying Saucers Farewell (1961) –Cosmic Philosophy (1961)

Some books by Dana Howard: –My Flight To Venus (1954) –Diane: She Came From Venus (1956) –Over the Threshold (1957) –The Strange Case of T. Lobsang Rampa (1958) –Vesta, the Earthborn Venusian (1959) –Up Rainbow Hill (1959) –The Keys to the Citadel of Space (1960) –The Kingdom of Space (1963)

Some books by George King: –You Are Responsible! (1961) –The Nine Freedoms (1963) –The Day The Gods Came (1964) –You Too Can Heal (1976)

Some books by Truman Bethurum: –Aboard a Flying Saucer (1954) –The Voice of the Planet Clarion (1957) –Facing Reality (1958) –Messages from the People of the Planet Clarion (1970)

by Ed Komarek

from ExopoliticsBlogspot Website

Here’s another excellent article by Ed Komarek. It deals with the contactee movement and the need to revisit the extensive data supporting it, while also being mindful of the propaganda that was aimed to discredit it.In my view, the contactee movement became a high priority target of the Psychological Strategy Board (PSB) which was an interagency body created in 1951 that reported directly to the National Security Council.

The PSB and its 1953 successor, the Operations Coordinating Board (OCB) had as their chief target of covert psychological warfare not the communist movement, but the growing contactee movement which was a direct threat to the national security effort to cover up the visitation of extraterrestrial life.A secret counterintelligence program to discredit and/or skew information concerning extraterrestrial life has been occurring for well over five decades. It’s about time we begin to expose the alien COINTELPRO and what was done to discredit many individuals who had contact with friendly extraterrestrial visitors.
Michael Salla, Ph.D.

Part 1
The 1950s Contactee Movement Revisited

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Howard Menger Revisited
November 08, 2007

I read a lot of contactee stories from the 1950’s when I first got interested in UFO/ET as a young man. I did not know what to make of these stories and just moved on. Now that I am much older and have quite a lot of experience under my belt I found myself rereading the book, From Outer Space by Howard Menger.

As we all know these contactee stories were heavily debunked in the 1950’s and 1960’s and to a point where most mainstream UFO investigators to this day easily dismiss these cases of human extraterrestrial infiltration into our society.

I believe this is a big mistake.

1. First, the very fact knowing what we know now about the propaganda campaign propagated against the public since the 1940’s ought to be cause enough to revisit these old cases.
2. Second, in light of current knowledge of human ET encounter cases and a possible meeting between human ET’s and Eisenhower in 1955 is another reason to take a good look at these old cases.
3. Third, I have local contactee friends that have been providing me with stories for many years that are no different from these old contact cases. The only difference between these newer local cases and the very public cases of the 1950’s is that the human ET’s seem to have changed tactics in light of resistance from earth humans as well as some other races that have been troubling them and us.
4. Forth, this discussion of tight fitting ET flight suits having a slight glow with invisible pockets, a kind of small square image recording device that fits into the palm of the hand and projects a holographic image, electromagnetic propulsion systems, doors on craft that just open up and are invisible when not open, view screens etc. all compare well to what we know today about ET technology from crash retrievals.

This image recording device seems similar to the device that holds a ET history known as the Yellow Book.

Something else I have not heard anywhere is that the ET men don’t have a problem with facial hair on their worlds but when on earth for awhile they have to shave. Menger remarked that on his moon trip his facial hair quit growing. What could be causing this effect I have no idea but it could be important.

From what I am hearing from my local contactee sources is that extensive contact and infiltration into earth human society has continued unabated since the 1940’s. What is different today from the 1950’s is that what once was a very overt infiltration has morphed and gone underground due to resistance from world military, economic and government elites. From what I am hearing is that the human ET’s intent to turn things around on earth has not wavered even though tactics have had to be modified so as to adapt to changing external conditions.

It also seems that there continues to be a high turnover rate amongst individual ET’s with earth educated ET’s being constantly replaced with new recruits. I am speculating that there are two reasons for this, one being the stress involved, and the other being growing interest in earth affairs by more ET individuals and groups.

Howard Menger gives a very broad perspective on extraterrestrial humans and their relationship to earth’s indigenous people. He is saying that there are different human races living in parallel worlds around other planets, moons and the sun of our solar system as well as elsewhere about the universe. One of the main criticisms by the uninformed and skeptical is that the rest of the solar systems seems to be inhospitable to life at least complex life forms.

But Menger makes it clear that these ET humans are living not in our dimension around the inhospitable planets, moons and sun, but in other hidden to us dimensions. It looks to me that maybe what we have are habitable finite dimensional shells or zones around large accumulations of mass that are held together by some processes of gravitation and quantum entanglement.

I have heard of speculations by physicists that gravity is weak because it is holding together mass in other dimensions. Menger talks about being in orbit around the moon for 10 days according to his watch having his body adjusted on a molecular and atomic level before setting foot on a inhabited moon. This compares well to what some of the Rama folks in Peru have been saying since the 1970’s, that their human ET contacts go in and out of other dimensions even here on earth. There is some really interesting physics going on that physicists should be taking a good look at.

But Menger’s broad view is even broader and he says that his ET friends tell him that all these parallel worlds are connected and that souls transmigrate between these different parallel worlds. He is talking about this way back in the 1950’s and in a big way on the Long John Nebel radio show that reached millions of people just as George Norey and Art Bell do today.

While we can see from cases like the 1958 Fontes Briefing that the military was freaking out about a ongoing alien invasion and trying to shoot down craft and mostly getting shot down themselves in the process, while Howard is helping his human ET friends infiltrate into earth society. He is cutting their hair, getting them earth clothes, briefing them on local ever-changing language, going about helping them install transceivers about the country that have a range about 25 miles to monitor earth humans etc.

He says his ET’s are vegetarians, the men don’t like having their shoulder length hair cut off and the ET women can’t stand bras. The only time he knew them to be really upset and angry was when they themselves were being infiltrated both by earth humans and it seems at least one other ET race causing them and their contactees a lot of trouble.

In fact a contactee friend of mine believes that things have only gotten worse over the years with some troublesome ET’s and that this friend thinks an ET war may be brewing.

Other than that the human ET’s are keeping a lower profile, not much has changed in regard to their activities and their long range plans of earth humanity. My friend said that a mutual contactee friend even got clothes for his ET’s so they could walk around Walmart and feel and touch things.

Another contactee that I know about says he calls some ET’s stupid ET’s because they have had to ask about simple things like what is Christmas? Its obvious that many ET humans are still dropping in cold turkey without going through any formal courses on earth affairs. What does seem to have changed is that human ET’s now favor involvement and infiltration with lower economic social classes because when people talk it won’t be taken seriously causing them security problems. Social class divisions restrict information flow to the military and economic elite that give the ET’s trouble.

Its even kind of funny in that all this infiltration and interaction with earth humans is happening right under the military’s arrogant noses, right around their military bases where they engage in cat and mouse games with ET craft and have their Blue Beret Teams stationed. It seems that our military has all this hard power just as Fulford claims but little soft power.

Our military is enamored with technology and it is getting us into no end of trouble even in terrestrial affairs. This all makes our military and intelligence community look like the Keystone Cops when compared against the ET military and intelligence community. America’s terrestrial HUMIT intelligence is pretty bad but it would seem that extraterrestrial HUMIT intelligence is even worse.

Those of us that have taken the trouble to become informed have seen plenty of cases of human ET’s involved in earth affairs, so all this infiltration should come as no surprise.

Even Bob Dean has commented that the military brass at NATO were very upset at these human ET’s that look just like us infiltrating our planet. Its obvious from the Fontes Briefing, The Three Star General Report and other cases that the military was very paranoid about this in the 1950’s and 1960’s with a reactionary faction of the military even today just as paranoid, dangerous and delusional. This mentality about shooting first and asking questions later is pretty dangerous and stupid if you ask me.

I thought Menger was quite clear about the motives of his ET friends and that it was in their and our self interest to turn things around on earth. In light of the much bigger picture of soul migration and the interconnectiveness of these parallel dimensional worlds this makes since. It would seem that earth human devolution is harming others in the cosmic neighborhood in ways that are difficult for us to understand and the celestial humans are determined to get things straightened out here even if they have to fight us and other troublesome ET’s in the process.

In fact other UFO investigators are beginning to comment that there are just too many crashes for it to just be due to equipment malfunction. Not only are earth forces still fighting with some ET groups but ET groups seem to be fighting amongst themselves not only around earth but on a much wider universal scope. Why should we think conflict ends with us when we see conflicts between predators and prey all through the natural world.

If the world’s military and economic elite would just observe more and act less, things would be better for everybody concerned. But no, earth humans have to make it hard not just on themselves but on everybody else as well.

So what is new? The immensity and reality of the situation is just mind boggling for anybody who tries to get a handle on it both inside and outside of government.

As usual our worst enemy is ourselves!




Part 2

The 1950s Contactee Movement Revisited
November 10, 2007

It has been apparent to me for some time that the evolving Exopolitical movement of the new century has its roots in the contactee movement of the 1950s. It’s important for us to understand those roots and the underlying evolutionary forces that drove the contactee movement of the 1950s and which is also driving the resurgence of UFO/ET activism in the new century.

I recently wrote an article on Howard Menger and am now working my way through one of my old books on Adamski. It’s called, UFO… George Adamski, Their Man On Earth, by Lou Zinsstag.

Lou was a friend of Adamski, and the niece of Carl Jung.

She was a contactee herself, but only one of many contactees in a network of which Adamski, Howard Menger, George Van Tassel and Daniel Fry were the most publicly prominent. It is becoming very clear to me that this earth human network was linked in a very complex way to a very large extraterrestrial human network.

While several contactees were very public, there were a large number of other contactees that worked behind the scenes and that had more limited contact with the various ET humans. I think it is a mistake to concentrate on just the public figures of the contactee movement of the 1950s because they represent just the tip of the iceberg. This is another one of those situations where it’s easy to obscure the totality of the forest when viewing the forest through several prominent trees. It’s the nail that stands up the highest that feels the hammer or the highest tree that get hit by lightning.

Likewise it’s the contactee or UFO/ET investigator that is the most prominent that feels the brunt of the mainstream propagandist and the critically biased uninformed UFO/ET researcher. It’s interesting to see how mainstream propagandists attacks in the 1950s on the most obvious contactees then led to further attacks by UFO/ET investigators and groups like NICAP on all contactees.

Donald Keyhoe and NICAP felt the whole UFO/ET field was being discredited by the contactees when in fact the real culprits were the propagandists supported by the military and economic elite. I have experienced this phenomena myself when I was involved with Operation Right To Know and I see it beginning to happen again today in Exopolitics.

As I work back through material and memories accumulated through my lifetime, the overall picture of ET human interactions is beginning to take shape in my mind. While I never have had direct contact with ET humans I have nevertheless felt a telepathic affiliation all my life. In investigating UFOs in my local neighborhood I have found myself on the fringe of a human ET network that seems to be dealing with the same human ET’s of the 1950’s but in a much less overt manner.

The very same things that were going on more overtly in the 1950’s are still going on covertly. It’s clear that contact has not dissipated since the 1950s but simply had to go underground due to worldwide autocratic military and elite resistance. Contact may have covertly accelerated.

This is the way things look to me right now.

The rapid advances in technical knowledge in the first part of the twentieth century led to space travel and the atomic bomb. The human extraterrestrials who had been monitoring developments on earth became very concerned both from self interest and secondly our interest as well. It became clear to the extraterrestrial humans that something had to be done about earth because we earth humans had become a clear and present danger to their societies in way that we can only begin to imagine.

Starting in the 1930’s the extraterrestrials began an accelerated push to deal with the danger and had planed on a rapid overt intervention to get earth humanity back on the right track. Unfortunately for humanity as a whole and the ET’s as well, things were much worse here than was initially realized. Widespread military and elite autocratic resistance began to emerge in the 1940’s and accelerated in league with the ET’s intervention. By the late 1950s it was evident to the ET’s that there would have to be a change of tactics and a much longer covert approach to extraterrestrial contact and intervention.

Being that these human ET’s seem to live to be about 800 to 1000 years old, the time span of this intervention is really still quite brief for them. Because of our much shorter life spans the transition seems to us to be taking a very long time. What the ET’s seem to have decided to do is to wait a generation or two for our societies to adapt to their presence and for the elite fear factor to dissipate before they made another more overt push.

I believe the rapid emergence of Exopolitics is this second push toward overt contact by the human extraterrestrial races. So far I don’t see the severity of resistance that was evident in the 1950s and I think this is due to covert behind the scenes interactions with autocratic world leadership to dissipate that resistance.

It seems to have worked and world elite autocrats and military leaders seem to be relenting and slowly dismantling the institutions that were behind the resistance effort. The reason that I am so interested in these old contact cases that involved official interactions with human ET’s is that I am told they are still ongoing to this day and the ET’s are getting tired of the foot dragging by high officials in government, the military and in industry in regards to the cover-up. It would seem that the ET’s are themselves adding to the pressure to disclose by threatening to once again go publicly overt if officials don’t fess up.

A second complicating factor was when the human ET’s stood down; a gap opened up that allowed less friendly ET’s to establish contact with governments in the 1960’s. This resulted in the acceleration of the abduction phenomena where people were being treated the same way we treat lab rats. These new ET relationships involved Faustian agreements that were really not in the interest of the elites or the public.

In the early 1960’s Adamski alluded to this about the time of his mental deterioration and dementia. He said a new group of ET’s had taken over. This new group of ET’s interacting with world autocratic leadership is pretty well outlined in the Robert Collins book, Exempt From Disclosure.

Coinciding with this new push by human ET’s we seem to have a reduction in abductions that may mark a reduction in the involvement of world governments with the less friendly ET’s. What it looks like to me is that autocratic elites have had to learn the hard way that resistance to the friendly ET’s was not in their interest nor in the interest of humanity as a whole.

At this time it is quite evident that world autocratic elites have not only suppressed human evolution on earth endangering humanity itself, but have even put the whole planet in danger of environmental destruction. World elites really have no option but to cooperate with the friendly human ET’s wither they like it or not. It is becoming obvious to us all that world leaders have failed their respective publics and really screwed things up on this planet in the past century.

I seem to have some guidance as I work back through my memories and my accumulated literature on UFO/ET. I have always been interested in the big picture and it seems to be coming into focus. In order to understand the present, we need to be able to understand the past and how things got to this point in our history.

I think it is my job to help out in this process by conceptualization of the situation and then to publicize these concepts and evidence on my blog and perhaps later in book format. In the previous article I took a new look at contactee Howard Menger and his contactee and ET networks and now I want to take a new look at George Adamski and his networks.

The book UFO… George Adamski, Their Man On Earth is written by Lou Zinsstag an associate of Adamski and a contactee herself. The book I have is one of those books published by Wendelle Stevens that is not widely known. It is obvious that Lou Zinsstag is very intelligent and I see from this book that well know author Tim Good has spend a lot of time working through her files and even co-authored a book with her.

There is some really good information here, just not on George Adamski, but on those other not widely known contactees that made up the network. As I said before I think it is a big mistake to only concentrate on the most public contactees that made up these networks.

Every person has their frailties and propagandist-debunkers are very good at finding error in one person of a network and then using that to debunk the person and the whole network. I find that most establishment UFO researchers, with people like Timothy Good being an exception, have fallen under the propagandists spell, woven so many years ago.

I have heard a lot of people popping off publicly discrediting these early contactee networks when they have not really studied them in any depth and are only regurgitating the propagandist’s line. Or that they are relying on a personal experience, a partial truth that is out of context with the totality of the situation. If Tim Good spent years trying to get to the bottom of the Adamski case and failed, then we aren’t going to get to the bottom of it either until the UFO/ET cover-up ends and the U.S. government opens its files. Anybody who says they have, are blowing smoke.

In the Lou Zinsstag book is a description by Adamski of the dress of his extraterrestrial contacts that matches those of other contactees like Howard Menger.

On page 24,

“I saw no zippers, buttons, fasteners or pockets of any kind, nor did I notice seams as our garments show. It is still a mystery to me who this garment was made” …

Not only does this fit Mengers’s accounts of the space suits but other cases like the one I have about the humanoid that died in Sweden.

On page 25 is a reference to an official scientific interaction with a human ET in the 1950s. It would seem that the Eisenhower meetings were not the only official covert meetings with human extraterrestrials at that time, top scientists and engineers were meeting with the extraterrestrials as well.

The first reference is detailed in a letter from Waveney Girvan, dated September 17, 1962.

“… a colleague at the office where I work … approached me with a sensational story. She had not previously realized that I was interested in the subject. Her brother, she tells me is an extremely important expert with one of our famous aircraft firms. Five years ago, he was invited to the United States with several of his colleagues in the industry to inspect a landed saucer and meet its pilot.

He went, and the pilot was exactly as G.A. has described such a person; He communicated by telepathy and he told those assembled that beings like himself had infiltrated among us. In other worlds, I have confirmation that G.A. is telling the truth.

From that follows – van den Berg is telling the truth and that his invention is the most important of all time. I am redoubling my efforts to bring this man to England first rather than to the United States.”

Lou says,

“The second came from our friend John Lade, Adamski’s first co-worker in Great Britain. It was a copy of his letter addressed to Richard Hall, then secretary of the organization NICAP, Washington (President; Donald Keyhoe).

The letter says,

“Waveney Girvan wants me to tell you that we had a leak of information through a man who a few years ago was called to an international meeting on your side to view a saucer, of the type resembling two saucers one above the other.

The pilot (who was longhaired, ski suited, and of distinctly Aryan appearance) addressed the gathering of scientists and aeronautical experts telepathically and we are told that it was an extraordinary experience to hear the audience break through the silence by laughing together sometimes thus proving that they were receiving successfully.

However, as the pilot proceeded to describe the motion power of the craft the audience lost grip and even the most advanced scientist present could no longer follow the concepts offered them.”

Lou wrote a letter following up on this.

“On April 4, 1963, I wrote a letter to Henk Hinfelaar in New Zealand , in which I stated:

“… They (Waveney and John) are still trying to get into contact with the airplane engineer whose sister talked to Waveney. As it came out, she should not have done this and is now strictly forbidden to do it again; Her brother signed a silence warrant in the U.S.A.”

There is more material in this book that shows that the engineer in question had to deny the event ever happened.

Another very interesting alleged official meeting crops up on page 37. This is reference to an Adamski related event where a pilot and plane was picked up in mid air and sucked into the hangar of the extraterrestrial craft. Hmm, I guess I better type in this account on page 36 before I get to the official scientific meeting on page 37.

Lou says,

“This just the record, and for my own satisfaction. Mrs. Wissler gave a detailed account of a most remarkable story which, as far as I know, never went into print.”

“Among others, Adamski told us the story of a pilot whose plane was stopped in mid-air while an enormous cigar-shaped space ship with a large hangar door opened, approached his plane and sucked it in. The men in the space ship (who said they were from Venus) showed the pilot around and were very friendly.

They spoke in perfect English, telling him that they were observing, in growing numbers, the inhabitants of this Earth and all their actions. They pointed out their concern with our Atomic bombs and said that they would never allow our planet to be capsized by them, because such an event would disturb the magnetic fields in the whole solar system (not only ours) and might lead to heavy disturbances on their own planet.

After having spent more than two hour in the ship, the pilot asked the men for some kind of written evidence as an explanation for the lost hours in which no fuel was used in his plane. They not only complied with his wish but asked him to hand out their manuscript to the high personality in the Pentagon (name withheld by G.A.).

The pilot stood by, watching them put up a long and carefully written letter. He was told that the one-page page letter was full of information and that every single one of their symbols was full of meaning, because they were not single letters but rather whole sentences. These symbols consisted of small circles, about the size of a German Pfennig (smaller than a penny). The circles were filled in with lines, dashes, dots, rather like hierographic signs, reminding the pilot of Egyptian, or Indian, writings.

One little circle was close to the next. The pilot watched the men putting down the signs, a procedure which took the better part of half an hour.”

Adamski continues,

“This letter was brought by the pilot to the Pentagon, as suggested, and he asked for a few copies for himself. He got four of them; one for himself, one he sent to the President (Eisenhower), one to the Pope (Pius XII), and one for me. A few months later he came to Mt. Palomar to hand it out to me. He had read my book and believed what I said. I had to give him my promise never to reveal his name.”

A copy of this ET letter was circulated and viewed by others.

This was not the only incident of a pilot visiting with George Adamski and giving out detailed information. On page 34 of Lou’s book is another very interesting account of an official scientific meeting involving extraterrestrial humans.

Lou says,

“Lucy McGinnis wrote to Captain H.C. Petersen, our co-worker in Copenhagen. It was published by Henk Hinfelaar in New Zealand, in June 1960:”

“…. The incident to which I believe you have reference took place about seven or eight years ago – maybe longer, I forgot the year although I well remember the time the report was given to G.A.

A young pilot who had been to the café a number of times and had talked with G.A., came in for lunch one day. This man told G.A. that he was in a hurry, but had something he though G.A. would be interested in knowing.

He then told about piloting an American plane to Australia where he landed on a vast airport, but did not give detailed information as to its location. He said that a gigantic spacecraft was already there. He was introduced to a group of scientists from other planets ad told he was to take them to a scientific meeting in Scotland. The reason for them having to travel in one of our planes was that there was no landing field in that part of the world large enough to accommodate their ship.

The young man told G.A. that all of these men were very good looking, friendly, and intelligent. He liked them very much and was very impressed by them and their conduct. He remained in Scotland with his plane while the visitors attended the conference.

Little publicity was ever given to this scientific conference although, we are told, scientists from every nation in the world were also present. When the conference ended, the young man returned them to their ship in Australia, then returned to the States. He told G.A. that he had come to see him immediately but was leaving again the same evening for another flight.

Naturally, many of our memories have faded through the years. We cannot give you this young man’s name because G.A. made a practice never to ask the names of people giving him information, although many showed him their identification and credentials. He deliberately forgot their names, because he never wished to in any way endanger them for their information given him.

This was easily done in a café where hundreds of people from every part of the world came and went, month in and month out.”

Miss Wissler’s notes continue:

“Later on Adamski said that there was already a lot of proof in the Pentagon (for his statements), hundreds of pieces of evidence being stored away and hidden in a special part of the building which could be entered by only two or three people.

He maintained that nobody at the Pentagon denied the existence of UFOs nor denied them to be in possession of proof. Yet, he said, they think it wise to let the truth come out only slowly, in small amounts, for better adjustment not only of the people but also of the industry …”

Lou says,

“Today, this statements sound rather naïve but we have to remember that it was made in 1959, when things looked much brighter for UFO researchers.”

It was about this time that Adamski was severely threatened and he talked about being encircled.

This was also the time that his mental state began to deteriorate and the contactee network he was involved in began to break down and fall apart. This seems to coincide with the breaking off of contact with his ET friends. Maybe one day the whole truth will come out about what really happened to humanity and the world at that time.

I think that my regular readers can begin to appreciate that there is a shared responsibility for the past and present undesirable extraterrestrial – earth human situation. The human ET’s seem to have acted aggressively without enough consideration of the possibility of an extremely negative reaction by elite autocratic world military and economic interests.

They failed to properly access the feeling of fear and helplessness of the military, as well as the entrenched autocratic economic interest’s greed for money and power over their fellow human beings. For this reason they had to adjust tactics at the end of the 1950’s and become less overt and more covert in their interactions with earth’s humanity.

On the other hand earth’s economic and military elite are also responsible for the past and present undesirable situation in that they have suppressed and propagandized their respective publics in direct violation of humanitarian and democratic values. There is simply no excuse for their violent repressive tactics against the ET’s and the general population of this planet.

Their actions have been criminal and barbaric. It is not that the public can’t handle ET visitation and infiltration; it’s the elite that can’t handle the interactions and interventions for reasons of fear and greed. The mass media also has a shared responsibility for the present undesirable situation in that they allowed and participated in propaganda operations against the public for the past 60 years making them not public watchdogs but elite lapdogs.

Recently there has been some encouraging news. Rather suddenly some critical elements of the mass media, major newswires and major newspapers have begun to play it straight about the UFO/ET subject. This seems to indicate a change in policy at the highest levels of government. Let’s hope this lasts. If the media is “allowed” to play it straight, the cover-up cannot last much longer.

Of course they may not really be playing it straight quite yet if ever. The media lapdogs will continue to propagandize the public by misleading partial releases of information to the public.

I expect the propaganda press to continue to support existing national and international institutions and to rationalize their and the world government despicable actions against ET’s and humanity as a whole through misleading partial releases of information. Tigers don’t change their stripes easily.

I see it as my role and the role of my associates to keep all culpable institutions feet to the fire and to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth to the public.


 

Part 3

The 1950s Contactee Movement Revisited
November 15, 2007

In this third Contactee Movement article I am still quoting from Lou Zinsstag’s book George Adamski, Their Man On Earth. I would like to move on to other contactees of the 1950’s but there is so much good material in this book. This book was copyrighted in 1990 and hopefully I won’t get into trouble by quoting from it so extensively.

The book says,

“Extensive parts of this publication may not be reproduced for sale without written permission by the publisher or the legitimate heirs of the author.”

This book is published by Wendelle Stevens but as I am not reproducing this for sale, I hope Wendelle won’t mind me promoting his book. I have a phone number of his around here someplace and if I can find it I will try to get in touch with him.

It’s pretty obvious from the material in this book that George Adamski was more of a political person than Howard Menger and worked closely with the American intelligence agencies.

On page 44 we have the following: In 1959 Adamski said that his relationship with the intelligence agencies began in 1949.

“In 1949, some military persons came into the café at Palomar Gardens and asked him to photograph what was going on in space.”

Adamski said,

“I believe that our government deserves all the true information of a clear-cut nature that it is possible to give, because the better we are informed, the better we are prepared for anything that might come.”

It’s really a national disgrace and a shame that he was treated so badly by those same intelligence agencies that he had helped. Many of his best pictures and movies were never returned either.

Here is another quote from an Adamski letter that shows how important and concerned the human ET’s were with atomic atmospheric testing. I have presented evidence on my blog of two crashed spaceships from the early 1950s that got their human occupants fried from being too close to these explosions when they went off.

Dr. Salla is going to like this:

“….Four of the top men from the Guided Missiles Research Center in California interviewed me and asked me this question:

“How can space ships go through a cloud right after an atomic explosion without being affected?”

I said, “How would I know.”

“Well, we know that you know”.

“The only way a man would know would be, if he was in one of those ships to know just what takes place. Do you mean that I have been in a ship and I should know?”

“We know that you know”, was all that they said.

Well, then I told them just what the answer was, and they said it was good.”

On page 51, it says that in 1955 Adamski wrote a letter to a trusted friend Mr. Ragaz.

This letter shows that already at that time Adamski knew who was behind the cover-up and who it was that was afraid and who could not handle the truth.

“…. It is not the people who are afraid of flying saucers but all indications show that the money pots of the world are. For, just think of the effect, once the propulsion power of these ships becomes known – a power as free to everyone as the breath we breathe!

What would happen to those who control the monetary system of the world! And it seems as though it were these who have put censorship on the truth, whereby publications are no longer free as they previously were. All these branches in the media business must have money to continue.”

In response to a similar question from Lou, Adamski states,

“…. It is quite understandable, for the ones who control the press and all outlets of information fear the truth, so they keep it from the public the best they know how. They are the people that control the monetary system of the world, so your nation would have the least amount of information on the subject that is world wide.

That does not mean the activity of space people is less there than elsewhere. This monetary group may even go so far as to place people in your organization …”

On page 59 Lou discusses a personal contact with a spaceman.

“Suddenly, I saw a man entering the door farthest away from where I sat.

He drew my attention at once because he looked fresh as a daisy, happy, and very healthy. His face had a beautiful sun tan, and his step was quick and elastic. He had deep blue eyes and high cheek bones. He looked foreign and I though that he might be a Norwegian, or a Canadian.

His dark blond hair was kept backwards. He wore a white shirt with an open collar, quite unusual for a theatre visitor in the early sixties. His jacket was blue and his trousers grey, a bit too short for his legs as I noticed. There was something in his gait which struck me as odd as I saw him meandering through the groups of people standing in his way.

But the oddest thing was that, from the first moment, he never looked at anybody else but at me, smiling broadly and very friendly.

I thought that he was taking me for somebody else and tried to avoid his eyes. But I simply couldn’t, I had to follow him with mine. His smile was constantly increasing, his whole face was smiling and there was something like a victorious touch in his expression as if he wanted to say:

“At long last, I tracked you down and here I am.”

It was so disconcerting that I could not help smiling back which was very unusual. Suddenly, the world “alerted” came to my mind probably because he looked so wide-awake and happy. And it was this word which make the “penny drop” in my head and now that he was quite close to my table, not more that three meter away, I forcefully threw the thought at him, formulated like something as “Are you or are you not a spaceman?”

And as soon as the stranger saw the thought dawn on my face, his smile increased and his eyes sparkled beautifully as if to say:

“At long last, she has got it finally”.

And he nodded his head clearly, several times, his smile vanishing for a moment.

Slowly, he turned around on his heels while with his arms and hands he made a gesture which underlined the head nodding, and very quickly he left through the next door.”

All these contacts by others like Lou clearly show that the ET’s were dealing with a lot of people not just the most public contactees.

The rest of the book gets into what appears to be Adamski’s dementia either induced or natural that became obvious with the Saturn report and lead to the break up of the contactee network.

I saw this sort of thing happen to my own father where in his early seventies he suddenly began to exercise poor judgment, had a bad car accident and then died over many years piece by piece from multiple strokes. Some seem to think that Adamski was abandoned by his ET friends but I think this was something natural that even they could do nothing about.

Adamski’s mental deterioration coincided with elite military and economic interest exertion of fearsome pressure on the public contactees worldwide and on the contactee movement as a whole. I think the ET’s changed their tactics at this point and backed off realizing that it would take a much more time consuming and sustained effort to reduce the resistance to their activities before they could move forward once again.

I think that the time has now come and as I have previously stated, Exopolitics represents part of this second push toward full disclosure of their presence. I believe their strategy is and has been to overtly work with the world’s autocratic elite while at the same time covertly and discretely working with ordinary people in preparation for full disclosure.

We on this planet can thank our lucky stars that these friendly human ET’s seem to be exerting the most overall control over developments on his planet.

If some of these less friendly races were able to become dominant we would be really be in much more trouble that we are now. We could end up colonized and enslaved; the militaries worst nightmare of the 1950s would have come true.

If you ask me I think we owe this group of friendly ET’s a debt of great gratitude.

Certainly they have been working in their own interest as well as ours but in a win–win manner. I believe if it had not been for their infiltration and intervention, the autocratic military and economic elites of this world would have made this planet uninhabitable by attacking each other with nuclear weapons by now. Even today the world elites are still trying their best out of greed and fear to create environmental collapse abet at a much slower pace than atomic warfare.

This sorry state of affairs reminds me of an old Star Trek episode where a bunch of gangsters were running a planet requiring an intervention by the crew of The Enterprise.