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two associates along the California-Arizona
border. The other six would sign affidavits attesting
to their observation (albeit from some
distance) of Adamski’s meeting with a spaceman.
(Later the Baileys would withdraw their
testimony, saying they had seen nothing out
of the ordinary.)
Williamson went on to write a series of
books both about his contacts and about his
theories about the role space people have
p l a yed in the human past and present. Su c h
books as Other To n g u e s — Other Fl e s h ( 1 9 5 3 ) ,
Se c ret Places of the Li o n (1958), and Road in the
Sk y (1959) anticipated themes that Erich vo n
Däniken and others would popularize in the
1970s during the “ancient astro n a u t s” craze .
Williamson split with Adamski after the latter
urged him not to publicize his psychic contacts,
since Adamski decried such methods of
communications to his followers, even while
p r i vately practicing them. But Wi l l i a m s o n
Williamson, George Hunt 269
George Hunt Williamson (left), who received regular radio messages from extraterrestrials in the early 1950s (Fortean
Picture Library)
d e l ved ever deeper into the occult and pursued
his own attempts at space communication by
various means. In 1955, he and Richard Mi l l e r
formed the Telonic Re s e a rch Center to establish
radio and other contacts with extraterre strials,
though within months he and Mi l l e r
p a rted amid much mutual re c r i m i n a t i o n .
The following year he joined up with the
Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, a band of psychics
and contactees (including Dorothy Martin,
better known as Sister Thedra), and spent
a year at its colony in a remote area of Peru,
convinced that cataclysmic Earth changes
were soon to occur. When they did not,
Williamson and everyone except Martin returned
to the United States. There Williamson
resumed writing books, one of them a
thinly disguised anti-Semitic work titled
UFOs Confidential! (1958). In 1958, he went
on a world tour and, in 1961, he lectured in
Japan, where he was treated as something of a