George Hunt Williamson

George Hunt Williamson

Infobox Person
name = George Hunt Williamson


image_size = 150px
caption = Photo from the 1950s
birth_date = December 9, 1926
birth_place = Chicago, Illinois
death_date = January 1986
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occupation =
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parents = George Williamson (Father)
Bernice Hunt (Mother)
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George Hunt Williamson (December 9, 1926 - January 1986), aka "Michael d'Obrenovic" and "Brother Philip",was one of the [http://www.ufoinfo.com/ufobooks/fourguys.shtml "four guys named George"] among the mid-1950s contactees. The others were George Adamski, George King, and George Van Tassel.

Williamson, born in Chicago, Illinois, to parents George Williamson and Bernice Hunt, was mystically inclined as a teenager, but transferred some of his occult enthusiasmto flying saucers in the late 1940s. In early 1951 Williamson was expelled on academic grounds from the University of Arizona. Having read
William Dudley Pelley's book "Star Guests" (1950), Williamson worked for a while for Pelley's cult organization, helping to put out its monthly publication"Valor". Pelley had generated huge quantities of communications with"advanced intelligences" via automatic writing, and very clearly was an immediateinspiration to Williamson, who combined his fascination with the occult and with flying saucersby trying to contact flying saucer crews with ahome-made Ouija board.After hearing about the flying-saucer-based religious cult of George Adamski,perhaps through Pelley, Williamson andhis wife, and fellow saucer believers Alfred and Betty Bailey, became regular visitors to Adamski'scommune at Palomar Gardens and eventually members of Adamski's Theosophy-spinoffcult. They witnessed Adamski "telepathically" channelling and tape-recording messages from the friendly humanoid Space Brothers who inhabited every solar planet. The Willamsons, the Baileys and two other Adamskidisciples became the "witnesses" to Adamski's supposed meeting with Orthon, a handsome blond man from Venus, near Desert Center, California on November 18, 1952. In fact the "witnesses" experienced nothing morethan Adamski telling them to wait and stay put while he walked over a hill, then came back intoview an hour later, with a preliminary story of his experiences--- a story subsequently greatlychanged for book publication in "Flying Saucers Have Landed" (1953), as Williamson himselflater pointed out.

The initial publicationof Adamski's tale in an Arizona newspaper on November 24, 1952, triggered an explosive growthin the membership of Adamski's cult. The Williamsons and Baileys continued their Ouija-board sessions,getting their own personal revelations from the Space Brothers, which led to a drastic falling-out withAdamski.

In 1954, Williamson and Bailey published "The Saucers Speak" which emphasized supposed short-wave radio communications with friendly saucer pilots, but in fact depended for almost all its contents on the Ouija-board sessionsBailey and Williamson held regularly from 1952 onward. They heard from Actar of Mercury, Adu of Hatonn in Andromeda, Agfa Affa from Uranus(presumably not the same Affa who was the exclusive contact of
Frances Swan), Ankar-22 of Jupiter, Artok of Pluto, Awa from Outer Space,Garr from Pluto, Kadar Lacu from Saturn, Karas the Space Brother, Lomec ofVenus, Nah-9 from Neptune, Noro of the Saucer Fleet, Oara of Saturn,Ponnar of Hatoon (presumably not the same Ponnar who was the exclusivecontact of Frances Swan), Regga of Mars, Ro of Torresoton, Sedat ofHatonn, Suttku of Saturn, Terra of Venus, Wan-4 of the Safanian planets,Zago of Mars and Zo of Neptune. The "board" contacts were in good if uninformative english, but the few reported radio contacts, in InternationalMorse code, left a little to be desired. Sample: "AFFA FROM THE P. RA RRR OK K5 K5 FROM THE PLA CHANT RRT IT." Perhaps influenced by the Shaver Mystery, Williamson also reveals that while most space aliens are helpful and good, there are some very bad ones hanging out near Orion and headed for earth in force, bent on conquest.

Williamson became a more obscure competitor to Adamski, eventually combining his own
channelling and the beliefs of a small contactee cult known as the [http://skepdic.com/cognitivedissonance.html Brotherhood of the Seven Rays] ,led by Marion Dorothy Martin, to produce a series of books about the secret, ancient history of mankind: "Other Tongues--- Other Flesh"(1957), "Secret Places of the Lion" (1958), "UFOs Confidential" with John McCoy(1958)," Road in the Sky" (1959)and "Secret of the Andes" (1961). These books, when not rewriting the Old andNew Testaments to depict every important person as a reincarnation of one of only six oreight different "entities," expandedon the usual late 19th Century Theosophical teachings (borrowed without creditfrom Thomas Lake Harris) that friendly Space Brothers in the distant past had taught thehuman race the rudiments of civilization--- and, according toWilliamson, spacemen had also helped materially in the founding of the Jewish andChristian religions, impersonating "gods" and providing "miracles" when needed. Williamson spiced his books with additional Ouija-revelations to the effect that some South, Central and North American ancient civilizations actually began as colonies of human-appearing extraterrestrials. Williamson can be considered a more mystically-inclined forerunner of Erich Von Däniken; "Secret Places of the Lion" also displays the clear and explicit influence of Immanuel Velikovsky.

Like his role-model Adamski, Williamson enjoyed referring to himself as "professor," and claimed an extensiveacademic background, which in fact was completely non-existent. In the late 1950s he withdrew from the
contactee scene and even changed his name, concocting a new fictitious academic and family background to go along with the new name,while continuing to live in California.His 1961 book was published under a still differentpen name. Little is known about his life between 1961 and his reported death in 1986, otherthan that at one time he became a priest of the so-called Nestorian Church, actuallythe Assyrian Church of the East.As of 2006, a number of his books are still in print, in paperback editions.The only other well-known 1950s contactees who still have books in print are Daniel Fryand Truman Bethurum.

References

*Lewis, James R., editor, "UFOs and Popular Culture", Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2000. ISBN 1-57607-265-7.

*Moseley, James W. and Karl T. Pflock, "Shockingly Close to the Truth", Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002. ISBN 1-57392-991-3.

*Roth, Christopher F., "Ufology as Anthropology: Race, Extraterrestrials, and the Occult." In "E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces," ed. by Debbora Battaglia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005.

* Williamson, George Hunt, "Other Tongues--Other Flesh." Amherst, Wisconsin: Amherst Press, 1953.

*Williamson, George Hunt, "Other Voices", Wilmington, Delaware: Abelard Productions, Inc., 1995. ISBN 0-938294-64-4. A reprint of "The Saucers Speak" by Williamson and Alfred J. Bailey.

* Williamson, George Hunt, "Secret Places of the Lion," 1958. Reprinted, Destiny Books, Rochester, Vermont, 1989.

External links

* [https://webspace.utexas.edu/cokerwr/www/index.html/sbrothers.shtml General Overview of 1950s Contactees]
* [http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1997/mar/d21-002.shtml A webpage on Williamson's career]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/ne/newviews/spacemsg.html Text of a lecture delivered by Williamson in 1954] Basically a summary of "The Saucers Speak".
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/otof/index.htm Online material from "Other Tongues--- Other Flesh"]
* [http://hometown.aol.com/codeufo/saucerspeak.html An article by Gary Val Tenuta regarding the supposedly "encoded" Crabwood Crop Circle formation of August 2002 and its similarities to George Hunt Williamson's alleged E.T. Communications]
* [http://www.subversiveelement.com/UnderMojave9.html Some wild rumors about Williamson and Adamski]
* [http://www.goddardmultimedia.fsnet.co.uk/atpai/planen.htm "All the Planets are Inhabited"--- more on Williamson and Adamski]
* [http://mimufon.org/1960%20articles/ContacteesIHaveKnown.htm Long John Nebel's radio interviews with 1950s contactees]
* [http://www.rr0.org/personne/h/HuntWilliamsonGeorge A page (in French) with photos, biographical and bibliographical information on Williamson]


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