George Hunt Williamson: A Contactee Profiled

There's a new post up at UFO Digest from Sean Casteel that delves deep into the controversy-filled life of one of the most enigmatic of all the 1950s Contactees, George Hunt Williamson.

You can find the article at this link, which digs into countless issues, including the matter of the man's "government file" and what officialdom thought about him and concluded about him - matters I detailed in a lengthy paper that can be found in the recently-republished edition of Williamson's book, Road in the Sky.

Casteel begins:

"George Hunt Williamson, one of the major players on the UFO contactee scene of the 1950s, continues to be a shadowy, hard-to-define personality in the years since his death in 1986. He embodied a great deal of the contactee era’s optimistic faith in Space Brothers as the saviors of our planet and would be crucial to the formation of a large portion of accepted New Age doctrine. But he also had ties to a neo-fascist organization and was investigated by the FBI as a possible communist propagandist. He claimed degrees in anthropology that could never be verified, even while he traveled throughout the Americas collecting legends and stories from various indigenous peoples about visits from those same Space Brothers and their help in establishing functioning tribal communities. He would change his name to suit the occasion, sometimes calling himself Brother Philip, or by the Serbian moniker Michael d’Obrenovic."

The Authentic Book Of Ultra-Terrestrial Contacts

In a new article at UFO Digest, Sean Casteel begins:

"There has always been a semantic problem about just what to call the UFO occupants. For the most part, the generally agreed on term is 'aliens,' though everyone from Whitley Strieber to the late Budd Hopkins believed the term is inadequate to accurately describe just whom we are dealing with in such cases.

"Timothy Green Beckley of Global Communications recently published a book called 'The Authentic Book Of Ultra-Terrestrial Contacts' in which he argues that the UFO community should be open to calling the creatures from the unknown 'Ultra-Terrestrials' and that we should more closely examine the idea that they come from right here on Earth.

"The term 'Ultra-Terrestrials' did not originate with Beckley, who referred me to an article on a website called 'Unexplained Mysteries,' specifically a piece written by Ken Korczak called 'Ultra-Terrestrials: Do They Walk Among Us?'”

And here's the link to the complete article.