"The Aetherius Society is an international spiritual organization dedicated to spreading the teachings of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations," its members say. They continue with the following words: “In great compassion, these beings acknowledge the magnitude of suffering on Earth and have made countless sacrifices in their mission to help us create a better world. The Society was founded in the mid-1950s by an Englishman named George King shortly after he was contacted in London by an extraterrestrial intelligence known as Aetherius."
UFO researchers David Clarke and Andy Roberts talk about the organization: “The Society of Aetherius was never a huge organization, in fact, their number rarely exceeded one thousand members worldwide … The Society of Aetherius was not for everyone, but for those who wanted or needed in the spiritual dimension of their beliefs, they provided the philosophy, structure and network of sincere souls of like-minded people. George King suffered a heart attack in 1986. In 1992, he suffered multiple heart strokes. And, he died in Santa Barbara, California on July 12, 1997. The society of Aetherius, however, continues to flourish. It's time to do something far from aliens and UFOs. What could it be? Well, I'll go and tell you. We are talking about issues related to nuclear weapons, Russia, the British Communist Party and secret surveillance of ufologists. May be,even the top secret observation of ufologists.
As far as can be determined, at least George King and his Society of Aetherius did not gain the secret attention of the bureaucratic world until 1957, especially in May of that year. It was on the 26th of the month that an article appeared on the pages of a weekly publication in Great Britain called The Empire News. In an article titled “Flying Saucer Clubs Probe: Peace Messages from space,” “Readers were told the following: The“warnings”from space against British hydrogen bomb tests, published in Flying Saucer magazine, take a similar line with Moscow-inspired propaganda. The "Warning" - in a special issue of the magazine - is scrutinized by a special branch of Scotland Yard [whose origins date back to 1883 and which was incorporated into the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command in 2006]. There are suspicions that a number of flying saucers - and some spiritualists - are being unwittingly used by the communists. The warning appears in the magazine of the Aetherius society, which circulates widely among fans of flying saucers."
Not only that, The Empire News revealed that George King, as he put it, received a message from advanced entities from the planet Mars. His decisive anti-nuclear signal sounded like this: “Didn't the last peaceful steps come from Russia? In the West, you blame Russia and say that you need to make these weapons in order to defend yourself against them. You are in Britain in an advantageous position to show the way to larger countries."
It is hardly surprising that such a body as the Special Sector will sit and take into account: a) this is the development in the world of the Society of Aetherius and b) the pro-Russian words of the Martians. The King wasted no time getting in touch with Scotland Yard. He demanded to find out why exactly he and his group are now under the supervision of government authorities. Well, given both the time frame and the dangerous climate that existed back in the 1950s, it should have been clearly obvious to everyone: the authorities saw in the words of the king (as well as in the words of his declared Martian friends) nothing more than frank propaganda to make the UK government look very bad and the Russians very good. In a letter dated May 26, the king scolded Scotland Yard and did his best to try and fix it. He wrote in his letter,that the Society of Aetherius is in fact “a religious and occult society that has contact with the intelligentsia on other planets. We are non-political and non-sectarian. However, as history has shown, the authorities, of course, saw things differently.
Nick Redfern