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 embers of the New Age Foundation join hands to create a “cosmic brain battery” to summon UFOs to land at the twentieth annual New Age Convention, Mount Rainier, Washington.
On June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold, an Idaho businessman, was flying his light plane when he glimpsed nine gleaming disk-shaped objects whipping around the summit of Mount Rainier, Washington. He described them as looking like saucers skipping across water, and thus was born the term “flying saucers.” This first well-publicized case of unexplained aerial phenomena in the United States heralded a deluge of UFO sightings and alien visitations that has yet to cease. Every year since Arnold’s sighting, UFO devotees have gathered at the foot of Mount Rainier to commemorate the event and anticipate the return of the saucers. The New Age Foundation has been holding its annual convention near the site since 1960. Wayne Aho, the founder, was affiliated with UFOs as far back as the early 1950s, when he worked on Otis T. Carr’s ill-fated OTC-X1 spaceship (see page 89). In his testimonial, Mojave Desert Experience, Aho writes of a visitation he experienced while attending the 1957 Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention at Giant Rock, California. He tells of sensing a strange “energy” and being drawn out alone into the desert at night. Suddenly there appeared a pulsing, glowing craft from another dimension. A telepathic voice spoke from the saucer: “Millions of souls upon the earth are awakening. I believe this civilization can be saved.” Aho was directed by the extraterrestrials to buy land and create a refuge on high ground near Mount Rainier. He purchased the Cedar Park Lodge, a collection of mossy cedar-shake tourist cabins near the entrance to Mount Rainier National Park. For several days each year, before and after the anniversary of Arnold’s sighting, the lodge and cabins and camp grounds are taken over by diverse saucer believers, holistic health advocates, and psychic practitioners. The focal point of the convention is the SPLAASH site, a clearing in a druidic copse a few minutes’ walk from the cabins. The Spacecraft Protective Landing Area for Advancement of Science and Humanities has, in a letter sent by Aho to state and federal authorities and the president, been declared a “free Landing Zone,” to be maintained free of arms and open to all, alien or earthling. Several psychics and an Indian medicine chief have declared the spot to be the center of seven circles of energy. Venerable dowsers in the area report that their wands dip deeply when crossing the circle. The site functions as a year-round contact point for communication between New Agers and the Space Brothers. Members invoke the wisdom of the Brothers in deciding important questions, and a sign from the Space Brothers can be perceived in a gust of wind or a sudden parting of the clouds. excerpt continues on next page |
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