Mark OC on UFO Contactees and Nuclear Accidents …
Dr. George King and his band of merry followers.
One disaster story in particular stands out. It’s the story of a catastrophe at the Mayak nuclear fuel factory (formerly known as Chelyabinsk-40) near Kyshtym in Russia , something the author describes this way: “It may go down in history as the worst release of radioactive fission products to have occurred…”
Ever heard of it? Probably not. The KGB kept such a tight lid of secrecy over the accident that for many years no one even knew when it happened. Sometime between 1954 and 1961 was the best guess anyone could come up with. The CIA knew something bad had happened in the USSR, even if they didn’t know what or when, so they sent a pilot named Gary Powers over to Russia in a U-2 spy plane to take a look. That didn’t go too well for Mr. Powers or the CIA.
Believe it or not, this is where UFOs enter the story.
The first inkling anyone had that a nuclear accident had occurred in the USSR came about in the June, 1958 newsletter of a UFO group called “The Aetherius Society.” For reasons that should be abundantly clear, I find myself unable to adequately describe to you just what The Aetherius Society is, so I’ll quote from their website:
“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’. The main body of the Society’s teachings consists of the wisdom given through the mediumship of Dr King by the Master Aetherius and other advanced intelligences from this world and beyond.”
This Aetherius fellow had a much better view of the USSR than did Gary Powers, and in April, 1958, he sent the following telepathic message to Dr. King:
“Owing to an atomic accident just recently in the USSR, a great amount of radioactivity in the shape of radioactive iodine, strontium 90, radioactive nitrogen and radioactive sodium have been released into the atmosphere of Terra.”
The article went to state that “all forms of reception from Interplanetary sources will become a little more difficult during the next few weeks because of the foolish actions of Russia.” The “Interplanetary Parliament,” it continued, would have to use an enormous amount of energy to clean up the mess, although they claimed to have saved 17,000,000 souls…
Inexplicably, the next anyone knew of the nuclear accident was in 1976, when an exiled Soviet biologist wrote about it in New Scientist magazine. Over time, more information leaked, and it was learned that “careless storage of radioactive wastes at Chelyabinsk-40 had resulted in massive destruction.” Mahaffey describes the explosion as “the world’s first ‘dirty bomb.’”
It’s a great story, but there’s a huge, gaping hole in the middle of it: No one seems to know how in hell “Atherius” knew about it in 1958. I can’t figure out why, but author Mahaffey never pursues the question; he just lets it hang there…
Read the rest here:
High Strangeness: The Interplanetary Parliament of UFOs.