ITINERARY OF A PRIVILEGED UFO WITNESS
The fi rst comprehensive biography of the most enigmatic UFO figure, George Hunt Williamson.
Most of the information results from the perseverance, the passion and the painstaking investigative e fforts of researcher and author, Michel Zirger. The reader will find a great many revelations, in particular about the first “Close Encounter of the third Kind” in modern times, at the end of which photographs and plaster casts of alien footprints were made; the unexpected connection between Williamson and the famous Italian Amicizia (“Friendship”) case; and his mystical stay in the Andes.
Williamson’s life is totally “revisited” thanks to unpublished documents now in Michel Zirger’s possession, which will end errors and gossip that has been rehashed for decades.
We owe Williamson for the concept of “Ancient Aliens,” developed in seminal books such as Other Tongues–Other Flesh, Secret Places of the Lion, Road in the Sky and Secret of the Andes.
“Anyone who thought that the discussion about George Hunt Williamson and George Adamski was closed will find this book a revelation. Th e book’s genius is that it presents a host of new information and possibilities. Having access to original documents, unpublished until now, has let the authors build a much stronger case for the authenticity of Adamski’s original claims than has been possible before, also lifting the veil on one of early Ufology’s most fascinating – and underrated – characters, George Hunt Williamson.”
Warren P Aston
“I’m sure George Hunt Williamson (wherever he is) is pleased to see someone taking such an active interest in his life […].”
Robert C. Girard (From a letter dated April 30, 2010 to Michel Zirger)
by Alain Moreau
Introduction
by Michel Zirger
Introduction
by Maurizio Martinelli
Behind the photos
by Michel Zirger
-1- Desert Center: Where It All Began…
by Michel Zirger
Troublesome witnesses
A forgotten article
The contact of November 20, 1952 still “hot”
“A small hamburger vendor”
The first “Adamski type” scoutship
“Other Tongues–Other Flesh” pictures
Addendum by Michel Zirger
-2- Adamski and Williamson Under the Signs of Ezekiel and Jonas
by Michel Zirger
A unique case
Analysis of the photos
The photographs
The left footprint
The right footprint
Towards an interpretation of the symbols – The heel of Orthon
The Four Living Beings
Under the Sign of the Fish
The Mansions of the Father
The small symbols
The crushed sign
The sign of Jonas
The bars of the Earth
Follow the arrow!
Addendum by Michel Zirger
-3- On the Trail of the Gods
by Michel Zirger
Peru, Rio Alto region, July 10, 1957
Williamson and Adamski
Williamson and Pelley
Williamson and Laughead
Williamson and Peru
The roads part
The Peruvian Grail
The Road in the Sky
The solar tongue
The Unknown, a full-time ally
-4- The “Hidden Years” of Williamson
by Michel Zirger
A sleeping Prince
Noblesse oblige
Supporting unpublished documents
Into the land of the Dogu
Extraterrestrials, the Japanese connection
Codex in stock
Magic under the earth as in the sky
A life without Life
The Indian sign
Swastika/circle cross – same cause!
Obsessions in red and black
From Codex to Celotex
Call me Doctor…
Silence, action!
A constellation of stars
A Witness Found
The priest of Santa Barbara
Hosted by a Psychic
Between Dreams and Visions
-5- Itinerary of a Contactee
by Michel Zirger
The little “green-man”…
The “professor” who did not know anything
Brazil, first step
When two contactees meet…
The stone from space
Meeting in higher worlds
Inconveniences in the skies
O impenetrable rocks!
Catania, breeding ground of the occult
On the tracks again
-6- Meetings with Other Worlds
by Michel Zirger
Roman Successes
About a colonel
An evening full of teachings…
A nocturnal apparition
Naples, door to other worlds…
An unexpected interlude
The legendary race
The Cumean Sibyl
Missing pieces
The lion of Venice
Return to the Master
Final stages
-7- Extraterrestrial Connections
by Maurizio Martinelli
-8- Speaking about Michel d’Obrenovic
by Maurizio Martinelli
The anticipations of MDO
The last MDO projects
-9- Carved Images in Stone
by Maurizio Martinelli
-10- Teleportation, ESP and New Technologies
by Maurizio Martinelli
-11- At the Source of the Messages
by Maurizio Martinelli
-12- The Early Life of GHW
by Michel Zirger
The governor’s letter
Diplomas and polemics
Indian passion
A Doctor to the rescue
His name was Sun Eagle
First steps into the unknown
Towards the mystical quest
Illumination
-13- George Hunt Williamson and the Secret of the Andes
by Michel Zirger
Investigation of a Brother
Masked Identity
The ultimate step of the initiation
Channeling
Of gods and men
A little help from…
Localization of the Monastery of the Seven Rays
A unique phenomena
Appendix 1 – The ufological “conversion”
of G. H. Williamson’s father
Appendix 2 – Letter by G. H. Williamson
(Michel d’Obrenovic) about Erich von Däniken
Appendix 3 – GHW’s meeting with Walter Russell
Authors’ note
Appendix 4 – Analysis of four photos taken by George Adamski on December 13, 1952 at Palomar Gardens, CA.
(Text, interpretation and graphic design by Michel Zirger)
Appendix 5 – A chronology of the events involving G. H. Williamson from the radio contacts to the ufo experience at Desert Center.
Established by Michel Zirger
Appendix 6 – Some documents pertaining to GHW
(All original documents from Michel Zirger’s Williamson Archives, unless otherwise specified)
Annotated Bibliography Of Works
By G. H. Williamson, compiled By Michel Zirger
Bibliography of works consulted compiled
by Maurizio Martinelli
About the Authors
Introduction
by Michel Zirger
If we were to choose only one date of significance in the history of ufology, it would be difficult to pass by November 20, 1952. Indeed, this date marks the first, and the best documented, encounter with an extraterrestrial intelligence. A part of ufology was decided that day because it provoked a split in the international ufological community which remains today… pro and anti-November 20, 1952 continue to disagree about the events of that day… While the main protagonist of this meeting was definitely the famous “contactee” George Adamski, it is one of the six eye-witnesses present that day at Desert Center who is the center of this biographic essay: George Hunt Williamson, one of the personalities who, with George Adamski and some others, shaped the ufo phenomenon and our concept of extraterrestrial contact.
While the life – at least the documented part – of the one who was historically the first “contactee”, George Adamski, is reasonably well known, that of George Hunt Williamson has remained engulfed in an ocean of uncertainties, approximations, mysteries and even wild speculations due to his sudden “disappearance” in 1961…
Contrary to George Adamski, George Hunt Williamson has not been the subject of any specific study. Thus, this is the first of its kind. It is the initiative of two passionate researchers, one French, myself, the other Italian, Maurizio Martinelli. It was while writing for the famous English ufo magazine Flying Saucer Review that we decided to unite our knowledge and respective skills in the writing of this book.
The appeal of this biography will surely arise from the fact that it comes from a wealth of original, never-before published, material. The authors have had access to original documents, now in their ownership, that illuminate a most remarkable life.
As a matter of fact, in parallel with my research into George Adamski, I had begun hunting for the slightest bit of information concerning this “Dr. Williamson” about whom Adamski spoke so laconically in the bestseller, Flying Saucers Have Landed.
Two questions underlaid my approach. The first: who was this “Dr. Williamson” who had witnessed the “contact” of Adamski and had made the plaster casts of the hieroglyphic message left by the extraterrestrial in the sand of Desert Center?
And secondly: what had become of him after November 20, 1952?
These two very simple questions nevertheless inaugurated fifteen years of research and meticulous investigation, resulting in surprising discoveries.
As the documents accumulated, a new “Dr. Williamson” began to take shape, one whose complex and enigmatic personality could barely be imagined through merely reading Flying Saucers Have Landed. In fact, “Dr. Williamson” had nothing to envy George Adamski for – who was, as I shall show, only a short-lived fellow traveler – and he turned out to be a “contactee” himself and became an influential writer within ufological and esoteric circles.
Crowning my efforts and giving even more incentive to push my research deeper into the world of George Hunt Williamson, in the 1990’s I had the opportunity to acquire the original manuscripts (ribbon copies) of three of his main books, Other Tongues–Other Flesh, Secret Places of the Lion, Road in the Sky. These were his three master-pieces, and came with part of his personal archives, including notebooks of his explorations, about a hundred letters, documents relative to his family, photos, etc. In brief, a unique information source and one that yielded new information.
The other “bonus” of this work is that it combines the views of both authors on the pioneer that was Williamson, each of us bringing his own insights to the subject; myself with a more ufological and esoteric approach, and Maurizio Martinelli with a more anthropological and archaeological one; the whole introduced and completed by the alternate “third eye” of Alain Moreau, who was kind enough to write the foreword.
We thus present in this essay the most exhaustive possible picture of George Hunt Williamson, both before and long after the pivotal date of November 20, 1952, the day when he was confronted with the existence of an “Other Reality”, an “Other Space” and when for him and his wife Betty Jane, everything was going to change…
Michel Zirger
Tokyo, 2014
michel-z@qc4.so-net.ne.jp
Michel Zirger (b. Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, currently living in Japan), French UFO researcher, one of the world “scholars” on the figure of George Hunt Williamson (and of George Adamski), about whom he has written many articles. Th ese include the seminal one titled “George Hunt Williamson revisité” in the well-known French UFO magazine Lumières dans la nuit, (nº 357, 2000).
Maurizio Martinelli (b. Carrara, Italy) Ufologist as well as true connoisseur of the fi gure and works of Zecharia Sitchin, has published articles for Italian and foreign magazines, and the book Apu-An. Il Ritorno del Sole Alato (“Apu-An. e Return of the Winged Sun”), Verdechiaro, 2011.