Aetherius Society (founded 1955).
documentedsource_actorContactee & UFO Religion
UFO religion founded in London by George King on claimed contact with 'Cosmic Masters'; a real, surviving organization (low-thousands membership) widely cited as the oldest continuously-operating UFO religion. Beliefs and rituals are documented; the ET-contact basis is a claim.
[DOCUMENTED] Real new religious movement (London, 1955; US HQ Los Angeles from 1959; chapters in UK, Southern California, New Zealand). Syncretic - Theosophy plus yoga, millenarianism, reincarnation/karma, New Age and UFO elements (Rothstein). Practices: 'Spiritual Energy Batteries', Operation Prayer Power (1973), environmental activism (Earth as living goddess). Scholar John Saliba notes it is, unusually for UFO religions, largely uncontroversial. [CLAIM] King said the Cosmic Masters (Aetherius of Venus; an 'Interplanetary Parliament' on Saturn) chose him as 'primary terrestrial channel' ('The Command', 1954), that Jesus/Buddha/Krishna are extraterrestrials, and that he received 600+ transmissions to 1997.