Other Voices [Paperback]

Timothy Green Beckley (Author), George Hunt Williamson (Author)

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Publication Date: December 15, 1996

The author was one of the original witnesses at the meeting between contactee George Adamski and Orthon from the planet Venus. Williamson claims that he also underwent contacts with aliens and even received transmissions over his radio from friend extraterrestrials. Others have claimed the same. Barry Goldwater, for example, reportedly heard mysterious signals on his HAM set and our own astronauts have reportedly picked up messages not transmitted from earth.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Inner Light (December 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0938294644
• ISBN-13: 978-0938294641
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,659,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The UFOs Speak Out!, April 20, 2001

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Steven Sean Casteel (Ventura, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Other Voices (Paperback)

Since the UFO phenomenon first entered the public imagination in 1947 with pilot Kenneth Arnold's original sighting near Mount Rainier in Washington state, many different forms of contact with the UFOs and their occupants have been claimed by numerous witnesses. However, one frequently overlooked form of communication with the aliens consists primarily of that most simple of methods: voice contact, or "conversation" by means of opening one's mouth and speaking. In "Other Voices," the story of a small group of people and their brave attempt to establish a link with aliens they assumed to be benevolent Space Brothers, the idea of communication by means of the spoken word is explored and produces some surprising results.

"Other Voices" is essentially a reprint of a book entitled "The Saucers Speak," by George Hunt Williamson and Alfred Bailey. Originally published in the 1950s, it still has a great deal of relevance to today's UFO scene. Much of what the authors prophesy has indeed come to pass, and the warning the aliens send about nuclear war and environmental doom is still as urgent as it ever was in spite of the thawing process that the Cold War has undergone in recent years.

Williamson and Bailey, according to Timothy Green Beckley's new and updated introduction, "were ham radio operators who claimed contact with extraterrestrial beings who were continually broadcasting messages to them from spaceships circling in the Earth's uppermost atmosphere. At the time, these authors came under fairly heavy verbal attack as the mere idea that aliens were setting foot on our world seemed a much more remote concept than it might now be considered in this day and age."

Times may not have changed as much as Beckley would hope. Ridicule continues to be the norm for witnesses who come forward with tales of contact with aliens. Even further, Williamson and Bailey are clearly examples of what was called in the 1950s "contactees," a term that today is shunned by even the mainstream UFO community and is understood to mean people on the outer edges of the lunatic fringe.

But "Other Voices" still manages to reach impressive levels of credulity. The authors at one point say that the aliens instruct them to project their own thoughts onto the message to a lesser degree, implying that the human mind tends to cloud the transmission. That looks very much like a telltale realistic detail that separates alien intent from the "psycho-babble" of mere mortals.

At another juncture, the authors say that the young people of their time are beginning to be schooled in the true doctrines of the aliens, receiving a message about peace, love and brotherhood. That statement, first made in the early 1950s, seems uncanny when one recalls the blossoming of the Flower Children in the next decade, armed with their message of pacifism that could conceivably really have come from outer space because it was so alien to the mindset of America's youth prior to those times.

Beckley's introduction also recounts numerous other instances of radios and televisions being jammed with strange voices speaking messages about impending doom, so it is apparent that the phenomenon continues unabated to the present day. While "Other Voices" serves on one level as a refreshing bit of 1950s contactee nostalgia, it also stands the test of time and continues to breathe life into the idea that radio and television voice contact with the Space Brothers may one day be the method by which their existence is finally proven and the deliverance they promise is actually realized.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "Boarding" with the Space Cadets, May 17, 2006

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Rory Coker (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Other Voices (Paperback)

As another reviewer noted, this is a reprint of THE SAUCERS SPEAK by George Hunt Williamson and Alfred J. Bailey, from 1954. Williamson was one of the more unusual figures to emerge during the classic era of "saucer contactees" in 1952 - 57. He became a follower of pioneering contactee George Adamski in 1952, but the two soon broke up because Williamson insisted on continuing his own contacts with friendly space aliens, via Ouija board, instead of depending on cult leader Adamski to provide the Space Brothers' latest opinions on everything.

I never met Adamski or his competitors such as Truman Bethurum and Daniel Fry, but those who did told me that if you spent much time with these guys, the mask would sooner or later drop and they'd say something like, "can you believe that people really believe this stuff?!?" Williamson would never have had such a moment. You can still purchase on the Internet a CD of him "channeling space-alien Hatton in the Sol-Tec language, giving the history of the legendary planet, Maldek." He's completely serious! You can see him beginning to invent this semi-comical "language" in the book under review here, except that he calls it the "Solex Mal."

Much is made in the book's introduction, and in another introduction by T. G. Beckley, of short-wave Morse code radio communications with space aliens, but in fact essentially all the communications reported in this book are via a home-made Ouija board. The board messages make a bit of sense, although they manifestly have nothing to do with space aliens and a lot to do with gentle competition between Williamson and Bailey as they moved the water-glass "planchette" around a hand-drawn pattern of letters and numerals on cardboard. It's a good thing there are so few "radio contacts," since they tend to go like "SR AGFA AWA PERI K-4 K-4 PERI AFFA AGFA ZO PERI."

Williamson's aliens have about the same messages as Adamski's aliens, or Adamski himself in books of "wisdom" he wrote in the 1930s. All the planets of the solar system are earthlike, the sun is not hot, all "space aliens" are completely human, and all are good Christians, but they seem to know a lot of Theosophy as well. And they are convinced that the human race will destroy itself in an atomic war before the 1950s are out.

The author of the first "introduction," Beckley, doesn't seem to have read the book closely, because he retells the urban legend of Marconi picking up mysterious radio signals "from Mars," apparently unaware that within the text Williamson tells a totally incompatible variant of the same legend.

I'll save for last the thing that had me rolling on the floor with laughter. Perhaps the most famous line in the 1950 movie THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is the message from alien Klaatu to robot Gort, something like "Klaatu barada nikto." Williamson and Bailey don't turn a hair when they get a message from "Zago of Contact Group" that goes, in Solex, "Udum Regan Vec Yonto Nictim Barraga." No report as to whether Gort received the order, or what he then did!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VOICES FROM OUT OF NO WHERE, April 24, 2001

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This review is from: Other Voices (Paperback)

THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST FANTASTIC ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN. . .Until recently, I didnt realize that there was a copy of OTHER VOICES still in print. A collector of Ufo and New Age books -- a good friend of mine -- had told me about reading some of the works of the late researcher George Hunt Williamson. I was familiar with the fact that Williamson was one of the purported witnesses to the famous contact between contactee George Adamski and the space being identified as Orthon in Adamski's FLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED book.I was immediately turned on to this volume because I remember over a decade ago I was in North Carolina visiting relatives in the small town of Lumberton when a strange things began to happen. Mysterious voices were being picked up on the radio, tv sets and even over the telephone. The voices was very mechanical soundling -- like a computer (if anyone knew what a computer was back then). The voice always said the same thing -- something about how it was circling over head in a space craft -- and it would be about the same time at night that the voice would start talking, repeating the same thing over and over again.I read an article by editor Timothy Green Beckley that he wrote for the now defunct SAGA magazine, about how even astronauts were hearing such voices on their closely monitored wave bands only open to NASA communications. Who is behind these OTHER VOICES? And what are they really trying to say? Williamson tells his own story matter of factly, and Beckley tries to make the most of what is seemingly happening.Voices talking to us from out of thin air are nothing new. Read LOST JOURNALS OF NIKOLA TESLA and other such volumes if you want background into this type of material. Mediums have been going into trances for decades and speaking in other tongues.Its a fascinating topic and this book hopes to shead some light on this mystery out of time and space.