Enid Brady, Bob Ewing, and the Voices from Space

In August 1957, US military officials at the Pentagon examined evidence of extraterrestrial visitors. Robert Ewing said he was in regular contact with aliens, and he that they had appointed him their ambassador. At the Pentagon, he presented a 90-minute tape of a message from space.

It began in Florida with Enid Joan Brady. At the age of two, Enid emigrated with her parents from England in 1909 and settled in Ohio. She began her career back in the 1930s, training as a medium in Los Angeles, appearing in psychic demonstrations with Felicia Crossley’s Institute of Metaphysical and Psychic Sciences. By 1936, Enid was lecturing and performing on her own as a spiritualist, and soon became known as Reverend Enid Brady based in Canton, Ohio, speaking across the USA. 

By 1954, she had relocated to Daytona Beach, Florida, and was advertised as a "Noted Camp Worker, Spiritualist and Trumpet Artist." There, she held religious services as the "First Christian Spiritualist Church” in a dingy meeting room at the faded Prince George Hotel.

Brady later said her UFO fame came after “four year’s research,” which would mean she began in 1953, the year George Adamski and Desmond Leslie’s Theosophy-based book on contact with Venus was published, The Flying Saucers Have Landed. In 1955, Enid formed the Daytona Beach Flying Saucer Research Club, with an announcement published in the New Age and UFO newsletter, The Little Listening Post, Dec 55/Jan 56 issue. Publisher Clara John said Enid Brady had called to tell her about it, and that she also “gave much intimate ‘contact info’.” Max Miller’s Saucers, March 1956 carried listing of UFO Group Meetings:

“FLORIDA, Daytona Beach -- Flying Saucer Research Group, 8 p.m., 1st & 3rd Friday, Prince George Hotel, 212 N. Ridgewood. Contact Enid Brady (Clinton 2-9996).”

Home of Enid Brady's church, flying saucer club, and press center.

In January 1957 Enid’s club began organizing a flying saucer convention and invited the Gray Barker of the Saucerian Bulletin and James W. Moseley of Saucer News to speak at the event. There’s no record of who attended, but it’s claimed that Donald Keyhoe lectured for them.

As a medium and spiritualist, Enid served as a voice for those in the spirit world. Something changed in the mid-1950s when Rev. Brady began to channel voices from Venus. But no one really heard about until she picked up a partner.

Robert Ewing lived in Edgewater, Florida. After graduating Dartmouth College in 1937, he went to New York to sell small planes and manage a small airport near Olean, NY. He moved south and was a television salesman when he met Enid Brady. This profile from The AOPA Pilot magazine, May 1959 (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) provides a good introduction.

Ewing was interested in flying saucers, and when he heard about Brady’s contact in 1957, he became her partner and publicity agent. Bob Ewing’s business letterhead he described him as "Representing the Planet Venus." In late August 1957, he arranged a press conference and demonstration of contact.

Enid Brady sat in a chair, closed her eyes, and then her body stiffened, and she began speaking in low-pitched voice. For the press, Rev. Brady channeled Johan, a Venusian man stationed on “Satellite Five,” orbiting far above the earth. Johan told about how his people’s ancient civilization had been flying their ventlas (spaceships) to observe earth for over 200 years. The ventlas had small generators that converted magnetic space force into electrical energy for propulsion. After he was done, Cymatrili began speaking, a higher, elegant voice, a 250-year-old woman (Venusians could live to be 700), a master teacher. The Venusians said they were peaceful and that our planet was finally mature enough for contact. They would be sending a ventla landing party between November 22 and 28, touching down nearby, and the attending reporters would be notified for interviews.

Orlando Sentinel, Aug. 22, 1957

Later news articles described Johan’s voice as low, Cymatrili’s as high, as if Enid Brady was using stage voices for different characters. Most of the messages echoed that from other Theosophy-derived Contactee stories but the tales were richer in texture, with the different model ventlas and the growing cast of characters, Cymatrili, Johan, Mandall, Hamatra and the others stationed on the Venusian satellites orbiting the Earth. Reporter Norman Wolfe covered the story as further details emerged over the months in frequent articles for the Orlando Sentinel.

Ewing revealed that Venusians “look like Earth people but have finer features and are tall.” However, “Martians are short, like Pygmies, and are very strong.” The two planets were friendly, both spoke the same language and visited the earth. “In 1954 three Martians landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California and were taken into protective custody by the United States. From a study of the Martian aircraft the U.S. learned how to make planes which now take off vertically.”

Wolfe reported that merchandise was planned, “Ewing hopes to sell recordings of Cymatrli’s voice and a book supposedly dictated by her. He says Columbia Records is interested in an album.”

Orlando Sentinel, Sept. 8, 1957

A flurry of local press followed, but Ewing wanted to get the message to the top. He travelled to Washington, DC and joined with flying saucer advocate, Wayne S. Aho, a retired Army major. They were able to obtain a meeting with Defense Department officials and play the taped messages from Venus for them.

Ewing said, “I visited the Pentagon several days ago and told them of my contact with Venus. They told me I would hear from them.” Meanwhile, back in Washington, Wayne Aho was getting impatient and told the United Press about the Pentagon meeting and played a copy of Brady’s tape for them. The story made the papers across the USA, but the press was unfavorable. After hearing the tape, the Defense Department concluded that it was at best, “Unimpressive and unconvincing.”

La Grande Observer, Sept. 19, 1957

The complete UP story ended with the final sentences:

 “Also, when their ships fly over Dew Line (the radar warning network) they will signal in Morse code V-E-N-T-L-A. Aho noted that in agreeing to the signal system, the voices from Venus "were not speaking for ships from other planets, just their own."

In the flying saucer business, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Ewing became a local celebrity, as a Contactee who spoke to aliens. Somehow, Enid Brady was often relegated to a supporting role, like a magician’s assistant.

Orlando Sentinel, Sept. 10, 1957

Bob Ewing played another taped message from Venus at a Cocoa Beach fish fry in late September. Enid wasn’t there, but Wayne Aho attended to lend his support. A new voice was heard from, Hilee, director of flight training on Satellite Five. The big news was that Venus was monitoring our atomic weapons development and had recently destroyed the test flight of a faulty Atlas missile to prevent anyone from being harmed. Also, there was supposed to be a saucer landing at Patrick Air Force base that weekend. It didn’t happen, but there were some various sighting reports.

Ewing continued the publicity campaign with Rev. Brady, and they flew to Miami for another press conference.

Miami Herald, Sept. 30, 1957

The same issue ran a profile on Ewing.

Miami Herald, Sept. 30, 1957

The Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 1, 1957, reported that Rev. Brady channeled the message from Venus that they were represented by six voices on earth, two others in the US, one in the UK, George King (of the Aetherius Society), and one each in France and Russia. Further details of the Venusian’s bases and ventla flights were also revealed, like the fact that they can bend light rays around their ships to become invisible.

In a United Press story, Enid commented on the Soviet Sputnik satellite program, saying it was insignificant compared to what the Venusians already had done long ago.

Orlando Evening Star, Oct. 5, 1957

Brady and Ewing travelled to attend the annual convention of the National Spiritual Association in Portland, Maine, and while they were away, there were a few local sightings back home.

The Portland convention trip resulted in a major media story by George W. Cornell, who reported on religion for the Associated Press. His Oct. 17, 1957, article summarized the events and relayed the negative opinion from the National Spiritual Association, “At this time, we feel this communication with Venus has no bearing on spiritualism.” Some new details emerged, including the claim that the Venusians’ original mission was to halt the pollution of space from our atomic blasts, and they had sent the “green fireballs” to neutralize the radiation.  Ewing said, "I thought it was all a lot of bunk at first. I'm a practical guy, and I didn't believe it. But now I've talked to them enough to know it."

Eugene Guard, Oct. 19, 1957

There was some notable flying saucer activity in November, like the Levelland, Texas UFO sightings, and far less credibly, the Reinhold O. Schmidt encounter in Nebraska. His spacemen were from the wrong planet, Saturn, but Wayne Aho latched on to the Schmidt story for a while and vanishes from this one. Enid Brady and Bob Ewing benefited from the late 1957 flying saucer flap but did not connect their franchise to the other events or overtly claim it as part of the Venusian contact program.

Minister Gilbert Holloway (a Contactee himself) capitalized on Enid’s celebrity status while advertising her appearance in Miami for two shows at his New Age Church of Truth.

The New Era

“Venusians Fail To Land As ‘Promised’.” The November deadline came without any ventlas arriving. But there had been a caveat, the aliens allegedly told Ewing they would land “when the time was right.” Prophecy never fails.

Orlando Sentinel, Nov. 29, 1957

Bob Ewing was back with another story later in the year. He claimed the Venusians had sent a package of “vital information” to the US military to assist them in their missile and rocket research. They’d dropped it in a lake. As for the November landing, it had been scrubbed due to the presence of “unfriendly people who apparently meant no good to the Venusians.”

Vivian McMillian’s column in the Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 19, 1958, reported on the debut of a five-page flying saucer newsletter, The New Era:

"We have just read a copy of The New Era, a bulletin being published by Bob Ewing and Miss Enid Brady on their 'contacts' with the Venusians. According to the bulletin the ventlas will start flying again soon in the 'second stage' of their operation to penetrate the consciousness of the earth people and acquaint them with their plans for eventually landing and assisting the earth people to find peace and a better way of life. The bulletin goes on to say that Johan, communications officer for satellite five, flatly states that the Russians have definitely launched humans into space and furthermore that it was a woman who was sent into space in the Russian satellite. Also, according to Johan, Russia's Sputnik No. 1 will not fall to earth until June of this year."

Feb. 7, 1958, the Lions Club sponsored a Space forum held at Cocoa High School. Besides Enid Brady and Bob Ewing, “Sitting on the panel will be men from the following professional fields: Dr. J. R. Doty, physician; Charles B. Schneer, electronics; R. Moehle, meteorology; Rev. E.L. Stanton, theology; William Roundtree, law; James Glendinen, laymen; Comdr. A.L. Jacobsen, U.S. Navy Vanguard project; and possibly a member of the U.S. Air Force.”

In March, the papers announced that Enid Brady’s Daytona Beach Flying Saucer Research Club was holding a one-night convention at the Prince George Hotel, “featuring (seven) principal workers in the field of unidentified flying objects,” including authors and lecturers on the subject. No names were given, but the Miami convention featured “Dr.” George Hunt Williamson, Rev. John McCoy, and Judge Frank B. Dowling, talking about flying saucers, ancient peoples, and religion.

Bob Ewing managed to keep his name in the press with minor saucer news. While visiting relatives in New York, Ewing made an unscheduled appearance on the Long John Nebel’s radio show on May 30, 1958. He explained that “Miss Brady and I are given to understand by the Venusians that we represent them, with the little bulletin that I put out, ‘The New Era,’ …are given instructions and guidance. We are unpaid employees of the planet Venus, as we see it.” Unfortunately, Ewing did not bring a tape of Enid’s trance contacts to play on the air.

Long John Nebel with Bob Ewing, 5/30/58 (YouTube, 3 hours)  

A few months later, Ewing was back in the Florida papers with another whopper.

Orlando Sentinel, Aug.17, 1958

We found no mention of either Brady or Ewing in UFO-related matters in 1959. According to an article in the April 19, 1959, Orlando Sentinel, Bob Ewing took a job with the spiritualist magazine, Psychic Observer, published in Southern Pines, North Carolina. 

Enid Brady carried on without Ewing, but she did not abandon the saucer business. She’d moved her church from Daytona Beach to its own home at 1531 Center Ave., Holly Hill. In May, “The New Era” bulletin was renamed “Golden Era Letters,” published and edited by Enid Brady.

Former site of Enid Brady's church

The Miami Herald, Feb. 8, 1960, published an article that indicated the Brady-Ewing saucer business was over. It was short on details, but Enid Brady distanced herself from the saucer prophecy with a peculiar claim, “I’ve discovered something that leads me to believe there is no such place as Venus -- as we conceive it.” Bob Ewing was “now selling swimming pools.” 

No Venus? It had been previously revealed that the Enid had been talking to people on orbiting space stations, not with anyone actually on the planet Venus. Maybe they'd fibbed about being from Venus, or? Maybe she lost Venus in some kind of custody battle with Ewing. Bob showed up in a few Miami talk show listings, the last press we found for him was in Sept. 1960, billed as an “ESP specialist,” and “press agent for Venus.”  

Norbert F. Gariety, publisher of the saucer newsletter, S.P.A.C.E. frequently covered Brady’s exploits. In July of 1960, Gariety, said, that Enid Brady informed him, “the space people are bringing here to this planet, new types of animal life and also… new types of flowers are also appearing, of which there was no prior record.” He paid Enid attended a meeting at Enid’s church and wrote about her “mental contact with visitors from other planets.”

S.P.A.C.E. Sept.1960

Enid’s advertising frequently mentioned her “Space Contact” work. She published “Space Bulletin” through the mid-1960s, and around the same time she also published issued a 7-page booklet, “Atlantis Rediscovered.” She continued to travel to Miami, and in Dec. 1960, Enid lectured for the Mark-Age (UFO-related religious organization) alongside Contactee Gloria Lee, but apparently something was off. In S.P.A.C.E., Jan. 1961, Norbert F. Gariety carried a notice at Brady‘s request: “she is no longer associated in any way with ‘Mark-Age’ or ‘Cosmon Research.’” (Both connected to Gloria Lee.)

Throughout the early 60s Enid's lectures continued to deal with otherworldly contact, with such titles as “Voice From Outer Space.” 

Miami News, Jan. 17 & 22, 1966

The last mention of Bob Ewing we could find was of his 1966, appearance on “The Betty Groebli Show” on WRC. Skeptic Philip J. Klass interviewed Ewing, who was described as a “space medium.”

Enid was about done with the UFO business, too. Larry Bryant wrote that,” in early January 1967, she wrote me about having received a threatening phone call. She said it so unnerved her that she decided forthwith to suspend publishing the [Space] Bulletin. She suspects the man making the call was a CIA operative.” After that she kept the space contact work on the "hush-hush side." There was one final documented Enid Brady extraterrestrial encounter.

 

The 1968 Oak Island Séance and the Space Entities

In 1973, Esquire magazine reporter Don Rosenbaum said he found transcripts of three 1968 seances that Oak Island treasure hunter Dan Blankenship attended. Rev. Enid Brady of Daytona Beach was hired as a medium, and on Jan. 12, 1968:

“… according to Rev. Brady, it was successful. Two ‘space entities,’ as she called them, were summoned in the Mount Vernon seance, and in this and the ‘many’ others that followed, Blankenship was told facts about Oak Island never heard before. The two space entities, Athea and Hambul. confirmed the existence of the treasure, Rev. Brady said [and also] how to retrieve it.”

The Palm Beach Post, Feb 28. 1973

Enid Brady’s First Christian Spiritualist Church was renamed at the end of the 60s, and from 1969 on it was called the Little White Church, affiliated with the National Spiritualist Association. She continued to perform in public, but seldom mentioned anything like ventlas.

In the late 70s, Rev. Brady was teaching classes for the Daytona Beach community college for parapsychology at her church in Holly Hill.

In the article about her saucer days for the MUFON Journal, Jan. 1983, “Enid Brady’s E-T Contact Legacy,” Larry W. Bryant wrote, “In an effort to bring myself up-to-date on her status, I called her on April 16, 1982...” 

We found no mention of Rev. Brady’s lectures or ministry after March 1983, and it seems Bryant’s piece seems to have written about the time of her retirement. We found no record of the death of either  Enid Brady or Bob Ewing, but it's near certain they've since moved on to another world. We toast them as two Ufologists That Time Forgot.

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Edna Spencer: The Flying Saucer Apostle of Detroit

Edna Sophia Spencer (June 5, 1915 - February 18, 2005) was a UFO activist, organizer, and lecturer  active in Detroit, Michigan, but also reached a national audience.  It was 1959 when Edna's flying saucer interest became more focused in 1959 when she encountered the Aetherius Society. From Mysteries of the Unknown: The UFO Phenomenon, Time-Life Books, 1985:

“[The Aetherius Society was] founded in 1956 by George King, a former taxi driver, in London. King, who had an interest in Eastern mysticism… sitting in a trancelike state one day when he allegedly received messages from extraterrestrial beings. Through them he learned, he said, that Jesus and several saints were alive and living on Venus. …the members of his society believe in ‘thought power’ and ‘prayer power.’”

George King’s message was derived from Theosophy and the Contactee belief system, and he taught that flying saucers were the vessels of peaceful spiritually advanced Cosmic Masters who could save us from destroying ourselves. King was the vessel for their message, and on May 21, 1959, King demonstrated contact by channeling an extraterrestrial voice on the BBC TV program Lifeline.

Lifeline: "Mars and Venus Speak to Earth"

Enter Edna Spencer

Shortly thereafter, King sailed to the USA to spread the word, lecturing across the country on his way to a flying saucer conference. In June, King lectured in Detroit, Michigan, where he caught the attention of Edna Spencer, 44, who was employed as an executive secretary. She’d left the Episcopal church several years earlier after developing an interest in psychics and spiritualism, and had “dabbled for some time in metaphysics and flying saucer groups.”

Afterwards, Edna ordered King’s booklet, The Twelve Blessings, and studied King’s teachings. “I had already satisfied myself that flying saucers were real, and that they were trying to be of help to Mankind – but I never realized that they were tied to the Master [Jesus]. I was just astounded.” Edna was persuaded to join the cause, and in February 1960 organized the Aetherius Society branch in Detroit. Initially, the group met at the YWCA, led by Edna, who was aided by her sister, Mrs. Vivian Ramesbottom. Together they built up a small core group, and with visitors, there were usually about forty people attending meetings.

After King’s stop in Detroit in 1959, he continued west across the US, and spoke in July at Los Angeles, California. The event was organized by Gabriel Green, the first Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America Convention in July, where King lectured alongside most of the major Contactee figures. King set up house there, and by the next year, he was able to incorporate the Aetherius Society as a non-profit spiritual organization, which helped establish credibility for him and the enterprise.

Operation Starlight

In her day job, Edna Spencer was seldom in the spotlight, but as the leader of the Detroit branch of TAS, she was a local celebrity and even was featured in nationally syndicated newspaper stories. She said, “I wouldn't have believed 10 years ago that I’d be on radio and TV or making lectures.” 

While not previously a climber, in 1960, she was among a select group of believers making annual pilgrimages to “holy mountains” charged with spiritual energy by the cosmic masters from space. King called the venture, “Operation Starlight.” 

Operation Starlight on Castle Peak, May 2, 1960

Edna organized events and press coverage for King’s appearances in Detroit, and she played a big role in the publicity the Aetherius Society received in the USA and Canada. The photo below is from King’s appearance on a Detroit radio show during the promotion of You Are Responsible!, his book published in late 1961. 

As King’s fame grew, so did his status and titles. By 1962 King was being described as “reverend,” and shortly afterwards he began billing himself as “Dr. George King.”

A sampling of Edna's 1962 media appearances.

Edna regularly traveled to participate in King’s special events and she also spent her Christmas vacations every year at the Los Angeles headquarters of the Aetherius Society. During some of her trips, she also spoke to the press about the organization and its work.

Fish Invaders and the Moon Landing

In 1964 Edna travelled to lecture in Pennsylvania, sharing the word of TAS via tapes of Dr. King channeling messages from Venus. She explained how our planetary brothers provided protection for our planet. “Earth was saved from destruction March 5, 1962, when friendly forces from Mars and Venus staved off an attack by fishlike creatures from another galaxy which coveted our vast water supplies.” 

Edna’s incredible story came from a reputable source, chapter 5 of King’s book, You Are Responsible!, where he described water-dwellers from planet “Garouche” and their sinister plan saying, "The idea of these monsters was to kill all humanoid life on Earth and then inhabit the seas which cover a greater part of the surface." How King was able to write about the events before they happened is a mystery, but then he had sources in high places.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 3, 1964

Edna was spreading the message across the USA, but Not everyone appreciated the effort. The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) was down on Contactees, seeing them as crackpots harmful to the credibility of the UFO topic. NICAP's Affiliate / Subcommittee Newsletter, May 28, 1965 featured Richard Hall’s top “Five Most Wanted List” of people to watch out for. 

Hall later cautioned that out of libel concerns, the list was “…intended to be private background information… not to be quoted verbatim.”  The NICAP article stated that George King was a probable psychotic and that the Detroit TAS chapter was headed by Mrs. Edna Spencer. Hall was mistaken; Edna was unmarried.

For Edna’s lecture for high school students in Belle River, Ontario, Canada, she apparently toned down the religious aspects, instead focusing on the message that flying saucers are real, they appear worldwide, and they are harbingers of peace. 

Edna’s TAS branch was frequently featured in the Detroit Free Press, and their Sunday Detroit magazine, April 2, 1967, carried the 3-page article on them from Booby Mather, “How to Keep an Earthly Eye Cocked on the Cosmic Masters.” The author’s take was that Edna was interested in forming a tight unit of Aetherians and explaining their mission to the public, not in campaigning for new members.

Link to PDF of the full Detroit magazine article.

Later the same year, Edna was interviewed for another Detroit publication, Fifth Estate # 39, magazine, Oct. 1-15, 1967, “‘Master Jesus on Venus’ Claims Detroit Group.”  She told them that the Cosmic Masters in flying saucers “are not allowed to interfere with our free will in anyway nor force anything upon us which is one of the reasons why they cannot land openly until our governments or the majority of people have invited them or, at least, we have become aware of these things.”

NASA’s manned landing on the moon prompted reporters to ask Edna about her thoughts on the events, and stories were carried nationwide by the New York Times News Service and the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA). Edna explained that insisted that primitive man was not allowed to go beyond the earth, but our small steps toward enlightenment had earned us permission to go to the moon. However, we’d be allowed to go no further until mankind ended war, materialism, and accepted the Master of Aetherius.

The Detroit Free Press, July 21, 1969 (Excerpt)

  

Operation Prayer Power

George King created a "Spiritual Energy Battery" that contained ground crystal that he said would allow the power of prayer to be stored until needed to deal with times of crisis in the world. In 1973 King launched “Operation Prayer Power,” where he led pilgrims in chanting the holy mantra, “Om mani padme hum,” while a team leader redirected their collective energy of love into the battery.

Edna and her group joined King at a meeting in Utah to add their prayer power to charge his battery.

Story of a Battery collection, and of the claim of a successful discharge.

In 1974 Edna Spencer delivered a lecture that would inspire the future leader of the branch. Gary Blaze wrote at the Facebook page of The Aetherius Society - Royal Oak (Michigan), saying, 

“My first TAS activity was in 1974, Edna giving a lecture about the Holy Mountains of the World..... her absolute [certainty], conviction, sincerity, and joy in her Work was enough for me to stay and find out more.”

Gary Blaze joined the group and was also featured in the article, “Detroit’s Aetherians: Waiting for wisdom from the Cosmic Masters” in the Detroit Free Press, Sunday magazine on July 25, 1976. Alan Mass’s article profiled the organization and featured biographical details on Edna, and it documents that at that time, the Michigan branch did not have their own prayer battery. They just had a mock-up to practice on. Without King’s crystals, it was just a box on a tripod.

Link to PDF of the full Detroit magazine article.

The Contact We Crave

What drew Edna Spencer and others to George King’s religion? Almost anyone who spends much time looking at the sky will see a distant UFO, but only a relatively few people experience closer encounters. King allowed a closer connection. He presented himself as a person who had traveled beyond our planet and a vessel for the higher beings in the universe; their voice on Earth to teach a message of peace and love. But it was more than that. Most religions involve some sort of audience participation through prayers, song, or rituals. King took that further, incorporating technology like the prayer battery, allowing followers to take an active part by contributing their energies for the sake of the world. Edna was dedicated, proud to serve the cause, and proud of the devout members of her branch, saying, “We have no deadwood.”

Edna’s Detroit branch’s faith was rewarded when they finally received their own prayer battery. On the Facebook page of The Aetherius Society - Royal Oak (Michigan), March 6, 2010, Gary Blaze posted a photo of George King “Presenting a spiritual power battery to the Detroit Branch Organizer, Edna Spencer.”

Around this time, King was expanding the franchise, introducing new operations, concepts and products, such as King’s book, You Too Can Heal, 1976. 

Throughout the rest of the 70s, Edna continued her work in representing the Aetherius Society, lecturing in the area and appearing on television to spread the word.

Clippings from the Detroit Free Press and the Windsor Star, 1977 – 1979.

In 1980, Edna Spencer turned 65, and after retirement, she permanently moved to California to join worship at their Los Angeles headquarters. While she remained active in TAS, her role in Los Angeles was far quieter than her days in Detroit as the public face of the organization.

George King died on July 12, 1997. Edna S. Spencer died in Franklin, California, on February 18, 2005 at the age of 89. Her sister Vivian Jean Ramesbottom died on March 27, 2009, and her memorial service was held at the Aetherius Church in Royal Oak, Michigan. 

The last mention we found of Edna Spencer in UFO literature was in Douglas Curran’s 1985 book, In Advance of the Landing, where he spoke to her in California at the US headquarters of TAS. She reflected on meeting George King in 1959: 

“It was amazing, it was like a fever! ... back at that time flying saucers were brand new and there weren't all these movies on flying saucers around. It amazes me to realize that there's a generation who grew up with that — they don't know anything different.”

From Douglas Curran’s 1985 book, In Advance of the Landing.
“Members of the Aetherius Society charge a Spiritual Battery. Hollywood, California."

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For more information on the story of George King and the Aetherius Society, see the article at the World Religions and Spirituality Project site, and Farewell Good Brothers, the 1992 documentary on Contactees directed by Robert Stone.