UFO Religions After 1947: Theosophical Roots, Space-Brother Narratives, and Controversies

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Postwar UFO religions blend belief in extraterrestrials with revelatory narratives, drawing on Theosophical and occult currents and precursors like I AM and Spiritualism, led by charismatic contactees such as George King, Ernest and Ruth Norman, Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, and Claude Vorilhon (Raël), offering structured teachings without fixed scriptures or institutions, modest dispersed memberships, and diverse ethical aims and practices, with ongoing online outreach, Raëlism often regarded as the largest among them, while official disclosures have yet to yield verifiable extraterrestrial evidence.