Alien Digest

History

The Alien Digest was published by the Aquarian Church of Universal Service, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious, research, philanthropic, and educational organisation based at PO Box 1116, McMinnville, Oregon 97128. The author identified himself only as "Creston" and described himself as a professional UFO researcher who had studied the phenomenon compulsively for over 25 years, reading "almost every magazine, book, news report and article written on UFOs," attending every convention he could find, and conducting hundreds of interviews with witnesses and abductees.

Creston was frank about his circumstances: he had never been paid for his research. Friends who understood his obsession took turns providing food, shelter, and workspace. The Alien Digest was his first attempt to publish findings from those 25 years of full-time, unpaid investigation. Volume 1 appeared around 1990, with four issues in the archive.

The Aquarian Church provided the organisational framework. Its stated philosophy blended esoteric Christianity ("man was made in God's image" interpreted as consciousness-reflection in a holographic universe) with New Age metaphysics (multi-dimensional realms, frequencies, vibrations). The church maintained that "Science and Religion must eventually unite as they approach the Absolute Truth" and encouraged members to "question, doubt, and critically examine our own most cherished beliefs." Subscribers to the Alien Digest need not be church members.

The table of contents for Volume 1 reveals the scope: "The Alien Agenda in a Nutshell," "What if an Alien Threat Really Does Exist?," "Secret Wars," "Star Wars: A Defense Against Aliens?," "Spacecraft Propulsion Engines," "UFO/Earth History," "Do We Have A Treaty with Aliens From Space?" Later volumes covered alien types, abduction specifics, implants, cattle mutilation explanations, alien bases, and human mutilation cases.