Cosmic Circle of Fellowship

The Circle was founded by postman and UFO contactee William R. Ferguson, who had previously promoted techniques of "absolute relaxation" that he claimed allowed him to travel to other dimensions.

Ferguson began to gather followers in the 1940s over his purported cosmic healing techniques, including a "clarified water device" called the Zerret Applicator that he claimed Khauga had taught him about.

Following his release from prison, Ferguson founded the CCF in 1954 in Chicago, after he said he had received a vision from aliens that UFOs were beneficial and desired to help the Earth.

[4] He claimed that while he was in one of these states of absolute relaxation, on July 9, 1938, his body became charged with energy and he was transported to the Seventh Dimension, where he stayed for two hours, resulting in the illumination of his soul.

[8] He claimed that on Mars, one could swim in the water without getting wet, breathing was unnecessary, and that the food was simply absorbed and did not need to be excreted.

[10][9] Martians were said to be "twenty thousand years ahead of earthlings in spiritual evolution and scientific development", and were concerned with the state of the Earth, having decided to "release positive energy particles into the earth’s atmosphere [...] to counteract the negative energy particles that man himself has released".

[6] In the 1940s, Ferguson began to gather followers mostly related to "cosmic healing techniques", particularly a "clarified water device", which he said had been taught to him by Khauga.

[15] Instructions for usage were to hold the applicator with all ten fingers on both hands, without crossing one's legs, at least three times a day for 15 minutes.

[7] In 1963, an issue of the magazine Popular Mechanics listed the Zerret Applicator among the "typical fraudulent machines", in an article on quack medicine.

"[15] The next year, Ferguson and Stanakis were charged federally with a violation of the Pure Food and Drug Act, for "entering a misbranded therapeutic device into interstate commerce".

[3] During the federal trial in 1950, presided over by judge John P. Barnes, it was demonstrated by American nuclear physicist Bernard Waldman, using a Geiger counter, that the zerret contained no radioactive material.

[9][10] In 1954, he attempted to sell a policewoman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin a "brain-relaxing helmet", and told her that in 14,000 years she would return to her home planet of Saturn; as a result the police sought him.

[10] That same year, the Canadian newspaper The Kingston Whig-Standard wrote an article on Ferguson and his claims of Mars travel, calling him a "very remarkable man".

[2] He claimed that the leaders of Venus, oligarchs, told him to tell the people of Earth that UFOs were visiting them to help, in a time when it was approaching its "next evolutionary step", a "Four Dimensional Consciousness".

[4][22] Their second annual "Interplanetary Space Conference" began September 13, 1957 in Washington, D.C.[23] A speaker at this conference was Wayne Aho, who played audio which he claimed was "conversations of Venutians", who "described life on their planet and told of inter-planetary experiences"; this audience included some people from the Pentagon, who the 'Allentown, Pennsylvania-based 'Sunday Call-Chronicle noted as "seem[ing] skeptical of the whole thing".

The Sunday Call-Chronicle connected this meeting to the supposed sighting of several flying saucers in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania that had occurred the same day, though said it may be "merely a coincidence".

[25] In an article on the group's meetings, the San Francisco Examiner called the Cosmic Circle of Fellowship "the space-age religion".

[22] Ferguson claimed the group's teachings were based "upon the revelation of the Blessed Jesus" and that they were "in harmony with the laws of the Expressed Creation".

We invite all people of the Planet Earth to join us in fellowship and the worship of Alpha and Omega.A key belief of the CCF, shared with many other UFO movements, is that benevolent extraterrestrial beings communicate with the group members and leader directly and often.

[24] Various other beings who were said to communicate with CCF members included Melchizedek and Zestra, viewed as the male and female rulers of the Solar System who lived inside the sun.