Bell, Fred (1940-)

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Bell, Fred (1940-)

Fred Bell, a flying saucer contactee, was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After high school he joined the Air Force. He was trained to work on radar and was stationed at a facility where numerous UFO contacts were tracked. Following his time in the Air Force, he worked with Rockwell International and then as a consultant to various companies in the aerospace industry. It was during this time that he became interested in Eastern spirituality and studied with several spiritual masters. He also obtained a degree in alternative medicine and became a lecturer on behalf of the National Health Federation (an organization advocating freedom of medical choice for the public).

In the 1970s Bell became well known as a contactee, claiming contact with Semjase, the extraterrestrial from the Pleiades first introduced to the public through the writings of William "Billy" Meier, the Swiss contactee. Popular UFO author Brad Steiger wrote about Bell in his 1988 book The Fellowship, and then collaborated with Bell in the production of a fictionalized autobiography, The Promise (1991). The latter book suggested that the Pleiadians had come to the Earth in ancient times, during the Atlantis era. At one point, an evil cabal arose and stole the advanced teachings of the Pleiadians in order to gain dominion over the Earth. They took their struggle to Egypt but were blunted by their inability to gain a Pleiadian artifact, a small jeweled medallion which gave anyone who wore it access to advanced scientific information and also transferred power to the brain.

According to Bell's story, his father discovered the medallion while in Egypt in the 1930s. However, he was killed in the effort to keep it from the Nazis, the modern representatives of the evil Atlanteans. The medallion eventually came into Bell's possession. He then went to Egypt, where he met Semjase and found a book containing information on Pleiadian science and technology. Semjase communicated to him that she had a mission of sharing the technology from the Pleiades with the Earth. The transfer of that technology has been authorized by the intergalactic Andromedan Council. The Pleiadians were also attempting to activate human wisdom.

Through the 1990s, Bell has been a popular lecturer at UFO and New Age gatherings. More recently, he authored a second book, Rays of Truth-Crystals of Light (1998), introducing some of the Pleiadian technology, much of which makes contact with the older teachings of the Western Esoteric tradition.