Published at 13:09, Friday, 28 August 2009

MORE than 30 UFO believers from all over the world gathered at the top of a Lake District fell to spread a message of peace.

Members of the Aetherius Society from as far afield as Australia and Ghana joined the pilgrimage to the Old Man of Coniston on Sunday.

They believe the mountain is one of 19 across the world which have been “charged” with spiritual energy by extra-terrestrials from Venus and Mars.

Members of the society say their founder, George King, was able to contact religious figure heads, including Jesus, Buddha and Krishna, who they believe to be aliens. He transmitted the energy from their messages of peace to the mountains in the 1950s.

Society member David Trimble, 70, who was among those who joined the trek, hailed the event as a great success, in spite of difficult weather conditions.

He said: “It was absolutely fantastic. We divided into three prayer teams – one at the bottom, one two thirds of the way up and one right at the top.

“We prayed for world peace and sent energy out to all the trouble spots of the world including Iraq, Iran and the Sudan.”

According to society members, the 2,635ft Old Man was “charged” by Dr King in December 1958. Since then, it has been a place of biannual pilgrimage for society members, who hope to use the energy to alleviate world suffering.

Mr Trimble added: “These alien beings are trying to help mankind and, in terms of the mountains, we can generate an enormous amount of power.

“We’ve literally been able to move mountains and stop wars.”

The pilgrimage was led by Mervyn Smith, a former Coniston resident who now lives in London and has climbed the fell more than 500 times before.

At the same time, similar meetings were held at other “charged” mountains around the world.

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