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According to Wikipedia, "Robert L. Short (above, left) was an American Christian minister and the author of several books of 'popular theology,' including the 1965 bestseller, The Gospel According to Peanuts." Short (aka Bill Rose) is the original founder (read: The first Earth being to propose the existence) of the Ashtar Command, as well as an editor for Interplanetary News, a 1950s "UFO magazine." Short became friends with George Van Tassel, with whom Ashtar Himself (aka Ashtar Sheran) conversed on several documented occasions in 1952-1953, largely to caution humanity against future attempts to "discover ... how to explode the atom." Unfortunately, Mr. Short felt that "Ashtar's communications (through Van Tassel) should become more commercial and mainstream, in order for personal notoriety, not for a truth to the public. Due to Mr. Short's difference of opinion to Van Tassel, their friendship parted on bad terms. Mr. Short soon there after began Ashtar Command." Short died in 2009; "George Van Tassel died of a heart attack in Landers, California in 1978."