Editing Ground Crew Project (section)

==Split==
In December 1997 Nidle split with Valerie Donnell, his secretary and the Ground Crew's chief administrator, for reasons that weren't clear as both parties posted alternative accounts of the schism. However, Donna appeared a rather "comic character" whose postings undermined the "more lofty, aesthetic standards of Nidle's prose".<ref name=Helland2000p142/><ref>Palmer, Susan (2003) pp339-341</ref>  But she also took the rights to the Ground Crew name and website with her, forcing Nidle to start a new organisation.  Donner maintained the Ground Crew website, posting channelled messages with a UFO content which included the Galactic Federation.  However the website focussed on personal spiritual transformation and came from a more new age angle: angels, fairies, telepathy, communing with plants, etc.<ref name=Helland2000p142/>

Nidle then founded the Planetary Activation Organisation, and restructured this organisation as the only source for messages about the Galactic Federation.  It was set up as a hierarchical, bureaucratic system, and small Planetary Activation Groups were established.  Nidle then began to create a "Web of Light" to unite similarly minded groups concerned with the environment, government conspiracies and UFOs.  New narratives emerged concerning the spiritual evolution of humanity and the role of Planetary Activation.<Ref>Helland, Christopher (2000) pp142-3</ref>