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George Adamski (April 17, 1891 – April 23, 1965) was a Polish-born American citizen who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he claimed to have photographed ships from other planets, met with friendly Nordic alien "Space Brothers", and to have taken flights with them. The first of the so-called contactees of the 1950s, he styled himself to be a "philosopher, teacher, student and saucer researcher." though was often considered to be deluded or a fraud.[2

喬治·亞當斯基George Adamski1891年4月17日1965年4月23日)波蘭裔美國人,因表示照到來自其他星球的太空船照片,與外星人見過面,以及曾經與他們一起飛行過,因此在幽浮學界成名。他自認是個「哲學家、導師、學生以及飛碟研究員」。

Rockford Register article on Adamski's Queen Juliana visit and rumored future visit with Queen Elizabeth II. Copyright © Rockford Register.
Rockford Register article on Adamski's Queen Juliana visit 
and rumored future visit with Queen Elizabeth II.


《山城搜奇》ep45–星際政治(Exopolitics)之George Adamski外星人接觸個案

主持:卓飛, Jacky 嘉賓: Neil Gould(Exopolitics Hong Kong 代表) Exopolitics Hong Kong網頁:[url=http://www.exopoliticshongkong.hk]http://www.exopoliticshongkong.hk[/url]

本集內容: George Adamski是最出名的外星人接觸個案之一。 而且他所接觸外星人的人證物證更比Billy Meier更多、更可信。 George Adamski早於1928年以開始與外星人接觸,當中有幾次更被帶到外太空 到達金星以及月球背面。 當中,George Adamski更拍下無數相片,連柯達公司亦曾親口承認相片的真實性。 並後,他認識了英國貴族Lislie,獲得權威性的支持以及信任,兩人更合力撰寫了《Flying Saucer have landed》一書,成為外星人接觸個案的重要參考書之一。 本集《山城搜奇》將會為大家介紹George Adamski接觸個案。

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George Adamski (1891-1965)

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Early years

Adamski was born on April 17, 1891 in Poland.[3] At the age of 2, he and his family immigrated to America and settled in New York City.[3] At the age of 22,[4] from 1913 to 1916, he was a soldier in the 13th U.S. Cavalry Regiment K-Troop fighting at the Mexican border during the Pancho Villa Expedition.[3] In 1917, he married.[4] Adamski then moved west, working as a maintenance worker in Yellowstone National Park, and as a worker in an Oregon flour mill.[3] While in Laguna Beach, Adamski founded the "Royal Order of Tibet," which held its meetings in the "Temple of Scientific Philosophy."[4] In 1940, Adamski and some close friends of his moved to a ranch near California's Palomar Mountain where they dedicated their time to studying and farming.[4] In 1944, with funding from Mrs. Alice K. Wells, a student of Adamski, they purchased 20 acres (8.1 ha) of land on Palomar Mountain, where they built a new home called Palomar Garden and a new restaurant called Palomar Gardens Cafe.[2][3][4]

亞當斯基在1891年4月17日出生於波蘭。在他兩歲的時候全家移民到美國並定居於紐約市。22歲那年,從1913年到1916年他是一個軍人在墨西哥邊界打仗過。他在1917年結婚。之後遷移到西部,並在黃石國家公園擔任維護工人,也在奧勒岡製粉處擔任工人。

1965年4月23日,亞當斯基在馬利蘭州死於心肌梗塞,享年74歲。[1]


Ufology

On October 9, 1946, during a meteor shower, Adamski and some friends claimed that while they were at the Palomar Gardens' campground, they witnessed a large cigar-shaped "mother ship."[3] In 1947, Adamski took a photograph of what he claimed was the 1946 cigar-shaped "mother ship" crossing in front of the moon over Palomar Gardens.[3]

On May 29, 1950 Adamski took a photograph of what he alleged to be six unidentified objects in the sky, which appeared to be flying in formation.[3] Adamski's May 29, 1950 UFO photograph was depicted in an August 1978 commemorative stamp issued by the island nation of Grenada in order to mark the "Year of UFOs".[3][5]

On November 20, 1952 Adamski and several friends were in the Colorado Desert near the town of Desert Center, California when they are said to have seen a large submarine-shaped object hovering in the sky. Believing that the ship was looking for him, Adamski is said to have left his friends and to have headed away from the main road. Shortly afterwards, according to Adamski's accounts, a scout ship made of a type of translucent metal landed close to him, and its pilot, a Venusian called Orthon[1][6], disembarked and sought him out.[7]

UFO caught on camera near Kanab

UFO caught on camera near Kanab, Utah on 21st March, 1968.
This UFO is very similar to the craft that George Adamski claims to have seen.
Proof that Adamski was truthful or perhaps evidence that some hoaxers have no sense of imagination!


Adamski's photograph, which he said to be of a UFO, taken on December 13, 1952.

Adamski described Orthon as being a medium height humanoid, with long-blond hair, and tanned skin, and as wearing reddish-brown shoes, though, as Adamski added, "his trousers were not like mine".[1][3][7][8] Adamski said Orthon communicated with him via telepathy and through hand signals.[1][7][8] During their conversation, Orthon is said to have warned of the dangers of nuclear war and to have arranged for Adamski to be taken on a trip to see the solar system including the planet Venus, the location where Mrs. Adamski had been reincarnated.[3][7] Adamski said that Orthon had refused to allow himself to be photographed, and instead asked Adamski to provide him with a blank photographic plate, which Adamski says that he gave him.[3] When Orthon left, Adamski said that he and George Hunt Williamson were able to take plaster casts of Orthon's footprints, and that the prints contained mysterious symbols.[9]

Orthon is said to have returned the plate to Adamski on December 13, 1952, at which point it was found to contain new strange symbols.[3][10] It was during this meeting that Adamski is said to have taken a now famous UFO photograph using his 6-inch (150 mm) telescope.[10] The picture has since been identified to be a streetlight.[citation needed]

In 1954, Desmond Leslie is said to have witnessed several UFOs with Adamski while visiting him in California. He described one of them in a letter he sent to his wife while he was in San Diego:[11]

... a beautiful golden ship in the sunset, but brighter than the sunset ... It slowly faded out, the way they do.

In 1957 Adamski was the victim of a hoax letter sent by James W. Moseley. The letter was signed by the fictional "R.E. Straith", a representative of the non-existent "Cultural Exchange Committee" of the U.S. State Department. Straith wrote that the U.S. Government knew that Adamski had actually spoken to extraterrestrials in a California desert in 1952, and that a group of highly-placed government officials planned on public corroboration of Adamski's story. Adamski was proud of this endorsement and showed it around to bolster his claims (Moseley & Pflock 2002:124-27, 180).

In May 1959, Adamski received a letter from the head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying Objects Society informing him that she had been contacted by officials at the palace of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, and "that the Queen would like to receive you."[2] Adamski informed a London newspaper about the invitation, which prompted the court and cabinet to request that the queen cancel her meeting with Adamski, but the queen went ahead with the meeting saying that, "A hostess cannot slam the door in the face of her guests."[2] After the meeting, Dutch Aeronautical Association president Cornelis Kolff said, "The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole subject."[2] On May 21, 1959, the Rockford Register published an article on Adamski's visit with Queen Juliana and what was rumored to be an upcoming visit with Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

Adamski said that the photographs of the far side of the Moon that were taken by the Soviet lunar probe Luna 3 in 1959 were fake and that there were cities, trees, and snow-capped mountains there instead.[12]

Adamski's Golden Medal of Honor, which he claimed to have received during his meeting with Pope John XXIII.

Copyright © Adamski Foundation.
Adamski's "Golden Medal of Honor", which he claimed to 
have received during his meeting with Pope John XXIII

In 1962, Adamski's reputation began to decline after he announced that he would be going to a conference on the planet Saturn.[3] In 1963, Adamski claimed that he had a secret meeting with Pope John XXIII and that he had received a "Golden Medal of Honor" from the Pope.[12][13] Adamski, at the request of the extraterrestrials he was allegedly in contact with, met with the Pope in order to request a "final agreement" from him because of his decision not to communicate directly with any extraterrestrials, and also to offer him a liquid substance in order to save him from gastric enteritis that he suffered from, which would later become acute peritonitis.[14]

On April 23, 1965 at the age of 74, Adamski died of a heart attack in Maryland.[3]

Adamski UFO Encounter, Copyright 1995 by Jim Nichols



Criticism

His claims inspired a British copycat who went under the name Cedric Allingham. Yet, his one-time co-author Desmond Leslie wrote in 1970: "Of all the contactees, Adamski attracted the most controversy and odium; and none but a man of his strength of character could have survived the onslaught."[15]

The most common arguments contrary to Adamski's claims forwarded by skeptics is that the planet Venus is unable to sustain intelligent life due to its environmental conditions. These conditions include an atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface which is 92 times that of the Earth, clouds composed of sulfuric acid and an average surface temperature of 461.85 °C. Of course, no one could live under the surface of the planet, and as a result most consider Adamski's claims to be a scientific impossibility.

Inside The Space Ships is considered by some[16] to be a "remake" of a science-fiction book, ghost written by Lucy McGinnis, entitled Pioneers of Space which Adamski wrote in 1949. His often published photo of a flying saucer from 1952 has been identified (by the chairman of the British UFO organization in the 1970s) as the top of an Italian made ice-machine used in his café[citation needed], a streetlight (see above), as well as the top of a chicken brooder[17]. However, "Cecil B. de Mille's top trick photographer, Pev Marley, declared that if Adamski's pictures were fakes they were the best he had ever seen, while in England fourteen experts from the J. Arthur Rank company concluded that the object photographed was either real, or a full-scale model."[18]

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Cigar-shaped UFO along with a scout ships around it (© GAF)

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A Venusian scout ship (© GAF)


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Fortean Picture Library
The most celebrated contactee of the 1950s was George Adamski. New York radio and television personality Long John Nebel provided Adamski with a forum to promote his books and photographs, though Nebel did not hide his personal skepticism.

Books

  • Cosmic Philosophy (1961), self-published (reprinted 1972, Pine Hill Press OCLC 13371492)
  • Flying Saucers Farewell (1961), Abelard-Schuman, OCLC 964949 (reprinted 1967 as [The Strange People, Powers, Events] Behind the Flying Saucer Mystery, Warner Paperback Library, OCLC 4020003)
  • Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953), British Book Centre, ISBN 978-0-85-435180-0; published simultaneously in the UK by Thomas Werner Laurie (Reprinted various times)
  • Flying Saucers Have Landed, revised and enlarged edition (1970), Neville Spearman, UK, ISBN
  • Inside the Space Ships (1955), Abelard-Schuman, OCLC 543169 (Reprinted 1967 as Inside the Flying Saucers, Warner Paperback Library, OCLC 1747128) Currently in print from the George Adamski Foundation
  • Pioneers of Space: a Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus (1949), Leonard-Freefield, OCLC 4722893 (Reprinted 2008, Inner Light/Global Communications)
  • Wisdom of the Masters of the Far East (1936), Royal Order of Tibet (reprinted 1974, 2000, Health Research)

Adamski with a portrait of Orthon.

Adamski with a portrait of Orthon.

Adamski's photograph, which he said to be of a UFO, taken on December 13, 1952.

Copyright © Grenada
The right hand side of this August 1978 Grenada commemorative stamp 
depicts George Adamski's UFO sighting on May 29, 1950.

Other publications

  • "Many mansions" (1955), SS&S Publications, OCLC 45443779
  • "Petals of life: poems" (1937), OCLC 47304946
  • "Telenews" (1960-03-28), OCLC 79040262
  • "Telepathy: the Cosmic or Universal Language" (1958), s.n., OCLC 45443839
  • "Science of Life Study Course" (1964), self-published

George Adamski in popular culture

Literature Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke referred to ufologists as suffering from Adamski's disease in his novel 3001: The Final Odyssey. Video games In the video game, Mega Man 9, there is a UFO-based enemy named Adamski. This is probably a reference to George Adamski.

Adamski arrives in England

Adamski arrives in England during his world tour.



References


  1. ^ a b c Zinsstag, Lou (1983). George Adamski — The Untold Story. Beckenham, Kent, England: CETI Publications. pp. 5-6. ISBN 0-9508414-0-4. 
  2. ^ a b c d e "The Queen & the Saucers". Time (magazine). June 1, 1959. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811123,00.html. Retrieved 2007-04-27. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Scott-Blair, Michael (August 13, 2003). "UFO pioneer inspires site's astronomy theme". Sign On San Diego. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20030813-9999_7m13ufo.html. Retrieved 2007-04-27. 
  4. ^ a b c d e Solomon, Professor (1998). "It Can Happen to Anyone". How to Make the Most of a Flying Saucer Experience. Baltimore: Top Hat Press. pp. 54–56. ISBN 978-0-91-250907-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=oyE5I4afNhoC&dq=George+Adamski&as_brr=1. 
  5. ^ Smith, T.J. (June 2003). "Grenadas UFO Stamps". http://ufo_stamps.tripod.com/pages/grenada.html. Retrieved 2007-04-28. 
  6. ^ Master Plan website--Source of image of Orthon:
  7. ^ a b c d "Common sense abducted". Telegraph.co.uk. March 6, 2005. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/03/06/boapp206.xml&site=6. Retrieved 2007-04-27. 
  8. ^ a b Colin Groves in Skeptical — a Handbook of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal, ed Donald Laycock, David Vernon, Colin Groves, Simon Brown, Imagecraft, Canberra, 1989, ISBN 0731657942, p3
  9. ^ "Footprints Of Space Man". http://groups.msn.com/CosmicView/thedesertmeeting.msnw. Retrieved 2007-04-30. 
  10. ^ a b "George Adamski and the Flying Saucers from Venus". http://www.algonet.se/~hermesat/adamski.htm. Retrieved 2007-04-27. 
  11. ^ "Desmond Leslie". Telegraph.co.uk. November 22, 2001. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/03/20/db02.xml. Retrieved 2007-04-27. 
  12. ^ a b Stuttaford, Andrew (January 17, 2003). "Spirits in the Sky". National Review Online. http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/stuttaford/stuttaford011703.asp. Retrieved 2007-04-27. 
  13. ^ "About George Adamski". George Adamski Foundation. http://www.gafintl-adamski.com/html/AboutGA.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-01. 
  14. ^ Barbato, Cristoforo (2006). "The Omega Secret". UFO Digest. http://www.ufodigest.com/news/1206/omegasecret3.html. Retrieved 2007-04-30. 
  15. ^ Leslie, Desmond and Adamski, George, Flying Saucers Have Landed, Revised and Enlarged edition, London: Neville Spearman 1970, p.262.
  16. ^ Why I Can Say That Adamski Was A Liar, by Marc Hallet, May, 2005, SkepticReport
  17. ^ Wilhelmsen, Jim (2008), Beyond Science Fiction, Bloomington, IN, iUniverse, p.259
  18. ^ Leonard Cramp, as quoted in George Adamski - The Untold Story by Lou Zinsstag and Timothy Good (1983), p.176.

Further reading

  • Battaglia, Debbora; David Samuels, Christopher F. Roth, and Mizuko Ito (2005). E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-82-233621-1. 
  • Zinsstag, Lou; Timothy Good (1983). George Adamski — The Untold Story. Beckenham, Kent, UK: CETI Publications. pp. 208. ISBN 0-9508414-0-4. 
Zinsstag, Lou; Timothy Good (1990). UFO ... George Adamski — Their Man on Earth. Tucson, Arizona: UFO Photo Archives. pp. 208. ISBN 0-934269-21-1.


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George Adamski

George Adamski (1891-1965), Polish-American has been the first contactee. Adamski was absolutely convinced, against any critics or sceptics, that he was in contact with benevolent aliens from Venus, Mars and Saturn known as Space Brothers.

By Michele Bugliaro Goggia - last modified: April 12, 2007 1:22 PM

George Adamski (1891-1965), Polish-American has been the first contactee. Adamski was absolutely convinced, against any critics or sceptics, that he was in contact with benevolent aliens from Venus, Mars and Saturn known as Space Brothers.

George Adamski was a man coming from a poor family. For this reason, he could not attend University. Nevertheless, he "studied" by himself while taking little jobs here and there. In particular, he was to become a follower of Theosophy, a questionable "spiritual movement" that lead his entire life.

He joined the Army from 1913 to 1916 and fighted during the Mexican war, and got married in 1917 with Mary Shimbersky. He claimed to have been alcohol bootlegger during the Prohibition (1920-1933). Adamski also gave lectures about astronomy and philosophy in New Mexico, California and Arizona during cold winters, when there was no TV. In the late '20s he settled up at Laguna Beach teaching "Universal Law": practically a mix of Theosophy and of Christianism.

At last, he settled up on Mount Palomar, California, working as waiter for a local restaurant property of Alice Wells. His interest for flying saucers and astronomy was high. Most every night he spent hours looking at stars through a modest telescope. And belive or not, his speeches interested scientists and FBI, for he had the power to attract masses and change their mind!

Adamski's Golden Medal of Honor, which he claimed to have received during his meeting with Pope John XXIII. Adamski Foundation:The Only Authorized & Original Source for George Adamski information
From Eyepod.Org's Video Vault, Three of Adamski's UFO Films
The Pied Pipers of the CIA - Philip Coppens - As Skeptical View

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/47john_lear/02files/George_Adamski_001.html

Contact from Venus

Adamski claimed he met with one Nordic, surnamed by himself "Orthon", in 1952 at Desert Center. While his friends witnessed from distance the encounter, Adamski started a communication made of gestures and telepathy. Adamski wrote this first account in "Flying Saucers Have Landed" (1953) with his friend Desmond Leslie. while Leslie was more precise, Adamski was vague, excited but quite childish in telling the story (following Colin Bennet, Adamski was even bisexual). The dialogue, if we can call it so, is quite ridiculous. The story did go on: later, two more Nordics ("Firkon" and "Ramu") met and invited Adamski inside their ships, parked out of Los Angeles. Together they discussed with him topics like "universal law" and various problems of our planet. They showed him their engines and their space ships. Adamski decided to spread such accounts through the book "Inside The Space Ships" in 1955 and through world conferences.

Quickly, those who believed in Adamski gathered and a group was formed. Adamski's close friend Lucy McGinnis was in charge of managing it. It's strange how, during the encounters, he acted as he was hitted by a hammer on his head. The aliens did quite a monologue. Adamski did not ask the aliens anything important: the best he coud ask was if they organized parties! If you read carefully Adamski's writings you can see there's a clear influence of his beliefs.

Nevertheless, interest in his stories was high. Worldwide. His world tour brought him around the world, getting in contact with colllegues like Maj. Hans Petersen of Danish Air Force and Lou Zinsstag. On stage, the real Adamski revealed for what he really was: a non speaker. Adamski could be gullible, idealistic, non practical and, from the other hand, he could be intelligent, self confident, calm. It depended from which side of him was switched on. Furthermore, whenever he started talking about Universal Law he was such a bore. Europe welcomed him in a sceptical way, especially in Switzerland: "Der Spiegel" newspaper wrote an article that had fun on Adamski. He never read it, nevertheless he claimed the same article was well balanced and positive.

Adamski was a charming man. His visit card stated "Professor", even though he was not graduated. His followers claim he surely had telephatic capabilities. In 1958, travelling with Carol Honey towards Grants Pass, Oregon, he suddenly had a "telephatic hunch" . The "Professor" told Honey to drive back to a café they just had passed: as they entered, a small blonde woman (looking 12 years old at distance) approached the two. George changed attitude, acting like a drunkard, which made Honey suspicious. The woman demonstrated strong telephatic powers, so Honey concluded she must've been around a (45 years old) space person. You can laugh at this, but next day, in a Seattle hotel, Adamski took a call during which a voice told him the woman was not 45 and not who he thought, but her sister. In fact, George Adamski was sure she was Kalna! The Adamski case is full of such stories.

In Switzerland, Adamski's mind melt down. Crisis. During the 1960's, George Adamski was a disappointed man. Lucy McGinnis had left him, Europe was not interested in him anymore and his visions had fallen. Shortly, the paradisiac, venusian world had not come true.

A closer look at his evidence

His claims convinced his followers but not ufologists nor scientists. At a point, Adamski even claimed the FBI declared his photos to be genuine, which is wrong and caused him some troubles. First: his descriptions of the technology aboard the space ships suffers from an electromechanical view: plausible in the 1950's industrial hopes but surely not with ours. Adamski described no microchips, no fiber optics. Instead, everything is described in a general way.

Second: there's no life on Venus, Mars and Jupiter, nor on the Moon. And no animal running on the Moon surface. Even though Adamski tries to justify these claims in his third book, astronomical discoveries have only demonstrated there is no life, let alone a civilization, on Venus or on Mars. His books are only fiction. Author Marc Hallet writes:

"In fact, Inside The Space Ships is nothing more than a science fiction book. The best proof we have of this is that it is a "remake" of a science-fiction book entitled Pioneers of Space which Adamski wrote in 1949. That book was ghost written by Lucy McGinnis and is now very rare. You can order a microfilm copy from the US Library of Congress and easily compare its content with Inside The Space Ships."

Now the photos and videos. Many questioned the genuinity of his photos: most ufologists consider his photos as faked (a lamp or a part of a hoover), while a few (Leonard Cramp, Alan Watts, William Sherwood, Colman Von Keviczky and Bob Oechsler) consider the same images s genuine. Adamski wrote he quickly shot four photos. Unfortunately, Adamski required 35 manipulations with his telescope and camera just for one picture. Adamski could not shoot quickly four photos. And there is a fifth image, kept secret in Adamski's archive:

scout ship

It's a damaged disc or damaged model. Let's just recall teenager Stephen Darbshire who, in 1954, photographed a UFO similar to the Venusian scoutship. The Darbshire photo seems to be a hoax.

Adamski claimed he had found pictures on a film he gave to Orthon, in occasion of the 1952 meeting. Let's see two schemes of space ships. What do you see? Not much: every interesting, technical detail is missing:

scout ship

mothership

Now the Madeleine Rodeffer video, shot before his death, in which there's a close up view of the scout ship hovering over the trees, with one landing spheres moving up and down and a side of the saucer changing shape. Adamski shot the video. Quoting Marc Hallet:

"Some days later (in 1976), I put the film under a professional Olympus microscope in order to examine some very important shots. In a very short sequence, the Venusian scout ship seemed to move into in the distance and pass behind the branch of a tree. I focused on that branch and discovered that the density of the emulsion's particles was higher, exactly at the intersection point between the scout ship and the branch. In other words, the two objects were superimposed and, to tell it crudely, it was the unquestionable proof that the film was a trick produced by a double exposure."

According to May Morlet-Flitcroft and Lou Zinsstag's testimony, it was on May 13, 1963 that Adamski met Pope John XXIII. On St Peter Place, Rome, Adamski asked his two friends May Morlet-Flitcroft and Lou Zinsstag to stay there and wait for him. Then, he crossed through the crowds of tourists and disappeared behind a distant door. Adamski never met the Pope. His medal, claimed to be given from the Pope to Adamski, was nothing more than a tourist souvenir.

And there's one more: his famous venusian symbols received an astonishing confirm, ten years later, from an archeologist, Marcel Homet, who published, in 1965, a book featuring very similars symbols. Let alone these cannot be proper writings (too confused), Hallet states that the evidence is that the archeologist tried to attract attention to his book by a "mystery" he created himself.

Enough to demonstrate Adamski's claims are pure fantasy.

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Profiles in pseudoscience: George Adamski!

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Adamski's second bestseller, published in 1955

Inside The Space Ships

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GEORGE ADAMSKI!



One of the defining moments of 20th Century pseudoscience occurred in the fall of 1953 when Californian George Adamski modestly announced to the press that about a year previously (November 20, 1952) he had met and communicated with a man from Venus! This historic event had taken place at Desert Center, CA,  in the presence of eyewitnesses! No sooner had the wire services distributed the story than a book co-written by Adamski appeared in stores— Flying Saucers Have Landed. Naturally, it sold fairly well.

“Professor Adamski” and his 6-inch Newtonian reflecting telescope in 1952.

Adamski was born on April 17, 1891, in Poland. He and his family moved to New York when Adamski was less than two years old, and he grew up in Dunkirk, NY, where economic hardship forced him to drop out of school in the 4th grade. In later years Adamski never wrote anything himself, preferring to dictate to a secretary, and it's possible he was a bit ashamed of his inability to spell simple english words.  A few years before World War I, Adamski served in K-troop of the 13th US Cavalry, on the Mexican border. His tombstone lists his World War I military service as private, Company A, 23rd Batallion, US National Guard. He is supposed to have married Mary Shimbersky in 1917, but there is little or no reference to her in his subsequent history, although she seems to have stayed with him until her death, reportedly in 1954. After his marriage he did maintenance work at Yellowstone National Park, worked at a flour mill in Oregon, and did concrete contracting work in Los Angeles. In the early 1920s in California he seems to have been exposed to the I AM cult, and Katherine Tingley's version of Madame Blavatski's pseudoreligion of Theosophy, and in about 1926 or 1928 he began to found a succession of  several Theosophy-based religious organizations of his own, the best known being the “Royal Order of Tibet,” whose so-called “monastery” was established at Laguna Beach sometime in the 1930s. Adamski, as contemporary newspaper accounts indicate, had grandiose plans for his cult, including the creation of  a large campus like Katherine Tingley's Lomaland at Point Loma, CA.  His plans came to nothing, and in 1939 or 1940 Adamski and his tiny flock of converts moved from Laguna Beach to a rural area near Mount Palomar, California, where they established a commune called “Valley Center,” where they lived under quite primitive conditions. In 1944 Adamski and his followers (then numbering less than a dozen in total) built and staffed a tiny hamburger stand at Palomar Gardens, on the lower slopes of Mount Palomar, beside the road leading up to the famed Observatories. Their still-primitive commune was relocated to the area behind the cafe, as seen from the road. Adamski began to hint that he was a “consultant” to the astronomers doing research on Palomar, and started referring to himself as “Professor Adamski.”



He made enough money to buy a 15-inch reflecting telescope which was protected within a small observatory shed, and began to talk about his important “astronomical research.” He also accepted as a gift from a follower a 6-inch Newtonian reflecting telescope, which because it was readily portable was far more useful in establishing some of his later flying-saucer-related claims. It also had a camera attachment which used clumsy wooden Speed-Graphic-style film-holders.

On June 24, 1947, the flying saucer myth first took wing with the report that a private pilot named Kenneth Arnold had seen a fleet of mysterious crescent-shaped objects manuvering near Mt. Rainier in Washington State. It was the gimmick that Adamski had been searching for since his coming to California. Almost at once he began to show his followers photographs of cigar-shaped (and later disk-shaped) “spacecraft” from other worlds, which he claimed to have made using his 6-inch telescope. He also claimed to have first spotted such spacecraft nearly a year before Arnold, on October 9, 1946. His followers today usually date his first photos to 1948; the correct date seems to be 1949. His first nationwide publicity came when an article, illustrated with his saucer photos, appeared in FATE Magazine, September, 1950.

Adamski incorporated both his religious teachings and the flying saucer myth into a science-fiction novel, Pioneers of Space: A Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus,published in 1949 by a vanity press, Leonard-Freefield of Los Angeles. This novel was ghost-written by Lucy McGinnis, a follower whom Adamski had appointed his “secretary,” partly based on dictation from Adamski, and partly on previously-printed  pamphlets expounding on Adamski's doctrines, which wildly mixed Theosophy and Christianity. The very poorly written novel tells of the first expedition from the earth to the moon, during which the earth explorers discover entirely human-looking inhabitants who turn out to live on every planet in our solar system. For the rest of the novel, the superhumanly wise extraterrestrials pontificate philosophically and religiously to the open-mouthed earthmen. Their ideas correspond precisely and specifically to those of Adamski's cult.  Science fiction magazine editor Ray Palmer noted  that Adamski had previously submitted short stories based on the same material, none of which were accepted for publication.

Orthon, the man from Venus, who appears to have tongue in cheek in this rendering.

Adamski's first “nonfiction” book, Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953) is almost entirely a summary by British Theosophist Desmond Leslie of Theosophical teachings regarding ancient astronauts, Atlantis, Lemuria, ancient Egypt, the mythology of India, the friendly human inhabitants of Venus, and late-1940s flying saucer lore. In the back is a very short section contributed supposedly by Adamski, but actually written by Clara L. John, recounting his supposed meeting with a Venusian in 1952, and going on to describe how he took a number of telescopic photos of the Venusian's Scout Ship saucer when it flew over Adamski's home a few weeks later. The famed 1952 meeting with the man from Venus was “witnessed” only by six members of his cult— Alfred and Betty Bailey, George Hunt and Betty Williamson, Alice K. Wells and Lucy McGinnis— allegedly from a distance of 100 to 200 yards! In fact all they saw was Adamski telling them to stay put, then walking up and over a hill, and then about an hour later walking down back to them, and telling his story.

Most reviewers of the book commented that the photos were the only things contained therein that were even remotely interesting. Expected journalists who came to Adamski's home in 1953 - 56 to hear about his revelations from the Space People often found him in his backyard garage ostentatiously fiddling around with bar magnets of various sizes and shapes. He would then confide to the reporters that he was trying to discover the secret of the marvellous Venusian magnetic space ship propulsion system. A one-time follower, Karl Hunrath, who noticed what appeared to be a small flying-saucer prop lying on the ground behind the garage, was told that it was a new type of TV antenna Adamski was experimenting with.

Adamski's 1953 “contact” claims inspired a wave of imitators,Inside the Space Ships (1955), which was based almost word-for-word on the last half of his earlier ghostwritten novel. From late 1953 until his death in 1965, Adamski crisscrossed the US, eventually taking a “world tour” of England and Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, giving radio and TV interviews and paid lectures about his space voyages and the philosophical teachings of the friendly, wise Space Brothers from Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, while showing slides of his photos of the Scout Ships and mother ship. Some references indicate Adamski became quite wealthy from these speaking tours, while others claim that his lectures were poorly delivered, poorly attended, and not moneymakers. The truth probably lies somewhere in between, since Adamski's speaking tours continued with few breaks until his death. In a sense, however, Adamski's fame came a bit too late. In 1956 he was already 65, and obviously not in good physical condition. all of whom one-upped Adamski by claiming to have been allowed inside the saucers, and even taken for a ride. Adamski responded with

By 1960 Adamski appeared gaunt, weak and ailing.

Adamski after a public lecture in the late 1950s. Note the cigarette and the fact that he has sweated completely through his suit coat.

Adamski's final book, Flying Saucers Farewell (1961) is a scrapbook-like hodge-podge actually compiled by several of Adamski's assistants. In the last 5 years of his life, Adamski managed to alienate almost every one of his remaining followers by filling his monthly mail-circulated newsletter with increasingly comical claims, such as that he was off to Saturn for a week to attend an invitation-only conference for Cosmic Masters of Wisdom like himself.  Those followers not offended by his initial claim were aghast at his followup claim that he had decided  to travel to the conference, not via space ship, but using astral projection, while his body remained behind to be protected by his aides!

After showing the same tired set of saucer photos for more than a decade, Adamski was apparently persuaded finally to try something new. Just before his death of a heart attack in Maryland on April 23, 1965, Adamski made some very short, very goofy-looking color 8 mm movies of Scout Ships darting randomly and erratically over a wooded landscape... moving much like blowing scraps of paper, or large insects.

 

A single frame from Adamski's best-known 1965 8 mm movie of a scout-ship model. The weird apparent bending of the saucer is in fact a warping of the thick, multilayer Dynacolor emulsion; the same warping is seen in background trees and vegetation in the other two films. Adamski owned a 16 mm movie camera, seen at left, but these films were made with an 8 mm camera borrowed from a follower, Mrs. Redeffer. A brief but correct discussion of how Adamski made the film can be found here.

While a very tiny remnant of the original Adamski cult still survives in the US, he seems to be best remembered today in Europe and Japan. If he is remembered at all, by the world at large, it is still for the photos he published in 1953's Flying Saucers Have Landed,which he was careful to copyright individually, and for which his one or two surviving followers retain the copyright to this day. Because of the copyright, the photos are seldom reproduced, and difficult to find posted anywhere on the Internet, which ironically serves to keep Adamski's current modest fame to a minimal level. A fair idea of what the photos were like can be found here— on a page featuring both Adamski originals and some imitations by others. Other photos are posted here. Adamski's original photos from the early 1950s seem to show a light fixture, complete with three ordinary incandescent light-bulbs that are half-concealed by a circular plate. To me it looks like the removable top of some cylindrical object, the lower part of which was heated by the bulbs, at least one of which appears to be tinted red. Perhaps it was indeed the top of a Sears Chicken Brooder, as many claimed at the time the photos were first published. In fact, famed rocket engineer Walther Riedel pointed out to James Moseley in December of 1953 that examination of one of Adamski's photos with a microscope readily reveals the familiar GE trademark on one of the bulbs. [See p. 69 of Moseley's Shockingly Close to the Truth (Prometheus, NY, 2002).]

Adamski with the 6-inch  Newtonian reflector and sheet-film camera given to him by a follower. By racking the eyepiece to the limit of its tube, it was easy for Adamski to take photos of small floodlit saucer models indoors using essentially the same setup as for astronomical photos outdoors.

When I read Adamski's first book in late 1953 at the tender age of 13, I instantly recognized that the basic features of Adamski's Scout Ship were borrowed closely from Frank Scully's 1950 book, Behind the Flying Saucers, a hoax account of the finding of three crashed flying saucers in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico by military and industrial expeditions. The three-ball landing gear and many other features of Adamski's saucers seem to be inspired by the not-very-detailed descriptions of Scully's imaginary saucers. Adamski personally knew Scully and con-man Silas Newton, who invented the hoax, and they are even acknowledged indirectly at the end of Flying Saucers Have Landed.

Note the infrared chicken-brooder bulb serving as one of three “ball” landing gear, and also note the reflections of three floodlights from that bulb. The photo was obviously taken indoors. Some suppressed photos show the outer rim of the “saucer” to have a big dent on one side. Note also the absence of glass in the “portholes.”

Strangely, or not so strangely, Adamski's mythology directly inspired only one movie, Britain's Stranger From Venus (1954) based on a screen treatment by Desmond Leslie himself. It is an imitation of the 1951 US film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, rewritten to make the connection with Adamski's Venusian mythology.

Two Adamski followers, Townsend T. Brown and Agnew Bahnson, built an exact copy of Adamski's Scout Ship in the late 1950s, about the same size (a foot to a foot and a half in diameter), with magnets placed as specified by Adamski. They claimed to be surprised when it just sat there, not taking off by itself.

The Venusian Adamski first encountered was named Orthon, who himself became the Jesus-figure of a religious cult started in England in 1961 by Richard Grave. The British cult spun off a Danish satellite, led by Knud Weiking. The cults attained a brief celebrity in 1967 with their predictions of the eminent end of the world, with Orthon of course offering the only hope of salvation.

Some other “Venusians” who made personal appearances at Flying Saucer Conventions in the late 1950s and early 1960s include Viviann Venus (with authentic girl-next-door looks), the handsome Valiant Thor, and much later, the exotically beautiful Omnec Onec. None of them claimed to know Orthon. Adamski's South African follower Elizabeth Klarer, in the late 1950s, was one of the very first to claim to have been abducted by space aliens; she related how Adamski-style space brothers had taken her to a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, how one had become her lover, how she had given birth to a child, and then returned to earth with the child remaining behind to be raised properly as a Cosmic Master of Wisdom. An amusing and reliable volume covering all the classic 1950s “contactees” and their very, very strange relationships is Shockingly Close to the Truth, by James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock (Prometheus, NY, 2002). Moseley is one of the very few, perhaps the only one, who personally met and talked with all the strange or gullible people who were prominent in 1950s and 1960s flying saucerdom. Another good recent book about Adamski is How to Make the Most of a Flying Saucer Experience, by Professor Solomon (Top Hat Press, 1998). See also In Advance of the Landing, by Douglas Curran (Abbeville Press, 1985, 2001).

Modern chicken brooders remain quite saucer-like. Does this image stimulate any ideas for UFO photos?

Authentic Adamski footage of a Venusian scout ship? Well, maybe not.

Was it all worth it, George? Adamski looks totally exhausted on one of his speaking tours. The stress of these tours might well have shortened his life. In addition, some who knew him personally tell me he was a heavy smoker and a very heavy drinker. However, he still lived to the age of 74.

Before 1952, the photos Adamski showed were all inexpert images of the moon, taken through his 6-inch telescope, with a superimposed cigar-shaped, circular or elliptical “saucer.” It was clear that he was taking negatives of photos of the moon and simply painting on them with a fountain pen loaded with black drugstore ink. I did this myself about the same time and it worked surprisingly well. Arthur C. Clarke pointed out in 1953 that Adamski sometimes inked the saucer outside the circular field of view of the telscope, so that the saucer (if real) would have had to be inside the tube of the telescope!
 

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