George Adamski

George Adamski (1891-1965), Polish-American has been the first = contactee.=20 Adamski was absolutely convinced, against any critics or sceptics, that = he was=20 in contact with benevolent aliens from Venus, Mars and Saturn known as = Space=20 Brothers.

By Michele Bugliaro Goggia - last modified:=20 May 4, 2006 5:47 PM

George Adamski (1891-1965), Polish-American has been the first=20 contactee. Adamski was absolutely convinced, against any critics or = sceptics, that he was in contact with benevolent aliens from Venus, Mars = and=20 Saturn known as Space Brothers.

George Adamski was a man coming from a poor family. For this reason, = he could=20 not attend University. Nevertheless, he "studied" by himself while = taking little=20 jobs here and there. In particular, he was to become a follower of = Theosophy, a=20 questionable "spiritual movement" that lead his entire life.

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

At last, he settled up on Mount Palomar, California, working as = waiter for a=20 local restaurant property of Alice Wells. His interest for = flying=20 saucers and astronomy was high. Most every night he spent hours looking = at stars=20 through a modest telescope. And belive or not, his speeches = interested=20 scientists and FBI, for he had the power to attract masses and change = their=20 mind!

Contact from Venus

Adamski claimed he met with one Nordic, surnamed by himself = "Orthon", in=20 1952 at Desert Center. While his friends witnessed from distance = the=20 encounter, Adamski started a communication made of gestures and = telepathy.=20 Adamski wrote this first account in "Flying Saucers Have Landed" (1953) = with his=20 friend Desmond Leslie. while Leslie was more precise, Adamski = was=20 vague, excited but quite childish in telling the story (following Colin = Bennet,=20 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=20 "Ramu") met and invited Adamski inside their ships, parked out of Los = Angeles.=20 Together they discussed with him topics like "universal law" and various = problems of our planet. They showed him their engines and their space = ships.=20 Adamski decided to spread such accounts through the book "Inside The = Space=20 Ships" in 1955 and through world conferences.

Quickly, those who believed in Adamski gathered and a group was = formed.=20 Adamski's close friend Lucy McGinnis was in charge of managing = it. It's=20 strange how, during the encounters, he acted as he was hitted by a = hammer on his=20 head. The aliens did quite a monologue. Adamski did not ask the = aliens=20 anything important: the best he coud ask was if they organized = parties! If=20 you read carefully Adamski's writings you can see there's a clear = influence of=20 his beliefs.

Nevertheless, interest in his stories was high. Worldwide. His world = tour=20 brought him around the world, getting in contact with colllegues like = Maj.=20 Hans Petersen of Danish Air Force and Lou Zinsstag. On = stage, the=20 real Adamski revealed for what he really was: a non speaker. Adamski = could be=20 gullible, idealistic, non practical and, from the other hand, he could = be=20 intelligent, self confident, calm. It depended from which side of him = was=20 switched on. Furthermore, whenever he started talking about Universal = Law he was=20 such a bore. Europe welcomed him in a sceptical way, especially = in=20 Switzerland: "Der Spiegel" newspaper wrote an article that had fun on = Adamski.=20 He never read it, nevertheless he claimed the same article was well = balanced and=20 positive.

Adamski was a charming man. His visit card stated "Professor", = even=20 though he was not graduated. His followers claim he surely had = telephatic=20 capabilities. In 1958, travelling with Carol Honey towards Grants Pass, = Oregon,=20 he suddenly had a "telephatic hunch" . The "Professor" told Honey to = drive back=20 to a caf=E9 they just had passed: as they entered, a small blonde woman = (looking=20 12 years old at distance) approached the two. George changed attitude, = acting=20 like a drunkard, which made Honey suspicious. The woman demonstrated = strong=20 telephatic powers, so Honey concluded she must've been around a (45 = years old)=20 space person. You can laugh at this, but next day, in a Seattle hotel, = Adamski=20 took a call during which a voice told him the woman was not 45 and not = who he=20 thought, but her sister. In fact, George Adamski was sure she was Kalna! = The=20 Adamski case is full of such stories.

In Switzerland, Adamski's mind melt down. Crisis. During the = 1960's,=20 George Adamski was a disappointed man. Lucy McGinnis had left him, = Europe was=20 not interested in him anymore and his visions had fallen. Shortly, = the=20 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=20 point, Adamski even claimed the FBI declared his photos to be genuine, = which is=20 wrong and caused him some troubles. First: his descriptions of the=20 technology aboard the space ships suffers from an electromechanical = view:=20 plausible in the 1950's industrial hopes but surely not with ours. = Adamski=20 described no microchips, no fiber optics. Instead, everything is = described=20 in a general way.

Second: there's no life on Venus, Mars and Jupiter, nor on the = Moon.=20 And no animal running on the Moon surface. Even though Adamski tries to = justify=20 these claims in his third book, astronomical discoveries have only = demonstrated=20 there is no life, let alone a civilization, on Venus or on Mars. His = books are=20 only fiction. Author Marc Hallet writes:

"In fact, Inside The Space Ships is nothing more than a science = fiction=20 book. The best proof we have of this is that it is a "remake" of a=20 science-fiction book entitled Pioneers of Space which Adamski wrote in = 1949.=20 That book was ghost written by Lucy McGinnis and is now very rare. You = can=20 order a microfilm copy from the US Library of Congress and easily = compare its=20 content with Inside The Space Ships."

Now the photos and videos. Many questioned the genuinity of his = photos: most=20 ufologists consider his photos as faked (a lamp or a part of a hoover), = while a=20 few (Leonard Cramp, Alan Watts, William Sherwood, Colman Von Keviczky = and Bob=20 Oechsler) consider the same images s genuine. Adamski wrote he quickly = shot four=20 photos. Unfortunately, Adamski required 35 manipulations with his = telescope=20 and camera just for one picture. Adamski could not shoot quickly = four=20 photos. And there is a fifth image, kept secret in Adamski's = archive:

3D"scout

It's a damaged disc or damaged model. Let's just recall teenager = Stephen=20 Darbshire who, in 1954, photographed a UFO similar to the Venusian = scoutship.=20 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=20 see? Not much: every interesting, technical detail is = missing:

3D"scout

3Dmothership=20

Now the Madeleine Rodeffer video, shot before his death, in which = there's a=20 close up view of the scout ship hovering over the trees, with one = landing=20 spheres moving up and down and a side of the saucer changing shape. = Adamski shot=20 the video. Quoting Marc Hallet:

"Some days later (in 1976), I put the film under a professional = Olympus=20 microscope in order to examine some very important shots. In a very = short=20 sequence, the Venusian scout ship seemed to move into in the distance = and pass=20 behind the branch of a tree. I focused on that branch and discovered = that the=20 density of the emulsion's particles was higher, exactly at the = intersection=20 point between the scout ship and the branch. In other words, the two = objects=20 were superimposed and, to tell it crudely, it was the unquestionable = proof=20 that the film was a trick produced by a double = exposure."

According to May Morlet-Flitcroft and Lou Zinsstag's testimony, it = was on=20 May 13, 1963 that Adamski met Pope John XXIII. On St Peter Place, = Rome,=20 Adamski asked his two friends May Morlet-Flitcroft and Lou Zinsstag to = stay=20 there and wait for him. Then, he crossed through the crowds of tourists = and=20 disappeared behind a distant door. Adamski never met the Pope. His = medal,=20 claimed to be given from the Pope to Adamski, was nothing more than a = tourist=20 souvenir.

And there's onet more: his famous venusian symbols received an = astonishing=20 confirm, ten years later, from an archeologist, Marcel Homet, who = published, in=20 1965, a book featuring very similars symbols. Let alone these cannot be = proper=20 writings (too confused), Hallet states that the evidence is that the=20 archeologist tried to attract attention to his book by a "mystery" he = created=20 himself.

Enough to demonstrate Adamski's claims are pure fantasy.

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George Adamski

George Adamski (1891-1965), Polish-American has been the first = contactee.=20 Adamski was absolutely convinced, against any critics or sceptics, that = he was=20 in contact with benevolent aliens from Venus, Mars and Saturn known as = Space=20 Brothers.

By Michele Bugliaro Goggia - last modified:=20 May 4, 2006 5:47 PM

Contact from Venus

A closer look at his evidence

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