Part I: Flying Saucers Have Landed!
On Thursday, November 20, 1952, George Adamski, philosopher, student, teacher and saucer researcher, made personal contact with a man from another world. Though the contact involved telepathic communication between Adamski and the visitor, it was far more than a strictly psychic or channeled event. What took place was a real, physical meeting in the California desert, a meeting witnessed by at least six people.
The story of this legendary encounter, along with photo-graphic and documentary evidence verifying its reality, first appeared in British author Desmond Leslie's book Flying Saucers Have Landed!, published in 1953. Most of the book, comprising "Book One" as it was finally published, had already been written and was awaiting publication when a 60 page document from George Adamski appeared in the author's mailbox. Desmond Leslie and his publisher were so impressed with the account of Adamski's contact that they immediately labeled the document "Book Two," and added it, verbatim, to the text of Mr. Leslie's book.
With its strong spiritual message and its condemnation of nuclear testing, this first-ever message from the "Space Brothers" seemed a natural confirmation of Mr. Leslie's spec-ulations concerning the relation between modern flying saucer sightings and ancient Hindu, Celtic and Atlantean legends and writings. More than 100,000 copies were sold, and the term Contactee entered the American, and eventually the global, vocabulary to stay.
DESERT SIGHTINGS
George Adamski's journey toward contact began October 9, 1946, as he and several friends observed a meteor shower through a 6" Newtonian reflector telescope from his home at Palomar Gardens, eleven miles from the 200" telescope at Mt. Palomar's Hale Observatory. They witnessed a gigantic cigar-shaped object hovering above the mountains to the south. Adamski guessed the object to be a government dirigible, perhaps studying the meteor shower from the upper atmosphere. But when they turned on the radio, it was announced that a large, cylindrical spaceship had been seen by hundreds of people, hanging silently in the air over nearby San Diego.
In August, 1947, Adamski was out in his yard one evening when a brightly lighted object appeared, moving through the sky from east to west above the mountain ridge to the south, followed swiftly by another, and then another! He called his friends out of the house. Together, they counted 184 saucers moving across the sky in regimented squadrons of 32 ships each. Tony Belmonte, a Soil Conservation employee working in the area, confirmed the sighting the next day, estimating the number of saucers at 204.
With cameras attached to his 6" and 15" telescopes, Adamski had been attempting to photograph the ships ever since the October, 1946 sighting, with limited success. At the request of the military, he had even sent several pictures to the Point Loma Navy Electronic Laboratory near San Diego for analysis. The photos disappeared, and the Navy denied ever receiving them. After the "squadron sighting," Adamski devoted himself to full time saucer research, taking hundreds of photographs, many of which provided clear, undeniable proof of flying saucers in our atmosphere and in space.
THE LANDING
Throughout the year of 1952, there had been numerous reports of saucer landings in the California desert. Adamski personally investigated many of these reports, dragging his telescopes and cameras out into the desert in hopes of meeting face to face with beings from another world.
By this time, many people had heard of Adamski and his photographs, and they would visit him at Palomar Gardens to hear him tell his stories, and speak on matters of life, religion and philosophy. Four such visitors, Alfred and Betty Bailey, and George Hunt Williamson and his wife, also named Betty, had heard of Adamski's treks to reputed landing sites. They requested to be allowed to join him on future excursions, in hopes that they, too, might become firsthand witnesses to the ships. Adamski agreed.
On November 18, 1952, Adamski asked that the couples meet him in two days time at a site near Blythe, California. When the 20th arrived, they met and drove together, at Adamski's intuitive direction, to a point in the desert about 10 miles from Desert Centre, California. Also present were Alice K. Wells and Lucy McGinnis. They all witnessed a gigantic, cigar-shaped, silvery ship, orange on top, approaching over the distant mountain ridge.
"Someone take me down the road – quick!" Adamski ordered, feeling an inner call to a distant spot in the desert. He knew intuitively that the ship had come looking for him, and he didn't want to keep its crew waiting!
Lucy McGinnis and Al Bailey accompanied Adamski to his intuited destination, out of sight from the highway. They set up their cameras and waited. The large ship moved directly over them. Adamski sent his companions off to watch from a safe distance as the hovering ship shot away and vanished from sight, chased off by fast-moving government planes.
No sooner had the roar of aerial pursuit subsided into the distance, when there was a bright flash from the sky, and a saucer, tiny in comparison to the craft that had just vanished, appeared and began to drift slowly down. It landed about a half mile from where Adamski stood, now alone. He took seven pictures in quick succession. The little saucer flashed brightly, lifted off, and shot out of sight.
Adamski presumed the experience was over, but as he turned to walk back to where his friends were waiting, he found himself confronted by a stranger – a man of unparalleled, almost feminine beauty, approximately 5' 6" tall, with sandy hair past his shoulders, wearing a seamless, chocolate brown, one-piece jumpsuit.
THE MEETING
As George Adamski had intuitively known to come to this isolated desert location on just this day, as he had known that the large ship was searching for him, as he had known to abandon the road to find this landing site, so he now knew in his heart that the being standing before him was not of this Earth. The stranger offered his hand in greeting, but when Adamski shook it in the customary manner, the other smiled and merely pressed their two palms flat together. The visitor's flesh was delicate, like a baby's, but firm and warm.
A difficult conversation ensued, carried out in a mix of telepathic language, hand signs, and drawings in the sand. Though from different, distant worlds, Adamski and the visitor managed to bridge the gulf between them and make intelligible contact.
THE VISITOR'S MESSAGE
Reason for Contact:
The visitor identified Venus as his planet of origin. His people had come to Earth out of concern over our testing of nuclear weapons. Not only did we stand to destroy ourselves, but we were polluting outer space with our radiation as well.
The Ships:
The smaller ship had returned, and the visitor explained that it was magnetically propelled and incapable of interplanet-ary flight. The many small scout ships Adamski had witnessed were dependent on the larger cigar-shaped "motherships" for crossing the great expanses of space.
God:
The stranger explained that we on Earth really know very little about the Creator of the Universe. Beyond Earth, beings live according to the true Laws of the Creator, and not according to the laws of materialism, as do Earthlings.
Other Worlds:
There is life everywhere. Every planet in our solar system is inhabited. It is only our limited perception which makes us think otherwise.
Visitors:
Space travel is easy and common beyond our terrestrial boundaries, and beings from throughout space visit us continually, and even walk among us. The human form is universal. People from far corners of the universe can walk our streets without fear of detection, because the differences in form from planet to planet are no greater than those between terrestrial races.
Death:
Bodies die on all planets, but intelligence and soul live on, continually evolving from lifetime to lifetime, reincarnating among all the worlds of the universe. Extraterrestrials have experienced lives on Earth. We Earthlings have lived among the stars, and will again.
The Footprints:
As the stranger was preparing to leave, he made several heavy, deep impressions in the sand with his boots, then drew Adamski's attention to the prints left behind, and the cryptic symbols inside them. When the Venusian visitor had gone, Adamski called his companions down to see the prints, and George Hunt Williamson made plaster casts to preserve them for study (see photo section for sketches of the Venusian foot-prints and their mysterious symbols).
Part II: Inside the Spaceships!
On February 18, 1953, three months after his initial Desert Centre, California contact, George Adamski again made face-to-face, physical contact with extraterrestrials.
It began in the morning, when he felt the same intuitive knowing that had led him to the saucer landing site in November, pulling him now toward Los Angeles. He took a bus into the great city, and by afternoon he had checked into a hotel and begun to wait - although what, exactly, he was waiting for was still unclear.
When evening came, he was approached in the hotel lobby by two men in business suits who greeted him by name. As Adamski acknowledged the greeting, the speaker extended his hand, but rather than shaking hands normally, he pressed his palm firmly into Adamski's own in precisely the same manner as had the Venusian three months prior. A great joy filled Adamski's heart, and he knew he was, once again, in the presence of the Space Brothers.
But these men, unlike his previous contact, spoke perfect English! They had a car waiting, and on the long drive to the desert meeting place, Adamski learned that his companions were two of many special "contact men" on Earth – people from other worlds who live among us, learn our languages and customs, and study our culture from within. The taller of the two hailed from Saturn, the other from Mars. Both had lived on Earth for many years, holding jobs and maintaining homes, but not families. They compared their role to that of college students who study abroad in order, not only to learn about, but to physically experience a foreign society.
They stopped the car at a secluded desert location, where a scout saucer waited on the ground. The Venusian from Adamski's first meeting was there as well, just finishing some minor repairs to the hull of the disc. They all boarded the scout, and ascended to a great, cigar-shaped mother ship.
Although the Space Brothers do not use names as we do, and, in person, this causes no difficulties, Adamski assigned each a name in order to distinguish them in narrative: the Martian he named Firkon, the Saturnian, Ramu, and his Venusian friend he named Orthon.
AGELESS LIFE
Aboard the Venusian mothership, Adamski was taken to a vast lounge, where he was introduced to two female pilots, Kalna of Venus and Ilmuth of Mars. Their exquisite beauty made a tremendous impression on him. But even in their fine company, he was struck dumb with awe to behold on the wall of the lounge, exactly opposite the door through which they had entered, a portrait Adamski was certain represented the Space Brothers' concept of deity. It showed the head and shoulders of a Being of startling youth and beauty, whose face was somehow both male and female, perfectly balanced together, and whose eyes reflected tremendous wisdom and compassion.
Kalna explained that the portrait was their symbol of "Ageless Life," which is displayed on all ships and in all homes. She explained that, because they keep this symbol ever before them, he would find no age among their People.
After considerable discussion concerning the ship's functioning, and social customs on other worlds, the mother-ship was taken up to 50,000 miles above the Earth, so that Adamski could view the planet against the backdrop of infinite space.
Faced with the ship's awesome power, he wondered whether the Space Brothers had weapons, and would they defend themselves if attacked? Firkon answered that, although they were not defenseless, they would, in a confrontation, allow themselves to be destroyed rather than slay a fellow being.
The ship descended again to 40,000 feet above the Earth. Adamski was guided into a large room, where a long table was set with crystal goblets filled with a sweet nectar-like fluid. All of Adamski's new friends were either seated around the table, or appeared shortly to join the assembly. An elder Space Brother Adamski had not before met was at the head of the table. By his own intuitive sense, as well as by the reactions of all those gathered around the table, Adamski recognized this older space man as a unique, highly evolved being in whose presence all had fallen silent in humble attentiveness.
MEETING WITH A MASTER
The Master began the lesson by explaining that outer space is not empty, but constantly active, filled with moving particles from which all things arise. Throughout the universe are innumerable planets people by creatures like ourselves, all at various stages of physical, social and spiritual evolution.
Earth humans are not the least developed beings in the universe, but we are the least developed in our own solar system. In deep space lie many worlds without significant social or scientific development, as well as worlds on which a high degree of scientific and technological advancement has occurred, even the attainment of space travel, but where social and spiritual development remain barbaric.
Our brethren in our own solar system have walked the same evolutionary path we are now on, and have overcome such obstacles as hate, greed and warfare. They are willing to assist us in our evolution by giving help and knowledge to all who are willing to accept it.
THE MASTER'S MESSAGE
The Master taught Adamski that inhabitants of other worlds are not fundamentally different from ourselves. All life, regardless of form, exists for the same purpose: to learn and evolve. The universe is a grand school, quite comparable to our own school system, with many levels, like our various grades. We are born on a particular planet to learn its lessons. Once those lessons have been learned, we will "graduate" to another world, ever growing in our understanding from experience to experience, life to life.
He also explained that, though we will someday learn to travel to other worlds in our own spaceships, we will not be allowed to go far until we abandon our destructive ways and learn to get along here on Earth, embracing the kind of universal brotherhood which permeates the cosmos beyond our little world.
He closed with a dire warning for all Humanity regarding the price of developing and using the atomic bomb, proph-esying the sterilization of the Earth and the annihilation of Humankind should we fail or refuse to turn away from our fascination with the technological terror of nuclear weaponry.
SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Before being returned to Earth, Adamski was allowed to question his newfound friends on any matter that interested him. The following are some of the intriguing answers he received:
Radiation from bomb testing is already polluting our air and water, causing negative changes to our atmosphere.
The Space Brothers will not interfere directly to change our course because, in their understanding of Universal Law, all intelligent life must decide its own destiny without interference from another.
High ranking government officials and leading scien-tists have been contacted, but have been unable to overcome their deep fears, prejudices and bureaucratic power structures. Our only real hope for change lies with the ordinary man in the streets, multiplied by his millions.
At their first meeting in the California desert, Orthon could have spoken English, but did not because Adamski was being tested for his intelligence and telepathic abilities. It is because he passed these tests with flying colors that he was chosen for this second contact.
Mental telepathy works by transmission and reception of thought from one living brain to another in much the same way that radio waves are exchanged between amateur radio "ham" operators. All that is needed is an open "receptive" mind.
Earth has known many great civilizations over the eons, all of which eventually fell to the same total destruction which we now face. War has not existed beyond Earth for millions of years. It is a stage all cultures pass through, but we on Earth have ceased to evolve naturally; we are, instead, stuck in a repeating pattern of growth and destruction, growth and destruction.
Life on other worlds is bright and full of laughter and joy. Yet, the Space Brothers are willing to share the sadness of Earth, and strive ceaselessly through the centuries to bring us to light.
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To read the rest of George Adamski's contact encounter story, including Part III: To the Moon and Back!, and Part IV: Flying Saucers Farewell, please purchase a copy of The Golden Age of Flying Saucers: Classic UFO Sightings, Saucer Crashes and Extraterrestrial Contact Encounters.
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