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 photographic
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 speculations 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 seam-less, 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 interplanetary 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, rein-carnating among
all the worlds of the universe. Extrater-restrials 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 compan-ions down
to see the prints, and George Hunt Williamson made plaster casts to preserve
them for study.