All the Planets are Inhabited!
George Adamski
Born in Poland in 1891, George Adamski emigrated to America with his parents at the age of one and a half years. After a wandering life which included army service on the Mexican border, he settled down and became a teacher of metaphysics and philosophy. He moved to the slopes of Mount Palomar in California in 1944, and, a neighbour of the world's largest telescope, spent a lot of time studying the sky with a six-inch reflector.
In 1946, during a meteor shower, he saw a gigantic space craft hovering over a mountain ridge not far away, and was interested to hear the matter reported on the radio. He began to watch the skies for further sightings, and in 1947 saw a squadron of craft.
He was out on a trip with some friends on 20th November 1952 when a giant silvery cigar-shaped craft appeared over a ridge. It hovered motionless, and Adamski felt its occupants wished to contact him.
Hoping for a close-up picture, he went off on his own and a beautiful small craft appeared from a saddle in the hills. He took picturs, and as it disappeared he became aware of the presence of a man standing near a ravine. He had long hair and was wearing something like a ski suit. He realised that he was an extraterrestrial, and a "conversation" in gestures and telepathy followed which indicated that the man was from Venus and was concerned about the danger of atomic explosions. They walked to where the man's craft was hovering behind a hill; Adamski received an electric shock when he brought his arm too close to the flange. The visitor indicated that he would like one of Adamski's photographic plates but refused a request for a trip. He entered the craft which then flew off. The man left footprints with strange symbols on them; plaster casts were taken of these.
On December 13th the craft appeared over Palomar Gardens; a hand came out of the open porthole and dropped the photographic plate. When developed the original picture was found to be replaced by more strange symbols.
He described these incidents in the book Flying Saucers Have Landed, which he co-authored with Desmond Leslie, who wrote the first section of the book, about possible saucers in history. He went on to write another, Inside the Space Ships, in which he described many more contacts and even trips in the craft. He was told that all the planets are inhabited and met people who claimed to be from Venus, Mars and Saturn. This seems incredible at the present time with the present overwhelming climate of opinion against such ideas, but others have put it forward also, though not in recent years.
Adamski devoted the rest of his life to spreading what he believed was the space people's message, and was an extremely colourful character. He was summoned by the Queen of the Netherlands and even claimed a visit to Pope John 23rd, who he gave a small package from a space person and in exchange was given a papal medal. This has always, of course, been subsequently denied by the Vatican. He also had an unpleasant experience in Switzerland where a talk was seriously heckled by determined opponents; this seemed to be pre-meditatated. He took another photograph of a scout craft later, seemingly distorted by the force field around it.
Others have taken pictures of similar craft - notably Stephen Darbishire at Lake Coniston shortly after Adamski's meeting. These were compared with Adamski's using orthographic projection. Other similar pictures were taken by Fritz van Nest in Utah in 1968 and architect Hugo Vega near Lima, Peru onin 1973.
George Adamski died in 1965 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery; the Arthur Bryant story detailed elsewhere in this database, however, indicates that this may not be the end of the story.
Sources:
Flying Saucers Have Landed, by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski.
Inside the Space Ships, by George Adamski.
Flying Saucers Farewell, by George Adamski.
Farewell Good Brothers (TV programme)
The UFO Encyclopedia, by John Spencer.
George Adamski, The Untold Story, by Lou Zinsstag and Timothy Good.