George Adamski
George Adamski (April 17, 1891 – April 23, 1965) was a Polish-born American, one of the first people to publicly claim to have seen and photographed Ships from Other Planets, met People from other planets and to have gone on flights with them. He wrote several books relating to his experiences, including the best-selling Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953), co-written with Desmond Leslie. There continues to this day to be a great deal of active disinformation and counterintelligence about the true nature of Adamski and his experiences and teachings.
History
George Adamski emigrated from Poland with his family. Adamski and his parents were contacted by people from other planets when Adamski was very young, and thus began his teachings into the Cosmic Philosophy of the ET's and his prepping for his role as a Teacher of this Philosophy and his later life as a Speaker on this topic.
In 1949 Adamski wrote a science fiction book which had a space travel theme. Called Pioneers of Space: A Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus and published by Leonard-Freefield Co of Los Angeles, this book was mainly for his students and to test public reaction to the idea of life on other planets.
Adamski, his friends and students, began seeing photographing Ships from Other Planets (which looked strikingly similar to the lids of the water coolers he sold to make his living) in late 1940s.
His best publicised encounter was on November 20, 1952 when he and friends were in the Mojave Desert near Desert Center, California. Adamski and his friends saw a large submarine-shaped object hovering in the sky. Adamski believed that the ship was looking for him and so went a way off the main road himself. There he saw a scout ship, made of a type of translucent metal, land. Adamski then claimed to see a Human from another planet. Adamski said he approached him and they communicated telepathically and through hand signals. [Note - Adamski claimed to know Orthon most of his life, the written events were to protect Adamski]
Adamski said the person from another planet, named Orthon (not his real name), was from Venus and expressed to Adamski his concern over the development of nuclear weapons and the ability of men on earth to have their spiritual growth keep pace with their technology.
Adamski claimed to meet other people from other planets later [Note - Adamski claimed to meet other people from other planets during the course of his entire life] (mostly from Venus but also from Mars and Saturn) and said he was taken on flights by them, including one around the moon where he observed valleys and bases. After his alleged meeting with Orthon (not his real name), Adamski, along with George Hunt Williamson, was able to take plaster casts of what he claimed were the Venusian's footprints which contained mysterious symbols. Some of these casts are said to be located today at Castle Leslie, in Ireland. Later these symbols were supposedly used to create Free Energy Devices by people like Basil Van Den Berg.
He died, aged 74, of a heart attack, in Maryland.
He had considerable support from UFO proponents worldwide, but also attracted much scorn, TIME magazine going so far as to call him "a crackpot from California". The discovery that Venus and other planets in the solar system were unable to sustain any form of life, however, severaly hurt his claims. The photographs taken by the first Soviet lunar probe in 1959 he denounced as fakes, and after he announced he was going to Saturn for a conference, many of his supporters became disaffected and his reputation rapidly declined. He died, aged 74, of a heart attack, in Maryland.
His "Science of Life" works, available from gafintl-adamski.com stand as the most advanced teachings about reality ever presented to those of Earth.
Trivia
The Japanese name for the 1985 Transformer Autobot, Cosmos, is "Adams", a tribute to George Adamski.