| On November 20, 1952, Adamski and several friends claimed they saw a large submarine-shaped object hovering in the sky. It was at this point Adamski was said to have left his friends behind and gone to the craft by himself where he was met with a “Venusian being named Orthon. (29) Adamski described Orthon as “being a medium-height humanoid with long blond hair and tanned skin wearing reddish-brown shoes” and that Orthon communicated with him via telepathy. (30) George Hunt Williamson (December 9, 1926 – January 1986) was there with him at the time and claimed that after Orthon left, he was able to take and make a plastic imprint of his shoe. George Hunt Williamson also went off to write books on the flying saucers, Other Tongues—Other Flesh (1953), The Saucers Speak: A Documentary Report of Interstellar Communication by Radiotelegraphy with Alfred C. Bailey (1954) New Age Publishing Co., and at least four more books on flying saucers. We will return in a moment to Williamson. George Adamski had made the acquaintance of Desmond Leslie around the early 1950’s, I would assume. Leslie had apparently written a manuscript about the earth being invaded by aliens after stumbling upon an 1896 book, The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria by William Scott-Elliot in a friend's library. (31) As Well, in the 1950’s Leslie had apparently made a low budget UFO film “Them and the Thing,” at his home Castle Leslie. This was done by shining mirrors onto a shield suspended by fishing wire. The film was supposedly rediscovered in 2010. (32) A very disturbing and strange “coincidence” here, or rather conspiracy, if you will, is that Adamski himself supposedly filmed the UFO’s also, not just photographed them. I am not suggesting Leslie’s films were the source of Adamski’s images. I am suggesting there is an intent to produce a “UFO video.” The flying saucer photographs Adamski took in the mid 1950’s were some of the clearest photographs ever taken of any kind of “saucer disks” yet. According to David Clark and Andy Roberts, in The Flying Saucerers: A Social History of UFOlogy: “Adamski sent Leslie a written account of his supposed contact with Orthon, and photos. Leslie combined the two works into the 1953 co-authored book Flying Saucers Have Landed.” (33) In the book, The Flying Saucers Have Landed, it is stated that Orthon and the other Nordic aliens from Venus were worried about the nuclear bomb tests and that it was going to spread into space and kill off all kinds of life and contaminate other planets. (34) Adamski claimed, in his 1955 book Inside the Space Ships, he had been aboard a spaceship piloted by Orthon and taken to Venus. He also claimed, in another trip to have met a 1000-year-old philosopher who was called “the master.” He claimed that messengers like Jesus Christ had come to earth to deliver the same message and that aliens were already living peacefully on earth. Vallee claims Adamski gave credit to four US government scientists for launching |
his career as “an ambassador for the space brothers.” They were from the Point Loma Navel Electronics Laboratory near San Diego and from a similar group in Pasadena, asking him if he would assist in getting pictures of the craft. Vallee also writes that Adamski’s major supporter abroad was a former intelligence officer with the British Army and a Cambridge Engineering graduate. (35) These are all potent alarm bells. Howard Menger, another contactee mentioned in A for Adamski, released a record album in 1957 titled Authentic Music From Another Planet and published two UFO books titled From Outer Space to You and The High Bridge Incident. Gorightly writes: “In September of 1956, Menger was invited aboard a “Venusian Scout Ship and given a ride to the space people’s home planet. During the journey Menger was shown alien civilizations on other planets and vast structures on the moon. Soon after he appeared on the Long John Nebel radio show with George Van Tassel and described his newfound space friends and their messages for mankind.” Gorightly continues: “Podcast host Gene Steinberg recalled that Menger appeared to backtrack on his claims after some of the contactee hysteria died down. Perhaps withering under the scrutiny of mainstream UFO study, he said that his shenanigans were some sort of intelligence game: ‘Now in the mid 1960’s, I was working with Jim Moseley on Saucer News. Jim got a call from Menger and we all hooked up for lunch at a restaurant across the street from the magazine’s famous offices at 303 Fifth Avenue. Menger, despite being criticized extensively in the magazine, proved personable and gave us some unexpected news. He said that he had begun to feel that his contacts were actually with government agents, who used him as part of a disinformation campaign’.” (36) (29) Curtis Peebles. Watch the Skies: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth. New York: Berkley Books. 1995, Page 115-16 (30) Malcolm, Noel (6 March 2005). "Common sense abducted". The Daily Telegraph. London, UK: Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 27 April 2007.; Zinsstag, Lou; Good, Timothy (1983). George Adamski: The Untold Story. Beckenham, Kent, England: CETI Publications, page 5-6 (31) Hesemann, Michael, Filmed interview with Leslie as The Pioneers of Space, YouTube.com; accessed 2 July 201) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski#cite_note-24 (32) "Sir Patrick Moore's Irish UFO film identified - BBC News". BBC.com. Retrieved 21 December 2015 (33) O'Bryne, Robert (2010). Desmond Leslie: The Biography of an Irish Gentleman. Dublin: Lilliput Press. p. 85.; Clarke, Dave (2007). The Flying Saucerers: A Social History of UFOlogy. Alternative Albion. p. 40 (34) Curtis Peebles. Watch the Skies: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth. New York: Berkley Books. 1995 (35) Messengers, p. 228 (36) A is for Adamski, p. 192-193 |