George Adamski

George Adamski (April 17, 1891 - February 26, 1965) was a Polish born American and one of the first people to publically claim to have seen and photographed UFOs, met aliens and to have gone on flights with them. He went on to write several books relating to his experiences, including the best-selling Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953), co-written with Desmond Leslie.

Adamski was born in Poland but emigrated with his family to New York City in 1893. He served with the US Army from 1913-1916 and with the National Guard until 1919. his post-war activites are unclear but he settled in California in the late 1920s and by 1940 he was a self-appointed professor of the Royal Order of Tibet, an organisation he founded. After World War II he began reporting sightings of UFO and taking photographs and film of them, from the 1950s he was describing encounters with aliens.

His most well known encounter was on November 20, 1952 when he and friends were in the Mojave Desert. Adamski and friends saw a silver disc land and an entirely humanoid alien exit from the disc, Adamski approached him and they communicated telepathically. The alien, named Orthon, was from Venus and expressed to Adamski his concern over the development of nuclear weapons. Adamski met other aliens later (mostly from Venus but also from Mars and Saturn) and was taken on flights by them, including one around the moon where he observed valleys and cities.

After the success of Flying Saucers Have Landed he published Inside The Flying Saucers (195?) and Flying Saucer Farewell (1961). The photographs taken by the first Soviet lunar probe in 1959 he denounced as fakes.

External link

• Adamski Foundation (http://www.gafintl-adamski.com/)