In elementary school I was fascinated with astronomy, the space program, flying saucer stories and science fiction. By now, newspapers and magazines were publishing Adamski’s photos, and he was giving lectures as an authority on UFOs.

With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. At the campground and diner Adamski "often gave lectures on Eastern philosophy and religion, sometimes late into the night" to students, admirers, and tourists.On 9 October 1946, during a meteor shower, Adamski and some friends claimed that while they were at the Palomar Gardens campground, they witnessed a large cigar-shaped " mother ship. He interviewed several of the people that Adamski claimed had been with him in his initial 20 November 1952 meeting with Orthon, and found that these witnesses contradicted Adamski's claims. His students soon numbered into the hundreds, he found himself in demand for lectures throughout Southern California and his talks were broadcast over radio stations KFOX in Long Beach and KMPC in Los Angeles. of the planets in our solar system are inhabited, with Earth the only planet whose native belligerence has made it a pariah among worlds, no explanation is given why only three planets are represented in the crew. There’s also a fun nugget where he describes one of his first encounters with the Aliens where they are flying above him in their saucer and one of the Aliens literally rolls down one of the windows and tosses a cylinder out at him with what appears to a be a drawing and some Alien letters (which literally look like they could have drawn by a child in crayon), which we are never told the meaning of.

NOW UPGRADED with 55 pages of new, current and validating information plus an additional 22 page new photo section of some never before released private Adamski correspondence, photographs, and news articles from his 1959 World tour, and 1963 European tour, etc. Despite evidence to the contrary (and there is enough of it to fill many volumes), there is still a widespread notion.

Since the memorable November 20, 1952, when he first made per­sonal contact with a man from another world? In 1949, Adamski began giving his first UFO lectures to civic groups and other organizations in Southern California; he requested, and received, fees for the lectures. There is overwhelming evidence that your planet has not borne life as a kind of freak accident, as even some of your greatest astronomers have stated [probably referencing Lowell]. This has happened in spite of opposing forces who, for whatever reasons, do not wish the truth to come out. Adamski wasn’t the first American to claim he’d met an alien, but he was the first to go public, and he quickly became the most famous “contactee.