George Adamski was a Polish American author who became well-known in ufology circles and, to some extent, in popular culture after displaying numerous photographs he claimed were of alien spacecraft in the 1940s and 1950s.
George Adamski claimed to have met friendly Nordic and Venus alien Space Brothers and flown with them to the Moon and other planets.
Who is George Adamski
George Adamski was born in Wojciech Adamski on April 17, 1891, in Bydgoszcz, Poland . His parents, Jozef and Franciszka (Anglicized as Joseph and Francis in census records and municipal directories over the years) sailed from Bremen, Germany, to the United States with the family in the mid-1890s.
On December 24, 1895, the father arrived in New York City aboard the ship Braunschweig. The rest of the family (Francis and four children) arrived in New York three and a half months later, on April 10, 1896, onboard the Halle.
They settled in Dunkirk, New York, in a Polish area. Three boys and four daughters were born to Joseph and Francis. (Another eight children had perished by the time the 1910 census was taken.) According to the census, Joseph Adamski was a laborer in 1900 and a boilermaker by 1910.
Young George most likely attended school for a brief period. It is said that economic hardship forced him to drop out of school in the 4th grade. By 1910, he was already a coal producer, working at his father’s locomotive company. At least one of the brothers is known to have become a priest.
According to Siegfried Steckling and Louise Lou Zinsstag, little George caught the attention of a couple when he was eight years old. These folks offered him the opportunity to study in a Tibetan lamasery for unclear reasons.
According to Steckling, this institution taught the most significant degree of Cosmic Laws lessons, and it was there that the little kid met his first extraterrestrial professors! According to what Alice Wells revealed after Adamski’s death and what Fred Steckling would subsequently confirm, Adamski was an alien who accepted incarnation on Earth to carry out a cosmic duty during his lifetime.
Young Adamski would have begun using the title “professor” after the end of six years of studies in the Tibetan lamasery, which he eventually utilized. It’s worth noting how similar this tale is to that of the “lost years of Jesus,” which was conceived and told long ago by Nicolas Notovitch in his infamous work The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, initially published in 1894 and much commented on by esotericists ever since.
George Adamski and His UFO Encounters
On October 9, 1946, during a meteor shower, Adamski and his friends claimed to have seen a gigantic cigar-shaped “mother ship” while camping at Palomar Gardens.
Adamski photographed what he believed was the 1946 cigar-shaped “mother ship” moving in front of the Moon above Palomar Gardens in early 1947. Adamski claimed to have observed 184 UFOs pass over Palomar Gardens one evening in the summer of 1947, following the first highly publicized UFO sightings in the United States.
Adamski began giving his first UFO lectures to civic clubs and other organizations in Southern California in 1949, and he asked for and was paid for the lectures. He gave these lectures. “Fantastic” claims include that government and science had confirmed the reality of UFOs two years prior by radar surveillance of a 700-foot-long spaceship on the other side of the Moon.
Adamski also stated in his lectures that “science now knows that all planets [in Earth’s solar system] are populated” and that “pictures of Mars taken from the Mount Palomar observatory have confirmed the canals on Mars are man-made, built by an intelligence far higher than any men on Earth.”
According to one UFO historian, “even in the early 1950s, assertions about the environmental condition on, and the habitable zone of, Venus, Mars, and the other solar system planets flew in the face of massive scientific evidence.”
Mainstream ufologists were almost uniformly hostile to Adamski, believing that his and similar contact stories were fraudulent and that the contact was making serious UFO investigators look ridiculous.
On May 29, 1950, Adamski captured a snapshot of six unexplained objects in the sky that appeared to be flying in formation. The same UFO photograph was displayed on an August 1978 commemorative stamp issued by Grenada to commemorate the Year of UFOs.
The most talked-about contact with UFOs occurred in 1952 when Adamski met an alien named Orthon from Venus.
George Adamski’s Famous Alien Encounter
On November 18, 1952, Adamski called G.H. Williamson and arranged for everyone to meet at a specific location on the 20th. That morning, he departed Palomar Gardens with his trusty Lucy McGinnis and Alice K. Wells, who took turns driving as Adamski did not.
Everyone was around Blythe, California, when they decided to follow George Adamski’s hunches and wound themselves in a secluded area outside the town of Desert Center. They arrived at 11 a.m. and spent about thirty minutes walking around the neighborhood. They then decided to enjoy their picnic meal.
They took some photographs and video shots around noon, the latter with a little movie camera borrowed by the Baileys. After passing a modest two-motor plane, the group noticed what appeared to be a massive, elongated spaceship without wings. The excitement grew swiftly, with each participant offering new theories and viewpoints.
They considered filming the thing, but Betty Bailey was too thrilled to manage the camera. They took turns glancing through the two pairs of binoculars they were carrying. Although he was familiar with aircraft insignia from his time in the Air Force during WWII, Williamson could pick out a dark mark on the body of the craft that he did not identify.
Although he was familiar with aircraft insignia from his time in the Air Force during WWII, Williamson could pick out a dark mark on the body of the craft that he did not identify.
George Adamski remained there, he said, not knowing what to do, until he observed a man a quarter-mile away who motioned for him to approach. Adamski crept closer to the stranger, little by little. He instantly realized he was in the space of a man.
He stood about five feet six inches tall, had sandy-colored hair that reached his shoulders, and appeared to be around 28 years old.
His one-piece suit was too small about the ankles, wrists, and neck. He wore an eight-inch-wide belt around his waist. The two men exchanged greetings by softly caressing their palms. They communicated using gestures, sounds, and telepathy.
The extraterrestrial said that he originated from Venus, that all of the planets in the solar system were populated, and that nuclear tests were dangerous because they threatened to disturb the balance of the entire Universe. Alice K. Wells was allegedly able to draw the space pilot.
Even with binoculars, neither she nor the other “witnesses” from a distance could see the two guys “conversing.” For a time, all they could see was Adamski by himself, as George Hunt Williamson explained to Ray Stanford years later. The drawing, according to Williamson, was not drawn in the desert, and it could have been made afterward by Adamski.
Several years later, Williamson told Stanford that their enthusiasm had misled them. In truth, he believes that they saw a massive distant aircraft, its wings, and tail concealed by distance and atmospheric haze. It simply flew in a straight line, which sounds normal for an enormous plane, and it made no unusual changes in course or motion as a mothership could.
Adamski’s UFO Videos
Soon after the publication of Flying Saucers Have Landed and Inside the Spaceships, he purchased a 16mm Bell & Howell camera and began “producing” saucer videos… The first ones were taken in 1955- 1956. They only displayed isolated light spots or pairs of lights crossing the night sky.
The most well-known of George Adamski’s films from that period is the one he shot in September 1956, which allegedly depicted a B-52 bomber flying up into the sky in pursuit of two massive spacecraft high in the atmosphere. Around the same period, Adamski took a 16-mm video in Mexico that he said showed a massive domed spacecraft hovering near the highway.
Around the same period, Adamski took a 16-mm video in Mexico that he said showed a massive domed spacecraft hovering near the highway.
Adamski gave his coworkers reels with several different sequences of such type stitched together. However, detailed information regarding each line was severely insufficient.
I have reason to believe that the first film of the new series was shot in Boston, Massachusetts. It displayed a pair of saucers once more, but they were absolutely dark this time. The two objects were navigating above a road at the same distance apart.
George Adamski most likely created two brief segments depicting the rapid maneuvers of a single UFO in flight around 1963 or 1964. One appears to have been manufactured in California.
The most fantastic capture occurred in 1965 when Adamski was with Madeleine Rodeffer. Rodeffer Adamski and Madeleine were in the latter’s villa when a loud commotion outside drew their attention.
The aliens had earlier urged them to always be on guard with a camera ready to film. They both ran out to the porch and observed a Venusian saucer quite close to the villa and at a very low altitude. Madeleine grabbed her camera and began filming. The saucer then glided away slowly until it vanished from view.
The film was developed shortly after it was taken to a laboratory. It was incredible. Unfortunately, the best film portions were edited out later while Adamski stayed in a motel to make copies of the film on his way to Rochester.
Those that survived were spliced together. Nonetheless, most people are only familiar with the first sequence of that video, in which the saucer is quite close to the camera. The saucer can be seen softly zigzagging over some trees and deforming itself due to the force field encircling it.
Publications by George Adamski
His first national exposure occurred in July 1951, when a piece including his saucer images was published in Ray Palmer’s digest-sized FATE Magazine.
Adamski integrated his religious beliefs and the 1948-era flying saucer myth into Pioneers of Space: A Trip to the Moon, Mars, and Venus, a science-fiction novel published in 1949 by a vanity press, Leonard-Free Field of Los Angeles.
Lucy McGinnis, a devotee whom Adamski had assigned as his “secretary,” ghost-wrote this story, partially based on dictation from Adamski and partly on previously printed pamphlets expounding on Adamski’s ideas, which radically blended Theosophy with Christianity.
Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953), George Adamski’s first “nonfiction” book, is almost exclusively a compilation of Theosophical teachings on ancient astronauts, Atlantis, Lemuria, ancient Egypt, Indian mythology, and the benign human inhabitants of Venus by British Theosophist Desmond Leslie.
George Adamski’s 1955 book, Inside the Spaceships detailed his adventures with Venusians, Martians, and Saturnians who had come to Earth out of concern for humanity’s self-destructive ways. These “Space Brothers,” as Adamski and his followers dubbed them, were a wordy bunch, full of platitudes and tiresome philosophical gibberish.
At least one more book, Flying Saucers Farewell, was released by Adamski (1961)
Conclusion
Many detractors and doubters have researched Adamski’s assertions throughout the years. Adamski described the aliens he claimed to have met in the 1950s as “human beings from another world,” mainly light-skinned, light-haired humanoids who would subsequently be known as Nordic aliens.
George Adamski claimed that these “alien humans” originated from Venus, Mars, and other planets in Earth’s solar system in his novels. However, because of their harsh environmental conditions, none of the worlds he mentions can support human existence.
The first alien Adamski claimed to have met from Venus, even though the atmospheric pressure on that planet’s surface is 92 times that of Earth, and it has clouds that rain a toxic substance thought to be sulfuric acid; the atmosphere is almost entirely of carbon dioxide, with very little oxygen, and the average surface temperature of Venus is 464 °C.
In one of his books, George Adamski described a trip he took in a flying saucer to the far side of the Moon, where he claimed to have seen cities, trees, and snow-capped mountains; he also claimed that the first photographs of the Moon’s far side, taken by the Soviet lunar probe Luna 3 in 1959, were altered to depict a barren, lifeless surface to conceal what he saw.
However, all scientific evidence, as well as subsequent lunar missions by American astronauts, demonstrated unequivocally that the whole surface of the Moon is devoid of life and lacks an atmosphere.
