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Who Is :
George Adamski

Georgie Adamski, (1891 - 1965) who would

become the world’s most famous, controversial,

and influential flying-saucer contactee, was born

in Poland on April 17, 1891. When he was in

one or two, his parents immigrated to Dunkirk,

New York. The young Adamski received a little

formal schooling and dedicated himself,

influenced by his parents’ strong religious

beliefs. In 1913 he joined the 13th Cavalry

Regiment, was stationed along the Mexican

border, and was honorably discharged in 1916.

His first civilian job was as a painter at

Yellowstone National Park. On Christmas Day

in 1917 he married Mary A Shimbersky (d.

1954). The next year he worked at a flower mill

in Portland, Oregon, and by 1921 was in

California working at a concrete factory.

By the 1930s Adamski had become a

minor figure on the California occult scene. He

founded The Royal Order of Tibet and lectured contacts, but this is the one instance in which he Enter The Space People
named names. Both Maxfield and Bloom
on “Universal Law” both before live audiences existed. In 1949 former held the post of All of this would have done no more than ensure
superintending scientist at the laboratory, and Adamski a footnote in UFO history if it had not
and on radio stations KFOX in Long Beach and the latter was a chemist in the nuclear - radiation been for the event, real or invented, that
section. Nonetheless, when James W Mosely occurred on November 20, 1952, when he and
KMPC in Los Angeles. He called his questioned him about Adamski’s story in 1954, six trust and associates drove out to the desert
Bloom said he had been “grossly misquoted”. hoping to see a flying saucer and maybe even
philosophy “Universal Progressive In February 1969, in an interview with physicist meet its pilots. Adamski’s companions include
and UFO researcher James E. McDonald, his associates Alice Wells and George Hunt
Christianity.” His pupils and began to call him Maxfield disputed Adamski’s version of their Williamson. Williamson falsely claimed a Ph.D.
meeting. In 1988 Bloom told ufologist Eric in anthropology.
“professor.” When he took up residence in Herr, “Everything Adamski wrote about us was
fiction, pure fiction.” In any case, a few months Shortly after noon, any location between
Palomar Gardens, on the southern slope of later Adamski produced two pictures of alleged Desert Centre, California, and Parker, Arizona,
spaceships said to have been taken through his the seven heard an airplane pass overhead.
Mount Palomar, and set up a small observatory 6-inch telescope, and sometime later he told a Shortly after it disappeared in the distance, a
San Diego reporter that he had given the huge its silvery cigar-shaped object approach
of his own, with a 15-inch telescope (he also photographs to the laboratory. The laboratory them and hovered overhead for a few moments
denied ever receiving such pictures. After before drifting off. “That ship had come looking
owned a 6-inch telescope which he would take persistent press inquiries it eventually for me,” Adamski declared. He asked to be
acknowledged it had received them but said its taken about a mile down the road. As he, Lucy
with him on stargazing trips), “Professor” analysts were not convinced they depicted McGinnis, and Alfred Bailey drove away, they
spaceships. saw the cigar shadowing them. Soon Adamski
Adamski was sometimes mistaken for a as to be dropped off and directed his
Adamski gave his first lectures on flying companions to rejoin the others. Meanwhile he
professional astronomer associated with the saucers and 1949. In them he made fantastic set up his telescope and waited, confidence that
claims, such as the government and science had contact was imminent. Sure enough, 5 minutes
celebrated observatory a few miles away. established the existence of UFOs two years later, a “beautiful small craft” came down ½
earlier, via radar trackings of 700 foot-long mile away, landing slightly below the crest of a
According to Jerrold Baker, who spent time with spacecraft “on the other side of the Moon.” mountain so that its top half was visible to the
These craft were due to land on earth other witnesses.
Adamski in the early 1950s, “His hand-made imminently, and they could be coming from
anywhere, inasmuch as science now knows “all Send its case of figure waving to him,
dome and telescope seemed a largely to be planets are inhabited.” Moreover, “photos of and as he walked toward it, he would write, “I
Mars taken from the Mount Palomar have fully realized I was in the presence of a man
intended to capture the public driving up to the proven the canals on Mars are man-made built from space-A HUMAN BEING FROM
by an intelligence far greater than any man’s on ANOTHER WORLD!” he was a beautiful-
real thing on Mount Palomar”. earth.” looking being of human appearance, with long
blond hair and an “extremely high forehead.”
In 1949 Adamski published a science- In 1950 Adamski got his first national Through gestures, sign language, a few words,
exposure as coal author of an article about his and telepathy, Adamski learned he was from the
fiction novel, “Pioneer’s of Space: A Trip to the photographs in Fate, a popular digest-sized Venus, and he and other beings from other
magazine devoted to anomalies, the paranormal, worlds were coming here in peace, a note of a
Moon, Mars and Venus, under his own by-line and occult. Fates editor appended a statement of deep concern about humanities atomic weapons
the article in testing, “We have investigated and warlike a ways. The Venusian brought
Lucy Mcginnis: all of Adamski books would be professor at Adamski quite thoroughly and in Adamski to the spacecraft (which she called the
our opinion, have found not the slightest “Scout Ship”), and a one point Adamski briefly
ghostwritten. It would come back to haunt him evidence that he is perpetrating a hoax” a glimpsed the face of another occupant as he or
follow-up article showed even more dramatic she looked out of a porthole. Adamski’s
in later years, when critics pointed out that photographs, capturing spaceships passing over extraterrestrial companion declined to be
the face of the Moon. photographed but asked for one of Adamski’s
portions of it bore a striking resemblance to unexposed pictures. (Continued on Page 71)

subsequent claims he would make of

interplanetary contacts and travels.

According to a Adamski’s account, as he

and some associates were watching a meteor

shower on the evening of October 9, 1946, the

spotted a “gigantic space craft” hovering

overhead. Some weeks later he and customers at

the restaurant at which he worked discussed the

sighting, and a military officer who overheard

the conversation assured Adamski that the object

was indeed from another world. The following

summer, when reports of “flying saucers”

attracted wide attention and comment, Adamski

saw 184 UFOs Pass overhead in squadrons of 32

each.

Late the next year-again according to Adamski-
two men are from the Point Loma Navy
Electronics Laboratory, Joseph P. Maxfield and
G L Bloom, along with two other men “from a
similar setup in Pasadena”, ask Adamski if he
would cooperate in an effort to photograph of
spaceships. In his subsequent career Adamski
would often claim governments and military