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Who Is :
George Adamski
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For years afterwards rumors circulated that
Barker (who died in 1984) and Moseley had
conspired to write the letter, and in 1985
Moseley confessed as much:
For many years, your editor used to visit
Gray Barker in Clarksburg, West Virginia, for a
week and every few months… On one
particular occasion a young friend of Barker’s
(James Villard) with a relative high in the
Government had provided Barker with a packet
of genuine official stationery from various
Government agencies…Barker and I wrote not
one but seven naughty letters that evening -
emboldened by the evil of the aisle call and fully
enjoying the whole air today of this chance to
throw long-term that confusion into the UFO
Field.
Theories about Adamski
The two leading interpretations of Adamski’s
career are that he told the whole truth and that he who bridled at criticisms of Nazi Germany.)
told no truth at all. On Adamski’s death, for
example, British ufologist John Cleary-Baker
reflected:
I think is safe to say that Adamski’s two
latter books (Space Ships and Flying Saucers
Farewell) did much to dissipate the favorable
reactions which were evoked by his initial
narrative of the alleged meeting with the
Venusian in the Arizona desert. Allowing for
possible faults of interpretation, this first story Saucer Review editor Charles Bowen, who
could have been true. The latter books
transported the reader into an Arabian Nights
fantasy which few could take seriously. Second-
rate science fiction, combined with a
philosophical outlook which might be summed-
up as “Theosophy and water, and quote are
productive of literary dyspepsia rather than of
belief. Of course, a man may tell the truth at one
time and lie at another. However, there are
adequate grounds for asserting that the first
Adamski “contact” was as spurious as the latter
ones.
There have been other views, however,
such as that Adamski was duped by intelligence
agencies. Some of Adamski’s followers offered
this theory to explain, or explain away, his later
claims, such as the trip to Saturn, which they
could not accept.
But most such conspiratorial theories
have been proposed by writers outside contactee
circles. The first to do so was Leon Davidson,
who speculated that CIA agents had posed as
space people and that the “space ships’ and their
equipment” were “nothing more than stage
props designed to make Adamski believe that he
was indeed traveling through space. The
crewmen, the contact man, and the masters
behave like well-trained earth people put it over
a colossal hoax on a naïve and trusting
Adamski.” Jacques Vallee suggested that a
shadowy group of fascist-oriented intelligence
operatives setup Adamski. “Let us note in
passing,” Vallee writes “the Adamski’s Venusian
and many other alleged extraterrestrials were all
tall Aryan types with long blond hair.” (On the
other hand, it may be significant, at least for understand, Adamski may have been one. Less
what it says about his own ethnic attitudes and than four months before his death, Adamski
prejudices, that Adamski was an anti-Semite wrote a private letter two, of all people, his old
nemesis Donald Kehoe. It is hard not to read it
as some sort of sincere testament:
John A. Keel contended that Adamski
and other contactees had been the victims of What the difference of opinion may be
hoaxes set up by the UFO intelligences between us, it matters not. I believe that both of
themselves, manipulative paranormal entities us are interested in the same thing. And that is,
who hold human beings in contempt and use and to have the Truth of the Visitors brought an end
discard them for their own purposes. He to the public, not only here but all over the
characterized the contact experience as a world; this has been my aim from the beginning
“complex and frightening hoax a direct threat to and still is. And I know yours is the same. I
us”. Incomparable idea was proposed by Flying congratulate you on the effort you are making.
And I do know that our efforts to bring the truth
considered it to the public are not going to be in vain; sooner
or later we will all help to bring it out if we don’t
possible that imaginative “messages” we can under the pressure that sometimes is
and conversations, or even illusions, of having placed on us. So more strength to you and help,
been taken for a ride aboard a “craft,” could be for whatever phase of the duty to humanity
induced in receptive minds, and objects like you’ll be asked to serve for the sake of the Truth.
overgrown chicken feeders, monstrous
lampshades or oversize operating theater lamps Still, whenever may have motivated him,
drummed up for the ready camera to record. what matters in the end is that his tales of
Such actions could be a form of deception, or interplanetary adventure and discourse are not
deterrent: if certain entities are keeping us true in any sense it for good or ill, Adamski
under surveillance, or carrying out streams virtually defined the contact the movement of
tasks on our planet, it is possible that they may his time, and his influences -and controversies
not wish to be observed. They could plant that surround him -continue even now. []
“phony” messages of the kind given to contactee
to make the subject sounds so silly two down-to-
earth types that they shun it forever!
A more recent interpretation of
Adamski’s claims comes from Hilary Evans, a
British writer. Evans says that while there are
undeniable elements of conscious invention and
the Adamski story, “we have no right to do what
many ufologists did when such cases as these
were first reported cash to dismiss them as
simple imaginative fantasy.” At least his early
experiences, in Evans’s reading, may have
arisen from visions which befell him because of
a sincere spiritual commitment to an occult
world view.
It is certainly true that the motivations of
even the most egregious liars -and Adamski, as
we have seen, was nothing if not an egregious
liar -are not always easily discerned. The world
is full of those who are at once cynics and
believers. In some strange way we may never