UFO CONTACTEE OR HUSTLER?-GEORGE ADAMSKI

George Adamski stories of alien contact is either hailed or reviled. There is very little ambivalence towards this man's stories or books concerning outer space travel and meeting with aliens.

Adamski was born in what is now Poland on April 17, 1891. Poland as in modern times, did not exist as a independent country until after World War I.

Adamski parents moved to the United States in 1893. Adamski was raised in Dunkirk, New York, as a boy Adamski lived a poor life, but was highly intelligent.

Adamski served in the U.S. Army's 13th Cavalry from 1913-1916, his unit patroled the Mexican-American frontier. From 1916-1919 Adamski did his duty with the National Guard, during this time Adamski married Mary A. Shimbersky on December 25, 1917.

After being mustered out of the cavaly in 1919, Adamski drifted and worked many menial jobs, eventually he and his wife settled in Los Angeles where he became a concrete contractor.

In 1930, Adamski founded the ROYAL ORDER OF TIBET. Adamski preached to his followers a philopsophy of Universal Law. Adamski charisma and knowledge of Eastern mysticism earned him the nickname of "THE PROFESSOR". In 1936 Adamski penned the book, "WISDOM OF THE MASTERS OF THE FAR EAST".

During the early 1930's when Prohibition was still the law of the land, Adamski was able to open a monastary in Long Beach, California. Where upon Adamski was able to make sacramental wine, for religious services. Wagging tongues claim that Adamski made great profit by selling the wine to thirsty dry Californians. The monastary was a dodge that enabled him to flank Prohibition laws. If true, Adamski was a capitalistic fox.

By act of Congress, Prohibition ended, and Adamski and his wife ran a cafe in Palomar Gardens, California during the 1940's, for Alice K. Wells. Adamski saw his first UFO on October 8,9, 1946, in Palomar Gardens, California. While watching a meteor shower, with a six inch telescope, Adamski spotted a large cigar shaped craft. Some people dismissed it as imagination or a blimp. However, other people in San Diego sighted a UFO.

In 1947, Adamski claimed that he saw 184, flying saucers passing through the skies, The craft were segemented into 32 saucers per wave.

In 1949, Adamski penned a book entitled, "PIONEERS OF SPACE", this fantasty story had Adamski meeting aliens, visiting Venus, Mars, and the Moon.

On Novemeber 20th, 1952, Adamski along with six other people, went by car to the desert. Somewhere between Parker, Arizona and Desert Center, California, Adamski had contact with an alien. The group parked their car in a deslotae area and Adamski walked out into the desert and had an encounter with a UFO scout ship.

Adamski met Orthon, who was an astronaut on the scout ship. The duo comunicated by telepathy, word, and by drawing on the ground. Orthon was from planet Venus, he was dressed in a brown overalls-jumpsuit, he was 5'6", his hair reached his shoulders, he looked Nordic.

The group that accompanied Adamski were not there at the meeting, and their accounts differ. Some records state that some members of the group saw something as in a craft, and other records state they saw nothing at all. What is true or false? DId Adamski meet a voyager from Venus?

One story has it that Orthon, left boot prints in the sand, and plaster casts were made of these boot prints.

The six people that went with Adamski were, George Williamson, who made casts of Orthon's boot prints, Betty Williamson, Lucy McGiness, Alice K. Weis, AL & Betty Bailey.

George, had more contacts with the aliens, February 18, 1953; April 12, 1953; April 24, 1955, during this time span Adamski's wife died in 1954.

Adamski wrote many books about his alien encounters and became a lecturer and celebrity. Adamski, claimed that he was taken into outer space as a guest of the aliens.

All the planets of the solar system are inhabited. Adamski also preached what the aliens told him, that the universe was a big school. If you got things right on Earth, when you died, you would be born onto another planet, as in graduation.

Life in the universe was about learning, wisdom and growth. Jesus Christ was an alien master who had incarnated on Earth in order to try to help humanity.

Earth was a problem planet, there had been many civilization before ours, but they had destroyed themselves in wars. Humanity seemed to be stuck in a scheme of growth-war-destruction-start all over, growth-war-destruction-start all over. It seems humanity was trapped into a cycle of destruction, and would never break into a realm of harmony, that would enable the people of Earth to reach a new level of wisdom.

These stories were very similar to what Adamski had preached years before as "THE PROFESSOR" and what he had penned in his fantasy book, as in life on other planets.

How was Adamski able to become the premier UFO celbrity of the 1950's? At that time, the American public was very trusting, and Adamski's tales hit home with the public. Adamski, painted himself as Joe Everybody, and his encounter at first seemd real to certain segments of the population.

As Adamski's stories became more fantastic, his popularity plunged. In 1962, Adamski claimed that he had gone to Saturn and met with aliens, where upon a meeting took place. On April 23, 1965, while Adamski was visiting friends in Silver SPrings, Maryland, he was stricken by a heart attack and died. Prior to that, on the very day of his death, he told his friends that the aliens were going to visit him.

Was Adamski telling the truth? Was he a fraud? The snapshots of alien spaceships look suspect. Perhaps, Adamski did see something at one time, or had some type of encounter with who knows what and then embellished the story and turned in into a cottage industry.

Adamski was a capitalist, proof of that is his winery during Prohibition. Judge for yourself, was Adamski legit, he claimed that there was vegetation on the planets, etc... So far he has been proven wrong. In particular, one snapshot of a purported spaceship that his alien friends piloted, looks like a summer hat with ping pong balls glued to it's underside.

As of today, Adamski reputation is savaged by nearly everybody. However, Adamski, to his credit preached peace, wisdom and growth.