The Truth Gets a Cold Shoulder

Another dopey statement and quite ironic coming from someone who’s wasted years (if not decades) of their life spewing bile towards Billy Meier.

No one hates – let alone cares about – Adamski. It’s great that he worked in a restaurant, perhaps occasionally throwing plates and…saucers around, inspiring him to make his little models, etc.

As for the HP, clearly they have been fulfilling and time will tell about the rest. There is NOTHING religious in the Meier material; more unsubstantiated claims from you. Saying “Prophecies appeal to a religious train of thought” is remarkably stupid, of course. Many things “appeal” to different kinds of people. Hitler was a vegetarian. Are all vegetarians Nazis?

But let’s talk about your…state of mind. Clearly, you lack logic and reasoning abilities, let alone any discernment.

Here’s a sampling of information about Adamski, quoting numerous sources (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski):

Investigations and criticism[edit]
Over the decades, numerous critics and skeptics have investigated Adamski’s claims. The aliens Adamski claimed to have met in the 1950s were described by him as “human beings from another world”, usually light-skinned, light-haired humanoids that would later be called Nordic aliens.[30] Adamski claimed in his books that these “alien humans” came from Venus, Mars, and other planets in Earth’s solar system. However, none of the planets he mentioned are capable of supporting human life, due to their adverse environmental conditions. The first alien Adamski claimed to have met was from Venus, yet the atmospheric pressure on that planet’s surface is 92 times greater than that of Earth, and it has clouds which rain a toxic substance thought to be sulfuric acid; the atmosphere consists almost entirely of carbon dioxide, with very little oxygen, and the average surface temperature of Venus is 464 °C. In one of his books, Adamski described a trip he took to the far side of the Moon in a flying saucer, 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 that were taken by the Soviet lunar probe Luna 3 in 1959, were altered to depict a barren, lifeless surface to hide what he saw.[48] However, all scientific evidence, as well as later lunar trips by American astronauts, clearly showed that the entire surface of the Moon is barren of life and has no atmosphere.

In his writings, Adamski claimed he travelled to Venus, Mars, and other planets in Earth’s solar system, and clearly stated that they were all capable of supporting humanoid life.[21] As UFO historian Jerome Clark noted, “some Adamski partisans insisted that Venus, Mars, Saturn, and the rest were merely code words for planets in other solar systems; there is, however, nothing in Adamski’s public writings to support this interpretation and considerable testimony to the contrary.”[16]

Adamski’s 1955 book Inside the Space Ships, which describes his claimed travels through Earth’s solar system in a UFO, is considered by some critics[49] to be a “remake” of his 1949 science fiction novel, ghostwritten for Adamski by Lucy McGinnis, and entitled Pioneers of Space. It described a fictional voyage through the solar system that, critics noted, sounded very similar to the space travels described by Adamski in Inside the Space Ships.[44]

Adamski photographs and Moseley investigation[edit]
Adamski’s photographs of objects he claimed were UFOs he had observed and traveled in, have also come under scrutiny. His frequently published photograph from 1952, depicts an object which has been variously identified as the top of a chicken brooder or a streetlight.[50] Adamski claimed that movie director Cecil B. DeMille’s top trick photographer, J. Peverell Marley, had examined his UFO photos and found a “spaceman” in them, and Marley himself declared that if Adamski’s pictures were fakes, they were the best he had ever seen. In the United Kingdom, 14 experts from the J. Arthur Rank company concluded that the object photographed was either real or a full-scale model.[51]

However, in his 1955 investigation into Adamski’s claims, James W. Moseley interviewed Marley, who stated that he had never enlarged the photos for analysis nor found a “spaceman” in them, and did not know of anyone who had. Moseley also interviewed German rocket scientist Walther Johannes Riedel, who told him that he had analyzed Adamski’s UFO photos and found them to be fakes.[52] Riedel told Moseley that the UFO’s “landing struts” were actually 100-watt General Electric light bulbs, and that he had seen the round “GE” logo printed on them.[52] In 2012, UFO researcher Joel Carpenter identified the reflector-shade of a widely available 1930s pressurised-gas lantern as an identical visual match to the main portion of Adamski’s saucer.[53]

In his 1955 investigation, Moseley found other flaws in Adamski’s story. 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.[54] One, Al Bailey, denied to Moseley that he had seen a UFO in the desert or the alien Adamski described. Jerrold Baker, who had worked at Palomar Gardens with Adamski, told Moseley that he had overheard “a tape-recorded account of what was to transpire on the desert, who was to go, etc.” several days before Adamski’s claimed 20 November meeting with Orthon, and Baker stated that Adamski’s meeting with Orthon was a “planned operation.”[40] Baker added that Adamski had tried to convince him not to expose their hoax by telling him that he could make money by charging fees to give UFO lectures, as Adamski was doing: “Now you know the [UFO] picture connected to your name is in the book (Flying Saucers Have Landed) too. And with people knowing that you are connected with flying saucers … you could do yourself a lot of good. You could give lectures in the evenings. There is a demand for this! You could support yourself by the picture in the book with your name.”[14]

Moseley discovered that George Hunt Williamson, another prominent contactee and friend of Adamski, did not witness any UFO nor Adamski’s encounter with Orthon, despite his public statements claiming otherwise. When Irma Baker, Jerrold Baker’s wife, accused him of lying about the incident, Williamson told her cryptically that “sometimes to gain admittance, one has to go around the back door.”[14] In his report on Adamski, Moseley wrote “I do believe most definitely that Adamski’s narrative contains enough flaws to place in very serious doubt both his veracity and his sincerity. The reader will be moved to make for himself a careful re-evaluation of the worth of Adamski’s book.”[55]

Air Force investigation[edit]
During the early-to-mid 1950s USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt was the head of Project Blue Book, the Air Force group assigned to investigate UFO reports. In 1953 Captain Ruppelt decided to investigate Adamski’s UFO claims. He traveled to California’s Palomar Mountain and, dressed in civilian attire to avoid attracting attention, attended one of Adamski’s lectures before a large crowd at his Palomar Gardens Cafe.[4]

Ruppelt concluded that Adamski was a talented con artist whose UFO stories were designed to make money from his gullible followers and listeners, and he compared Adamski to the famed hoaxer, carnival, and circus showman P.T. Barnum. In describing Adamski’s speaking style, Ruppelt wrote “to look at the man and listen to his story you had an immediate urge to believe him … he was dressed in well-worn, but neat, overalls. He had slightly graying hair and the most honest pair of eyes I’ve ever seen. He spoke softly and naively, almost pathetically, giving the impression that ‘most people think I’m crazy, but honestly, I’m really not.'”[4] According to Ruppelt, Adamski had a persuasive effect on his audience, “you could actually have heard the proverbial pin drop” in the cafe as Adamski told of his initial 1952 meeting with Orthon. When Adamski finished his story, Ruppelt noted that many of his listeners purchased copies of Adamski’s UFO photos that were on sale in the cafe. At another lecture led by Adamski and other well-known contactees, Ruppelt wrote that “people shelled out hard cash to hear Adamski’s story.”[4]

Ruppelt believed “the common undertone to many of these [contactee] stories … is Utopia. On these other worlds there is no illness, they’ve learned how to cure all diseases. There are no wars, they’ve learned how to live peaceably. There is no poverty, everyone has everything he wants. There is no old age, they have learned the secret of eternal life … Too many times this subtle pitch can be boiled down to, “Step right up folks and put a donation in the pot. I’m just on the verge of learning the spaceman’s secrets and with a little money to carry out my work I’ll give you the secret.”[4]

According to Ruppelt, by 1960 Adamski’s UFO lectures, and in particular his first two books, had made him a wealthy man: “[His] hamburger stand is boarded up and he now lives in a big ranch house. He vacations in Mexico and has his own clerical staff. His two books Flying Saucers Have Landed and Inside the Space Ships have sold … 200,000 copies and have been translated into every language except Russian.” Ruppelt humorously noted that by 1960 two “beautiful spacewomen” who claimed to be Nordic aliens were dating Adamski, a blonde from Saturn called “Kalna” and another woman named “Ilmuth”.[4]

Tempting as it is to offer them, I don’t think further comments from me are necessary.