The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.

: 1848 - 1956), Saturday 10 October 1953, page 3

mits crazy
lives on

to

being Mount

since

saucer 1946. He

Palomar,

California.

several He had made trips to unsuccessful

nearby
cause

bedesert areas reports that flying had been saucers landing. But he kept on
of hoping.

it

Then on November happened.

. . .

20

Dare

you

believe

it?

"A beautiful,
small
ii

craft"
he
says,
a

it Flying
tion,

saucers

are

the riddle of

piRST,
tic,

our

age.
ii

Are they visions of hallucination, imaginaor ore we

mother-ship, gigancigar-shaped, and

came

silvery,

high.

being

into view riding It vanished when American planes roared over.

Nevertheless,

Adamski

sensed

observed by creatures from The space? reputable London publishers, Werner

Laurie, offer
this:

landing.
six

from

that there would be a He his instructed to companions watch a distance. did. They
there was
a

Soon,
flash craft

brilliant

and "a beautiful, smalt appeared to be drifting between two mountain peaks and settling about half a mile away." He took photographs.

Then
with
fully

beckoning.

a ravine a man hair appeared "i Adamski say_: realised In that I was
near

long

"I

MET A MAN FROM VENUS"

A
-*

the presence of space a human another world!"

-

man

from

being from
it?

Can

you
man

believe

The

from

space

MAN named
announces the

George Adam
ski to

world
a

today that he has talked with

man

who pirouetted down in the planet Venus

Most people
flying

to earth from flying saucer.

Desert Centre toward Parker, Arizona," at about 12.30 on p.m. November 20 last year.
miles from

laugh

al

ing

saucers. Adamski recalls,

one

laughed

umbus said round. was

But, as everyColwhen the world

h
i s

tells Adamski amazing story in Saucers ing

"FlyHave

Landed" (Werner Laurie, of 12/6), out, last week, which he is co-author Leslie. with Desmond The meeting with the Venusian, claims Adamski, took place "on the 10.2 desert California

Adamski, who describes philosopher, as teacher,and. student, researcher, adsaucer

himself

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smiled. "The beauty of his form surpassed anything that seen ." ever I have He a extended hand. Adamski it. ?went to shake of "instead grasping But he hands placed the against the of his hand palm palm of my hand, just touching it." like a baby's, His flesh was were fingers delicate; the tapering, like an long and artistic woman's.
. . ...

believe it yet? 5ft. Gin., looked about and 28 years old. large, his His forehead was and slightly eyes grey-green had aslant. He high cheekbones, a face as hairless as child's, a and beautiful white sun teeth, an medium even, tan. The long hair, sandy in color, hung shoulder-length "glistening in waves, more beautifully than any a woman's." And he wore sort of chocolate-brown ski suit, without apparently seams, fastenings, or pockets. When Adamski spoke, he shook his head. says, the man So Adamski tried eestures Do He
you 9st.,

and telepathy-"I had been teaching this as a fact for 30 years." In this way, he learned says, he man the had come from Venus. man The even repeated "Venus" after Adamski. his And voice, slightly higher an than pitched earth-man's, had music in it. Still don't believe it?

Adamski says he learned that Venusians had its come to earth to study radiations, because atom wore bombs affecting outer Too explosions space. many were dangerous for the earth, too, signalled the spaceman, and said: "Boom! Boom!" near And there, hovering the ground, was the Flying like a "more Saucer, heavy a glass bell than saucer." He pointed to it, explained that it come had from the cigar

shaped mother-ship.
Soon the Venusian (says Adamski) revealed that were people coming earthwards from other planets bein our sides Venus solar from system, and planets in

systems
spacemen

beyond
had

ours,

died

in

that at-

tempts to reach earth, that they feared to land in popuplaces lated because they
feared Not
guage
-

violence. possible?

in his own lan"like a mixture of an ancient earth Chinese and language" the visitor kept pointing to his feet, which left strange footprints from soles. heavily embossed Together to the they walked waiting ship. were There portholes, strange glows, another beautiful, creature long-haired looking out.

Speaking

Venusian

sketch

by
while

one

of
tt

Adamski's
his shows the

witnesses

watching
of the

interview

through
broad

binoculars,

features appearance.

visitor's

Lights
An

over

Massachusetts
American
the
at

Coastguard
saw

cameraman

these window of

lights from
his

office

Salem,
while
camera.

Maswas

sachusetts,

he

cleaning his
saw

He and again. picture, Bars of

in

them

dim

suddenly
He with took this
a

brighten
hurried result.
to

light appear front of and round

extend behind

the

Mrs. and McGinnis, Lucy Adamski's secretary. Did the Venusian return the film-holder? Yes, says Adamski. Twenty-three days later. came A flying saucerwithin 100ft. of Adamski's house and a hand tossed out a the holder from porthole. In the holder, the.original picture Adamski that took seemed to have been replaced a strange photograph and by a no one symbolic message has yet deciphered. It looks like shorthand. is story. That Adamski's it or Take leave it.

objects.

And,
ahead "Had
I

says,

Adamski,

The space visitor warned Adamski not to too get near. Adamski did; was his arm jerked and up thrown back against his hod body: "/ no feeling in
,

Witnesses
it

say

is true

of thoughts: your in been this thing for money I could have made it. I had But no desire to prostitute so profound a sub-" ject ..." What do you think? Now.
* * *
.*

it."
reFeeling turned only three months later, and there an was still "occa s i o n a 1 shooting pain me." to remind

to Witnesses this meeting affidavits they had sworn a about it-were Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bailey, of Winsa low, Arizona; Dr. and Mrs. George H. Williamson, of Prescott, Arizona, flying saucer Mrs. enthusiasts; runs a Alice K. Wells, who at cafe Palomar Gardens,
-

. Yesterday's "Argus" of New reported that one York's top television was interprogrammes on rupted Thursd a y morning by a mystery in which voice said rapid grammatical English:
warn earthmen you talking stop about flying about saucers,

"I

to

side.

Adamski wanted a trip in the ship, or just a look inman But the from Venus shook his head, and left, taking an exwith him posed negative in its holder of pictures Adamski had earlier. He taken promised return time. Did
No.

bombs for in
war

and
.. .

preparations
learn your to live
>

peace

or

planet

will'be annihilated." denied

to

the holder

some-

Programme they thing to do

arrangers had any-

with

the

he snap the spaceman? The objected. spaceman

announcement.