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When a Philosopher has passed a certainnumber of years for the upliftment of human-ity, having fulfilled the purpose of his soulupon incarnation, he earns the right to retirefrom the world and to enjoy the freedom de-manded for his own spiritual evolution. Inthe Order of the Philosophers are enrolled thenames of many Brothers who have feigned death.

Perhaps he merely pretended to die, as isthe way of Philosophers, who feign death inone place, only to transplant themselves toanother.

---The Abbe N. de Montfaucon de Vilars

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CONI'ENIS

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Desmond LeslieAlice K. Wells

THE GREATEST SAUCER STORY EVER TOLD •••••••••••• 13Gray Barker

"ADAMSKI'S PHOTOS ARE REAL" •••••••••••••••••••• 23.Michael G. Mann

MY FIGHT WITH THE SILENCE GROUP •••••••••••••••• 33George Adamski

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 39George Adamski

SPACE AGE PHILOSOPHY........................... 49George Adamsk;i

MOON PROBES CONFIRM ADAMSKI'S CLAIMS ••••••••••• 57

THE STRANGE CASE OF R. E. STRAITH •••••••••••••• 61Gt'ay Barker

"The more I know Adamski,the more convinced I becomethat he must either beaccepted in toto orcompletely rejected."

-----Desmond Leslie

June 1965On the evening of April 23, 1965,

a call came from Silver Springs, Mary-land, that George Adamski had beenrushed to the hospital with a heartattack, that I would be called as soonas his condition was determined. Thecall came and the Doctor said theyhad given him every emergency treatmentbut he did not respond and he was gone.This did not come as a complete shockto me for I had been forewarned thatthis might happen and George Adamskihad told me exactly how he wanted hisbody cared for after he no longer haduse for it.

On the morning of April 24th,I flew back to Washington, D. C. tocarry out his wishes. His mortal re-mains were cremated as requested andessence of his Earthly form was placedin an Urn and interned in ArlingtonNational Cemetary, Arlington, Virginia.He would have preferred to have hisashes scattered but this is no longerpermitted by la~. There was no funeral,just a simple graveside service withChaplain Captain David F. Tate, fromFort Myer officiating.

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Go In Peacel

Desmond Leslie

Alice K. We lis

This prayer, which had been hand-ed to the Chaplain, was read with deepfeeling at the conclusion of the service.

We gather here in humble grati-tude to the Creator of all forms forthe privilege of knowing and workingwith so great a servant of the DivineFather.

As the essence of the mortal formreturns to the Earth from whence itcame we reverently dedicate our livesto the Cause for which George Adamskiso nobly lived.

We ask our Heavenly Father forthe wisdom and the Courage to continueto bring to mankind the understandingand the beauty granted to each indiv-id~al and so simply taught by Hisobedient servant.

Our lives are richer for knowingGeorge Adamski the man for he sharedhis understanding of Cosmic Intellig-ence with all who would listen. Andnow, as he lives in a greater fieldof service, may we as mortals be evermindful of the Symbol for Life forwhich he so unselfishly lived anddied.

10His name is a symbol of hope,

of understanding in the midst of con-fusion, a promise of happiness andLife Eternal when Nature's Cosmic Lawsare obeyed. Amen.

I wonder how many realize thathe was a member of the InterplanetaryCouncil. This is a group of men ofhigh Cosmic Conscious Awareness thatevaluate the conditions of our systemand keeps their representatives infor-med of the changes. The Brothers whotravel in ships and those here on thisplanet are liaison men that carry thisinformation.

Due to George Adamski's unwaver-ing loyalty in carrying out his everycommission, The Council decided togrant him a new body through which towork. As the mortal form of GeorgeAdamski was of the Earth it had to bereturned to the Earth, but there hasnot been a break in his intelligenceas he carries on his work in a newform.

I have been asked if GeorgeAdamski is re-born as a baby and myanswer was no. When an individualised intelligence is as aware ofCosmic Consciousness as his was,this is not necessary. There is no-thing fantastic about this when theLaws Of The Cosmos are understood.

Do not be saddened by his passingfor he is very much among us and theBrothers are still at the helm guid-ing and directing our lives. So re-joice and give thanks to the Creatorfor granting him a new body throughwhich he can work unhampered.

---Alice K. Wells

A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE ADAMSKIby

Desmond Leslie(Co-Author: "FLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED")

Of all the people in the flyingsaucer world, George Adamski standsalone as its most controversial char-acter. Many others have claimed con-tacts and been treated with tolerance,belief or amused contempt, but Georgehad only to open his mouth to bring

BOOK OF ADAMSKIdown a storm of abuse, praise andwonderment.

Perhaps I came to know him as wellas anybody, I stayed with him severaltimes and discovered facets in hischaracter seldom rp-vealed in public.Underneath the talkative, colorful ex-terior lurked a very great human being.Some quirk in his nature often tookpains to conceal this and present in-stead, as his public face, a far moreshallow person than he really was.

Who was he?Certainly no ordinary person.

Physically he was Polish with, I thinka touch of Romany. Immensely strong,good looking and with burning blackeyes. Spiritually he was more thanone person. There was George of thepublic lectures--the one I liked leastfor he tried to say too much all atonce. Then there was the relaxed,naughty George with a keen eye for apretty face, and a pluckish delightin shocking the profaced and prudes.

Then there was another George,beautifully spoken, wise, kind, anddeeply aware of the importance of histask. Through this George, I severaltimes glimpsed the presence of aMaster, and I was always sorry whenthe curtain came down again and theworldly mask obscured him.

I often wondered why he shouldhave been singled out as the primeprophet of saucery. He believed thathe had reincarnated from anotherplanet through karmic reasons to givehis teachings, and I find that ideaquite acceptable. He believed thatothers, greater in the world's esteem,had also been contacted and given thesame mission, but that for variouspersonal reasons had refused or fail-ed. He saw himself as the 'lame thehalt and the blind' who were calledto the King's feast after the chosenguests had made excuses not to come.He felt that he was a broken reed,but alas the only reed willing totry and play their tune. So withall his might, with his inability towrite and speak good English, andthe inate difficulties of being thecharact~r that he was, he set outundaunted by criticism or abuse togive the message as best he saw it.

GO IN PEACE!This seems to me most probable,

even a wise move on the part of theBrothers. To choose a great and re-spected person would be too easy forus to accept, or too difficult forthat person who might be demoted anddeclared mad. Again, in George Ada-mski were all the virtues and failingsof this planet, slightly over-life-sized. So that one could recognizean aspect of oneself in him and jud-ge from a more personal basis.

To assess the validity of hisclaims is still difficult, I ampersonally completely satisfied thathis photos and early contacts arecompletely authentic and will intime be proven by later events. Someof his claims take a lot of swallowing.But just when you bad decided to writehim off as a babbler, something turnsup to substantiate them. For instancewhen I first visited him in 1954, hespoke of the Van Allen Belts, and the'Fireflies in space' as later seen bythe cosmonaunts. Neither of thesewere known at the time. The last timeI saw him he calmly announced: 'I sawPope John yesterday.' Well, as ithappened I was able to get independentconfirmation that this was true. Johngave him a beautiful gold medallioneffigy of himself which as far as Iknow has never yet been released andis only given to the most specialpeople. George claimed to have givenJohn a sealed package from the Brotherswith advice for the conduct of theCouncil. Certainly the way the Churchhas behaved since then is very much inline with the Brothers' policies.

That was the maddening thing aboutGeorge. Just as you thought you had atlast caught him in a whopper, some-thing would turn up to substaintiatehis claim.

I remember two occasions on succ-essive nights at Palomar when I saw atiny golden remote control disk leaverapidly. On the second occasion wewere talking on his patio j~st afterdark when I got a tremendous feelingof being watched. I turned aroundjust in time to see a tiny golden disknot more than fifty feet away, as itshot upward in a trail of light.

11George laughed, and I said: "Thank

God our converstation has been cleanthe last twenty minutes."

He refused to ask me on a 'con-tact with him and at the time itpeeved me greatly. But I realizedlater that I was in no fit spiritualstate for such an experience and hadI been taken aboard a saucer I doubtif I'd have been a very successfulprophet afterwards for my ego ishighly susceptible to spiritual agg-randizement. Many who have genuinecontacts have gone very odd, formingnew religions and in fact doing every-thing the Brothers desire least. 1doubt I would have been any exception.

One thing I liked about Georgewas his utter down-to-earthiness. Idon't think he ever suffered from spir~t-ual pride -- from abuse, from strain, frommany other things, yes -- but despite thewarring human factions which grew up amonghis followers, there was always a greatmodesty and sense of his own unimportanc~in scheme of such vastness and splendor.

I don't suppose he will mindme telling this, now that he has castoff the fine old body, but he onceshowed me the most extraordinary birth-mark. His navel was not like a humannavel at all. It was a huge solardisk with deeply cut rays extendingout about six inches all around it,from waist to groin. What this sig-nifies I have no idea - unless it istruly a sign of a 'Child of the Sun'

Anyone who knew him grew to lovehim tmmensely. Our first contact wasso strange. I had 'Flying SaucersHave Landed' being rejected by publi-sher after publisher, when I heardthrough a friend of the first desertcontact a week previously. I immedi-ately wrote to George asking if hewould let me see and possibly buyhis photographs for my book. He rep-lied by sending me the whole remark-able set of pictures, along with per-mission to use them without fee. Ithought what an extraordinary man.He takes the most priceless picturesof all time and wants no money forth~.. Later he sent Woehis ~anusc-

ript humbly suggesting I might beable to find a publisher for it. Bythis t~e dear Waveney Girvin hadaccepted my book and was perturbedthat if we used George's picturesand synopsis of his story with ourown, George's book wouldn't stand achance; and after much soul search-ing suggested a joint publication.We wrote off to George who cabledback the following day before re-ceiving our letter, "Agree to ajoint publication." Here indeed wastelepathy at work! And so the ama-zing relationship developed. Whenwe met again physcally we were oldfriends, as if in some former life wehad been very close. His devotedfriend and housekeeper Alice Wellswas also an amazing lady. You neverhad to tell her or ask anything.She knew. She'd pick up your thoughtand answer it in advance.

George claimed that many thous-ands of more mature souls who'd oncelived on the Earth wheee returning

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both in flying saucers and by rebirthto help our planet through its timeof trial. It seems very likely thatGeorge was one of them, and that hewas chosen to confound the intellect-ual and the arrogant and the know-allsjust as the prophets in the past havebeen chosen whose very simplicity andhumble birth has made them bettervehicles for a spiritual message thanthose who reasoning powers have clogg-ed up their spiritual channels.

We shall miss George. Kiss himvery much, but I cannot feel sad athis going. He gave his utmost tothe work and the world will never bequite the same place again, richerfor his coming, a little poorer forhis going. But I don't believe byany means that we have seen the lastof him. If he is reborn on anotherplanet he has promised to come backand contact us when possible.

With George anything could happen.And usually does!

Dear Old Space Kan--Go in Peace1

"When a thing is hiddenaway with so much pains,merely to reveal it is todestroy it."

-----Tertullian

The Greatest Saucer Story Ever Told

Gray Barker

The monks had just finished roast-ing a sheep and the Abbott was readyto say grace when one of the brethernof the monastary came running in,shouting about a great portent in theheavens.

The Abbott forced his portly forminto a trot, ran into the courtyard,and there was the flying saucer:

"to! a large round silvery thinglike a disk flew slowly over them andexcited the greatest terror."

One beauty of this very ancientaccount is its classical unfologicalconsistency. Somebody sees a saucerand goes to the prevailing Authorit-ies for an explanation. In this case,of course the ruling intellectualauthority of the very small monasticcOUlDUnity was the Abbott.

Faced with the question, theAbbott came up with an explanationwhich puts the colorless Air ForceExplainers to shame:

'~ereat Henry the Abbott immed-iately cried that Wilfred was anadulterer, wherefore it was impiousto ..... "

Wilfred, whoever he was, had been13

the fellow who supplied the sheep, andwhether he really had been guilty ofsuch activities, we shall never know --but the Abbott's pre-Kinsey observationimmortalized (or IMMORALIZED) him for-ever, or at least practically forever.

For this happened in A. D. 1290.

Although not the greatest saucerstory ever told, surely it was one ofthe earliest, and this old accountappears in the beginning of a book whichcaused world-wide awareness of flyingsaucer visitations.

In 1952, Desmond Leslie, cousinof Winston Churchill, and a playwright,had been trying to get a publisher fora book he had written -- after doingyears of research among rare manuscripts.Leslie said it proved that flying sau-cers, which Kenneth Arnold had public-ized in 1947, were nothing new, andhad been around since the dawn ofrecorded history. .

Several publishers read the man-uscript and turned it down flat. Somesaid it was "too crakpot," others "tooscientific," and the rest said nobody

14would be interested in reading it.

In November of 1952 howeverLeslie's fortunes changed -- by a'dramatic happening which transpiredthousands of miles away from his Lond-

on home. On the 20th of that monthGeorge Adamski met a man from outerspace on a California desert!

Publishers in New York and Londonsat up and took notice, and promptlypurchased Adamski's account of his.pace visitation. The manuscriptwas too short for a book-lengthpublication, however, and quite byaccident T. Werner Laurie, Ltd.,of London, remembered the Lesliemanuscript which had been kickingaround.

By combining the two manuscr-ipts the British publisher cameup with FLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED.

At latest count, the U. S.edition has gone through twelveprintings and had sold over halfa million copies!

In the meantime the GeorgeAdamski story had been translatedinto many languages and had causedcontroversy allover the world.

VIMANAS AND VENUSIANS

A review of what happened toGeorge Adamski is best told byactually reviewing this strangebook itself.

De~ond Leslie begins the bookwith the old account of the monas-tary sighting; then he relates asuccession of similar accounts be-ginning in 1619, and extending thr-ough the centuries to publicationdeadline.

Then Leslie delves even fartherback into antiquity:

Ancient manuscripts, dating backthrough prehistory to Atlantean days,not only tell of man-made flying sau-cers very much like those now in theskies, but GIVE RATHER COMPLETE DIREC-TIONS FOR BUILDING THEM!

The Vimanas (air-boats) of theAtlanteans were constructed of eitherwood or metal, were propelled by eng-ines utilizing mercury, though theexact methods of propulsion are not

BOOK OF ADAMSKIgiven. The energy was directed thr-ough nozzels or jets, turned in diff-erent directions to steer the craft.Although the vimanas could travel atonly 100 miles per hour, it is hintedadvanced machines could travel to theplanets. Apparently NQlh's Flood, acatastrophe running through the his-tories and traditions of peoples thr-oughout the world, wiped out theseancient saucer-building civilizationsas well as their wonderous flyingmachines.

Mention of weapons of war similarto modern atomics can also be foundin ancient manuscripts, Leslie decla-res. He feels the asteroid belt mayonce have been a planet whose scien-tists succeeded in blowing themselvesskyward.

Nor were all the saucers of oldpropelled by what we might today con-sider physical means. Pointing toSaint Teresa of Avila, reported tobe able to rise in tre air J the aut-hor believes she may have masteredan amazing and abundant kind ofpower, the control of sound, where-by uttering or producing certainkinds of wave lengths could opposegravity and cause a body or build-ing stone to be levitated. If aproperly pitched note can break amirror, "is it beyond the realmsof possibility that if sound werecompletely understood .•..it mightbe harmonized to the electricalmagnetic forces that produce levit~ations?1l Leslie suggested that pre-historic flying saucers were liter-ally Ilflownwith a song," and themodern counterpart manmodern counterpart may utilize sim-ilar secrets of tapping the energiesof t~e universe. The mystical "Abra-cadabras" and "Open Sesames" of leg-endary magicians may be half-remember-ed sounds which could move mountainsand build the Great Pyramid.

That might explain how the fift-een-ton polished casing rtones ofthe Great Pyramid were lifted andfitted to incredible tolerances without modern machinery, that is, IFit would be possible, even withmodern machinery.

If great natural sources of

THE GREATEST SAUCER STORY EVER TOLDpower in the universe could betapped by the ancient, why could notthe same be done today? AlthoughLeslie shares the views of manyoccultists that the realms of whatmany term the supernatural may oneday be the great frontier of science,it is difficult for scientists todiscard preconceived methods whichlead them against a stone wall. Asan example, the author points toelectricity and asks what it reallyis, remarking that so far scientistshave been unable to tell him whatmakes his TV set actually work, thoughthey are experts at building circuitsto control the electricity flowingthrough its tubes. Although engine-ers can tell him much about the how,Leslie thinks an understanding ofthe why would lead to far greater

But man's understanding of hisenviroment and limitless possibili-ties are expanding, At one time itwas believed the human body woulddisintergrate if the horse were aban-doned for the fantastic speed oflocomotives; later the sonic barrier,through which no plane could passwithout supposed disintegration,was penetrated; now the speed oflight is deemed unsurpassable.

So with the scientific fancyfreed from mundane limiting hori-zons» the reader is thus preparedfor and ushered into the second

part rf the book» wherein one GeorgeAdamski actually meets a space vis-itor and draws an amazing discoursefrom him.

Adamski lived at Palomar Gard-ens, 3,000 feet in altitude, onthe slopes of Mt. Palomar, wherethe 200-inch telescope is located.Describing himself as "philosopher,student, teacher, and saucer resear-cher," he took care to point outthat he had no connection with thestaff of the observatory. Althoughhis regular occupation was notstated» Adamski was connected withthe restaurant at Palomar Gardens»though not the owner of it. He alsosaid he had no college degrees.

Adamski first became interest-ed in space craft in October» 1946»when during a meteor shower he saw

an object like a giant dirigible inthe sky» which soon pointed upwardand shot out of view with a burstof flame. At the time he thoughtlittle of it, but the widespreadtalk of flying saucers, after Ken-neth Arnold saw them in lS~7, ledhim to watch the skies. With twotelescopes, one of which had acamera attached, Adamski said hewas able to observe and photographhundreds of saucers, though few ofthe photographs turned out well.Remarking about the comment ofsome people who wonder why he sawso many saucers, he said thatanyone can see them if he formsthe habit of watching the sky.'7hese ships are there and theycan be seen by those who look upwhenever they are out of doors --not always, but sooner or laterthe searcher will be rewarded."

THE MAN FROM OUTER SPACE

But it was on November 20,1952, at 12:30 noon, that Adamskigot his closest look at a saucer,and talked with a long-haired manfrom Venus. Hearing that saucershad been landing in nearby deser-ts, presumably from groups of per-sons who had allegedly contactedthe occupants, Adamski decided totry his own luck. Gathering fourfriends, his secretary and the pro-prietor of the restaurant, he setforth early one morning. The partyconsisted of Mr. and Mrs. A. C.Bailey, of Winslow, Arizona; Mrs.Alice K. Wells, owner of PlamarGardens and operator of the restaur-ant; Dr. and Mrs. George H. William-son, of Prescott, Arizona, andMrs. Lucy McGinnis, his secretary.Adamski located the meeting spot,on a desert about ten miles fromDesert Center toward Parker, Ariz-ona» mainly by hunch, since he had

developed the habit of followinghunches or feelings. Stopping fora picnic lunch» the party noticedconsiderable aircraft circling thevicinity and then a large cigar-shaped craft. Following anotherhunch» Ad~s~i told the rest of

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The Vensian objected to beingphotographed, so Adamski didn'tinsist; though the man asked forone of the photographic plates

STRANGE FOOTPRINTS

BOOK OF ADAMSKItween two mountain peaks and hurr-iedly turned his telescope on it,shooting pictures. Then the saucerdisappeared. But soon afterward hewas aware of a figure beckoning tohim, which, upon closer observation,proved to be the person from the.pace ship.

The man had long hair, finelychiseled features, and was dressedin an odd one-piece suit, apparent-ly without seams. The trousers re-sembled ski pants, were rather fulland were held at the ankles as if byclose-fitting bands. So were thearms drawn in at the wrists, and aband fitted around the waist. Theman appeared to be about 28 yearsold and to weigh one hundred thirtyfive pounds, was about five feet,six inches tall.

The man appeared friendly, wassmiling, and Adamski hurriedly triedcomnunie:.atingwith him. Althoughthe person spoke in an odd languagesomewhat like Chinese and didn't un-derstand English, Adamski stated hewas able to talk to him through signlanguage and mental telepathy.

He had come there from Venus, itdeveloped, though flying saucers camefrom many different planets, includ-ing those in our own solar system andfrom outside. All of the planets inour solar system are inhabited, acc-ording to the visitor, and his jobappeared to be checki~ on radia-

tions caused by atomic bombs. Toexpress the danger of the bombs toour own earth, the visitor pointedto the ground and said, "Boom!Boom~" The man believed in God,though led Adamski to believe thaton his planet people adhere moreto the laws of the Creator thanman does on materialistic earth.Physically, men from allover theuniverse are much alike, the visi-tor observed.

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The Venusian, as observed byAlice K. Wells, who witnessed desertcontact through binoculars. Herrough sketch of spacemen has beenredrawn above by Gene Duplantier.

the party to wait while he went toa spot about a half mile from thehighway. The ship seemed to foll-ow the car as they drove him partof the distance to the location,then stopped when the car stopped.

Adamski soot ted a small sau-

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I have tried tc sum up thebook in a literal mar-nerbeca~sethere is little chance of provingor disproving either pari of it.Leslie's theories of early saucers

Above: Strange footprints left on desert by Venusian, redrawnby Gene Duplantier from original sketch by witness Alice K. Wells.Although there have been many interpretations of the symbols, theirexact meaning has never been established.

promising to return it later. messages and many different "trans-Refusing the disappointed Adamski lations" appeared in print.a ride in the saucer, which was Although the desert photo-nearby, the visitor concluded the graphs were spoiled, apparentlyinterview, got into the contrapt- by radiation from the craft, theion and sailed away. Twenty-three pictures taken of the saucer ondays later the saucer buzzed Palo- its return visit are corkers.mar Gardens and dropped the photo- They show the saucer in great de-graphic plate to the ground. Upon tail, including interesting ball-development it disclosed curious type landing gear, and also arewriting, reproduced in the book. reproduced in the book.

The visitor also left foot-prints st the site of the dese~tmeeting (see illustration) andcasts of these were made wi~h pl-aster of Paris, disclosing mo~esymbolic markings. Experts theworld over tried to deciper t~~

ipts, aam1tting of a pay-your-money-and-tak.-your-choice interpretation.We hereby refuse to get into thesubject of ancient manuscripts, forthe present saucer situation isconfusing enough; and our profoundignOrl.1Ce of the various ologiesinvolved is enough to make us throwup our hands. Even if they couldbe discredited, Leslie's theoriesare so darned interesting we don'twant to try and kick them around.

As far as picking Adamski'sstory apart, we believe that alsois quite impossible.

Apparently Adamski had witnes-ses, but they were a half mile aw-ay. One of them had a movie camera,and Adamski does have a good excusefor not photographing the cigar-sh-aped craft. While it was hoveringthe lady with the camera was toonervous to adjust the camera; by thetime she did adjusted it, the shipwas moving.

Adamski doesn't mention whet-her they shot any movies of themeeting, but maybe it was too faraway. One of the witnesses didwatch the proceedings through bin-oculars and was able to draw asketch of the vis3 ~r. (see ill-ustration. )

As I ~ead the exciting storyfor the first time, I did get theimpression of a tone of great hon-esty throughout Adamski's account,and could hardly doubt that he wastelling the trut~ as he knew it.

The story, bowever, was al-most too fantastic to believe. Itried to come up with an explanationwhich would satisfy myself. MaJ-be there was a flying saucer, andan alien life form, but perhapsthe interpretation of such stimulicould have been much different ifseen from the viewpoint of a diff-erent observer. The religious toneof the experience was evidenced byAdamski's remark, "Yet there wasand is an inexpressable joy for theprivilege. I had been given a gli-mpse of friends from a world beyondthis earth -- and the ecstasy of a

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visit with one of them." Evidentlyit was an experience of wor~h1pfuladoration, much the same as mayhave happened, we felt, many timesin the past, to people who wrotereligious works.

After all, there had been no com-munication by actual language as weknow it; talking had been done with8ign language and telepathy, both ad-mitting of possible errors of inter-pretation. And more and more we be-lieved that saucers came nearest be-ing that which is "all things to allmen. "

We wonder if saucerians behavemuch like terrestrials believe theyshould behave.

The little men seen by devilishterrestrials probably have horns.

So it was greatly to Adamski'scredit, by this line of reasoning,that the visitors appp.ared to bekind and good, Christ.like in dem-eanor and speech.

FACT OR FICTION?

If our inferences were logical,surely Adamski, regardless of whathe saw that day in the desert, andhow accurately he reported the oc-currence, had a charitable andbenign soul. For he saw only goodcoming to mankind from the saucers,a reflection, perhaps, of his ownhopes and ideals.

Thus were my feelings when Ifirst read what I still considerto be "the greatest saucer storyever told."

Fact? Fiction? Many flyingsaucer researchers will give you aquick answer, claiming one of thetwo alternatives, To me it wasnever quite so simple.

If George Adamski told the truthwe personally think it was of theexperiences written in FLYING SAUCERSHAVE LANDED. We believe his photo-graphs, published in that book, arealso real. .

Encouraged by public demand formore facts, and excited by the publicity obtained from the best-seller,did Adamski manufacture further incidents we wrote about in his second

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In the latter Adamski claimedto take rides in space ships, and hisnarrative became more contrived. Hisphotographs in the second book werehighly questionable.

We have our own pet theory whichapplies equally to people who contact.pace people, to mediums, and even topoltergeists. Something real, thoughweird and fantastic, happens to anindividual and he tells the world ab-out it. People come from miles tohear the Itory, and then want to hearmore. A medium has a few ttemendousmaterialization seances, but can'tturn them "on" at will. A polter-geist starts throwing things arounda house, people hear about it and cometo lee.

The saucer "contactee" may sim-ply concoct further accounts, not wish-ing to disappoint his public. Themedium, who can't always effect mater-ialization, buys some cheesecloth.The adolescent in the house wherethe mischeivious spirit is hurlingvases gets the idea that he or sheshould perpetuate the phenomena thatthat he or she subconsciously causedin the first place. So the childthrows some things around and iscaught at it. "Fake!" the publiccries.

George Adamski is expe lled fromhis membership in the National Inv-estigations Committee On AerialPhenomena. The organization, head-ed by Major Donald E. Keyhoe, isapparently frightened of the importof his storymd uses as an excusehis later accounts which do not havethe ring of truth that the originalhad.

Many cease to believe in GeorgeAdamski. They call him a crackpot,as they rush to some new medium, orto see some new poltergeist.

And maybe the Space People, ifindeed they be real, are smilingwith satisfaction. Perhaps theywanted to cause public awareness offlying saucers, but not TOO MUCH ofan awareness. Perhaps they wantedto prepare the public GENTLY forwhat is to occur.

BOOK OF ADAMSKIWhile many "objective" and

"scientific" saucer researchersscreamed that AdamsKi was per-petrating a hahA, there was notone among them when, pinned down,could say anything personally badabout him.

For George charmed his crit-ics wherever he roamed. No matterhow vitrolic his adversaries, hemaintained a pleasant attitudewhich challenged their negativity.Maybe this was one reason why theycould never cope with him!

I had corresponded with Adamskion many occasions and felt I knew himfairly well, and always looked forw-ard to the personal meeting I feltwas inevitable. But I waited toolong. On the evening of April 23,1965, George died, of a heart att-ack, in Silver Springs, Maryland.

Ai."''' ••''''''''On July 15, one of the hottest daysof the scorching summer of 1966, Idrove to Arlington National Cem-etary with the wife of the ownerof a business I work for. I hadtaken her there to see the LeeMansion and the Kennedy grave.

While there I remembered thatAdamski was said to be buried there,and I went to the Cemetery officetD inquire. I was given a map,with the number and location of hisgrave clearly marked.

The owner's wife and the boss,who also was along on the trip,never did quite understand who Geo-rge Adamski was, or why I was searc-hing for the grave -- though I triedto explain. I think they still be-lieve it to be that of some relativeof mine.

Once I found the grave, I stoodthere looking at the inscription.

A cloud came over the hot sun, bring-ing a moment of coolness. I feltsuddenly relaxed, from the tensionof the long day of museum-going andsightseeing. I asked the owner'swife to take a picture of me, stand-ing beside the headstone.

THE GREATEST SAUCER STORY EVER TOLDJust then another car pulled up

behind our own on the nearby drive-way, and a young couple got out.Smiling, they walked toward us. Theywere "looking for George" too.

They had come from Canada, justto visit the grave, and it made mesomewhat ashamed to mentally notethat I had made the visit mainly asan afterthought.

'~e have enjoyed his books somuch." the woman told me, "and wewanted so much to see where he laid."

They had picked some wildflowersfrom a friend's estate in nearbyAlexandria, and she had made thisinto a wreath, which she layed onthe grave.

A wind came up and blew at thedelicate flowers.

I knew that soon they would dieand wither away, as had some othersthat some unknown person had placedon the grave, apparently days before.

But George Adamski's story"whether fact or fiction, would neverdie.

It would excite others, as ithad me. and inspire them too. Theymight end up disbelieving what he hadsaid, but meanwhile they would havedelved deeply into the mysteries ofthe universe and our role on thisplanet.

Whether or not they had reallybelieved in George Adamski, theirresearch had purged them of manydevils. It had thrown light intodarkened corners where the Three Menin Black lurk, and cringe in terrorat a shaft of sunlight.

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Gray Barker, at the grave ofGeorge Adamski, in Arlington NationalCemetery.

The cursed darkness of fear,repression and superstition had beenpushed back somewhat, as they laugh-ed and enjoyed the fellowship ofother friends who had also studiedin the same avenues.

They didn't entirely believe inthe Space Men as such any longer, be-cause they finally realized that THEY,THEMSELVES, were space men and women.

And they would return intermitten-ly to the grave of George Adamski, notquite knowing why. not quite knowingthat, allegorically, a great man hadgiven them great truths.

They would not realize that al-most two thousand years ago anotherman had handled the truth the verysame way.

"Science of today -- thesuperstition of to~orrow.Science of tomorrow -- thesuperstition of today."

-----Charles Fort

Photographic Expert:

"Adamski's Photos Are Real"

Michael G. Mann

"Ob him, he was a phoney. Youcould tell from the way he talked."

" I knew he was making it upall along."

These and like statements havespread far and wide since the deathof George Adamski. Ray D'Aquila ofUFO Contact Group in the Netherlandswho originally supported George nowstates, ••••• "I do not support Mr.Adamski's statements full 1001 anymore. There is no saying where truthends and fiction begins .•••• "

Many of Adamski's followershave deserted his teachings.

Those of you who know me realizethat my main interest in Ufology issaucer photographs. Without quest-ion Adamski had compiled the great-est and most interesting collectionof UFO photos in the field. He .claimed to have taken these picturespersonally during his meetingswith the space beings who pilotedthese crafts.

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While I am not qualified tojudge, nor am I interested injudging Adamski's contact accountsand books, I AM in a position toanalyze his photos scientifically.

Many look at the photographsand consider them excellent rend-itions of tin cans, models and toys."Yat.kee" magazine went so far asto construct a ball shaped modelfrom a coffee can, hub cap and threeping pong balls. They photographedit and concocted a contact story togo with the photo. The fact thatpeople believed their phony reportproved in THEIR minds that Adamski'stale was likewise, untrue. If thisline of reasoning were logic~l itwould mean that if I were to const-ruct a model of a TWA 707 Fanjet andphotograph the model, all such jetswould cease to exist. I am surethat TWA isn't worrying about thesituation:

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shaped craft. Very similar objectshave been photographed by CedricAllingham, Howard Menger, GeorgeStock, Dr. Daniel W. Fry, RebertCae Gardner, George Van Tassel,Paul Trent, and scores of otherpeople. It 1s quite evident thatAdamski was not the only person tosee the photograph this shape ofcraft.

There are three cases in par-ticular that I would like to re-count, which tend to verify theAdamski case.

The first has to do with a rat-her blurry photograph taken by Sgt.~errold E. Baker. The picture showswhat seems to be the bottom of a sau-cer which looks amazingly stmilar tothe Adamski type craft. Theblurry aspect 1s understandable and1n fact helps to substantiate thesighting due to the fact that theobject was moving rapidly and photo-graphed with a brownie box camera.Brownies have a lens speed of l/25thof a second, and therefore a speedyobject would appear as a blur in anexposure. The interesting thing isthat this photo was taken on Dec-ember 13, 1952, at about nine thirt-een AM. This was about three min-utes after George had taken his fam-ous bell craft photo a short distan-ce away at Palomar Gardens.

The second bit of photo corrobo-ration is the picture ts6.en by astro-naut Scott Carpenter. This strangeobject was sighted by tbe astronautsnear their Gemini space capsule andlooks amazingly bell shaped.

The third photo I will dealwith was taken by thirteen year old

Stephen Darbshire, son of a Dr.Darbshire of Coninston, England.,

It was on the morning of Feb-ruary 15, 1954, that young Stephen,of Coniston, Lancashire, seemed tohave an uncontrollable urge to climba hill behind his horne. He and his

26 BOOK OF ADAMSKI

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eight-year-old cousin, Adrian Myer,went up the hill, taking a smallcamera along in the hope of takingbird pictures, since bird watchingwas his principal hobby.

Suddenly Adrian shouted, "Lookat that thing~ And there it was,coming from a direction of' the Buna strange silvery round object. Itdescended to earth about a hundredyards away and disappeared behindsome rising ground, came into viewagain a few seconds later. Then itsuddenly tipped up on its side andshot up into the sky with a swishin~sound, the only noise it made duringits appearance.

"It was a solid metal-likething with a dome, portholes, andthree bumps or landing domes under-neath. In the center the underneathwas darker and pointed like a cone.At first three portholes were visiblebut then it turned slightly and wesaw four, There was what looked likea hatch on top of the cabin dome."

Stephen also described theobje~ts as 40 feet in diameter andpresenting a silvery, glassy appear-ance, "like metal or plastic whichlight goes through but which youcan't see through" (He likely meanttranslucent). He also said that ithad a ball-type landing gear.

In his excitement, investigationshowed Stephen had set his camera on"bulb" instead of the intended 1/25second, and had taken about a one-second exposure, As a result the. 'p~cture was blurred.

At first Stephen's father, adoctor, did not believe him, but wasconvinced after the photograph wasdeveloped. Young Stephen was inter-viewed by newspaper men and saucerinvestigators, but stuck to his orig-

"ADAMSKI'S PHOTOS ARE REAL" 27

inal story.

Although his description of thesaucer fitted that allegedly photo-graphed by Adamski, Stephen's parentsconfirmed his statement that he neverread the Leslie--Adamski book, FLYINGSAUCERS HAVE LANDED, nor had he seeneven an abridged account. He didsay, however, he had seen Adamski'sphotograph in the London Illustrateq,Stephen said the saucer had four portholes, but the photograph he hadseen, which had been trtmmed down forreproduction, showed only three (thefourth had been cut off).

An orthographic projection ofthis photo shows that the object hasthe exact proportions of the Adamskicraft. Coincidence is so fantasticin this case it is just out of thequestion.

Right: Sketch made by F. W.Potter of "Adamski type" saucer andredrawn by Gene Duplantier. World-side sightings of similar craft tendto confirm Adamski's photographs.

Pev Marley, ace cameraman forCecil B. DeMille, and photo expertpointed out "Adamski's pictures iffaked are the cleverest ever seen,rivaling a Houdini" ••••• "The sha-dows on these saucers and also onthe ground correspond to such adegree that they could not be faked."

A recent issue of '7LYINGSAUCER REVIEW" of England hascome to the defense of the memoryof George Adamski, In their re-port they listed many of the casesthat corroborafed Adamski's stories.In particular they mentioned a Mr.F. W. Potter as having sightedAdamski-Type craft on October 8,~53. This particular sighting was

reported in the "EVENING NEWS" andstated that Potter was both an ama-teur astronomer and highly respectedcitizen of Norwich, England. EvenGene Duplantier in his ~~er Elevenissue of "SAUCERS SPACE AND SCIENCE"ran an article by Ronald W. J. Ansteein which he talked about space exp-loration and stated, 'The reportedconditions found by the sputniks andAmeric~n satellites and now by~ioneer' are not new k~owledge, the

Right: OfficialBrazilian Navy photo ofdome craft. Below:Saucer photographed byCedric Allingham.

Allingham lays he took thispicture of the Saucer on the

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Certainly it is most easy tosay that Adamski's pictures merelyr~present some chicken fencing,ping-pong balls (or a G-E LightBulb if you wish) attached by afamous brand of glue. But eventhough admittedly such photos can beeasily faked (gnd also easily discover-ed) this has never been the case withAdamski's photographs. In fact evenif we are able to do away with hissupposed trips to Saturn and other spotsin space, and with a little imaginationeven his first desert contact, we haveyet to find any really good explanationfor his still and moving pictures.Certainly a photograph of any Bmallmodel could be easily detected withlittle or no previous training in thefield of photographic reproduction.

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It is plain to see that there ismore than meets the eye in regardto the Adamski story and photographs.If they could have been faked who fakedthem? Anyone who has ever met GeorgeAdamski in person knows that he was asimple unimposing individual hardlycapable of such an ingenious bit ofphoto fakery.

Who could set up a world wideconspiracy which could turned outphotos and reports by the hundred toback and corroborate George's reports?Until these and other ~uestions canbe answered my mind remains open.

increased radiation activity and otherconditions found in space, was reportedseveral years ago by Mr. George Adamski."

BOOK OF ADAMSKIHowever some motion pictures (in

full color) taken by Mr. Adamski whichhave not been seen very widely areperhaps even more sensational. In onecase a very close associate of Adamski,a Madeline Ro~effer of the Washington,D. C. area, has an eight or nine minutefilm which she took in her back yard.These film clips clearly show thelanding gear of • scout ship whichis hovering between two trees. Thelanding gears are visible as thesaucer tilts slightly to one side.One of those, a Mr. Harry M. Fleenorof Topeka, Kansas, who viewed the foot-age at Mrs. Rodeffer's home steppedoffthe distance in between these two trees---------------------Single frame from movie of "Adamski- and discovered that the ship must at

type" saucer shot by Mrs. Kadelein Rodeffer. least have been 75 feet in diameter.A strange effect which some researchers have He also said that as he viewed thetermed a force field distorts image of craft film he got a very eerie feeling, likeon the right. something NOT OF THIS WORLD.

MORE ON mE ADAMSKI PHOTOGRAPflSby Timothy Green Beckley

They say that a picture is wortha thousand words. But certainly inthe case of George Adamski his picturesare worth ten thousand. These pictures,which adorn the text of his three majorbooks, have stood the test of time andhave never really been scientificalyrefut ed.

Perhaps Adamski was not tellingall he knew or has clouded his storyup by adding considerable pieces offiction to it, yet I am convinced that

somewhere in his stories lies a goldenthread of TRUTH. Wheather he actuallydid all the things he claims (or waseven the tool of some government orSilence Group) may perhaps never befully discovered. But indeed hisphotographs are perhaps the best takento date. Surely, at least in this

"ADAMSKI' 5 PH01'OS ARE REAL"researcher's mind, a complete re-examination of this case is in order.And up till we are able to discoverthe secret of his photographs thereis certainly a good case lOR and notAGAINST George Adamski.

JERROLD E. l\AKER'S STATEMENT

Not only did Adamski photographsaucers at Palomar Gardens, but ayoung assistant, Jerrold E. Baker,also snapped at least one picture.

The following statement, datedDecember 13, 1952, provides firsthand outside evidence that the sau-cers, which Adamski photographed,actually did appear over Palomar.Following is Baker's sworn state-ment:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN----------During the time I was serving as

an Instructor in the United StatesAir Force, it was my good fortune tolearn of Professor George Adamskiand the work he was accomplishing to-ward proof of the Ftying Saucers' ex-istence.

After being discharged from theAir Force on October 29, 1952, I cameto California and began assisting theProfessor in his work.

Last week was a very notable onebecause of a definite increase in theappearance of saucers. Midway in theweek I euggested that we both spendsome time in the morning scouting forthem. I suggested that we both situ-ate ourselves in two different places,he with the telescope and camera, andI with a Brownie. I learned that inphotography this to be extremely im-portant from my enlistment in the ser-vice. We noted that on Thursday andFriday the skies were filled withlow flying military aircraft that con-tinually circled the area as if sear-ching or chasing airborne objects.

On Saturday morning, while I wassawing wood for the fireplace, theProfessor called me and said that

he saw what he thought to be a sauc-er coming over the coast. I hurriedup the hill to the water pump andstood by a large tree. From thereI could get a closer view of the

-,coast but I saw no saucer. I lookedtowards the Microwave station inparticular which stands high on themountain almost due north, becausethe night before I pointed out to ayoung boy with me at the time aflying saucer hovering in its generaldirection. I thought perhaps thissaucer might be headed in that direct-ion and I didn't want to miss seeingit as has often been my experience byscanning in only one direction. Forabout ten minutes I watched and wait-ed but nothing happened. Suddenlyin the corner of my eyes, I saw acircular object skim over the tree-tops from the general direction ofthe area where the Professor waslocated. It was a flying saucer--of that I was sure. I seriouslythought it was going to land inthe small clearing because of itsextremely low altitude. I waitedmomentarily mostly because of shockI guess as it continued coming clo.ser. It then hung in the air notover twelve feet high at the most,and about twenty-five feet fromwhere I was standing. It seemed asif it did this knowing I was therewaiting to photograph it. I quick-ly snapped a picture and as I did iltilted slightly and zoomed upwardsover the tree faster than anyone canalmost imagine. I ran out from be-hind the tree hoping to catch anoth-er picture but I could only see asmall object speeding towards PalomarMountain--then it was gone completely.

Then in turning, I saw theProfessor coming through the brush onthe other side of the clearing andpractically did flip-flops I was soexcited over my good fortune. I hadnot for a moment dreamed he was ableto photograph it through his teles-cope because it was so extrenely low.But after he told me he had beensuccessful in obtaining four shots,I persisted that we go to Carlsbadimmediately. He agreed and I rolled

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Things happened so quickly thatin the excitement of getting a pict-ure I forgot many of the things Iwanted to look for if ever I got closeenough to a saucer. For r don't be-lieve the saucer remained in my viewfor over two minutes.

These things I know for certain:

1. The saucer made no sound.2. It was guided by superior in-

telligence.3. There was a slight odor present

as the saucer speed upwards.4. It had portholes and three huge

brll bearings presumably land-ing gears.

---Jerrold E. Baker

One of Adamski's telescopic photosshowing UFO between camera and moon.

For list ofMichael G. Mann,

available glossy photos of flying140 East 2nd Street, Brooklyn 18,

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saucers, write to:N. Y.

"Call us Silence Group ifhas to be. In silence weprogress. Silence followswhere we have gone. Ourfootsteps echo round planetswhen we march."

-----Adonai Vasu

My Fight With The Silence Group

George Adamski

Throughout my public life in thepromotion of the teachings of the SpaceBrothers, I have been visited by manyagencies, including the F.B.I., CentralIntelligence Agency, Air Force Intelli-gence, the U. S. State Department andpeople from other government agencies.Now I am not saying that these partic-ular people tried to silence me. Thereare many facets of the Silence Group,and many of these I am afraid that ne-ither I nor the general public knowabout.

What is and who is the SilenceGroup? There is likely and informalorganization, that Keyhoe spoke about,and a formal organization which ismore top secret than any of our int-elligence departments.

During a recent trip to Washington,D. C. last year I learned that theSilence Group which is opposing thetruth about flying saucers would liketo see some kind of mystical religionspring up. Then they could say, "Did-n't we tell you it was all mysticism,with the purpose of building up thisreligion, and there is no foundation

of reality to it as we told you be-fore?" In other words, they couldthen use this excuse to pigeon holethe entire subject of saucers. AndI do know definitely that the men whocame with the motive of hushing mewere not space men. They were Earthmen, born in this world and of thisworld.

It is odd that this silence Groupdoes not bother anyone who is in theoccult or pSy'chic field. Such peoplecan say what they want to say and haveno one threatening or silencing them,as is done to them with concrete in-formation.

.They have even tried to distortmy experience by referring to my form-er group in which I served as instruc-tor on philosophy. The name of thisorganization was The Royal Order ofTibet, just as he said. But the orderdid not adhere to the teachings ofmysticism as he implied. The lessonsI gave in lecture form and many ofthem were broadcast over radio stat-

ions in Long Beach and Beverly Hills.I believe that if it were important,

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34copies of these broadcasts could beobtained from the stations. Theselessons consisted of purely philosoph-ical talks on the laws of life from auniversal concept which every personshould know. But Ignorance leads to-distortion.

Judging from my mail, Catholics,Protestants, Jews, Orientals, allreligions and people from all walksof life are interested in and aresupporting the thesis of space vis-itations from the physical, mechanicalpoint of view, while few of themwould be interested if it were throwninto the mysterious.

This is the factor the SilenceGroup knows to exist and fears. Whenthe people of the world began thinkingin accord on such a subject, -the found-ation of the money changers began toweaken. When people's eyes are turnedupward, searching the skies for friend-ly space visitors, and their minds fil-led with longing for peace and happin-ess on Earth, it becomes difficult tofill their minds with hatred for theirfellow men, wherein war finds a fertilefield. And youthful minds filled withchallenging thoughts of space travelare not easily diverted toward the ra-ther questionable honor awaiting inbloody battlefields. Is this one ofthe things the financers see and fear?

It is because they fear the eventwhich might bring peace and understand-ing among men of Earth, whereas war hasbecome a financial investment that payswell for certain investors. Reports ofpersonal contacts are being discussedby innumerable people of many languagesand throughout the world.

This knowledge of interplanetaryvisitors who are friendly to Earthpeople, and who themselves have learn-ed to live in peace with one anotherseems to have given new hopes to many

who have lost hope, and a new purposeto life for untold numbers. It isthis which those who control the pur-se strings of the world fear. Accept-ance of the reality of interplanetaryvisitors would have far-reaching eff-

BOOK OF ADAMSKIects upon the present-day economicsystem of Earth. Everybody would beaffected in a far greater degree. Ibelieve they see this and are fight-ing it with everything they have,and at the same ~ime endeavoring toremain conspiciously absent from thescene.

VISITED BY THREE MEN

Shortly after the publication ofFLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED I was visit-ed by three men, two of which I hadmet previously, but the third was astranger. It was he who took the roleof authority and direly threatened me,demanding certain papers I had, forone thing. Some of these I gave him,and was promised their return, butthis promise was never kept. Since II did not exactly understand to whathe had reference, I did not give himsome of my important papers. Thereis no need denying that I was fright-ened. Before they left I was toldto stop talking or they would comeafter me, lock me up and throw thekey away.

With these personal experiencesto serve as a foundation, I wonder ifWall Street might be the central fac-tion behind all the battling to keepthe pnenomenon of interplanetary vis-itation in the field of the occult,and combatting those of us who knowand announce that the space peopleare physical beings, travelling inmechanical space craft. They wouldlike nothing better than to havethis whole thing thrown into thefield of the psychic, called a cult,and discredited in the minds of sin-cere people throughout the world.

I still say, and I hope I amwrong, but indications seem to showthat James Moseley and some othersare tools in the hands of the group.Por it takes money to do what theyare doing. FLYING SAUCERS HAVELANDED sold well, but I have receiv-ed comparatively little from it.I cannot travel on my own and do thethings they do, without sponsorship.So, in the case of Moseley and some ot-hers who is paying? Of course some

MY FIGHT WITH DiE SILENCE GROUPmay be working themselves right intothe hands of this Group, without know-ing it, but surely some are fullyaware of the whole picture, but knowwhere their meal tickets are comingfran.

Of course it could also be true---for I am sure that we on Earth hereare not the poorest in the Universe--that there could be some influence ofthis sort coming from space. But sofar as I am concerned -- and I receivemail from all parts of the world -- noevidence is showing up that could beinterpreted to the effect that spacemen are trying to bush up people onthis Earth.

If any hostile situation appears)as in some places it has, it seems tobe a case of fear on the part of theEarthlings. For once in a state offear, people can see almost anything,or can conceive almost anything. SoI have not the slightest evidencethat such has taken place, althoughthere seems to be plenty of evidencethat the powers of this world havetheir hands in it.

35I was quite surprised to find the

drawing showing faces peering from theportholes of the flying saucer I photo-graphed at Palomar Gardens which appe-ared in THE SAUCERIAN.

I have heard the story tha~ facescan be seen, upon examining the port-

holes in the photograph very carefully,since my book was first published.But try as I might, I have always fail-ed to find those faces. However, Idid get a passing glimpse of my frien~sface as he dropped the message throughthe porthole to me. It is amazing howmany faces can be seen there, accord-ing to reports, but upon later inquiryI was told by the space people thatthere was only the normal crew forthat craft present, two people in it,the time they came over Palomar Gar-dens on December 13, 1953. Isn't itamazing what imagination can do fora person?

KARL HUNRATH

I now wish to discuss Karl Hunrathand Jerrold Ba~er, who were used as wit-nesses against the authenticity of my

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Paul R~a'r. of Pasad~~. Calif .• thought be could see faces by gaz.ing intentlyat the portholes of the .auc~r in one of Adamski's photograph. Rear's draw,ngabove, printed in the Spring, 1'155, SAt:CERlAS, elicited much comment [rom

readers, many of wh m saic they also saw the faces.

36story and photographs in Moseley's Jan-uary, 1955, issue of NEXUS.

You will recall that Bunrath, al-ong with a man named Wilkenson, myster-ously disappeared in 1953, after claim-ing to be in contact with space peoplewho were going to take them to anotherplanet in a space ship.

1believe, incidentally, that Je-rrold Baker knows where Bunrath isand that does not include anotherplanet. According to the rumors thathave persisted since his disappearance,Hunrath might be in Mexico, not farfrom the border. My reason for think-ing Baker knows of his whereabouts isthat about two years ago Baker andanother man came up to see me one eve-ning at Palomar Gardens. During theconversation which ensued Baker, show-ed me an ad cut from a newspaper whichstated that anyone wishing to contactHunrath should write to a certain postoffice box number. I neglected toobtain the name and date of the paper,however, for ~t the time I wasn't in-terested.

My knowledge of Hunrath goes backseveral years. When FATE magazine car-ried an article about my efforts tophotograph space craft, along with someof my earlier photographs, I receivedmail from allover the nation, whilepeople in all walks of life and frommany places stopped in 'to visit me aspart of their visit to the big observ-atory on top of Mt. Palomar. One ofthese viaitors was from Wisconsin. Hewas a scientist and upon his returnhome, discussed the conversation hehad with me with two of his associates,one of whom was Karl Hunrath.

Later Hunrath wrote to me person-ally, and we carried on quite an ex-tensive correspondence. He seemed tohave a fine scientific mind, and Ienjoyed our correspondence. Later hisletters developed that he seemed to behaving tr~ubles of one kind or another,losing one job after another, as hesaid, without a reason being given tohim. Then I received a letfer statingthat he was on his way out to see me,and late in December, 1952, he arriv-ed at Palomar Gardens, bag and baggage,

BOOK OF ADAMSKIwith intentions to stay indefinitely,but no money to pay for his expenses.

Jerrold Baker had also arrivedunder similar circumstances, late onenight in December, 1952. L~ was stillthere behaving as one of the family,helping himself to everything, freelyand in abundance, but without money topay for anything.

HONRATH 's STRANGE MACHINE

A day or two after Hunrath hadarrived .he revealed to me that hehad constructed a magnetic machinewhich he said would produce all theelectrictiy we could use at PalomarGardens (At that time we did not haveoutside electrical service, dependedupon our own small power plant). Hesaid he had left this machine in sto-rage back in his home town, but wouldhave it shipped to California. Hewould bury the machine in the side ofthe mountain where it could not befound easily. My curiosity and susp-icions were instantly alerted, butnot quickly satisfied. It took muchcareful questioning on my part tolearn what I was seeking.

Finally, during a casual conver-sation on the subject, Hunrath volun-teered that HIS MACHINE WOULD NOTONLY AITRACT THE SAUCERS, BUT WOULDBRING THEM D~!

Immediately it dawned on me thatif it could bring down the saucers, itmight be able to do the same to ourplanes, and many of them fly over Pa~omar daily. Asked about this point,Hunrath admitted that it might alsobring down planes, and this is whereI balked, telling him that in such acase we would be responsible for thelives lost.

To this he replied, '~O CARES?WE WANT THE SAUCERS!"

I then forbade his bringing themachine to Palomar Gardens. That,of course, started the trouble whichBaker is now carrying on. Up untilthen everything was fine, but when Itold Hunrath that he would have to

MY FIGHT WITH THE SILENCE rnoupmove without further delay, Bakerwent with him. Yet within the hourbefore their leaving, Hunrath order-ed me off my own property, adjoiningPalomar Gardens, and for a few mom-ents I thought he might attempt forceto accomplish his order. Then heseemed to gain control of himself andleft without further trouble.

I consider Hunrath's conduct une-thical and his proposal unpatriotic,so I informed the FBI. These Governm-ent representatives agreed with myopinions, thanked me for calling themin. They took precautions that nophysical retaliations would come toany of us at Palomar Gardens. Un-fortunately they had no control overother avenues Baker would use in hisattempt to damage me.

Rumor has it that when Wilkinsoncame from Wisconsin to California he

brought Hunrath's machine with him.I have never tried to verify this,but it was shortly after their arr-ival in California that Hunrath andWilkinson disappeared. If they areindeed across the border, they couldhave the machine there with them. Ihave been promised more informationon this matter, but so far it has notbeen forthcoming.

If Moseley and others like himcontinue to use Baker in their att-acks against me, let the barragecome. I am not afraid!

Meanwhile I shall still raisemy small and perhaps inconsequentialvoice in an attempt to acquaint thepeople of the world with the truemission of the space people.

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"I believe ineverything and nothing."

-----August C. Roberts

Questions and Answers

Most frequent questions

ans wered by George Adamski

Quest. 11. How can 1meet a spaceperson and get a ride in one of theirships?

Ans. I honestly cannot answer this ques-tion. Nor, do I believe, can anyoneelse who has had experiences similarto mine. I am not able to arrange apersonal meeting for anyone. I can-not ~o this even for myself! I am metwhen and where a meeting is to theadvantage or convenience of theBrothers.

At all times, it is up to thosefrom other worlds to identify them-selves. However, I have been toldcontacts have been made in everynation , and with the leaders ofevery nation. Their coming and go-ing is no secret to officialdom.This was reported in INSIDE THESPACE SHIPS.

Furthermore, it is a fact untoldnumbers of Earth's inhabitants havemet and even worked with the visitorswithout being aware of it. Unlesssome good can be accomplished, theydo not identify themselves. With therestricting red tape many nations place

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on travel, such identification couldbe dangerous. That is why it is wellto be skeptical of those who boast totheir friends and fellow-workers thatthey are from another planet. Anoverwhelming majority of these peopleare impostors.

I can assure you of one thing: Thespace people are not coming merely tosatisfy our personal curiosity. Atthe present time, I have been told,the best way we can help is by beginn-ing to live with more respect towardone another. For as this is donethroughour the world, fear and hostil-ity between the peoples will diminish;leaving a fertile field in which to~ork for the betterment of all. Butfinal success in this depends upon eachindividual.

Some scientists, I know, are re-ceiving help from the space people;and many admit what they are "getting"is beyo:.d anything before known or writ-ten in our present textbooks. Still,much information must be witheld.

We have much growing to do be-fore it will be safe for us to be given~ full understanding of the natural

40forces that they have harnessed forpropelling their ships. For thissame energy can be perverted for ter-rible destruction as easily as it canbe used for the progress of mankind.We must learn to live humbly, respect-ing our fellow man regardless of hiscolor of skin or position in life.But this is a problem each personand each nation, must solve indi-'vidually.

Quest. 12. Why are SAUCER aightingsconcentrated in so-called "flaps"?

Ans. According to the Brothers, therewas a plan being formulated by certaingovernments to tell their people allUFO's seen during these past yearswere mainly our own and Russian satell-ites, and natural phenomena. Thisobviously would have been only anotherattempt to discredit the reality ofvisitors from other planets, but itnevertheless would have raised manydoubts in the mind of a questioningpublic.

So intermittently thousands ofspace ships are brought here to puton a public display over periods oftwo or three days. Such "flaps" re-ceive wide publicity in the press,while isolated sightings no longerreceive much attention. While theBrothers do not wish to make masslandings at this time, they wsnt toprepare the minds of people alloverthe world to accept them as reality.With such concentrations of spaceships the public can no longer doubtthat there is something to "flyingsaucers."

Quest. 13. Are the space peoplecoming to save us?

Ans. No! Some people are fosteringan erroneous idea that the spacepeople are here to save a "chosen few"in the event of nuclear warfare, or ifa disaster should strike. This istotally false. Should they be in thevicinity when a catastrophe is takingplace, they would do their utmostto help if possible; but they are not

BOOK OF ADAMSKIactually coming our way to save usfrom conditions into which we haveplaced ourselves. Each planet,each individual, must fulfill itsown destiny by solving its ownproblems.

The law of brotherhood has beenhanded down to us through countlessages. They live this law. So werethey to save any peoples; it would notbe just a "chosen few." It would beall within reach. They would notdiscriminate. Remember, they do notrecognize our racial or religiousdivisions.

Quest. 14. Have space people helpedEarth's inhabitants in any way thusfar?

Ans. Yes. They have helped us in manyways of which we are little aware. Tocite but a few: Any of the small con-flicts that have plagued the world inrecent years could have developed in-to world-wide destructive wars had itnot been for their efforts. And thecold war which has continued for solong could have flared into open hotwar had they not intervened in differ-ent ways and places.

Besides, they have done much toneutralize the radio-active conditionscreated in our atmosphere through ourbomb testing. Were it not for theirassistance in this, radiation wouldbe much more prevalent than it is todayAs time passes, the public will becomecognizant of many other ways in whichthey are helping.

Quest. 15. What are the green fireballsthat are sometimes accompanied by ex-plosions?

Ans. Fireballs are not new. They areas old as Nature herself, for theyare a natural phenomenon often seenduring and after an electrical storm.They are, in fact, all concentrationsof electrical energy; and as a natur-

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSal force are beneficial to life on aplanet.

However, as a result of our nucl-ear tests, a false and dangerous cond-ition has been created in our atmosp-here. At times these concentrationsof radiation will gather together and,while usually invisible, under certafnconditions can extract enough elementsfrom the atmosphere to appear as "fire-balls." With their finer instruments,.pace people are able to detect thesefalse fireballs or pockets of radiation.visible or invisible; and when they dothey intercept and disintegrate themwith a higher frequency ray. This isbut another of their ways of aidingus.

In the case of both the naturaland artificial fireballs, when theconcentration of energy becomes toointense toward the center, an explosioncomparable to spontaneous combustiontakes place. This explains some ofthe sonic booms that have been re-corded when no Jet planes were inthe vicinity; and also accounts forthe erroneous reports of "exploding"space ships.

These fireballs have been seenand reported in several differentcolors; and the most frequent beinggreen. Remember, however, spaceships themselves can on occasionsclosely resemble a fireball when,in certain maneuvers and at certainspeeds, they glow green, red, orange,white, ect. One is often mistakenfor the other.

Q.1est. 16. Can you explain thedisappearance of some of our planes?

Ans. We all know that an atomiccloud looks like after the explosion.That cloud is really a concentratedmass of energy. As it travels aro-und the world, it keeps transmutingitself towards an invisible state asit drops the debris picked up by theexplosion. And it will continue inthis state indefinitely.

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same concentrated energy as the "falsefireballs" mentioned in the perceedingquestion; only on a much vaster scale.Compared to the phenomenon discussedbefore, these concentrations are eL~r-moUSe ~t is such a "cloud" that isresponsible for many plane diaappear-ances, for it is in a higher state ofconcentrated, activated energy thatwhen it was first released. Sinceit is invisible, a pilot is unawareof its existence.

Should one of our planes contactsuch an invisible "cloud," it wouldeither explode or disintegrate, seem-ing to disappear before the eyes ofthe onlooker. This explains some ofthe mysterious plane disappearancesthat have been reported. Since onseveral occasions space ships werebeing tracked on radar, and in someinstances even visual reports weremade of them in the vicinity of adisappearing plane, the implicationhas been that space ships were kid-napping our planes.

But I have been told, that be-cause of our inefficient instrumentsfor detection, space people know ourpilots are helpless in the path ofthese "clouds." To avoid these verytragedies, they do their utmost toreach the concentrated mass as quick-ly as possible.

However, there have been occasio-ns when they arrived just as one ormore of our planes were enteringone of these pockets of concentratedenergy. Under the circumstances, theywere unable to do more than stand by;because once a plane is caught in sucha force it is impossible to save eitherthe plane or its occupants. But theythen later disintegrate the invisiblecloud to avoid further catastrophe.

Quest. #7. Why do astronomers sayatmospheric conditions around ourneighboring planets is such thathuman beings like us could not livethere?

42Ana. First of all, I know of noastronomer who has actually traveledto another planet to learn whether ornot the atmosphere around it is Bim-ilar to ours. So how can they be sure?Theory, yes! But as Bcientific devel-opements progresses, theories are con-Btantly being replaced by facts thatprove many theories wrong.

For example: Not many centuriesago astronomers worked from the premisethe earth was square and flat, andthere were only seven planets in ourBolar system. But as science advancedand better instruments were developed,we located other planets; and by cir-cumnavigation proved the world to beround.

While the spectroscope works wellwithin a given distance, are we Bureit works efficiently between planets?It is my belief that no instrument wenow have is capable of accurately read-ing conditions ~ediately surroundinganother planet. Studying conditionsin space could be compared with tryingto photograph an object a long distancefrom the camera, through a large bodyof water. For space is comparable toan ~ense "ocean" with its waves ofenergy and every-changing "spacedebris."

Quest. 18. Is there air on the moon?

Ans. Yes. Our scientists know thatin order for any form to retain itsshape, the inside and outside press-ures must be equal. Atmosphere surr-ounding a body in space furnishes thepressure necessary to keep that formfrom exploding or disintegrating.Enormous pressure are built up with-in all planets, yet the atmospheresurrounding them offsets this byexerting a perfect balance of press-ure from without.

Being a smaller body, the moonhas a comparatively lighter atmosp-here; yet not so light that humanbeings from earth and other planetscould not acclimate themselves. Forhave we not observed the man-made

BOOK OF ADAMSK Ibridges, the tunnels, and the spacecraft bases on the moon in recenttimes?

Furthermore, 1£ our scientistsand government officials were notsure that atmosphere surrounds themoon, they would not be expanding80 much money, time, and effort toreach our natural satellite. Theyknow, aB do you and I, that itwould be impractical to carry suff-icient oxygen in ships to make liv-ing on the moon comfortable forthose who land there. And 1£, asthey are saying, the first nationto reach the moon will control thedestiny of Earth's inhabitants, theymust be counting on enough naturalatmosphere to enable the constructionof primary installations from whichoperations could be carried out. Con-Bider, ~oo, that not only will oxygenbe needed for men's breathing, butfor the operation of all equipment.For no motor, not even atomic, canrun in the absence of oxygen.

Again let me remind you, thereare people living on the moon inpeace and happiness. If any of ournations hope to reach this body andland there, plans should includepeace and friendliness toward thosewhose home they will be visiting.

Quest. #9. Was the asteroid beltbetween Mars and Jupiter caused bya planet exploding as some believe?

Ana. No. The space visitors havetold me the asteroid belt is not anexploded planet nor is it, ashas sometimes been stated, one destroyedby "evil forces." Rather, it is anatural incubator within which, acc-ording to natural law, planets areborn to replace the present worldsas gradually disintergrate. Otherbodies necessary for the perfectbalancing of the system are alsocreated therein.

This belt serves the purpose ofa vibrator or a~itator, agitating what

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSwe call the "still" force into anactive force. This is essential toall systems. For the asteroid beltis actually electro-magneticallycharged. Each minute particle is ind-ividualized and illumined with thenatural energy contained within itsparticular area, and is growing ordisintergrating in an ever-changingrelationship. Were it not for thisbelt of intensified activity---andtwo more farther out---our systemwould not have the necessary powerto maintain its existence. For aclearer understanding, these beltscan be compared to the action of whatwe call the armature of a motor. Butthe natural energy thus created iswithout amperage; and serves the sys-tem somewhat as a booster station.

The particles in an asteroidbelt are in constant collision. Some-

times this results in a blending ofthe two, creating a larger body;sometimes in an explosion, exactly likecrossing two "hot wires of electricity.Similar belts without DUmber exist th-roughout the Cosmos. All serve asgenerators or agitators of energy, aswell ss promoters of it. The necessaryreaction to create energy, which supp-orts all bodies within itself, isbrought about through this constantfriction.

To some this may appear as aconflict in the Divine llano But it isnot conf~ict. as we know it, where oneis set against another for destruction.Actually~ it is construction; comparableto the conflict between a male and fe-male in the field of reproducine young.It is an orderly conflict in which onephase lends itself to another for thecommon good of all.

This 1& the exp lana tion the spacepeople gave me regarding the purposeof the asteroid belts. I pass it onin an effort to clarify this mysteryin-the minds of "hose seeking a greaterunderstanding of the universe in whichwe all live. As we build ships andtravel space, we will learn from exper-ience the truth of this and other in-formation given to us by those who havealready attained this knowledge through

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their own experiences.While on the point of the origin

of this asteroid belt, let me quotefrom one of our scientists, Dr. ArthurM. Barding. In his book "ASTRON<»cr ,The Splendor of the Beavens BroughtDown to Eartl\," Page 129, Dr. Bardingwrites, "it was at one time thoughtthat perhaps the planetoids resultedfrom the explosion of a single planetwhich once revolved around the sunbetween the orbits of MArs and Jupiter.It can be shown, however, from astudy of their orbits that they couldnot have. resulted from a single ex-plosion."

His discussion of the planetoidswhile short, is very interesting andenlightening.

Quest. 10. Does the often discussed"tilt of the Earth" mean total des-truction?

ADs. No, actually, only a smallportion of the planet will be directlyaffected. In these days of rapidworld-wide communication systems,any catastrophe can be minimized.Our foremost scientists are study-ing this movement closely, and aample warning of danger will be.given.

This tilt is not the result ofour firing the huge bombs, nor isit punishment for "the sins of theworld." It is a natural, orderlychange which occurs to all plane-tary bodies. Nature is constantmotion; constantly changing, yetadhering to definite time cycleswhich cannot be altered by Man.So the tilt of the Earth, bring-ing up rested, fertile land from

beneath the seas to replace worn-out ground, is but fulfilling aCosmic time schedule. Were it notfor these "rest periods" for dep-leted ground, no planet couJdcontinue to support life. A por-tion of land, which in some long agocycle was withdrawn from man'suse, will rise. While other landswill again be covered with life-giving seas to be revitalized; to

44someday, in a far distant cycle,rise again for man to use. This hashappened countless times in the past,so you can see our "world" is notgoing to be destroyed.

From above, where their vantagepoint gives a greater overall observa-tion, and with their technical know-ledge and more advanced instrumentsthan any on Earth, the Brothers arewatching, too. When findings aredefinite they will gladly share themwith us. Bow much this could meanto us depends on how receptive weare when the time comes.

Should these warnings from ourscientists and the Brothers beignored, as has often happened in thepast, there will be great toll oflife. However, if people will butrealize that with life they can rebuildand again accumulate the possessionsthey hold dear, the toll of life canbe minimized. But survival will de-pend upon heeding the warning to leavefor safer parts. Here again, is anindividual problem; a decision eachmust make for himself.

Quest. #11. Do you support what iscommonly known as psychi~ or mysticchannels?

Ans. I do not disapprove of any fieldof exploration, nor the attempt todevelop any form of human ability.For even out of false promotion, thetruth will eventually emerge. Mis-use of the Law is usually broughtabout through ignorance.

There is a vast difference be-tween true Law, which is never poss-essive and caters to no one, and theso-called "laws" which glorify thepersonal ego. God, or the DivineCreator, is a respecter of no person,nor is Nature, His creation.

Delving into psychic matters isa dangerous pastime without firstacquiring a thorough knowledge ofone's self, one's relation to theCosmos, and the factors with whichone is dealing. For lack of thisbasic preparation, Man in hissearching his followed many avenueswhich have led only to confusion.

BOOK OF ADAMSKIThere are no "short-cuts" to truedevelopment. Yet, working withpatience, in time man can attainaccess to Cosmic knowledge. Psy-chi~ and mysticism, as improperlyunderstood and practiced, can leadonly to bewilderment and oftendanger.

Quest. 112. What is your opinion ofmessages received through the Ouijaboard and automatic writing?Ans. Again this goes back to lackof understanding of one' •• elf anda relationship to the All. Under aform of self hypnoti~, one usuallytunes into the first level of im-pressions, which is the earth itself.Since there are 2~ billion minds inthis world, the first impressionlevel thus contacted would producerepresentative ''messages'';thoughtforms of greed, fear, hatred, divis-ions, self-aggrendizement, forecasts-and always the low-grade pranksters.

Truly divine messages threatenno one, judge none, and never createfear. Such messages never containpersonal predictions. Using thisrule as a yardstick, it is reasonablyeasy to determine whether what isreceived is .temming from a lowlevel of this world, or is Co~c innature. Again, we do not deny the Law;we merely deplore misuse of the Lawthrough lack of understanding.

Quest. 113. Do 'pace people ma~erial-ize and dematerialize?ADs. No, they do not! If theywere capable of materializing anddematerializing, why have they bother-ed to build metal ships? Thisnecessitates the mining, ~elting andalloying of the metals, building thespace ships and manning them withcrews. If they possessed the mysticalpowers of materialization and demater-ialization some on Earth have ac-credited to them, all this would bea needless waste of time and effort.

We know from tracking their shipson radar, and from examining themafter they have crashed, that theyare indeed very ''material.'' I can-

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSnot stress this point too strongly.They are normal human beings offlesh and blood the same as we onEarth.

~est. 114. Where can one learn theUniversal Laws and how to use them?Ana. My course on Telepathy explainsthese laws as I have used them, and asthe Brothers tell me they are used bythe people on our neighboring planets.These are not the normally acceptedteachings on telepathy, but in themI explain what a person is, how heoperates, and his purpose for being.This understanding is essential forthe unfolding of true telepathy.For there is no truer saying than,'~n know thyself and all thingsshall be revealed unto you." Allnature is simple; so are the Univer-sal Laws.

The Universal Laws are not newor unknown to Earth's peop Ie. Theyhave been handed down for countlesscenturies through our philosophicalteachings. But because to the ave-rage person these teachings havebeen cloaked in mystery and relega-ted to the field of the abstract,few people recognize the kernels ofTruth lost amidst the mountains ofchaff. We IIIllstremember, TruePhilosophy is nothing more than thescience of living according to thepurpose for which all forms werebrought into being. There IIIllstbeeternal growth and blending; but neverdivisions.

To return to telepathy. I havebeen asked if a person reading thiswill be able to contact tre spacepeople. This I cannot promise. Dev-elopment and success depends entirelyupon each person's application of theinformation given. Already, with thelittle given in INSIDE THE SPACE SHIPSon telepathy, a number of young peopleare having remarkable success in men-tally communicating with their friends.This I believe, is a very good illus-tration of the proverb about learningby becoming "as a little child." Fortheir minds are not yet cluttered withthe preconceived ideas their elders

45have unquestioningly accepted as con-crete facts. And in many minds, these"concrete facts" offer a barrierwhich precludes the entrance of anynew concept that is foreign to theirpreconceived ideas.

~est. 115. Can space people receivea thought from any of us today?Ans. Yes, they constantly do. ABfully explained in my book, INSIDETHE SPACE SHIPS, it was in thismanner that a certain group ofspace people tested and proved mysincerity, then chose me as onethrough whom they could speak tothe peoples of the world.

They are also aware of manyothers who are sending thoughtstheir way, and in many instancesthey do respond. But, I am t>ld,most people have kept their minds sooccupied with sending out thoughtsconcerned with a contact, that anychance of establishing a 'Teceivingstation" was impossible. Obviously,unless the telepathy can work bothways, contact cannot be completed.

To people of all ages who areinterested in telepathic contactwith our space visitors, I alwayssuggest they test themselves withEarthly friends, both for sendingand for receiving thoughts. Forif a man cannot receive mentalmessages from someone with whom heis already acquainted, how can heexpect success with those from otherplanets?Quest. 116. Do you believe in re-incarnation?Ana Call it what you will, obviouslythe~e is a continuation of life. Lifei~ eternal, and eternity means with-out beginning and or ending. You havebeen, and you will continue to be,whether in this world or in othermaterial worlds.

Divine Nature knows no waste.Proof is to be found in t~e studyof any of her aspects. Tne treematures to giant stature throughcenturies, only to eventually crashto earth and crumble into dust. But

46this very dust fertilizes future trees80 that they, too, can grow straightand strong. So it is with the "lives"of a bJJman creature. Each life exper-ience , when rightfully used, adds st-rength and understanding ~o futurelives yet to come.

Would it not be sinful waste forman to be created only once, placedwithout reason in the position he DOWoccupies in the world -- then be cons-igned by a capricious Creator to whatwe call heaven or hell for eternity?This would be neither logic nor pro-gress, and the Law of Progression isthe foundation of the Cosmos.

And as the Brot!e rs have explain-ed to me, that which we call spiritcould DOt manifest if it were not formaterial form through which to express;nor could the material exist if itwere not for the spirit, or Cause. SoMan, whether or this world or others,after laying down, or moving out ofthe material body he has been using,does take on another through whichto express and learn from experience.

~est. 117. When we have learned ourlesson in this world, where do we gonext?

Ans. If this question means whichplanet -- no man knows! But allplanets are school rooms in theCosmos. And just as we graduate fromgrade to grade in our school system,retaining and using knowledge learn-ed in the lower grades, so we gradu-ate from planet to planet and systemto system. The Cosmos is a vastschool with many departments of learn-ing for every state of being. Thereare primary planets, and planets ad-vanced far beyone the scope of ourearthly imaginations. But we areeligible, eventually, for all. Whatwe need to concern ourselves withh~re,is to try to master the lessonsof the present that we may the morespeedily inherit the future that issurely our destiny.~est: 118. If what you say is afact, where then are heaven and hell?Ans. These two terms have referenceto states of conciousness rather than

BOOK OF ADAMSKIto definite locales. It has been ourmisinterpertation of reality that ~~led us to be taught that heaven andhell are actual places, located some-where out in the vast Cosmos beyonethe earth. Today many people areliving in hell right here, because ofthe confusions, uncertanities anddivisions; all of which creates fear,want and hatred. Yet our planet, be-ing the handiwork of the Creator, isa divine creation.

When one understands himself, hispurpose for being, and his relationshipto the All, he rises in consciousnessto a heavenly state of naturalnesswherein, because of his understandingof creation and himself, he has comp-assion for all. This does not meana state of blissful unconcern. Onthe contrary, people who have attain-ed the understanding are activelyinterested in all that goes on aboutthem. Criticism from others does notdisturb them, because they know thatothers are learning lessons just asthey are, and this constant growthand development will continue thro-ughout eternity. Nor do they con-demn another for what today mightbe considered a shortcoming, be-cause they recognize these very"short-comings" as by lessons to belearned. Thus they do not label oneact as good and another as evil; butlook upon the whole as an unfoldingthrough experiences.

AL first, this idea may not beacceptable to those who have neverthought along this broader line.But a careful look around will con-vince us of the truth of ~hese facts.Some people enjoy dancing; others

think it a sin. Who is right? Eachperson is firmly convinced he is!One person enjoys serving his fellow-man in every possible way; anotherprefers to be served. Is one rightand the other wrong? Who is to say?

The wise man does not judge.He looks upon the whole as the work-ing out of the Divine Plan, knowingfull well the Creator does not con-demn, does not find fault with anysegment of His creation.

Living in peace with one's

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSfellowman is but a matter of under-standing and compassion. It is aUniversal Law we all must learn and aapply in our daily contacts withothers if we are to progress.

<pest. 119. Are all the space peoplevegetarians ?

Ana. No. During the year 1958, 1badthe pleasure of attending a meetingcomprised of people from Mars, Venus,Saturn, J'upiter, Uranus and Neptune,It was a friendly get-to-gether, de-voted mainly to discussions of someof our everyday problems. The sub-ject of eating was introduced, and Iasked for more specific information,since so many questions regardingthis topic are coming to me.

Their answer was simple andprecise. On their planets they donot raise cattle for slaughter. Theyeat fish at about the same ratio mostof us eat meat, while their meat eat-ing is comparitive to the averageearthling's fish consumption.

They have studied our food care-fully, and in view of present condit-ions on earth find they are healthierif they eat meat approximately onceor twice a week while here. Theytold me they usually purchase thecheaper cuts which can be boiled withvegetables, much like my mother usedto cook when I was a boy. They arevery fond of all vegetables, and makeappetizing soups from beans, potatoes.ect. Raw fruits and vegetables pre-pared as salads are greatly enjoyedby these people. Of course they cont-inue to eat fresh fish whenever obtain-able.

In other words, they pointed outthey are not fanatics. Those won"iedabout the consumption of any particu-lar food might do well to heed thewords of Jesus: '~ot that which go-eth into the mouth defileth a man;but that which cometh out of themouth, this defileth a man." Matt.15: 11.

<pest. 120. Have you ever heard ofAshtar? (Applies to Monka of Mars

47and other entities coming throughmental channels)Ans. Yes, Many times. From all Ihave been able to learn, "Ashtar" com-municates only through mystic channels.He claims to be commander over severalmillion space men, and makes promises,prophecies the future, speaks of goodand evil, threatens, divides, etc.,none of which conforms with what Ihave learned from the space people. Ihave never had Ashur's existence as aphysical space traveler cOn"oboratedby those with whom I meet.

A number of Ashtar "messages"have been sent to me, and upon read-ing them carefully I have found bitsof trul:h scattered here and there. Butthis is always the case; for falsenesscould not exist if it were not for thereal from which it is patterned. It isthe presence of these little bits oftruth that causes to so much confusionin the minds of those who sincerelyseek reality, but who want it on afactual rather than a mystical basis.If anything is universal, it will blendbut not divide.

While I do not deny the existenceof people on planets beyond our systemwho are both higher and very much low-er than ourselves in development, whyshould we follow "guidance" fromanyone who cannot help us? With ourpresent distrustful attitude towardone another, surely we do not need toreach out into space to add to ourdivisions.

I could admit the actuality ofAshtar as a thought vibration, much inline with thoughts from the past andpresent civilizations of earth, butnothing 1tIOre. Such thoughts can bepicked up by anyone who opens his mindto the reception of whatever might bepassing. That is why we should at alltimes be selective regarding the impre-ssions we entertain.

Quest. #21. Do the space people usemoney as a medium of exchange on otherplanets?Ans. No. Their means of exchange isa commodity and service exchange sys-tem. without the use of money.

POSITIVE & NEGATIVE THINKING

Many people have undertaken thestudy of pos~tive thinking during thelast few years. In many ways positivethinking is just as bad as negativethinking. Either one of these is anextreme. A middle ground exists whichis desirable and beneficial to use andseems to be generally overlooked.

An example of the dangers of pos-itive thinking was Adolph Hitler. Heused it to an extreme and became powercrazy, distorting his whole programthrough use of this type thinking. Onthe other hand the masses were negativethinking. They too, when they beganto act, became victims of negative think-ing carried to extremes.

What is the correct way of think-ing if both of these methods are bad?The catalyst that produces correct think-ing is motive. When we say correctthinking, we do not necessarily meangood thinking. Instead it is a balanc-ed thinking using two forces, positiveand negative, and introducing an effectcalled motive. Many different types

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"For what shall itprofit a man, if heshall gain the wholeworld, and lose hisown soul?"

-----St. Mark 8:36

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of motive exist. Motives may harmpeople or they may help them.

The particular law involving mo-tive operates through every avenue ofhuman expression and behavorism. Amotive for self-betterment, exclud-ing all others, cannot bring anythingbut bad results. It is the separationof ones self from all others which pro-motes undesired selfishness and glori-fies the indi~idual ego.

A motive to help as many others aspossible automatically elevates or bet-ters the avenue through which it ispromoted. Example: If I am to promotegood will in my neighhorhood, I willdo everything in behalf of the world'spopulation, not including and forgett-ing myself. I do not need to includemyself since I will be the avenue thr-ough which the betterment will be ex-pressed. I am automatically in it.This kind of good and motive is Cosm-ically recognized.

The personal desire for selfbetterment is like the positive think-ing without the negative support. Itis bound to bring forth confusion andfinally total disatisfaction, unbalanc-

50ing the person. It makes little dif-ference if it is positive or negativeit will do the same thing. If one'smotive towards self-betterment ispositive only or negative only, exper-ience will bring forth half-truth only,regardless of the actual motive, forone part of the unit has been left out.To be perfectly plain it is a dangerouspractice.

To be successful in a self-better-ment program one must become a servantto toe many as stated before, then the''many''helps them to develop or fulfillthe motive of their desire. All thisis according to divine plan. In sodoing the ones whom we help in thisendeavor automatically become ourteachers. This because no two mindsare alike; each mind you are tryingto help renders some reward to youfor the effort you are making inunderstanding that mind. In truth youactually teach each other. This isthetrue motive of life, as well as thetrue method of self-development.

Christ made it very plain; if youcome in through~ny other door you area thief and robber. To us a thief anda robber do not lead pleasant lives,yet they may be happy in their own en-vironment. This is not the happinessof a natural state for one may be happy,though ragged and dirty provided he isin the company of the same. One can-not be happy, regardless of how theystrive for it, nor can they learn thehigher laws of life and tRe Cosmos byserving only the few. Blessed arethey who do the Father's will, servingall creation of which they are an in-tegral part.

To fully understand one's self,one must serve the untold numbers. Asuntold numbers exist there are untoldavenues of divine expression. Nosingle avenue nor the few can servethe understanding of one's self, any-more than the sun which shines uponus all, could suddenly withdraw andshine upon one form only. This would notbe fulfilling its purpose. The motiveshould be through the "many if one isto "know thyself." A good example ofthis is my own experience.

Since I have the desire or motiveto help millions to the exclusion ofmyself, I have been reborn a dozen

BOOK OF' ADAMSKItimes in the undertaking of this ser-vice. Some of the births were un-pleasant while others were very pleas-ant, according to our judgement. Thebirth was given to me through the many~•.om I have served, for not one failedto teach me something.

Each one of the thousands and tho-usands of letters I have answered taug-ht me something worth much more thanthe money, gold, or all the fame thisworld can bestow. That which I learnedthrough the letters gave me new birtham made me the man I am. Continousanswering of these letters will bringforth another man of me tomorrow. Thegreater the numbers I serve in mysmall way, the bigger the man they makeof me, as through them I better under-stand myself. If I were to serve thefew or myself alone, who would teachme the things I am to know? Theknowledge of myself would be as smallas the numbers I had served.

My advice to you is: Serve asmany as you can, the greater the num-ber you serve, the greater will be theunderstanding of yourself. This reallyshould be the motive of everyone whodesires to fulfill the destiny forwhich he was born.

Does not God serve all creations?He has no thought for Himself. Thisis why He is supreme and unless we,His children, do likewise, we shallnot be abiding by His will. Let meask this question: Does God ask areward for supplying us or any ofHis creatures, their daily needs?No, He does not. His rewards willcome without being asked when Hiscreation fulfills the purpose forwhich it was created. So it shouldbe with man. This is the onlymotive that will fulfill man'spurpose on earth. It has workedso well on the other planets.

MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN

Since man of earth lives as a dualperson; expressing more of the effectsof the world, which is the mind; andless of the Cosmic, which is the soul;he finds himself in his present state

MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN

of confusion. This is especially truewhen he follows the traditions and con-ventions created by the mind for ages,that are as false as the mind itself.Fear, the governing factor, gives theindividual soul very little chance toexpress itself.

All life depends upon the cosmosfor survival, and its rewards havebeen "supply." Man, on the other hand,looks to men for his supply and as aresult fear governs his life throughexperiences of want and disease. Thesoul keeps crying out service unto thedivine Father, for it knows the Father;the mind, service unto itself, for ithas never seen the Father. Traditionhas taught it to fear that which itnot know.

While all are called to fulfillthe purpose for which they were cre-ated, few choose to serve. Eventhese few seldom go through to thecomplete fulfillment of their destiny.The faith it takes is not of the heartbut mostly of the mind. The evidenceis present, for the mind demands creditfor everything it does. If it does notreceive it, it reverts back to thetraditional and conventional way oflife where it feels its security lies.In other words, it has faith in manbut not in God, yet the Divine Father

Slis the giver of all things, not man.So man goes on earning his so-called"security" by the sweat of his brow,a slave to other minds like himself.

When the "Brothers" came, duringthe most dangerous time of our liveswhen annihilation threatened us all ,many responded. Sad to say, few areleft. Many reverted back to therewards and security of this world,prostituting the finest jewel everplaced in the hand of man.

Even those who professed a "rev-elation" from Christ in these darken-ed days have strayed away for theglory of the mind and the securitythrough that lash of the whip--The will of the mind. This, to suchan extent, that those of us who stickto the original purpose cannot get thehelp needed to carryon.

So again we may say, the teachi-ngs of the Divine Father, through the"Brothers," has been sold for thegold of this world and the satisfact-ion of the temporal mind.

During my 71 years of life Ihave not gathered the things earthconsiders as wealth, but I have neverbeen in want. The supply was therewhich is greater than any wealth or sec-urity on earth. This wealth I will carrythru eternity; this is my security.I have unshakable faith in the Fatherwho gave me birth; not once hasHe neglected me, nor shall He aslong as I serve his purpose to thebest of my ability. He has neverdisappointed me while other humanminds brought nothing but disappoi-ntments.

You may say: But God helps thosewho help themselves. That too is aperversion, used to defend the sensemind. The real meaning is God helpsthose who helps themselves to His will.Thy will be done, not mine, is thetrue meaning. May I ask one questionof those who claimed to have receiveda revelation from Christ before under-taking this work? If this be true,how could you give it up for earthlyrewards or other opinions? Thereis no greater truth than this kindof revelation for it is given byCosmic Consciousness.

52HOW TO KNOW A SPACEMAN IF YOU SEE ONE

This is to answer the many inq-uiries in regard to this question.It is not an easy question to answeras the people of other planet~ areimages of the same Creator as we,and look no different than we do.

When it comes to knowledgethey are far ahead of us in re-lationship to things in the cosmosthat we still have to learn. Onlyby talking to them can one tell ifthey are of this or another world.Even then it is hard to make a decis-ion since we are learning so muchabout space. Unless one has under-standing and is truthful to him-self and his Creator,interested inthe welfare and betterment of peoplein this world, he could easilY befooled. Here is an example:

One evening while living on themountain (Mount Palomar) we hearda light knock on the door as we sataround the dinner table (it was rain-ing very hard at the time). Whenwe opened the door a tall fine look-ing man stood there asking for me.He looked no different than anyother earthman. He was asked tocome in and sit with us at the table.No car was in sight, how he arrivedI do not know. His opening questionwas the type anyone would ask and fromthere we proceeded with space discuss-ions that went on for at least anhour. From his conversation we con-cluded he was not an earthman, forsome answers he gave could not havebeen read in any earth literature ab-out space.

Towards tre middle of the con-versation 1 felt he was definitely aspaceman, however others presentlater expressed doubt. At a recentmeeting with the ''Brothers''I metthis same man and learned he was incharge of the schedules on which shipsfrom Saturn ~rrive. He reminded meof that evening and this is what hesaid:

"The reason you identified me atthat time was not so much from whatI said but because your soul and yourmind were as one and it was your soulthat recognized my soul. This was con-

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sciousness recognizing consciousnessand not the mind recognizing the mind.the others present judged me withtheir minds and questioned my identityand purpose, thus failing to blendwith my soul for the truth they wanted.Some always ask for spoken verificat-ion which will never be giveu. Ifwe say who we are they will not be-lieve it. We are not permitted toidentify ourselves in the mannerwhich you people are expecting, bysaying we are spacemen from so andso. Intelligent people would notaccept that, and we would only besatisfying the curiosity of the ego.This we are not here to do.

"Others ask for miracles; magic-ians can perform those. Only oneanswer exists to the recognitionquestion. That is a blend of con-sciousness as you did with me thatevening, for in consciousness wefind truth and not in the mind.

"As for taking people for aride in our ships, that is desiredfrom a curiosity standpoint ratherthan a sincere desire for knowledgeof the truth. This is of no valuefor the service which we need. Only

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ANNIHILATION

If we stop and take a good lookat the way most humans behave, wequestion whether or not they are evergoing to progress. As there are par-asites in most kingdoms of life, sothere are in the humans as well. Theymay appear to be well behaved and in-telligent in their endeavors of life,but it is restricted to a narrow fieldof their own. Their endeavor, if wellexamined, is very personal, 90~ of theiracts for personal gratification. Thisis far from Cosmic Purpose.

Would we want to see people goon who for ages have not changed oneiota, but have caused nothing butmisfortune and misery for the majorityof others? Or, the men of war andthose who spread false ~ors, neverfinishing anything they start?

All nature, abiding by the CosmicPlan, deals with all creation on aneven keel and leaves no unfinished bus-iness. From this we should learn theways of everlasting life for natureis everlasting. It is a constant stateof change but never deviates from theplan. Nature always eliminates thatwhich fails to serve its purpose.

A man was given two arms for apurpose, but should he fasten one tohis body and never use it, it wouldsoon wither away to such an extent itwould never be of service to him.

"Anyone who wishes to be ofhelp to us will have to learn, atleast to a small degree, to blendtheir soul consciousness with theOver-Soul of the cosmos. Thenthey may recognize us when we meet.Many from earth have already met usunknowingly."

So, my friends, you now have th2answer as given directly by a spaceperson. Do not forget, for you can-not learn this by yourself without in~struction.

The Supreme Consciousness knowsno fear, as does the mortal mind, forwhere there is truth there is no fearand the only truth thEre is---is inconsciousness.

HOW TO KNOW A SPACEMAN IF YOU SEE ONEoccasional ones qualify for a numberof reasons. MOst human bodies ofearth could not endure extended jour-neys for there are very few whocan blend their consciousness withCosmic Consciousness. You know thatit required f~r a pleasant journeyyet how many do you find who are 'willing to blend their consciousnesswith all - consciousness? Not many,for this involves a sacrifice of one'spersonality or ego (sense mind) untothe dictates of consciousness wherethe mind is servant unto its Creator.It cannot be unto itself as it is inyour society.

"You ~ had an example of thatin your own group, individuals askingfor personal contacts and instructionsfrom us before they will go on workingfor the betterment of mankind. Theyshould learn to blend their soul cons-ciousness with the Cosmic COnscious-ness. You did it by faith as we do;every time we take a trip to your planetwe must have faith, for many hazardsexist in space. Without faith truthshall never be known. The mind thathas no faith shall never know true lifeor happiness. Consciousness is thereal man and not the mind. COnscious-ness is the father and mother of allthings including the mind. When themortal mind tries to operate only inbehalf of itself, it is opposing theSupreme Consciousness.

54Did not nature eliminate certain spec-ies when they no longer served theCosmic purpose? It is no differentwith man.

Two types of thinking exist onthis. The man who calls himself anathiest or agnostic will tell youthat when you are through in thisworld you are through forever. An-other will insist that life contin-ues. Both of these are right for ifluch potential were not present wecould not think of either one, forthoughts are things. To have lifeeverlasting--one must earn it. Thatis the reason Jesus laid: "The treethat bears no fruit is cut down andconsumed in the fire and is no more. "He also cursed the fig tree for bear-ing no fruit, menaing that everythingshould render service unto its creator,and not take the glory of its form untoitself as so many humans do.

To be plain, all forms must servethe purpose for which they were createdif they are to continue. Did not Jesusalso say: '~ear not the one who slaysthe body but fear the one who slays thesoul. Some religions, like the Hindu,teach that if a man fails toserve the purpose for which he wascreated, he may return, not as aman but as an animal, reptile orvegetable. This is the same as atree consumed by fire; it will neverbe a tree again. Part of it was re-leased as gases in smoke; part ofit remained as ashes before trewindand will be used again, but not re-producing the tree as it was. Thisis also true of the man who fails toidentify himself with the Cosmic Plan.His elements (the atoms of his body)will keep on serving in other fieldsbut he as an ego will never existagain.

The ego is the personality orcarnality. That is why it statesin the Bible, carnality is born todie. It can die one kind of deathor another but it must die. Oneform of death would be unto it-self by becoming a humble servantunto divine plan. In this way itearns a life of eternity. Like adrop of water, if it stays by it-self and serves its own purpose, in

BOOK OF ADAMSKItime it will evaporate ani never re-turn as the same drop of water. Onthe other hand, if this same dropof water unites with the ocean itwould lose its identity as an ind-ividual drop of water (or meet deathas to tts individuality); yet itactually would gain life eternal,keeping its experiences as an individ-ual drop and uniting them with exper-iences of the ocean. This continuingas long as the ocean remained in ex-istence. If it had not done so itwould have a very Ihort life and ex-perience as a drop of water and thenevaporate in non-existence.

You can see here how a man is acomposition of two souls, just likethe drop of water had life which wasthe soul of it, which originally be-longed to the soul of the ocean. Whenit returned to the ocean it was likethe prodigal son returning back home,through humility once again unitingwith the household. The drop thatremained as a drop acted as an indep-endent loul, which we call "personal."It did not come anywhere near theocean, let alone into it, and governeditself according to its own selfishdesires. It displayed its independ-ence as a separate thing from allothers. It was concerned about itselfand its own welfare and as a resultcomposed a lot of fears, fro it couldnot help but feel something biggerthan itself unto which it was in sub-jection. Since that part is the par-ent of it, it caused the drop to re-main in a constant state of indecision,not knowing if it should step into the

unknown and lose its identity as anego or remain as it was and evaporatewith no future.

This is the meaning of "not mywill but thine be done." If my.willremains as it is, it will have anending as it had a beginning. Sincethe ocean has no visible beginningor ending, any drop of water unitedwith it will have the same and wouldbe alive today and forever.

So it is with man, unless hiswill becomes one with Cosmic Will

ANNIHILATIONhe will have an ending as he had abeginning. That you might betterunderstand I will analyze three casesthat came to my attention.

CASE NUMBER 1. This particularlady has been confined to her bed forfifteen years. During this time shehas gradually lost her memory of earth-ly experiences. Today she does notrecognize her own sister and she canfeel no pain. Her body is in perfectcondition except it is gradually turn-ing into a jelly-like form, and indica-tion of disolving. The substance ofthe body 1s returning to its originalstate which 1s gases and carbon. Ifthis will continue until nothing butbones remain is yet to be seen. Thereis no doubt that this person has beendying for fifteen years in memory,which must have been quite unpleasantat the beginning. Today she is alldead except the body.

This a good indication of annih-ilation, since memory is the onlything of the ego that is to carryonafter death. .This person will neveragain know herself as the same personor enti~y. The forces that are atpresent controlling the body are cosmicor Universal and will continue onwhen the body fully dies, as they donow without her mind. This is theCosmic Soul which will build anotherform to work through, but withoutthe same ego the body represents atthe moment. Why did this happen?

CASE NUMBER 2. This individual~interest was 801 in the earthly and201 in the Cosmic. Now he is dying

1n the 801 of his memories. For dayshe remembers nothing and recognizingno one, yet every now and then hebecomes fully alert as he was knownto be, recognizing those about him.This person is going to have a sec-ond chance for he has given enoughthought to the cosmic principlesduring his life to blend himselfwith the Cosmos. It is this force oflife that every now and then awakenshis memory. This means some of his

55memory will be carried over which willremain as an identity in the Cosmos.Even in this second chance during an-other lifetime he could still annihil-ate this identity if he did not improveupon the 201.

CASE NUMBER. 3. I knew this manpersonally. He had become so interest-ed in human kind that anything thatwould happen to humanity would hurt him,for he took all creation as a Cosmicmanifestation. For days he would sitby himself and gaze into space. Hedefinitely was blended with the Cosmosand from' that point of view you mightcall him a holy man. There was onething wrong. He lost all memory ofearthly activities thereby dying tothe earthly life and living only theCosmic. Yet the purpose of the Cosmicand earthly is to blend together forone is cause and the other, effect.

The only time there will be per-fection is when there is a perfectequilibrium between the two. Thismeans that he will have to come backto some earthly life to balance up,for there will be no extremes in theCosmos. He will have life eternal,for he already has that without hisearthly identity.

When Jesus said "temperance in aall things," whether it be in earthor in heaven, he showed that balanceis the law. So, now taking the Cosmosinto consideration in our lives isbad, but the same is true if we do

not take the earthly life into con-sideration also. Both of these mustbe lived as one, if one is to havelife eternal with identity.

One can observe the law in actionfor invisible space is a part of theearth and earth is a part of space.Because there is a balance betweenthem they manifest as one. One couldnot continue without the other. So itis with man.

"The parade of evidence inregard to FLYING SAUCERS HAVELANDED could go on almostindefinitely.

-----James W. Moseley

Moon Probes Confirm

Adamski's Claims

Adamski's books usually drew onlytwo different reactions from readers.They either believed he was sincereand that he was telling the truth --or they reacted quite violently andangrily, denouncing him as a fake.While utter belief in any document,without proof is certainly not a

mature reaction, the scorn of Adamski'scritics was much more !mature.

Many of them, unable to proveAdamski wrong, predicted that UnitedStates and Russian rocket probes wouldcompletely refute his books.

The probes, however, very earlyin the game began to upset these crit-ics and cause them some embarrassment.

For example, John Glenn's descri-ption of "fireflies," seen during hisorbital flight, tallied with a similarstatement made by Adamski in 1955.

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The following report, uncoveredby researcher, Timothy Green Beckley,is taken from a publication of limitedcirculation issued by New ZealandScientific Space Research We quoteit verbatim:

In February, 1966, LUNA 9, made asuccessful .soft-landing on the Moon.An equally successful feat was perfor-med by the SURVEYOR on June 2, -- Thefindings of both space craft have sin-ce been published and in all fairnessto the late George Adamski, who publi-shed his description of Moon conditionsthrough the medium of his book, INSIDETHE SPACE SHIPS, in 1955, we would dowell to compare notes.

On Page 144, English edition (Page160 American Edition) of INSIDE THESPACE SHIPS, Adamski, while viewingthe moon from a distance of 40,000 mi-les through a special instrument, sta-

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have been made in no other way thanby a heavy run-off of water in timespast. In some of these places therewas still a very ~all gro~h ofvegetation perceptible. Part of thesurface looked fine and powdery,while other portions appeared to cons-ist of larger particles similar tocoarse sand or fine gravel."

'~ny of the craters are actuallylarge valleys, surrounded with ruggedmountains, created by some past terri-fic upheaval within the body of theMoon." He goes on to say: ''True,some of the craters had been formed bymeteorites hitting the Moon's surface,but in every such case, these cratersshowed definite funnel bottoms."

In the Science section of TIMEMAGAZINE, February 11, 1966, thereis the following report regardingfindings of LUNA 9:

"Taken by a camera with a wide-

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angle lens from about ten feet abovea porous, pumicelike surface, thepictures showed a barren, forbiddingcrust, littered with 1aggard rocksand tiny pebbles that the Russianslater revealed were as small as one or!,womillimeters wide." The TT"iEre-port continues, quoting University ofArizona Astronomer Gerald Kuiper:"The surface of the Ocean of Stormsseemed to have been formed by lavaflow during volcanic activity billionsof years ago."

In the N. Z. HERALD, June 3rd,1966, we find the following regardingthe area in which the SURVEYOR landed:

'~e terrain surrounding the space-craft appeared somewhat like a rockybeach with small objects scattered onthe surface. No small craters were imm-ediately apparent and the surface app-eared reasonably ~ooth and hard." OneScientist of the Jet Propulsion Labor-atory said: '~t looks like they haveprepared a landing field for us."

Comparing our present-day withdescriptions given by Adamski, In 1955,we cannot but conclude that Adamskiknew what he was talking about.

"The flying saucer mysteryis a masterpiece oforganized confusion."

-----Dominick C. Lucchesi

The Sirange Case Of R. E. SirailhGray Barker

I remember very well the very coldday in February, 1958, when I went tothe post office. expecting to receivethe usual mail.

The usual mail was there: App-roved contracts from film companies,advertising proofs on a movie public-ity campaign, a letter from a womanin Idaho explaining how three creat-ures had la~~ed near her barn in a

strange soup bowl with legs_--anda number of subscriptions for THESAUCERIAN BULLETIN, which I wasthen yet publishing.

I had opened this mail first,and although I found it more inter-esting than usual, I was saving untillast a large Manila envelope which Ihad signed for at the Certified Mailwindow.

The main point of interest wasthe return address: George Adamski,

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Palomar Terrace, Star Route. ValleyCenter, California. I had correspond-ed with Adamski from time to time. buthe had never before sent a large env-elope marked "Photo, Please DO NOTCREASE."

What I withdrew from the envel-ope was to more startling than anyUFO photo that I could have widlyexpected. It was a photostat of adocument that completely amazed me.It would cause world-wide controversyand draw comment l~om the staid Lon-don Times. It would cost me sleep-less nights while I underwent inves-tigation by the F.B.I. It wouldlead to a campaign of slander andperscution.

Now turn the page, and read, asI first read on that cold Februarymorning, a most unusual letter, osten-sibly from the U. S. State Department:

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.Department-has done Its ownresearch and has been able to urift:,~at a number ot soum conclusIons. It v1ll no doubt please 10U ',.~'~to know that the Department has on tUe a great deal ot con- , ;~f't~firnatory evidence bearing out your ownclaims, wh1ch as both :;11of us must realize, are controversial, :\00 have been ~ISPUtecf "~generally. . '. :-:- <:,.~'While certainly the Department cannot publicly confirm ,.CIlJ.:i.. '. _ . >~e:Qerlences, it can, I believe, with propriety, e:lcourage JOur .-.~:Jwork and ycur ca::mun1cation or what yoo sir.cerely belie" 8~~d .. ~be told to OL11" ~.Ican public. . "'::',.f~".4~;:Ail

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As a publisher of a flying saucerperiodical,. my first thought was thegreat opportunity to "scoop" the field.I published a rather small bulletinwhich was quick to get to press and in-to the mail. I almost ran back to theoffice with the thought of getting aspecial issue underway.

As I ran panting up the steps tothe office, I began to have misgivings.

Could the letter be real? Wasthe government ready at last to admitthe existence of flying saucers? Wasit taking this means of releasing theinformation?

Or was it a slip? A mistake orsome sort?

I sat down and examined the lett-er carefully, Although, in photostatform, the lette~ could not be provedto be on Government stationery, I tru-

sted Adamski too much to think that ',.he could have made a paste-up of somekind and had it photographed •

Should I publish the letter aft-er all?

It did seem to be private corres-pondence, as the first paragraph poin-ted out •. The writer stated it was notofficial.'

At best I feared that it was writtenby some over-zealous employee who wouldreally be put onto the carpet if the letterwere publicized.

Also I began to fear that I might sufferrepercussion from the State Department if Ipublished it. Instead I decided to foregothe scoop take a more conservative course,and publish only the letter Adamski hadwritten to accompany the photostat. A rep-roduction of the actual letter follows:

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P'ebraury'17, 1958

SCIENCESTABBOon:

VALLEY CENTEIL CALIFORNIA

GEORGE ADAMSKI

E.ijjiaIT~OSMICDear Mr. Barker:

Although it bas been a loog t1JJJesince I haTe received 10Urbullet1na, I k:now;youare kept busy with them and other work. I _ sendiDg10u th1.s in1"omation because I believe10'1will be interested in it and able to use it vell.

Ae you can see from the date on the envelope, the original letter wasmailed onDecember16th. I hetlitated releuiog it because I did DOtvant to cause ~ troul:lle forMr. 8traith. Yet the letter vas of DCnlue tmtil releued. So I :lmeetigated in every-...:r possible to be sure of whoMr. StaUh was and of vhether or DOthe wouldbe hurt.

The t_ bas nov camefor the people of our nation to knowof' the contents ofb1a letter and to act, if they vent the truth of' our interpJanetar;r T18iton, vhich couldalao lead into petbs of peace and imerplanetary' scientific deTelo:smentrather than4e8traction which 18 nov staring us in the face.

Therefore I _ uk1ng 70Uand eTel70tIeI Imovto get this 1n!omation to thepeople in eTel'1w~ possible and without unneeeual"7 de1&7.

J'ramunmpeacbable sources I haTe lel!Ll"nedthat the Air J'o:rce 18 in no po1s1.touto give auch 1nf'omation to the people. It 18 a aubordinate department of sen1.ee in ourgoyen:aent wbose leaders are anellnted and can be releued fraa duty by orders fraa oneperllon b1gher up. ~ from Congress can auch 1n:t'onaationcame. Andfrcm the cootents ofthe accallp&D;Y'ingphotoetat letter we learn that the State Depe.rtDent,through its ownresearches, does bave the faota.

Themembersof Congress are elected by the people As their representatives,each such representative owes a responsibil1ty to the people whoput hta in office. ADdit18 these lien alone 'Whoare in a position to siTe th1a truth to the people of our nationand to the world.

Booklet /f2 of' Questions and Annen will amft frca the printers Dert 'Week.In it 18 a cow of th1a letter. And'Withit in ma1l1ngwill be a letter uking the peoPleto 'Write to Vice President 1U%on,their senaton and their representatives in the Rousedemandiogthat the;y releue the facts 'Whiohthey baTe rrulable to them regarding the spacetravelers. Since these menlook to the TOtes of the people to keep them in office, I amuld.ns the people to tell their representatiTee tbat unleas the truth that 18 so bad~'Wantedand needed 18 forthcOJl1nBY1th1nthe near future, they need DOtlook for support andreelection in comingelectiem. Pres. Z:laenbo'Ver18 DOtel1&1ble for reeleotion •

.AsI bave been told, the people, accor4~ to oar Coaatitution, haTe it in theirhands to be giTen the truth. !rhe1haTe DOW 'beentol! !aft to ptUt. So it 18 up to them.to prove 'Whetheror nat they are a1noereq 1ntere8te4 in the _tter, nagicientl1' to act.P'or 1:tWashington18 flDoded v1th letters, teJ.ecr-, telellhoDe oaJ.la &D4T:uitorll4ement!1ngth1a one th1ng, results will be forthccw'ns tu1o~.

Mr. Straith e%p!rienoedquite a 1tattle within bDae~ 'before writ1Ds tlat letter.Ee knn 'Wbatcould be ita results, and the ~ poasi'bWta. facing ~el:t &Ill~ otherllif' the people of' our nation were not wholehMrleU1' sincere 1n their atttapta to laTeauthoritative 1n!oru.tion reTeale4. J.nd to haTe oc.plete .ucoea. there •• t be )1'C&ptandunited ef'f'ort fram eTel"7part t4 oar Dation.

Photc.tats haTe'been .e1Xtto ~ DatioDaaD! the people there are 'but waitingword f'rca here to siTe it publ1a releue. I ••• ~ it f~ here to all whobaveexpreesed IU:11 interest in the -.tter. J.nd I _ uk:1Dathe .unor't of enrr 8%'OUP I k:no1rto •• t the 'Word&ro1md. I can 40 no .are. Jut tb1a wm preTe how.••11 t_ .laer1canpeollle can stand tosetber and writ •.• one toward the &CCCI:alllUlIIentof a goal Ti"1111al)ortant to the entire world, 'but without 1lOnoet&r1recaapeae, at leut at present, to

a~one. <~~_With beat 'W:uhelIto 7011alwaJa,81noerel1',

GA:Ja Georse J.4aa k1

After deciding on this middlecourse I wrote su~~esting that itmight not be wise to release the lett-er, since it might be breaking a per-sonal trust on the part of its writer.

Adamski replied, on March 21, 1958.

"I was somewhat surprised at yourapparent attitude •••••implying that Iwas betraying a trust. This, I havenever done. Please reread the thirdparagraph of Mr. Straith's letter ofwhich you have a photostat.

"~ote: 'While certainly theDepartment cannot publicly confirmyour experiences, it can, I believe,with propriety, encourage your workand your communication of what yousincerely believe should be told toour American public.' Unquote.

'~ow else could this paragraph beinterperted except that I share thisinformation with the public? Had hesaid he was writing only to encourageme, asking me to keep it confidential,I assure you no one would have heardof the letter.

"As for the authenticity of theletter, I wonder how many people knowthat the Seal of State, impressed justabove the salutation of the letter,and clearly visible in the photostat,

*Whether or not the seal is im-pressed only after a letter is writtenhas been subject to some controversyand was never directly cleared up bythe State Department. A letter fromMaurice S. Rice, Chief, Public Service

Division, State Department, of Sept-ember 3, 1959, and addressed to GeorgeC. Wilson, however, states:

"I am unable to respond to yourrequest that this reply be written onstationery of the same kind as theletter which Mr. Adamski received. Thewhite-seal blue-embossed paper is usedfor correspondence signed by the Secre-tary and Under Secretary of State."(Underlining ours--G.B.)

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is never impressed until after a lett-er is written and signed. This Sealis highly guarded and only certainpeople are permitted the privilege ofusing it.*

"Another angle that seems so str-strange in this entire matter, is thefact that at times the official attit-ude has been that the craft moving th-rough our atmosphere, and being sight-ed over every nation, are ~ of thisworld. Then, a short time later, theywill refute their own statement. Yet,in spite of every effort there remainsan interesting percentage that cannotbe explained except as coming from outof this world. Furthermore, from timeto time government officials have pub-licly stated their belief in these in-terplanetary craft. Why, then do eventhose who staunchly support the realityof these craft continue to frown uponadmitting the actuality of personalcontacts with the people manning theseships!

" I have been told that thegovernment of Brazil and Venezuela haveofficially admitted that certain sight-ings in their countries were 'not ofEarth aircraft.' I have also been toldthat Russia is investigating public in-terest in this subject, and is aboutready to release authoritative informa-tion on it." **

My reluctance to 'scoop' the sau-cer press by publishing the letter wasapparently inadvised. For a Britishrival, THE FLnNG SAUCER REVIEW, cameout with the letter in their next issue.

Meanwhile excitement broke inLondon.

**Russia did not release "Author-itative" information on UFO's, but somefew years later Russian Scientists re-leased opinions that: (1) The GreatSiberian "Meteor" of 1897 was no meteorbut likely an atomic explosion causedby a space ship blowing up; (2) Themoons of Mars were hollow: (3) theBiblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrahmay have been destroyed by atomic ex-plosions~

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ING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED swmnoned re-t porters to his London flat and distri-buted copies of the letter. The Times,usually ultra-conservative, felt dis-poqed to run a 12 inch story about it,complete with a run-down of Adamski'scontact with the Venusian.

John Pitt, a personal friend ofmine, and an editor of the leadingBritish spiritualist newspaper, PSYCHICNEWS, air-mailed me the clippings, al-ong with the results of an investiga-tion he had personally made.

Although I knew that he had longbeen a critic of Adamski's claims, Idid not daub: the veracity of his in-formation

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HADJUST DENIED THE AUTHENTICITY OF THES'l'RAITHLETTER!

Apparentl, the Times story hadstirred up quite a hornet's nest,with various representatives of thepress hounding the American Embassy.Pitt quoted me the official statement,which had Just arrived in London fromWashington:

'~e American Embassy has receiveda number inquiries concerning a purpo-rted Department of State Letter, photo-stats of which were made available ata London press conference Wednesday.A check with Washington on a copy ofthe photostat supplied to the Embassyhas resulted in the following informa-tion:

"1. We have no record of any per-son by the name ever having been conn-ected with this department.

"2. There is no division or br-anch of the Department of State withthe title 'Cultural Exchange Committee. '*

*Although there officially was nodepartment so named, there was, at thattime, a "cultural exchange"program involving tre United States andthe Soviet Union, and this of course,was administered by the State Departm-ment G.B.

BOOK OF ADAMSKI

"3. The department is looking in-to the matter to investigate the poss-ibility of misuse of official depart-ment letterheads."

Pitt gave me a further rundown onhis investigation. The Press RelationsOfficer at the embassy had told himthat the layout of the letter did notconform with carefully detailed instr-uctions that are issued to State Dep-artment employees on how letters sh-ould be composed.

For one thing, the letter waswritten on embossed stationery---a type used only for top-levelinter-departmental correspondencenever to members of the public.The letter had not been mailed inthe normal manner, that of franking,but put into a mail box in the cityof Washington.

In an article for PSYCHIC NEWS,a clipping of which Pitt enclosed,he further added, "There was some-thing hoplessly wrong with the sign-ature. It was not written in thesimple, slapdash, effortless scrawlthat people use who sign many letters.It was far too studied, had variati-ons in its slope, and had clearlybeen drawn with obvious care by some-body who had never written that sig-nature before in his or her life."*

This was an entirely new devel-opement. I had never thought abouta hoax. I read Pitt's material, satdown and tried to figure it out.

But if the letter were indeeda hoax, WHY?

Who wrote it?

For what purpose?

Adamski?

Even if he could have, by someunimi~anable method, obtained offic-

*See signature comparisons la-ter in this section.

THE STRANGECASE OF R. E. STRAITHial stationery and written a letterto himself, this would have been anobviously-unwise move. For theletter would have been immediatelydenounced, and Adamski would haveknown that. The letter could dis-credit Adamski, perhaps ruin hisreputation. Adamski as the authorwas thus ruled out.

Was the letter, written by someunknown person, a diabolical plot todeliberately discredit Adamski?

According to Pitt, the letter ob-viously departed drom the format usedby such official letters -- so muchso that it seemed that the writer wasmaking it EASY for the letter to be"exposed." If a hoax, did the writerINTEND for it to be denied, and writ-ten so that such a denial would beimmediately believed? Such an ex-posure would not only cause more con-fusion about the reality of saucers,but would create disbelief in Adamski'steaching, and tend to make the entirefield of civialian saucer research athing to be taken as a giant joke.

I picked up the telephone andplaced a person to person call to a''Mr.Straith" in Washington, D. C.,telling tbe operator there wouldlikely be few Straith' s listed. AsI feared, there were NONE listed.Whoever had written th0 letter hadbeen very thorough to pick a namethat did not appear in the Washingtondirectory (unless listed).

My statement in my June l~, 1958,SAUCERIAN BULLETIN, swmned up some ofmy thoughts at the moment. I said:

'The three men who visited AlbertK. Bender would seem to be Governmentagents of some sort, but when you thinkit out clearly, you can't quite believethat. Do there exist agencies of analmost supra-governmental nature, whichbecause of their secrecy, are notknown about generally: Or are theresome sort of private 'Silence Groups'functioning with some evil and unknownpurpose? If such an agency, or agenc-ies are functioning, they have donetheir job very well They have created

67organized confusion. Some, who realLYknew, were silenced, perhaps, by othermeans."

The end of this section w9uld per-haps be the best place to sum up mytheories as to the genesis of theStraith Letter. But the paragraph ab-ove still contains, to my belief, thebest explanation. And the paragraphthat follows cannot be completely beignored:

"The three men (still quoting frommy 6/15/58 BULLETIN), however spookythey be in their dramatic black garb,are, after all, much easier to dealwith than the less-tangible but evenmore diabolical techniques, such asthe Straith letter may well represent.For these intangible demons can bedealt with only by the careful exerciseof human logic and the human heart.In facing such a combatant bear inmind that you are facing logic thatdoes not always follow a logical pat-tern---almost as ~ you were dealingwith some alien intelligence that doesnot think in ternestrial terms .•.."

Are we suggesting that a Space Manwrote the Straith Letter?

Hardly, but nobody will probablyever know!

For myself, the first rumbling ofa damaging and very frightening chainof circumstances began to occur.

Within a few days an investi-gator from the State Departmentshowed up at my office.

I explained to him that I wasonly reporting news and sh0wed himthe photostats of the letter and theproof that it had already been publ-ished before I, myself, had ran theletter in the BULLETIN.

The investigator, however, did

68not seem to be there to protest myfinally publishing the letter (as Inervously suspected when he arrived)but instead wanted names of peoplepublishing saucer magazines. He ask-ed various qu~stions about the saucerfield in general. He said he wasattached to the Pittsburgh office ~ndthat he investigated routine mat~ers,mainly qualifications of people whoapplied for jobs in the State Depart-ment. Although I have never checkedthis out, I have my doubts that theState Department had such a divisionin Pittsburgh.

Meanwhile the 'saucer grapevine'was rattling with a very uncomfort-able rumor. This rumor had it thatDonald E. Keyhoe, director of NICAP,privately (so that no libel actioncould be taken) spreading the storythat I had written the letter.

I spent many hours ponderingthe NICAP rumor. I knew that Keyhoedidn't like me because of what seem-ed to be an obsession with htm aboutso-called "contactees," -- or peoplewho clatm to zontact and talk withspace people I knew that NICAP heldto a preconceived idea that aU "cont-actees" were liars. Although NICAPbelieved that saucers came from space,its directors seemed to exhibit a~almost neurotic hate against "contact-

ees." I had consistently held theeditorial columns of the SAUCERIANopen to clatms of all sorts, and allsides of every story I had the feel-ing I was not liked by the Washingtongroup because of .y open-mindedness.

There was also an uncomfortablerumor going around that NICAP vas NOTa private organization as it clatmed,but a quasi-government group, financedsecretly by the Air Force, CIA, orsome other branch Former militarymen were on the Board of Governers,including the former head of the CIA,Vice Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoeter.

The possibility entered my mindthat NICAP, If it indeed was a militaryor intelligence front, could be behind

BOOK OF ADAMSKIlhe letter itself and trying to "frame".iome other party: But I dismissed thatas too fantastic I knew they wouldlike to discredit Adamski's clatmB, butsomehow I just couldn't believe theywould go that far.

I thou~ht of other peogle inUFO researca who might b~ c nnectedwith it if indeed it were a hoax,as the State Department investigatorhad clatmed.

There was James Moseley, whomI didn't get along with well, mainlybecause he continually wrote unfavor-able articles about people who all-egedly contacted space people andhad published some articles againstAdamski in his magazine, SAUCER NEWS.

I still couldn't figure how he couldhave obtained the stationery unlesshe, as some rumored, was really do-ing secret work of some sort -- somesaid for the CIA, others for the AirForce. I knew he didn't have to workfor a living. And this was indeedpuzzling.

On a hunch that I might findsome clue, I dug out his correspon-dence folder and began reading someof his short notes to me, and myreplies.

Something about one of my ownlong ~etters to Jtm seemed to fascin-ate me. I don't know how far I readinto it when I began to slow down andto do a very violent double-take!

A cold chill came over me, and Iconfess that at that moment I couldalmost see iron bars closing in aro-und me.

"MY GOD." I HAVE BEEN FRAMED,"I shouted out loud.

I arose from my hunched positionat the .file cabinet and sat down atthe desk, while I began to inventorythe serious situation.

I placed the photostat of theStraith letter beside the carbon ofmy own letter to Jim in the hope that

"Justice Department Hunting'Straith' Haaxter, " one of theback page stories read.

THE STRANGE CASE OF R. E. STRAITHI had made a terrible mistake--butI hadn't.

My concern even deepened. Iknew that I had corresponed lengthlywith Dove, while 1 was using thesame typewriter on which I had writt-en the letter to Moseley.

I opened some of my mail fromthat morning that had gone unreadbecause of my concern with the St-raith matter. In it was the Nov-ember, 1958 Special Bulletin fromNICAP. '

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His advice boiled down to twoalternatives.

"It looks as if the FBI will bethere to investigate you," he told me,"if the story in the NICAP circularis correct. You know the JusticeDepartment is the same as the FBI."

1 had no opportunity to consultwith the lawyer further, for in theforenoon of the next day two FBI inv-estigators from the local area cameto visit me.

"Come in and see me day aftertomorrow. I'll be out of town to-morrow and I can't see you now.Meanwhile here's my advice. If anyinvestigator visits you in the mean-time, here's what you should do.They probably won't have any searchwarrant at this stage in the matter,so if you are mixed up in this) showthem NOTHING and tell them nothing.Tell them you have to get the adviceof your attorney. If you're NOTguilty, you have nothing to hide, sotell them anything they want to knowand show them anything they want tosee~"

"1 have nothing to hide," 1 re-plied, "So I'll work with them inany way possible. After all I toowant to see the bottom of this thinggotten at!"

They confirmed the Keyhoe claimthat the CSI of New York had received asimilar letter, though they said it wasnot written on any official station-ery. They said it obviously was wri-tten to one officer to discredit an-other officer, since it containedsnide remarks about the other. Itwas- signed only by a short first name,''Kip. "

forposs-I

I wondered who to go tohelp. A lawyer? As soon asible. A typewriter expert?knew of none near.

Not only had a letter been re-ceived by Adamski, th~ article wenton to say, but an officer of theCivilian Saucer Intelligence of NewYork had also received a similarcommunication, apparently written onthe same typewriter~

BOTH LEITERS WERE OF IDENTICALTYPE STYLE. THE STRAITH LETTER HADNOT ONE SINGLE INDENTATION, neitherfor address, complimentary close,etc. Whoever had typed the Straithletter, HAD TYPED IT IN EXACTLY THESAME FORMAT STYLE I HAD USED FORYEARS.

Lanzo Dove, NICAP member andamateur astronomer, had loaned th~Government several letters '~ittento him on the same typewriter, andsigned by the supposed hoaxter, aman well known in UFO investigation."

Was Dove in on this thing too?1 sincerely doubted this. 1 knewhe was anti-Adamski, but I had al-ways found him a very sincere, st-raight-forward individual who wouldnot maliciously damage anybody.

1 called a lawyer whom I hadknown through a civil case and brief-ly outlined the circumstances.

The investigators, as had theState Department man, asked me who Ithought might have perpetrated thehoax, and I had no definite ideas.

Then the comparison of the t)~ingcame up and I gave them complete ,ie-tails on this situation.

Prior to opening my own of11ce,

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I had done my desk work in the officeof a part-time employer. This officecontained two Remington standardoffice typewriters of the manual type.I had used one of these machines fai-rly constantly, and had 1lso done allall of my personal correspondence onit, along with occasionally use ofthe other machine. Both machines hadthe same type size and face, the sameas had been used to type the Straithletter. I had typed all of my oldSAUCERIAN magazines on the one mach-ine. This had been prior to 1954.In that year I had opened my ownoffice, purchased one Royal type-writer and had been given a used IBMmachine.

The Remington I had used wasstill owned by the same people I hadworked for though the other Remington(which I had used infrequently) hadbeen traded in. I urged that theyget a sample of the typing from bothmachines and have an expert comparethe type samples with the Straitbletter, for the one machine was quic-kly accessible, and the other, al-though it had been disposed of be-fore the Straith letter had beenwritten still likely could be tracedand examined.

I now felt somewhat better, forthe FBI agents had treated me verycourteously. I had been so shaky,however, I could not remember allof the details they gave me. Forexample, they mentioned another let-ter, evidently a spurious letter all-egedly written by Keyhoe to the FBI,or vice versa. I would like to knowmore about this.

Anyhow, I had told them the truthand I had offered any assistance Icould give them. I still didn'tthink it possible, in this free contryof ours, for an innocent man to beframed.

I decided to intensify my owninvestigation. One of my first act-ions was to call up my trusted friend,Alex Mebane, one of the officers ofCSI.

He confirmed that he had receiv-ed the letter which the FBI had des-cribed. Though it was not writtenon any letterhead, the sheet contain-ed a spread-eagle watermark aboutthree inches in diameter. He promisedto send me a photostat (see Exhibit 3)though the entire middle of the letterwhich contained the remarks about an- 'other member, were folded under whenhe made the copy, evidently for pers-onal reasons. The references to''Wanda''and the National Science Fou-ndation were completely meaningless,though Lex added jokingly that hewished the latter references weretrue!

Then he revealed another devel-opment. Apparently letters were fly-ing in all directions! Coral Lorenzenhead of Aerial Phenomena Research Org-'anization (APRO) had also received aletter, similar to the one he had, inthat it was written on plain paperbearing the same eagle watermark.

He told me he couldn't send mea photostat of it, since Coral hadasked him to keep it confidential --though he did have the original whichshe had loaned him.

The most I could gather from Lex'sremarks was that this letter purportedto be from some Postal Department emp-loyee, who urged APRO unofficially tosuspend her publication since the Gov-ermnent was going to "crack down" onall saucer magazines. It, too, hadapparently been written on the sametypewriter and mailed at or about thesame time.

When I hung up I picked the rec-eiver back up to make a local call andthe operator was on the line.

"Emergency call from Mr. Moseley,"she said, and, on the other end of theline, of all people, was James Moseley.

"Gray, I first want to apologizefor something which isn't my fault ..."

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72Lor as I have explained previously, wehad not got along well.

"I heard part of your conversationwith Mebane quite through accident.The operator was trying to cut in be-cause I told her it was an emergencycall. I suppose in aome way it is, anyhow I have to see you immediately. I'mready to get in my car and drive downthere, can you be there?"

When he detected some reluctancein my reply he said, '~lease, I thinkits important to you too. I've justbeen visited by the FBI. I thinksomebody is trying to frame you! "

''Nokiddin!" I interjected; thenthe tension cooled and both of us ch-uckled.

"1 don't want to discuss this withyou over the telephone. If it's OK I'llstart driving now, sleep for a few hoursthere in Clarksburg and see you tomorrow.Get me a room." he added.

"All right," I said, "I'll get youa room at the Waldo Hotel (which hassince been purchased by a local college)."

I spent another almost sleeplessnight. What was it with Moseley, any-how? Had he really written the lettersand was now on the hot seat?" Was thisvisit some tric~? Somehow I doubted it,and I looked forward to the meeting.

''Doyou dt ink?" he asked me thenext morning when he rang me up athome.

"Now and then socially," I toldhim but added I had nothing in thehouse and that the State was dry exceptfor liquor stores.

"That's OK," he said, "there's aState store in the first floor of myhotel. "

Mosely walked into my apartment,tall, gangly, just a trifle ill atease and shy, but a handsome, clean-cut man.

BOOK OF ADAMSKI"Sorry I forgot my badge," he

said, '~ut anyhow we plain-clothes-mennever wear any -- but I brought a bott-le to make up for it," and he wavedthe paper bag. For the first time Ibegan to get a glimpse of Moseley'sgreat sense of humor.

'~on't you think we'd better go outfor something to eat first," I suggested.

'~e couldn't talk at a restaurant.You cook something and rll talk, in themeanwhile, and that will balance theLedger."

I poured some A&P coffee out thathad just perked.

''First of all," he said, "youdidn't write the Straith letter!I'll bet you are glad to know that."

''1know that too, but what makesYOU sO sure?" I half kidded him.

"I had this thing pinned all overyou. A special issue of SAUCER NEWS islaying in my apartment right now readyto go to press, with a big article ex-posing you. A letter from you printedbeside the Straith letter. The wholebit, then a long article attacking yourrole in the affair."

"Are you threatening me?"

''1don't threaten, but I AM afraidof libel. Contrary to what you may haveheard or believe, I have no income fromthe CIA. The fact is I'm filthy rich.I'm worth a million dollars, a few bucksmore or less, depending on the daily DowJones averages."

I broke a cautious egg into theelectric skillet and kept listening.

"I saw my lawyer to check it. Hesaid he would have to PROVE it in caseyou weren't brought to trial and con-victed.

"You don't know how thorough, per-istent and hard-headed I am if I thinkI'm on to something. So I blew a fewbucks -- if you only knew how ~ greenon one of the best typewriter experts

THE STRANGE CASE OF R. E. STRAITHin the business. He was handicappedbecause he was working only from a 'statof the so-called Straith letter, but itwas enough. They were written on type-writers of exactly the same typeface.

"BUT, ••••" and he paused. " ••••DIFFERENT TYPEWRITERS WERE INVOLVED!"

"I don't know whether to thank youor to throw you out for trying to exposeme," I told Jim, ''But anyhow, my mindis greatly relieved. The FBI will doa similar analysis, and they likely willcome up with the same proof."

'~n't worry ••••• the differencewas obvious, according to the expert,"he reassured me.

"On the other hand," he continu-ed, "I might as well show you the res-ults of some further research •••••yousee I've suddenly become fascinatedwith typewriters."

He took from his brief case a copyof a transcript of an affadavit by Dr.Daniel Norman, Director of cnemicalResearch in the New England Spectroche-mical Laboratories, which was to beused in the retrial of Alger Hiss, whohad been convicted partly on the sim-ilarity of typewriters.

"I now say to the court that Wood-stock N 230099 is a Fake Machine •••••it•••••is a deliberately fabricated job,a new type face on an old body."

"This means then," I slowly toldJim, "that if somebody really WANTEDto, they could still '~rove I wrotesomething. "

The time had come, Jim told methen, "to settle our silly feud. Idon't think you seriously dislike me,and I can't imagine you really believefantastic things you print about meeither. I must say that I really admireadmire your own UFO work."

Then Jim told me a great dealabout himself, he was heir to ashipping fortune and had a large trust

73fund settled on him. His mother haddied several years before, when he wasa young teenager, am he had been leftto live alone. His father was stillliving but they didn't get along. Hewas the son of General Van Horn Moseleyan anti-Semitic who constantly wroteviolent smear pamphlets and articles.The money had been inherited from hismother's side of the family.

"As to my being in the Air Forceor the CIA, you know that's r1diculous.But let's carry things on as 1£ youdid believe it. Let's continue thefeud in our publications, let peoplethink we're enemies. For we're goingto eventually smoke out some verminif we work together."

Moseley had also been investigatedby the FBI -- that was one of the eventsthat brought about his decision tD drivedown.

I WON"T GO INTO THE THINGS THATMOSELEY NEXT RELATED TO ME - - THEY

WILL. BE FOR HIM ALONE TO RELEASE IFHE EVER DARES.

In short he told me that he sus-pected a certain organization was be-hind the Straith matter, why he didn'tknow. This was supposed to be a civi-lian organization and one we both sus-pected. We pledged to work togethersecretly to try and UNCOVER further in-formation •

As we finished our breakfast Jimtold me that Lanzo Dove had just sub-mitted an article to him with enlarge-ments of my typing and the Straith typ-ing, purporting to prove the type wasthe same.

"I don't want to tell him that Ihad the type analyzed by an expertand yet I can't think of a good ex-cuse for not printing the article. I'mafraid he'll suspect that we are work-ing together if I turn it down."

'\fuy don't you put it off by point-ing out the possibility of libel action."

"Yes, that's what I'll do. The

article would damage you severely formany people would probably believe it."

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Yet another letter, written in thesame type size and style, was to showup. In a news letter of April 20, 1959,Laura !t.lndo,director of the PlanetaryCenter, Detroit, Mich., printed a replyto a R. E. Andrews, of the United StatesInformation Agency. Suspecting this wasanother ''Straith''type letter, 1 lookedinto the matter and found, lurely enoughthat she had received a stmilar missive,again with tm familiar typeface! Acareful reading of this letter did dis-close a different tone from that of thethe Straith letter. In our opinion(though Laura didn't interpret it inthat manner it contained subtle hintsthat the addressed organization mightbe subversive: the mention of '~eaceGroups," '~olitical Implications" and'~ot our policy to publicly discreditanyone.")

The investigation of this matterby Moseley and myself is still g01ngon, though has yielded no spectacularresults so far. We have concluded,for example, by blowing up signaturesto large size, that the R. E. StRAITHand R. L. ANDREWS signatures werewritten by the same person, but thatsome entirely different person signedthe name, ''Kip''. (See Exhibit No.5).

A joint conference with Jtm andmy attorney indicated there were noreally serious problems involved

"If this report is reliable," thelawyer said, after examining tre expert'sreport, "the same results will show upin the report the FBI will obtain."

'~e Government is very carefulbefore they prosecute a case. That's•hy they win so many of them. You'lllikely hear no further from them."

If prosecuted, the case would bebrought elther on behalf of the StateDepartment or the United States Postoffice.

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The U. S. Code, Title 18, Section1017, he explained, provides for apenalty of not more than $5,000.00fine or imprisoment for not more thanfive years or both for '~oever fraud-~ntly affixes or impresses the sealof any department, commission, docum-ment, or paper or with knowledge ofits fraudulent character, with wrong-ful or fraudulent intent uses, buys,procures, sells, or transfers toanother any such certificate, instru-ment, commission, document, or paper,to which or upon which said seal hadbeen so fraudulently affixed or tm-pressed."

To send such a letter through theUnited States mails would representadditional crtme. U. S. Code, Title 18,Section 1717, declares that letters inviolation of section 1017 are nommail-able and shall not be conveyed in themails or delivered from any post officeor by any letter carrier. This offencecarries a $5,000.00 fine and/or tenyears in prison.

During a subsequent visit by FBIinvestigators 1 showed them the photo-stat of the letter addressed to CSI andloaned it to them. One of the men gaveme a pad of paper and asked me to writethe name "Kip" several ttmes on the diff-erent sheets. A month or two later thephotostat was returned to me by mail.

That was the last 1 ever heardfrom them.

While I have remained convincedthat the Straith letter was indeedspurious, Richard Ogden, who did atremendous amount of research on theCase, still believes Straith reallyexis.ts.

A great deal of this researchwas published in the December, 1949,issue of Ray Palmer's FLYING SAUCERSmagazine, of which we can report onlybriefly here .

We first quote Ogden on the stat-ionery used:

''MI" Adamski's letter from theDepartment of State was written on a

UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCYWASHINGTON

0PI'IClK fW••. =,.

December 16th, 1957

Mr s• LatU'a l.fundo1014 LongfellowRoyal Oak, }l1ch.

My Dear }1rs. lhmdo:

It has come to otU' attention that you are distributing andencouraging the distribution of information on the so-called"Flying Saucers" from your Michigan headquarters.

We would deeply appreciate receipt of certain information fromyou as follows:

(1) How many members are enrolled in your group?

(2) How many of these are dues paying members?

(3)A sanple copy of your tract or tracts.

(4) Do you consider your grr;upt s study of "Flying Saucers"to hRve political implications?

(5) Have you received any previous official enquiries aboutyour work?

(6) What is yotU' personal opinion~ and, also, the opinion ofyour group, on the so-called peace groups"~

I do hope that someone from this department, if not myself, willsoon have the pleasure of speaking with you personally, howeveryour written reply will greatly assist us in completing ourfiles on your group.

Any reply will be kept entirely confidential, as it is not ourpolicy to publicly discredit anyone.

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First, on March 3, 1958, he ~otea letter, marked ''personal,''to ''Mr.R. E. Straith, Cultural Exchange Comm-ittee, Department of State, Washington25, D. C.". Having no reply by April 5,he wrote to the office of the Secretaryof State, inquiring if they had an emp-loyee by that name.

very special and highly important andrestricted paper. The paper used in~iting the Straith letter is knownas 'white-seal, blue-embossed station-ery.' This stationery is used onlyfor the following types of correspond-ence of the Department of State: lettersand memorana~ to the President, andnotes to ministers of foreign affairs,or charge d'affaires ad interim ofother governments. In addition, itcan be found only in Washington, D. C.,in the Office of the Secretary ofState under lock and key. The station-ery is carefully guarded because it isused on a high governmental level.Only two persons have access to this

paper: The Secretary of State and theUnder Secretary. This should correctthe false impression that numerous em-ployees of the Department of State haveaccess to the type of paper used to~ite the Straith letter."

Ogden as a result of his research,was convinced that there really was anR. E. Straith whose existence has deli-berately been denied.

He received a prompt reply fromMaurice S. Rice, Acting Chief, PublicService Division, which denied boththe existence of Straith AND a CulturalExchange Committee.

Next Ogden placed a long distancephone call to the State Department,asking for the Chairman of the CulturalExchange Committee. The call was tran-sferred to the office of a Mr. L.K.Little, director of personnel for theU. S. Information Agency. The officetold Ogden that the Cultural ExchangeCommittee was part of the Cultural

Presentation Staff, whose director wasa James F. Magdanz. The call wasnext transferred to Magdanz's office.His staff, according to the U. S. Gov-

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ernment Organization Manual, facilitiedthe transportation and performance ofindividual American artists and culturaland athletic groups overseas. When Mr.Magdanz's secretary answered the phoneahe would neither deny nor confirm theexistence of a Cultural Exchange Comm-ittee until Ogden told her his name.As soon as she had his name she got hersuperior, Magdanz, on the phone, and hedenied the existence of the CulturalExchange Committee. Then, in typicalGovernment fashion, they kept transfer-ring the call from department to depar-tment until Ogden finally gave up indismay.

His investigation further disclosedthat the Committee was located in StateDepartment Annex SA-20. So Ogden senta registered letter to Straith on Aug-ust 31, 1958. The delivery receipt wassigned, R. E. Straith,. but by anotherparty, M. N. Hart, who had filled inStraith's name and assigned the buildingcode, $A-20.

Ogden's many investigations finallyearned for him a personal visit by theFBI which did not dismay him. He wroteto Rice about the FBI visit, and regis-tered it, but did not receive his returnreceipt until a year later, when, afterno reply, he complained to the Post-master General.

Whether or not it had anything todo with his persistence in getti~g tothe bottom of the Straith mystery andhis wholehearted support of GeorgeAdamski, Ogden subsequently sufferedgreat misfortunes. It may have noconnections, and we don't want to gooff on a wild tangent here. So we'llsay no more of the matter at this time.

And so, the Straith letter remainsone of the great unsolved mysteries ofthe UFO field. Due to my unpleasantexperiences with it and the distrust Isuffered as a result of it, I wantedto forget about it and have keptthese facts to myself for nine longyears.

If somebody or some agency wasafter ME, they have failed, for I

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have survived. I sincerely believethere have been other efforts tosilence me, and these matters I willtell about some day. Throughout allof these persecutions, my dear friends,who have really counted, have stuck byme. In some ways I am GLAD these thi:"lgshappened, for I have been strengthenedby the ordeals.

James Moseley and I will continue

t,) seek out needles in haystacks, even~hough we may never succeed. Meanwhilewe have become very close friends.

And there is the inevitable post~script to the Straith mystery. If itis authentic, it may ~~ow additionallight on the matter.

It is in the form of a letterreceived by Ray Pa~er in late 1959:

November 10th (Enroute)

Dear Mr. Pa~er:

I am dropping this letter off at the Memphis A'port. For once and for all, I want to clear up theStraith Matter. I am one of the former secretariesfor the Cultural Exchange Committee. Mr. Straith'smain job is collecting U.F.O. data from all the for-eign countries. Only a few people know this. He issupposed to act as clearing manager for artists,musicians, etc., between countires. Your magazine isa nasty headache to the Department, as Mr. Straithis supposed to be undercover. If by chance he is foundout, people are told he is retired, and lives in thiscountry or that country.

In this department is a two foot file on you, andevery letter you or your writers ever wrote arelisted. There's one funny notation that said yourigged up string or wire around your place to setoff a flash camera, also a notation that says,'Burglar alarm don't work.' The metal specimenscontained 'Nickel, silver, cobalt (infused) crudeiron slag. The blue stuff on it is diffused coppersulphate. But back in the Committee. Ask any bigsinger who visited Europe about it. They mayor maynot talk. I am trying to disguise this handwritingin case you photostat this letter and publish it. Iwould lose my present position if some person recogn-ized it.

I wish I could clear up the mess (which I can) butI am afraid to do so ••••••Wish I could tell you more,but can't.

(signed) Well wisher.

P.S. There are no finger prints on this letter.

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