Adamski type flying saucer
Everything we know about a legend may be wrong.
A long forgotten documentary which includes an analysis of a rare film taken by George Adamski, an icon from the early days of the modern age of UFO sightings, has surfaced on YouTube thanks to the effort of historian Neil Gould.
The 7 segment YouTube film is well worth watching in its entirety, but a particularly compelling segment discusses a seldom seen film, originally shot by Adamski himself in the presence of Madeline Rotterfor in the back yard of her house in Silver Spring, Maryland, in February 1965.
What the segment shows is the analysis done on the film, which--along with the testimony of Rotterfor, Sir Desmond Leslie and others who knew Adamski personally--makes a compelling case for the authenticity of the non-human origin of the saucer seen to dance in the sky.
Layered behind the photo analysis conducted at Kodak labs are a number of testimonials and accounts that shed new light on one of the most familiar names in early UFO history.
George Adamski is the definitive example of the 1950's Contactee movement, a random group of early experiencers that sprang up after the Kenneth Arnold-Roswell flap of 1947 and lasted through the early 60's.
The contactees were characterized by a sort of art-deco 50's ambiance and made claims of meeting their 'space-brothers', being taken for rides in flying saucers and spending time in the company of well developed female human looking alien spaceship commanders in tight suits.
Over time, the contactee movement withered under the weight of their outrageous claims and now are seen largely as a group of delusional wanna-be's dealing with the cold-war induced paranoia about nuclear annihilation by inventing fictitious space friends who, through the contactees, delivered a message to humanity to stop fooling around with the atom bomb.
And George Adamski was the most fictitious wing-nut of them all. His stories of meeting a human looking alien in the desert east of Palm Springs, his oddly sharp or unusually blurry photographs of a bell shaped saucer (now known as an Adamski-type craft) with three balls on the underside, his sometimes outlandish remarks and his penchant for affecting a college degree he did not have, combined with a healthy dose of rumor mongering, added up to a perception that Adamski was a fraud, a hoax of the close encounter kind. Adamski,for whatever reason, did not help his own case. in 1962, he claimed to be attending a secret conference on Saturn. This kind of statement caused TIME magazine to label Adamski the 'crackpot from California'.
But however staged his photos appeared and however unbelievable his stories, there was always the film taken in Maryland, which, although seldom seen, would never be forgotten.
In the video segment now on YouTube the analysis reveals the manner in which the production of the original film was arranged and concludes that the film may well have been what Adamski told Rotterfer it was: a demonstration of a flying saucer in broad daylight for the express purpose of providing documentation of the existence of the non-human race that created it and was, at the time, operating it in the human biosphere.
If the film is what analysis indicates that it is, then the rest of Adamski's claims have to be reconsidered. His claim to have met the Pope in order to carry a message to him from the ET, for instance, is documented by Desmond Leslie as being likely truthful on the basis that Adamski later showed Leslie a small gold coin that one can only obtain from the Pope himself.
As for the meeting in the desert? Project Blue Book records contain a report of a fighter pilot chasing a UFO in the desert over the same area, on the same day that Adamski was observed to meet with Orthon. Witnesses to Adamski's meeting saw a fighter go after the flying saucer when it departed from the desert floor. The two reports verify one another.
What are the implications if the Adamski film turns out to be valid?
Huge.
If Adamski was telling the truth about the meeting with the Pope, then the odds are much greater that he was telling the truth about a meeting with President Kennedy, the subject of a political analysis by Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner Michael Salla.
And if human looking ET were indeed interacting with citizens of the most powerful country on the planet in the 1950's, trying to prevent a Cold War from turning hot, then what could have gone in in the ensuing half century? If ET reality was kept secret, what else was kept secret?
If visible proof of flying saucer technology operating near the nation's capital was available but dismissed in the 60's, then a half century of denial has to be called into question.
And if we've been visited by even more advanced technology in the ensuing decades, perhaps all those reports of flying saucers, large black triangles and gigantic V-shaped wings have more likely basis in fact than fiction.
Perhaps the world is not what we've been told it is.
Perhaps it's time to take the reports at face value and ask who is flying all these objects that are reported, now almost daily, around the world.
Perhaps it's time to change history.
Comments
Great work! I watched the whole series a couple days ago... congratulations for doing such a great job putting it up here.
Excellent article Larry. Indeed, history will have to be rewritten and it will emerge that Adamski was part of the debunking program initiated by the Robertson Panel/CIA, and the Galactic COINTELPRO supported by the FBI. Adamski was set up to look like a fraud even though there was much empirical evidence supporting his claims.
Hate to say it, guys, but Adamski was a straight up fraud, and it's patently obvious that video is fake.
What a load of rubbish.
He's been proven a fraud as one of his most famous 'photo's' was recently found to have been part of an artists picture from an old book.
The video is a waste of time. It's clearly suspended.
His videos usually have a very small object very close to the camera.
Adamski = A joke to everyone who has seen a ufo
(Disinformation/distration/an apostate to blame for decades of ufo research being classed as pseudo science)
Adamski's ship looks similar to Billy Meier's picture of the Pleiadian Beam ship!
It's also worth noting that Semjase wore a tight fitting 'suit' and of course was female.
Is it possible that the Plejarans have been 'pushing' us to accept a reality slightly larger than we have created for ourselves?
And one last point in collabartion with Adamski's stories, the Plejarans look just like us!
Michael Salla is always very good. For unexpected surprises, of coarse. So I'd give my two cents, he will come forward in a couple of years with a claim, Ray Santilli's 'Alien Autopsy' footage 1) were real and UFOlogical history needed to be re-written. Again.
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1) That poor being from the latexian solar system, mercyless sliced in pieces for the footage.
Hi Larry
Sadly some of the critics are not aware of all the facts relating to the Adamski case. A living witness is Tolman, 80yrs who met Adamski and saw the ships. In my soon to be published paper in the Exopolitics Institute Journal; I list several more testimonies.
Well done Larry
Exopolitics Hong Kong
It's sadly unknowable to anybody who was not there. I could tell you that I saw a UFO (and I did), but unless you were there with me, how do you know that I did? You don't, and you never will. As for that video (or any other), if the video is not in stereo, it's sadly useless. Look at the reports of skyfish. All that's needed is one stereo video; but has anybody made one since the first reports of skyfish in '96? Not yet. Sigh:(
does this have any ties to the allan mitchel report? also ive heard of stephen hawking making a statement recently that implies what is under wraps (for our own good?) allan mitchel supposedly has set a deadline for acknowledgment towards ETs existence/presence on earth. ending may 2009, word of mouth says, much shall be unveiled. i got my fingers crossed for the interesting nature of this conspiracy! :D
The authenticity of any purported 1950's-1980's UFO footage, like Adamski's, should never be judged by people like NASA physicists, military pilots or aircraft engineers.
It should only be judged by special-effects filmmakers from the pre-CGI days like Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra or Jim Danforth. These people know all the ways to simulate something on film, both low-tech and high tech.
And five-year-olds, who are very adept at spotting fakery, especially little girls! ;-)
My opin
NICE written.
Acc.to the report of the wendelle stevens book of another "higher levels of venus"-contactperson from the 60ths, GA's contacts was partly on the astral-level- look in galactic.no/rune/venuscont.html
All of our history has been coverupped by the power/BIGmoney people!!!
Anyone who believes in Adamski's pictures and claims is just a gullible fool. Grow up!!! The extraterrestrial phenomenon may be real. I've seen some odd things myself. But Adamski isn't it.
THis is hardly a lost film. . .we have been selling it for a couple of years. It is distributed nationally by UFO TV.
Adamski may have some legitimate claim to fame but it isnt this picture. Even his unofficial publicist Harold Salkin who I worked with for many years says the MD film is NOT legit. The saucer is moving back and forth in front of a scene that never changes. The tree branches dont move, the clouds dont move.
It's good to see Adamski is getting some recognition. For all you nay-sayers, go research the case. You'll be surprised just how many people witnessed strange events themselves. Madeline Rodeffer, who owned the camera that Adamski used to shoot the movie, claims till this day that there was a large sized UFO hovering over her backyard. It's in the YouTube documentary. If Adamski was such a fraud, then howcome dozens of people witnessed events as well?
I have to say that some of the article and some of the comments critical of George Adamski are factually wrong,as have been many of the anti-Adamski writings over the decades. Donald Keyhoe started the tide of misrepresentation by stating that Mr.Adamski had worked as a hamburger vendor. The french writer, Aime Michel, branded the contactee accounts "lurid" - he later posed for a photograph with Anton La Vey, head of the Church of Satan. I suspect that much more of this sort of hypocrisy could b
I suspect that much more of this sort of hypocrisy could be found among the critics of George Adamski, to add to all the lies and sneering innuendo already published. Thank you, Mr.Lowe, for drawing people's attention to this documentary, which is a superb production.
Good job Larry. Exciting to see someone easing others into the material! Keep up this good work!
I have 2 Airmail letters and a telegram sent by George Adamski the original letters - Are they worth anything?
Personally I thought George was a fake and I have seen 3 ufos , the first easily one mile wide and the second a close encounter
Regards
Andy
Search Andy Bell Ashburton to view my journals which show my own encounters with ufos!
I have been intrigued by Adamskis story for many many years. I must admit that I am a sceptic, and this whole story is sooo bizarre. And that footage taken in 1965... well it looks like a cardboard being tossed around by a child. But anyway... there is something here - something going on behind that story that thrills me, and I am still intrigued! Yeah, I love it!
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