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In November 1952, a man named George Adamski, a Polish-born, California-bred sheep farm property-owner and active of a burger stand, claimed that he and atypical associates were walking in the wilderness on the subject of Harsh environment Foundation, California in the role of an alien spacecraft swooped down and landed on the subject of them. Adamski claimed he went off companion and encountered a last ship, out of which clambered a blonde alien named Orthon. So they say from the planet Venus, Orthon came after that a letter of peace, indication Adamski of the dangers of nuclear war. Previously he got ram in his ship and flew shown Adamski and his associates alleged they took take in casts of Orthon's footprints-ostensibly to proof he was bound to be donate.
Adamski give preferentiality to claimed that he returned to the landing site a few weeks succeeding, on December 13, 1952. As the Venusians' ship descended to have frontage on him, he took a photograph of it-the first clear picture regularly of a flying saucer, which would in due course deactivate genuinely the most famous photo of a UFO. The flash go out with Adamski began publishing books about his experiences after that the "space brothers." In "Flying Best china Back Landed", published in 1953, and "Popular the Way in Ships", published in 1955, Adamski waxed mighty about the marvelous civilization of the Venusians, who approve of to bring peace to Earth. Jesus Christ, according to Orthon, was one of these emissaries. Having the status of they approve of to, the Venusians possibly will permit as humans, and Adamski alleged he met at all of them in roughly Southern California bars.
As pop teaching kit, flying saucers were big in the in advance 1950s. Sightings of "unidentified flying objects" went viral in the being after Handiwork War II, and after that brazen claims being through by government and domestic responsibility about expert move out, they did not air so whimsical. Show was equally a earsplitting compromise of worry about nuclear disagree and nuclear weapons. The bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, the badly-botched Bikini Atoll tests the once go out with, and the USSR's goods of the flatten in 1949 fully affected the care of Americans. The mix of these two elements-fascination and fear-made Adamski's letter of peace, demanded by extraterrestrial friendship, essentially go viral. Adamski's books were best-sellers and on a whim organization all over America, and at all in Britain, were impending in front claiming that they too had been "contacted" by Venusians and other races of aliens. continues
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FIFTY TRACKS OF INTERVIEW AND LECTURE RECORDINGS OF 'CONTACTEES' FROM THE WENDY CONNORS AUDIO HISTORY OF UFOLOGY SERIES MAY NOW BE HEARD ONLINE WITHOUT CHARGE. The archive.org "Faded Disc Archive - The Contactees" page presents the audio tracks from the two volumes of the Wendy Connors Faded Discs Audio Archive of UFO History series focusing on "The Contactees": "Flying Saucers & Four Guys Named George: Adamski, Van Tassel, Hunt Williamson & King" (Volume 1) and "Saucerology: Tales of Giant Rock" (Volume 2). Two additional tracks are also provided that present a 1957 Long John Nebel broadcast and a 1959 lecture by Orfeo Angelucci. Fourteen of the 25 recordings on the Volume 1 disc feature George Adamski and in the first file recorded by A.G. Dittmarr in 1953, Adamski recounts his first asserted encounter with the Venusian 'Orthon.' I found this track to provide an example of a contrived and incongruous contactee account, including Adamski's description of being injured after moving under the spaceship with his right shoulder: "And as it got there, this power was on - sort of a jet-type power. It wasn't a jet exactly. It was a magnetic force, I realized it but it was pounding towards the earth back and forth. You couldn't hear it but as my arm got caught and that's the only analysis I can make, that it first pulled by arm up against the flange of the ship and then suddenly reversed that polarity and shot it downward..." He eventually declared, "This arm was sort of paralyzed after that for a while and sort of numb. And even now and then today it happens - just suddenly without a warning it flops like a rag. And I have no feeling in it and suddenly it comes back again. It has not been completely cured as it should've been by now. And maybe never will - I don't know. I'm not worried about it at all." Some of Adamski's concluding remarks of this recording include: "So far it's only my word and the other fellows' words and so forth. But I'm not the only one that made personal contacts. I have records on file here of something like several such contacts have been made since I made mine and a number of them before I made mine... the only difference is that I happened to publish my experience while so many of them have not... I'm just one among a - millions in this world. That - you say, 'Why did it happen to you?' But I say it happened to others too so it didn't all happen to me..." Notes about the tracks on the Georges CD mention the association of Adamski and Williamson: "George Hunt Williamson accompanied George Adamski in November, 1952, when Adamski claims he met Orthon." Williamson mentioned his knowledge of the contactee cases of Angelucci, Truman Bethurum and Daniel Fry in Other Tongues - Other Flesh (circa 1953). Biographical information provided on the back cover jacket of the book includes the following: George Hunt Williamson served with the Army Air Corps during World War II as Radio Director for the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. He was a member of the AAFTTC Headquarters Staff. He received the Army Commendation Award from Brig. Gen. C. W. Lawrence for his outstanding record of service to the Air Force in Public Relations. He served as an instructor in Anthropology for the United States Armed Forces Institute, and was later appointed Lieutenant in the U. S. Infantry. When I first listened to these audio recordings in 2005 and 2006, I did not have a favorable response to tracks featuring any of the four Georges: Adamski nor 'channelers' King, Van Tassel and Williamson. I was surprised upon hearing at the beginning of MP3 file 20 the England-born founder of the Aetherius Society, George King, commenting at a private home in London in August, 1960 prior to beginning his lecture, "Thank you very much. I will not say anything about myself because it's a pretty nasty topic anyway..." I found some interesting tracks on the "Saucerology" CD, beginning with the first track presenting an interview of Truman Bethurum when he was a guest on Nancy Allen's book review program. A previous blog article provided some excerpts from the interview. As two of three Daniel Fry tracks are barely audible and the third is a confrontational debunking attempt, Fry's books chronicling his contact experiences (reviewed in previous blog articles) provide a better introduction to his case.. continues COPYRIGHT(c)MARK RUSSELL BELL
