to obtain those stories. The Project Serpo story, covered in chapter 7, “Close Encounters of the Real Kind,” is so fantastic that a common reaction is to believe it to be fiction. But in the time that has elapsed since the material first appeared as an article in
Atlantis Rising,
more and more supporting revelations have emerged, until it has now become an indelible chapter in the history of alien contact. The fact that alien interaction with government agencies had reached the point of an exchange program in 1965 is still astounding, even now. This became a landmark event in the secret history.
Then there is Roswell. This was an extremely important incident, and consequently, I have taken two chapters to cover the story. Chapter 4, “The Legacy of Jesse Marcel,” gives convincing credence to the event from the person most knowledgeable about it and from his son. Chapter 5, “Roswell and America’s Destiny,” attributes fateful importance to the crash as a destined, watershed event in our history. The debate about whether the crop circles in England were made by aliens was still raging when the Alien Face was discovered in a wheat field on August 15, 2002. As shown in chapter 8, “Circles of Mystery,” the “Doug and Dave” story had decimated the ranks of believers, even though it was rather absurd to think that those two men with no creative background could possibly have made all those wonderful, mystical glyphs by stamping on a board. But the story gave just enough supporting credibility to the nonbelievers to allow the disbelief to spread. Then the Alien Face seemed to put an end to that heresy. For chapter 8, I sought the confirmation of the pioneer authority on the subject, and I discovered from his opinion that the whole story was caught up in international intrigue and politics and that, really, nobody was an expert. In the end, the Alien Face convinced many of the skeptics that the crop circles were important messages from our stellar friends.
Of course, there are many other stories. But first it is necessary to remove all doubt about the reality of alien contact. Hopefully, this section of the book accomplishes that.
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George Adamski
Emissary from Earth
As the current era of UFO abductions by little grey men, suspected underground bases, cattle mutilations, and human-alien hybrids continues to leave us apprehensive and confused, it is comforting to return to those golden days of extraterrestrial contact, when it all seemed so exciting and promising—the 1950s. During that time, no contact case was more fabulous and intriguing than that of George Adamski.
PALOMAR GARDENS
From his very earliest years, Adamski was never really of this world. Therefore, it shouldn’t have surprised anyone that he, above all men, should have become so enamored of the heavens. Even though he was already in his forties when one of his students presented him with a six-inch reflecting Newtonian telescope as a gift, it was a fateful moment, because he had been waiting for that gift all of his life, without even being aware of it. He had been a student and teacher of metaphysics for many years, so up to that point he believed that all the answers were to be found within, as philosophers do. But the telescope changed all that. Adamski began to realize that deep down he suspected that the answers to all of life’s riddles could somehow be found in the stars, but he had no idea how this could be so. He began to scan the night skies with an inexplicable, feverish passion, not understanding what was driving him, much in the same way as the character in
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
In 1944, at the age of fifty-three, Adamski settled in a sort of commune on the southern slope of Mount Palomar, six miles from the summit and eleven miles from the site of the two-hundred-inch Hale Telescope, the world’s largest. There Adamski and a small group of his students opened a small