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cafê, dubbed Palomar Gardens. Mount Palomar, midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, had been selected in 1934 as the site of the Hale Telescope because of the darkness of the skies at the summit. Although the dome was constructed in 1936, delays due to World War II postponed completion of the telescope until 1948, when the Palomar Observatory was dedicated. By that time, Adamski had also acquired a fifteen-inch telescope that he housed in his own little observatory, protected from the weather so that he could study the skies for hours at a time.
     
    On October 9, 1946, during a fantastic meteor shower, Adamski caught his first glimpse of something that ultimately allowed him to understand what he was searching for. He and all of his friends saw a large, cigar-shaped craft hanging motionless in the sky, relatively close by. Adamski now became very interested in the UFO phenomenon. He had always believed that there was life similar to ours on all the other planets. He had now seen with his own eyes, validated by the eyes of others, the proof that extraterrestrials were able to reach Earth.
     

    Adamski searching the skies for UFOs
     
    Adamski began attempting to photograph the craft through his telescope. He watched the skies and photographed constantly for several years. By 1952, he had taken five hundred photographs, many of which showed craft discernibly different from aircraft. This spurred him on, and now his search became a mission. In his book
Flying Saucers Have Landed,
written with Desmond Leslie in 1953, Adamski gives this entire story in the chapter titled “The Memorable November Twentieth.” In the book he says, “Since then, winter and summer, day and night, through heat and cold, winds, rains and fog, I have spent every moment possible outdoors watching the skies for space craft and hoping without end that for some reason, some time, one of them would come in close, and even land.”
     
    STRANGE COMPULSIONS
     
    By 1952, Adamski was tuned in to the California-Arizona UFO grapevine. An early type of networking was in place among those who were interested. Reports started coming to him about landings in remote desert areas, and he decided to just play his hunches and drive out to these places to see what he could see. Adamski’s decision to rely on inner guidance indicates that, even at this stage, a form of unconscious telepathic communication may have been established with the extraterrestrials, as was the case with other contactees in that era.
     
    In August, a Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bailey from Winslow, Arizona, stopped in at the cafê to talk to Adamski about saucers. They also told him about another similarly interested couple, Dr. and Mrs. George H. Williamson from Prescott, Arizona. Fifties flying-saucer cognoscenti will immediately recognize that name. George Hunt Williamson became one of the bright lights of the flying-saucer community, going on to eventually write a book that has since become a cult classic,
Other Tongues, Other Flesh.
Like Adamski, the Baileys and the Williamsons were also impelled by strange impulses to drive out to remote places in the desert in the hope of encountering a landed craft. So they all decided to join forces and carry out the search together. It was agreed that the next time Adamski received a telepathic message to take a trip out into the desert, he would call them so that they could all go together.
     
    RENDEZVOUS IN THE DESERT
     
    Not too long after, on November 18, 1952, Adamski got the impulse to go, and he phoned Williamson. He said that he was leaving the next day at midnight for Blythe, California, and asked if they wanted to meet him there at about 8 a.m. the following morning. Williamson called the Baileys, and they all agreed. Accompanied by Alice K. Wells, the owner of Palomar Gardens, and Lucy McGinnis, his secretary, Adamski set out in the middle of the night on November 20. They met up with the Baileys and the Williamsons just west of Blythe and