1960-1965: From ridicule to lasting legacy
View of Vista, California, USA. (Image: Google Street View) Between 1961-1963 George Adamski is said to have made several inexplicable and controversial claims and taken actions that alienated a growing number of his stalwart associates. To date, no satisfactory explanation has been found for his apparent change in attitude towards some of his former positions […]
1940-1960: From obscurity to world fame
View of Palomar Mountain, California, USA. (Image: © W.P. Armstrong, 2003) March 1940: Adamski moves to a property along Star Route 76 🔗 in Valley Center, CA, about nine miles from where the Palomar Observatory 🔗 is under construction. His aim is to establish a spiritual retreat center, Kashmir-La. According to a report about his […]
HIS TEACHING
The Carina Nebula’s ‘Mystic Mountain’. Image: NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI), 4 December 2019. THE MAGNIFICENT PERCEPTION The most important aspect of George Adamski’s work is his teaching but, as a result of the misinformation and ridicule with which his work has been denounced, it is also the most […]
NEW DISPENSATION
HUMANITY IS ONE George Adamski always kept a safe distance from ‘new age’ mystics and fantasists who proclaimed that with the flying saucers a new age of eternal peace would descend on Earth. When Adamski asked his Venusian contact about the Golden or Aquarian Age, Orthon seems to indicate these are only names: “…we would […]
HIS CRITICS
“…it is not what we become through personal recognition, or other rewards of one kind or another that really counts, but what we do that others might be free of confusion and misunderstanding. Only in this manner can we ever hope for the good of these interplanetary visitations to come to all the people of […]
HIS ASSOCIATES
George Adamski with friends and co-workers at Palomar Gardens Cafe, early 1950s.(1) Unknown; (2) Charlotte Blodget; (3) George Adamski; (4) Alice K. Wells?; (5) Martha Ulrich?; (6) Lucy McGinnis Without the support of his loyal co-workers and volunteers, George Adamski’s mission would have been even harder to accomplish. Featured here are a number of his […]
ALBERTO PEREGO
George Adamski with Alberto Perego (right) in Rome, 16 June 1959. (Image: Archivio Luce) One of the Italian contacts and co-workers within the Get Acquainted Program 🔗 was Dr Alberto Perego (1903-1981). An Italian diplomat who served as Consul to many countries, he was instrumental in documenting UFO sightings in Italy and around the world […]
WORLD TRANSFORMATION
(Image: © Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images) HUMANITY FIRST If life is one and thoroughly interconnected 🔗, then humanity is one and interconnected as well. And as shown in Priorities for a Planet in Transition (2015), George Adamski’s description of life on other planets is anything but wide-eyed mystical idealism, but a practical example of a saner […]
WORLD LECTURE TOUR 1959
Tentative schedule of Adamski’s world lecture tour as sent out to GAP contacts. Nearing the age of 68, George Adamski accepts invitations from all corners of the world to speak about his experiences and contacts, and sets off for his world lecture tour in January 1959. According to Lucy McGinnis in a report to co-workers […]
NUCLEAR CONTAINMENT
Launch silo with Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) At a time when the threat of nuclear war was palpable, and governments depended on the public’s consent for the huge expenditure on the nuclear arms race between the Western powers and the Soviet block, the 1950s contactees were asked by the space visitors […]