Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – The Space People: BACKGROUND
George Adamski was born in Poland (of Polish and Egyptian parents) in 1891, and when he was two his parents emigrated to Dunkirk, New York State. In 1913 he joined the 13th US Cavalry Regiment, stationed at Columbus, New Mexico.
According to his FBI file, he worked in 1916 as a caretaker and painter at the Yellowstone National Park, then in 1918 entered the National Guard and was stationed at Portland, Oregon. Following discharge from the Army, his various jobs included working at a flour mill and in the concrete business. In 1921 he began lecturing on philosophy in Califomia.
Adamski founded the monastery of the ‘Royal Order of Tibet’ at Laguna Beach in 1934, where he taught ‘Universal Laws’ and ‘Universal Progressive Christianity’. (Though some of Adamski’s philosophy is eclectic, much seems to be original.) A number of his talks were broadcast on radio stations in Los Angeles and Long Beach. At this time, Adamski’s students conferred on him the title of ‘Professor’. In 1940 he moved with his wife and some devotees to Palomar Gardens, on the southern slopes of Mount Palomar, California One of his students gave him a telescope — a six-inch Tinsley reflector through which he took many remarkable photographs of spacecraft.
Adamski also possessed a 15-inch reflector telescope, which was housed under a dome at Palomar Gardens. This gave rise to considerable confusion at times, since the famous Palomar Observatory at Mount Palomar — housing the 200-inch Hale telescope — was situated 11 miles from Adamski’s home. It is said by some detractors that, to give credence to his claims, ‘Professor’ Adamski used to boast that he was employed by the Observatory.
It is true that during a meeting with researchers Jim and Coral Lorenzen in the spring of 1951, he claimed full access to the Observatory’s telescopes. ‘A letter I wrote to the Director of the Palomar Observatory elicited an answer which was most revealing,’ wrote Coral Lorenzen. ‘Adamski’s claims of free access to the Palomar telescopes and his inferred relationship with the Observatory personnel had caused them considerable embarrassment and the added burden of answering correspondence to deny his claims.’
Adamski was the subject of a number of investigations by the FBI, partly as a consequence of allegedly unpatriotic and pro-Communist statements that were reported by various people and also because Adamski himself instigated meetings with the FBI to keep them informed about his experiences; on one occasion, ironically, to inform on a couple of his associates whom he considered might be unpatriotic! Regarding Adamski’s alleged claims of having been employed at the Observatory, one FBI document is damning. It states in part:
[name deleted] at the Palomar Observatory, advised that he had been acquainted with Adamski since 1943, at which time Adamski had called himself ‘the Reverend Adamski’ and had held Easter services in the valley . . . [name deleted] further advised that Adamski claimed to have worked at the Observatory at Mount Palomar, but stated that Adamski had never been employed at the Observatory.
In his first book, published in 1953, Adamski (presumably aware of the official denial) did state: ‘To correct a widespread error let me say here, I am not and have never been associated with the staff of the Observatory. I am friendly with some of the staff members, but I do not work at the Observatory. ‘
Adamski has been referred to by his numerous detractors as a mere ‘hamburger seller’. This is true, to the extent that he did indeed help serve at the Palomar Gardens Café, which was owned by one of his devotees, Alice Wells, though an FBI file mistakenly names him as owner and operator of the cafe.