Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – The Space People: THE SPACEMAN
A short while later, Adamski noticed a man standing at the entrance to a ravine between two hills, about a quarter of a mile away. ‘He was motioning to me to come to him,’ he said, ‘and I wondered who he was and where he had come from. I was sure he had not been there before.’
As I approached him a strange feeling came over me and I became cautious.
At the same time I looked round to reassure myself that we were both in full sight of my companions. Outwardly there was no reason for this feeling, for the man looked like any other man, and I could see he was somewhat smaller than I and considerably younger. There were only two outstanding differences that I noticed as I neared him:
- His trousers were not like mine. They were in style much like ski-trousers and with a passing thought I wondered why he wore such out here on the desert.
- His hair was long, reaching to his shoulders . . . But this was not too strange for I have seen a number of men who wore their hair almost that long.
Suddenly, the feeling of caution left Adamski as the truth began to dawn on him. ‘By this time we were quite close,’ he continued. ‘He took four steps toward me, bringing us within arm’s length of each other. Now, for the first time, I fully realized that I was in the presence of a man from space — a human being from another world! I had not seen his ship as I was walking toward him, nor did I look around for it now . . . I was so stunned by this sudden realization that I was speechless.’
The beauty of his form surpassed anything I had ever seen. And the pleasantness of his face freed me of all thought of my personal self. I felt like a little child in the presence of one with great wisdom and much love . . . He extended his hand in a gesture toward shaking hands. I responded in our customary manner. But he rejected this with a smile and a slight shake of his head. Instead of grasping hands as we on Earth do, he placed the palm of his against the palm of my hand, just touching it but not too firmly.
A full description of the spaceman appears in Chapter 1, but a repetition here of salient details will not go amiss. Orthon was about five feet six inches in height, appearing to be about 28 years old, with an extremely high forehead, grey-green eyes slightly aslant at the corners, slightly high cheek bones, with a rather tanned complexion and no signs of any facial stubble. He wore a chocolate-brown seamless one-piece garment of a very fine woven material which had a sheen to it, with no signs of fasteners.
Orthon’s shoes were described by Adamski as high, ‘like a man’s Oxford’, fitting closely around the foot, with the opening on the outer side about halfway back on the heel, between the arch and the back of the heel. They seemed to be fastened with two narrow straps, without buckles or fasteners. The heels were slightly lower than normal, and the toe of the shoe was blunt.
It was the soles of the shoes which were of great significance, for these left hieroglyph-type impressions in the desert sand, plaster casts of which were later made.