Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – The Space People: COMMUNICATIONS
After Adamski’s various attempts at communication in English, sign language and telepathy, it was learned that the visitor supposedly came from the planet Venus. Orthon even pronounced this word (and occasionally others) in English, with a slightly high-pitched voice. (At a later meeting, he explained that he understood the language well, but was probing Adamski’s telepathic abilities.) In response to Adamski’s question about the purpose of the extraterrestrials’ visit, Orthon indicated by means of gestures and expressions that they were concerned about radiation going out into space from our nuclear bombs.
Questioned about his craft, Orthon indicated that it had been brought into the Earth’s atmosphere by the large carrier ship seen earlier by all the witnesses. Communication followed at some length about these craft and other matters.
Orthon made Adamski understand that there were people coming to Earth from other planets in our solar system, as well as from planets of other systems. ‘I remembered reports of men being found dead in some saucers that have been found on Earth,’ said Adamski, ‘saucers that had apparently crashed. So I asked if any of their men had ever died coming to Earth. He nodded his head in the affirmative, and made me understand that things had on occasion gone wrong within their ships .
Picking up his Brownie camera, Adamski asked if he could take a photograph of Orthon. ‘I am sure that he understood my desire, since he was so good at reading my mind. Also I am positive that he knew I would do him no harm because he showed no signs of fear when I picked up the Kodak.
Nevertheless, he did object to having his picture taken.’ He added: I have heard many times that men from other worlds are walking the streets of Earth. And if this be true, I could easily understand his desire not to be photographed, because there were a few distinguishing points about his facial features. Normally these would not be noticed. But in a photograph they would be conspicuous and serve as points of identification for his brothers who have come to Earth.
Eventually, however, Adamski was able to obtain a photograph of Orthon, presumably on another occasion. During a conversation with Adamski in 1959, his co-worker Lou Zinsstag asked him about a painting of Orthon which depicted the spaceman as rather effeminate and undistinguished. ‘You’ve got a good hunch there,’ replied Adamski. ‘Orthon did not look like that at all. He had a very manly, highly intellectual face, but as his features were so distinct and characteristic it would have been dangerous for him to have had them published.
He was in Los Angeles several times . . .’ ‘And to my great surprise,’ reported Lou, ‘George drew a little wallet from his pocket, and for a few moments I was allowed to gaze at a photograph of Orthon’s face in profile. It was indeed very different from the painted version.’
Lou told me that Orthon’s most striking feature was his pronounced chin, a feature also reported, for instance, by the Spanish abductee Julio F. in 1978.
Adamski continued communicating with Orthon. One of his many questions dealt with death. I wanted to know if they die, as Earth men die . . . He pointed to his body and nodded in the affirmative — that bodies do die. But pointing to his head, which I assumed to mean his mind, or intelligence, he shook his head in negation; this does not die. And with a motion of his hand, he gave me the impression that this — the intelligence — goes on evolving. Then pointing to himself, he indicated that once he lived here on Earth, then pointing up into space, [that] now he is living out there . . .
Finally, Orthon kept pointing to his feet and talking in a language that was incomprehensible. ‘It sounded like a mixture of Chinese with a tongue that I felt could have sounded like one of the ancient languages spoken here on Earth,’ commented Adamski. ‘I have no way of knowing this as fact. It was only my reaction as I listened, and his voice was indeed musical to listen to.’
From his talk and his pointing to his feet, I felt there must be something very important there for me. And as he stepped to one side from the spot where he had been standing, I noticed strange markings from the print of his shoe left in the earth. He looked intently at me to see that I was understanding what he wanted me to do. And as I indicated that I did, and would comply, he stepped carefully on to another and another spot. Thus he made three sets of deep and distinct footprints. I believe his shoes must have been especially made for this trip and the markings heavily embossed on the soles to leave such deep imprints.