Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: A PIONEER OF SPACE
In 1949, a science-fiction book by ‘Professor George Adamski’ was published privately. Entitled Pioneers of Space: A Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus, it was ghost-written by Lucy McGinnis and printed in a limited edition. In this book are striking similarities to Inside the Space Ships (1956), especially in Adamski’s descriptions of ‘Venetians, Martonians [sic] and Saturnians’, though the majority of the descriptions in the earlier book bear little or no similarity to those appearing in the later one. Yet, for many, Pioneers of Space is a damning indictment of the later book. Interestingly, in the foreword, Adamski pointed out that: ‘While this is at present in the field of fiction, the advance of science is so rapid that it will not be long before all this will become a reality.’
In Pioneers, for instance, is a remarkable resemblance to his 1953 description of the Moon:
We find . . . a belt-like section extending as far as we can see around the Moon that has a natural growth of trees and vegetation [and] we see a small lake.
Likewise, his comparison of extraterrestrial lifespans conforms with the later book: this man looks to us to be around seventy years of age. Later we learn that he is one hundred and ninety . . . On Mars the span of life is from five hundred to one thousand years.
It is in its graphic accounts of Venus and the ‘Venetians’ that Pioneers comes closest to his later descriptions: They tell us they have nine oceans, many lakes and rivers, majestic, towering mountains and very beautiful woodlands . . . [their cars] seem to be gliding right over the surface of the ground . . . Breathing at first was somewhat difficult since the air is so light but we are able to quickly adjust ourselves . .
In appearance they look more like men out of a dream than humans like ourselves . . . their hands are long and slender, rather delicate in structure . . . the women are far greater in beauty and expression . . . We feel as though they are looking right through us and can actually read our minds. We have been told they are experts in the field of mental telepathy.
Though it is obvious that Adamski embellished his later accounts with material probably drawn from Pioneers, there could be a less simplistic, if more incredible, explanation. In company with abductees decades later, Adamski claimed privately to have been contacted by extraterrestrials as a child, and to have received instruction from them in Tibet by way of preparation for his mission in later life. Publicly, Adamski made no such claims, though he hinted at having had ‘mental’ contact prior to the Desert Center encounter. ‘Speaking of visitors from other planets,’ he wrote to a correspondent in early 1952, ‘in the physical I have not contacted any of them, but since you have read Pioneers of Space you can see how I get my information about these people and their homelands.’
In 1958 Adamski is reported to have made an interesting statement to Ray Stanford which has been interpreted as an admission of fraud. ‘Ray, listen,’ he said, ‘I did not ever have to go out into space to know about the spaceships. Hell, I knew about the spaceships and what was in ’em years ago . . . Pioneers of Space will tell you everything, just like Inside the Space Ships. All I did was project my consciousness to the beings out there and I could see them and know what was in their ships.
Does this necessarily mean that Adamski lied about all his ‘actual’ trips into space? I think not. Assuming that is precisely what he said, he does not deny having made such trips; he seemed to be implying rather that it simply was not absolutely necessary for him. Secondly, apart from those similarities already discussed, Inside the Space Ships is a very different book, full of much more richly detailed descriptions. Thirdly, those with whom I have spoken who knew Adamski well over many years told me that he remained adamant about actually having been inside the spaceships.
I asked Lucy McGinnis, Adamski’s secretary for many years (until she ‘defected’ in the early 1960s), how she reconciled the two books. ‘I have often wondered about that,’ she replied thoughtfully. ‘The first book was definitely written as fiction, and it might have been his way of breaking into the subject.
He might have known something more — I don’t know. It never bothered me to the extent that I made an issue of it because, you see, I could have made an issue of it if I hadn’t seen those ships.’
In addition to having witnessed the Desert Center contact, Lucy had another sighting of a craft — similar in configuration to the classic ‘scout’ — which she saw at Palomar Terraces several years later. As she related to me: I was in my room lying down one afternoon. I don’t know what date it was, but for some reason I got up and went out. As I got out the door, I looked up, and here was this great big saucer-like thing. I was amazed. As I looked up I could see through it. It was two stories; you could see the steps where they would go up and down. I don’t remember how many people I saw, but they were moving around. It seemed to me they had kind of ski-suits, fastened around the ankle . . . Then suddenly it started just drifting away.
I also asked Lucy for her opinion as to why Adamski had begun telling such ridiculous stories in the early 1960s. She replied that his oversized ego was to blame, and offered her belief that the original group of extraterrestrials had left him for just that reason. She also felt that he was simply lying about the trips to Saturn and Venus by way of bolstering his ego, which had become seriously deflated when the original group left him.
Although this explanation is convincing, it still falls short of answering all the questions about this complex man and his even more complex claims.
An important clue to the Adamski mystery was provided for me by a friend whom I first met in 1952, and for whose integrity I can vouch. This person, whom I shall call Joelle, claimed that in 1963 she met the same, or a similar group of extraterrestrials that Adamski knew, through a series of fortuitous circumstances.
According to what Joelle was told by the visitors, Adamski was indeed selected and contacted by this certain group of extraterrestrials, but at an early stage he disclosed some secret information with which he had been entrusted, and it therefore became necessary for them to feed him with false information which would discredit him, thereby protecting their own interests. Exactly what this disinformation was, I do not know, but I can say that it began to make its appearance in Inside the Space Ships. Joelle told me that Adamski’s account of the Desert Center contact, as described in Flying Saucers Have Landed, is essentially true.
Jane’s contacts confirmed that Adamski had indeed been on board their craft, but they would not say where they had taken him. They were equally reluctant to reveal their origin, other than saying that they had bases within our solar system, including on Earth. It was not made clear to what extent Adamski was aware of the disinformation that he disseminated. Carol Honey told me that on one occasion Adamski had indeed betrayed such a confidence.
Assuming his earlier contacts were genuine, the pressures on him must have been great. ‘My heart is a graveyard of secrets,’ he once told Lou Zinsstag.
Desmond Leslie, seeking to rehabilitate his friend, invokes an esoteric explanation to account for the Venusians’, ‘Martians’, ‘Saturnians’, et al. The ‘brothers’, he says, are able to ‘materialize’ in our environment but their own planets are on a ‘higher vibratory frequency’ than ours, hence life as we know it has not been discovered in our solar system.
I do not reject the hypothesis: however, apart from the fact that the ‘brothers’ do not necessarily originate in our solar system (as even Adamski stated privately, according to Carol Honey, and which is implied in the information given to Joelle), there is another point that can be overlooked.
Leslie cites Paramahansa Yogananda, the great yogi teacher, and discusses the extraordinary feats attributed to highly advanced avatars and masters said to be living on Earth who can levitate, render themselves invisible, project their images across vast distances, walk through walls, etc.
But this in no way alters the fact that these remarkable people are still flesh-and-blood human beings, albeit highly advanced physically, mentally and spiritually. It is my conviction that many extraterrestrials, too, are capable of these and other fantastic feats: indeed, in this respect I see little difference between highly evolved human beings said to live on this planet and those from any other. Adamski once told Leslie that we could not visit advanced civilizations on other planets ‘in our present bodily condition’. I believe there is much truth in this statement, but not for exclusively esoteric reasons.
When Leslie asked about the solidity of the space people, Adamski, in alluding to his initial contact with Orthon, replied: ‘Those guys were no goddam spooks.
The pilot scratched his hand on the rim when he grabbed my arm to save it from being torn off by the force field and I tell you it bled red blood, just like you or me.’
On other occasions, Adamski would emphasize the point. ‘Why would a spook need a spaceship?’ he liked to ask. Assuming that there are no thriving indigenous civilizations within our solar system, there is no reason why temporary or even permanent bases could not be maintained on some planets and their satellites, even on Earth, by beings from other solar systems. Adamski was the first to state that the aliens had secret bases on our planet, known to a select few in the military and intelligence community. I have uncovered much evidence for this allegation during my investigations.