Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – Claims, Contradictions and Corroborations
‘I was amazed to see that the background of space is totally dark,’ reported George Adamski, as he gazed in wonderment through one of the giant space carrier’s portholes. ‘Yet there were manifestations taking place all around us, as though billions upon billions of fireflies were flickering everywhere, moving in all directions, as fireflies do. However, these were of many colours, a gigantic celestial fireworks display that was beautiful to the point of being awesome.’
On 20 February 1962, nine years after Adamski’s first alleged flight in space, astronaut John Glenn, orbiting the Earth in the Mercury VI space capsule, described a similar scene: At the first light of sunrise — the first sunrise I came to — I was still faced back towards the direction in which I had come from with normal orbit attitude and just as the first rays of sun came up on to the capsule I had glanced back down inside to check some instruments and do something and when I glanced back my reaction was that I was looking out into a complete star field — that the capsule had probably gone up while I wasn’t looking out the window and that I was looking into nothing but a new star field. But this wasn’t the case, because a lot of the little things that I thought were stars were actually a bright yellowish green about the size and intensity as looking at a firefly on a real dark night . . . there were literally thousands of them.
Corroboration was provided by Soviet cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov and Boris Yegorov in Voskhod 1 on 12 October 1964: The luminous particles were visible only against a black sky with the sun shining from the side . . . Their movement is strange. Sometimes we saw two particles moving towards each other. The general feeling was that these tiny particles came from our ship; apparently, these are simply dust particles that are found everywhere, even in the cosmos.
There remain dissenting opinions regarding the nature of the ‘firefly effect’. Lieutenant General Thomas Stafford, US Air Force (Retired), who flew two Gemini missions in 1965/6 and was Commander of Apollo X, which orbited the Moon in May 1969, told me in 1996 that he believes the effect is caused by sunlight shining on sublimated particles ejected from the thrusters used for positioning the spacecraft, which (on Gemini) were fuelled by hydrogen- peroxide gas.
He also pointed out that water and urine dumped from our manned spacecraft can give rise to similar effects. This is true, though micrometeoroids (‘space dust’) remains the better explanation in other cases.