Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: DECEPTION
Author John Keel is convinced that all contactees were lied to by the ‘ufonauts’, this being ‘part of the bewildering smoke screen which they have established to cover up their real origin, purpose, and motivation’.
Before full blame is put on alien deception, consideration must be given to the fact that Adamski himself sometimes deceived. In October 1962, for example, a silly letter was sent to the coworkers, purportedly written by one of his space contacts, in English but with transparently fake ‘alien’ symbols added, stating: ‘You are doing good work.
George Adamski is the only one on Earth that we support.’ The letter was written by Adamski himself, sent from a post office box number rented for him by a friend, Martha Ulrich. This was the final straw for many of Adamski’s supporters. ‘Adamski himself is pulling down his original image,’ wrote Roy Russell, an Australian coworker.
It is also relevant that Adamski’s 1964 Science of Life Study Course, which he claimed contained information and philosophy revealed to him by the ‘space brothers’, was, in fact, a rewrite of his first book, Wisdom of the Masters of the Far East, published in 1936 by the ‘Royal Order of Tibet’‘.
Former contactee Ray Stanford claims that in 1958, as a devoted 15year-old follower of Adamski, he was visiting Palomar Terraces with his brother Rex one morning when Adamski started reminiscing: . . . during the Prohibition I had the [Royal] Order of Tibet. It was a front.
Listen, I was able to make the wine. You know, we’re supposed to have the religious ceremonies; we make the wine for them, and the authorities can’t interfere with our religion. Hell, I made enough wine for half of Southern California. In fact, boys, I was the biggest bootlegger around . . . If it hadn’t been for that man Roosevelt, I wouldn’t have [had] to get into all this saucer crap.
While I am inclined to believe that Adamski may have established the monastery of the Royal Order of Tibet to allow him to make wine in large quantities, I do not believe it was Prohibition that led him ‘to get into all this saucer crap’. If he did say as much, I would attribute the comment to his sometimes earthy sense of humour. Even some of Adamski’s most vociferous critics concede that he was a man totally dedicated to his mis- sion and his philosophy. Stanford himself found Adamski to be a likeable man.
‘I also saw a gentle, benign, artistic side to him,’ he said. ‘He showed us many paintings he had done that were quite good.’ Stanford furthermore believes that there is much in favour of Adamski’s original contact claim.
Although negative evidence from Carol Honey is often cited by Adamski’s detractors as conclusive proof of Adamski’s charlatanism, the positive evidence is invariably overlooked. In 1979, Honey wrote: In Adamski’s own words he did not ‘go off the beam’ until many years after his original contacts. Because I am interested only in the truth I told Adamski many times that I would support only that which had been proven to be true . . . Adamski turned over to me many manuscripts, most of his library and nearly all of his original files. For several years every word Adamski published came through my typewriter. His unpublished manuscripts remain unpublished because in my opinion they were ‘off the beam’ and not compatible with what I knew to be the truth . . .
On various occasions, Adamski produced photographs, artifacts, recordings, laboratory reports, etc., which I examined closely. None was ever revealed to the public or press, so far as I am aware; yet all were more convincing than those things he did release. He claimed he was told not to ‘reveal them until the proper time’. If he was fraudulent in all his claims, why didn’t he reveal this stronger material? What happened to these items when he died?
George Adamski met men from other planets [and] his photographs were genuine . . . later, after his contacts had ended, he misled the public rather than admit that the initial phases of the ‘program’ were over.