Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS
The closest I came to meeting George Adamski was in November 1963, during my first tour of the United States with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Because Los Angeles was on the itinerary I was determined to take a bus to his home in Vista. In the event, the bus schedule did not coincide with mine, and I had to abandon the idea. Yet a curious incident occurred en route to Los Angeles which left a deep and lasting impression on me.
On 13 November we left Tucson, Arizona, for the 500-mile ride to Los Angeles, in a convoy of three buses. About halfway there, near the Arizona/California border, we stopped at a roadside restaurant. Sitting at a table with some colleagues, casually surveying the customers waiting in line, my attention was drawn to an extraordinary-looking girl, with blond bobbed hair, delicate pale features and a petite figure. (Later, I was reminded of Adamski’s description of Kalna, with her ‘almost transparent skin’.)
Adamski was the first to proclaim that some people from other planets were actually living and working among us — illegal aliens, as it were—and stated that his contacts often took place in the anonymous surroundings of restaurants and hotel lobbies. Having spoken with a number of other witnesses who had related similar encounters, I decided to make an attempt at telepathic communication with this unknown girl, and transmitted the question: ‘Are you from another planet?’
There was no immediate response, but as she left the queue she made a point of walking past my table, pausing to give me a gracious smile and an actual bow of acknowledgement before proceeding to another part of the restaurant with a ‘dead-pan’ expression on her face.
Although I cannot remember the precise location of the restaurant I do recall that one of the highway signs nearby indicated Desert Center, by coincidence not far from the site of Adamski’s initial encounter. Four years later I had another such experience while in the United States. In February 1967 I was in New York City for a series of concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Carnegie Hall. One afternoon I decided, as an experiment, to attempt some further telepathic communication in the lobby of the Park-Sheraton Hotel, now the Omni Park Central, at 56th Street on Seventh Avenue, where we were staying. I had just returned from my first meeting with Madeleine Rodeffer in Washington, DC. Madeleine had told me that she had encounters with the ‘space people’, and that these most often took place in public places. I resolved to try and settle the matter once and for all. Settling back on a sofa in the lobby I transmitted a telepathic request, which went something like this: ‘If any of you people from elsewhere are in the New York vicinity, please come and sit down right next to me and prove it.’
New York is, of course, a busy city, and a hotel lobby seems the most incongruous of venues to conduct such an experiment. Many people (a few of them strange, if terrestrial) came and went during the ensuing half-hour or so. Suddenly a man entered the lobby whose demeanour put me on alert. Dressed in a charcoal-grey suit with a white shirt and dark tie, he could have passed for a businessman from Madison Avenue. He was five feet ten inches tall, with curly fair hair, a tanned complexion, and perfectly proportioned features, and he appeared to me to be about 35 years of age. He came and sat down beside me.
From an attaché case he took out a copy of the New York Times. Unfolding this he began to turn the pages over in a rather deliberate and superficial manner.
After he had refolded the paper I felt the time had come to ask him telepathically if he really was from another planet, and if so, would he please identify himself by placing his right index finger on the right side of his nose.
The response was immediate and dramatic, for no sooner had I transmitted the thought than he did precisely that! Sitting dumbfounded, I wondered what on earth the next move would be. I attempted more telepathy, but nothing else happened. Perhaps I should have engaged him in conversation but, being British (clearly a drawback to interplanetary communications), I had reservations about such an approach.
Also, I felt that if my expectations were well founded, it should be he and not I who would initiate any such conversation. We both sat silently for a few minutes. Then he stood up and walked over to some display windows behind and to my right, about 15 feet away. Observing him surreptitiously, I noticed that he appeared to be taking little interest in the merchandise displayed there, and after a few more minutes he gave me a long, penetrating look, then turned and walked out into Seventh Avenue. I never saw him again.
Of course, it can logically be argued that this experience, like the one in 1963, was coincidental. Telepathy often is commonplace, as people who pick up the unspoken thoughts of a companion often know. For instance, Dr Dennis Ross, a physicist at Iowa State University, told me that he and his brother had communicated telepathically with one another until the age of 12. Perhaps, then, this man in New York was merely a receptive mortal who picked up my thoughts and responded accordingly. I am the first to accept the plausibility of this hypothesis, yet there was something oddly distinctive about him which I cannot erase.
As far as I am concerned the experiment was a success. It is not the sort of experiment that would meet with the approval of radio astronomers. I believe that it was intended as personal proof and encouragement for me, and, as such, was of no value to others. In any event, it had a cathartic effect on me.
In my estimation, the evidence, taken as a whole, suggests that, although some of George Adamski’s claims were exaggerated, preposterous, or the result of disinformation by his contacts, many are sensible and verifiable. I take the view that his reported encounters with spacecraft and their operators were fundamentally accurately reported as to basic data, but were embellished both by Adamski and by friends and supporters to the extent that they later assumed mythical qualities. We need to re-evaluate not only his claims, but those of others claiming contact with quasi-human beings from other worlds, lest, in throwing out the proverbial baby with the bath-water, potentially important data may be lost to analysis. Apart from my own prejudices, I feel it is important to re-emphasize that a great deal of what Adamski spoke and wrote about the ‘space people‘ and their technologies is now, on the verge of the twenty-first century, more plausible and more scientifically relevant than it was some 40 years ago.