Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: POPE JOHN XXIII
On 31 May 1963, Adamski claimed to have had a private meeting at the Vatican with the ill Pope John XXIII, to deliver an important package which he said had been given to him by one of the space people in Copenhagen. The claim has been roundly denounced, of course, yet circumstantial evidence suggests that such a meeting did take place.
Expected to be at a certain entrance at 11.00, Adamski was accompanied as far as the steps of St Peter’s by his coworkers May Morlet from Belgium and Louise (Lou) Zinsstag from Switzerland. Lou, whom I knew as a close and trusted friend for nearly 20 years, described the occasion as follows: May and I got him there in good time. We walked slowly up the broad central stairway, looking around us. Within a few minutes, George cried out: ‘There he is — I can see the man! Please wait for me here in about an hour’s time.’ He descended the steps swiftly, turning to the left.
I had looked to the right because I expected him to be admitted through the well-known gate where the Swiss Guards were posted. Yet, without any hesitation, he walked to the left of the Dome where I now noticed a high wooden entrance-gate behind the open doorway, with a small built-in door. This door was partly opened and a man was standing inside it, gesturing discreetly to George. He wore a black suit but not a priest’s robe. On his chest I noticed some kind of coloured material in white, green and red . . .
I made a mental note that Adamski’s being received at a gate other than the usual one where the Swiss Guards checked on every visitor meant that he would not be registered on the daily visitors’ list, and that his visit would probably not be recorded officially by the Vatican. This, I realized, was very interesting in itself but would not be helpful if we had to look for proof.
May and I returned an hour later. There was George already, grinning like a monkey. I never saw his face as happy as that; his eyes shining like beautiful topazes, something I shall never forget. ‘We have done it,’ he said. ‘I was received by the Pope. He gave me his blessing and I gave him the message.’
When later in the day we lunched with George he told us that the Pope was not lying in the room above St Peter’s Square, as the people had been told, but that his bedroom faced the most beautiful part of the Vatican garden. And he added confidentially: ‘If you ask me, the Pope is hardly a dying man. I have seen several people dying of cancer but the Pope’s skin has still got a fine texture like a child’s. They haven’t yet tried to operate on him but I’m sure that’s what they will do soon. He is not too old for that.’ George added that the Pope even had rosy cheeks, and had said that he did not feel so bad.
George had been helped on with a kind of cassock over his suit before he entered the bedroom. The Pope gave him a nice smile and said: ‘I have been expecting you.’ When George handed him the sealed message from Copenhagen, he said — also in English: ‘That is what I have been waiting for.’
He then spoke to his visitor in a very low and soft voice for a few minutes. Adamski had to bend his head down close to the Pope’s, whose last words were: ‘My son, don’t worry, we will make it.’ After receiving the papal blessing, Adamski was ushered out. During lunch, Adamski took out of his breast pocket a small plastic wallet, lilac in colour. ‘It bore the most singular inscription I have ever seen, protected by a transparent cover,’ said Lou. ‘The written characters were of a very unusual kind; certainly neither Roman nor Gothic, nor were they Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic or Hebrew. But beneath the text was the date of the interview — 31 May 1963 — written in Roman letters. We sat spellbound when George opened the little wallet.’
Embedded in white cotton was a most beautiful golden coin with the Pope’s head in profile on it. As I discovered later, it was a new ecumenical coin, ready for sale but not yet on the market, the impending Ecumenical Council having been postponed due to the Pope’s illness. Weighing the coin in my hand I felt sure it was of at least 18-if not 22-carat gold (my father was a goldsmith). Two weeks later the coin was on sale in European banks and I went to have a look at it. Its price was between 300 and 400 Swiss francs. At the time of our visit to Rome, Adamski could not have bought it even if he had had the money, which he certainly did not, and, as in Basle, he had never left our hotel without us and he had never entered a shop.
Two days later the Pope died. Not surprisingly, there has been no official confirmation of Adamski’s meeting. Following an ambiguous response from the Vatican to Ronald Caswell, one of Adamski’s British coworkers, stating that they were unable to provide the required information (see Fig. 9), I followed up with another request. ‘With regard to the alleged private audience granted by Pope John XXIII on 31 May 1963,’ I was informed by an officer of the papal court, ‘I would assure you that no such private audience ever took place.’ I received no response to my enquiry as to how Adamski managed to obtain the coin.
Despite Lou Zinsstag’s misgivings about a number of Adamski’s later claims, leading to her resignation as one of his coworkers, she remained convinced for the rest of her life that Adamski had been granted a papal audience. ‘I knew for certain that he was expected and received by Pope John XXIII,’ she wrote, ‘which also made me inclined to believe him when he told us of other secret meetings in other important buildings, such as the White House.’
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
According to Madeleine Rodeffer, with whom he stayed for the last few months of his life in 1965, Adamski had at least one clandestine meeting with President John Kennedy. She related to me how in May 1963 Kennedy allegedly visited Adamski late one night at the Willard Hotel, close to the White House.
There is no substantiation for this claim, though Madeleine told me that she saw Adamski’s US Government ordnance card which gave him access to certain restricted areas, and this might conceivably lend support to his claim of having once visited there via a side door. Lou Zinsstag was also given the story: He told me that he had been entrusted with a written invitation for President Kennedy to visit one of the space people’s huge motherships at a secret airbase in Desert Hot Springs, California, for a few days. In order to keep this visit absolutely secret, Adamski was to take the invitation direct to the White House through a side door . . . where a man he knew was ready to let him in.
Adamski later learned that Kennedy had spent several hours at the airbase after having cancelled an important trip to New York, and that he had had a long talk with the ship’s crew, but that he had not been invited for a flight.