Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – The Space People: THE SEQUEL
After the craft had disappeared, Adamski returned to the footprints. ‘As I was walking back to them,’ he reported, ‘I noticed that both his footprints and mine were visible as we had walked toward the hovering ship. But his were deeper in every instance than mine.’ Adamski waved his hat to the others in a prearranged signal, and they came to meet him at a nearby roadside, leaving the cars there because of the rough terrain leading to the contact site. The entire encounter had lasted for one hour. And all the while, military aircraft circled overhead — also for some time afterwards.
George Hunt Williamson set about making plaster casts of the footprints. There was much excitement, and everyone wanted to ask questions at once.
Adamski was beside himself — literally. ‘I felt as though I was only moving bodily here on Earth,’ he said, ‘and my answers to the questions were given in a daze.’
Lucy McGinnis’s affidavit, identical to those of the others, reads as follows: I, the undersigned, do solemnly state that I have read the account herein of the personal contact between George Adamski and a man from another world, brought here in his Flying Saucer — ‘Scout’ ship. And that I was party to, and witness to the event as herein recounted.
I asked Lucy how much she had been able to see. ‘You couldn’t see very much detail that far away,’ she explained, ‘they were far away enough to look like fenceposts! But they stood talking to each other, and we saw them turn and go back up to the ship. Now, I didn’t see [Orthon] get into the ship.’
And when it left, it was just like a bubble or kind of like a bright light that lifted up. Then George went out on to the highway and he motioned for us to come out. He told us that he had got too close and his arm had got caught in the radiation from the craft. And he suffered from that for quite a while . . .You could see where the two of them had walked on the ground. There’s no question about that at all.
Objections have been voiced concerning the fact that Adamski seemed rather too well prepared for the Desert Center contact (e.g., the plaster of Paris). A clue has been provided by Sergeant Jerrold Baker, a former Air Force instructor who had been staying at Palomar Gardens at that time. Several days before the party left for the desert, Baker claims he inadvertently heard a tape recording being replayed of a ‘psychic communication’ received through Adamski. ‘From this brief behind-the-scenes listening,’ he said, ‘I was able to determine that the desert contact was not a mere stab in the dark or a picnic in the desert, but a planned operation.’
Furthermore, Baker refuted Adamski’s claim to have spent untold hours watching the skies and waiting for a chance to photograph the space ships. ‘This is not true,’ he continued. ‘I know that he knows exactly when a ship is coming, and is there at the precise instant to snap the picture.’
Adamski was convinced that the symbols on the footprints (see plates) held important clues for mankind. He proffered that ancient civilizations once lived on Earth, whose development and understanding of the universe were far superior to those of contemporary mankind. The symbols, he said, were probably of a universal nature and might be understood perhaps as ‘guideposts in space, presently being used by men of other worlds in interplanetary travel.
And thus a helpful hand is extended to Earthmen as they turn their thoughts and efforts outwardly toward space travelling.’ Similar symbols were reproduced and discussed by Professor Marcel Hornet in his book Sons of the Sun, first published in 1958. Hornet held that the symbols dated back at least 10,000 and probably 20,000 years.