THREE MYSTERIOUS STRANGERS
During an air-raid warning a few days before the heavy bombardment of a central German city in January 1945, citizens gathered in an air-raid shelter were visited by three young men who asked to inspect the shelter. The visitors wore peculiar dark, tight-fitting, high-necked one-piece suits, and despite an outside temperature of eight degrees below zero, they wore neither headgear nor scarves.
Their footwear reminded one witness of gym shoes, which hardly suited the snowy conditions. All present were struck by the fact that the shoes made no noise on the ground. A further striking factor was that the men did not speak to one another, and only one of them spoke at all, with an odd accent. All three looked similar, with ‘beautiful, symmetric features’ and dark hair.
The mysterious strangers looked around the shelter briefly. Their ‘spokesman’ remarked merely that, in the event of another air-raid warning, everyone should be inside the shelter. They then left the building. Investigations later revealed that these three men had been seen only by those present in the shelter. In a nearby clearing, about 135 feet square, footprints were found in the snow, but no trails of cars or other vehicles led to the spot. Furthermore, officials stated that no inspectors had been sent to the air-raid shelter on the night in question.
Suspicions arose that the three men might have been English spies, but would spies have made themselves so conspicuous? For fear of ridicule, the person who provided this story remains anonymous.
Years later, when reading Flying Saucers Have Landed, this person noticed that in a drawing of Adamski’s ‘Venusian’, the visitor’s footwear looked exactly like that of the three strangers in the shelter. Interestingly, during heavy bombardment a few days afterwards, the witness’s apartment block was completely destroyed, but all its occupants, heeding the strangers’ warning, were inside the air-raid shelter.
Alternative interpretations might explain this event in prosaic terms, of course; yet there are parallels here with those reports of encounters with ‘angelic’ human beings dating back for thousands of years; parallels which become even more apparent when we examine encounters reported, increasingly, in the twentieth century.