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Flying Saucers Have Landed
Adamski claimed he met with one Nordic alien, surnamed "Orthon", in 1952 at Desert Center. While friends watched from a distance, Adamski started a conversation of gestures & telepathy. Adamski wrote his first account in "Flying Saucers Have Landed" (1953) with his friend Desmond Leslie. while Leslie was more precise, Adamski was vague, excited but quite childish in telling the story. The dialog is quite ridiculous. Later, two more Nordics, "Firkon" & "Ramu" met & invited Adamski inside their ships, parked outside of Los Angeles. Together they discussed with him topics like "universal law" & various problems of our planet. They showed him their engines & space ships. Adamski decided to spread such accounts thru his book "Inside the Space Ships" in 1955 & thru world conferences.
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First published January 1, 1953
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George Adamski
52 books22 followersPolish-American ufologist and science-fiction writer.
Adamski was one of the first ufologist to write about the Nordic alien type, a large blond type of alien.
Also Adamski was one of the first people to claim, to have been abducted by aliens and to have flown in spaceships.
Adamski was one of the first ufologist to write about the Nordic alien type, a large blond type of alien.
Also Adamski was one of the first people to claim, to have been abducted by aliens and to have flown in spaceships.
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May 6, 2008
In elementary school I was fascinated with astronomy, the space program, flying saucer stories and science fiction. Not having much to read on these subjects at home, I went frequently to the Park Ridge Public Library a few blocks away to examine what they had. The children's section downstairs was poor, and I, being a pretentious fellow even then, soon migrated upstairs. They wouldn't let kids check out books from upstairs, but they didn't stop us from browsing the open stacks. Being relatively new to town, I hadn't any real friends, so I'd spend weekends there reading.
Happily, the library had a shelf or two of books about unidentified flying objects and I went through all of them, picking out the more interesting ones to read. These included Keyhoe, Scully, Edwards, Jung and, yes, George Adamski.
Adamski was certainly the most outrageous. Back then, in the early sixties, visual and radar sightings were common, but contact accounts were rare and abductions virtually unheard of. Adamski, however, claimed multiple contacts, indeed, friendships with aliens from our planetary neighbors. Furthermore, his books had clear, close-up photographs of the saucers themselves--later purportedly exposed as inverted egg hatchers.
Flying Saucers Have Landed was probably the first time I had ever been exposed to really outrageous lies and or delusions published, in hardcover, by adults. After the fascination faded, it provoked a lot of cognitive dissonance. His subsequent books, wherein his trips to other worlds with beautiful extraterrestrial ladies are described, were even worse--so bad, in fact, that Adamski contributed to me getting eventually disinterested in UFOs.
Happily, the library had a shelf or two of books about unidentified flying objects and I went through all of them, picking out the more interesting ones to read. These included Keyhoe, Scully, Edwards, Jung and, yes, George Adamski.
Adamski was certainly the most outrageous. Back then, in the early sixties, visual and radar sightings were common, but contact accounts were rare and abductions virtually unheard of. Adamski, however, claimed multiple contacts, indeed, friendships with aliens from our planetary neighbors. Furthermore, his books had clear, close-up photographs of the saucers themselves--later purportedly exposed as inverted egg hatchers.
Flying Saucers Have Landed was probably the first time I had ever been exposed to really outrageous lies and or delusions published, in hardcover, by adults. After the fascination faded, it provoked a lot of cognitive dissonance. His subsequent books, wherein his trips to other worlds with beautiful extraterrestrial ladies are described, were even worse--so bad, in fact, that Adamski contributed to me getting eventually disinterested in UFOs.
May 8, 2025
This is a book from 1953 about flying saucers. How do they fly? Where do they come from? What do they want from us? These questions are answered via a curious range of sources including ancient and mythological Indian and Celtic texts, theosophical/occult writing (ectoplasm gets a mention!), and stuff from other ufologist guys of the era. Desmond Leslie's dramatic style makes for a fun read, but it's not hugely convincing. He makes a lot of bold claims, like perhaps the right level of sound vibration could cause the levitation of humans and flying saucers and maybe also this helped construct the pyramids! And as I am not a scientist, who am I to question this?
Adamski's tale of meeting a beautiful androgynous alien man with soft skin and long flowing blond hair wearing a brown ski suit is also very fun. Not convincing at all but certainly compelling. The alien is concerned about the atom bomb and, despite not speaking English, manages to confirm the existence of God.
It's interesting as a historical document from this era following WWII and at the early stages of the space race but before the moon landing. And you get to see the roots of some conspiracy theories which live on today. It also made me think a lot about how it would feel in pre-industrial times to see strange things in the sky.
Adamski's tale of meeting a beautiful androgynous alien man with soft skin and long flowing blond hair wearing a brown ski suit is also very fun. Not convincing at all but certainly compelling. The alien is concerned about the atom bomb and, despite not speaking English, manages to confirm the existence of God.
It's interesting as a historical document from this era following WWII and at the early stages of the space race but before the moon landing. And you get to see the roots of some conspiracy theories which live on today. It also made me think a lot about how it would feel in pre-industrial times to see strange things in the sky.
March 28, 2017
My current read is FLYING Saucers Have Landed.
I have been interested in this subject for many years…who hasn’t at one time?
Desmond Leslie is the main author of this two author book. George Adamski is the amateur astronomer and photographer who captured some of the very first images on film of saucers in the early ‘50s. He supplies the final chapter with personal notes about his life and witnessings.
I’m on my 2nd read through about half way.
D. L. takes the subject of UFOs and begins AT THE BEGINNING: 18,000,000
Years ago!! Yup, that is right. He proceeds to come forward including the ancient Greek and Roman sightings up through the Dark Ages, The Renaissance and hundreds of the thousands of documented visual encounters of the 20th century. Book published in 1953, one of the original ones.
Desmond L. slaps the technical scientists, who because of their slavish adherence to the belief (opinion) that only the physical exists and never once conceives of a force or source of the physical, can not imagine to the fact that other races exists than those on Earth and that several are far in advance of ours in more than technical ability to traverse space. Mr. Leslie also points out that these higher beings existed on our own planet as well many thousands of years back, so why not on other planets.
Did you know that the Vedic Hymns have many pages devoted to the “vimanas”, the Celestial Chariots?
Were you aware that the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind has a scene in which the giant mother ship plays bellowing notes as from a 64 pipe organ? These sounds are reported in the book, time and place, more than once by observers of large saucer or cigar shaped ships of uncertain origin.
And so it is also possible as some experimenters in the early 20th century found that there is a way of nullifying gravity, but D.L. states this is done by the ancients (and probably by the saucer boys) through sheer force of will. Hurrah for the divine in Man!
Once gravity is nullified, gee can you change directions rapidly without incurring fantastic “g-forces”. The “g” is for gravity. Get it?
Well, on to the last half of a fabulously interesting and informative book. (Second reading.)
Now that I have finished the second time through read allow me to add:
Excellently documented evidence with photos. The most interesting and compelling aspect of his book is the repeated similarity of the sightings and eye witnessings of the UFO phenomena. Always the ships are either 30-45 feet across and dome shaped or they are cigar shaped and much MUCH larger: sometimes a thousand feet long (like the one in the film Strange Encounters of The Third Kind), plus the colors of the lights concur, red, blue and green in almost every case where the "ships" are not very distant. Otherwise the saucers are brilliant silver and shine luminescently.
All UFOs are capable of instant redirection up, down and sideways and this too is an attribute which is retold thousands of times--not just in the 20th century but throughout the past 2 millenia!
Of course, these days, it helps if you are a witness yourself, as I am, to the sighting of a UFO. Quite something, but no fear, the "fly boys" (pilots) have no desire of landing, at least not until we evolve to a more civilized planet. When that time comes, we will be able to parley with them.
I have been interested in this subject for many years…who hasn’t at one time?
Desmond Leslie is the main author of this two author book. George Adamski is the amateur astronomer and photographer who captured some of the very first images on film of saucers in the early ‘50s. He supplies the final chapter with personal notes about his life and witnessings.
I’m on my 2nd read through about half way.
D. L. takes the subject of UFOs and begins AT THE BEGINNING: 18,000,000
Years ago!! Yup, that is right. He proceeds to come forward including the ancient Greek and Roman sightings up through the Dark Ages, The Renaissance and hundreds of the thousands of documented visual encounters of the 20th century. Book published in 1953, one of the original ones.
Desmond L. slaps the technical scientists, who because of their slavish adherence to the belief (opinion) that only the physical exists and never once conceives of a force or source of the physical, can not imagine to the fact that other races exists than those on Earth and that several are far in advance of ours in more than technical ability to traverse space. Mr. Leslie also points out that these higher beings existed on our own planet as well many thousands of years back, so why not on other planets.
Did you know that the Vedic Hymns have many pages devoted to the “vimanas”, the Celestial Chariots?
Were you aware that the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind has a scene in which the giant mother ship plays bellowing notes as from a 64 pipe organ? These sounds are reported in the book, time and place, more than once by observers of large saucer or cigar shaped ships of uncertain origin.
And so it is also possible as some experimenters in the early 20th century found that there is a way of nullifying gravity, but D.L. states this is done by the ancients (and probably by the saucer boys) through sheer force of will. Hurrah for the divine in Man!
Once gravity is nullified, gee can you change directions rapidly without incurring fantastic “g-forces”. The “g” is for gravity. Get it?
Well, on to the last half of a fabulously interesting and informative book. (Second reading.)
Now that I have finished the second time through read allow me to add:
Excellently documented evidence with photos. The most interesting and compelling aspect of his book is the repeated similarity of the sightings and eye witnessings of the UFO phenomena. Always the ships are either 30-45 feet across and dome shaped or they are cigar shaped and much MUCH larger: sometimes a thousand feet long (like the one in the film Strange Encounters of The Third Kind), plus the colors of the lights concur, red, blue and green in almost every case where the "ships" are not very distant. Otherwise the saucers are brilliant silver and shine luminescently.
All UFOs are capable of instant redirection up, down and sideways and this too is an attribute which is retold thousands of times--not just in the 20th century but throughout the past 2 millenia!
Of course, these days, it helps if you are a witness yourself, as I am, to the sighting of a UFO. Quite something, but no fear, the "fly boys" (pilots) have no desire of landing, at least not until we evolve to a more civilized planet. When that time comes, we will be able to parley with them.
August 16, 2015
The only worthwhile part of this book is the list in the beginning of historical sightings of UFOs over the centuries. That was seriously interesting, and I'd like to see more of that kind of work. However most of the book would best be described as "bunk". This is not a book to take seriously. If you have a serious interest in UFOs then you should probably look elsewhere.
October 3, 2010
Its a good book makes you think and wonder about the whole world and the human race
February 4, 2013
Every now and then I like to read an oldie. This one was being thrown out of the school library. It was published before Sputnik and when the UFO craze was pretty young. He does a good job documenting some UFO history then gets into ramblings about historic Hindu records that are a bit hard to follow. Similar discussions are in other books. He does his best to connect the dots with UFO’s being from Venus, connects Atlantis and at that point it became a lot of work for me. It gets really whacky when he talks about his contact with an alien and his theory of sound vibrations for their movement. One one gets into specifics about "this is where they are from and this is why they are here" - watch out - Going to get weird. It has been 60 years and one would think that if there is something to this phenomena – and I believe there is – that we would know of substance. I read something on this Jac Vallee guy if you wanted a level headed approach to UFO’s. Since I have read a number of his books and he handles it well – as a scientist. There is nothing new to be learned from this, it is perhaps only useful as benchmark of thought on this topic in 1953.
August 25, 2020
George Adamski’s encounters with extraterrestrials belong to the best documented and believable accounts. I personally felt a lot of sincerity behind Adamski’s testimonies, not just with this one (which is quite short), but especially his following book called “Inside the Spaceships”. Knowing many people who have met extraterrestrials through their out-of-body experiences, the accounts of George Adamski just confirm the notion of these beings being highly advanced, not just technically, but mainly spiritually.
The only reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is the lengthy part written by Desmond Leslie. Despite what is said in the official description of this book (which is repeated on many websites), I found this part very boring and overly intellectual. The actual Adamski’s account, on the other hand, is full of authentic freshness, without any pretentions or mental complications. So for anybody interested in the “actual thing”, I recommend to just jump straight to that. :-)
The only reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is the lengthy part written by Desmond Leslie. Despite what is said in the official description of this book (which is repeated on many websites), I found this part very boring and overly intellectual. The actual Adamski’s account, on the other hand, is full of authentic freshness, without any pretentions or mental complications. So for anybody interested in the “actual thing”, I recommend to just jump straight to that. :-)
October 5, 2023
Last 80 Pages.the Best
I liked Adamski's narrative - the last 100 pages or so of the book.when he described the visitation of the Nordic looking alien from Venus. I think Adamski's translation was off. I don't think that the Visitors were from Venus. Nonetheless I do believe he chatted with a Nordic alien. He is credible.
I liked Adamski's narrative - the last 100 pages or so of the book.when he described the visitation of the Nordic looking alien from Venus. I think Adamski's translation was off. I don't think that the Visitors were from Venus. Nonetheless I do believe he chatted with a Nordic alien. He is credible.
May 20, 2021
Highly recommended! One of the most well-organized reports on UFO sightings.
May 30, 2022
I liked it but didn't need part 1 really.. just wanted to read his story.
January 30, 2024
Say what you will this book is excellent, 75% of the book is written by Desmond Leslie, ex Aviator of the RAF and writer, and the rest is Adamski's first encounter with the Venusian. Both parts are interesting. Desmond Leslie writes a mixture of well-grounded early contacts and ancient alien pieces, with very good research also on the modern sightings, it was flawless on this task, with really good information and perceptions, that is supposed to be an introduction to Adamski's to make his account more believable, the Adamski's experience has been witnessed by a bunch of people so on this case he got more of a weight on this one.
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