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Inside the Space Ships
=Inside the Space Ships
The classic 'Space Brothers' account of an early 'contactee' who insists that he was in close contact with alien beings, travelled aboard their space ships, was given privileged information by them, much more, describing their appearances, thoughts and ideas, behavior, the agendas with respect to earth, etc.
1: Return of the Venusian
2: Inside a Venusian Scout Ship
3: The Venusian Mother Ship
4: My First Look at Outer Space
5: Meeting With a Master
6: Questions and Answers Within the Ship
7: The Scout from Saturn
8: The Saturnian Mother Ship
9: The Laboratory
10: Another Master
11: Conversation in a Café
12: Again, the Great Master
13: The Banquet and a Farewell
The classic 'Space Brothers' account of an early 'contactee' who insists that he was in close contact with alien beings, travelled aboard their space ships, was given privileged information by them, much more, describing their appearances, thoughts and ideas, behavior, the agendas with respect to earth, etc.
1: Return of the Venusian
2: Inside a Venusian Scout Ship
3: The Venusian Mother Ship
4: My First Look at Outer Space
5: Meeting With a Master
6: Questions and Answers Within the Ship
7: The Scout from Saturn
8: The Saturnian Mother Ship
9: The Laboratory
10: Another Master
11: Conversation in a Café
12: Again, the Great Master
13: The Banquet and a Farewell
256 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1955
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About the author
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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December 14, 2021
Man meets beautifully attired extraterrestrial cosmonaut & has out-of-this-world melding of the minds & is cured of gastrointestinal distress
Message?
Lay down your arms and surrender to me...
Keep Watching The Skies!
Message?
Lay down your arms and surrender to me...
Keep Watching The Skies!
June 11, 2012
When "believers" of UFOs divide into the usual 2 camps of Religious or Scientific, a strange thing happens: they both tend to discount the most extreme pioneers who studied and wrote about extraterrestrial life. Percival Lowell's 1897 bestseller 'Mars' about a superior intelligence behind the planetary-wide system of Canals has been scoffed by both scientific-oriented Ufologists as well as Biblical faithful, even though NASA's satellites and landers are finding proof of water on the Red Planet and many other factors necessary to life, first observed in detail by Lowell.
George Adamski's 1953 bestseller 'Inside the Flying Saucers' (reprinted as 'Inside the Space Ships'),is also an example of the attitude towards the most extreme possibilities of life existing in our Solar System. His clear photographs of Saucers and cigar-shaped huge 'Mother Ships' in stationary orbit around the Earth are almost totally excluded from most UFO conferences these days, dismissed either as hoaxes or idealistic fantasy. His quasi-Christian interpretation of them as part of "God" also turns off the rational students of it, as if conservative churchgoers have more of a cosmic idea of outer space as a "firmament" or 'Heaven" than liberal theoretical physicists. In other words, just as in the case with Lowell, or even their contemporary, intuitive somnambulistic clairvoyant Edgar Cayce, people who have more of a mystical experience with life in both their consciousness and subconscious, see more than the conventional dimensions and diameters of so-called reality.
Even though Lowell, Cayce, and Adamski provided a lot of proof of their insights and unorthodox skills with telescopes, medical diagnoses, and photography, they are still scorned by most astronomers, medical doctors, and serious UFO experts.
They made claims that most people simply find incredible, impossible, and unbelievable, to put it simply. Where are Lowell's Martian Canals today, in all those amazing satellite and Hubble Telescope photographs and data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory? Where are Cayce's detailed anatomical diagnoses coming from, in his self-hypnosis "Readings" while he's "Asleep", and especially his historical Life Readings about life on the planets and reincarnation, etc.? And craziest of all, to the bulk of the human race, are Adamski's Flying Saucers with human-like people from Venus and Saturn, all the planets, and our Moon, with cities on them and running rivers and people who live a thousand years!
Adamski quotes his handsome friend Orthon from Venus, while they're flying past Venus in a comfortable, gigantic Leviathan (as physicist Alan Watts calls them in his interesting 1994 book 'UFO Quest', as one of the very few serious scientific analysts who believe Adamski and analyzes why and how his photographs are authentic), "Appearing in our space craft, as we now are doing in such numbers in all the skies of your world, even those who would not believe have little choice. . . There is overwhelming evidence that your planet has not borne life as a kind of freak accident, as even some of your greatest astronomers have stated [probably referencing Lowell]. Mankind is manifesting on your world because that planet is but one in a vast, orderly creation."
That makes sense. But then you have what are otherwise brilliant men like Carl Sagan and Ray Bradbury, on both ends of the science and science fiction spectrum as well, who were sure there was life out there in the mathematical potential of millions of Earth-like planets and worlds, but there just aren't "Martians". They both said they didn't believe at all in Lowell's Martians. Period.
Belief? In its truest form, to paraphrase Plato, is best when it's based on knowledge. Living in Flagstaff Arizona under the shadow of Percy Lowell's famous Observatory in the middle of town on Mars Hill, I've looked through his great 24" Clark Telescope at Mars, just for a few minutes, and saw suspicious yellowish markings like Canal lines too. Call it fancy, or wishful thinking, but . . . it's the very same telescope he used in the 1890s, along with other Harvard astronomers, and they saw something else as well. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is circling the Red God right now, discovering more and more astonishing information every day; and still they've seen only a tiny fraction of it.
What do we really know about Venus, under those all-covering clouds? Not much. Only one satellite has briefly flown over it. When I was a kid in the 1950s scientists scoffed at the idea of Continental Drift. Today it's a fact. The moons of Titan and Europa are showing surprising signs of water and unexplainable features that might be "life".
I read Adamski's books years ago, and, sure, they were like comic books then, or crazy fun hollywood movies about 'Invaders from Mars'. Re-reading him recently, now that I'm about his same age as he was in his 60s in those long-ago times before the Apollo Moon Missions and Hubble and thousands of Comsats circling the Solar System, I believe him. It's as simple as that. I'm smarter than I was as a kid 50 years ago.
George Adamski's 1953 bestseller 'Inside the Flying Saucers' (reprinted as 'Inside the Space Ships'),is also an example of the attitude towards the most extreme possibilities of life existing in our Solar System. His clear photographs of Saucers and cigar-shaped huge 'Mother Ships' in stationary orbit around the Earth are almost totally excluded from most UFO conferences these days, dismissed either as hoaxes or idealistic fantasy. His quasi-Christian interpretation of them as part of "God" also turns off the rational students of it, as if conservative churchgoers have more of a cosmic idea of outer space as a "firmament" or 'Heaven" than liberal theoretical physicists. In other words, just as in the case with Lowell, or even their contemporary, intuitive somnambulistic clairvoyant Edgar Cayce, people who have more of a mystical experience with life in both their consciousness and subconscious, see more than the conventional dimensions and diameters of so-called reality.
Even though Lowell, Cayce, and Adamski provided a lot of proof of their insights and unorthodox skills with telescopes, medical diagnoses, and photography, they are still scorned by most astronomers, medical doctors, and serious UFO experts.
They made claims that most people simply find incredible, impossible, and unbelievable, to put it simply. Where are Lowell's Martian Canals today, in all those amazing satellite and Hubble Telescope photographs and data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory? Where are Cayce's detailed anatomical diagnoses coming from, in his self-hypnosis "Readings" while he's "Asleep", and especially his historical Life Readings about life on the planets and reincarnation, etc.? And craziest of all, to the bulk of the human race, are Adamski's Flying Saucers with human-like people from Venus and Saturn, all the planets, and our Moon, with cities on them and running rivers and people who live a thousand years!
Adamski quotes his handsome friend Orthon from Venus, while they're flying past Venus in a comfortable, gigantic Leviathan (as physicist Alan Watts calls them in his interesting 1994 book 'UFO Quest', as one of the very few serious scientific analysts who believe Adamski and analyzes why and how his photographs are authentic), "Appearing in our space craft, as we now are doing in such numbers in all the skies of your world, even those who would not believe have little choice. . . There is overwhelming evidence that your planet has not borne life as a kind of freak accident, as even some of your greatest astronomers have stated [probably referencing Lowell]. Mankind is manifesting on your world because that planet is but one in a vast, orderly creation."
That makes sense. But then you have what are otherwise brilliant men like Carl Sagan and Ray Bradbury, on both ends of the science and science fiction spectrum as well, who were sure there was life out there in the mathematical potential of millions of Earth-like planets and worlds, but there just aren't "Martians". They both said they didn't believe at all in Lowell's Martians. Period.
Belief? In its truest form, to paraphrase Plato, is best when it's based on knowledge. Living in Flagstaff Arizona under the shadow of Percy Lowell's famous Observatory in the middle of town on Mars Hill, I've looked through his great 24" Clark Telescope at Mars, just for a few minutes, and saw suspicious yellowish markings like Canal lines too. Call it fancy, or wishful thinking, but . . . it's the very same telescope he used in the 1890s, along with other Harvard astronomers, and they saw something else as well. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is circling the Red God right now, discovering more and more astonishing information every day; and still they've seen only a tiny fraction of it.
What do we really know about Venus, under those all-covering clouds? Not much. Only one satellite has briefly flown over it. When I was a kid in the 1950s scientists scoffed at the idea of Continental Drift. Today it's a fact. The moons of Titan and Europa are showing surprising signs of water and unexplainable features that might be "life".
I read Adamski's books years ago, and, sure, they were like comic books then, or crazy fun hollywood movies about 'Invaders from Mars'. Re-reading him recently, now that I'm about his same age as he was in his 60s in those long-ago times before the Apollo Moon Missions and Hubble and thousands of Comsats circling the Solar System, I believe him. It's as simple as that. I'm smarter than I was as a kid 50 years ago.
December 17, 2016
Between the ages of 8 and 18 I devoured anything on UFOs and this is one of the fun ones after looking into the night sky hoping to see one I ended with a love of astronomy.
Still no UFO, YET!
Still no UFO, YET!
April 7, 2010
How does one classify George Adamski's books? I have chosen "travel" because this, his second ufo account, includes interplanetary travel as well as the usual pseudo-theosophical philosophy promulgated by our Space Brothers and their ever-lovely Space Sisters.
May 22, 2023
George Adamski is a lunatic, whom I’m not entirely convinced wasn’t trying to start a cult with him, of course, as the glorious leader and “Speaker” for god.
Aside from the fact that his story is completely farcical, unless you believe that Venus possesses oceans and continents just like the Earth and that the dark-side of the Moon is covered in great forests, cities, and snow-capped mountains…for Adamski saw them when the aliens took him on a tour. And, of course, not only are all 12 planets in our Solar System inhabited by Humans, but all planets everywhere are inhabited by Humans…and we are the most immature of all Human societies.
And yes, I said 12 planets. Because all Star Systems are composed of 12 planets, and organized into groups of 12 Systems, organized into groups of 12 Super-Systems, organized into groups of 12 Super-Super-Systems, ad infinitum.
At any rate, all the Alien-Humans that Adamski encounters are from Mars, Venus, and Saturn, and are all slender, beautiful, athletic, White People who are all believers in Adamski’s version of the Christian God and who all think Adamski is an amazing and wonderful person with really big muscles, and they all want to make out with him and have his babies, or whatever.
For some reason, even though Adamski is told all of the Aliens’ names, he gives them different names, because…um…well, because…he’s also quite adroit in talking about all of the things that they told him that he’s not going to tell us yet, because we aren’t ready for it yet. But, Adamski is ready, of course, and if we all move to his compound in California and help him build some houses and offices on it, as well as a big lecture hall…maybe he’ll tell us…and, yes…he ends his story talking about the large patch of undeveloped land he bought in California and started building a cottage and lecture hall on it. It has no running water, no electricity, etc., like I said, a cult compound.
Actually, I take it back, he adds an added last chapter, where, about a year after the Aliens invited him up and had a big going away banquet, they come back and tell him he can take some pictures on board the spaceship. To which he grabs his Polaroid camera, which he conveniently forgets to take extra film for, and sadly, the Aliens took the camera from him and tried to take pictures but it didn’t work because of…um…”radiation” or “magnetics” or something and give it back to him with only 2 pictures left. Adamski took those last two pictures from outside the ship…by which I mean he provided two images in his book of a light blob.
There’s also a fun nugget where he describes one of his first encounters with the Aliens where they are flying above him in their saucer and one of the Aliens literally rolls down one of the windows and tosses a cylinder out at him with what appears to a be a drawing and some Alien letters (which literally look like they could have drawn by a child in crayon), which we are never told the meaning of.
Honestly, I’m convinced Adamski was having an affair and came up with an outlandish story to cover up his bi-monthly trips “into the City” where he always stayed at the same hotel, from which the Aliens would pick him up in a Pontiac, and drive him out to their space ship before taking him up in to space to talk about God and love and then drive him back to the hotel in their Pontiac.
And, why is it so important for us all to hear this message? Well, because in a few years from his visits (so, late 1950s, early 1960s), the Earth’s axial tilt will shift and all the land once under water will be above water and vice versa and we need to all love each other and believe in God or else we are all going to die – whilst our wonderful beautiful white saviors watch, I guess…?
Aside from the fact that his story is completely farcical, unless you believe that Venus possesses oceans and continents just like the Earth and that the dark-side of the Moon is covered in great forests, cities, and snow-capped mountains…for Adamski saw them when the aliens took him on a tour. And, of course, not only are all 12 planets in our Solar System inhabited by Humans, but all planets everywhere are inhabited by Humans…and we are the most immature of all Human societies.
And yes, I said 12 planets. Because all Star Systems are composed of 12 planets, and organized into groups of 12 Systems, organized into groups of 12 Super-Systems, organized into groups of 12 Super-Super-Systems, ad infinitum.
At any rate, all the Alien-Humans that Adamski encounters are from Mars, Venus, and Saturn, and are all slender, beautiful, athletic, White People who are all believers in Adamski’s version of the Christian God and who all think Adamski is an amazing and wonderful person with really big muscles, and they all want to make out with him and have his babies, or whatever.
For some reason, even though Adamski is told all of the Aliens’ names, he gives them different names, because…um…well, because…he’s also quite adroit in talking about all of the things that they told him that he’s not going to tell us yet, because we aren’t ready for it yet. But, Adamski is ready, of course, and if we all move to his compound in California and help him build some houses and offices on it, as well as a big lecture hall…maybe he’ll tell us…and, yes…he ends his story talking about the large patch of undeveloped land he bought in California and started building a cottage and lecture hall on it. It has no running water, no electricity, etc., like I said, a cult compound.
Actually, I take it back, he adds an added last chapter, where, about a year after the Aliens invited him up and had a big going away banquet, they come back and tell him he can take some pictures on board the spaceship. To which he grabs his Polaroid camera, which he conveniently forgets to take extra film for, and sadly, the Aliens took the camera from him and tried to take pictures but it didn’t work because of…um…”radiation” or “magnetics” or something and give it back to him with only 2 pictures left. Adamski took those last two pictures from outside the ship…by which I mean he provided two images in his book of a light blob.
There’s also a fun nugget where he describes one of his first encounters with the Aliens where they are flying above him in their saucer and one of the Aliens literally rolls down one of the windows and tosses a cylinder out at him with what appears to a be a drawing and some Alien letters (which literally look like they could have drawn by a child in crayon), which we are never told the meaning of.
Honestly, I’m convinced Adamski was having an affair and came up with an outlandish story to cover up his bi-monthly trips “into the City” where he always stayed at the same hotel, from which the Aliens would pick him up in a Pontiac, and drive him out to their space ship before taking him up in to space to talk about God and love and then drive him back to the hotel in their Pontiac.
And, why is it so important for us all to hear this message? Well, because in a few years from his visits (so, late 1950s, early 1960s), the Earth’s axial tilt will shift and all the land once under water will be above water and vice versa and we need to all love each other and believe in God or else we are all going to die – whilst our wonderful beautiful white saviors watch, I guess…?
April 21, 2025
I want to believe. I really want to, but no. I do believe in UFOs but I really don't believe Adamski.
Whatever it's fact or fiction/lies or not, it's still a nice read with an interesting (but way too utopian IMO) philosophy.
If you're a strong believer, your mind will be blown away, if not, it will either be the insane galactic daydreams of a lunatic or other kind of guru, or an enjoyable little scifi read on a cold winter's day.
The writing is not spectacular, but it's not terribly written either. It's fluid and easy to understand, nothing of a literary masterpiece. Just a man telling his "story".
Whatever it's fact or fiction/lies or not, it's still a nice read with an interesting (but way too utopian IMO) philosophy.
If you're a strong believer, your mind will be blown away, if not, it will either be the insane galactic daydreams of a lunatic or other kind of guru, or an enjoyable little scifi read on a cold winter's day.
The writing is not spectacular, but it's not terribly written either. It's fluid and easy to understand, nothing of a literary masterpiece. Just a man telling his "story".
August 25, 2020
This is an amazing personal account of meeting with different extraterrestrials over a longer period of time. The author met them on a few occasions on Earth where they lived and moved in disguise, and was then invited on board of their spaceships. I was very moved by the Adamski’s descriptions of those beings, their wisdom, peace and love. Being interested in spirituality myself, I really liked the descriptions of their art, views on life, as well as the simple but beautiful prayer before a meal that an extraterrestrial spiritual master uttered during their last meeting. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the credible contacts with extraterrestrials.
October 30, 2009
This is a crazy book! It was written in 1955. I don't believe everything that I read but it certainly makes you think...........
June 10, 2013
George sucked me in to this "Space Brother" fabrication when I read it in 7th grade. I wanted to believe:) But it was an early, invaluable lesson in critical thinking.
July 22, 2013
want to believe but its hard to believe.
June 27, 2020
Creepy.. Interestingly fascinating!!!!
Imagine if this was actually true.. Its scary how true it is for some..
Imagine if this was actually true.. Its scary how true it is for some..
February 19, 2020
Though I’m not sure many would recognize the name now, Adamski was a well known figure in 1950s and 60s UFOolgy, usually rating some kind of mention in books covering the phenomena, though most often as a figure of ridicule or opprobrium to more serious researchers.
In his earlier book, Flying Saucers Have Landed, which I haven't read, Adamski, after sighting many airborne flying saucers, claimed to have seen one land in the California desert and, on approaching, encountered a young man with long blonde hair who explained he and the space ship came from "the planet we know as Venus".
In the present book Adamski tells of further meetings with Venusians as well as inhabitants of Mars and Saturn. He is taken on several near-earth space voyages, one to the far side of the moon (where he sees forests, lakes, and cities), boarding smaller scout ships which transport him to larger mother ships; there he speaks to a number of male and female crew members as well as being given lectures by two elder "masters".
Though the craft he boards come from Venus and Saturn, the crews of each are made up of a mixture of natives of Mars, Venus, and Saturn. There is nothing to physically distinguish the residents of different planets: all look like, and some times pass as, ordinary Earthlings, albeit exceptionally attractive and healthy specimens thereof. Although we are assured that all 12(!) of the planets in our solar system are inhabited, with Earth the only planet whose native belligerence has made it a pariah among worlds, no explanation is given why only three planets are represented in the crew.
The space brothers want Adamski to write about them in order to spread their teachings about the oneness of all life, from which Earthlings will learn to abandon war and violence and work in harmony with nature and their fellow humans to improve their lives and join the interplanetary brotherhood. One of the benefits of such a life is demonstrated by the fact that the space brothers and sisters enjoy an extended life of vitality and youthful appearance; the revered “masters” who Adamski, a sexagenarian at the time of the writing, encounters appear to be his own age or younger, though they are actually centuries old.
This book seems somewhat in the didactic tradition of dream visions like Piers Plowman or Utopias like Looking Backward. There are a few very vague hints in the text, but nowhere is it explicitly stated that Adamski was, for more than a decade before his outer space contacts, the leader of a occult group in California called the Royal Order of Tibet. He evidently thought that the US flying saucer craze, which started in 1947 and continued through the 1950s, could provide him with a new outlet for his teachings.
It was not uncommon at the time to attach a message of international peace and cooperation to Flying Saucer phenomena, though the other examples I'm familiar with are fictional: the film The Day the Earth Stood Still and the novel The Flying Saucer. The cooperation of the multi-planetary crew operating Adamski's space ships is no doubt meant to provide an example encouraging international cooperation among earthlings, but it also adumbrates the multicultural crew on the TV series Star Trek. Adamski's aliens even work within the restrictions of their own version of the "prime directive", forbidding them to interfere with Earth's development, however obviously self-destructive it becomes.
The Popular Library paperback does not include the picture plates from the original edition, some of which are mentioned in the last chapter. Some of these are included in Flying Saucers Are Real!.
August 26, 2024
A man in the 1950s writes about his interactions with super hot, tall blond humans from other planets. They take him out for coffee in LA and give him rides in their flying saucer spaceships and larger carriers. Everything is described as better, more beautiful, more conscientious, and more efficient. Every conversation he recites is them lecturing him about how far astray humanity is and how we need to change our ways.
The constant sermonizing gets old quickly. They say most planets are inhabited by humans. Earth was colonized by humans but then its axis tilted and most good people left. It was then used as a penal colony. The humans that Adamski describes are from Mars, Venus, and Saturn, which are all communist, vegetarian utopias.
My theory is that they are not real. Many of his interactions were purely telepathic and none were witnessed by others. Clearly the other planets in our solar system are not the lush, tropical paradises described nor are there forests and rivers and humans living on the moon. However, I think he held a sincere concern for humanity and used the flying saucer angle to sell his message of peace and unity. The Cold War in the 1950s was a stressful time of transition and I think he was reacting to this zeitgeist of anxiety.
The constant sermonizing gets old quickly. They say most planets are inhabited by humans. Earth was colonized by humans but then its axis tilted and most good people left. It was then used as a penal colony. The humans that Adamski describes are from Mars, Venus, and Saturn, which are all communist, vegetarian utopias.
My theory is that they are not real. Many of his interactions were purely telepathic and none were witnessed by others. Clearly the other planets in our solar system are not the lush, tropical paradises described nor are there forests and rivers and humans living on the moon. However, I think he held a sincere concern for humanity and used the flying saucer angle to sell his message of peace and unity. The Cold War in the 1950s was a stressful time of transition and I think he was reacting to this zeitgeist of anxiety.
November 11, 2019
With all the information we have nowadays I can tell this book is crap. Adamski went to Venus in an alien spacecraft, then landed back on earth as fresh as lettuce, but going back and forth to give lectures about his extraterrestrial experiences made him exhausted to death is not believable. I felt I was reading an episode of Atlantis or Startrek. Aliens move in fourth and fifth dimension, their cognition can not be like human three dimensional thinking, that discourse of space-brothers is full of lies.
August 26, 2024
George Adamski's Inside the Spaceships masterfully merges fiction with charlatanry, especially through the addition of prefaces in which other individuals than the author assert Adamski's credibility and quote a letter by him in which he treats the subject-matter of the book as real. The atmosphere of the American West is masterfully conjured up and merged with the one of a vastness even surpassing its because it continues into the cosmos.
January 30, 2024
Classical book from contactee Adamski could be fiction but could be real, probably a mixture of the two, there are a lot of elements there that remain in the UFO lore, it is controversial but essential reading for people who do research UFOs, he never had the favor of the more rational Ufology but thanks to people like Tim Good some researchers are having second thoughts on this one.
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June 9, 2019I have the german edition: Im innern der Raumschiffe
October 22, 2019
i wanna believe but this is a comic book for my little son,not recommended
March 29, 2022
Furred animals seen on the moon? This book is a waste of time.
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