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SUBJECT: SCAMSTER PROFESSOR - GEORGE ADAMSKI FILE: UFO2653
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I was idly leafing through an old book yclept "Flying Saucers---Here
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and Now!" by Frank Edwards (Bantam Books, copyright 1967) and I came
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across a rather tongue-in-cheek section on the late scamster,
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"Professor" George Adamski that I thought most of you would get a bang
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out of:
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"...Persons who tell such stories are known in the UFO business as
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'contactees.'
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The first and foremost among them was a fellow named George Adamski.
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He was a man of meager scholastic attainments, but he made up for that
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shortcoming by having an excellent imagination, a pleasing personality,
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and an apparently endless supply of gall.
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George established the ground rules for the contactees which they
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have dutifully followed. He was the first--- and he showed that there
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was considerable loot to be made by peddling tales of talking with
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space people. George instinctively realized that everything had to be
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pretty nebulous; he knew that details would be disastrous.
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Prior to becoming associated with a hamburger stand on the road to
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Mt. Palomar, George had worked in a hamburger stand as a grill cook.
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With his scientific background he wrote, in his spare time, a document
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which he called 'An Imaginary Trip to the Moon, Venus, and Mars.' He
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voluntarily listed it with the Library of Congress for copyright
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purposes as A WORK OF FICTION.
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That was in 1949.
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His effort did not attract many customers but it did attract the
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attention of a lady writer who saw gold in them there space ships. She
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made a deal with George to rewrite his epic; she was to furnish the
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skilled writings and he was to furnish the photographs of the space
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ships.
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This lady brought the finished manuscript to me for appraisal and she
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brought with it a clutch of the crudest UFO photographs I had seen in
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years. I declined to have anything to do with the mess and she left my
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office in a bit of a huff.
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In its revised form it told a yarn of how George had ventured into
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the desert of southern California, where he met a "scout ship" from
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which stepped a gorgeous doll in golden coveralls. She spoke to him in
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a bell-like voice in a language which he did not understand, so they
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had to resort to telepathy, or something similar, to carry on their
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conversation. And then, as she prepared to leave him, she tapped out a
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message in the sand with her little boot. George realized that she
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wanted him to preserve this message (it was terribly important) and,
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having a pocket full of wet plaster of Paris (which he seemingly always
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carried with him on desert trips), George quickly made a plaster cast
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of the footprint with the message, which he eventually reproduced for
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the educational advancement of his readers, who were legion.
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Of the numerous photographs which embellished the book let it be said
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that some of them could not have been taken as claimed. The others were
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crudely 'simulated,' as the Air Force put it charitably.
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But for me the payoff was the alleged photograph of Adamski's 'scout
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ship' in which he allegedly took a trip to Venus and returned. The
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picture as shown in his book was taken either on a day when three suns
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were shining---or else it was a small object taken with three
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floodlights for illumination. After eight years of patient search I
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finally came to the conclusion that his space ship was in reality the
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top of a canister-type vacuum cleaner, made in 1937. I doubt that many
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persons are traveling through space in vacuum cleaner tops.
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Adamski communicated with me frequently. When he was questioned about
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the title of 'professor' which he used, he explained that it was just
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an honorary title given to him by his 'students', and that he never
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used it himself. George was evidently forgetful, for the letters he
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sent me were always signed 'Professor George Adamski.'"
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*** End of Quote ***
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Well, there you have it---I hope it gives you as big a chuckle as it
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did me when I read it.
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T.R. Stone
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University of Nebraska-Omaha
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The home of Dr. Jack Kasher (the physicist who was on "Sightings"),
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a damned nice man and excellent E&M instructor...
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