George Adamski

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George Adamski (born April 17, 1891 in Bromberg (at the time the Prussian province of Posen , German Empire , now Poland ), † February 26, 1965 in Maryland , USA ) was an American science fiction writer and ufologist of Polish origin.

Ufologist

Adamski was the first "contact", someone who publicly claimed to have met aliens . He previously appeared as a UFO sight. Adamski wrote several books about his alleged meetings with Venusians , which should have taken him on interplanetary journeys. Some of his works became bestsellers, such as Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953, dt. Flying saucers land ) that he and Desmond Leslie wrote. Even ufologists saw his work as largely fictional. Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke wrote in his novel 3001 - The Last Odyssey that ufologists would suffer from Adamski's disease.

Works (selection)

  • Cosmic Philosophy (1961), self-published (reprinted 1972, Pine Hill Press OCLC 13371492)
  • Flying Saucer Mystery, Warner Paperback Library, OCLC 4020003
  • Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953), British Book Center, ISBN 978-0-85435-180-0 ; published simultaneously in the UK by Thomas Werner Laurie (Reprinted various times) (Eng. Flying Saucers landen ; Stuttgart, Zurich, Vienna: Europa-Verlag, 1954)
  • Flying Saucers Have Landed, revised and enlarged edition (1970), Neville Spearman, UK, ISBN
  • Inside the Space Ships (1955), Abelard-Schuman, OCLC 543169 (Reprinted 1967 as Inside the Flying Saucers, Warner Paperback Library, OCLC 1747128) Currently in print from the George Adamski Foundation (German: Inside the Spaceships ; Ventla, Wiesbaden, 3rd expanded edition, 1989)
  • Pioneers of Space: a Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus (1949), Leonard-Freefield, OCLC 4722893 (Reprinted 2008, Inner Light / Global Communications)
  • Wisdom of the Masters of the Far East (1936), Royal Order of Tibet (reprinted 1974, 2000, Health Research)

literature

  • Gray Barker : The book about Adamski , Wiesbaden-Schierstein (Ventla Verlag) 1967.
  • Christian Heermann : Secret weapon flying saucers. Crooks - jugglers - gangsters. A crime report on business and crime with stupidity . Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1981.
  • Johann Dorschner: Are we alone in space? 2nd edition Leipzig / Jena / Berlin (Urania-Verlag) 1976.
  • J. Gordon Melton : Biographical dictionary of American cult and sect leaders , New York u. a. (Garland) 1986. ISBN 0-8240-9037-3
  • Jerome Clark: The UFO encyclopedia. Vol. 2: The emergence of a phenomenon: UFOs from the beginning through 1959 , Detroit, MI (Apogee Books) 1992. ISBN 1-55888-741-5

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personal data
SURNAME Adamski, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer and ufologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Bydgoszcz , Poland (then Posen Province , Kingdom of Prussia )
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1965
Place of death Maryland , USA