Case file · Close encounter
Adamski meets 'Orthon' near Desert Center
On 20 November 1952 George Adamski said he met a tall, long-haired man from Venus in the desert near Desert Center, who warned by gesture and telepathy against nuclear war. Six friends watched from a distance.
1952 CE · 33.72, -115.38 · status: claim
The account
Adamski ran a café at Palomar Gardens below Mount Palomar and had led a small Theosophy-inspired order in the 1930s. The story became the core of 'Flying Saucers Have Landed' (1953) and made him the first celebrity contactee.
The sceptical view
No companion saw the encounter itself, footprint casts are not evidence of origin, and Venus is now known to be uninhabitable. Several former associates later called him a fraud.
Connections in the atlas
- Adamski's 'scout ship' photographs
- George Adamski: Announced that he would travel to an interplanetary conferen
- Orfeo Angelucci at the Lockheed plant
- Van Tassel's visitor at Giant Rock
- Leslie & Adamski, 'Flying Saucers Have Landed'