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Europe. In May of that same year, Queen Juliana
of Holland received him, igniting fierce
commentary in the press and a riot at the
University of Zurich when Adamski
attempted to give a lecture in Switzerland.
Adamski charged that the students—and indeed
most of his critics—were agents of a sinister
Silence Group, which sought to frustrate
the moral reforms and technological advances
advocated by the space people and their terrestrial
allies. Though the reality of Adamski’s
audience with Queen Juliana was never in
doubt, other purported meetings with notables,
including President John F. Kennedy,
Pope John XXIII, and Vice President Hubert
H. Humphrey, that figure in the Adamski legend
almost certainly did not occur outside
Adamski’s imagination.
In the early 1960s, after Adamski openly
embraced psychic approaches of which he
had, till then, been outspokenly critical, some
of his followers started to question his sincerity,
especially when he began doing psychic
consultations for profit. His associate C. A.
Honey circulated damning evidence that
Adamski was recycling his 1930s-era Tibetanmasters
teachings and putting them in the
mouths of space people. When Adamski
claimed that he had flown to Saturn, the story
only fueled growing doubts even among devoted
followers.
His career in decline, his credibility never
lower, Adamski went on a final lecture tour
through New York and Rhode Island in
March 1965. For the preceding month, his financial
resources exhausted, he had been living
with Nelson and Madeleine Rodeffer in
Maryland. He died of a heart attack at their
home on the evening of April 23.
See Also: Contactees; Orthon; Ramu; Williamson,
George Hunt; Yamski
Further Reading
Adamski, George, 1955. Inside the Space Ships. New
York: Abelard-Schuman.
———, 1961. Flying Saucers Farewell. New York:
Abelard-Schuman.
———, 1962. Special Report: My Trip to the Twelve
Counsellors Meeting That Took Place on Saturn,
March 27–30th, 1962. Vista, CA: Science of Life.
Bennett, Colin, 2000. “Breakout of the Fictions:
George Adamski’s 1959 World Tour.” The Anom -
alist 8 (Spring): 39–84.
Ellwood, Robert S., 1995. “Spiritualism and UFO
Religion in New Zealand: The International
Transmission of Modern Spiritual Movements.”
In James R. Lewis, ed. The Gods Have Landed:
New Religions from Other Worlds, 167–186. Albany,
NY: State University of New York Press.
Good, Timothy, 1998. Alien Base: Earth’s Encounters
with Extraterrestrials. London: Century.
Heiden, Richard W., 1984. Review of Zinsstag and
Good’s George Adamski—The Untold Story. The
A.P.R.O. Bulletin 32, 5 (August): 4–5.
Leslie, Desmond, and George Adamski, 1953. Flying
Saucers Have Landed. New York: British Book
Centre.
Moseley, James W., ed., 1957. Special Adamski Ex -
posé Issue. Saucer News 27 (October).
Zinsstag, Lou, 1990. UFO . . . George Adamski:
Their Man on Earth. Tucson, AZ: UFO Photo
Archives.
Zinsstag, Lou, and Timothy Good, 1983. George
Adamski—The Untold Story. Beckenham, Kent,
England: Ceti Publications.
Aenstrians
For a time in the mid to late 1960s, Wa r m i ns
t e r, Wi l t s h i re, was the focus of a series of mysterious
sightings of UFOs and hearings of app
a rently related sounds. The exc i t e m e n t
p roduced what was called the “Wa r m i n s t e r
m y s t e ry,” which was also the title of a popular
book by Arthur Sh u t t l ewood, a re p o rter for the
Wa rminster Jo u rn a l . Sh u t t l ewood, who led sky
watches and became the leading publicist of
the phenomena, also re p o rted receiving phone
calls from self-identified extraterrestrials, as we l l
as a personal visit from one. The aliens said
they we re from a planet named Ae n s t r i a .
The first calls came in early September
1965. The calls continued for a period of
seven weeks, according to Shuttlewood. The
callers were three Aenstrians: Caellsan (the
senior spacecraft commander), Selorik (an interpreter),
and Traellison (the queen of Aenstria).
In each case they phoned from a public
booth in a particular district in the city,
though Shuttlewood wrote that he never
heard the sound of coins dropping before the
voices began to speak.