The George Adamski Story: Research into the photographic evidence

This delightfully illustrated book provides what the fashionably trending ‘Flash Gordons’ of today find so elusive: verifiable evidence.Despite departing this earthly plane six decades ago, George Adamski beams down at us through the mists of time, with a huge grin that says: “I told you so!”Sadly, none of the extraordinary evidence presented here by Rene, will be welcomed by the fast buck mentality of the overly commercialised ‘UFO Circuses’ of the Great American convention circuit.The Truth, as always, is the last guest at the table.

This book contains the images that change EVERYTHING most of us thought we knew about UFOs and aliens. In particular, it overturns conventional wisdom - even among Ufologists - about the early "contactees" and especially George Adamski. Using the tools of modern science, the author reveals what was hidden all along in the photos taken in broad daylight when a bell-shaped craft descended in full view of 6 witnesses and a man emerged, talking with Adamski before returning to the skies. These images prove beyond doubt that this event actually happened. It means that our preconceptions about what is going on have to change.

Adamski's supposed close encounters with a Venusian and his spacecraft out in the desert back in the fifties was a seminal contactee account, the ramification of which spawned, and still spawns, various books. Bolstered by photographs, Adamski's accounts are classics of early UFO literature, even if today they are widely seen as fraudulent, while the account of the Venusian he met, and ultimately his message, have been left high and dry by modern knowledge of the planet. Nothwithstanding, supported by the Adamski Foundation, this book is an attempt to look afresh at some of the key photographs, if not the supporting mythos, many of which feature the now-stereotypical flying saucer as well as, in less detail, the supposed 'mothership' in flight. As Olsen admits, much of his work here has been with Photoshop, through which means he has attempted to clean up the details otherwise fuzzy, too small or dark to make much out. The trouble is that the results are too manipulated to be convincing while his closeup reconstruction of the alien's humanoid face, given the original and then the 'recovered' image is hardest to swallow. The overall impression is that Olsen has often put in detail rather than discovering it, and that the amount of recovered image he provides, given the frequently small area of the frame and the poor focus to work with, has sprang from some fairly speculative visual invention. Never the less the results are interesting, even if the clearest and closest image by Adamski, relatively untouched, of an alleged flying saucer reproduced here too obviously (and rather charmingly) reveals more mundane origins of manufacture. Sadly though the book is way way overpriced; at a little under 100 pages this is a flimsy A4 paperback with only a few pages of text and can't be recommended as good value unless you really are into this material.