Part 41 (2/2)

Once again people shelled out hard cash to hear his story

Wherever you are, Mr P T Barnu from ear to ear

But there is a sober side to this apparently comical picture The common undertone to many of these stories ”hot from the lips of a spaceman” is Utopia On these other worlds there is no illness, they've learned how to cure all diseases There are no wars, they've learned how to live peaceably There is no poverty, everyone has everything he wants There is no old age, they've learned the secret of eternal life

Too ht up folks and put a donation in the pot I' the spaceman's secrets and with a little ive _you_ the secret”

I've seen aout into the desert in hopes that his ”friend who talks to the Martians” could get them to cure him on their next trip I've seen pensioners, who needed every buck they had, shell out money to ”help buy radio equipment” to contact some planet to find out how they'd solved their economic problems I saw a little old lady in a many times mended dress put down a ten dollar bill to help pron” backed by the Venusians She'd lost two sons in the war but had four grandsons she wanted to keep alive A couple died and left 15,000 to a evity iven him the plans

A wo to reach the spot where ato ”make a contact”

Soh the field is becoh thick and thin, Martian and Venusian, the old Maestro, George Adaer stand is boarded up and he lives in a big ranch house He vacations in Mexico and has his own clerical staff His two books _Flying_ _Saucers_ _Have_ _Landed_ and _Inside_ _the_ _space_ _shi+ps_ have sold so in the order of 200,000 copies and have been translated into nearly every language except Russian To date, he's had eleven visits from people from Mars, Venus and Saturn Evidently Truman Bethurum's Aura Rhanes put out the word about earthmen because two beautiful spacewomen have now entered Adamski's life: an ”incredibly lovely” blonde named Kalna, and the equally beautiful Illo, while on one of his numerous nationwide lecture tours, a saucer unexpectedly picked Adaalactic cruise before depositing him at Ft

Madison, Iohere he had a lecture date He ”ed” the packed auditorium with his ”proof”--an unused Kansas City to Ft Madison train ticket

Last week, in the Netherlands (Adamski's nationwide tours have expanded to world-wide tours), he repeated his exploits to Queen Juliana

But at Buckinghauard

CHAPTER TWENTY

Do They or Don't They?

During the past four years the most frequent question I've been asked is: ”What do you personally think? Do unidentified flying objects exist, or don't they?”

I'm positive they don't

I was very skeptical when I finished my tour of active duty with the Air Force and left Project Blue Book in 1953, but now I'e of the Satellite has arrived and we're in it Along with this new era ca cameras, and the other instruments that would have picked up any type of ”spaceshi+p” co into our ativen any indication of any type of unknown vehicle entering the earth's atmosphere

I checked this with the Departh friends associated with tracking projects In both cases the results were colimmer of hope for the UFO

Then there's Project MOONWATCH, the Optical Satellite Tracking Program for the International Geophysical Year

Dr J Allen Hynek, the director of MOONWATCH wrote to me: ”I can quite safely say that we have no record of ever having received fros of unidentified objects which had any characteristics different fro satellite, a slow meteor, or of a suspected plane mistaken for a satellite”

Dr Hynek should know He has investigated and analyzed more UFO reports than any other scientist in the world

And the third convincing point is that twelve years have passed since the first UFO report was made and still there is not one shred ofunknown and no photos of anything other than ht

The next question that always arises is: ”But people are seeing so Experienced observers, like pilots, scientists and radar operators have reported UFO's”