Even though the field is becoming crowded, through thick and thin, Martian and Venusian, the old Maestro, George Adamski, is still head and shoulders above the rest.  The hamburger 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 Ships have sold something 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 Illmuth.

Only a few months ago, while on one of his numerous nationwide lecture tours, a saucer unexpectedly picked Adamski up in Kansas City and took him on a galactic cruise before depositing him at Ft.  Madison, Iowa, where he had a lecture date.  He “wowed” 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 Buckingham Palace, Mr. Barnum, all he saw was the changing of the guard.

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’m convinced.

Since I left the Air Force the Age of the Satellite has arrived and we’re in it.  Along with this new era came the long range radars, the satellite tracking cameras, and the other instruments that would have picked up any type of “spaceship” coming into our atmosphere.

None of this instrumentation has ever given any indication of any type of unknown vehicle entering the earth’s atmosphere.

I checked this with the Department of Defense and I checked this through friends associated with tracking projects.  In both cases the results were completely negative.

There’s not even a glimmer 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 from our MOONWATCH teams any reports of sightings of unidentified objects which had any characteristics different from those of an orbiting satellite, a slow meteor, or of a suspected plane mistaken for a satellite.”