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Flying Saucers Have Landed

Adamski's claimed November 1952 California desert meeting with 'Orthon,' a benevolent human-looking Venusian, founded the entire contactee movement, paired in this joint volume with Leslie's more scholarly survey of historical aerial anomalies. Adamski's supporting photographs were later shown to depict small models built from ordinary hardware.

Author
George Adamski & Desmond Leslie
Published
1953
Library rank
#39

Why it matters

The founding text of 1950s contactee culture and the Nordic 'Space Brother' archetype, despite its photographic evidence being debunked.