George Adamski

George Adamski was a Polish American citizen who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he claimed to have photographed spaceships from other planets, met with friendly Nordic alien Space Brothers, and to have taken flights with them to the Moon and other planets. He was the first, and most famous, of the socalled contactees of the 1950s. Adamski called himself a philosopher, teacher, student and saucer researcher, although most investigators concluded his claims were an elaborate hoax, and that Adamski himself was a con artist.

Adamski was born on April 17, 1891, in Bromberg in the German Empire. His family was ethnically Polish. At the age of two, he and his family emigrated to America and settled in New York City. From 1913 to 1916, beginning at the age of 22, he was a soldier in the 13th U.S. Cavalry Regiment fighting at the Mexican border during the Pancho Villa Expedition. In 1917 he married Mary Shimbersky. She died in 1954 they had no children. Following his marriage Adamski moved west, doing maintenance work in Yellowstone National Park and working in an Oregon flour mill and a California concrete factory. By 1930 Adamski was a minor figure on the California occult scene, teaching his personal mixture of Christianity and Eastern religions, which he called Universal Progressive Christianity and Universal Law. In the early 1930s, while living in Laguna Beach, Adamski founded the Royal Order of Tibet, which held its meetings in the Temple of Scientific Philosophy. Adamski served as a philosopher and tea

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