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by Colin Bennett
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On November 20, 1952, George Adamski first made contact with extraterrestrials-including a long-haired youth from Venus named Orthon-in the California desert.or so he claimed. He offered photographic proof. He wrote books about his encounters, including the sensational bestseller Flying Saucers Have Landed. He never stopped advocating the truth of his claims even as he came under extraordinary ridicule. And in the process, however inadvertently, Adamski invented the modern mass show more counterculture. This new edition of Colin Bennett's modern classic posits, in the author's uniquely engaging style, Adamski as a kind of unwitting performance artist who "structured one of the most blatant acts of visionary cheek of the twentieth century," introducing the jittery postwar Western world to the image of the UFO, which confounded and tweaked authority while also fully embodying Cold War neuroses. Whether Adamski was telling the truth or not is almost irrelevant-though Bennett has his own ideas about Adamski's veracity. What remains compelling about Adamski's bizarre and compelling tale of alien visitations is the transformative power of stories, even if they're false, to warp our culture on a grand scale. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- George Adamski; Alice K. Wells; Lucy McGinnis; Mary Shimberski; Tony Belmonte; Lou Zinsstag (show all 54); Gray Barker; G. L. Bloom; J. P. Maxfield; George Hunt Williamson; Al Bailey; Orthon; Charlotte Blodgett; Jerrold E. Baker; D. J. Detwiler; Karl Hunrath; Desmond Leslie; Patrick Harpur; Cedric Allingham; Basil Van Den Berg; Pevernell Marley; Silas Mason Newton; Karl Pflock; Firkon; Yamski; Edward J. Ruppelt; Helen Reeve; Bryant Reeve; Ross Mulholland; Ray d'Aquila; Salvador Villanueva Medina; Carol Honey; John Lade; Brinsley Le Poer Trench; George King; J. P. Chaplin; Stephen Darbishire; Peter Horsley; John Dale; Dino Kraspedon; Patrick Moore; Hugh Dowding; Howard Menger; Christopher Allen; Leonard G. Cramp; John Keel; Madeleine Rodeffer; John Nevil Maskelyne; Ernest Arthur Bryant; Ilmuth; Kalna; Zuhl; Ramu; Fred Steckling
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- History, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 001 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Knowledge and learning in general
- LCC
- TL789.3 .B46 — Technology Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Astronautics. Space travel
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- English
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