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number of lakes and rivers. It is possible that these subsisted in an artificial environment, formed in pockets on the Moon's surface. Inside the Spaceships was more than a good many ufologists could swallow, even if they had been able to credit the first book. Such was the powerful evidence in favour of the first claim that whilst disbelieving these subsequent claims, many still believed m the first contact. The attacks were now doubled in vigour with new grounds for discrediting Adamski, such as his statements about the Moon which were contrary to the pronouncements of science. Over the years a number of attempted exposés have been made but none of these could be said to be conclusive. The supporting evidence is too strong to be lightly dismissed on the other hand, to view of the further evidence which has come to light and which is related in this book, | deem it necessary to review these arguments briefly. For this purpose | have listed the main points or criticism which have been raised in connection with the first contact in the desert, together with the answers to them from tne defending side. (1) Why were not more photographs taken of the contact, in view of the fact that in the party there were two ordinary cameras and a cine-camera? Mrs Bailey, one of the witnesses, was in the final stages of pregnancy and in a very excited State at the time. The camera she and her husband had brought was a borrowed one and they were not used to it. They took a film, but when it was developed it was blank. About six or seven still photos were taken by Adamski, but the plates were spoiled when he walked under the rim of the flange of the saucer. One of these was published in the Phoenix Gazzete, but it was very poor. Desmond Leslie has examined the negatives of these and maintains that a saucer was faintly visible, about twenty feet in the air and fifty yards away over the rocks. (2) Plate 7 in Flying Saucers Have Landed was ascribed to Sergeant Jerrold T. Baker. He has since denied he took this picture, saying that Adamski took it and ascribed it to someone other than himself to provide evidence. Desmond Leslie talked to the local mayor and three other reliable witnesses, all of whom testified that when the plates were developed Baker was thrilled that his picture had come out, constantly drawing their attention to it, ‘Look at the one | took’ sort of thing. Apparently Baker of his own free will wrote a detailed letter ‘to whom it may concern' explaining how he bande th nde RI Re Le ee cb De eaten te Mee 2 2 et Ao en ne ee et took the picture. No one knows why he retracted. Perhaps some sort of pressure was put on him to do so. (3) The photographs of the scoutship resemble a lamp-shade. photographs of a model. The photographs were shown to John Ford, the film director, and Joe Mansour whose job it was to photograph model aircraft to make them look like the real thing for illustrations in model aircraft catalogues. He has visited Adamski and inspected his equipment. He declared that the reasons he believed Adamski's photographs were not of models was that he thought he himself was incapable of making a model sufficiently good from which these photographs could be faked. It would have been extremely dangerous for him to have attempted a fraud of this description. It was generally agreed that to have produced a fake Adamski would have had to construct a full-sized model or use costly equipment he obviously did not possess. Even then this would not have assured a good result. (4) The Moon photograph in the book has been criticised because one of the saucers appears to be inside the telescope. When asked about it, Adamski himself could not explain this, but Desmond Leslie inspected the camera and the telescope and found that the 90 They could be ANGELS IN STARSHIPS www.cosmic-people.com