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have required the cutting of several true parabolic curves on a lathe. The boys had no access to a lathe, and knew nothing of orthographic projections, and | doubt if they knew how to cut parabolic curves. Many had accused Adamski of photographing a lamp-shade. The appearance of a large ?lampshade? over Norwich and, later, its sudden descent from the Lancashire skies, suggest that the ?lampshade? in question must have been possessed of amazing self-propelled qualities, including the ability to fly across the Atlantic, six thousand miles from California. Also, it might as well be noted that, had Adamski photographed a lampshade or any other manufactured object, presumably?sooner or later?a second and similar object off the same production line would turn up in someone?s possession and be identified. Adamski?s negatives were examined by Cecil B. de Mile?s top trick-photographer, Fey Marley, who declared that, if they were fakes, they were the best he had ever seen, and also by Joseph Mansour, chief of Jetex Model Aircraft, who said that in his opinion they were not photographs of models but of large objects about thirty feet or so in diameter. | went to America and examined all Adamski?s films and equipment in the summer of 1954. He has a fine six-inch Newtonian reflector telescope. Over the eyepiece he fits a most primitive kind of camera, consisting merely of a box, a bulb-operated shutter and a slide at the back for plates. This camera fits directly over the eyepiece of the telescope which acts as its lens. Using this equipment | photographed a model Flying Saucer suspended at some distance. The results looked exactly like a model Flying Saucer suspended at some distance. Witnesses to Adamski?s desert contact of November 20, 1952 told me their own stories. They had watched the big, wingless cigar-shaped ship when it came over Desert Center that morning. They had seen Adamski talking to another person who was dressed in a single garment of brownish hue. When they joined Adamski after the visitor?s departure, they had all examined the two sets of footprints in the desert?Adamski?s and another set the size of a woman?s ?size four.? Plaster casts were taken, one of which | now have on my desk as | write. Adamski?s footprints lead back to the group; the other set simply vanish at the point where the Saucer had been hovering. | visited the exact location this August and found that even though the air temperature was around 100? F., my feet left well-defined footprints. | attribute the firmness in the sand to the fact that | was standing on an old watercourse and that there was possibly moisture underneath. All six witnesses to Adamski?s contact?Dr. and Mrs. George Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. Al Bailey, Mrs. Lucy McGinnis and Mrs. Alice Wells?affirm that low-flying Air Force planes were circling and swooping during the whole episode; this has never been confirmed or denied by the Air Force. Adamski was not the first to claim contact with a landed space craft. Six months aan Fee AAO & Wee et 2 Tee Mth ee dem cee ee earlier (June 1952) a mechanic named Truman Bethurum, who was engaged on a construction job on the Mormon Mesa, Mojave Desert, claims to have made several contacts with the crew of a large Saucer who invited him aboard. Bethurum struck me as having far too little imagination to have invented his story.