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In the introduction to this book | wish to begin by stating that while none can help but find the contents deeply fascinating, | am fully aware that incredulity in varying degrees is bound to follow. Some will accept George Adamski?s claims that his experiences inside the space slips were real and factual. Many, feeling the sincerity with which he tells his story, will brand him as an honest but self- deluded man and toss his adventures into the category of the mental or psychic. Still others, trained to reject everything not yet proven in the familiar three dimensions, will enjoy writing it all off as a clever hoax. Although | myself have seen the space ships on several occasions, both here in the Bahamas where | live and at Palomar during the several weeks | stayed there this past summer, | have never been inside one. Nor, to my knowledge, have | ever met a space man. | have, however, met George Adamski. To know him leads to at least one certainty. He is a man of unquestionable integrity. After reading Flying Saucers Have Landed, and since in any case | was headed for California to spend the summer with members of my family, | wrote to Mr. Adamski describing my sightings here and asked if | might call on him. A cordial invitation to do so was the result. | do not hesitate to state that | made my first visit to Palomar Terraces with heavily crossed fingers. | was quite prepared for anything from a brilliant lunatic to a harmlessly self-deluded man; or perhaps one more California cult conveniently and profitably hung on the horns of the current Saucer interest. What | found was a man far removed from axiy of these and rather difficult to describe. My first reaction was that a minor crime had been committed in allowing so inadequate and misleading a photograph to be used on the jacket of his book. (Flying Saucers Have Landed) Not only is Adamski a handsome man in a very individual way, but here was a fine face with integrity clearly written on it. It is also, as | discovered during my weeks there, a face from which an expression of kindness and patience never departs. This does not mean that Adamski has evolved beyond the point where the little irritants which raise the blood pressure of lesser beings have entirely ceased to prick him. Far from it! For incidents such as a recalcitrant pipe when functioning as an amateur plumber, or inability to locate a pet hammer, he has a vocabulary as normal as any man?s. But his irritation seldom extends to another fellow being. All who find their way to his aan. ba abe. bee ena 2 Ree Ae ee nk ee a 2 tn door, be they bores, pests or bellicose challengers, meet with the same patient courtesy as the intelligent, the charming or the important in a worldly sense. He has, in short, true understanding and compassion. These attributes, coupled with an ever-ready sense of humor, make him entirely approachable in the broadest sense of the word. Nor does he demand that everyone agree with all that he believes or states. His is the true humility which precludes arrogance. The fact that Adamski possesses more wisdom than formal education is, in his case, an asset, leaving him free of the fetters which too often shackle the INTRODUCTION BY CHARLOTTE BLODGET