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academic mind. At the same time, he is amazingly well informed on most subjects, including world events and the causes that lie behind them. Perhaps it is partly owing to this that he is something of a prophet. Apart from an almost total absence of any material acquisitiveness which sometimes leads others to take advantage of him, Adamski emerges as an unusually well balanced man. | am inclined to believe that the remarkable brand of patience manifested by Adamski must have played a large part in his selection as one of their important emissaries on Earth by our brothers from other planets. Adamski?s is not the easy patience content to wait and dream beside a fire or under a shade tree, but patience backed by action. For instance, once he had become convinced of the extra-terrestrial nature of the strange objects he had seen in the skies, he set about getting photographic evidence of their reality. That this was a project of major proportions should be obvious. Hazards of weather and the length of time involved did not deter Adamski. Actually, five years elapsed (1948 through 1952) before, out of hundreds of attempts, he had one or more successful photographs of each different type of space ship which he had observed. Then only did he consider the initial stage of his Saucer research complete. Since then photographs taken in many parts of the world have been made public, showing the same type ships in corroboration of the Adamski photographs. Leonard G. Cramp, M.S.I.A., made comparative orthographic drawings of Adamski?s Venusian Scout and the craft photographed by thirteen-year-old Stephen Darbishire in England (the ?Coniston Saucer?) and proved the two identical in structure and measurement. These drawings appear in Cramp?s book Space, Gravity and the Flying Saucer (recommended reading for scientists and the technically minded).* Before | left Palomar Terraces | suggested that for the benefit of those who inevitably would be asking for ?concrete evidence? it might be well to include in this book some kind of witness substantiation on the part of persons who need not remain currently silent because of security or personal considerations; or perhaps photographs of the interior of a space ship, or of some article made on another planet. Although | understood Adam-ski?s explanation as to why he felt such evidence would accomplish little, | was still interested in getting reactions to the lack of it from the widely assorted friends and acquaintances whom | would be seeing. These included prominent scientists, journalists, professors of various subjects and sophisticated laymen. *Published in 1954 in the U.S.A by the British Book Centre. | found a general interest in Saucers keener than | had anticipated. Moreover, not only was there surprisingly little skepticism in regard to the fact of these strange craft in our skies, but a readiness to believe them of interplanetary origin. What few could swallow was that George Adamski had seen and talked with our neighbors from other planets and been taken up in their ships. Lack of any extensive knowledge of outer space was readily admitted. The concept of unnavigable distance between planets is no longer held by many of our scientists, nor does the old yardstick of light-years stand as the basis on which the time element must be computed. The currents of space (for lack of a