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Adamski met his spacemen on November 20, 1952. They, as all spacemen seem to be, were extremely handsome and beautifully proportioned and had recently arrived in a large, cigar-shaped saucer. Through his initial contacts, Firkon, a Martian, and Ramu, a Saturnian, Adamski met Orthon, a Venusian, and the inevitable Venusian beauty (it is inevitable that all contactees meet other-worldly females who make earth-women appear to be skinny boys by comparison.) The fact that the space crews that Adamski communi, cated with were composed of a mixture of aliens from different planets indicated, of course, that earthlings are the only creatures in the universe capable of prejudice, crime, war, hate, and all the other planetary evils, Adamski got his ride in a flying saucer - 50,000 miles above the earth - and received his secret philosophy to pass on to all who would buy a ticket to listen to his lecture or a copy of his book to read its esoteric contents. Contacting aliens is definitely out of vogue in the Sixties. None of the momentous prophecies of the contactees have come to pass, but so many incredible things in the world of science have occurred in the past ten years that the majority of people have lost their naivete and are prepared to accept almost anything that can be properly demonstrated to their satisfaction. Curiosity about the ever-expanding universe has never been more active than it is among today's citizenry. On the morning of April 24, 1964, however, Gary Wilcox, a 28-year-old farmer of Newark Valley, New York, claimed to have had a lengthy conversation with some "little men" who came in a flying saucer. Wilcox had been out spreading manure when he was attracted to a nearby field by a bright flash of light. "A funny feeling came over me," he said later, "like something was going to happen." An interviewer described Gary Wilcox as a "no-nonsense" man, who works hard and is intolerant of interruption to his farm routine. On this particular day, Wilcox was forced to tolerate the intrusion of an object in his field, which appeared to be about 20 feet long and 15 feet wide. He could hear a sound like "motor idling," but he just walked right up to the UFO and touched it. His first reaction to the two little men who dropped to the ground from beneath the vehicle was that someone was playing a joke on him. Why he thought someone would spend the money to fashion a vehicle of such large proportions and employ two midgets to dress up in space outfits just to liven his