Looking for Orthon | Free Book
The Story of George Adamski, the First Flying Saucer Contactee, and How
He Changed the World
On November 20, 1952, George Adamski first made contact with
extraterrestrials-including a long-haired youth from Venus named
Orthon-in the California desert.or so he claimed. He offered
photographic proof. He wrote books about his encounters, including the
sensational bestseller Flying Saucers Have Landed. He never
stopped advocating the truth of his claims even as he came under
extraordinary ridicule. And in the process, however inadvertently,
Adamski invented the modern mass counterculture. This new edition of
Colin Bennett's modern classic posits, in the author's uniquely
engaging style, Adamski as a kind of unwitting performance artist who
"structured one of the most blatant acts of visionary cheek of the
twentieth century," introducing the jittery postwar Western world to
the image of the UFO, which confounded and tweaked authority while
also fully embodying Cold War neuroses. Whether Adamski was telling
the truth or not is almost irrelevant-though Bennett has his own ideas
about Adamski's veracity. What remains compelling about Adamski's
bizarre and compelling tale of alien visitations is the transformative
power of stories, even if they're false, to warp our culture on a
grand scale.
- Title: Looking for Orthon | Free Book
- Author: Steven
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