Looking for Orthon : the story of George Adamski, the first flying saucer contactee, and how he changed the world

In a literary tour-de-force, Colin Bennett advances the daring thesis that the defining moment of the twentieth century will prove to be 12.30 pm on Thursday, November 26, 1952, when George Adamski claims to have met Orthon, a long-haired youth from Venus. In a literary tour-de-force, Colin Bennett advances the daring thesis "that the defining moment of the twentieth century will prove to be 12:30 pm on Thursday, November 26, 1952, when George Adamski met Orthon, a long-haired youth from Venus. It happened in the Californian desert in the presence of witnesses. From that moment the cat was out of the bag, the space people were among us, and northing has ever been the same since ... The effects of this on popular culture are to be seen everywhere ... In the modern imagination the UFO is a constant, not just a spacecraft but a reminder that the world is not as rational as our educators pretend ... [Adamski] was an impressive old rogue, like Madame Blavatski and in the same tradition. Such people, according to Plato are the kind whom the gods choose to enlighten us"--Back cover