From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:31:16 -0500
Archived: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:31:16 -0500
Subject: Orthon The Alien Left A Sci Fi Novel Behind?




Source: io9 - San Francisco, California, USA

http://tinyurl.com/dhvnb5

Sat Jan 31 2009

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Did Orthon The Nordic Alien Leave A Science Fiction Novel Behind
For Us?
By Charlie Jane Anders

There's only one thing you're not supposed to do if you're a UFO
guru: write a science fiction novel about UFOs. Especially if it
comes out before you supposedly met aliens (and the Pope.)

George Adamski famously photographed a set of UFOs flying in
formation, in 1950. And he got an up-close-and-personal UFO shot
a couple years later. Eventually, he met a Nordic looking alien
named Orthon, who took him into outer space, talked to him about
the dangers of nuclear war, and left cryptic symbols in his
footprints. (Possibly including Swastikas?) Adamski also met
Saturnians, and eventually attended a conference on Saturn. He
became one of the greatest evangelists of UFOlogy, and claimed
to have met the Pope, who gave him a special UFO-related medal.

And in the 1980s, he had a new career, recording trippy
electronic pop with the help of Seal.

But now a 1949 novel, which Adamski wrote with the help of Lucy
McGinnis, casts doubt on all his claims. The novel used to be
nearly impossible to track down, but UFO researcher Timothy
Green Beckley brought it back as a print-on-demand title, which
you can buy on Amazon.

And sadly, it turns out Adamski's 1949 fictional account is
oddly similar to Inside The Spaceships, his retellings of his
supposedly true 1950s encounters with Orthon and the gang,
according to Skeptic Report:


"To your surprise you will discover that these two books give
exactly the same descriptions of space (with the fireflies), the
Moon (with snow on mountains, forests, lakes, artificial hangers
and even small running animals), the scout ship (with the great
lens in the middle of the cabin and the graphs on the walls),
the mother ship (with its two "skins"), and even little details
such as the portrait of the Great One in the mother ship, the
famous Saturnian badge with the balance, etc... You will also be
pleased also to see that the Masters' pompous statements are
exactly the same, something that demonstrates that Adamski had a
poor imagination and was unable to create new or original
philosophical concepts."


So how could Adamski have written exactly the same account of
his alien encounters years before they happened? There's really
only one explanation: Orthon visited him earlier than we
realized, and he tried to pass off these events as fiction at
first. Just remember: Orthon the Nordic alien is looking over
your shoulder as you read this.