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I've got multiple copies of some of his

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books because I've clearly got a problem

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um George adamski was was born in um

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born in Europe to to polish parents

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um migrates to the United States as a

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child

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um serves in World War One settles in

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California and during the 1920s and

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1930s gets involved in in spiritualist

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organizations sort of connected to uh to

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the older theosophical societies and

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movements and things and he establishes

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something called The Royal order of

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Tibet which is kind of a uh kind of a a

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mishmash of

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um of different

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sort of pseudo Eastern philosophical

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traditions later it was reported that he

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um he said to somebody that the only

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reason he did it was because they used

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wine in one of their ceremonies and it

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was a way to get around prohibition so

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it was sort of a bootlegging operation

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and a spiritual

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um a spiritual Retreat love it in the

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um even even before the UFO thing starts

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to uh starts to take off he claimed that

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in 1946 he and some followers saw a

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cigar-shaped UFO

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didn't really talk about this before the

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whole 1947 UFO era kicks off so it's

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kind of suspect but beginning in 47 he

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starts saying that here my little

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telescope at Mount Palomar

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so Mount Palomar was an observatory in

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California and and this is one of the

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things adamski did that was sort of

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clever he says from my telescope at

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Mount Palomar I've seen these and

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photographed these things which gives

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the impression that he was doing this at

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the observatory at Mount Palomar no he

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worked at a hamburger stand down the

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road from Mount Palomar sort of down the

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slope and had a small telescope there so

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yes it was a telescope yes it was Mount

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Palomar but it was not

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Mount Palomar Observatory so we all beef

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up our resumes right sometimes I mean

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it's kind of the euphological way he was

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he was a Pioneer in this uh sort of sort

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of resume padding yeah yeah he starts

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lecturing

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um he's got photographs of UFOs some are

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remarkably clear

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um and they all sort of

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sort of set the pattern for what the

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generic UFO is going to look like it's a

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flying saucer it's got the Dome at the

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top it's got the little Landing balls

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underneath the sort of skirt thing that

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uh that goes around it yep that AB yep

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there it is that is the uh that is the

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adamski saucer right there

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so in 1949 and this is this is one of

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the things I love about him in 1949 he

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publishes a book called pioneers of

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space and it's a science fiction novel

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about some earthlings who go around the

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solar system and meet people from Venus

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and Mars and Saturn and the Moon and

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what I love about it is the moon people

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are called the moon Knights which I just

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think is

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just delightful amazing oh yeah yeah and

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of course each of these civilizations he

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meets are superior

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to uh to humans on Earth but it's

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presented as fiction

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and then in 1952

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near the end of 1952 he claims that he

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and some friends were out driving around

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near Desert Center California

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and he has an experience with a landed

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spacecraft

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and communicates telepathically and Via

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you know mime with the occupant a

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uh whose name is orthon

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and orthon explains that he is from

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Venus and that the venusians are very

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worried about

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humans

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nuclear weapons testing because it might

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destroy the universe and this is

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published and related in a book called

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flying saucers have landed which was

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mostly written by a guy named from

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Britain named Desmond Leslie and it was

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sort of a

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have been flying saucers throughout

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human history sort of a Proto ancient

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astronauts you know what about ezekiel's

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wheel sort of sort of stuff and let it

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yeah you know so could these have all

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and adamsky's story is sort of appended

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to the end of this but it takes off like

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wildfire all the UFO newsletters are

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talking about it newspapers are talking

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about it why are services are picking it

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up adamski goes on all sorts of speaking

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tours talking about this UFO clubs

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Spaceships which is mostly about his

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conversations about

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you know Cosmic philosophy and higher

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thought and the way humans should live

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in peace and Harmony

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um he goes on several trips with

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venusians and saturnians he gives them

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all sort of funny George Lucas style

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names furcon ramu you know just kind of

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goofy names

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um critics have pointed out that a lot

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of the things that he claims happen to

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him in Inside the Spaceships are

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basically recycled bits of his pioneers

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of space science fiction novel from a

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few years before

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um he maintains his popularity despite

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his photos being

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um outed as hoaxes and things like that

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ways Humanity needs to improve our

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economic systems need to be more fair we

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need to live in harmony with each other

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you know peace and all sort of peace and

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love thing gets him noticed by people uh

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because it sounds vaguely like communism

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at the time

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um his FBI file makes it clear that a

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lot of people in Flying Saucer clubs

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around the country that heard his talks

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contacted the FBI wondering if he might

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be sort of a subversive and the FBI

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looked into it and mostly found that he

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probably wasn't a subversive but he did

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spend a little too much time claiming to

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have contacts in the government that he

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probably didn't have and so they kept an

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eye on him for those reasons um

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promoting his books

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um transitioned from just UFO stuff to

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more philosophical stuff by the late 50s

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booklet called Cosmic philosophy where

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he sets out the science of life that all

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the aliens kind of adhere to and

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um took classes and formed study groups

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all over the world and some of those

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lasted a long time the the Japanese

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contactees I mentioned earlier I found

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those stories in the English edition of

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The George adamski get acquainted

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organization newsletter from the

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mid-1980s and that was being published

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up until the 90s in Japan so he sets out

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his significance is he he creates this

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pattern that later UFOs are going to

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later UFO contactees are going to follow

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of humans from other planets who are

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concerned about our development and are

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offering us a Way Forward they're not

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going to do it for us it's sort of a

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star treky prime directive kind of thing

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they can't get involved they're not

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going to land on the White House lawn so

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don't even ask you know they're but it

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sets out these patterns and like I said

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there's there's still Believers today in

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um in that the Georgia damsky Foundation

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is deeply committed to promoting the

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truth and debunking the debunkers and

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one thing just to decide you mentioned

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book was getting photo permissions from

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the adamsky foundation

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um I had to be very clear that no I'm

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not debunking him I'm not ridiculing him

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I'm I'm not being snarky this is a sort

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of historical examination of this

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phenomenon and even then the the

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pictures all had to have sort of this

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caption across them that they put in

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with their website address and

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everything which would really kind of

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caption settle down just give me a clean

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picture but um we're all about branding

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man come on they are and I'm I'm very

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happy they they were uh they were

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generous and Cooperative but uh

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yeah very tenaciously Clinging On to uh

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to adamsky's ideas despite you know the

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rest of of UFO world having having moved

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it's so interesting and you brought up

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uh L Ron Hubbard you have this idea of a

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fiction writing these pulp novels and

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everything and then gradually it almost

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becomes a new religion or almost a uh

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you know using aspects of the science

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fiction and claiming that it's now real

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writers and these uh individuals kind of

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work off of each other in terms of what

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fascinated to know if adamski and

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Hubbard had

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any contact because they're doing their

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thing right at the same time I mean the

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the chronological overlap is significant

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and the argument I've always made about

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um especially adamski more so than all

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the others is that the social messages

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the political messages the cultural

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messages those things are clear in his

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he's writing essays

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um in in the lead up to World War II

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sort of condemning the coming violence

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and condemning this Warfare he's

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condemning economic inequality the basic

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messages that

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the aliens have for us are messages he's

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been talking about already and my my

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position on on this is that

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adamski saw the UFO thing as a means for

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promoting his political and social

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social and cultural messages in a way

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that would appeal to the masses or at

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least more of the masses than his Royal

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order of Tibet had

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and also sort of fly under the radar is

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not being politically subversive because

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it's just goofy Flying Saucer stuff and

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they're they're concerned about fraud

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misrepresenting himself as a you know

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advisor to the government on the alien

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question and and things like that

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they're concerned about sort of the

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things they can actually prosecute

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they're not like well this guy's talking

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about peace you know lock him up

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um which is sometimes some authors give

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that impression that you know they were

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you know concerned about his message

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they're like his message is he's a piece

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Nick but

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Flying Saucer guy you know not a huge

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deal later Riders don't have that

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pre-saucer pedigree that adamski does so

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uh but he sets this pattern that makes