People in the Legends
George Adamski was a Polish-born American, known as the original “contactee,” a person who claims to have met aliens in person.
He said he met a Venusian in the California desert in 1952, and his co-authored book Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953) became a worldwide bestseller. The bell-shaped saucer he said he photographed is called the “Adamski-type saucer.” For details, see the encyclopedia entry George Adamski.
A type of alien said to be tall, blond and blue-eyed, resembling the people of Northern Europe. Spread by 1950s "contactees" who claimed to have met aliens, they were portrayed as peace-preaching "space brothers," in sharp contrast to the small Greys.
UFOs shaped like long, slender cigars, often told of as "motherships" carrying small disc-shaped UFOs. In 2017, the cigar-shaped interstellar object Oumuamua was discovered, causing a stir.
The original "contactee," who claimed to have met a Venusian and set off a worldwide UFO boom. He is known for photos of a bell-shaped "Adamski-type saucer," but many have pointed to fabrication.
