Advocates
George Adamski (1891–1965)
George Adamski was the most famous of the early "contactees". In 1952, he claimed to have met a humanoid alien named Orthon from Venus in the California desert.
Key Contributions
- Author of the bestselling book Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953)
- Pioneered the benevolent alien contactee movement
- Spawned a global subculture of UFO contact stories
