I'm very often asked words to the effect of: What evidence did the Collins Elite (the think-tank group in the U.S. Government whose activities are the subject of my Final Events book) find to support the idea that the UFO phenomenon is demonic in origin?Well, as far as can be ascertained, they didn't find any evidence. Rather, they developed beliefs relative to such matters (which often happens in paranormal-themed situations when hard evidence fails to materialize and the researcher either becomes frustrated by the quest for the truth, or has an emotional need to gravitate to one idea or another - something which often results from weakness and insecurity, or an arrogant and ego-driven conclusion that one is right, despite being unable to prove it).
But, that's not to say the Collins Elite didn't uncover a wealth of intriguing threads that they wove together into an extraordinary scenario. They most certainly did. One of them relates to none other than a certain George Adamski...
Born in Poland in 1891, George Adamski had the distinction of being the most supported, celebrated, and ridiculed of those who claimed direct contact with human-like extraterrestrials in the 1950s.
The controversy largely began on November 20, 1952, when Adamski claimed that he witnessed, along with six other people, the landing of a UFO in the Californian desert and then made contact with its pilot, one Orthon of the planet Venus.
FBI documentation of 1953 on Adamski’s claimed encounter with the extraterrestrial Orthon states:
"At a point ten and two-tenths miles from Desert Center on the road to Parker and Needles, Arizona, Adamski made contact with a space craft and had talked to a space man. Adamski stated that he, [deleted] and his wife Mary had been out in the desert and that he and the persons with him had seen the craft come down to the earth. Adamski stated that a small stairway in the bottom of the craft, which appeared to be a round disc, opened and a space man came down the steps. Adamski stated he believed there were other space men in the ship because the ship appeared translucent and could see the shadows of the space men."
The alien that allegedly confronted Adamski, the FBI noted, was "over five feet in height, having long hair like a woman’s and garbed in a suit similar to the space suits or web suits worn by the US Air Force men." (The image to the left is a scan of one of the many pages contained within the FBI's dossier on Adamski).This was a story greatly expanded upon in a 1953 book entitled Flying Saucers Have Landed that Adamski wrote with an Irish aristocrat named Desmond Leslie.
It was this Adamski-Leslie connection that got the members of the Collins Elite all worked up and bent out of shape.
One of the former Collins Elite staffers told me that the group quickly became concerned by the working relationship that existed between Adamski and Leslie, and for one very stark and eye-opening reason: Desmond Leslie had a long and rich link to the world of the occult, including - in a roundabout way - Aleister Crowley himself.
As Dr. David Clarke and Andy Roberts note in their book, Flying Saucerers, Leslie’s father, Sir Shane (who was a second cousin to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill) was a truly colorful character. Indeed, he caused a sensation by converting to Roman Catholicism and the Nationalist cause.
In addition, he spent part of his early years in Russia, where he became friends with Leo Tolstoy, before traveling across Europe.
It was during these travels that Sir Shane became obsessed with the world of the supernatural, which led him to carefully collect stories for his Shane Leslie's Ghost Book, published in 1955.
Sir Shane’s closest friends at this time included the acclaimed paranormal novelist M.R. James and the eccentric Lord Tredegar, who dabbled in the black arts, under the influence of Aleister Crowley’s teachings, at his country estate in Wales.
So Desmond Leslie was, in a roundabout and convoluted fashion, someone who had been exposed to the occult and the teachings of Crowley. Just like Jack Parsons - another character whose actions greatly troubled the Collins Elite.
And that Leslie was digging into the world of Flying Saucers with George Adamski only troubled them even more...
Nick, are your sources in the Collins group secret?
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Hey Lance:
ReplyDeleteNot really. Only in the sense they are very guarded about who they speak with and under what circumstances. Plus, those i have spoken with are all people who have been out the group a long time, and it's difficult to determine in what sense it still exists (or possibly as an off-shoot of the original, which was kind of like a quasi-official group, rather than a literally official group like the CIA, NSA etc)..
Back in 1991, a former MUFON state director, Ray Boeche, met with 2 members of the group, and after I interviewed Ray about all this about 4 or 5 years ago, in a roundabout way having interviewed Ray, I was allowed to meet up with a handful of them (literally a small number).
That in itself was an odd experience - a meet in a Vegas hotel, another in an Albuquerque diner, and so on.
But, I know they are not against talking with people - albeit on their terms.
I know, for example, they have made subtle approaches and comments to other people. They contacted Linda Howe in 1994, although they did not give away the nickname of the Collins Elite to her, but it was them.
They even had contact with the likes of Puharich, and Ruth Montgomery years ago.
Thanks Nick,
ReplyDeleteAre they en unnamed. Who vetted them?
Lance
Yes, they are named. I vetted them to the extent that I could, such as being shown photos of them in the military, documentation, etc. Bear in mind too, that other people were able to confirm their credentials. Re the two guys from the group that Ray Boeche met in 1991 - Ray was able to confirm they were physicists and operated specifically out of the DoD. I don't have the names of those two. But Ray does, and met them in person and chatted on the phone.
ReplyDeleteFor the most part (but not completely) these people are not whistleblowers or Mr. X types. But simply carefully filtering when speaking to people.
Lance:
ReplyDeleteOn a related matter: a number of people have suggested I was utterly duped and that the names, papers etc were all utterly bogus. I can never deny that, and indeed I point out in the book the odd circunstances surrounding the meetings etc, which did have a degree of stage-management about them - even I have to admit that, and have!
But, if purely some bizarre psy-op (or something even weirder along the lines of private disinfo), then it has definitely gone on for a long time.
The reason I know this is simple: the story did not fall into my lap out the blue. It began, for me, when I extensively interviewed Ray Boeche about his meeting with people from the group, and based on the extensive data that Ray shared with me, i was able to take it further.
But that's the point: I got on the trail of thge group because of what Ray told me. I had to pursue it, in other words.
Had it fallen in my lap, out of the blue, I WOULD have been very suspicious.
What you take on Josrph P.Farrell take on George Adamski in his book Swastikas,Saucers and Psyops and in his earlier book Roswell And The Reich and Henry Stevens in his books. A Nazi connection I find this scenario especially in reguard to Adamski plausible and the contacties of the fifthies. What is your take on their thesis of a more earthbound explanation.
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ReplyDeleteI think the answer to the Contactee issue can be found in a variety of areas - some had real experiences with "something." Others were hoaxers, some were fantasists. A few were deranged. And, there is evidence that some may have been on the payroll of government to make the UFO issue look less credible (not a hard thing to do!), and spread certain "meme"-like data to see how people reacted to the idea of alien interaction. There is actually quite a bit of material linking the Contactees with officialdom. See my new post (of today) re George Hunt Williamson and his controversial connections...
It would be interesting to study the evolution of the Collins group with that of Coe's Family/Fellowship, as outlined in the books C Street and The Family by Jeff Sharlet. They are ideologically aligned with an equal penchant for extreme secrecy. The Family most certainly has been used/offered its services to the intel community. I doubt they failed to cross streams...
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