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George Adamski

1891 - 1965

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George Adamski (17 April 1891 – 23 April 1965) was a Polish-American author who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he displayed numerous photographs in the 1940s and 1950s that he said were of alien spacecraft, claimed to have met with friendly Nordic alien Space Brothers, and claimed to have taken flights with them to the Moon and other planets.Adamski was the first, and most famous, of several so-called UFO contactees who came to prominence during the 1950s. Adamski called himself a "philosopher, teacher, student and saucer researcher", although most investigators regarded him as a charlatan and a con artist and concluded that his claims were an elaborate hoax.Adamski authored three books describing his meetings with Nordic aliens and his travels with them aboard their spaceships: Flying Saucers Have Landed (co-written with Desmond Leslie) in 1953, Inside the Space Ships in 1955, and Flying Saucers Farewell in 1961. The first two books were both bestsellers; by 1960 they had sold a combined 200,000 copies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Adamski has received more than 610,631 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). George Adamski is the 1,887th most popular writer (down from 1,829th in 2019), the 406th most popular biography from Poland (down from 383rd in 2019) and the 38th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Adamski ranks 1,887 out of 5,755Before him are John of Ruusbroec, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Augustin Barruel, Zinaida Gippius, Pierre Klossowski, and Caterina Albert. After him are Fernando de Rojas, Baba Tahir, Julien Gracq, Avraham Stern, Caecilius Statius, and Eustathius of Thessalonica.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, George Adamski ranks 68Before him are Karl-Adolf Hollidt, Lilya Brik, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Yvan Goll, Kim Seong-su, and Laura Vicuña. After him are Shukri al-Quwatli, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Kálmán Kalocsay, Tin Ujević, Olga Khokhlova, and Charles Munch. Among people deceased in 1965, George Adamski ranks 57Before him are Henry A. Wallace, Chen Cheng, Oskar R. Lange, Sydney Chaplin, Humberto Delgado, and Ladislas Starevich. After him are Carl Oberg, Edgard Varèse, Shirley Jackson, William M. Branham, William Heard Kilpatrick, and Taimur bin Feisal.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, George Adamski ranks 406 out of 1,454Before him are Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), Heinz Kessler (1920), Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893), and Arthur Zimmermann (1864). After him are Avraham Stern (1907), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Wolf Messing (1899), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Włodzimierz Lubański (1947), and Emil Krebs (1867).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, George Adamski ranks 38Before him are Martin Opitz (1597), Andreas Gryphius (1616), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), Alexander Imich (1903), and I. L. Peretz (1852). After him are Avraham Stern (1907), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), Piotr Skarga (1536), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), and Israel Joshua Singer (1893).