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'Flying Saucers Have Landed' by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski is published

Name: 'Flying Saucers Have Landed' by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski is published
Start: 1953
Location: London, England

When: 1953
Where: London, England
Sources: 2 public sources

London publisher T. Werner Laurie issued a book pairing Desmond Leslie's history of sky sightings with George Adamski's claim of meeting a Venusian in 1952. It became a bestseller and a founding text of the contactee movement; Adamski's claims are widely regarded as hoaxes.

Sources

OtherFlying Saucers Have Landed (1953) - Item of the Month, October 2021 (opens in a new tab)University of Southern Mississippi Libraries, Special Collections / 2021-10
OtherLeslie, Desmond (bibliography entry) (opens in a new tab)The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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How the story came out

This reports on George Adamski's Desert Center contact claim (20 Nov 1952).

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