resting_place death_date death_place birth_place ethnicity birth_date known_for image article_title name occupation organization
arlington national cemetery 23 april 1965 maryland , united states bromberg , german empire polish american 17 april 1891 contactee george_adamski_1 . jpg george adamski
 george adamski self-described `` wandering teacher '' , ufologist royal order of tibet george adamski foundation
george adamski

george adamski -lrb- april 17 , 1891 -- april 23 , 1965 -rrb- was a polish american citizen who became widely known in ufology circles , and to some degree in popular culture , after he claimed to have photographed spaceships from other planets , met with friendly nordic alien space brothers , and to have taken flights with them to the moon and other planets .
he was the first , and most famous , of the so-called contactees of the 1950s .
adamski called himself a `` philosopher , teacher , student and saucer researcher , '' although investigators concluded his claims were an elaborate hoax , and that adamski himself was a con artist .
adamski authored three books describing his meetings with nordic aliens and his travels with them aboard their spaceships : `` flying saucers have landed '' -lrb- co-written with desmond leslie -rrb- 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 .
