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This part of an FBI file holds a July 1967 letter sent to Director J. Edgar Hoover by a reporter for UFO Contact, the journal of the International Get Acquainted Program (IGAP), along with a copy of the magazine, dedicated to George Adamski. The magazine includes an editorial praising Adamski, an open letter to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, and Ronald Caswell's account of contactee Fred Steckling's European lecture tour and his film of a UFO formation. The file also contains AFSCA newsletter items and an advertisement for AFSCA's 1966 Reno convention.
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ufo contact Once before, a gracious lady was willin. against much advice, to listen to the sincere words of a man who was still to battle for many years to come for the truth which he propounded. We ask again for that First Lady's gracious attention to certain matters which we believe, as in years gone by, will be of interest to her, also today. Our Open Letter we respectfully address to - Her Majesty Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. An open Letter SOESTDUK PALACE SOESTDUK HOLLAND. JUNE 1867. To Her Majesty, Queen Juliana. Your Majesty. We venture to approach you on a matter which we believe will be of some interest to you, the subject being one of immense importance, bearing as it does implications of a nature which might well affect in the future every aspect of human endeavour on this Earth. The subject of which we speak has once before been brought to Your Majesty's attention, and, we understand, received careful consideration; in fact, it is in the belief that Your Majesty has shown more than usual interest that we make this approach today. May we, with respect, ask you to cast your mind back 8 years. In May of 1959, Your Majesty was pleased to request the presence of Mr. George Adamski, of California, at Soestdijk Palace. Mr. Adamski was at that time on a world lecture-tour. This gentleman had an unusual story to tell. He spoke of visitations to this planet by human beings from outer space. He spoke of kind human beings who had travelled in their spaceships, often called "flying saucers", from their home planets in our solar system, from Venus, from Saturn, Mars and others. Their understanding was far ahead of our own, their sincere interest in our welfare was part of a philosophy of brotherhood and love for all of the Creator's Works. This was George Adamski's story. In 1959, the subject of flying saucers was considered by the majority to be laughable. Any attempt to discuss the possibility of beings technologically superior to us, visiting Earth in space craft travelling at fantastic speeds, was to dismiss all the scientific concepts of the day. Indeed, in 1959, scientists were only beginning to accept the remote possibility of "some form" of life, - and a one-cell life, in that, existing anywhere at all outside of Earth. And any suggestion that intelligent beings existed who had progressed past the stages of wars and poverty and racial intolerance, was to speak of Heaven itself. Now, in 1967, many things have changed. The majority still laughs, yes. But one sees in the over-expanding minority a level of radical but intelligent thought which would have been branded a "heresy" against the whole Establishment just a few years ago. With our own greatly-increased space activity and the near-proximity of an Earthman's landing on the Moon, ideas have had to change along with the immense changes in the means of travel. What modern science has yet to discover, however, is an antidote to the enormously swollen ago of "Earth-man" which has gained nothing from the discoveries of Galileo other than a list of changed astronomical data and some very basic facts concerning the solar system in which we live. What they have not yet learned from the "heretical" revelations of Galileo is that scientific "fact" of today is not necessarily scientific "fact" of tomorrow; that they, too, these modern scientists, may be called upon - and perhaps very soon - to change all previous concepts of astronomical physics and to accept that Earth-man is not, after all, alone in the Universe. One of the pioneers in this school of thought was George Adamski. Since his passing, in April 1965, others have come forward to carry on his work. Madam, on several occasions in the years since 1959, Mr. Adamski was given the opportunity of photographing some of these space craft on movie-film. These films have been shown widely in the United States and in certain countries in Europe. They have been viewed by persons in authority, including experts in many fields, as well as by millions of the general public by way of television. The extraterrestrial human beings of whom Mr. Adamski spoke are still operating in the same pattern. Several of his helpers have been privileged to meet these people. New colour movies have been taken of their ships, on occasion with the deliberate connivance of the pilots of the craft concerned. An American lady, Mrs. Madeleine Rodeffer, and two Germanborn, naturalised Americans, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Steckling, have been privileged not only to meet these friends from other planets but they have also been enabled to photograph the movement of their craft on colour-film. All of these films have been viewed by persons in authority, including photographic experts of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Agency, (NASA), and they have yet to be faulted. Madam, the reason for our approach in this Open Letter is this. Having heard from Mr. Adamski firsthand of his experiences, would Your Majesty care once more to hear of the visitations of the Brothers and Sisters who befriended him? They have made themselves known to others; there are courageous
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 77 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.