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    "ocrText": "1233 Ninth Avenue West\nSeattle 99, Washington\nMarch 25, 1957\nPresident Dwight D. Eisenhower\nThe White House\nWashington, D. C.\nDear Mr. President:\nI am an aerial phenomena investigator, and I would appreci-\nate very much your cooperation in my investigation.\nFor almost three years I have been particularly interested\nin a case concerning a Professor George Adamski of Mount Palomar,\nCalifornia. Adamski, author of two best sellers, claims that he\nhas been taken for a ride in an interplanetary space ship; and\nhe has taken photographs to substantiate his claims. I asked\nthe famous Mars expert, Dr. Robert S. Richardson, for his opinion\nof Adamski's experiences. He told me that he felt that Adamski\nwas suffering from a delusion; however, he pointed out that Adamski\nbelieves in everything he saye and that he was not deliberately\ntrying to fool people. I later pointed out to him that since he\nfelt Adamski was not deliberately trying to deceive people, this\nseems to mean that it is his opinion that Adamski is a honest\nman. Then if he is honest, that means he did not fake the photo-\ngraphs which he presents as evidence to substantiate his claims.\nHence, the question of how a man can take photographs of a de-\nlusion has not been explained. Dr. Richardson could not answer\nthe question, for he told me that he could not answer all of\nAdamski's claims.\nIf this information strikes you as being interesting, then\ntake a look at the following excerpts from Adamski's book, \"Inside\nThe Space Ships, and you will understand why I consider the case\nimportant enough to call to your attention:\nI (Adamski) said, \"About\nthese people from other planets who are living amongst us\nhas that been going on for long?\" It was Kalna (a\nVenusian woman) who answered, \"Since time immemorial! or\nat least,\" she corrected herself, \"for the past two thousand\nyears. After the crucifixion of Jesus, who was sent (from\nVenus) to be incarnated on your world to help your people,\nas had others before him, we decided to carry on our mission\nin a way less perilous to those concerned than actual birth\non your plansi. This was made possible by the great ad-\nvance in our space traveling ships. We were able to bring\nvolunteers in their physical bodies. These men are care-\nfully trained for their mission and receive instructions in\nregard to their personal safety. Their identity is never\nrevealed except, rarely, to one or another individual for a\ndefinite purpose, as with you. They mingle with their\nEarthly brothers to learn their languages and their ways.\nThen they return to their home planets where they pass on\nto us what knowledge they have gathered of your world. We\nhave a history of Earth and the happenings thereon dating\nback seventy-eight million years. Similar histories which\nwere made by men on Earth have been lost with the civili-"
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