p here. People drive down
to hear George and decide that since they're down here they might as
well come up and see our establishment."

But George Adamski didn't hold the front center of the stage for
long. In rapid succession others stepped forward and hesitantly
admitted that they too had been contacted.

Truman Bethurum, a journeyman mechanic of Redondo Beach, California,
was next up.

Actually, he admitted, _he_ had been the first earthman to talk to a
person from another world. Back on the night of July 26, 1952, four
months before Adamski, a group of eight or ten, short, olive-skinned
men with black wavy hair, had awakened him while he was asleep in a
truck in the desert near Mormon Flats, Nevada.

These little men, unlike Adamski's, spoke any language.

"You name it," they'd quipped to Bethurum, "we speak it."

In a newspaper article that was voted "Best Read of 1953," Bethurum
told how the little men he met had been more cooperative and had
actually taken him into their saucer, a huge job 300 feet in diameter
and 16 feet high.

Once inside, Bethurum had met the captain of the "scow"--a true
leader of men. Aura Rhanes was her name and she was a Venus de Milo
with arms and warm blood. "When she spoke her words rhymed." They
chatted and Bethurum learned that he was on the "Admiral's scow" the
command ship of Clarion's fleet of saucers.

All in all, Bethurum made eleven visits to Aura's scow. Each time
they'd sit and talk. Bethurum told her about the earth and she told
of the idyllic, Shangri-La type planet of Clarion--a yet undiscovered
planet which is always opposite the moon.

But before too long, both Truman Bethurum and George Adamski had to
move over. Daniel Fry, an engineer, stepped in.

At a press conference to kick off the International Saucer
Convention in Los Angeles, Fry told how he had not only contacted the
spacemen _two_ _years_ _before_ Adamski and Bethurum, he had actually
_ridden_ in a flying saucer.

It had all started on the night of July 4, 1950, when engineer Fry
was temporarily employed at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico.

It was a hot night, and with nothing else to do, Fry decided to take
a walk across the desert. He hadn't traveled far when he saw a bluish
light hovering over the mountains which rim this famous proving
ground. He paid no attention. He'd heard flying saucer stories before
and just plain didn't believe them.

But as he watched, the light came closer