this is really kicked off by a man called george adamsky. he's the first contactee to publish a book length account of his experience in 1953. adamski contradicts virtually everything that has come before him. he says that they're not from mars, they're from venus. if scully is right about them being from venus, he's wrong about them being short. he says they're about 5'6", they're humanoid and they're very beautiful. adamski also says that they're not a threat. he says the coming was friendly. now, adamski is going to lose kind of popular support in the '60s after he claims that he will be leaving any day now for an interplanetary conference on saturn and somehow never quite makes his appointment for that. but his ideas, his narrative that there are these friendly visitors has very much caught on. throughout the 1950s you see this series of encounters with extraterrestrial beings who have seemingly come to warn humanity about our war-like nature, to warn us that nuclear weapons will destroy us all. a have you pure distillation of common col