All the Planets are Inhabited!

Weekend Mail, 26th August 1954

"If all goes well there will be flying saucer landings in England next year..."

Those are the words of my husband, Desmond Leslie, written from the Californian desert, where he and an American investigator, George Adamski, are watching the sky in search of flying saucers. Last year, you may remember, Desmond wrote a book with George, entitled "Flying Saucers Have Landed", which was widely publicised in the English press. At the time he had never seen a saucer. But now he has.

A few days ago he cabled me: SAUCER SCORE NOW 12. And in a letter to me from their lookout point he wrote: "Coming into San Diego we saw a beautiful golden ship in the sunset, but brighter than the sunset. I had ten-power binoculars with me, and was able to study it for half a minute from the halted car. It slowly faded out, the way they do".

That letter reached me in my London flat as I was rehearsing for Salome, the role that Rita Hayworth made famous in Hollywood. I felt a chill of fear inch its way up my spine. I knew Desmond would never exaggerate, and the space ship sounded horribly eerie.

But Desmond assured me that we have nothing to fear from the men in the saucers. He and Adamski have been in close contact with them, and have learned many of their secrets.

"We have been given their simple philosophy", he told me. "It runs parallel with the original teachings of Jesus".

And Desmond explained to me that the space visitors do not seek trouble. "If attacked, they would prefer to let themselves be destroyed rather than kill", he wrote.

How will we make contact with these beings? Desmond wrote excitedly on July 4: "They have little discs that can pick up our thoughts, and others which translate our vibrations and tones into their own language!"

(In his book "Flying Saucers have Landed", Adamski said he had been able to communicate with spacemen by telepathy.)

He described their ships too. "The first one I saw was oval with a dome on top", he told me. And in the same letter he gave me the amazing news that he and George have actual knowledge of the interior of the saucers. "We now have plans and blueprints", he wrote, "of the interior layouts of four or five different types of craft. And we have details of the landing arrangements and instruments, which, believe me, are out of this world!"

Perhaps you are wondering if I myself believe in flying saucers? Yes I do. I have thought it all out, and, from what I have learned from my husband, I think there is no doubt that they do exist. Desmond has told me: "Everything the space men say is so very true. Their description of events is beyond our wildest science fiction".

Until Desmond had had actual contact with the men from the other worlds I doubted their existence. But his letters are full of facts which have amazed and shaken me. What is more, I share my husband's belief that the present "cold war" conditions in the world may flare up at any time, and that the saucer men may be our only means of salvation.

In his letters from California, Desmond has told me of landings already made on the earth. "Altogether over a hundred landings have taken place", he wrote to me on July 17. "Slowly, other 'contactees' (space people wanting to contact us) are linking up with us. A ship has landed in Canada containing four beautiful men from another solar system altogether!"

So the saucers may be a means of escape in time of world destruction. For Desmond is convinced that the atom and hydrogen bomb warfare may not only end our earth's existence but could throw the whole universe off balance. All this sounds incredible, I know. Unless, like Desmond and I, you have studied the saucer men. But perhaps we will all receive proof sooner than we think. And I hope we will be ready for it when it comes.

News of Salome

There must be an omen in this somewhere - especially in view of "flying saucer" reports that ran around London yesterday. Over lunch the Hungarian-born actress Miss Agnes Bernelle, handed me a cable from her husband, Mr. Desmond Leslie, saying:

"Delighted with the news of Salome. Ten minutes ago saw my first flying saucer, so everybody's happy".

Saucer explanation: Author Desmond Leslie co-operated with George Adamski in writing the book "Flying Saucers have Landed"; both are now in the Californian desert doing research work on those elusive objects.

Salome explanation: Miss Bernelle (pictured here) goes to St. Martin's Theatre in two weeks time to play the title role in Oscar Wilde's "Salome".