Desert Center, California: George Adamski says he meets the Venusian "Orthon"

At 2:15 p.m., while packing up his telescope, George Adamski saw a man waving to him from about a quarter-mile away, walked over and, by his account, met a being named Orthon while his six companions watched from a distance. Adamski described Orthon as about five and a half feet tall with long blond hair and said he learned through gestures, sign language, a few words and telepathy that Orthon came from Venus and that Venusians were visiting Earth out of concern about nuclear weapons. The conversation lasted about 45 minutes; Orthon declined to be photographed but asked to borrow an unexposed photographic plate, then left in his "scout ship" around 3:04 p.m. Adamski then found footprints in the desert floor containing symbols, and around 3:45 p.m. George Hunt Williamson made plaster casts of them before the group returned to Desert Center. Adamski published the account in Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953); James W. Moseley and later authors critically examined and contested it. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.