Adamski and Menger on the far side of the Moon (from Alien Base)

What was reported

Wintle notes that four chapters of Alien Base are given to individuals, two to George Adamski and one to Howard Menger, whom Good interviewed in 1978 and found charismatic. Both men claimed in the 1950s to have seen the Moon's hidden side before space probes showed it barren and airless: Adamski described valleys with sparse vegetation and, on a third trip, a temperate equatorial belt with snow-capped mountains, lakes, rivers and a fair-sized city; Menger said he walked on the surface and breathed the air. Good defends them with a NASA photograph showing a greenish hue and the testimony of Zinstag and McGinnis, two of six witnesses to Adamski's November 1952 encounter near Desert Center, California, and prints a photograph of Adamski at a scout-craft porthole in which he sees no trickery.

What Hind made of it

Wintle regards Good as undeterred by ridicule and uncritical; he counts the Adamski and Menger chapters among the untypical ones and enjoyed the fourth most.

Explanation offered
Space probes show the far side desolate and airless, contradicting both men

In their words

• I see no evidence of photographic trickery.

• Menger actually walked on the moon.

Cross references

• Timothy Good, Alien Base (1998) pp 131, 142, 185
• Adamski, Inside the Space Ships
• Menger, From Outer Space to You

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 21 (January 2000), spread 22-23