Timothy Good - Earth - An Alien Enterprise

where I now noticed a high wooden entrance gate behind the open doorway, with a small built-in door. The door was partly opened and a man was standing inside it, gesturing discreetly to George. On his chest I noticed some kind of material in white, green, and red. . . . May and I returned an hour later.

“There was George already, grinning like a monkey [with] his eyes shining like black topazes. ‘We have done it,’ he said. ‘I was received by the Pope.

He gave me his blessing and I gave him the message.’ When later in the day we lunched with George, he told us that the Pope was not lying in the room above St. Peter’s Square, as the people had been told, but that his bedroom faced the most beautiful part of the Vatican garden. And he added confidentially, ‘If you ask me, the Pope is hardly a dying man. . . . They haven’t yet tried to operate on him, but I’m sure that’s what they will do soon.’ George added that the Pope even had rosy cheeks, and had said that he did not feel so bad.

“George had been helped on with a kind of cassock over his suit before he entered the bedroom. The Pope gave him a nice smile and said: ‘I have been expecting you.’ When George handed him the sealed package from Copenhagen, he said—also in English: ‘My son, this is what I have been waiting for.’ He then spoke to his visitor in a very low and soft voice for a few minutes. Adamski had to bend his head down close to the Pope’s, whose last words were: ‘My son, don’t worry, we will make it.’ After receiving the Papal blessing, Adamski was ushered out.”

Although only in the preliminary stages of cancer, the Pope died two days later.

There is ample evidence that this meeting did take place, such as the gold medallion given to Adamski during the audience, with the Pope’s head in profile thereon, dated May 31, 1963. Following the meeting, Adamski showed the medallion to Lou and May, and it was ascertained from banks in Rome that the ecumenical coin had not been available officially until two weeks later. Also of relevance was the small plastic wallet in which the coin was wrapped. “It bore the most singular inscription I have ever seen, protected by a transparent cover,” said Lou. “The written characters were of a very unusual kind; certainly neither Roman nor Gothic, nor were they Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, or Hebrew.”54 According to Major Petersen, Adamski had had another audience with Pope John XXIII. In confidential talks with Petersen during his trip to Europe