Desmond Leslie also joined the ‘White Eagle Lodge’, a group founded in the 1930s by the Spiritualist Grade Cook, channeling a Native American spirit guide called White Eagle. After he returned to Castle Leslie later in life he established a temple for the Lodge at his home, and this seemed to give him a great measure of spiritual comfort. It is clear that Leslie’s interest in UFOs was very much from an esoteric and occult angle, and the idea of ‘space brothers’ fitted in well with his own philosophy. This biography does not make it clear who initiated the link between Leslie and George Adamski, which culminated in the publication of Flying Saucers Have Landed in 1953. Three-quarters of the volume was Leslie’s historical survey, just 50 pages covered Adamski’s account of his extraterrestrial meeting. The mixed reaction to the book, indeed the downright hostility, suited Leslie’s combative spirit, and he vigorously defended his theories in writing and on radio. He was perhaps the first person, in 1953, to claim that the Air Ministry had a special department to investigate UFO reports. (via THE MAGONIA BLOG: An Irish Gentleman)

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In 1999, Thom PUCKEY, an artist of English birth but living and working in Amsterdam since 1978, planted this bronze saucer in a park in Almere, the Netherlands. The sculpture is located next to a school building and is a meeting place for youngsters. In 2008, Portuguese ufologist Nuno ALVES claimed he had visited Almere and spoken to a Dutch ex military man who told him the sculpture was placed there in memory of a true saucer crash that had occurred in the city in the 1970s. The (fabricated) story caused some controversy in Portuguese speaking countries (via CAELESTIA BC-MA-11

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