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existing among the California saucer enthusiasts? Was it part of a plan formulated by negative forces? Why was Hunrath a brilliant scientist one moment and a not too bright electrician the next?

Hunrath Causes Trouble for Adamski

Williamson wasn’t the only one looking for answers about Hunrath’s intentions. The G-men of the Los Angeles office of the FBI were soon knocking on doors, too, and wanting to know what the hell Hunrath’s game was. It turned out that on one fateful day in the summer of 1952 George Adamski’s secretary, Lucy McGinnis, called the soon-to-be wife of one Jerrold Baker—a handyman at Palomar and one of Adamski’s faithful friends—in alarmed fashion. Adamski, Hunrath, Wilkinson, and Baker had all been hanging out at Palomar that morning, harmlessly spending time trying to outdo each other in the UFO stakes. All was fine for a while, but matters nearly came to blows when Hunrath started ranting and bragging about how he—or more correctly, BOSCO—could destroy the US Air Force’s aerial armada in a flash. Demonstrating a high degree of astuteness, Adamski became instantly concerned that this information might get back to law enforcement officials; he slung Hunrath, Wilkinson, and Baker off his property, ordering them never to return. It wasn’t long before Adamski’s worst nightmare came absolutely true.

Jerrold Baker’s beloved, Irma, was unsure what to do about Lucy McGinnis’s revelations concerning Hunrath and his boasting about being able to destroy American planes. So she erred on the side of what she perceived to be caution. That’s to say, she picked up the phone, called the Air Force and the FBI, and spilled the beans. The whole damned can. Officialdom moved quickly and right in the direction of George Adamski. On arriving at his home later that very same day, the grim, unsmiling minions of J. Edgar Hoover told a quaking, fear-filled Adamski they had heard rumors that he, Adamski, “had in his possession a machine which could draw ‘flying saucers’ and airplanes down from the sky,” which is a