Nordics

Opening of contact. On 20 November 1952, in the California desert near Desert Center, George Adamski met a fair, humanlike visitor he called Orthon. Six witnesses watched from half a mile away. The conversation was conducted in hand signs and telepathy, and the subject was atomic testing: radiation does not stop at the edge of the atmosphere, because no such edge exists. After the departure the group cast the footprints in plaster, and the prints carried symbols nobody could read. The first known conversation with a space brother was therefore largely a matter of gesture. It got through regardless, which is the first essential thing to know about this nation.

The nation's home world. Orthon said he had come from Venus. In later contacts Nordics have also arrived from the Pleiades, from Taygeta and from other worlds of the humanlike star nations. The name describes an appearance rather than an origin, and it covers several peoples who are related to one another without being the same. There is no one shared home planet, and the nation has never treated this as an important question. Their message has, time after time, concerned the planet the asker already lives on.

How does this nation appear? Nordics are met in physical close contact, as the crew of craft and as telepathic messengers of peace. They are tall, fair and humanlike, and their messages return to the prevention of nuclear war, the protection of nature and cooperation between peoples. Of all the star nations they are the most formal. An encounter resembles a visit more than an apparition: a greeting, the matter at hand, a farewell.

Its mission beside humanity. The Nordic gift is scale. Seen from far enough away, national borders and the edge of the atmosphere are equally imaginary, and radiation checks neither. Their teaching is not a sermon but a correction of scale: an act is shown at the size it actually is rather than the size it is usually filed under. From this follows their recurring theme of responsibility. Every generation answers for its acts both to Earth and to the wider community, and the latter is not far away.

How does contact open? Contact may open as very vivid dreams, as the meeting of a humanlike figure or as telepathic knowledge that arrives already organised. The messages are clear and practical. Nordics are slightly dull in this respect: they would rather discuss next week than the year 2040, and the subject is more often the neighbour than the galaxy.

How can its presence be recognised? Fair or bluish light, deep and calm eye contact and a slowing of time are their signs. The message is recognised by simplification: a complicated matter settles into one clear sentence, which is usually uncomfortably possible to act on. The second mark is what is missing. A Nordic does not tell the listener that they have been chosen. They are speaking to humanity and you happen to be present.