Episode 023 - The Strange Death of Zygmund Adamski

Was Zygmund Adamski murdered?

Though I could not confirm the exact location of the Adamski residence, I made an educated guess using comparisons of old photographs and recent maps. I am pretty confident in my conclusion, but if I am indeed in error, please state so in the comments.

Oddly enough, the Peter Sutcliffe questioned by Constable Godfrey shares a name with an infamous serial killer: the Yorkshire Ripper. They are, of course, not one and the same.

There seems to be some conflicting information about Mr. Adamski’s string vest that he was found wearing on June 11th. Some sources indicate he may have been wearing such a garment when he left his house on June 6th. I believe, however, that the confusion arises from his shirt being described by his wife as a ‘sport shirt’. String vests are often worn during sport training, however, a ‘sport shirt’ in this context is what many people would call a button-down shirt or a casual dress shirt. This would typically be worn with a ‘sport coat’. Why he would be ultimately found wearing only a string vest escapes me, though he could have been wearing it under his normal clothes and his wife simply didn’t mention it. He was presumably wearing boxers or briefs as well when he left on the 6th, but those weren’t mentioned either.

The burns on Mr. Adamski’s head and neck are often exaggerated (sometime greatly so), probably in an unconscious effort to link his death to some sort of radiation or energy-weapon exposure. Though they are certainly something worth investigating, they are only a curiosity when compared to the case as a whole.

Since many of the connections between UFOs and Zygmund Adamski are cobbled together long after the event, I find them very specious and much more the result of wish-fulfillment than measured theorizing. Viewers are free to disagree, of course, but to me the whole subject smacks of confirmation bias, where facts and details are cherry-picked to fit a desired narrative, ignoring evidence to the contrary. These sorts of ‘after-the-fact’ connections are a huge red flag in Fortean investigation, although admittedly red flags are not incontrovertible proof for or against anything.
The UFO encounter experienced by Alan Godfrey is perhaps fodder for a future video (as is the stories of Walton, Valentich and Taylor) and is quite a strange event in its own right. But it must be said that there is a common misconception that Mr. Godfrey actively promotes the idea that Mr. Adamski was kidnapped by a UFO. He does not. It is quite clear from his first-hand accounts of the Adamski investigation that he believes the cause of death to be very much a terrestrial one. In fact, at times he seems refreshingly reticent about his own experience, unwilling to draw an absolute conclusion.

Speaking of Mr. Godfrey, his book “Who or What Were They” is a fascinating and worth-while read and is an invaluable first-hand source for the Adamski affair as well as contextual information regarding the local environs and history. Copies of his book are available on ebay and are sold directly by him.

“The Pennine UFO Mystery” by Jenny Randles is another good source of information. Ms. Randles is a very good and entertaining writer, UFOs being only one of her many subjects of interest. Although she is by no means infallible, her somewhat clinical and reasoned approach to the subject makes any book she writes worth reading. In particular, her book
“The UFO’s That Never Were” is excellent.

Here is a non-comprehensive sampling of sources:
http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2013/11/pennine-ufo-controversy.html (An article critical of Jenny Randles and her rebuttal)
http://web.archive.org/web/20101205223048/http://www.bufora.org.uk/Articles/Zigmund%20Adamski.pdf (A Wayback article by Hanson and Sankey)
https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1018462/pg1 (Above Top Secret article which is a good , and surprisingly rational, overview of the case)
https://www.amazon.com/Jenny-Randles/e/B00JOIOIOI?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&qid=1637047633&sr=8-3 (Jenny Randle’s Amazon page – The Pennine UFO Mystery is sadly out of print and very hard to come by, but many of her other books are worthy reads).
https://www.ebay.com/itm/224338250124?epid=21006396167&hash=item343b9a098c:g:qMcAAOSw1GpgGoqH (Mr. Godfrey’s ebay page).
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