Adamski claims to have met aliens from Venus and Saturn.

I assume that you are using "common sense" in rejecting any information in the books because the author presented an "incredible story" as fact.
Would you have read the books if they would have been presented as fiction?

I think you are aware of the physical characteristics of these planets?

I am aware of the information that the probes and other observing/measuring instruments have given us.

You know, all you really need to bring to the table in these discussions, and many others here, is a little common sense.

I agree that common sense is a very important ingredient in any discussion, but I would add that imagination and the willingness to look at new ideas are just as important if we are to create something that has not existed before.

An occasional bit of humor does not hurt eater.

The reason I mentioned these particular books is because I read them back in the fifties shortly after they came out. Although the words "incredible tale" do not adequately explain the content of the books, they did stir my imagination. (Perhaps that is also why I seem to be pro UFO:-)

The author must have been up to date on the latest scientific developments of the time, or he had good imagination, or he made some lucky guesses about some things, because he was able to explain how such things as microwave ovens, lasers, fiber optics, flat panel color displays, remote sensing devices, holographic displays and memory devices plus many other devices that are still in development, could be used in practice. (He did not use those words to describe the items because the items were not invented or developed at the time.)

It did not matter to me "how or why" the author came up with the ideas in the book, what interested me was the "flying saucer" and how such a thing could be made to operate. In the book it mentions that the "saucer" uses electricity, magnetism, and or electromagnetic, or as yet unknown "fields" for propulsion. To me the use of electricity, or some "fields" that can be created with it, seemed like a "good" way to power an aircraft, no matter what "shape" it would be. After all, if "electricity" was the only "fuel" that was needed for operation and if the electricity storage or generation was very efficient, then perhaps volatile liquids would not need to be carried on board the craft.

In any case, I figured that if the application of electricity, or the effects created with it, could be used as the propelling force in such a way that the operation of the craft would be improved dramatically over existing aircraft, then the research and development to make such a craft would be worth while.
The question then was; where to start such a development.
Since the author of the book all ready had drawings and explanations about the "saucer" craft, I figured that it would be a good place to start from there.
The only problem was, when I studied the drawings for the first time I did not understand "how" the depicted system would or could work.

But now, many years later, after seeing the operation of various new products and applying their operating principles to the "saucer" shaped craft, I am quite certain that I understand the basic physics principles that would make such a craft a reality.

To be sure, much research and development is needed to test all facets of the system.

The major obstacle in further development of this system is the fact that most engineers and scientists can not accept the notion that science fiction or imagination can be used as a starting point in the development of new devices.

Reality

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.