That's Adamski's pal Orthon of Venus striking a pose, though perhaps author Gray Barker was hoping some less attentive readers might mistake him for a lady alien like the lovely Aura Rhanes of Clarion. Barker wasn't above a little misdirection, as this anecdote reveals:
Barker occasionally engaged in deliberate hoaxes to deceive UFO enthusiasts. In 1957, for example, Barker and [James W.] Moseley wrote a fake letter (signed "R.E. Straith") to self-claimed "contactee" George Adamski, telling Adamski that the United States Department of State was pleased with Adamski's research into UFOs. The letter was written on State Department stationery, and Barker himself described it as "one of the great unsolved mysteries of the UFO field" in his 1967 Book of Adamski.
Furthermore, the "giant 8.5 x 11 format" advertised was due to the book being self published and assembled from loose leaf papers rather than professionally bound.
From Fate, Volume 22 - Number 7, July 1969.
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