According to the biography published by the Bongiovanni family, his life changed in 1976 when, at age 13, he met Catania contactee Eugenio Siragusa, who became his spiritual teacher. Siragusa introduced him to a cosmic doctrine that Bongiovanni said helped explain experiences he had already undergone, including sightings of glowing spheres and encounters with unusual beings. Bongiovanni later inherited Siragusa’s photograph of Adoniesis, the being Siragusa said he had photographed in 1972, an...

In 1972, Italian contactee Eugenio Siragusa publicly presented a photograph of an alleged astral or extraterrestrial being he called “Adoniesis.” In Siragusa’s teachings, Adoniesis was one of the extraterrestrial beings he claimed to be in contact with and one of his principal contacts. Siragusa described Adoniesis as a “Solar Genius” associated with the fifth dimension. Some messages attributed to Adoniesis were said to have been transmitted from a spacecraft called PAX. Two different accoun...