John A. Keel WHY UFOS

of reference to approach human beings. It is also highlyprobable that they do not actually have individualidentities but are manifestations of a greater force which isable to manipulate the human mind. This mental (and alsoemotional) manipulation is the key to our mystery.Possession occurs in both good and evil forms. Possessionis part of the overall manifestation. Many contacteesdisplay the classic symptoms of possession. Arthur Ford,the medium, was possessed on one level; Dr. Newbrough,author of Oahspe, on another; contactees on still another.All are subjects of the same phenomenon—a phenomenonwhich is not bred in the reaches of outer space but whichhas always existed with us here in our own immediateenvironment.The well-investigated miracles are proof that thehuman mind can be exposed to induced hallucinations andthat information can somehow be inserted into the mind bysome unknown mechanism. In most contactee events, thepercipient is alone or with a small group when the UFOcontact occurs. Such percipients suffer medical effectswhich indicate that the "contact" was actually hallucinatory,just as the episodes involving children and religiousentities have proven to be wholly or partially hallucinatory.The event or vision takes place only in the mind, not inreality. The exterior manifestations are merely part of thatmechanism, a byproduct rather than a cause. It is likelythat an outsider trepassing on the scene of a UFO contactwould see the contactee standing in a rigid trance, just asthe witnesses to miracles see only the children in a blindtrance state. The contactee's real experience is in his or hermind as some powerful beam of electromagnetic energy isbroadcasting to that mind, bypassing the biologicalsensory channels.The remembered nonevents are therefore of little or noimportance. This process of broadcasting to the mind hasalways been known as possession or mystical illumination.The modern hippie, under the influence of LSD, oftenundergoes the same kind of experience and believes that hehas tuned in to the cosmic consciousness.We have made the very human mistake of isolating all ofthese manifestations into separate categories and studies.The demonologists, angelologists, theologists, and ufologistshave all been examining the same phenomenon fromslightly different points of view. Aretalogists study theancient writings describing man's contacts with supernat-