John A. Keel WHY UFOS

Which is the true account? The devout accept them all. Fewbelievers would reject the existence of Christ because ofthese differences.Like most UFO researchers, I have read the Biblecarefully several times. In view of what we now know—orsuspect—about flying saucers, many of the Biblicalaccounts of things in the sky take on a new meaning andeven corroborate some of the things happening today.They were given a religious interpretation in those ancientdays when all natural phenomena and all catastropheswere blamed on a Superior Being.Today we kneel before the altar of science, and ourscientific ignorance receives the blame for what we do notknow or cannot understand. The game's the same, only therules have changed slightly.We no longer run to the temple when we see a strange,unearthly object in the sky. We run to the Air Force or tothe learned astronomers. In ancient times the priests wouldtell us that we had sinned, and therefore God was showingus signs in the sky. Today our learned leaders simply tell usthat we are mistaken—or crazy—or both. The next time wesee something in the sky, we keep it to ourselves.But the damnable things keep coming back anyway.Maybe they never went away.The first photograph of an unidentified flying objectwas taken way back in 1883 by a Mexican astronomernamed Jose Bonilla. He had been observing the sun fromhis observatory at Zacatecas on August 12 of that yearwhen he was taken aback by the sudden appearance of along parade of circular objects which slowly flitted acrossthe solar disk. Altogether he counted 143 of the things, andsince his telescope was equipped with a newfangled gadgetcalled a camera, he shot some pictures of them. Whendeveloped, the film showed a series of cigar- and spindleshapedobjects which were obviously solid and noncelestial.Professor Bonilla dutifully wrote up a scholarly reportof the event filled with mathematical calculations (heestimated that the objects had actually passed over theearth at an altitude of about 200,000 miles), attachedcopies of his pictures, and sent the whole thing off to theFrench journal L'Astronomie. His colleagues no doubtread it with chagrin, and since they could not explain whathe had seen, they forgot about the whole business andturned to more fruitful pursuits—such as counting therings of Saturn.