John A. Keel WHY UFOS

15. You Can't Tell the Players Without aScorecardNow perhaps we can better understand RAF AirMarshal Sir Victor Goddard's remarks: "The astral worldof illusion, which is greatly inhabited by illusion-pronespirits, is well known for its multifarious imaginativeactivities and exhortations. Seemingly some of its denizensare eager to exemplify principalities and powers. Otherspronounce upon morality, spirituality, Deity, etc. All ofthese astral exponents who invoke human consciousnessmay be sincere, but many of their theses may be framed topropagate some special phantasm... or simply to astonishand disturb the gullible for the devil of it."These "illusion-prone spirits" are responsible for nearlyall of the UFO appearances and manipulations. The flyingsaucers do not come from some Buck Rogers-typecivilization on some distant planet. They are our next-doorneighbors, part of another space-time continuum wherelife, matter, and energy are radically different from ours.Ancient man knew this and recognized it. The originalBiblical texts employed the word sheol, which meantinvisible world. Somehow, the translators turned this into"hell" and gave it an entirely different meaning.After spending more than a decade investigating andresearching the UFO phenomenon, an engineer namedBryant Reeve published this statement in 1965: "...Webegan to see that vehicles in outer space were not really theimportant thing. They were merely an indication ofsomething vastly greater, of earthman's awakening to atremendous new awareness."It had taken Mr. Reeve many years to arrive at aconclusion which had apparently been reached in the hallsof Washington long before. In January, 1953, the CentralIntelligence Agency collected together a group of leadingscientists to review the flying saucer evidence compiled byCaptain Edward Ruppelt and his Air Force Project BlueBook teams. The final report of this blue-ribbon panel waskept in the classified files for thirteen years and was notreleased to the press until 1966. In that report, thesescientists, some of whom later became recipients of theNobel Prize, declared: