John A. Keel WHY UFOS

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I do not doubt that someone was carefully flying overthe United States in 1897, paying great attention to specialisolated areas. We can lay out on the map the actualcourses of some of these objects and find that they oftenflew an almost straight line over several towns on a givennight until they reached a place where a landing was laterreported. Meteorites and swamp gas don't fit into thesepatterns. But neither do the Martians and Venusians.Whoever was involved in these activities knew preciselywhat they were doing, and they set up a carefulsmokescreen to cover their real activities. They engineeredmuch of the ridicule, confusion, and disbelief that followedin their wake. By applying the techniques of what we nowcall psychological warfare, they managed to deceive awhole generation—and they're still doing it.Patterns of DeceptionThe operators of the wonderful 1896 airship(s) followeda careful plan which becomes transparent now that we areable to apply hindsight to the huge pile of newspaperreports. Here is a summary of the staged events, piecedtogether from the many newspaper clippings of the period.Early in November, 1896, before the California airshipexcitement had erupted, an impressive stranger visited theoffice of a prominent attorney in San Francisco namedGeorge D. Collins. This man, never identified in thenumerous newspaper accounts, told Collins that he was theinventor of a marvelous new airship which operated oncompressed air. He asked Collins to represent him and helphim obtain a patent. The lawyer was shown detaileddrawings of the invention and was duly impressed. Themystery man seemed intelligent and articulate, appeared tobe in his late forties, was "of dark complexion, dark-eyed,and about 5 feet 7 inches in height and weighed about 140pounds." He was described as being very well dressed andprojected an aura of wealth.A few days after the first airship sightings hit the SanFrancisco newspapers, Collins told reporters that he hadmet the inventor of the craft and that he knew all about theairship. Reporters were unable to locate the mystery man.However, he soon visited an even better-known legaladvisor, one William Henry Harrison Hart, who had oncerun for the office of state attorney general.
Soon after the flap peaked, a statement signed by Hartappeared on page 1 of the San Francisco Call (Sunday,November 29, 1896):I have not seen it [the airship] personally but have talkedwith the man who claims to be the inventor. I have spent severalhours with him. He has shown me drawings and diagrams of hisinvention, and 1 am convinced that they are more adapted forthe purpose for which he claims them than any other inventionmaking such claims that 1 have ever seen I asked thegentleman who claims to be the inventor what his desires werein regard to carrying on the business, and he stated that he didnot desire any money; that he didn't ask or want anyone toinvest in it; that he was not a citizen of California, and that hehad come here to perfect and test his airship I will admitthat this is the first time to my knowledge that anybody hadanything in California in which he did not want anybody toinvest money.According to Hart, the invention operated on gas andelectricity, and the inventor expressed interest in using hismachine to fly to Cuba and drive out the Spaniards. Someof the local newspapers apparently misquoted both Collinsand Hart badly, and this probably led to Hart's issuance ofa signed statement. By the end of November, Collins was sodisgusted that he refused to see reporters or discuss thematter further.The mysterious inventor had managed to single out twoof the most respected men in California. They had, in goodfaith, served as his spokesmen, and their reports werewidely circulated. The flap of that Thanksgiving weeksupported their stories, but the inventor never cameforward to enjoy his triumph. He simply vanished after thesightings subsided.The description of the mystery man—darkcomplexioned,dark-eyed, slight in stature—bears aremarkable resemblance to the numerous descriptions ofthe airship occupants as published five months later duringthe wave of April, 1897. Also, witnesses to some of the 1897landings claimed that the occupants discussed the situationin Cuba. Some of the minor discrepancies in the publishedstories of Hart and Collins may have been journalisticerrors or may have been based on understandablemisinterpretations of the technical data offered by theinventor. Collins thought the objects operated oncompressed air, while Hart said they ran on gas and
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I have tried to apply the standard
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credence in the reports we have rec
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emained that way for days afterward
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phenomena). There were 2,600 report
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something that night. The next day
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what seems to be a closer range tha
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ig red ball" sailing over her house
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Already we can arrive at one distur
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er systems engineer who holds a bac
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Which is the true account? The devo
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Forty-one years later, however, a y
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seen? The general behavior of the o
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contactee syndrome. The ET believer
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"orange and blue and red, and it le
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each shock struck. Scientists have
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of a British officer who served wit
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flying object in these woods."That
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excited phone call from a Galesburg
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seemed to have a long tail. One per
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Mexico, Texas, and the Southwest.Ma
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throughout the summer of 1968. Hund
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WisconsinThursday, January 12: Colo
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the sky.Random reports slowly built
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same areas. He also questioned the
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accept. Then, whenever we see somet
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pilot observed an unusual object fr
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the ship rose and sailed away out o
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Here again, I feel that these corre
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visible. He estimated that these me
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similar that it seems as if the ufo
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In the Air Force files, the object
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If we can put the witnesses themsel
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eceiving visits from peculiar Air F
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time he was dressed in conventional
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entities told him that they lived u
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phenomenon?Throughout this book I h
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The Modus Operandi of ProphecyOur f
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passed on to us, and we are just be
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they continue to turn up everywhere
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craft and enter another one that ha
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evening in July, 1957. For a long l
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He was, he said, called out in the
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space, friend of extraterrestrials,
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people around him at that time.Did
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growled and backed away. He said th
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The Contactee HoaxI have now met an
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12. The Cosmic JokersDemonology is
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(trying to get rid of him) by foist
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on earth, and in time, all have exp
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must ask: Who are all these people?
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Except for those who might be speci
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as turning up in the form of Abraha
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morning of January 30, 1965, when h
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can be found in almost every cultur
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female entities have been described
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to offer proof of religious beliefs
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smelled."A detached, derisive voice
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Water also plays an enigmatic role
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purportedly visited Venus and Mars.
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covered cottages, and all is sweetn
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course, that the shock of the accid
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to the extent that we can fulfill o
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13. A sure Cure for Alligator Bites
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experienced unquestioned miracles.
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wave of heat on his arm and hand. W
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this white, headless entity twice a
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of threat.It was at this July conta
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have seen it This clear-shaped disk
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als may have decided that some form
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There have been many modern miracle
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The angels in all of these cases so
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A luminous female figure appeared o
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of reference to approach human bein
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14. Breakthrough!Within a year afte
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catastrophes in July. New York City
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crashes, and an earthquake had take
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And waited.That same year, another
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assassinate top government official
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tremendous puzzle were falling into
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outine trip to deliver a truckload
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Time Distortion and DistentionSmall
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suppressed in the same way the Hill
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15. You Can't Tell the Players With
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accurate summary of AF statistics,
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investigation. In many cases, they
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e in the can, and the wonderful fly
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UFOs do not seem to exist as tangib
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investigate something that doesn't
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distill all the facts. This job sho
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always have been. They are operatin
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