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Back in the good old days, UFO investigating was a relatively easy task. Nowadays, ufology is slowly evolving into an exact science and is becoming more and more complicated. The simplistic extraterrestrial hypothesis is losing ground to the complex paraphysical concept. Investigators are no longer concerned with merely proving the Air Force is lying, or that UFOs came from outer space. We are trying to find out what is really going on, and what the ultimate meaning of the phenomenon is. So we have to approach everything with the same thoroughness that military intelligence might use in collecting evidence to find a spy in the Pentagon.
CHAPTER 3
KEEL’S SPEECH TO THE CONGRESS OF SCIENTIFIC UFOLOGISTS – NEW YORK CITY, 1967
I’m sorry but this award, and the plaque you have given me, really threw me off the track... This is a complete surprise to me…
Nonetheless, I have a very sensational speech… I am going to tell you where the flying saucers come from, and I am going to tell you
all
of the secrets of the saucers.
[laughter]
I have been chasing these things for over a year. I have traveled in some twenty states and talked to thousands of people who have seen these things; and I have seen quite a few of them myself. One of them came down very close to the car I was in and scared the living daylights out of me on the night of April 3 rd , down in West Virginia. I spent a lot of time down there, as some of you know, chasing the Mothman, but never caught him. We may do a TV series on the Mothman.
I started out a year ago to apply the so-called “scientific method” to saucer sightings. I started checking reports from all over the country. I ended up with 10,000 reports for the year 1966. I have tried, and I am still trying to, sort these into categories: the times that the objects were seen, the kinds of objects seen, the type of witness, and so on, in the hope that this information will give us some clue as to what they are. But, as I plunged deeper into this mystery, I discovered that the flying saucers are not the mystery. The mystery is something else. The mystery is more in the nature of what we call “contactees” and UFO “landings.” I think these objects are doing some things here, stealthily, at low-level all over the country – all over the world – and that they are doing them constantly.
I would like to read to you a typical contactee story from
The Daily Texarkanian,
of Texarkana, Arkansas. The date is April 25. It says that on Friday night, one Judge Lawrence Byrne, who is a distinguished man known for his honesty throughout the community, claims that he was driving along a bayou outside of Texarkana. He saw what he described as a “large aluminum disc” on the ground. He went over to this thing, and there were three people there. And he talked with them, or tried to talk with them. They couldn’t understand him, and he could not understand them. They were speaking in some kind of strange, foreign language. They were slight in stature, and they had Oriental eyes, dark skin, and high cheekbones. He thought they were Japanese. Even though he could not talk with them, they took him aboard this machine and allowed him to examine it. They gave him a guided tour through the machine and, when they let him out, the thing took off and flew away.
Now, there is nothing too remarkable about this story, because we have been hearing them all the time for the last twenty years; but this story is dated April 25,
1897.
It is one of the hundreds of contact stories from 1897. And they all fall into the same category. It has only been in the last year that researchers around the country, and around the world, have begun to go back to old newspapers to try to find out what these
Back in the good old days, UFO investigating was a relatively easy task. Nowadays, ufology is slowly evolving into an exact science and is becoming more and more complicated. The simplistic extraterrestrial hypothesis is losing ground to the complex paraphysical concept. Investigators are no longer concerned with merely proving the Air Force is lying, or that UFOs came from outer space. We are trying to find out what is really going on, and what the ultimate meaning of the phenomenon is. So we have to approach everything with the same thoroughness that military intelligence might use in collecting evidence to find a spy in the Pentagon.
CHAPTER 3
KEEL’S SPEECH TO THE CONGRESS OF SCIENTIFIC UFOLOGISTS – NEW YORK CITY, 1967
I’m sorry but this award, and the plaque you have given me, really threw me off the track... This is a complete surprise to me…
Nonetheless, I have a very sensational speech… I am going to tell you where the flying saucers come from, and I am going to tell you
all
of the secrets of the saucers.
[laughter]
I have been chasing these things for over a year. I have traveled in some twenty states and talked to thousands of people who have seen these things; and I have seen quite a few of them myself. One of them came down very close to the car I was in and scared the living daylights out of me on the night of April 3 rd , down in West Virginia. I spent a lot of time down there, as some of you know, chasing the Mothman, but never caught him. We may do a TV series on the Mothman.
I started out a year ago to apply the so-called “scientific method” to saucer sightings. I started checking reports from all over the country. I ended up with 10,000 reports for the year 1966. I have tried, and I am still trying to, sort these into categories: the times that the objects were seen, the kinds of objects seen, the type of witness, and so on, in the hope that this information will give us some clue as to what they are. But, as I plunged deeper into this mystery, I discovered that the flying saucers are not the mystery. The mystery is something else. The mystery is more in the nature of what we call “contactees” and UFO “landings.” I think these objects are doing some things here, stealthily, at low-level all over the country – all over the world – and that they are doing them constantly.
I would like to read to you a typical contactee story from
The Daily Texarkanian,
of Texarkana, Arkansas. The date is April 25. It says that on Friday night, one Judge Lawrence Byrne, who is a distinguished man known for his honesty throughout the community, claims that he was driving along a bayou outside of Texarkana. He saw what he described as a “large aluminum disc” on the ground. He went over to this thing, and there were three people there. And he talked with them, or tried to talk with them. They couldn’t understand him, and he could not understand them. They were speaking in some kind of strange, foreign language. They were slight in stature, and they had Oriental eyes, dark skin, and high cheekbones. He thought they were Japanese. Even though he could not talk with them, they took him aboard this machine and allowed him to examine it. They gave him a guided tour through the machine and, when they let him out, the thing took off and flew away.
Now, there is nothing too remarkable about this story, because we have been hearing them all the time for the last twenty years; but this story is dated April 25,
1897.
It is one of the hundreds of contact stories from 1897. And they all fall into the same category. It has only been in the last year that researchers around the country, and around the world, have begun to go back to old newspapers to try to find out what these
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