John Keel - Notable Quotable

I learned that John Keel has died.

Keel became best known for his work The Mothman Prophecies. However, what most people don't know is that he was undoubtedly an original, controversial, and outspoken researcher on the subject of the so-called "Alien/UFO" phenomenon.

It's interesting to note something he was quoted as saying given our looks into the same subject here in this forum.

According to Twilight Language:

"Ufology is just another name for demonology," John Keel told me, a week before the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center, which occurred just a couple of miles from where he lives....as noted in Mothman and Other Curious Encounters, page 114, (NY: Paraview, 2002).



The Twilight Language blog continues:

It was Keel’s second book, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (1970), that alerted the general public that many aspects of contemporary UFO reports, including humanoid encounters, often paralleled certain ancient folklore and religious encounters. Keel also argued that there is a direct relationship between UFOs and elemental phenomena. Keel informed me often that he did not consider himself a "ufologist," but a "demonologist."

As Keel himself wrote, "I abandoned the extraterrestrial hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs… The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs."

In UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (1970), Keel argued that a non-human or spiritual intelligence source has staged whole events over a long period of time in order to propagate and reinforce certain erroneous belief systems (mirroring Vallée). Keel conjectured that ultimately all anomalies, such as fairies, 1897 mystery airships, 1930s phantom aeroplanes, mystery helicopters, creatures, poltergeists, balls of light, and UFOs, are a cover for the real phenomenon.

There you have it.

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