Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind: Selected Writings of John A. Keel by John A. Keel Page B
Authors: John A. Keel
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the awesome alternative: that UFOs are earthly in origin, are accompanied by so-called psychic manifestations, and are produced by complex distortions of space, time, and even of reality itself.
“What the theft was designed to prevent,” Creighton notes, “was the dissemination to millions of European listeners that similar views about UFOs are held by foreign experts of the caliber of Dr. J. Allen Hynek. It looks as though ‘somebody’ is mighty anxious that we Earthlings do not learn the truth about ‘something’ which, I suggest, might relate to the 64-billion-dollar question:
who owns and controls this planet…and us?”
Who, indeed, has the ability to control the mails, the telephones, and radio and television stations
worldwide?
Are people from some distant planet traveling the backroads of Long Island in black Cadillacs, or was Ivan Sanderson right? Are we dealing with beings that originate on our own planet? Someone has tried very hard for years to convince us that those strange things in our skies are harmless spaceships from some distant world. So long as we believe it, and believe that they originate from far beyond our pitiful reach, we seem to be relatively safe. But when we look in the wrong direction – towards Earth itself – there comes a heavy knock on our door in the middle of the night.
CHAPTER 5
“CONTACTEE” RUSTLING – 1979 LECTURE
Those of you who’ve read some of my books know that I’m a growing skeptic. I started out as a great believer, and I’ve gradually turned into a skeptic as my investigations have progressed. I’m going to try to explain to you today some of those investigations and why they have made me skeptical of the basic flying saucer premise. That basic premise, of course, is that these things are from outer space. There’s no question that there are strange things in the sky, but where they come from and what they’re doing here is wide open. We know very little about them after 35 or 40 years of investigation. Our main problem, as I’ve stated in a number of books and articles, is that the will to believe is much stronger than the will to understand. People are very quick to accept a belief without any evidence. Sometimes with no evidence at all... A lot of our major religions are based on that strange ability of the human mind to accept such beliefs.
Harry Houdini, back in the ‘20s, became a good friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Harry Houdini, of course, was the great escape artist. Arthur Conan Doyle was also a famous investigator of psychic phenomenon in that era. He decided that Harry Houdini was not a magician at all, but a psychic. Doyle believed Houdini wasn’t just escaping from these boxes and things; he was dematerializing and materializing outside the boxes. So he approached Harry Houdini with this theory and Houdini laughed at him saying, “That’s nonsense, I use simple trickery to get out of these boxes.” But Arthur Conan Doyle was convinced that Harry Houdini was a medium, and he stated this in some books and magazine articles. Harry Houdini got so mad that he broke off his relationship with Doyle. Doyle refused to believe that these were magic tricks…
Now, with flying saucers, we have a similar situation. We have been accepting, at face value, a lot of the things that have been said. I’d say 98% of the literature on flying saucers is absolute garbage. I know because I’ve had to read all of it over the years. When you try to track down some of these things (especially things that happened some years ago), you either end up at a blank wall or you find that it was much different from what was reported in the flying saucer magazines of that time. There are great dissimilarities. So after a lot of bad experiences, I decided to investigate only things that hadn’t received any publicity and had happened very recently. And that got me into the Mothman mess. I went down to
“What the theft was designed to prevent,” Creighton notes, “was the dissemination to millions of European listeners that similar views about UFOs are held by foreign experts of the caliber of Dr. J. Allen Hynek. It looks as though ‘somebody’ is mighty anxious that we Earthlings do not learn the truth about ‘something’ which, I suggest, might relate to the 64-billion-dollar question:
who owns and controls this planet…and us?”
Who, indeed, has the ability to control the mails, the telephones, and radio and television stations
worldwide?
Are people from some distant planet traveling the backroads of Long Island in black Cadillacs, or was Ivan Sanderson right? Are we dealing with beings that originate on our own planet? Someone has tried very hard for years to convince us that those strange things in our skies are harmless spaceships from some distant world. So long as we believe it, and believe that they originate from far beyond our pitiful reach, we seem to be relatively safe. But when we look in the wrong direction – towards Earth itself – there comes a heavy knock on our door in the middle of the night.
CHAPTER 5
“CONTACTEE” RUSTLING – 1979 LECTURE
Those of you who’ve read some of my books know that I’m a growing skeptic. I started out as a great believer, and I’ve gradually turned into a skeptic as my investigations have progressed. I’m going to try to explain to you today some of those investigations and why they have made me skeptical of the basic flying saucer premise. That basic premise, of course, is that these things are from outer space. There’s no question that there are strange things in the sky, but where they come from and what they’re doing here is wide open. We know very little about them after 35 or 40 years of investigation. Our main problem, as I’ve stated in a number of books and articles, is that the will to believe is much stronger than the will to understand. People are very quick to accept a belief without any evidence. Sometimes with no evidence at all... A lot of our major religions are based on that strange ability of the human mind to accept such beliefs.
Harry Houdini, back in the ‘20s, became a good friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Harry Houdini, of course, was the great escape artist. Arthur Conan Doyle was also a famous investigator of psychic phenomenon in that era. He decided that Harry Houdini was not a magician at all, but a psychic. Doyle believed Houdini wasn’t just escaping from these boxes and things; he was dematerializing and materializing outside the boxes. So he approached Harry Houdini with this theory and Houdini laughed at him saying, “That’s nonsense, I use simple trickery to get out of these boxes.” But Arthur Conan Doyle was convinced that Harry Houdini was a medium, and he stated this in some books and magazine articles. Harry Houdini got so mad that he broke off his relationship with Doyle. Doyle refused to believe that these were magic tricks…
Now, with flying saucers, we have a similar situation. We have been accepting, at face value, a lot of the things that have been said. I’d say 98% of the literature on flying saucers is absolute garbage. I know because I’ve had to read all of it over the years. When you try to track down some of these things (especially things that happened some years ago), you either end up at a blank wall or you find that it was much different from what was reported in the flying saucer magazines of that time. There are great dissimilarities. So after a lot of bad experiences, I decided to investigate only things that hadn’t received any publicity and had happened very recently. And that got me into the Mothman mess. I went down to
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