Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind: Selected Writings of John A. Keel Read Online Free

various books and magazine articles, Keel has given us new insights into the UFOs, USOs (unidentified submerged objects), Men in Black, and hairy monsters. He even covers the tangled, often-overlooked subject of unidentified
airplanes and helicopters,
which appear in many areas during or after UFO flaps (without conventional numbers on their wings, tails, or fuselages).
    At night, the cockpits of these unidentified aircraft are brilliantly illuminated (a distinct abnormality, for such would interfere with pilot vision). These mystery planes have been reported to hover, fly without making noise, and navigate close to the ground during severe rain and snowstorms. Frighteningly, they tend to turn up in areas where animals have been found mutilated.
    Like the rest of the mysteries he studies so keenly, Keel believes most of these craft are only
temporary
constructs (or else have the power to become invisible or “cloaked”).
    They pop into our frame of reference from somewhere we can oversimplify as “another dimension.” They can be completely solid as long as they stay here, and then pop right out again – back into the mysterious realm from whence they came…
    A most intriguing subject… And maybe something “they” don’t want you to know about.
    (From
Saucer News,
1970-72)

INTRODUCTION: FIRST AND LAST WORDS
    I recently worked for a year in Washington, D.C., where I served as a special consultant to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (DHEW), which includes the Bureau of Radiological Health and numerous other agencies working in fields allied to our particular (ufological) interests. I worked directly under DHEW Secretary Eliot Richardson (now Secretary of Defense) and had occasion to meet and interview many top officials, extending all the way to the White House.
    It was interesting to discover how many people working in Washington have had UFO sightings and experiences. Unfortunately, very few were able to give us permission to use their names, for obvious reasons. I was privileged to be able to investigate many of the classic rumors while working inside the government. A number of my friends were in the upper echelons of NASA, the Air Force, the Pentagon, and other organizations that had been connected with the UFO mess during the hectic 1960s period. We were able to review a number of interesting documents that have never been released to the press or the public.
    Overall, we merely confirmed the conclusion already outlined in my books and articles. That is, “Project Bluebook” was only a half-baked public relations effort, without proper funding or serious intent – almost tongue-in-cheek. The responsible officials
expected
it to produce negative results. Certain employees of the CIA and the Defense Department were peripherally involved in the project, and so it “self-destructed.”
    A fruitful UFO investigation would probably cost in the neighborhood of $25 million, and there would be no way to justify the cost to Congress or the public. Over the years, various small projects have taken place within obscure agencies, under disguised budgets, involving personnel who literally had nothing better to do. The results of these projects were largely negative, mostly because they were just boondoggles. The personnel involved didn’t know what the hell they were doing (not unusual in Washington).
    In 1966, Dr. J. Allen Hynek made an effort to find government support for a $2 million UFO project he had planned. Other scientists have submitted proposals over the years for UFO projects costing from $25,000 to many millions. The government actually
did
spend several million dollars on UFO research in the early 1950s, but we were never able to pin down the exact figure.
    Some early NASA research was also involved. Again, the results were negative. Top military leaders of the 1950s (e.g., Vandenberg, Doolittle, Twining) actually had a deep interest in psychic phenomena and advanced the conclusion that the