Nov 26, 2018
Graham reads, Darren Interrupts.
Keels speech to the Congress of scientific ufologists, NYC
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’m going to tell
you where the flying saucers come from and I'm going to tell you
all the secrets of the saucers. I have been chasing these things
for over a year. I've traveled in some 20 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, down in West Virginia.
I spent a lot of time down there as some of you know chasing
the Moth man, buuuut. never caught him. We may do a tv series on
the Moth Man. I started out a year ago to apply the so-called
scientific method to saucer sightings. I started checking out
reports from all over the country. I ended up with 10,000 reports
from the year 1966. I have tried and I am still trying to sort
these into categories. The times that the objects were seen, the
kind 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.
Buuttt as I plunge deeper into this mystery I discovered that
the flying saucers are not the mystery. The mystery is something
else. The mystery is more in what we call contactees and ufo
landings. I think these objects are doing some things here
stealthily at the 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 tex arcananian of Tex Arcana Arkansas.
The date is April 25, it says that on Friday night, one
Judge Lawrence Burn who was a distinguished man for his honesty
among the community was driving along the bayou, outside of Tex
Arcana. He saw what he described as a large aluminum disk on the
ground. He went over to this things and there were three people
there and he talked with them… or tried to talk with
him.
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 him, 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 20 years.
But this story is dated April 25, 1897. It is but 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 dirigible shaped
objects were. There were no dirigible’s then. A few years later
Count Von Zeppelin came along with his Zeppelin. The
experiments with lighter than aircraft up until that time had been
very unfortunate. They crashed or they weren't about 20 miles and
blew up. So, you all have heard of these famous sightings, and we
have all kinds of contact stories. Many of them compare favorably
with each other even though they were not widely circulated at the
time. The majority of contact stories describe the pilots as being
normal looking people.
The judge said he thought he ran into some Japanese people,
but the majority of them had been described as being normal looking
people who could speak English very well. At least in the united
state's reports. There is a mysterious woman described in several
of these. In fact, in a series of accounts ranging from Texas
Arkansas, and into California we have 3 passengers described. One
was an elderly man with a beard, another was a younger man and a
third was a woman. These three people of three people like them
were apparently seen all over the country during that flap. Now you
know where this leads us. It sort of indicates that maybe Adamsky
was telling the truth after all.
Maybe a lot of these people are telling the truth and yet
their stories are contradictory. All of these witnesses in 1897
were told something different. Naturally, the whole world was in an
uproar over this mysterious dirigible. Actually, there were a lot
of them because on the same day you find a dirigible was seen over
Chicago, one was seen over Texas and one over London. There were
too many of them, there must have been several of these machines
flying around. You find that when witnesses approached the pilots
on the ground and asked them where they were from they all got a
different answer.
In only one case did the pilot mention outer
space.
And in that case, they said they had just built this thing and
that they were going to try and fly to Mars in it. In all of the
other cases, they claimed that they were local inventors from
Indiana and/or Nebraska. In every case, they gave a different story
and said that the full details of the invention would be released
to the world any day now. In a couple of cases, they mentioned the
world situation at the time in 1897.
They said, that as soon as Cuba is free they would release
their information to the world. The point is that they were
deliberately lying to the witnesses. Obviously all of the witnesses
or some of them. The Judge, the police officers, and so on may not
have been making up the stories, they may have made up some details
as often happens, but I think these people were being lied to. And
I think that these people today, the contactees are being lied to.
There is an enormous contactee situation going on right now this
week throughout the country.
These are what are called silent contactees. You never hear
about them. They never make any noise. In fact, their next-door
neighbors don't know their stories. As I travel I dig out these
people and sometimes it is a lot of hard work. Sometimes, two weeks
of work to locate or track down one rumor and talk with people.
They all tell me basically the same things, except for the content
of the messages they have received. Woodrow derinburger in West
Virginia says that he was told these spacemen come from
Languorous.
And you are familiar with other stories when the names of
planets like Clarion and Mazer and so on have been mentioned. The
truth is that the flying saucers don't want us to know where they
come from. They are quite willing to contact us and they do contact
us frequently. They contact individuals on a highway, they contact
people on farms in isolated spots. And there is a lot of it going
on… I can't prove any of this in a short talk but you have to
believe that I have the documentation. I have talked to many
people.
I have fascinating tape recordings, some made in New Jersey
and some made in West Virginia. If you play them side by side the
people are telling the same story, although they have never heard
of each other. their Story’s have never been published. These are
not the kind of stories that people like George Adamsky have been
telling. These are details about the craft, and about the type of
beings that have approached them. There are other details as
well.
When I find a new contactee, I have a questionnaire of 8
questions.
If they answer these questions right, I tend to believe their
story. I find also, that the majority of these new contactees are
women. There are very few men. I think this probably has been the
case throughout, perhaps we usually think of women as being
talkative, but I think women are also less skeptical and easier to
approach. We also have a number of cases where people have become
frightened and have gone police complaining that these things have
landed in their backyards and that these spacemen were trying to
talk to them.
While the police keep a record of this they make fun of these
people who report. When I walked into a police station (that is
always my first stop) they say…. aaaahhhh we got a nut down the
road that claims these things are landing in their backyard. So, I
go and talk with that “nut” who is usually a woman and she usually
has the same story that I heard a hundred times. I could
practically recite it, but I won't. As I say these are details that
I am keeping to myself, although now I am beginning to spread them
among a few investigators. We are using these details to check out
and possibly confirm these stories.
An object landed in a rather desolate place in Long Island on
April 14, 1967. The witness was driving an automobile and the car
stalled. He saw a door open on the object and some kind of
mechanical device got out of the object. It was not a person, but
the witness was able to see inside the object. He said he saw dials
and so on. There were a few details in this story that confirm the
details we have heard elsewhere. He said the mechanical device got
out and shoveled up some dirt. Just like the rover we sent to the
moon. Two weeks earlier on March 31, something supposedly landed on
a farm in Wellington Texas.
The witness Carol Wayne Watts said he did not see anybody but
that a door opened and he heard a voice that had invited him
aboard. He walked aboard the thing and a voice told him they would
take them for a ride if he would submit to a physical examination.
He refused to submit to the physical examination, he got off the
thing and it took off. There was one detail to his story that has
gone unpublished. When I learned that one detail I tended to
believe his story was true.
I think we now have many thousands of these stories going
unnoticed. Because nobody is investigating them. the Air Force
investigation as it has been said here many times is a joke. If you
report a sighting to the Air Force they will mail you a form that
is idiotic. They will mail this form and expect you to fill it out
and mail it back to them. And they will put it in their file. I you
fail to come up with one little detail, like what the temperature
was when you saw the object they classify it as insufficient and
then put it in their “insufficient” file.
They don't record it in their statistics. In some cases, and I
have talked to people who have gone through it, they have reported
a low-level sighting or have reported that their automobile has
been pressed by these objects. In those cases, the air force may
make several phone calls. These calls will usually come a long
distance from Wright Patterson and sometimes be as long as 3 hours.
Some person at Wright Patterson grills these people very carefully
about detail. And it is obvious to the witness that a form is being
filled out on the other end. A much more elaborate form that the
one that is mailed out.
I’ve gone to the Air Force and said “in not interested in this
form that is mailed out and I would like to see the other
one.
The one you use on the phone calls. They say “oh we haven't
got anything like that” so then I produce tapes of these people who
told me the story and the questions they were asked. Maybe of the
questions asked in these phone conversations seem quite relevant to
the flying saucer problem. Obviously, the air force and the
governments are aware of what is going on but they are not paying
attention to the individual sightings. Nobody could afford to. They
are, however, paying a great deal of attention to the areas where
the sighings are constant. Sightings are constant in West Virginia,
they are constant in Indiana, Kansas, and Nebraska.
We sometimes have 150 sightings in one day around the country.
The scope of this thing is unimaginable and it goes unreported by
the major media. The local newspapers often carry headlines about
saucer sightings and feature editorials asking why doesn't somebody
tell us something.
When I write articles they often carry them on the editorial
page. Many newspapers have dropped the word UFO altogether and now
call them spaceships and will say “another spaceship was seen last
night by 89 people” in areas with sporadic UFO activity the air
force pretends to be out of touch with the situations.
However, when we have an area where sighting is constant we
also have Constance air force activity in the air. This comes in
the form of flying box cases. A very large cargo plane that looks
rather weird. These air force box cars fly at treetop level and are
loaded with instrumentation. I notice areas whether it be West
Virginia, Indiana or long island these planes fly back and forth
all night long over areas here ufos have landed. They are keeping
an eye out they obviously have instrumentation. They seem to be
trying to do something about the ufos.
Trying to makes one determination but they don't want
publicity. I have not written any articles on the aspect of this
yet, but I’ve got a whopper coming up soon. Right now everybody is
accusing the CIA of investigating the ufos. I wish the CIA would
begin by investigating itself. AS you know they have a very big
building outside of Washington DC. It has a sign pointing to the
Bureau of public roads. Everybody knows this means it’s the CIA
building. If you really want to go out to the CIA
building.
There is a limo that leaves every day from the front of the
Soviet embassy, which will take you there. The CIA has denied to me
personally that they have had any interest in the UFO subject since
1953. Ie since the Robertson Report. But some other agency, the NSA
is VERY interested and they investigating these things in great
detail. It is not the air force and it is not the CIA. This brings
us to the Men in Black.
MIB.
Whoever they are. they were out in the state of Washington a
month ago. They went through 8 communities. It was like a
blitzkrieg. There was a tremendous UFO flap out there, including
the disappearances of many of the dogs which goes hand in hand with
all of this. You may have heard about it, we always have dognapping
for some reason. God knows what the UFO’ are doing with Dogs.
Whenever there is a really big flap these mystery men turn
up.
They went through several Washington communities and told the
witnesses to keep quiet about what they had seen. When the local
newspapers tried to do some UFO stories and went around to the
witnesses, the witnesses said: “ we were told not to talk”. I
talked to the reporter that carried out the investigation and I got
the names of some of the witnesses and called them up. I tried to
get something out of them. They would not deny that they had seen
these things and it would have been easy for them to do that. they
are honest people. They just said they could not say anything about
it. They had been warned to keep quiet.
The same thing has been happening out on Long Island and many
of the other sectors. Within 30 miles of New York, there have been
several Men in Black cases the last two weeks. I have come within a
couple of hours of catching one of them impersonating an officer. I
have reported this to the air force. I have given them the numbers
that were on the phony identification cards this MIB carried. I
practically demanded that the air force push this thing through. I
have also been to the FBI with this and I, still running around out
here trying to catch these MIB. I have high hopes that one of these
days I will. Maybe then we will find out a little bit more about
why they want to suppress the fact that something is happening not
only in our skies but also on the ground where these things are
landing.
They must have a reason for it. The MIB were doing the same
thing in 1897. IN one case an object fell out of one of the
airship's when it flew over a field. the object was simply a piece
of pottery with very strange writing on it. This object was
displayed in a local store in Texas. A day or so later a man no one
had seen in town before came through the town and bought the
object. He paid a great deal of money for it and he looked like an
oriental. His skin was dark, he had high cheekbones, he had narrow
slanting eyes.
The full report was in the newspapers of 1897. Today some of
the drivers of these MIB cars, mostly black Cadillac have been
described the same way. So, possibly we have been accusing the air
force, the CIA, and the NSA unjustly. Maybe somebody else is
interested in keeping these things quiet. I hope that very soon we
will have some answers.
MIB 1967/1968 saucer news spring summer 1969 - Speaking before
a closed session of the Congress of the scientific ufologists in
New York of June 1967 I warned that the MIB incidents were on the
increase and that we could possibly expect to hear more from these
mystery men in the coming months. Later in the pages of the Saucer
News, I predicted that more and more UFO researchers would be
having direct personal experience with the UFO phenomenon. I
stressed that further silencings were likely to occur.
Take a look at the record. I the past year an almost
staggering number of longtime UFOlogists have suddenly quit the
scene. Some have stopped answering mail altogether and two have
refused to speak to any of their UFOLigical friends on the
telephone. 6 important UFO personalities have died. Whole regional
investigating organizations have collapsed and their leaders have
publicly disavowed their interest in the phenomenon. They are now
living in bewildered fear concerned over disappearing mail and
perplexed by the antics of their telephones. The main topic at the
1968 congress of scientific UFOlogists held in Cleveland Ohio was
the MIB.
Some researchers were claiming that they have been followed by
black Cadillacs and have even been shot at. unknown intruders broke
into hotel rooms, automobiles private homes during this hectic year
to steal only UFO research papers, documentation and photographs.
There were literally scores of these incidents. Some of the people
that were trapped in these bizarre situations were newspapermen,
writers, and independent researchers not know to the UFOlgocial
mainstream. A UFO chasing newsman in Philly was reportedly shot at
while in a laundromat while another reporter in West Virginia was
repeatedly harassed.
Accounts of identical harassments came in from Canada, Mexico
city, Sweden and even Germany. No place being safe. Even TV
producers, writings and personalities concerned with UFO’s have
admitted to me in confidence that they too have been undergoing all
kinds of strange experiences. One changes his unlisted home number
3 times and still the harassment continued. Another had his phone
taken out altogether. Those who have been on the outside of this
have read the very reports with sarcasm and disbelief. But it has
all been horrifyingly real to the hard-working researchers who have
been probing into strange and revealing cases in their own areas.
The old explanations for blaming the government may be invalid. It
is abundantly clear that a mysterious third party is
involved.
A party who seems to be directly related to the UFO phenomenon
itself. If you want to try to understand what is really going on
you must shelve your personal beliefs and try base your conclusions
upon the obvious elements now taking place among all over the
world. The subject is most complicated and a simple explanation is
not possible. You must prepare yourself to understand the complex
big picture. The knowledge of history is more important than the
knowledge of astronomy.
Mankind lies at the core of the mystery. Man kinds past and
future are directly involved and will be affected seriously
affected, so try and broaden your general knowledge and base your
speculations on the available facts. Not upon wishful thinking.
When you are on the right track you will know it. Your phone will
start ringing but their won't be anyone on the other end. or there
may come a soft rap on your door in the middle of the
night.
Then you will howl with indignation “why didn't someone tell
us what this was all about”. Somebody has been telling you, over
and over and over again… but you haven't been listening.