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THE SECRET TAPE TO THE CONGRESS OF SCIENTIFIC UFOLOGISTS - CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA - 1969
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not exist at all. They have never left behind any substantial artifacts.
UFOs have appeared and disappeared suddenly in front of Air Force
pilots, astronomers, physicists, and even me. The Russian cosmonauts
described them as "marvelous phantasms." That may be as good a
description as any. In my travels, I discovered an amazing thing: some
people could see these marvelous phantasms, and some could not.
More than once, I have stood with a group of people in an open field, and
watched a low-flying UFO glide silently past. Some of us could clearly see
the object in great detail.
When we compared notes later, we had all seen the same thing. But others
in the group saw absolutely nothing. They thought we were crazy, or were
putting them on. Sir Victor offered the following explanation for this
peculiar phenomenon:
Paraphysicality is observable by people with "second sight"
(paraphysical perception) and by people who normally lack
that faculty but - through the influence of the [secondsighters] - are "enabled" to sharpen their perception to the
point of "seeing." Paraphysicality is imaginable to the point
of supposed observation. This tends to frustrate the real
validity of both groups.
What he is trying to say there is something I've discovered and have
written about. A lot of people didn't understand it. That is, people who
see exceptional UFOs close up - contactees, in particular - have all the
same characteristics as people who have supernatural experiences (i.e.,
psychics and transmediums). The two types are identical. The manifestations differ slightly, but the basics - the personal histories of contactees
and psychics - are the same. Therefore, we are forced to assume that it
takes a special kind of person to perceive these objects close up - to have a
genuine experience with them.
Now, if these assumptions are correct, then we must reluctantly concede
that the government has been telling us the truth all along, and that
UFOs do not represent an advanced technology, nor do they come from
other planets or pose a threat to national security.
They do sometimes pose a threat to individuals. But we cannot say, and
will never be able to say - or prove - that they pose a threat to national
security. The evidence to support the aforementioned conclusions is
overwhelming. It fills whole libraries, but the UFO buffs have been
blinded by belief and devotion to a cause. They have not studied the
whole, but a tiny part of the whole. They began with a premise that flying
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saucers were real and were extraterrestrial. The UFO organizations actually
censored and suppressed cases that tended to prove otherwise.
We must make a completely fresh start. It is absolutely impossible to
prove that flying saucers are real and extraterrestrial; if it were possible,
someone would have done it a long, long time ago. What we must do
now is completely reassess the situation and admit all of the previously
inadmissible evidence. We must collect all the details of all manifestations
that surround UFO events, no matter how "far out" or incomprehensible
they seem. We must forget the absolutely fruitless and pointless campaign
against the government and Air Force. It has succeeded only in draining
our strength, stirring the coals of controversy, and keeping the subject
mired in ridicule. It has accomplished absolutely nothing.
We will always be plagued with cults and believers. It is very hard to deny
something you think you have seen with your own eyes, or experienced
with your own body. Nevertheless, the mounting evidence indicates that
such experiences are more psychic than physical, more hallucinatory than
real. Instead of condemning those who have the courage to publicly reveal
such experiences, we should be studying them, trying to understand the
true nature of the experiences.
Most of the Men in Black episodes - and I've investigated a great many
that will never be published or publicized_ seem to be a variation of
the hallucinatory experience. The black Cadillacs vanish suddenly into
thin air, as do the MIB themselves. They are nothing but marvelous
phantasms ...
When you study the occult records of the last few hundred years, you are
immediately struck by how many phantom horsemen have appeared over
the centuries. Before the invention of the automobile, there were many
thousands of cases. Sometimes, groups of people would see a phantom
hor~eman .appear out of nowhere, and then disappear into nowhere. With
the mvennon of the automobile and the gradual extinction of the horse,
it was almost a logical development that the phantom horse would be
replaced by the phantom automobile_ automobiles that you can chase
and that will disappear into thin air. There were many, many cases of this,
and many witnesses have told me of these cases ...
You have to see it yourself to believe it. We know that these automobiles
exist in a very solid state. On one occasion, a witness actually threw a rock
through the window of one of these automobiles and, yet, the automobile
later vanished into thin air, in front of their own eyes. So we know that
they can seem to be very real, and yet they aren't.
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I should make clear to you that I discovered, in 1956, that at least 98%
of all the truly important UFO events are never published anywhere,
and they are never investigated. Nobody ever hears about them, because
nobody ever goes out searching for these cases.
They are simply too weird for most editors to take seriously. This means
that the published material is, at best, very superficial and not very useful
to research, because it is not giving you the real details. At worst, it means
that the real truth has been hidden by diversions, nonsense, and totally
meaningless sightings of paraphysical manifestations and materializations.
The real nightmare out there is beyond your belief and comprehension.
Until you have taken the time to review the tons and tons of valid, welldocumented religious and occult records, all that I have said here will
continue to seem like utter nonsense. Many of you suffer from emotional
hang-ups over this subject, and have absolutely no sense of objectivity
or responsibility at all. Those few of you will always remain in the dark,
waiting forever for the Venusians to land on the White House lawn.
A few contactees eventually figured this out for themselves. Howard
Menger finally went on Long John Nebel's TV program and confirmed
that he realized he had been the victim of strange hallucinations. George
Adamski, in his final years, told friends that he was aware that he had
been tricked and misled, and that much of what he had believed and
preached was absolutely false. It has cost me three years of my life, and
many thousands of dollars, to sort all of this out and arrive at these same
conclusions.
Flying saucers are primarily a visual, observational phenomenon. They
could be the manifestation of another space-time continuum. We have
probably never seen the objects or their occupants in their true form. We
see only what they want us to see and, to a large extent, believe only what
they want us to believe. It is our tragedy that so many of us have believed
so much for so long and, yet, believed so little of the real truth. We have
been speculating instead of investigating - settling on a conclusion, and
then trying to fit the incoming data into the conclusion.
We can now begin by recognizing the provable fact that most UFOs
are paraphysical, and are part of the invisible environment of this
planet. They can enter and exit our reality at will. But they have always
been beyond our reach, and always will be. We are blind ants trying to
comprehend the true shape and nature of an elephant. We have wasted
twenty years indulging in fantasies and feuds, nourishing our egos by
going on radio and TV to denounce the Air Force, the government, and
each other.
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We. can drop all this nonsense. We can begin deeper, more important and
fruitful investigations, in depth, into each individual area. If you live in
Oh'io, you d on't have to travel to Florida to stare at the sky. Somewhere
within a few miles of your home, there is an area that has been a UFO
window for centuries; and probably not more than one or two reports a
year ar~ actually published in that area. But, if you go there, you will find
that things are seen continuously, year after year.
We have to find these areas. I called them "base areas" in one article, and
this ~ed to a great deal of misunderst~nding; everyone was running around
lookrng for underground UFO hangers. But there are no underground
UFO hangars, because there are no UFOs. The UFOs take any shape they
want to take: they can be a black Cadillac in one sequence of events, then
the same energy can be recomposed to form a cigar-shaped object, or a
grotesque monster, or what have you.
It is easy to use the term "hallucination" for these things, but the term
really doesn't fit. I've been calling these things "induced hallucinations,"
because the people seem to see what someone wants them to see. Many of
these objects that have been seen on the ground, and that have left marks
behind, are identical to the black Cadillac whose window was broken with
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a rock and yet was able to vanish into thin air; that is, it existed temporarily, then it was no more.
We will never be able to get at the source of these objects. They can come
to us, but we cannot go to them. We will never be able to communicate
with them, except when they want to be communicated with - when they
pick out people who have psychic ability to be "contactees."
They also pick people with very interesting religious and racial
backgrounds. If you have Indian blood in your veins, you are more
apt to be "contacted" than any other type of person. The majority of
our contactees have either Native American or Gypsy blood. If you are
Jewish, your chances of being contacted are almost zero. We have very few
Jewish contactees for some reason. On the other hand, we have a great
many ex-Catholic contactees. So, the religious factor seems to be of some
significance.
But the Native American factor is the most important of all. If you live
near an Indian reservation, and if you have the tact and ability to win
the confidence of the Indians, they will tell you a great deal about the
UFO phenomenon. They know all about it. A great many of them have
been contactees for years and years. But, you will have to go onto the
reservation ... You will have to spend some time there and win their confidence. You couldn't do it in an afternoon.
Also, if you should encounter real Gypsies, and if you should be able to
win their confidence, you would learn a great deal from them. They, too,
know all about the UFO phenomenon. It is no mystery or secret to them
at all. They know the whole story. In fact, a great many people know
the whole story because, as I said, there are thousands upon thousands
of contactees all over the country who never tell anyone about their
experiences.
These contactees are usually introduced to the whole "secret" over a long
period of time. I have contactees in my files who were first contacted
in 1961, but were not fully aware of what was happening until 1965.
Gradually, they were trained and "educated" through their contacts,
and given some very useful information that could be proven. We have
received scientific information that has been proven in the laboratories.
There is a highly qualified physicist on the West Coast who became a
contactee in 1966. He has received information for a metallurgical process
that has proven out in the lab. He is now getting a patent for it.
Another man in Florida received valid information for a process involving
nuclear energy. Wilbur Smith in Canada received several provable bits of
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information. He made no secret of it. He wrote and talked about it, and
gave lectures on it. These contacts are going on all the time. There are
various reasons why people refuse to come forward with these stories.
We do have the "public contactees," a very small group of a few dozen
people, who seem to be exploited for propaganda purposes. That is, they
are given information that is not necessarily valid. They are told to go
out and spread the word, which they do, and end up making themselves
looking like idiots. They believe it themselves, which nobody else does,
and there is no possible way they can prove what they are saying.
So, the whole bag is far more complicated than just sitting around waiting
for the Venusians to land on the White House lawn. If they were going
to do that, they would have landed at the Vatican in 1600, or they would
have landed in London in 1200, or in Jerusalem, or what have you. But
while they are always appearing and landing, they never enter into formal
contact with governments in a provable way ...
I trust that I haven't blown your minds with all of this ... I do hope that
you all enjoy the convention. I am sorry I can't be there. This is John Keel,
signing off...
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