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

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 stories have never been published. These are
not
the kind of stories that people like George Adamski 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 eight 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 to the police complaining that these things were landing 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 walk into a police station (that is always my first stop), they say, ”Oh, we’ve got a nut down the road who 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 on 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 his story that confirmed details we have heard elsewhere. He said this mechanical device got out and shoveled up some dirt, just like the “rover” we sent to the moon.
    Two weeks earlier, on March 31 st , something supposedly landed on a farm in Wellington, Texas. The witness (Carroll Wayne Watts) said he did not see anybody, but that a door opened, and he heard a voice that invited him aboard. He walked aboard the thing, and a voice told him they would take him 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. If 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 they put it in their insufficient file. They don’t record it in their statistics.
    In some cases – and I have talked with people who have gone through it – they have reported a low-level sighting, or have said that their automobile was being pursued by these objects. In those cases, the Air Force may make several phone calls. These calls usually come long-distance from Wright-Patterson, and they will sometimes be as long as three hours. Somebody at Wright-Patterson grills these people very carefully about every detail. And it is obvious to the witnesses that a form is being filled out on the