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

other end – a much more elaborate form than the one that is mailed out.
    I have gone to the Air Force and said, “I am not interested in this form that is mailed out; 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. Many of the questions asked in these phone conversations seem quite irrelevant to the flying saucer problem. Obviously, the Air Force and the government 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 sightings 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 newspaper articles, they often carry them on the editorial page. Many newspapers have dropped the word “UFO” altogether. They now call them “spaceships.” They 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 situation. However, when we have an area where sightings are constant, we also have constant Air Force activity in the air. This comes in the form of flying boxcars – a very large cargo plane that looks rather weird. These Air Force boxcars fly at treetop level, and are loaded with instrumentation. In certain areas, whether it be West Virginia, Indiana, or Long Island, these planes fly back and forth, all night long, over areas where UFOs have landed. They are keeping an eye out, and they obviously have instrumentation. They seem to be trying to do something about the UFOs – trying to make some determination. But they don’t want publicity. I have not written any articles on this aspect as of yet, but I have got a whopper coming up soon.
    Right now, everybody is accusing the CIA of investigating UFOs. I wish the CIA would begin by investigating
itself. [applause]
As you know, they have a very big building outside of Washington, D.C. it has a sign pointing to the “Bureau of public roads.” Everybody knows this means it is the CIA building. If you really want to go out to the CIA building, there is a limousine that leaves every day from in 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 (i.e., since the Robertson report). But some other agency (the NSA)
is
very interested, and they are 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 eight communities. It was like a blitzkrieg. There was a tremendous UFO flap out there, including the disappearances of many dogs, which goes hand-in-hand with all of this. You may have heard about it. We always have “dognappings” for some reason. God knows what UFOs are doing with dogs!
    Whenever there is a really big flap, these mystery men often 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 who carried out the investigation. 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