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

Author:John A. Keel [Keel, John A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Metadisc Books
Published: 2013-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

BEHIND THE FBI’S UNDERCOVER FLYING SAUCER INVESTIGATION – MEN MAGAZINE, 1968

It crossed the dawn-lit French countryside in eerie silence, and the early-rising farmers stood in their fields and stared at it with wonder. At first they thought it was a giant hot-air balloon on fire and about to crash. As it swooped low over the skies near the village of Alençon, it began to whistle. It slowed, rocked up and down as if it were out of control, and then plummeted down onto the top of a high hill. The grass and shrubbery burst into flames from the heat of the object. Crowds of farmers and villagers rushed up the hill to fight the fire.

When they reached the summit, they stopped. The fiery sphere appeared to be some kind of mechanical contrivance. A door on its side suddenly flew open. A man stepped out and looked around uneasily at the gathering crowd. Later, the witnesses described him as looking “just like us, except that he was dressed in strange clothes – very tight-fitting garments.” The man mumbled something no one could understand, and then he ran into some nearby woods and disappeared. He was never seen again. A few minutes later, his odd vehicle exploded in complete silence. Nothing was left except granules of metallic powder.

A few days later, Paris sent a police inspector named Liabeuf to the site to investigate. He found that the eyewitnesses included two mayors, a physician, and three other local authorities, in addition to dozens of peasants and farmers. All of their stories matched, detail for detail. Something very unusual had apparently happened at Alençon, but it was never reported to the French Air Force. And for very good reason...

The incident occurred 178 years ago, at 5 a.m. on the morning of June 12, 1790. There were only three or four hot air balloons in the entire world at that time. (The first balloon had been sent up by Montgolfier brothers only eight years earlier.) What and who did these Frenchmen view on that distant date? Many of the details in Inspector Liabeuf ’s report are uncomfortably similar to modern “flying saucer” accounts. If this same distinguished group of witnesses were around in 1968 and reported something like this, they would have been branded “contactees,” subjected to ridicule, and the French Air force would probably have explained the UFO away as a “weather balloon.”

Unidentified flying objects have been turning up throughout history. Many thousands of people claim to have actually seen and even spoken with the “ufonauts” (pilots).

Not all of these people can be lumped into the category of “kooks, cultists, and crackpots.” Their constantly growing ranks include judges, senators, doctors, lawyers, engineers, and hard-boiled newspapermen. A good many of these witnesses understandably choose to remain silent about their experiences, because so much controversy and ridicule has been heaped upon “contactees” who dared to publicly reveal their encounters with the “flying saucer people.”

“People” may be the right term, too. In many reports, the ufonauts

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