John Keel - The Secret Tape transcription - 2015 (1969)

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CHAPTER 10 THE SECRET TAPE TO THE CONGRESS OF SCIENTIFIC UFOLOGISTS - CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA - 1969

The following is not to be reproduced in any fashion ... This tape is intended only for the Closed Session of the 1969 Congress of Scientific Ufologists at Charleston, West Virginia ... This is John Keel in New York City, June 1969. I regret that I am unable to attend this year's convention; bur my three-year safari into the nevernever land of flying saucers will soon be ended. From here on, my main efforts will be devoted to histbrical studies and statistical surveys. Some of the my controversial conclusions have already been published; other basic material that I have collected will soon appear in London's Flying Saucer Review and other periodicals ... My book, Operation Trojan Horse, which fully outlines all of my investigations, evidence, and conclusions, will probably appear late this fall. I have personally investigated approximately 600 cases in total depth. Now, I am not talking about sightings; I've investigated thousands of those. I am talking about cases where a definite manifestation occurred. I began with the belief that flying saucers were most probably the product of an advanced technology from some other planet. But by the end of 1966, I realized that the evidence I had collected po in red to another, far more complicated answer. I will try to explain here a few of my basic conclusions. First of all, the quantity, scope, frequency, and distribution of the UFO sightings automatically rule out any possibility that the objects could conceivably be of extraterrestrial origin. They are seen year after year, in the same areas, going back as far as 1896. We can trace the sightings even further back. If you collect all the known sightings for any given area, you will find that this basic factor is true. Huntington, West Virginia, for example, has a long history of UFO sightings, going back to the early 1800s. The phenomenon has been consistent throughout the Midwest for centuries. The Indians had many legends about the "Sky People" going back long before the white settlers arrived. This means that the phenomenon has been an environmental factor in those window areas for a very long time. Countries such as Sweden, Norway, Ireland, China, and Japan have

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