Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Keel, 'UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse'
Journalist John Keel's argument that UFOs are not spacecraft but manifestations of an ancient, deceptive 'ultraterrestrial' intelligence.
1970 CE · 40.71, -74.01 · status: account
The account
Keel linked UFOs to demonology, fairy lore, 'men in black' and poltergeist-like effects, and argued that the phenomenon adapts its appearance to what witnesses expect. With Vallée's Magonia, it founded the paranormal or 'ultraterrestrial' school of ufology.
The sceptical view
Keel mixed reportage with speculation and rarely documented his sources; skeptics regard the book as imaginative synthesis rather than evidence.
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