Searching For the String by John A. Keel

This is a landmark book in the UFO field, genuinely mind-expanding, from one of the two or three best writer-researchers ever to crack the topic.“ Non-government researcher had to that point. Keel's laborious research methods (in the pre-Internet 1960s he was dependent on clipping services and long-distance phone calls) seem slow and quaint now. Want to, but the flood of reports of UFOs vanishing on the spot, fading away through the color spectrum or acting like biological ('soft') objects suggest there's more to this than nuts and They can project as solid objects when they Not from the Pleiades, butįrom right here - this intelligence, sometimes helpful, sometimes hostile, but most often indifferent, has always been with us, but adopts new frames of reference to relate to humanity as it evolves.Īngels in ancient days, spindly Victorian-looking airships in the 1890s, sleek flying saucers crewed with 'spacemen' as we became a spacefaring species. Most likely, deduces Keel, the UFO phenomenon is perpetrated by a trickster intelligence occupying a different reality frequency. UFOs too often mimic the characteristics of paranormal phenomena reported since ancient times, from the Bible's wheels of fire and angelic Contact experiences are too oftenĪbsurd or nonsensical, percipients too often lied to.

Keel points out that UFOs come in too many 'form factors,' and apparently break down or crash too often, to be sensibly attributed to advanced space explorers.

Was more or less excommunicated in the 1970s by the UFO true believers, who at the time brutally suppressed many reported aspects of UFO sightings that failed to fit their preconceptions. Keel's thesis flies in the face - convincingly - of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, and the whole spaceships-from-beyond explanation of the phenomenon fiercely defended to this day. „This book was a defiantly different deal, and still is.

Searching For the String by John A. Keel