Summary of John Keel's OPERATION TROJAN HORSE

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 There have been many sightings of UFOs on radar, and in July 1966, the Federal Aviation Agency tower at the Greensboro-High Point Airport picked up an unidentified flying object. Several police officers in the High Point-Randolph County area also saw unidentifiable objects buzzing the area.
#2 The government’s official position toward flying saucers has been negative since 1953, although a great deal of attention has been paid to the subject behind the scenes. In 1966, a flap occurred, and the then-Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, had been well briefed by the Air Force before the subject was interjected into a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
#3 The government’s attitude has helped foster the general disinterest of the press in the subject of UFOs. As a result, most of the reported UFO activity has gone unnoticed.
#4 I had to travel to the various flap areas and interview the witnesses in depth, applying the journalistic techniques I had learned from being a reporter and writer for two decades. I rarely gave the witnesses any information in return.

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 11 mai 2022
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• EAN13: 9798822503601
• Langue: English
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Insights on John Keel's OPERATION TROJAN HORSE
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

There have been many sightings of UFOs on radar, and in July 1966, the Federal Aviation Agency tower at the Greensboro-High Point Airport picked up an unidentified flying object. Several police officers in the High Point-Randolph County area also saw unidentifiable objects buzzing the area.

#2

The government’s official position toward flying saucers has been negative since 1953, although a great deal of attention has been paid to the subject behind the scenes. In 1966, a flap occurred, and the then-Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, had been well briefed by the Air Force before the subject was interjected into a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

#3

The government’s attitude has helped foster the general disinterest of the press in the subject of UFOs. As a result, most of the reported UFO activity has gone unnoticed.

#4

I had to travel to the various flap areas and interview the witnesses in depth, applying the journalistic techniques I had learned from being a reporter and writer for two decades. I rarely gave the witnesses any information in return.

#5

I visited local newspapers and spoke with the editors and reporters who had been handling the UFO reports in their areas. I realized what a skillful and objective job they had done. I developed a new respect for the clippings that were pouring into my mailbox.

#6

I had collected more than 10,000 clippings and reports by 1966. I had checked out many of these cases personally and had become convinced of their validity. I had organized the sightings by dates, and found that they tended to collect around specific days of the week.

#7

The UFO phenomenon has a geographical factor that is baffling. If the UFOs were meteors or other natural phenomena, they would be reported in adjoining states. Instead, they seem to be concentrated in specific states.

#8

The skeptics argue that mass hysteria builds up in flap areas, but this is not true. Nearly all the published reports of flap dates appear on the same day. There is no time lag, and no building up of reports.

#9

The biggest flap in March 1967 occurred on Wednesday, March 8. I received more than 2,000 clippings and reports on that day, and was able to investigate many of them firsthand. The major news media ignored this flap, perhaps because none of the editors realized it was happening.

#10

There were reports of UFO sightings in several states in March 1967. In Missouri, many people saw a flashing light from their kitchen windows at 7:15 P. M. last Wednesday and called their wives. It was a shiny, metal, oblong globe shaped something like a watermelon. Around the perimeter were many beautiful multicolored lights-green and red mostly, but also white, blue, and yellow.

#11

Many reports of UFOs came from Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas. They were all observed by police officers and pilots.

#12

The flap of March 8, 1967, was not an exception. It was a rather ordinary one, and none of these incidents is of special interest. There were 74 flap dates in 1966, and many of them were much larger than the one in March 1967.

#13

If these lights are actually machines operated by intelligent entities, they do not want to be caught. They come in the dead of night, operating in areas where the risks of being observed are minimal.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

On October 4, 1967, I was driving a rented car along the Long Island Expressway outside of New York City when I noticed a large brilliant sphere of light bouncing through the sky on a course parallel to my own. It was brighter than any star in the sky.

#2

The Burkhardt family experienced a strange phone activity after the sighting. They began to receive phone calls that were not made, and their phone bill began to rise inexplicably.

#3

We are more enthralled with our interpretations of great events than with the events themselves, and we gingerly alter the facts generation after generation until history reads the way we think it should read.

#4

The first photograph of an unidentified flying object was taken in 1883 by a Mexican astronomer named Jose Bonilla. He had been observing the sun from his observatory at Zacatecas on August 12 of that year when he was taken aback by the sudden appearance of a long parade of circular objects that slowly flitted across the solar disk.

#5

The most popular theory is that the flying saucers are born and bred on some other planet and that they visit us occasionally to drink our water and bask in our sun. But all of the available evidence and all of the patterns indicated in the now-massive sighting data refute this theory.

#6

The UFO controversy has been dominated by the thunder of lightning bolts, which is often followed by a deep rumble that can persist for several seconds. However, the witnesses to seemingly solid objects rarely produced details that could be matched with other hard sightings.

#7

The UFO phenomenon in 1947 attracted many highly qualified professional scientists, researchers, and authors. They began to develop complex theories that explained the paraphysicality of the objects. Unfortunately for them, the idea of extraterrestrial visitants had strong emotional appeal, and the many amateur enthusiasts who were drawn to the subject quickly accepted the ET hypothesis.

#8

The Air Force investigation in 1953 found that the sightings were inspired by natural phenomena, and they suggested that the public be re-educated to believe that the sightings were inspired by known objects.

#9

The British government conducted a UFO study in 1950 that was continued behind the scenes for five years. In 1955, an RAF spokesman told the press that the study was completed, but the findings would be withheld because they would only create more controversy and could not be adequately explained without revealing certain top secrets.

#10

The paraphysical hypothesis is acceptable because it provides an explanation for all the data. The extraterrestrial hypothesis does not. The UFO enthusiasts have solved this problem by selecting only those sightings and events that seem to fit the extraterrestrial thesis. They have rejected a large part of the real evidence for this reason.

#11

The engineer, Bryant Reeve, was interested in flying saucers in 1953. He and his wife toured the country interviewing UFO witnesses and, inevitably, contactee claimants. He concluded that UFOs were not from some other planet, but he kept his conclusion secret.

#12

The paraphysical hypothesis is the central theme of this book.