Download or read book Searching for the String Selected Writings of John A Keel written by John Keel and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Saucerian Press proudly presents "Searching For the String," a collection of magazine articles by John A. Keel, the man many consider to have been not only the premiere investigator of all things unusual and "Fortean," but who was also our own, twentieth-century "Mark Twain." Many of the articles in this anthology and its companion volumes, "Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind" and "The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone," were revolutionary, and explored ideas popularized in Keel's classic books. Written in Keel's engaging trademark style, they are sure to delight fans with their fresh, unparalleled insights into the nature of reality. In these pages, John Keel displays the keen observational skills and investigative tenacity that long made him the enfant terrible of ufology. In this no-holds-barred analysis - much of it written decades ago - Keel shreds most of the sacred-cow beliefs still held by many in ufological and "cryptozoological" circles today, and presents theories so radical that they are only now becoming accepted: the "4-D" or "interdimensional" thesis; the "breakaway civilization" theory; the possible role of "ancient aliens" in human history; the synthetic and/or hallucinatory nature of many "alien abduction" and "Men in Black" encounters; the role of spy agencies in paranormal research; and the alarming connection between UFOs, animal mutilations, and attacks on unsuspecting humans. "Searching For the String" showcases not only Keel's wit and charm, but also his incisive and impassioned intellectual capabilities. This 2014 edition features an expanded "Letters" section, several photographs, and introductions by the editor, Andy Colvin, and saucer pioneer Gray Barker. "Shoots straight, from multiple dimensions..." -Rear Admiral Claymore Finch "Scientific and sexy, yet pointedly humane ..." -Thornton M. Vaseltarp, Ph.D. "Probes the tantalizing links between mind and body..." -Lady Jane Lispschitz "Concretizes the hallucinatory nature of reality..." -Dr. Thaddeus L. Farnboggle "Staves off psychic attack from both man and beast..." -Sir Randolph Halsey-Quince CHAPTER TITLES -The "Flap" Phenomenon in the United States (1968) -The UFOs Nobody Talks About: Deadly Fireballs in the Sky (1968) -Astronauts Report UFOs in Outer Space (1967) -The Strange Case of the Pregnant Woman (1968) -UFOs: 30 Years of Investigation (1978) -Unidentified Former Humans: 3000 Years of Investigation (1978) -Are UFOs Using Earth For a Garbage Dump? (1967) -West Virginia's Enigmatic "Bird" (1968) -An Unusual Contact Claim From Ohio !1968) -A New Approach to UFO Witnesses (1968) -Is the "Electromagnetic Effect" a Myth? (1968) -Problems of Identity: The Aliens Among Us (1977) -Problems of Etymology: Ufology Terminology (1977) -Problems of Methodology: UFOs in 1952 (1977) -Problems of Distortion and Distention: The Time-Cycle Factor (1977) -The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers (1986) -A "Devil's Triangle" in Idaho? (1977) -The Night the Sky Turned On (1967) -This American Town is UFO Target No.1 (1970) -The Flying Saucer Subculture (1975) -Our Skies Are Filled With Junk (1969) -22 UFO Sightings Hushed Up: Is This Flying Saucer "D-Day?" (1970) -Flap Dates, Kidnappings, and Secret Bases (1967) -Were Flying Saucers Here Before Man? (1977) -Close Encounters of the Religious Kind (1977) -The Principle of Transmogrification (1969) -The Superior Technology (1969) -The Glendale, California Contact Claim (1969) -The Cosmic Blog: Letters To and From John A. Keel -Mothman and Other Curious Conspiracies (2003 Interview)

Download or read book Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind Selected Writings of John A Keel written by John Keel and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Saucerian proudly presents "Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind," a collection of magazine articles and lectures by John Keel, the man many consider to have been the 20th Century's premiere investigator of all things unusual and "Fortean." Many of the articles in this anthology and its companion volumes, "The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone" and "Searching For the String," were revolutionary, and explored ideas popularized in Keel's classic books. Written in Keel's engaging trademark style, they are sure to delight fans with their fresh, unparalleled insights into the nature of reality. In these pages, John Keel displays the keen observational skills and investigative tenacity that made him the enfant terrible of ufology for decades. In this no-holds-barred analysis - some of which was written almost 50 years ago - Keel shreds most of the sacred-cow beliefs still held by many in ufological and "cryptozoological" circles today, presenting theories so radical that they are only now becoming accepted: the "4-D" or "interdimensional" thesis; the "breakaway civilization" theory; the possible role of "ancient aliens" in human history; the synthetic and/or hallucinatory nature of many "alien abduction" and "Men in Black" encounters; the role of spy agencies in paranormal research; and the alarming connection between UFOs, animal mutilations, and attacks on unsuspecting humans. In short, "Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind" is witty, incisive, impassioned, and prescient, and cohesively brings Keel's message into focus in a way that perhaps no other book has. This 2013 edition features illuminating forewords by noted writers Gray Barker and Tessa B. Dick (widow of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick), as well as an introduction by the editor, Andy Colvin (author of "The Mothman's Photographer" and "Mothman Speaks"). "Provides the foundation for a clear view of the phenomenon..." -Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel Press "The consummate cryptozoologist..." -Ron Patton, Paranoia Magazine "Turns Forteana and ufology upside down..." -Doug Skinner, johnkeel.com "The key to unraveling many mysteries..." -Ted Torbich, The Stench of Truth "Far ahead of its time..." -Keith Hansen, Vyzygoth's Grassy Knoll CHAPTER TITLES What the CIA is Not Telling Us About UFOs (1969) Project Beta: An Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects (1966) Investigating UFOs: Probing a Phenomenon Wrapped in Mystery (1977) Speech to the Congress of Scientific Ufologists (NYC, 1967) MIB: 1967-68 The UFO Silencers (1975) "Contactee" Rustling (1979 lecture) Cattle Mutilation for Beginners (1974) The Flying Saucer Evidence Everyone Ignores (1973) The Mothman Monster (1968) Never Mind The Saucer! Did You See the Guys Who Were Driving? (1967) A Plethora of Paranormal (1994) The Infrared Tower (1990 lecture) The UFO Name Game (1976) The Subject of Saucers (1969) The Contactee Key (1977) Behind the FBI's Undercover Flying Saucer Investigation (1968) Mystery of the Invisible Flying Saucers (1974) UFOs and the Mysterious Wave of Worldwide Kidnappings (1970) Mysterious Gas Attacks (1968) The Secret UFO-Astronaut War (1968) UFOs and Abominable Snowmen (1969) The Flying Saucer Crime Wave They Can't Cover Up (1968) Ocean-Based UFOs Ring the U.S. (1970) Was Philip K. Dick a Flake? (1987) Secret Tape to the Congress of Scientific Ufologists (1969) Symptoms and Classification of Hallucination (1969) Sex and the Single Saucerer (1972) Secret UFO Bases Across the U.S. (1968)

Download or read book The Great Phonograph in the Sky Selected Writings of John A Keel written by John Keel and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mothman Prophecies written by John A. Keel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated into over thirteen languages, John Keel's The Mothman Prophecy is an unsettling true story of the paranormal that has long been regarded as a classic in the literature of the unexplained. West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare culminating in a tragedy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary American community. Mysterious lights are seen moving across the sky. Domestic animals are found slaughtered and mutilated. And journalist John Keel, arriving to investigate the freakish events, soon finds himself an integral part of an eerie and unfathomable mystery. The Mothman Prophecy is the basis of the 2002 film starring Richard Gere. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings written by John A. Keel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive encyclopedia of the unexplained, with incredible eyewitness accounts of strange creatures from around the globe. Including: Angles and Demons; The Mothman; Dinosaurs that still roam the earth; Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman, and other hairy monsters; A real-life land of the giants; The Loch Ness monster, the Silver Lake Sea Serpent, and other lake creatures; Dragons; Giant Flying Snakes; Carnivorous Plants from outer space; Unidentified submarine objects; Aliens, bedroom invaders, and cattle rustlers from the skies; The Grinning Man; Green men, Leprechauns, and other little people;Vampires and Werewolves and much more....

Download or read book Strange Creatures from Time and Space written by John Keel and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Keel's "Strange Creatures From Time and Space," originally published in 1970 with artwork by Frank Frazetta, is a comprehensive encyclopedia of monsters from around the world, including: -Fantastic flying saucer occupants -True psychic phenomena -Phantom killers of people and livestock -The full story of West Virginia's man-bird, "Mothman" -The elusive "Bigfoot," Sasquatch, and Yeti -Giants of Minnesota and the Appalachians -Sea serpents and lake creatures -Vampires and werewolves -Angels and demons -The dangerous and enigmatic Men in Black (MIB) John A. Keel has been on the trail of weirdness for decades, investigating wild tales of alien abduction, hairy monsters, and mysterious entities that can terrify and even harm humans. He has become the top man in the field of the inexplicable. Keel actually has explanations for the unusual things he recounts - which have long left others baffled. In this mountain of way-out evidence, he sees a pattern and draws original, startling, and convincing conclusions. Keel was born in monster country - on a farm in Silver Lake, New York, home of one of America's native sea serpents. He began writing articles on UFOs in 1945, two years before the ufomania began. In 1952, he produced a Halloween broadcast from the Frankenstein Castle in Germany, and in 1954 he saw his first flying saucer while exploring the Upper Nile. For years, Keel wandered around Asia in search of the secrets of the occult. The last American to enter Tibet from the Indian side, Keel spent weeks tracking the Yeti. After having written many books and magazine articles, Keel remains an open-minded skeptic. There is no one better qualified to report on and interpret today's flood of "anti-rational" evidence than Keel.

Download or read book The Surge written by Kimberly Kagan and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the surge of operations that American and Iraqi forces began on June 15, 2007, winds to a close, security in Baghdad and throughout Iraq has improved so dramatically that, for the first time in years, there is reason for optimism in Iraq. U.S. commanders and soldiers have reversed the negative slide that followed the Samarra mosque bombing in 2006, bringing the number of enemy attacks in Iraq back down to the levels of mid-2005. Yet the reasons for the reduction in violence and its strategic significance are subjects of continuing debate in the media and in Washington. Many armchair pundits make the gross oversimplification that the positive trends in Iraq have occurred simply because Moqtada al Sadr called for a ceasefire or because the United States bought off Sunni insurgents. Such assertions ignore the key variable in the equation; the Coalition's change in strategy and our employment of the surge forces. In this definitive volume, Kimberly Kagan sets the record straight, describing the complete operational history of the surge from its inception to the end of 2007. Kagan's detailed analysis looks at the external players - from al Qaeda in Iraq, and the Iranian-backed Special Groups, to the Jaysh al Mahdi - and covers the day-to-day strategies, locations, tactics, organization, and responses to American actions.

Download or read book The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone Selected Writings of John A Keel written by John Keel and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Saucerian Press proudly presents "The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone," a collection of magazine articles and lectures by John A. Keel, the man many consider to have been not only the premiere investigator of all things unusual and "Fortean," but who was also our very own, twentieth-century "Mark Twain." Many of the articles in this anthology and its companion volumes, "Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind" and "Searching for the String," were revolutionary, and explored ideas popularized in Keel's classic books. Written in Keel's engaging trademark style, they are sure to delight fans with their fresh, unparalleled insights into the nature of reality. In these pages, John Keel displays the keen observational skills and investigative tenacity that made him the enfant terrible of ufology for decades. In this no-holds-barred analysis - much of it written almost 50 years ago - Keel shreds most of the sacred-cow beliefs still held by many in ufological and "cryptozoological" circles today, and presents theories so radical that they are only now becoming accepted: the "4-D" or "interdimensional" thesis; the "breakaway civilization" theory; the possible role of "ancient aliens" in human history; the synthetic and/or hallucinatory nature of many "alien abduction" and "Men in Black" encounters; the role of spy agencies in paranormal research; and the alarming connection between UFOs, animal mutilations, and attacks on unsuspecting humans. In short, "The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone" is witty, incisive, impassioned, and prescient, and cohesively brings Keel's message into focus in a way that perhaps no other book has. This 2013 edition features illuminating forewords by noted researchers Leon Davidson and Doug Skinner, as well as an introduction by the editor, Andy Colvin. "The real deal... A true, cutting-edge original." -Jeffery Pritchett, The Church of Mabus "After Keel introduced me to The Superspectrum, I was never quite the same..." -Adam Gorightly "Goes deep into the mystery... A fascinating read..." -Tessa B. Dick "Insightful... A leading light of 4-D saucering..." -Jim Moseley, Saucer Smear "My favorite all-time human being..." -Skylaire Alfvegren, L.A. Weekly CHAPTER TITLES Answers Are on the Way (1970) Memo to All Ufologists - Subject: Telephone Hoaxes (1967) The Hidden History of the Flying Saucer Mystery (1996) The Birth of Ufology (1967) The Beginning of the Saucer Era: June 24th, 1947 (1967) Kenneth Arnold and the FBI (1970) UFO "Agents of Terror" (1967) Strange Messages From Flying Saucers (1968) Mystery of the Alien Submarines (1974) UFOs: The Medical Evidence (1978) Distortions of Reality (1978) Flying High With the Mothman (1989 Lecture) The Sinister Men in Black (1968) Are Extraterrestrials Blackmailing Earth? (1977) Cattle Rustling From the Skies (1975) Pornography From Heaven (1970) The Lustful Giants (1975) Everyone Needs a Good Ley (1970) The Bedroom Invaders: The Frightening New "UFO Pilot" Mystery (1969) UFOs and the Strange Deaths of Our Astronauts: Was it Murder? (1971) The New UFO Menace: Injured, Burned, and Blinded by Flying Saucers (1969) America's First UFO Experts (1973) Savage Little Men From Outer Space (1969) E. Howard Hunt: "A Bit of a Romantic" (1973) The Maury Island Hoax (1975) The Study of Shit (1999 Lecture) The New UFO Sightings (1973) Mothman Memories (1993 Lecture) Mysterious Voices From Space (1968) An Investigation into the Mysterious American Visits of the Mothman (1991) The Birdman/UFO Connection (1970)

Download or read book The Road written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Download or read book Our Haunted Planet written by John A. Keel and published by Galde Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Mothman written by John Keel and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Saucerian Press proudly presents John Keel's "The Book of Mothman: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Reality Distortion But Were Afraid to Ask." The chapters in this Keel-approved collection, culled from New Saucerian's four recently published "Selected Writings of John Keel" books ("Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind," "The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone," "Searching For the String," and "The Great Phonograph in the Sky"), coalesce to create a dazzling, mind-blowing "unified theory" concerning the paraphysical distortions and "glitches" seemingly invading our reality. Many of the articles in "The Book of Mothman" were written years before Keel's "Mothman Prophecies," while others were written years afterwards, making it a very unique and valuable source. With the addition of several 1990s lectures and an interview from 2003 - Keel's last on Mothman - researchers and enthusiasts gain a better sense of just what was going on in West Virginia and the Ohio Valley in the 1960s and '70s. True to form, Keel takes on the endless variety of high-strangeness surrounding Mothman and Mothman witnesses, such as UFOs, MIBs, little green men, hairy monsters, giants, animal mutilations, hypnotism, shapeshifting, psychological warfare, missing time, and phantom aircraft, automobiles, and humans. This special edition features a brilliant introduction by Gray Barker, a recently discovered foreword by John Keel, and a note from the editor, Andy Colvin. "As good an example of pure, unadulterated Keel as you are likely to find..." -Robert Durant, Pursuit Magazine "Decades ahead of all the 'respectable' Forteans and ufologists..." -UFO Magazine "Exposes the dark workings of the Mind Parasites..." -William S. Burroughs "Interesting and informed speculation..." -Brad Pitt

Download or read book The Big Breakthrough Confronting UFOs Men in Black Mothman and Mysterious Humanoids Trojan Horses of a Breakaway Civilization written by John Keel and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1966 and 1967, when he was subject to nonstop surveillance and harassment from both human and supernatural spooks, intrepid Fortean investigator John A. Keel made extensive field notes concerning the phenomena he was confronting in West Virginia and New York: UFOs, Men in Black, creature entities, ultraterrestrials, and odd coincidences and synchronicities. The result was a series of concise, thematically related reports, many of which were incorporated into magazine articles for Saga, Fate, and Flying Saucer Review.In these papers, Keel unravels threads discussed in his classic books "Operation Trojan Horse," "The Mothman Prophecies," and "The Eighth Tower," which were written soon after. Utilizing occult lore, recent scientific research, and direct personal investigation, Keel draws back the curtain on the mind-blowing nature of our terrestrial reality. By looking deeply into specific cases, Keel begins to understand that there are different types of UFOs, surmising that the "aliens" and their apparent buddies, the MIB, may emanate from a breakaway civilization bent on controlling the human race. Surprisingly, Keel's research into Mothman could play a key role in deciphering the mystery of "Ancient Aliens" - whether or not the human race was actually created, genetically, by giant birdmen mating with Earth women.This special edition features a revised introduction by Keel, a note from the editor, Andy Colvin, and interesting correspondence between Keel and other notables in the Mothman saga: Mary Hyre, Gray Barker, Jerome Clark, Ivan Sanderson, Charles Bowen, Jim Lorenzen, Jaye Paro, and the infamous "outer space" denizens "Apol" and "Agar.""The father of the interdimensional and breakaway theses does it again..." -High Times"Shows just how weird it can get..." -UFO Magazine"A gem... Actual field research meets painstaking methodology..." -MUFON Journal

Download or read book Giving Good Weight written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You people come into the market—the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun—and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and rape the sweet corn. You are something wonderful, you are—people of the city—and we, who are almost without exception strangers here, are as absorbed with you as you seem to be with the numbers on our hanging scales." So opens the title piece in this collection of John McPhee's classic essays, grouped here with four others, including "Brigade de Cuisine," a profile of an artistic and extraordinary chef; "The Keel of Lake Dickey," in which a journey down the whitewater of a wild river ends in the shadow of a huge projected dam; a report on plans for the construction of nuclear power plants that would float in the ocean; and a pinball shoot-out between two prizewinning journalists.

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