John A. Keel - I Never Would Have Slept With You If I Had Known You Were a Giant Birdman From Outer Space: Ancient Aliens and Other Mysteries of the Modern Mind

I Never Would Have Slept With You
If I Had Known You Were

A Giant Birdman
From Outer Space

I Never Would Have Slept With You
If I Had Known You Were

A Giant Birdman
From Outer Space

ANCIENT ALIENS AND OTHER MYSTERIES
OF THE MODERN MIND

John A. Keel

NEW SAUCERIAN BOOKS, POINT PLEASANT, WEST VIRGINIA

Books by John A. Keel

Jadoo!

Operation Trojan Horse

Strange Creatures From Time and Space

Our Haunted Planet

The Mothman Prophecies

The Eighth Tower

Strange Mutants From the 21st Century

Disneyland of the Gods

The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings

Flying Saucer To the Center of Your Mind

The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone

Searching For The String

The Great Phonograph in the Sky

The Passionate Percipient: Illusions I Have Known and Loved

The Perspicacious Percipient: How to Investigate UFOs and Other Insane Urges

The Book of Mothman

The Invisible Diet

2017 John A. Keel

ISBN-13: 978-1530514212

ISBN-10: 1530514215

CONTENTS

EDITORS NOTE

Since this may be the last Keel collection we do at New Saucerian HQ (there isnt much else left), I wanted to speak to the importance of John Keels work in this volume, and in its previous sister volumes. What Keel did in Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind, The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone, Searching For the String, The Great Phonograph in the Sky, The Passionate Percipient, The Perspicacious Percipient, The Book of Mothman, Pursuing the Addenda, and Ancient Astronauts and Other Modern Mysteries of the Human Mind is truly unique and historic.

In these works, and the original published articles they were built from, Keel completely rewrote our perception of UFOs and the paranormal, by focusing first on ancient literature and folklore, and then applying that framework to current events. In doing so, he discovered connections between all occult events. He didnt discover exactly what causes paranormal phenomena, but his analysis backed up with statistics and evidence from the fields of chemistry, physics, mathematics, philosophy, theology, etc. has certainly pointed us in the right direction.

By applying common sense, looking at the historical record (Keel read practically everything in existence on paranormal subjects), doing extensive fieldwork, and avoiding distractions and hoaxes, Keel concisely elucidated the apparent connection between all paranormal phenomena possible symptoms leading to a cure.

Since Keel began his research in the 1940s, he was well abreast of what European researchers were saying about ancient-alien astronauts in the 1950s and early 60s. By the time Erich Von Daniken wrote his first book in 1968, Keel had already written dozens of articles, in various national magazines, outlining this thesis, which synthesized recent knowledge gained at various archaeological digs and UFO landing spots.

While many typical ufologists have been mystified by Keels Mothman research, since it is so seemingly unique, or statistically irrelevant, it may, in reality, be central to finding the answers about Ancient Aliens. The Ohio Valley, particularly its Kanawha Valley branch, was untouched by the Ice Age, and settlements have been discovered there that are six to eight thousand years old.

Local eagle tribes such as the Shawnee, Mingo, and Saponi have revered the birdman for centuries, just as was done in ancient Sumeria, Egypt, Southeast Asia, South America, and along the northwest coast of North America. Their bird mounds and effigies dot the landscapes in which Mothman appears. It is obvious, given the many depictions both ancient and modern of humanoids with bird heads or headdresses, that birdman worship has always been a worldwide phenomenon. Even some of the names are the same, or similar, across languages and eons of time.

Whether these birdmen were originally from outer space remains unknown, but the appearances of Mothman around Ohio Valley Indian mounds seem to indicate that they are still here. Our most popular comic book hero, Batman, seems to embody many of the attributes of Mothman and the people whom Mothman contacts (those who have lost their parents, been injured in some way, faced unnecessary tragedy, etc.). The Batman story also tells the tale of our country, in a way, since without his English butler, Batman would have lost everything. He would never been able to wage war against the forces of evil, who hate Gothams freedoms.

Keel published these articles, in the order in which they appear, in Saga magazine, between 1973 and 1976. Keels research partner into ancient astronauts was Otto O. Binder, the great comic artist, who tirelessly researched folklore for his superhero comics. One senses that Keel wrote these in honor of Binder, whose life had gone into a tailspin in the early 1970s. (Keel claimed Binder was actually the worlds first modern ufologist, since Binders UFO research began a good 20 years before Kenneth Arnolds first UFO sighting in 1947.)

Binder, who died soon after Keel began writing these articles, was responsible for creating or embellishing many classic characters of our childhoods, such as Captain Marvel, Captain America, the Submariner, the Human Torch, the Mighty Samson, Superman, Supergirl, Crypto the Super Dog, Elastic Man, and the Invisible Man. Binder also worked on many classic serials, like Frankenstein, The Time Machine, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Mysterious Island.

At the same time he was writing the pages before you, Keel was also writing his opus, The Mothman Prophecies, which was split into two books (the other being The Eighth Tower). This collection thus presents a more mature analysis, which was undoubtedly hard won. Keel was being constantly harassed, in the late 1960s, as he was trying to get to the bottom of the birdman mystery. The spooks, both supernatural and governmental, wouldnt let him get a decent nights sleep.

Once Keel had presented his polished thoughts on these matters in 1976, ufology went into a tailspin. Keel had proved that an answer was there, that it was imminent (if funding would just be applied), and that it wasnt extraterrestrial. This was unacceptable to the many profiteers and undercover agents in the industry, and so it wasnt long before a new roster of spooks revived the ET gravy train, by highlighting alien abduction actually a cover for CIA mind control experimentation on unwitting citizens.

The mind-control bubble burst in late 2009, right after Keel died, when it became clear that aerial drones could have been used to abduct people, all along, and that a huge class-action lawsuit could be built against CIA subcontractors or the federal government. At the time, I made such an announcement myself, during the filming of Parafornia, a documentary that for some reason has never been released. Was this because I mentioned, by name, a high-level U.S. government official accused of using private drones, as early as the 1970s, to spy on or abduct his personal enemies?

The agency, in a creative move, began promoting Ancient Aliens as the new cover. (You can talk about Ancient Aliens all day, because it is so far in the past that the subject of suing the CIA will never come up.) In due course, the agency simply scapegoated two alien-abduction hypnotherapists, who may have been their assets all along: David M. Jacobs and Budd Hopkins. Agency assets on Facebook went into overdrive, claiming that alien abduction was all in peoples heads, and that it had been placed there by hypnotists, who have always had a bad reputation.