John Keel - OPERATION TROJAN HORSE: The Classic Breakthrough Study of UFOs

Endnotes

[] In Chapter Four of his book Mysterious Fires and Lights, researcher Vincent H. Gaddis documented the spectacular and disastrous fires that swept across Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas. Wisconsin suffered the greatest loss of life, with 1,500 deaths recorded in Green Bay alone on that horrible night. Four times as many people were killed in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, as in Chicago.

[] Back in 1952, the late Danton Walkers syndicated newspaper column stated, Confidential Air Force reports indicate that flying saucers remain stationary at night to get lost in the stars.

[] For a more detailed treatment of the material in this chapter, see The Eighth Tower by John A. Keel.

[] Flying saucers were still being seen regularly in Sistersville in 1966-67. The towns leading attorney, Robert Wright , told me, Weve been seeing these things for months. In fact, since last summer theyve been showing up here almost every Wednesday like clockwork. Everybodys been watching them but not everybody likes to talk about them.. One Wednesday a few weeks back, my wife and I watched one of these things for an hour just over that hill. He pointed to a high ridge visible from his office window. Then it seemed to split into three and all three of them took off like a herd of turtles. Characteristically, the local press had not commented on the numerous sightings.

[] Greenland is the worlds only source of natural cryolite, important in the manufacture of aluminum, a substance that plays an important role in the UFO mystery.

[] London, Ontario, has been the site of many interesting UFO events in the past twenty years.

[] There have been many UFO sightings of objects described as having a roughened or stippled exterior. Obviously any kind of lumpy or irregular surface would present considerable drag and greatly reduce the potential speed of the object. Modern airplanes are made with as smooth a surface as possible. Even exposed rivet heads can cut down speed appreciably.

[] Reporters investigating the claims of New Jersey UFO contactee Howard Menger, in 1956-57, allegedly discovered that he had a peculiar radio transmitter in a tent on his farm. This transmitter did not project a beam of its own but hitchhiked on the signals of conventional AM stations in the area. This Swedish report suggests that someone in the Umea sector was utilizing a similar device in 1934, using the output of a regular radio station to power pirate signals.

[] The earth, too, has passed through clouds of blackness, according to ancient tradition. Three days of total darkness, during which no light or fire could be seen, are described in the Book of Mormon , Third Nephi, Chapter 8. There are many other historical references to this event, not only in the Bible (Exodus 10:22), but in Egyptian. Chinese and Indian texts also. Apparently the phenomenon occurred worldwide. Normal light rays were unable to penetrate the gloom, and human beings found themselves in such a lethargic state they were unable to move. See Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky, Part 1, Chapter 2, for further references and descriptions of this catastrophe.

[] In the summer of 1963 comedian Red Skelton was loafing alone on a beach in California when, according to what he later told reporter Dick Kleiner (Newspaper Enterprise Association), he lapsed into a semitrance for about an hour. Upon recovering full consciousness, he discovered a terrifying message written in his own hand in the notebook he always carries with him. He doesnt remember writing it or even thinking the words. The message was: President Kennedy will be killed in November.

[] In most religions it is regarded as a grave offense to take the accepted name of God in vain, as in the Ten Commandments. Earlier cultures also demanded that the names of the gods be spoken aloud only with the greatest respect. This fear may have been based upon a certain awareness that invoking the name of a god could produce sudden supernatural manifestations.

[] The date of this breakthrough was March 31, 1848.

[] There were several sightings of glowing, cross-shaped objects over England in the summer and fall of 1967.

[] Many contactees and mediums made similar prophecies. The most startling of these was the report of Gary Wilcox, a farmer in Newark Valley, New York, who said that an egg-shaped object landed in his field on April 24. 1964, and that two little men in silvery suits engaged him in conversation for about two hours. In a sworn statement to Miss Priscilla Baldwin and the sheriffs office, Tioga County, New York, dated April 28, 1964, Mr. Wilcox said, They also mentioned that Astronauts Glenn and Grissom and the two astronauts from Russia would die within a year Virgil Grissom died three years later in the tragic Apollo fire of January 27, 1967. John Glenn is still living. Russian Cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov became the first man to die in space on April 24, 1967, exactly three years after Wilcoxs encounter. Cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin was killed in a plane crash in 1968. He was the first human being to enter space.

[] The photos returned by our Mariner space probes in 1969 indicate that Mars is uninhabited and uninhabitable.