Capua John resumes his daily entries, with more reports from Jaye Paro and Helen Oglemyer. Both report being taken to a big house, which Jaye later identifies as a church; both say they came down with the mumps, or something like it. In addition, Jaye makes some notes she can’t understand the next day.
I don’t know who Bill Donovan was, but a search reveals he was a member of NICAP. There’s more on the “Gordon Evans affair” here.
Fingers crossed that at some point Jaye tells John that Appell and Moseley gave her some outer-space pancakes.
Comment by J.P. — October 1, 2018 @ 8:28 am
I still feel like that if something was actually going on it was simply Jaye getting involved with a cult.I don’t put it pass the possibility that Jaye was making stuff up but who knows.It was the late sixties and a lot of UFO cults were becoming a thing.
Comment by Joseph — October 2, 2018 @ 9:45 am
It appears Jaye was fantasy prone, at least to some degree, but it’s painfully obvious she and others were being tampered with by someone. There is no way she alone could have been responsible for all that was going on around her even if she had been far brighter and more devious than John believed. Whoever was behind all this intrigue had access to pretty much whatever they wanted: John’s phone line, John’s mail, John’s apartment for starters. Hmmm… now who could that have been? Aliens? Alphabet agencies have been shown to be guilty of far worse. John was, at least potentially, a key player in the UFO field at the time and we know The Government was infiltrating all sorts of groups. There is no question about that.
The farcical nature of a lot of this material will seem very familiar to anyone who has studied things like the despicable episode that has come to be known as the Bennewitz Affair. One does not need to be a tinfoil-hat-wearing, “moon hoax” believing knucklehead to know that a great many nasty and pointless things have been done in the name of “national security”.
John deserves a lot more credit than he usually gets for being perceptive and intelligent about what was going on during this period, in my opinion. He was a sharp guy who kept his head when things got really weird, and he went where the evidence and the phenomenon led him. I have long admired him for that. I disagree with some of the conclusions he reached later in life, but he earned those opinions.
Comment by ZR — October 2, 2018 @ 6:33 pm