Bytom John spends a few days in Washington with Lynn Catoe. He appears on some radio shows; the tape of one is erased by accident. A fuse blows as he discusses UFOs with Ms. Catoe. I haven’t seen the “Casey Truck” incident in these notes, but it appears in Chapter 17 of The Mothman Prophecies: Ms. Catoe drives to Ivan Sanderson’s farm, is stopped several times by a man in a truck, and later finds a lump of putty under her car. John describes her in detail, and specifies “Our relationship is not platonic.” Who did he think needed to know? Posterity, perhaps? Well, if so, here we are.
“Our relationship is not platonic.”
Comment by Tim — October 8, 2018 @ 3:49 pm
[…] together a UFO bibliography for the University of Colorado Condon Committee) as described in Special Cases – File Three (14): A Fuse Blown, a Tape Erased, seems to put that conjecture in doubt. But we’ll grant Rich that Keel at least displayed a […]
Pingback by John Keel: A Paragon of Insight or a Paranoid Swunk – UFO Conjectures | InnerCirclePress.com — October 10, 2018 @ 6:50 am
sort of a dispassionate way to describe a girlfriend…. exactly, doug, who was he writing this for?
Comment by patty g — October 10, 2018 @ 8:43 pm
sort of a dispassionate way to describe a girlfriend….
exactly, doug, who was he writing this for? lol
Comment by patty g — October 10, 2018 @ 8:44 pm
Huh! The phrase itself doesn’t seem that strange to me. It was a clandestine relationship, it had just started, they were quarreling a lot, they didn’t know where it was going, John had another long-term relationship (with a woman named Gerda, who appears earlier in these notes), but was also dating other women… It was probably easier to say what it wasn’t than what it was. But I do wonder who the info was intended for. If he was just writing for himself, he didn’t need to describe her, because he already knew who she was. I don’t think he was sharing these notes with other researchers. I guess he put it in for posterity.
Comment by Doug — October 14, 2018 @ 10:29 am