JOHN KEEL NOT AN AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING

Bormujos At the request of reader Jon Robinson, I’m posting one of Jaye Paro’s articles from Beyond magazine (I listed them here, and posted her first article here.). This one is “Manifestations 0f Indians Appear to Long Island Family,” and appeared in the February 1970 issue.

Beyond billed itself as “Documented Truths About the Strange Phenomena of Our Times.” It was published in the late ’60s and early ’70s, first as a digest and then in standard format. This issue featured articles on UFOs, astrology, handwriting analysis, channeled messages from Martin Luther King, and the healing powers of Pacolite clay. It was published by Bernard S. Adelman, about whom I can find nothing. The Executive Editor was Keith Ayling, who seems to have written mostly books about aviation, and, if it’s the same Keith Ayling, smutty novels like Key Club Girl and Sex Peddler, under the name of Arthur Adlon. However, veteran Fortean Vincent Gaddis was also one of the contributing editors. Beyond was published in Hicksville, NY, in Nassau County on Long Island, only six miles from Farmingdale, where Jaye Paro lived.

Her article collects ghosts sightings from the Harmon family in Huntington, as well as a few tales from Princess Sum Tam of the Mattinecock tribe. So, here, for your Halloween enjoyment, are some Long Island ghost stories, from the enigmatic Jaye Paro.

Parts 7 and 8 of “The Answer” are one page each. Part 7, “The Ten Men,” concerns a council of white-robed Androids. The plan John mentions here was a suggestion that he made for a public display of UFOs. You can read about it in the “Special Cases” file here. Part 8, “Methods of Infiltration,” claims that the Androids pass as “Indians,” and are taking over “the Montessori system of parochial schools.” I must point out that Montessori schools are, in fact, not parochial schools.

And this concludes John’s puzzling 1967 document “The Answer.” These last parts are very short; he may have had second thoughts about this file, or simply said all he wanted to say. He had come to some rather wild conclusions; he moved on to other explanations and speculations later.

Some questions remain for me. This was apparently not written just for himself, since he addresses the reader at times; who did he plan to share this with? How many of these beliefs informed his public writing of the time? And how many of them did he still hold later?

Well, thanks for reading this along with me; it’s puzzled me ever since I found it.

Part 6 of “The Answer,” John’s private file of his conclusions about the UFO enigma, as of 1967, is only two pages. He describes the “Supreme Leader” and the leader’s identification as “God,” and speculates about the original and location of the Androids, stressing that “it is only a theory.” The questions he cites were asked in a number of questionnaires to “Apol,” communicated through Jaye Paro.

Here are the last two pages of Part 5 of “The Answer,” John’s private summation of his conclusions as of 1967. There’s more on the organization of the Androids, their reliance on contactees for supplies, the “Plus Machine,” and strangeness with his telephone. Although John says, “If all of this sounds unbelievable to you, just wait… we are only beginning,” he continued for only a few more pages.

In Part 5 of his 1967 document “The Answer,” John describes the Android bases, complete with a flow chart of their chain of command. For those of you coming to this just now, let me add that it’s a private file that John assembled from his interviews with contactees. It should be read as a phase in his early development, superseded by later research, and as a summary of contactee beliefs. Please don’t take it as representative of his later thinking, or as a reliable guide to Androids!

We return to “The Answer,” John’s private file of his conclusions about the UFO puzzle, as of 1967. In this part, he considers the Androids’ habit of lying to contactees, their dependence on “orders from higher up,” and other curious aspects of their behavior.

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I interrupt my posting of “The Answer” for a couple of Keelian tidbits.

The first is that YouTube has informed me that the second part of “On Exhibition,” a film that John and Ed Lord made in 1963, violates community standards. In this comic short, John plays a drunk bewildered by the paintings in the Museum of Modern Art. The first part, in which he gets thrown out of several bars, is apparently fine, but the artwork in the Museum must have offended someone. Anthony Matt and I posted it back in 2011, so it took ten years for it to become objectionable.

I also note that an early piece by John has cropped up on eBay: a humorous article on songwriting, published in the April 23, 1946 edition of Hobo News. John was only 16 at the time. The seller is asking $400, which is more than I can afford, but if any of you snap it up, let me know. I took a screen shot, and added the article to the bibliography.

And next week, we’ll return to “The Answer.”

John’s private file “The Answer” continues. The third part is entitled “Where Are They From?” It’s preceded by a list of “UFO bases on Long Island.” In later years John said he realized some places he thought were UFO bases were actually military sites; I assume that includes this list.

A couple of things to note: he says in the first paragraph that he had face-to-face meetings with the Androids. This surprises me; in the “Special Cases” file that this is based on, he mentions letters and phone calls, but not in-person interactions. (One of the letters he mentions is here.) Also, this may be his first use of the term “ultra-terrestrial”: he originally used “ultra-dimensional,” and then changed it.

We continue with John’s 1967 file, “The Answer,” in which he set down his private conclusions about the UFO phenomenon. This is the second part of the second chapter, “The Psychology of the Androids,” assembling descriptions of the aliens/androids and their behavior from contactees’ reports. In the next chapter, he will try to solve that recurring ufological puzzle, “Where Are They From?”

We continue with John’s private summation of his conclusions (as of 1967) about the UFO puzzle, “The Answer.” In the second chapter, he describes “The Psychology of the Androids,” taken from the reports of his network of contactees. This is the first part of it. The sulfa pills that he mentions can be seen here.