JOHN KEEL NOT AN AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING

January 24, 2024

Afterword to “The Flying Saucer Subculture”

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Lurasidone over the counter uk Happy Belated New Year! And here, to start 2024, is John’s afterword to his 1994 pamphlet “The Flying Saucer Subculture.”

I’ve been doing this blog since 2009, posting every week unless I’m too busy (like recently, unfortunately). I know many of John’s fans are most interested in his work on UFOs. I have to point out, though, that John didn’t consider himself a ufologist, The main reason was economic: UFO books didn’t make much money. He also used to complain about the polemics in the field, the recycling of old stories and rumors, and the fact that publishers wanted simplistic books that either believed everything or debunked everything.

In his later years, he tried to distance himself from the field. He wrote novels and plays (none of which made it to production or publication). He wrote humor pieces for National Lampoon and High Times. He discussed writing a book about the Wright Brothers and a children’s book about the Loch Ness Monster.

He started the New York Fortean Society in the ’90s, a revival, in a way, of the old Fortean Society directed by Tiffany Thayer. He published a few booklets, including “The Flying Saucer Subculture,” which reprinted an article he’d written in 1973. So, as we head into another year of Keeliana, I’ll post this, as a reminder that John’s attitude to ufology was conflicted at best!

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