JOHN KEEL NOT AN AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING

John was born March 25, 1930. Happy Birthday, John! He’s seen here with his long-time partner Arlene Stadd, from a calendar that she made for him in 1994.

Keep reading those Keel books!

John wrote this amusing account of a winged cat in January, 1968. I don’t know if it was published in this form, but John incorporated it into Chapter Four, “Flying Felines,” of Strange Creatures From Time and Space, later reissued as The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings.

We continue with the local coverage of the Silver Bridge disaster. The search continues for those lost in the collapse; Mary Hyre devotes her column to the recovery and to a memorial service for two of the victims.

John wrote this letter to Col. George P. Freeman, a spokesman for Project Blue Book, on Jan. 30, 1967. I don’t know what Col. Freeman thought of it, but I think it likely that John’s warning about “the actual physical fate of the planet itself” was not taken seriously.

I assume the “rather hysterical newspaper piece” John mentions is this one.