{"id":4275,"date":"2020-03-01T21:58:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2020-03-03T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T21:03:13","slug":"a-letter-to-lynn-catoe-december-3-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=4275","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to Lynn Catoe, December 3, 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John writes to Lynn Catoe, shortly after they began conferring about her proposed UFO bibliography. Among the interesting bits in this letter are Gordon Evans&#8217;s withdrawal from ufology, reports of a John Keel impersonator, a black Cadillac cruising Ivan and Alma Sanderson&#8217;s farm, warnings of &#8220;odd incidents&#8221; Ms. Catoe might experience, and the news that John is now &#8220;trying to lead away from the extra-terrestrial thesis and point in new directions.&#8221; The &#8220;episode with the man in the pickup truck&#8221; happened to Ms. Catoe while she was driving to visit the Sandersons in October. A man stopped her and insisted on crawling under her car; when she reached the farm she discovered three lumps of putty on the bottom of her gas tank. John tells the story in more detail in Chapter 17 of <em>The Mothman Prophecies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>ADDENDUM: In the comments, Clarence Carlson expressed curiosity about Gordon Evans. Here&#8217;s a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/files.afu.se\/Downloads\/Magazines\/United%20States\/Journal%20of%20the%20Congress%20of%20Scientific%20Ufologists\/1967%20Congress%20of%20Scientific%20UFOlogists.pdf\">transcript<\/a> of Jim Moseley&#8217;s UFO convention in June 1967, which includes a talk by Evans. There&#8217;s also a talk by John, and contributions by Gray Barker, Long John Nebel, Ivan Sanderson, and other people who show up in these letters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=4276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4276\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JAK120367A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JAK120367A.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JAK120367A-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JAK120367A-790x1024.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JAK120367A-768x996.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=4277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4277\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JAK031267B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JAK031267B.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JAK031267B-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JAK031267B-768x699.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John writes to Lynn Catoe, shortly after they began conferring about her proposed UFO bibliography. Among the interesting bits in this letter are Gordon Evans&#8217;s withdrawal from ufology, reports of a John Keel impersonator, a black Cadillac cruising Ivan and Alma Sanderson&#8217;s farm, warnings of &#8220;odd incidents&#8221; Ms. Catoe might experience, and the news that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}