We continue with John’s article on the “Reeves Papers,” two sheets of supposedly alien writing reported by contactee John Reeves. I don’t know if the article was published; it may be unfinished. The red numbers may indicate footnotes, but there are no footnotes in the folder. The article is ten pages; I’m posting two pages at a time.
John’s birthday was yesterday, the 25th. Happy belated and posthumous birthday, John!
John kept a file on the “Reeves papers,” the two sheets of supposedly alien writing found by John Reeves after a 1965 UFO sighting in Florida. John (Keel, that is) made an attempt to decipher them, and to relate them to other reports of alien symbols. He was also intrigued by their similarities to the “Unified Symbolism” system developed by C. K. Bliss and Oliver R. Reiser in the 1950s.
We’ll start with the first two pages of a 10-page article. I don’t know if he ever published it, but he probably sent copies to other researchers. The red numbers seem to indicate footnotes; they don’t correspond to the six pages of drawings mentioned at the top, which are referred to later in the text. Following this are photocopies of the two Reeves sheets.
In a sort of postscript to his last letter, John tracks down Alex Theoharous and his wife (whom he doesn’t name), and convinces them not to pirate Bowen’s book The Humanoids. Bowen was grateful, as you can see here. As we can see from John’s letter, Bowen’s remark about Frank Edwards was prompted by Alex Theoharous’s defense that he and his wife were only doing what Edwards had done.
This is the last letter I’ve found from John’s correspondence with Charles Bowen. After this, I plan to post John’s notes on the “Reeves code,” and then some material about his experimental films, and then some of his correspondence from the 60s with Jim and Coral Lorenzen, Ivan Sanderson, and Lynn Catoe. There’s more to come!
Prompted by a call from Jim Lorenzen (of APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization), John investigates a plan to sell copies of Bowen’s book The Humanoids at an inflated price. Bowen’s reply is here; I only found this letter later. John is quite the detective here!
John responds to Charles Bowen’s letter of September 16. He asks that some information be deleted from his report on the Erie incident, sends the bio Bowen had requested, discusses the current state of ufology, and mentions a recent spate of “hairy-being” sightings.
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