JOHN KEEL NOT AN AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING

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.