Beni Coral Lorenzen responds to John’s letter, and he is officially enrolled in APRO. He had quite a correspondence with the Lorenzens that year. Most of it is more interesting than this simple business letter, but this is how it began, and I didn’t want to leave it out. One of the hallmarks of early UFO researchers was their desire for respectability; in this letter, Lorenzen mentions her “heavy emphasis on College Professor types” and “the various professions, including Doctors and lawyers,” and cites A. E. Brown and Richard C. Gerdes. John, it should be mentioned, didn’t fit this category; he was a high school dropout who wrote for men’s magazines and TV, and whose latest work was a Batman spoof. He was apparently not what APRO was looking for!
A PROCESSION of the damned.
By the damned, I mean the excluded.
We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You’ll read them — or they’ll march. Some of them livid and some of them fiery and some of them rotten. –
Simply to remind us of what this website should be about simply by the name that it is under.
Comment by Rafael — August 6, 2019 @ 7:16 pm
Well, this site is about John Keel, not Charles Fort. I’m posting his papers for fans and scholars, not collecting Fortean data, or attempting to do research like his.
Comment by Doug — August 6, 2019 @ 10:12 pm
Hi Doug. I read the wiki article on APRO and it seems very similar to an IRVA video of Hal Puthoff I watched only this morning… government connection and some level of backing, using scientists and established researchers for credibility, but this time with thermal and video evidence. Both approaches are using what I guess would be called a materialistic ? approach to this phenomenon…that there are actual physical craft. But John grew beyond that theory as his research continued. didn’t he?
Comment by patty g — August 14, 2019 @ 7:17 pm
[…] fully UFO history, particularly of the 1960s and 1970s, might be wise to get a copy of this book. A Letter from Coral Lorenzen starts off Keel’s correspondence with the APRO heads, and Skinner notes humorously how little […]
Pingback by John A. Keel: The Man, The Myths, and The Ongoing Mysteries – Hakan Blomqvist's Blog | InnerCirclePress.com — August 15, 2019 @ 12:02 am
He certainly did. In 1966, he was just starting to explore the subject.
Comment by Doug — August 16, 2019 @ 9:55 am
Can someone explan the signficance of power lines near a UFO or Bigfoot sighting? I thought I read someplace that John felt there was some type of conneciton.
Comment by John Gerard — October 12, 2019 @ 1:48 pm
I know sightings have been reported near power lines, but I don’t know if John came to any conclusion about them.
Comment by Doug — October 13, 2019 @ 9:55 pm