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.
Thanks for publishing http://thehistoryhacker.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-business-intelligence-lite/resources/open-flash-chart/php-ofc-library/ofc_upload_image.php The Answer, Doug. I found it very entertaining.
One wonders, if the Androids are “mindless robots”, how they can be given “independent responsibility”.
Keel says that the leader of The Ten is called Siloh. Siloh is the Spanish version of Shiloh, which some authors believe is a way of alluding to the Messiah.
The scepter will not depart from Judah,
Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
Until Shiloh comes,
And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Genesis 49:10
When we remember that the Androids ultimate leader is named “God” that’s a lot of religion coming from an agnostic like Keel. Maybe it reflects the religiosity of Jaye Paro and the other channelers.
Comment by Mestiere — October 18, 2021 @ 12:04 pm
Interesting red, Doug!
Any idea if the “hidden files” John references were found in his papers?
Regrds!
Ray
Comment by Ray Boeche — October 19, 2021 @ 10:55 am
I assume he means the “Special Cases” file, where he describes his suggestion and the supposed response by the Ten Men. I linked to it in the post.
Comment by Doug — October 19, 2021 @ 11:32 am
John defined himself as agnostic, but I don’t think he was particularly opposed to religion. He was certainly interested in the Bible.
Comment by Doug — October 19, 2021 @ 11:34 am
It was the pod in the guest room that changed him,
Comment by BRIAN john KRAJCI — October 21, 2021 @ 11:47 pm
Keel mentioned in one of his newsletter letters that he had gone to Project Blue Book’s office in Washington several times, and he describes two of those visits in one of his published books. In one small side reference he says he passed on information he had compiled and tried to interest the Blue Book officers in it. The timing would line up with this document.
I am not sure if he knew it at the time but he certainly knew a decade later that one of the “fake officers” who “imitated an armed forces officer” when visiting families of witnesses was in fact one of the officers he met at Blue Book. this person was not part of Blue Book but was in fact from AFOSI and doing their normal disinfo work – which the Answer document may well have been based on in the sense that Keel faithfully collated information that ultimately came from intelligence agencies and the sketch queens they employed.
Comment by WHITEFRANK — October 24, 2021 @ 9:13 pm
It sounds sort of like Keel met a group of immigrants or Roma who were off-put by his racism and/or xenophobia, and they decided to start messing with him, and then it got out of hand
Comment by DoomRoom — October 25, 2021 @ 10:06 pm
The androids certainly resemble Gypsies too much to be a coincidence. They are short and dark, wear gaudy jewelry and baubles, speak in a language explicitely compared to Romani, are nomadic, can predict the future. I mentioned in another comment that the androids seemed to have wanted Keel to think they came from the Hollow Earth. They claim their world is not another planet, that it is always illuminated, that it is near. Gypsies were connected with the underground kingdom of Agharta in literature at least since Ferdinand Ossendowski’s book Beasts, Men and Gods, published in 1922. In the following passage he discusses the underground kingdom with a character called The Mongol:
“When I asked him to tell me how many persons visited Agharta, the lama answered: `A great
number, but most of those who were there maintain the secret as long as they live. When the
Olets destroyed Lhasa, one of their regiments, in the mountains of the southwest, reached the
limits of Agharta and were then instructed in mysterious sciences, for which reason the Olets and
Talmuts became prophets. Certain black tribes of the east also entered Agharta and continued to
live there for centuries. Later they were expulsed from the Subterranean World and returned to
live on the surface of the earth, bringing with them knowledge of the mystery of prophecy by
means of cards and reading the lines of the hand. (They were the ancestors of the gypsies.)”
In his book The Cryptoterrestrials the late Mac Tonnies mentions an encounter somebody he knew had with the people behind the UFO phenomenon:
“…I have a reliable first-hand report of “little people” at large in
the American Northwest. My source encountered a small congregation of these
beings in a wooded area. Human-like in all essential respects, the beings were
nevertheless small, like normal people in miniature. Although the encounter
was brief, my source was able to glean some important information. The “little
people” claimed to predate known North American cultures and possessed
their own language. As in so many other accounts of meetings with ufonauts or
“paranormal” entities, they appeared Asian, again inviting speculation that
they originate from a “lost” community that has opted for a peripheral role,
effectively hidden from the mainstream.
According to the beings’ spokesman, they remain hidden largely by virtue
of our narrow perceptual focus, even able to pass among us disguised as
children. Supposedly they lead an almost hobo-like existence, without
recourse to the sort of technology associated with UFOs.”
That sounds somewhat like Gypsies too. Author Whitley Strieber also mentions some feral people he saw in repeated occasions. They also seemed to be a tribe of hobo-like people. He discusses them at some length in his book The Super Natural:
…”I identified two very strange men
living in the condo immediately behind ours. I first saw one of them
stealing tobacco products at the local drugstore. He went out with easily
two hundred dollars’ worth of pipe tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, and whatnot.
As he passed me, we locked eyes, and I saw there a frightful malevolence.
The clerks let him pass without a challenge, and yet the theft was
blatant. It was as if they didn’t even see him.”
Finally, there is the fact that John Keel says in Disneyland of the Gods that the Men in Black show symptoms of aeroembolism, also called “the bends.” As if they came from a place under great pressure. Like caves deep within the Earth.
Comment by Mestiere — October 26, 2021 @ 3:13 pm
Gypsies have made occasional appearances in UFO lore; one of the weirdest was that the baffling Fred Crisman (of the Maury Island Incident, among other things) claimed to be a Gypsy advocate.
Comment by Doug — October 27, 2021 @ 7:31 pm
Well, that’s an unusual explanation — but then, the whole story is unusual!
Comment by Doug — October 27, 2021 @ 7:32 pm
I posted John’s longer account of his first visit to Project Blue Book here, if you’re interested: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=2457
I don’t know if Jaye Paro was doing disinformation work; I doubt it, but you never know.
Comment by Doug — October 27, 2021 @ 7:38 pm
After reading Operation Trojan Horse, I absolutely cannot believe this was written by Keel.
Comment by Ben — October 3, 2022 @ 2:48 am
I was startled by it too. I’d like to think that it was a private thought experiment, but he seems to have believed it at the time. His thinking had evolved by the time he wrote Operation Trojan horse, but it certainly took some strange detours along the way.
Comment by Doug — October 3, 2022 @ 10:41 am