The Big Blackout

p22 - Keel thinks these people (the cadaver-like aliens Agar & Apol) might be reptiles; because of the way they sucked out raw eggs etc. Lots of salt & olives in their house/lab. All seen only by the female witness he spoke to many times over the phone (Jaye Paro). He wonders if he is being hoaxed by someone, maybe Moseley - same as editor Colvin speculates later. It's also possible his witness has been hypnotized or in a trance state & only believes she is seeing what she's seeing; in reality she may not be. Her mind (maybe Keel's too, to a limited extent) is being manipulated. Salt is the secret common aspect of this that Keel alludes to elsewhere, that he didn't reveal at the time in order to find out if other contactees were also asked for it.

p31 - 12 bases in operation on Long Island, with computers & consoles. Elaborate console called a "plus machine." C'mon, Keel surely can't believe all this. His leg was being pulled; not on all of it maybe, but it just seems too unlikely. Did he or anyone ever search for these bases? Has anyone searched for these bases 50 years later, or what might remain of them?

Jaye was helping coordinate a rescue mission for Apol who was being held by their enemies. I'm not sure how all this could go on under everyone's noses with only Keel knowing about it. Long Island? I don't know anything about the place but it seems too close to large populations for this kind of stuff to go on. The Montauk stuff also.

Apol was rescued by the way, thank goodness. ;)

p40 - Matell & Rodan - 2 of the "aliens." Heh. Matell is a toy company (different spelling) and Rodan is the monster from Japanese horror films.

Keel mentions Alice Bailey's books & the Lucis Trust bookstore. The latter currently owns the copyrights on Bailey's books & has them on their website for free online reading. Keel says her book The Externalization of the Hierarchy details the whole mystery in occult terms. I've looked it over briefly, nuthin yet. There's a theosophy website that argues that she & her colleagues Besant & Leadbeater distort the Theosophy message. So in order to follow this, one would have to read all of Blavatsky followed by the works of these 3 and compare them. Yeesh who has time for that... Was Keel aware of Blavatsky & did he read any of her work? Is this book of Bailey's similar enough on the basics to give an accurate picture? Blavatsky made stuff up tho, see Guenon.

p42 - "Gelatinous object" reported in one of the East Hampton sightings. This could be a plasmoid created by microwave pulses, as splained by LaV in his Pulsars book. Many of the unexplained lights seen by many witnesses, especially near military bases, could be these plasmoids; military tests of the microwave pulse equipment. Similar to much later tests near Superstition Mtns. as reported by LaV. How soon were they working on this?

p58 - "Alien" asks for salt, the item Keel didn't reveal in his articles because many witnesses apparently reported it without being prompted or knowing anyone else was reporting the same thing, & it was one of his clues to a genuine contact, to weed out the hoaxers...

p66 - Witness says MIB are turning people into evil mindless zombies, for when the takeover occurs. She witnessed the process. Hmm, no takeover yet...

p71 - They make Paro sign a legal document with a terrestrial witness present, turning over her brain and body to them. But she gets to keep her soul. ?? They were going to supposedly turn her into one of these zombies but wanted legal permission first? eh? Is this the setup then - the "aliens" harass & confuse a witness so much it gets them depressed enough to sign a legal document. Well if they're not aliens but human hypnotists then they now have the legal right to whatever that doc says. Weird; but I haven't read anything else yet that's similar to this.

p82 - Colvin thinks Barker may have hired a bunch of out of work actors to portray these guys (Apol, Indrid Cold, Valiant Thor etc) to persuade contactees to publish books with him, who would later be paid by Moseley. Huh? Wha? Colvin says he learned this from re-establishing Barker's book line. Hmm... So Barker would have made up all this stuff to sell books...

Keel asked by "aliens" if he believed in world govt, communism & socialized medicine. Keel answers no to all except "one worldism" which he objects to under a strong leader ie a dictator (which is what it's gonna be when it finally happens, everything will be fair for the govt leaders, the rest of us will be slaves), so he hedges a bit on world govt. Keel lectures the alien on the rights of the individual (as opposed to the state having precedence). Hmm during the Cold War the govt was still looking for communist infiltrators (they should have checked our universities); could this be a plant to check on Keel in such a way? If (see below) Barker was indeed a govt agent he could have devised this method to see if Keel was a communist (I guess based on this answer that he wasn't).

MIB gave Apol LSD. ?? They're all on LSD, seems to me... Wigged out....

7 very special children would be born, all girls. Hmm this was Oct. 1967 so they would have been born in July '68 & would now be 51 years old. Any way to check who these could be? 7 women all born on Long Island? Geesh hoo nose...

p83 - Keel receives Barker letter meant for Moseley, implying Barker is some sort of govt agent. !! But he doesn't go into any detail darn it. Maybe they'll have it on the Keel blog. Is this some of Colvin's evidence for what he states in his note in this chapter of the book? Did Barker & Moseley make up this whole thing to... what? Make Keel look like a fool if he went public with it? Why? Because he was a better writer & outselling them? Or had more clout amongst the ufo peeps? Or just to sow confusion, as Keel says the ufonauts were deliberately doing.

p85 - Agar was only "partially materialized" until Jaye gave her some pills. Is Colvin wrong then? Am I wrong? Partially materialized doesn't mean they just flew in in a spaceship though, it means they're materializing from another dimension. Um... Unless they're using Star Trek transporters... Keel saw 3 MIB's materialize in his apt a year before (see Raines book); just like Albert Bender did years before. But who the hell are these spooks? Some seem supernatural, others human. Humans in league with the other guys? Or just controlled... Hope not... Or are humans doing the controlling & hypnotizing people into believing the materializations? Urk....

p93 - Summary of behavior of MIB's. Either not human, or controlled humans. Keel should know, he was visited by them; see Raines. And "they didn't bother to use the door" which would make them not human. Can ufonauts walk through walls? someone asked. Apparently so. And hypnotize us & control our minds. The susceptible ones...

p115 - "Keep secret the fact that we are three years too early," Apol tells Keel in July 1967. So they were supposed to come in 1970? Why is that?

p127 - "We are dealing with as many as twelve different groups." Yeesh... This is the middle of 1967 so Keel is still working on his hypothesis maybe; he hasn't decided yet that none of these people are from outer space. 12 different groups from inner space?

p137 - "Only three people in the world can give birth to our future leader."

"When the contactees die, we cannot use them unless they die naturally."

2 curious quotes from Apol & his buds. The last quote is interesting in that the "alien" uses the word "contactee." That's our word for them. The "aliens" wouldn't use that term; although they could have gotten it from Keel & one of his letters to "them" I suppose... Also it implies that they use the contactees after they die. What the heck... Plan 9 again. Zombie apocalypse. The aliens thought Plan 9 was a documentary... hehheh... Agar & Apol looked like cadavers supposedly... Ugh... Or, did Ed Wood know what was really going on?

p155 - The (alien) woman asked for something very unusual and (the witness) gave it to her. This unusual thing that Keel didn't reveal at the time had turned up in other cases also. This unusual something was salt (see p58).