Summary of John Keel's OPERATION TROJAN HORSE

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#1 There have been many sightings of UFOs on radar, and in July 1966, the Federal Aviation Agency tower at the Greensboro-High Point Airport picked up an unidentified flying object. Several police officers in the High Point-Randolph County area also saw unidentifiable objects buzzing the area.

#2 The government’s official position toward flying saucers has been negative since 1953, although a great deal of attention has been paid to the subject behind the scenes. In 1966, a flap occurred, and the then-Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, had been well briefed by the Air Force before the subject was interjected into a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

#3 The government’s attitude has helped foster the general disinterest of the press in the subject of UFOs. As a result, most of the reported UFO activity has gone unnoticed.

#4 I had to travel to the various flap areas and interview the witnesses in depth, applying the journalistic techniques I had learned from being a reporter and writer for two decades. I rarely gave the witnesses any information in return.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822503601

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Insights on John Keel's OPERATION TROJAN HORSE

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

There have been many sightings of UFOs on radar, and in July 1966, the Federal Aviation Agency tower at the Greensboro-High Point Airport picked up an unidentified flying object. Several police officers in the High Point-Randolph County area also saw unidentifiable objects buzzing the area.

#2

The government’s official position toward flying saucers has been negative since 1953, although a great deal of attention has been paid to the subject behind the scenes. In 1966, a flap occurred, and the then-Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, had been well briefed by the Air Force before the subject was interjected into a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

#3

The government’s attitude has helped foster the general disinterest of the press in the subject of UFOs. As a result, most of the reported UFO activity has gone unnoticed.

#4

I had to travel to the various flap areas and interview the witnesses in depth, applying the journalistic techniques I had learned from being a reporter and writer for two decades. I rarely gave the witnesses any information in return.

#5

I visited local newspapers and spoke with the editors and reporters who had been handling the UFO reports in their areas. I realized what a skillful and objective job they had done. I developed a new respect for the clippings that were pouring into my mailbox.

#6

I had collected more than 10,000 clippings and reports by 1966. I had checked out many of these cases personally and had become convinced of their validity. I had organized the sightings by dates, and found that they tended to collect around specific days of the week.

#7

The UFO phenomenon has a geographical factor that is baffling. If the UFOs were meteors or other natural phenomena, they would be reported in adjoining states. Instead, they seem to be concentrated in specific states.

#8

The skeptics argue that mass hysteria builds up in flap areas, but this is not true. Nearly all the published reports of flap dates appear on the same day. There is no time lag, and no building up of reports.

#9

The biggest flap in March 1967 occurred on Wednesday, March 8. I received more than 2,000 clippings and reports on that day, and was able to investigate many of them firsthand. The major news media ignored this flap, perhaps because none of the editors realized it was happening.

#10

There were reports of UFO sightings in several states in March 1967. In Missouri, many people saw a flashing light from their kitchen