He described them as 'trickster beings' or 'cosmic pranksters” here to 'play simple minded games with simple minded humans.' Keel analyzed what he called 'window areas' or 'zones of fear' which he viewed as areas of high strangeness in which strange otherworldly entities and creatures could enter our world. Many of his views on UFOs are printed in his book Operation Trojan Horse (1970), with ideas on monsters in Strange Creatures From Time And Space (1970) and spiritual perspectives in Our Haunted Planet (1971). He thought of UFOs as manifestations from an extradimensional force or state of energy beyond our current understanding. He instead posited his own hypothetical explanations for where they might come from. In other words, he did not think that UFOs were from other planets and he was completely against this notion. John Keel strongly disagreed with the 'Extraterrestrial hypothesis' for Unidentified Flying Objects. He viewed these things as aspects of a larger connected phenomenon. He had many interesting ideas attempting to explain the nature of the odd things that people often report to see.

John Keel is often credited for popularized the term Men In Black and introduced the acronym MIB. Keel's Follow-up book, The Eighth Tower (1975) was comprised of reworked material that was left out of Mothman Prophecies and delves further into Keel's ideas and possible explanations. The book combined Keel's account of receiving strange phone calls with reports of mutilated pets and culminates with the December 15th 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge in West Virginia across the Ohio River.

The result was one of his most popular books, The Mothman Prophecies (1975). He would find the same thing to be happening with many of the eyewitnesses of the creature that was later dubbed 'The Mothman'. Upon arriving in Pt Pleasant, Keel soon found strange coincidences and phenomena would follow him wherever he traveled. Reports of paranormal activity was overtaking the small town of Point Pleasant throughout 1966-1967 resulting in Keel adopting that area as his own research microcosm. (Visited on: Wednesday, Dec 7th 1966 - Dec 8th 1966, Late March 1967 - April 6th 1967, November 1967 and more.) John Keel: Man, Myth and Ongoing Mysteries (2019) by Brent RaynesĪfter hearing about the Scarberry and Mallette Mothman Sighting, Keel made several visits from his home in New York to Point Pleasant, West Virginia to investigate reported monster and UFO sightings.Brief John Keel Biography on (Highly recommended!).John Alva Keel, born Alva John Kiehle (March 25th 1930 – July 3rd 2009 / Aged 79) was an influential American journalist and Fortean researcher who is best known as author of The Mothman Prophecies.

Our Haunted Planet by John A. Keel