John Keel (Telegraph)

This article has some good info on Keel’s books and theories dealing with the paranormal.

John Keel, who died on July 3 aged 79, was a prominent American ufologist (an observer and chronicler of UFOs – unidentified flying objects) and the author of The Mothman Prophecies (1975), a book about paranormal phenomena which was made into a successful film starring Richard Gere.

One of ufology’s most widely-read and influential authors, Keel became an original and controversial researcher, and is credited with coining the term MIB (Men In Black), sinister and threatening entities who assume human form to confront ufologists and UFO witnesses.

Of particular importance was Keel’s analysis of patterns. His work on “windows” (specific hot spots of combined phenomenal appearances), “waves” (cyclic appearances of the phenomena) and the “Wednesday phenomenon” (the theory that a disproportionate number of UFO events occur on that day of the week) influenced scholars and followers of the genre alike.

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