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Operation Trojan Horse

John A. Keel · author

John A. Keel's investigative synthesis of historical and contemporary UFO reports, contact narratives, entity reports, and his paraphysical interpretation of the phenomenon.

DOCUMENTED EDITIONS
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PUBLISHED CLAIMS
15
ARCHIVE TARGETS
7
PRIMARY CLAIM LINKS
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INGESTION BATCHES
0
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// EDITIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHY
SRC-002096Tier 3

1996 IllumiNet Press Edition

Publication: 1996-01-01
Publisher: IllumiNet Press · United States
Language: en
Edition verification: reported
ISBN: 0-9626534-6-2
// CLAIM PROVENANCE
15 CITATION LINK(S)
CLAIM-100001 · Reported Craft Appearance
Keel recounts that witnesses C. Phillip Lambert and Donny Russell Rose described a rapidly spinning sterling-silver disk near Charleston, South Carolina, approximately 20 feet in diameter and 14 feet tall, initially estimated at 800–900 feet altitude.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 1: The Secret War, p. 13CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100002 · Reported Craft Appearance
Keel reports Phillip Burkhardt's description of a disk-shaped, silvery or metallic-white object with rectangular lights blinking across its lower portion, a separate light on top, and no audible engine noise.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 2: To Hell with the Answer! What's the Question?, p. 27CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100003 · Reported Craft Appearance
In Rita Malley's December 1967 account, Keel records a disk about the size of a boxcar with a domed top, square red and green windows, and a humming sound while it paced her car near Ithaca, New York.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 4: Machines from Beyond Time, pp. 59–60CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100004 · Reported Craft Appearance
Keel summarizes an Australian contact account in which a witness south of Sydney described a metal disk surrounded by violet light and producing a whining sound.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 3: The World of Illusion, p. 53CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100005 · Reported Craft Appearance
Keel recounts the McMullen family's October 1968 Medulla, Florida report of a purplish-red, completely transparent sphere about 30 feet across hovering roughly 10 feet above the ground, with two human-sized figures visible inside and a strong ammonia odor in the area.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 3: The World of Illusion, pp. 56–57CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100006 · Reported Craft Appearance
Keel records a 1957 Long Island account of a huge delta-winged aircraft-like object passing swiftly overhead in total silence while surrounded by a reddish glow.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 7: Unidentified Airplanes, p. 110CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100007 · Reported Craft Appearance
In Keel's review of the 1896 California airship wave, Oakland witnesses are described as reporting an egg-shaped vessel about 150 feet long, with four rotor-like arms and a large light underneath that illuminated the ground.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 5: The Grand Deception, p. 69CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100008 · Reported Craft Appearance
Keel reproduces an 1897 Arkansas affidavit attributed to Constable John J. Sumpter Jr. and Deputy Sheriff John McLemore describing a cigar-shaped aerial vessel about 60 feet long, associated with a brilliant light and three occupants encountered on the ground.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 5: The Grand Deception, p. 72CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100009 · Reported Craft Appearance
Keel summarizes Alexander Hamilton's 1897 Kansas claim of a roughly 300-foot-long cigar-shaped machine with a transparent carriage underneath, a large directional searchlight, smaller red and green lights, and a large rotating turbine-like wheel.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 5: The Grand Deception, p. 76CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100010 · Reported Craft Appearance
Keel reproduces Captain James Hooton's historical account of an airship with a knife-like forward edge, large side wheels or rotating structures, wing-like surfaces and a hissing sound as it rose.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 5: The Grand Deception, p. 80CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100011 · Physical Characteristics
In a cross-cultural comparison, Keel cites Tzeltal traditions recorded by anthropologist Brian Stross describing ihk'al as roughly three-foot-tall hairy humanoids.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 12: The Cosmic Jokers, pp. 205–206CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100012 · Technology & Spacecraft
Keel reports that the Tzeltal ihk'al tradition describes these diminutive humanoids as flying with a rocket-like device attached to the back; this is presented as folklore, not as verified technology.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 12: The Cosmic Jokers, p. 206CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100013 · Physical Characteristics
Keel recounts an anonymous Long Island father's 1966 account of three figures less than two feet tall wearing skin-tight metallic suits, which reportedly ran across his backyard and then vanished from view.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 12: The Cosmic Jokers, p. 206CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100014 · Reported Entity Behavior
Keel compares traditions in which diminutive humanoids are credited with invisibility, flight, unusual strength, abductions, paralysis or mental influence, emphasizing that these are recurring folkloric and testimonial motifs rather than established biological capabilities.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 12: The Cosmic Jokers, pp. 205–207CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
CLAIM-100015 · Physical Characteristics
Keel states that from November 1966 through 1967 more than 100 people around Point Pleasant, West Virginia reported encounters with a giant winged creature whose blazing red eyes appeared set deep in its shoulders; he notes that he personally interviewed many of the witnesses.
SUPPORTS
SRC-002096 · Chapter 13: A Sure Cure for Alligator Bites, pp. 227–228CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED
// INGESTION PROVENANCE
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