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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-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.”
SUPPORTSSRC-002096 · Chapter 13: A Sure Cure for Alligator Bites, pp. 227–228CLAIM STATUS: REPORTED