Strange Arrivals is a production of I-Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey.

For the best experience, listen with headphones. I would like to tell you a little bit about tonight's speaker, Mr. John Kiel.

Mr. Kiel writes for approximately 150 newspapers in this country and all over the world

which deal exclusively with the problem of UFOs for the North American Newspaper Alliance,

that's NASA.

He's traveled over a hundred or rather 10,000 miles in 1966 alone.

He personally has investigated scores of UFO incidents and he is interviewed scores of witnesses.

Mr. Kiel, I would say at the present time has done more recently, surely, for the UFO subject than any other writer or lecturer that I know of and it gives me personally a great deal of

of pride and satisfaction to bring him now to our microphones, Mr. John Keel.

I'm Toby.

I'm Toby Ball, and this is Strange Arrivals.

Episode 10, invasion of the ultra-terrestrials. The difference between

between UFO stories that become widely known and those that fall into

obscurity is often a product of the telling. Simply put, an exciting story will gain traction and a less exciting

one will fade away. The classic example of this is the 1947 Roswell crash, which we covered in season 2.

The incident largely disappeared from the UFO world soon after it happened, only to resurface in 1980 with the publication of Charles Burlitz

and William Moore's The Roswell Incident.

After that retelling, it became a staple of UFO lore.

Behind every famous sighting our encounter, there is a storyteller who made the experience captivating to the public.

As we saw with the mothman encounters

and all that went with them,

one such storyteller was John Keel.

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