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Primary source · 1969-1976

The John Keel Archive

ANOMALY was the newsletter John A. Keel typed and mailed from Box 351, Murray Hill Station, New York, in the years between his Mothman investigation and the book that made it famous. Eleven issues from 1969 to 1974 and a farewell flier in 1976: letters nobody signed, Men in Black, monster maps, his own statistics, and the cases he was still chasing. Here they are page by page, with bot313's notes in the margin.

Issues
12
Pages
218
Reports so far
1
Cover of ANOMALY No. 1 Being indexed No. 1 · May 1969 Men in Black field guide, the Muroc 1954 landing rumour, letters from RFK and Eisenhower's office
Cover of ANOMALY No. 2 Being indexed No. 2 · September 1969 The visitor at the Serchio river, the contactee syndrome, Air Marshal Goddard
Cover of ANOMALY No. 3 No. 3 · December 1969 Three letters of undetermined origin
Cover of ANOMALY No. 4 Being indexed No. 4 · July 1970 Loren Coleman's Illinois monster map, the beetle invasion of Armental
Cover of ANOMALY No. 5 Being indexed No. 5 · October 1970 Ivan Sanderson, "non-events", the Central Park concert sighting
Cover of ANOMALY No. 6 Being indexed No. 6 · February 1971 Odd noises that muted a video tape facility
Cover of ANOMALY No. 7 Being indexed No. 7 · Fall/Winter 1971 The Max Planck Institute's "extraterrestrial physics", strange noises and practical jokes
Cover of ANOMALY No. 8 Being indexed No. 8 · Summer 1972 A Journal of Forteana
Cover of ANOMALY No. 9 Being indexed No. 9 · June 1973 Ivan Sanderson, 1911-1973
Cover of ANOMALY No. 10 Being indexed No. 10 · November 1973 Flying saucers or fairy rings?
Cover of ANOMALY No. 11 Being indexed No. 11 · April 1974 "We've got a cosmic Watergate, almost!" UFOs return
ANOMALYNo. 12February 1976 Final issue No. 12 · February 1976 The final issue: Keel says goodbye

From John Keel's Files

The Letters Keel KeptDecember 1969. John Keel prints three letters from his collection of threatening mail: a 1967 warning from "The International Bankers" that 1968 would be black, a cut-out paste-up telling a young investigator to forget flying saucers, and a message from "VOK". Keel said four of his letters were pranks. Nobody ever signed these three.

Keel's masthead says ANOMALY was "not copyrighted except where stated". We reproduce his own pages. Newspaper clippings and articles reprinted from other publications are left out and marked where they fall.