One prominent UFO researcher and author, a New York journalist named John A. Keel, whom Brent began corresponding with in 1969, had the greatest impact on his future directions in this field. He even came to write a book about Keel and how he inspired Brent’s journey, along with those of other researchers. Keel detoured from the conventional perspective most think of with regard to the UFO subject. He really shook things up and challenged the mainstream views of ufology. He stated that ufology should have been a branch of parapsychology and that the UFOs and beings reportedly associated with such reported encounters were not so different from ghosts or apparitions. They had just become embodied in a different frame of reference, of which there are many.

Other books by Brent Raynes

Brent Raynes has been immersed in the UFO subject since age 14, beginning in January 1967. He is editor of the monthly online magazine Alternate Perceptions (https://www.apmagazine.info/), which began initially back in 1985 as a 4-page newsletter titled Paraufology Forum. He is the author of Visitors from Hidden Realms (2004), On the Edge of Reality (2009), and John A. Keel: The Man, The Myths, and the Ongoing Mysteries (2019).