Dr. Raymond W Boeche
Founder and former director of the Fortean Research Center, The Reverend Dr. Raymond W. Boeche has been involved in the study of unexplained phenomena since 1965. He has served as Nebraska State Director for the Mutual UFO Network, on the Board of Advisors for Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, and in various capacities with numerous other organizations around the world, involved in the study of unexplained phenomena.
Boeche has delivered juried papers at two MUFON International Symposia; was retained by the University of Nebraska as a consultant to organize, host, and present research papers at two major international conferences on the unexplained in 1982 and 1983. He has had numerous articles published, as well 4 books: a collection of his writings, "An Anthology of the Unexplained"; "The Collected Annals of the Journal of the Fortean Research Center"; "Bloodless Cuts: The Complete Collected Works of Thomas R. Adams"; and "A Time to Stand: When Government Turns Its Back on God."
Boeche is well-known as one of the primary investigators of the 1980 Bentwaters (UK) UFO incident. He is also recognized for his extensive work in the areas of animal mutilations, out-of-place animal sightings, Bigfoot reports, the Men-in-Black phenomenon, and occult religions and philosophies.
His research has often been cited in national publications such as Omni and Fate magazine, and in books by researchers such as Loren Coleman, Janet and Colin Bord, Jenny Randles, Jerome Clark, Timothy Good, and others. He has contributed to the Time-Life book series Mysteries of the Unexplained, the LBS Communications production "UFO Coverup. . . Live!" for the Fox Television Network, and Guennette Productions’ Home Box Office special, "UFO’s, What on Earth is Happening?"
He helped develop, produce and host the first three years of a popular weekly radio call-in talk show, "Exploring Unexplained Phenomena" which was the longest continually-running radio talk show on the paranormal, until its end in 2021, iis a frequent guest on other talk shows, and a popular speaker on theology and the unexplained.
His research into theology and the paranormal continues.
A graphic artist and book designer with the prestigious University of Nebraska Press for nearly twenty years before retiring, Dr. Boeche holds a B.A. from Peru State College, a Th.M. degree from St. Mark’s School of Divinity, and a ThD. from St. Paul Theological College.
As a theologian and apologist, Dr. Boeche headed an outreach to the academic community and the 'New Age' movement called "Reasonable Defense" from 1987 through 1994.
His concentrations in apologetics and systematic theology are focused principally on biblical responses to cults and occult practices, paranormal events, religious experience, and working to resolve the false dichotomy created between science and theology, both to the public and the academy.
As a pastor and Anglican priest (ordained in the Reformed Episcopal Church) who has served Baptist and Anglican congregations, Dr. Boeche served from 2006 through 2018, as pastor for adult education at one of the nation's largest Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod congregations, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Dr. Boeche concluded his career as the bereavement coordinator for the oldest hospice service in the state of Nebraska.
Now engaged in personal research projects concerning the paranormal, the occult, and the theological ramifications of those activities, Dr. Boeche is working to complete several compilations of research on a number of topics.
Boeche has delivered juried papers at two MUFON International Symposia; was retained by the University of Nebraska as a consultant to organize, host, and present research papers at two major international conferences on the unexplained in 1982 and 1983. He has had numerous articles published, as well 4 books: a collection of his writings, "An Anthology of the Unexplained"; "The Collected Annals of the Journal of the Fortean Research Center"; "Bloodless Cuts: The Complete Collected Works of Thomas R. Adams"; and "A Time to Stand: When Government Turns Its Back on God."
Boeche is well-known as one of the primary investigators of the 1980 Bentwaters (UK) UFO incident. He is also recognized for his extensive work in the areas of animal mutilations, out-of-place animal sightings, Bigfoot reports, the Men-in-Black phenomenon, and occult religions and philosophies.
His research has often been cited in national publications such as Omni and Fate magazine, and in books by researchers such as Loren Coleman, Janet and Colin Bord, Jenny Randles, Jerome Clark, Timothy Good, and others. He has contributed to the Time-Life book series Mysteries of the Unexplained, the LBS Communications production "UFO Coverup. . . Live!" for the Fox Television Network, and Guennette Productions’ Home Box Office special, "UFO’s, What on Earth is Happening?"
He helped develop, produce and host the first three years of a popular weekly radio call-in talk show, "Exploring Unexplained Phenomena" which was the longest continually-running radio talk show on the paranormal, until its end in 2021, iis a frequent guest on other talk shows, and a popular speaker on theology and the unexplained.
His research into theology and the paranormal continues.
A graphic artist and book designer with the prestigious University of Nebraska Press for nearly twenty years before retiring, Dr. Boeche holds a B.A. from Peru State College, a Th.M. degree from St. Mark’s School of Divinity, and a ThD. from St. Paul Theological College.
As a theologian and apologist, Dr. Boeche headed an outreach to the academic community and the 'New Age' movement called "Reasonable Defense" from 1987 through 1994.
His concentrations in apologetics and systematic theology are focused principally on biblical responses to cults and occult practices, paranormal events, religious experience, and working to resolve the false dichotomy created between science and theology, both to the public and the academy.
As a pastor and Anglican priest (ordained in the Reformed Episcopal Church) who has served Baptist and Anglican congregations, Dr. Boeche served from 2006 through 2018, as pastor for adult education at one of the nation's largest Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod congregations, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Dr. Boeche concluded his career as the bereavement coordinator for the oldest hospice service in the state of Nebraska.
Now engaged in personal research projects concerning the paranormal, the occult, and the theological ramifications of those activities, Dr. Boeche is working to complete several compilations of research on a number of topics.
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This Report is presented in the hope that it will be read and widely circulated, especially by those who need to become aware of the growing concern by well-informed people, not only so-called ufologists themselves, but by an increasing number of ordinary fo lk amongst the general public.
A careful reading of the Report should indicate not just the nature of the overall concern, but the extent and variety of specific "concerns" involved. Ufology is not a subject, but a baffling complex of many subjects. This surely accentuates its importance for mankind, which could well be under some sort of threat, we know not what.
In any case, it is my privilege and pleasure to thank Lord Hill-Norton most warmly fo r the way in which he went into action so decisively with his Initiative in July last year. I fe el certain that I voice the opinion of everyone concerned, especially our excellent Correspondents, in concluding that he has achieved thoroughly worthwhile results. This promises well for the fu ture, not least in regard to government policy.
Books by Dr. Raymond W Boeche
The Fortean Research Center was founded in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1982 to honor and continue Fort’s work. During the two decades of it’s existence, this volunteer group of researchers and investigators delved deep in the waters of the ignored, the ridiculed, and the unexplained. Exploring events in Nebraska, and far beyond that included ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot encounters, animal mutilations, government cover-ups, alleged alien abductions, psychic phenomena, cult activity, and even a sighting of a blob-like mystery creature (although somewhat less intimidating than the one depicted on the cover of this book) the Fortean Research Center became recognized among members of the Fortean, paranormal, and UFO research community around the world, as a reliable and trusted source of information.
This volume contains the entire collection of the Journal of the Fortean Research Center. 23 issues in all. They have been reproduced as a facsimile edition, meaning spelling errors, pre-computer production and typographic problems, and primitive printing methods are all evident. Hopefully, this will prove more nostalgic than off-putting. These publications are a reflection of their time, and demonstrate in many cases the beginning steps into subjects familiar to the public today: alleged UFO crashes and landings at government installations, alien abductions, cryptozoology and more.
The world seems to grow stranger by the day, so take a look back and see just how strange it was a generation ago. Enjoy, and stay curious!
The Fortean Research Center was founded in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1982 to honor and continue Fort’s work. During the two decades of it’s existence, this volunteer group of researchers and investigators delved deep in the waters of the ignored, the ridiculed, and the unexplained. Exploring events in Nebraska, and far beyond that included ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot encounters, animal mutilations, government cover-ups, alleged alien abductions, psychic phenomena, cult activity, and even a sighting of a blob-like mystery creature (although somewhat less intimidating than the one depicted on the cover of this book) the Fortean Research Center became recognized among members of the Fortean, paranormal, and UFO research community around the world, as a reliable and trusted source of information.
This volume contains the entire collection of the Journal of the Fortean Research Center. 23 issues in all. They have been reproduced as a facsimile edition, meaning spelling errors, pre-computer production and typographic problems, and primitive printing methods are all evident. Hopefully, this will prove more nostalgic than off-putting. These publications are a reflection of their time, and demonstrate in many cases the beginning steps into subjects familiar to the public today: alleged UFO crashes and landings at government installations, alien abductions, cryptozoology and more.
The world seems to grow stranger by the day, so take a look back and see just how strange it was a generation ago. Enjoy, and stay curious!
mutilations have been recorded
and catalogued in historical documents
from at least as early the 17th
century, but beginning in the early-
to mid–1970s, the occurrence of
these bizarre animal deaths began
to spike throughout the United
States, particularly in the Mid- and
Southwest.
From Charles Fort to John
Keel, researchers of the unusual
have noted the existence of
this phenomenon. But Thomas R.
Adams (1945-2015) was the first to
chronicle these events in a systematic
manner, and seek to explore the
multi-faceted evidence in search of
an answer to the questions of who
was responsible for these events,
why they were being committed,
and how they were accomplished.
Tom Adams, with dogged
determination, published, arguably,
the most complete record of these
events from 1978 through 1986. A
careful, thoughtful, and observant
researcher, Tom amassed a
body of material almost unrivaled
in terms of breadth and depth.
With the help of a vast network
of friends, acquaintances and colleagues,
Tom sought to untie this
mysterious Gordian knot.
This volume is a collection of
Tom Adams’ published work, along
with an introduction by Tom’s colleague
and friend, Emmy-award
winning journalist Linda Moulton
Howe, and an historical overview
by the Dutch journalist and Fortean
researcher Theo Paijmans.
This is a tribute to a researcher,
friend, and colleague, who will
never be forgotten by those who
knew him.
Keel became an original and controversial researcher, and is credited with coining the term MIB (Men In Black), sinister and threatening entities who assume human form to confront ufologists and UFO witnesses.
Of particular importance was Keel’s analysis of patterns. His work on “windows” (specific hot spots of combined phenomenal appearances), “waves” (cyclic appearances of the phenomena) and the “Wednesday phenomenon” (the theory that a disproportionate number of UFO events occur on that day of the week) influenced scholars and followers of the genre alike.
In his much-acclaimed book, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (1970), Keel suggested that many aspects of modern UFO reports, including humanoid encounters, often paralleled ancient folklore and religious visions, and directly linked UFOs with elemental phenomena.
“Ufology is just another name for demonology,” Keel explained, and claimed that he did not consider himself a “ufologist” but a “demonologist”; as an early admirer of Charles Fort (1874-1932) he actually preferred to be called a Fortean, which covers a wide range of paranormal subjects.
The Mothman Prophecies, his best-known book, was Keel’s account of his investigation into sightings in West Virginia of a huge, winged creature called the Mothman. Mothman — so named by an excitable newspaper subeditor — was first encountered in November 1966, and repeatedly, throughout the following year. Sightings dwindled following the collapse of a nearby bridge during the evening rush-hour in December 1967, in which 45 people were killed.
In 1966, Keel became a full-time investigator of assorted paranormal phenomena, and for the next four years interviewed thousands of people in more than 20 American states. At first he sought to explain UFOs as extraterrestrial visitations. But a year into his investigations, Keel realised that this hypothesis was untenable.
“I abandoned the extraterrestrial hypothesis in 1967, when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs,” Keel wrote. “The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs.”
After investigating incidents of paranormal telephony — spirits supposedly communicating electronically — Keel found his phone calls being mysteriously re-routed to another number, one digit different to his own. Oddly, the person answering claimed also to be called John Keel; odder still, the voice of the doppelgänger sounded remarkably similar to Keel’s own.
Keel first identified the so-called “Men In Black” in an article for Saga magazine in 1967 headed “UFO Agents of Terror”. He described sinister figures of gaunt, evil aspect, often with oriental or Hispanic features, a phenomenon he noticed again in January 1969 during President Nixon’s first inauguration.
“I was very interested to notice three men in black suits looking very much like our classical men-inblack sitting together a few rows from the front, right behind Nixon when be gave his inaugural address,” Keel wrote. “Every time the television cameras shot Nixon from a particular angle, I could see these three men. They seemed out of place. Of course they could have been ambassadors from Vietnam or something. “I wondered afterward if my imagination had been running away from me. I got a hold of all the magazines I could find with pictures of the inauguration; and I went over them with a magnifying glass; but I could not find those three guys. Yet I had seen them very clearly on television.”
In Our Haunted Planet (1971), Keel coined the term “ultraterrestrials” to describe UFO occupants. He discussed the seldom-considered possibility that the alien “visitors” to Earth are not visitors at all, but an advanced terrestrial civilisation, consisting of shapechanging phenomena from another order of existence, which may or may not be human.
Keel (1930–2009), considered a creative and proactive investigator of UFOs, believed ultraterrestrials and their minions could manifest themselves as monsters, space people, ghosts or other paranormal entities.
mutilations have been recorded
and catalogued in historical documents
from at least as early the 17th
century, but beginning in the early-
to mid–1970s, the occurrence of
these bizarre animal deaths began
to spike throughout the United
States, particularly in the Mid- and
Southwest.
From Charles Fort to John
Keel, researchers of the unusual
have noted the existence of
this phenomenon. But Thomas R.
Adams (1945-2015) was the first to
chronicle these events in a systematic
manner, and seek to explore the
multi-faceted evidence in search of
an answer to the questions of who
was responsible for these events,
why they were being committed,
and how they were accomplished.
Tom Adams, with dogged
determination, published, arguably,
the most complete record of these
events from 1978 through 1986. A
careful, thoughtful, and observant
researcher, Tom amassed a
body of material almost unrivaled
in terms of breadth and depth.
With the help of a vast network
of friends, acquaintances and colleagues,
Tom sought to untie this
mysterious Gordian knot.
This volume is a collection of
Tom Adams’ published work, along
with an introduction by Tom’s colleague
and friend, Emmy-award
winning journalist Linda Moulton
Howe, and an historical overview
by the Dutch journalist and Fortean
researcher Theo Paijmans.
This is a tribute to a researcher,
friend, and colleague, who will
never be forgotten by those who
knew him.
This Report is presented in the hope that it will be read and widely circulated, especially by those who need to become aware of the growing concern by well-informed people, not only so-called ufologists themselves, but by an increasing number of ordinary fo lk amongst the general public.
A careful reading of the Report should indicate not just the nature of the overall concern, but the extent and variety of specific "concerns" involved. Ufology is not a subject, but a baffling complex of many subjects. This surely accentuates its importance for mankind, which could well be under some sort of threat, we know not what.
In any case, it is my privilege and pleasure to thank Lord Hill-Norton most warmly fo r the way in which he went into action so decisively with his Initiative in July last year. I fe el certain that I voice the opinion of everyone concerned, especially our excellent Correspondents, in concluding that he has achieved thoroughly worthwhile results. This promises well for the fu ture, not least in regard to government policy.
The Fortean Research Center was founded in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1982 to honor and continue Fort’s work. During the two decades of it’s existence, this volunteer group of researchers and investigators delved deep in the waters of the ignored, the ridiculed, and the unexplained. Exploring events in Nebraska, and far beyond that included ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot encounters, animal mutilations, government cover-ups, alleged alien abductions, psychic phenomena, cult activity, and even a sighting of a blob-like mystery creature (although somewhat less intimidating than the one depicted on the cover of this book) the Fortean Research Center became recognized among members of the Fortean, paranormal, and UFO research community around the world, as a reliable and trusted source of information.
This volume contains the entire collection of the Journal of the Fortean Research Center. 23 issues in all. They have been reproduced as a facsimile edition, meaning spelling errors, pre-computer production and typographic problems, and primitive printing methods are all evident. Hopefully, this will prove more nostalgic than off-putting. These publications are a reflection of their time, and demonstrate in many cases the beginning steps into subjects familiar to the public today: alleged UFO crashes and landings at government installations, alien abductions, cryptozoology and more.
The world seems to grow stranger by the day, so take a look back and see just how strange it was a generation ago. Enjoy, and stay curious!
The Fortean Research Center was founded in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1982 to honor and continue Fort’s work. During the two decades of it’s existence, this volunteer group of researchers and investigators delved deep in the waters of the ignored, the ridiculed, and the unexplained. Exploring events in Nebraska, and far beyond that included ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot encounters, animal mutilations, government cover-ups, alleged alien abductions, psychic phenomena, cult activity, and even a sighting of a blob-like mystery creature (although somewhat less intimidating than the one depicted on the cover of this book) the Fortean Research Center became recognized among members of the Fortean, paranormal, and UFO research community around the world, as a reliable and trusted source of information.
This volume contains the entire collection of the Journal of the Fortean Research Center. 23 issues in all. They have been reproduced as a facsimile edition, meaning spelling errors, pre-computer production and typographic problems, and primitive printing methods are all evident. Hopefully, this will prove more nostalgic than off-putting. These publications are a reflection of their time, and demonstrate in many cases the beginning steps into subjects familiar to the public today: alleged UFO crashes and landings at government installations, alien abductions, cryptozoology and more.
The world seems to grow stranger by the day, so take a look back and see just how strange it was a generation ago. Enjoy, and stay curious!
mutilations have been recorded
and catalogued in historical documents
from at least as early the 17th
century, but beginning in the early-
to mid–1970s, the occurrence of
these bizarre animal deaths began
to spike throughout the United
States, particularly in the Mid- and
Southwest.
From Charles Fort to John
Keel, researchers of the unusual
have noted the existence of
this phenomenon. But Thomas R.
Adams (1945-2015) was the first to
chronicle these events in a systematic
manner, and seek to explore the
multi-faceted evidence in search of
an answer to the questions of who
was responsible for these events,
why they were being committed,
and how they were accomplished.
Tom Adams, with dogged
determination, published, arguably,
the most complete record of these
events from 1978 through 1986. A
careful, thoughtful, and observant
researcher, Tom amassed a
body of material almost unrivaled
in terms of breadth and depth.
With the help of a vast network
of friends, acquaintances and colleagues,
Tom sought to untie this
mysterious Gordian knot.
This volume is a collection of
Tom Adams’ published work, along
with an introduction by Tom’s colleague
and friend, Emmy-award
winning journalist Linda Moulton
Howe, and an historical overview
by the Dutch journalist and Fortean
researcher Theo Paijmans.
This is a tribute to a researcher,
friend, and colleague, who will
never be forgotten by those who
knew him.
Keel became an original and controversial researcher, and is credited with coining the term MIB (Men In Black), sinister and threatening entities who assume human form to confront ufologists and UFO witnesses.
Of particular importance was Keel’s analysis of patterns. His work on “windows” (specific hot spots of combined phenomenal appearances), “waves” (cyclic appearances of the phenomena) and the “Wednesday phenomenon” (the theory that a disproportionate number of UFO events occur on that day of the week) influenced scholars and followers of the genre alike.
In his much-acclaimed book, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (1970), Keel suggested that many aspects of modern UFO reports, including humanoid encounters, often paralleled ancient folklore and religious visions, and directly linked UFOs with elemental phenomena.
“Ufology is just another name for demonology,” Keel explained, and claimed that he did not consider himself a “ufologist” but a “demonologist”; as an early admirer of Charles Fort (1874-1932) he actually preferred to be called a Fortean, which covers a wide range of paranormal subjects.
The Mothman Prophecies, his best-known book, was Keel’s account of his investigation into sightings in West Virginia of a huge, winged creature called the Mothman. Mothman — so named by an excitable newspaper subeditor — was first encountered in November 1966, and repeatedly, throughout the following year. Sightings dwindled following the collapse of a nearby bridge during the evening rush-hour in December 1967, in which 45 people were killed.
In 1966, Keel became a full-time investigator of assorted paranormal phenomena, and for the next four years interviewed thousands of people in more than 20 American states. At first he sought to explain UFOs as extraterrestrial visitations. But a year into his investigations, Keel realised that this hypothesis was untenable.
“I abandoned the extraterrestrial hypothesis in 1967, when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs,” Keel wrote. “The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs.”
After investigating incidents of paranormal telephony — spirits supposedly communicating electronically — Keel found his phone calls being mysteriously re-routed to another number, one digit different to his own. Oddly, the person answering claimed also to be called John Keel; odder still, the voice of the doppelgänger sounded remarkably similar to Keel’s own.
Keel first identified the so-called “Men In Black” in an article for Saga magazine in 1967 headed “UFO Agents of Terror”. He described sinister figures of gaunt, evil aspect, often with oriental or Hispanic features, a phenomenon he noticed again in January 1969 during President Nixon’s first inauguration.
“I was very interested to notice three men in black suits looking very much like our classical men-inblack sitting together a few rows from the front, right behind Nixon when be gave his inaugural address,” Keel wrote. “Every time the television cameras shot Nixon from a particular angle, I could see these three men. They seemed out of place. Of course they could have been ambassadors from Vietnam or something. “I wondered afterward if my imagination had been running away from me. I got a hold of all the magazines I could find with pictures of the inauguration; and I went over them with a magnifying glass; but I could not find those three guys. Yet I had seen them very clearly on television.”
In Our Haunted Planet (1971), Keel coined the term “ultraterrestrials” to describe UFO occupants. He discussed the seldom-considered possibility that the alien “visitors” to Earth are not visitors at all, but an advanced terrestrial civilisation, consisting of shapechanging phenomena from another order of existence, which may or may not be human.
Keel (1930–2009), considered a creative and proactive investigator of UFOs, believed ultraterrestrials and their minions could manifest themselves as monsters, space people, ghosts or other paranormal entities.
mutilations have been recorded
and catalogued in historical documents
from at least as early the 17th
century, but beginning in the early-
to mid–1970s, the occurrence of
these bizarre animal deaths began
to spike throughout the United
States, particularly in the Mid- and
Southwest.
From Charles Fort to John
Keel, researchers of the unusual
have noted the existence of
this phenomenon. But Thomas R.
Adams (1945-2015) was the first to
chronicle these events in a systematic
manner, and seek to explore the
multi-faceted evidence in search of
an answer to the questions of who
was responsible for these events,
why they were being committed,
and how they were accomplished.
Tom Adams, with dogged
determination, published, arguably,
the most complete record of these
events from 1978 through 1986. A
careful, thoughtful, and observant
researcher, Tom amassed a
body of material almost unrivaled
in terms of breadth and depth.
With the help of a vast network
of friends, acquaintances and colleagues,
Tom sought to untie this
mysterious Gordian knot.
This volume is a collection of
Tom Adams’ published work, along
with an introduction by Tom’s colleague
and friend, Emmy-award
winning journalist Linda Moulton
Howe, and an historical overview
by the Dutch journalist and Fortean
researcher Theo Paijmans.
This is a tribute to a researcher,
friend, and colleague, who will
never be forgotten by those who
knew him.