John Keel, UFO expert (heart attack / surgery)
Ed Varner
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John Keel suffered a heart attack sometime before October 13, 2006. He
admitted himself to New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital on Friday the
13th of October, and underwent successful heart surgery on October 16,
2006. Keel then was moved from the hospital to a rehabilitation center
on October 26, 2006, according to his associate Doug Skinner who
remains in contact with him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keel
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bio from Wikipedia:
John A. Keel (born March 25, 1930) is a ufologist, parapsychologist and
journalist currently residing in New York, USA.
John Keel is arguably one of the most widely read and influential
ufologists since the early 1970s. Although his own thoughts about UFOs
and associated anomalous phenomena have gradually evolved since the mid
1960s, Keel remains one of ufology's most original and controversial
researchers. It was Keel's second book, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse
(1970), that alerted the general public that many aspects of
contemporary UFO reports, including humanoid encounters, often
paralleled certain ancient folklore and religious encounters. Keel also
argues that there is a direct relationship between UFOs and psychic
phenomena.
In 1976, Keel published The Mothman Prophecies, an account of his
1966-1967 investigation of sightings of the Mothman, a strange winged
creature reported in and around Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
The book was loosely adapted into a 2002 movie, starring Richard Gere
and Alan Bates, who played two parts of Keel's personality. Bates's
character was "Leek," which was "Keel" spelled backwards, and Gere's
character was a newspaperman, "John Klein," also a play on Keel's name.