John Alva Keel, born Alva John Kiehle (March 25, 1930 – July 3, 2009), was an American journalist and influential ufologist who is known best as author of The Mothman Prophecies.

John Keel (1930-2009) had seen it all. He exposed fakirs in India and charmed cobras in Times Square. He chased UFOs, Bigfoot and the dreaded “men in black“—and lived to tell the tales. From the ...

NEW YORK -- Writer John A. Keel has died. His book, "The Mothman Prophecies," was made into a movie about paranormal phenomena starring Richard Gere. A friend, writer Larry "Ratso" Sloman, said ...