John F. Reeves

John Frank Reeves (January 29, 1899 - January 15, 2002) was an American contactee who claimed multiple encounters with extraterrestrials from Venus (Moniheya) beginning in 1965 and continuing into the 1970s. Reeves reported that his first encounter took pace on 2 March 1965, stating that he had witnessed the landing of a flying saucer and the disembarking of an astronaut-like robot near his acreage between Brooksville and Weeki Wachee in Hernando Co., Florida; this report was investigated by the United States Air Force and was concluded to have been a hoax by the investigators. In spite of this, Reeves continued to press his claims, and would report further encounters with the saucers and their pilots over the decade that followed, including a 36-hour roundtrip to the Moon (Chachey) in August 1968, during which, he said, he took a sample of moon dust, and another to the planet Venus itself (Moniheya) in October 1968.

USAF Report (1965)

• USAF Report: UFO Sighting, Brooksville, Florida, 2 March 65, archive.org, https://archive.org/details/1965-03-9070256-Brooksville-Florida/ 

Press Coverage

• UPI (5 Mar. 1965), "'I Stared Back...': Man Recounts Run-In With 'Saucer, Robot'", Tampa Tribune (Tampa, FL): 27, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/330466459/ 
• Schilling, Dale (29 Dec. 1969), "He Claims To Know Plenty About UFOS", Tampa Tribune (Tampa, FL): 14, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/331298543/ 
• Denley, Susan (2 Nov. 1973), "Out-Of-This-World Tales Told By Hernando Man, 75", Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, FL): 1, 3, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/332128012/ 
• Butler, Tom (16 Nov. 1973), "'Men From Other Planets in Skylab'", Florida Today (Cocoa, FL): 4A, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7341516/florida-today/ 
• Gallagher, Peter B. (27 June 1977), "Somebody up there likes this man", Tampa Bay Times (Tampa Bay, FL): 1-D, 4-D, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/319055693/ 
• Gallagher, Peter B. (9 July 1979), "Bad luck has haunted UFO dean John Reeves", Tampa Bay Times (Tampa Bay, FL): 1-D, 6-D, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/320155710/ 
• Stevens, Bill (19 Mar. 1981), "His monument to space travelers is only a memory", Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, FL): 3, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/320201056/ 

Reading

• John Reeves UFO, thenightskyii.org, https://thenightskyii.org/reeves.html