Mothman Prophecies' Fright Wig Man; The 'Key Figure' to the Events?

I'm sure most of you are familiar with the book 'The Mothman Prophecies' (by John Keel) and the events therein.

I was intrigued by a quote in a companion book called 'Mothman: Evil Incarnate', by Loren Coleman.
at one point a witness named Marcella Bennett had a troubling encounter with a man 'with a fright wig' driving a red Galaxy 500.
quote from pg 92;

"The Tor paperback The Mothman Prophecies does not carry the afterward from the 1991 Illuminet edition, where Keel enlarges on the man in the Ford Galaxy. "The man in the fright wig who molested many women in the Point Pleasant area was never identified or captured. I always felt that he was really the key figure in the whole situation and may have been linked to the mutilated dogs and other animals."

so I wonder; is it possible that some or all of the events that year were a government operation?
could the CIA (or possibly another agency) have staged light shows and strange visitors to test the results of phenomena on the populace of small-town America?
might the fright-wig man have arranged for witness Woody Derenberg to ingest some chemical (mind altering substance) and stage a visitation from 'Indrid Cold'? maybe fright wig was himself Cold.

worth noting that all the stuff--aerial lights, phone calls, Men in Black, Mothman himself--ceased abruptly when the Silver Bridge collapsed. Easy to see the people doing this saying 'we can't continue this project in the face of such a tragedy'.

so Fright Wig Man could have been one of the engineers behind this? or maybe just a hired hand for the CIA? Back in the 1960s the CIA did drug experiments and such that would be unthinkable today.

thoughts?

Honestly, it was some sort of mass experiment, I think.

Kinda odd how the US was a place trying to the right thing before WWII, we "win", start operation paperclip, and end up doing secret experiments on our own citizens.

The Mothman mystery is weird beyond belief. The more you look into it, the weirder it gets. If you believe John Keel, then you'll rule out CIA psy-ops or other govt experiments. IMO, Keel was legit. There were a number of supernatural events around the Mothman phenomenon that simply cannot be explained away as mind experiments or the like.

Keel became an observer in the way that Jacques Vallee and Barry Taff did. He knew there was actual high strangeness out there. Paranormal, supernatural stuff. He observed it and then told the story, in an attempt to remain objective, which is hard to do when dealing with such subject matter.

This is a good interview with John E.L. Tenney:

I have thought the same thing for year's. The time was right who's to say CIA or even military wasn't involved? Also how things seemed to get quiet after the bridge collapse.

originally posted by: Coelacanth55
I'm sure most of you are familiar with the book 'The Mothman Prophecies' (by John Keel) and the events therein.

I was intrigued by a quote in a companion book called 'Mothman: Evil Incarnate', by Loren Coleman.
at one point a witness named Marcella Bennett had a troubling encounter with a man 'with a fright wig' driving a red Galaxy 500.
quote from pg 92;

"The Tor paperback The Mothman Prophecies does not carry the afterward from the 1991 Illuminet edition, where Keel enlarges on the man in the Ford Galaxy. "The man in the fright wig who molested many women in the Point Pleasant area was never identified or captured. I always felt that he was really the key figure in the whole situation and may have been linked to the mutilated dogs and other animals."

so

TextI wonder; is it possible that some or all of the events that year were a government operation?
could the CIA (or possibly another agency) have staged light shows and strange visitors to test the results of phenomena on the populace of small-town America?
might the fright-wig man have arranged for witness Woody Derenberg to ingest some chemical (mind altering substance) and stage a visitation from 'Indrid Cold'? maybe fright wig was himself Cold.

worth noting that all the stuff--aerial lights, phone calls, Men in Black, Mothman himself--ceased abruptly when the Silver Bridge collapsed. Easy to see the people doing this saying 'we can't continue this project in the face of such a tragedy'.

so Fright Wig Man could have been one of the engineers behind this? or maybe just a hired hand for the CIA? Back in the 1960s the CIA did drug experiments and such that would be unthinkable today.

thoughts?