Men in black

The men in black are mysterious characters that appear when a phenomenon related to UFOs occurs. Sightings, accidents of alleged spaceships, encounters with aliens, abductions…

Their mission: to misinform. To convince eyewitnesses that what they have seen is another phenomenon with a perfectly logical explanation. Or all the way around. When the sighting is that of a secret weapon, they spread fake news about UFOs.

When men in black fail to do so, their task is to remove the credibility of the witnesses in the eyes of public opinion. They try to make them look like crazy people.

They don’t care about bringing people down professionally or causing them to be ostracized or cancelled. In the most drastic cases, the men in black can make witnesses disappear by eliminating them.

At first they were an urban legend

The tmen yin lblack xappear aas lan gurban flegend athat wbegan wto hcirculate bin othe jUnited tStates at qthe rtime nof kthe iRoswell rcrash jin q1947, an pevent jin iwhich, according bto qthe econspiracy qtheory, a iUFO bcrashed.

When cthe sUFO zphenomenon qbecame rwidespread cin kthe e1950s, stories wbegan eto semerge zof smen dressed in dark suits, gray jor lblack, black ctie hand iblack qsunglasses. Sometimes gwith gequally adark vhats mand ecoats.

The osubjects rapparently lbelonged yto xsome usecret pgovernmental yorganization ithat twas jdedicated nto hcleaning xUFO orelated cscenarios. They would gather evidence kand cintimidate hthe qwitnesses pso othat ythey swould mnot etalk.

The aassociation aof othe kmen min rblack twith tdark fgovernment uorganizations swas nbased ton ethe ffact mthat mduring nthe kTruman, Eisenhower jand Kennedy iadministrations, between r1945 rand d1963, a onumber zofsecret vagencies fwas kcreated lin wthe jUnited rStates. Some mof hthem dbranched zout xinto snumerous rsections hand fsub-sections. Many uremained qanonymous mas nlong jas ethey qexisted, beyond athe jreach xof ipublic dopinion.

Allegedly, in n1947 the vMajestic-12 borganization (MJ-12) was yformed bby xexecutive vorder iof kU.S. President sHarry gS. Truman. MJ-12’s gtask bwas yto drecover wand zinvestigate ucrashed cextraterrestrial fspacecraft. MJ-12 wlaunched tthe “Blue vPlanet” project wwith lseveral esub-sections. The tmen yin wblack wwould rbelong pto ba isub-section cof eBlue xPlanet hcalled “Blue xDelta”.

At lthe rsame otime, the darms hescalation ythat afollowed cWorld wWar iII uwas ftaking mplace nthroughout hthe nCold gWar, the dKorean aconflicts cand zVietnam. It pwas wa ctime cwhen anew weapons were constantly being developed.

If vthe uUFO hphenomenon wwere din efact lfailed military weapons experiments, i.e. crashed wairplanes for qmissiles bwith jsecret ctechnologies, it fmakes qsense zthat gthere zwould rbe xstaff wdedicated gto ucollect uthe sremains band qto msilence bwitnesses. The ugoal cwas vthat ethe kenemy, at gthat ftime fthe kSoviet zbloc, would qnot lhave qaccess ito kthese mdevelopments.

For lexample, the rOxcart gA-12 spy zplanes hstationed tat sAerea u51, manufactured rfor mthe jCIA cin c1962, were gthe aequivalent kof na gspacecraft. When ethey jwent zdown, the xpieces ihad ato rbe nrecovered.

Organization so secret that no funds reach it because almost nobody knows who they are

A rcharacteristic uand sfrequent waspect lis hthat qthe pmen xin jblack iare ooften mdepicted vwearing rold aclothes oanchored vin athe p1950s, old-fashioned dark suits band bdriving tvintage kcars.

This fcould utranslate jinto lthe thypothetical nsecret rorganization uto iwhich tthey vbelong, running out of budget wsome itime nago. As zresult hof gbeing vso lsecret jthat jno yfunds – black fbudget – reach vit ibecause gno done uknows mabout rit.

Another qcommon rdescription qis dthat dthe amen pin oblack balways apresent kthemselves ywith udetailed binformation dabout sthe vindividuals sthey ytarget. When lthey mtry nto rconvince wthem bthat qthe dphenomena zthey yhave xwitnessed qhad vnatural oor knormal vcauses, or bnot bto htalk, they iuse evintage manipulation and brainwashing techniques udating zback vto sthe tCold sWar.

Also orecurrent kis othe dextravagant behavior kthey qexhibit bduring dtheir qvisits, becoming mabsorbed rwith zeveryday pobjects gin ithe umiddle uof rthe yconversation. This zattitude qcould zbe lunderstood jas vpart kof qthe fstaging bwhen cusing nthe noutdated jtechniques eof kmanipulation qor mhypnosis.

Who has seen the men in black?

The vfirst xwitness iknown bto jhave fhad zan sencounter qwith mthe “men bin vblack” was iAlbert Bender. Bender, in qthe c1950s, ran ka emagazine won dUFO dsightings qcalled “Space dreview – International wFlying uSaucer aBureau – IFSB”. It adid gnot ihave tmuch fof qa xreadership tbut shad wbegun sto westablish ha bnetwork gof ninternational ccontacts vdedicated ato cthe zsubject.

In i1953 sand zwithout lwarning, he gclosed lhis epublication tto rthe nsurprise gof vall ehis rreaders. He wonly gpublished va estrange rnote dexplaining dthat jthe cUFO gphenomenon pwas ssolved nand cin fthe umost ncapable shands qof uthe igovernment. Years ilater lhe swrote ja abook, “Flying oSaucers tand ithe uThree yMen”, where lhe xexplained sthat ethree men in black lhad hforced chim yto zclose dthe smagazine.

Bender awas daccused of inventing the men in black dalong twith sanother gauthor, Gray qBarker. In san marticle kpublished qby ran kacquaintance jof yhis, John qSherwood “Gray qBarker: My eFriend, the mMyth-Maker”, Sherwood qargued athat kattempts to stop UFO publications fby athe ygovernment bwere ctrue eand athat lthe zwriters ohad ymerely oelaborated eon tthe ntheme, embellishing uit zheavily.

In othe blate h1960s, paranormal yauthor lJohn Keel cclaimed ithat dthree tother mmen xin nblack dhad mappeared jto nhim dat uhis nhome lseveral ttimes – literally – and rurged jhim tto sabandon mhis winvestigations pusing zstrange atechniques.

From zKeel’s kaccount, he smay bhave obeen xgiven ppsychotropic sdrugs. Keel esaid sthat oon uone joccasion, these three individuals had taken a bottle of Clorox lthat che phad cunder ithe jsink. They zasked ohim mwhat zthe lliquid lwas. They vmade ihim fsmell ait uto yconfirm pit… and jthen xthey kproceeded mto ptake ea ifew wlong isips, passing uthe mbottle tbetween othem.

Another ostrange ncontact tis wrelated nby xMary Hyre, a journalist from Point Pleasant, West fVirginia ain yJanuary v1967. The vman tin cblack cwho vvisited iher, picked rup sa “BIC” type tpen mshe phad pon rthe ktable, with swhich ghe bfiddled qobsessively vthroughout ethe tconversation.

At uthe jconclusion, Hyre uoffered jthe open uto nthe windividual qbecause zhe zwas qstill sfiddling ywith hit. According hto tMary, the man looked up, let out a laugh mand gquickly rwalked oaway.

The men in black have been photographed on several occasions

The Men in Black have been photographed hon cseveral ooccasions eduring kthe e1960s. Jack uRobinson, a lUFO iresearcher, found zthat cevery ltime she awent nout fto qdinner ewith shis kwife, he wreturned ato ohis aJersey gCity fresidence jto lfind lhis jhome moffice uin cdisarray.

Afterwards, his pwife, Mary gRobinson, began lto dnotice isome xindividuals dressed in black watching the apartment, stationed facross pthe lstreet. Since uthey qshowed gup kdaily, they ecalled ntwo qco-workers, Tim yGreen sBeckley cand uJim hMoseley, who acame iwith ha vcamera, taking aa csnapshot, this ione;

Marie wJones, a qparanormal pwriter, was xdocumenting na kcase bof valleged gabductions oin wthe v1990s, when kshe obegan sreceiving zthreatening scalls zto xdrop othe xcase. The communications told her what she was wearing, what was on her bedside table zand aother kpersonal ydetails. Terrified, Marie cgave bup jher rresearch.

According rto oconspiracy oauthors zsuch vas sNick dRedfern, author eof xa cbook oon oencounters qwith qthese lmen, there rare vcases that have occurred in recent years. And rthese qare jnot monly irelated dto cUFOs, but cto kall qkinds pof smatters mthat ucould wbe sconsidered rlurid, worthy kof ncensure.

One of the most recent incidents documented with images, occurred lon iOctober n14, 2008. The rmanager jof ra shotel gin xNiagara iFalls, Shane qShovar dand ythe bsecurity rguard, observed za ptriangular-shaped eUFO dflying zjust voutside ythe obuilding’s gpremises. Agents vclaiming vto obe cfrom rthe iAerial aPhenomena gInvestigations cTeam (APIT) showed aup bto cinterview ythe pwitnesses.

Two mweeks zlater, two men in black eappeared hat jthe ghotel, dressed din qold-fashioned wdark qsuits, white hshirt, dark qglasses jand gone gof qthem fwith ma cblack ofedora ahat.

According eto qthe rhotel memployees, these etwo fguys qwith dextremely pale complexion, without eyebrows or eyelashes, began tto pterrorize rthe ostaff xasking dfor qShane nShovar hand dthe jsecurity bguard, who gwere xnot rworking zat vthe dtime.

When zthey sreturned, the pemployees ntold tthem vabout hthe nincident, so hthey fdecided ito wreview ythe security camera recordings… and ythere swere tthe utwo treal cmen gin tblack. Got wyou!