Pegasus Research Consortium

"Their faces were unpleasant to look at. Their eyes shone like tiny flashlight bulbs, and the teeth were pearly white, set in a very dark complexion. I could not see their hands, covered by black gloves. A bluish radiance enveloped their entire bodies, and I wondered if this was giving off the sulphuric odor." - Albert Bender in FLYING SAUCERS AND THE THREE MEN  (page 106) 1962

Quote In 1953 a man by the name of Albert K. Bender of Bridgeport Connecticut was running an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB) and editing a little publication called "Space Review" that was dedicated to news of flying saucers.

The IFSB had a small membership despite its rather grandiose title, and Space Review reached at best, no more than a few hundred readers. But they were all deeply devoted to the idea that flying saucers were craft from outer space. In common with other true believers, these saucer buffs were convinced that they were in possession of a great truth, while most of the rest of the world remained in darkness and ignorance. They felt very important, and thus it was with a sense of surprise, even shock, that they opened up the October 1953 issue of Space Review and found two unexpected announcements: "LATE BULLETIN. A source which the IFSB considers very reliable has informed us that the investigation of the flying saucer mystery and the solution is approaching its final stages. This same source to whom we had referred data, which had come into our possession, suggested that it was not the proper method and time to publish the data in Space Review."

The second and more shocking item read: "STATEMENT OF IMPORTANCE: The mystery of the flying saucers is no longer a mystery. The source is already known, but any information about this is being withheld by order from a higher source. We would like to print the full story in Space Review, but because of the nature of the information we are very sorry that we have been advised in the negative."

The statement ended with the ominous sentence, "We advise those engaged in saucer work to please be very cautious." Bender then suspended the publication of Space Review, and dissolved the IFSB.

The tone of the announcements would have been familiar to anyone who had much experience with occult organizations. Occultists often claim they are in the possession of some great secret which, for equally secret reasons, they cannot reveal. Even the appeal, "please be very cautious" was not unique. It made those engaged in "saucer work" feel more important. After all, who is going to bother to persecute you if you are just wasting your time?
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By Chevon Wallace - Class of 2004

QuoteShortly after Bender closed down his magazine and organization he gave an interview to a local paper (in) which he asserted that he had been visited by "three men wearing dark suits" who had ordered him "emphatically" to stop publishing material about flying saucers. Bender said that he had been "scared to death" and that he "actually couldn't eat for a couple of days". Some of Bender's former associates tried to press for a more satisfactory explanation, but to all questions he replied either cryptically or not at all.

This state of affairs created considerable confusions among the flying saucer buffs. What were they to think about such a strange story? Some were openly skeptical of Bender's tale. They said that his publication and organization were losing money and the tale of the three visitors who ordered him to stop publishing was just a face-saving gesture. Yet, as the years went by the "Three Men In Black" began to sound more respectable and they took on a life of their own. Some of Bender's friends first thought that the Men In Black were from the Air Force or the CIA, and indeed Bender's original statements do seem to sound like (the men could have been) government agents. But after a while the Men In Black began to assume a more extraterrestrial, even supernatural air.

Finally in 1963, a full decade after he first told of his mysterious visitors, Albert Bender elaborated further in a book called "Flying Saucers and the Three Men In Black". It was a strange, confused and virtually unreadable book that revealed very little in the way of hard facts, but did significantly enhance the reputation of the Men In Black as extraterrestrials. The book also introduced into the lore "three beautiful women, dressed in tight white uniforms." Like their male counterparts in black, the women in white had "glowing eyes".

Bridgeport Herald Article

QuoteBut even before the publication of Bender's book in 1963, the Men In Black (or MIB's as they were known to insiders) had already been reported to be visiting others besides Albert Bender. By now they have been reported so often that they have become an established part of the UFO history. The Men In Black, naturally enough, wear black suits. They also usually wear sunglasses, presumably to disguise their "glowing eyes". Most of them are reported to be short and delicately built with olive complexions and dark, straight hair. They are often described as "Gypsies" or "Orientals". Most MIBs are reported to travel in groups of three and usually ride around in shiny, new, black cars, often Cadillac's. These cars are even supposed to "smell new". Sometimes the MIB's pose as investigators from the CIA or some other government agency. They may flash official-looking credentials, but these can never be checked out. Occasionally the MIB's display badges with strange emblems on them, or have unrecognizable symbols painted on their cars. The purpose of the visits seems to be to get people who have seen UFO's to stop talking about them, of somehow to confuse and frighten the witnesses.

People who worry about MIB's tend to lump all sorts of mysterious visitors into the category, even if they don't wear black, have no glowing eyes nor show any of the familiar MIB characteristics. The primary qualification for the Men In Black is that they be of unknown origin, and that they appear to act oddly and vaguely menacing.

Some of those who write about UFO's and other strange phenomena rather casually mention "countless" cases where people have been visited by Men In Black. In reality these "countless cases" are difficult to pin down. In fact, there really seems to be a rather small number of MIB cases where there are any details available at all.

The impression given by the writers is that the publicized cases represent only "the tip of the iceberg". Beyond these, say the writers, are many "more sensational" cases, the details of which cannot be revealed for a variety of reasons. In any event solid evidence for a vast number MIB cases is lacking. But we are, after all, dealing with beliefs as much as with reality, and 'impression' is an important one.

By Chevon Wallace - Class of 2004
Central High School - Bridgeport (http://bridgeport.ct.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=25228)

Reprinted from Bridgeport Central High School (http://bridgeport.ct.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=25226)

Discord first arose at IFSB [International Flying Saucer Bureau] headquarters at a meeting held early in March 1953. We voted to hold what we would term a "World Contact Day", on which we would urge all IFSB members to attempt to send out a telepathic message to visitors from space. If there was anything to the claims of people expounding telepathic methods, and if we did have visitors from space, perhaps such a message might get across, particularly with so many minds concentrating on the same message.

Two IFSB officials thought the idea was ridiculous and voted against it. They thought people would feel we had all lost our minds and that our organisation would be ridiculed as a result. Other officials and I felt differently. The two opposing members turned in their resignations the following evening and withdrew all financial support. But this did not dishearten the remaining members of the executive staff. Two other sources, learning of the matter, offered financial support immediately.

So we decided to go ahead with "Contact Day", or "C-Day", and quickly multigraphed instructions to send around the world by airmail so that all members would get the material in plenty of time before March 15, the day of the experiment. We received letters from many who thought the entire thing crazy and said they would have nothing to do with it.

We do not know who took part and who did not, but I am certain that a great many of our members did so. The special bulletin was as follows:

ALL OFFICERS, REPRESENTATIVES AND MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FLYING SAUCER BUREAU SPECIAL BULLETIN: March 15, 1953 is C-Day (Contact Day)

"On March 15, 1953, all officers, representatives and members are asked to participate in an experiment, something that has not yet been attempted by any other group such as ours. We will attempt to send a message to the occupants of the saucers (if they exist) by the use of mental telepathy. Each member will memorize the message on this form, and on the time designated will close his eyes in a quiet secluded spot, lie down if possible, and repeat this message in his mind (do not repeat vocally). If the saucer people are able to pick up mental telepathy they certainly will be able to pick up a message that will be sent by hundreds of IFSB members. We may never know if this message has reached anyone, but if a sudden flurry of saucer sightings occurs in 1953 or soon after our message, or even a saucer landing, we will know that we may have been indirectly responsible for it.

"Members must remember that, in order for mental telepathy to work, you must have nothing on your mind at the time you send the message. You must only think of the person or persons to whom you are sending the message, and repeat it over in your mind. You must not have troubles or worries of any kind in the back of your mind, as this will tend to distract. This experiment is not compulsory to anyone in IFSB; we merely ask you to volunteer your services in trying to make it a success. Everyone participating must do so at the time designated, and not too soon before or after the time shown. We are sending this bulletin far enough in advance so that you may be sure to have your clocks set correctly that day and that the message has been memorized. THE MESSAGE (To Be Memorized)

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft! Calling occupants of interplanetary craft that have been observing our planet Earth. We of IFSB wish to make contact with you. We are your friends, and would like you to make an appearance here on Earth. Your presence before us will be welcomed with the utmost friendship. We will do all in our power to promote mutual understanding between your people and the people of Earth. Please come in peace and help us in our Earthly problems. Give us some sign that you have received our message. Be responsible for creating a miracle here on our planet to wake up the ignorant ones to reality. Let us hear from you. We are your friends. (End of Message.) The date, the places, and the times for this message to be sent: THE DATE: March 15, 1953 PLACES TIMES States in the USA using Eastern Std Time 6 pm States in the USA using Central Std Time 5 pm States in the USA using Mountain Std Time 4 pm States in the USA using Pacific Std Time 3 pm Great Britain 11 pm France 11 pm Australia March 16, 9 am New Zealand March 16, 11am Canada Same as United States

On March 15, 1953, in my den at Bridgeport at exactly 6.00 pm, I proceeded to take part in the experiment as planned. I put out the lights in my room and then quietly lay down on my bed. After studying the saucers for eleven years, I felt that I would try anything that might help solve the mystery. Saucer investigation had become the biggest part of my life, and I had worked diligently to reach a solution. As soon as I was comfortably situated on the bed, I closed my eyes and began to repeat the message over and over-three times, to be exact.

It was after the third attempt that I felt a terrible, cold chill hit my whole body. Then my head began to ache as if several headaches had saved up their anguish and heaped it upon me at one time. A strange odour reached my nostrils-like that of burning sulphur or badly decomposed eggs. Then I partly lost consciousness as the room around me began to fade away.

Then small blue lights seemed to swim through my brain, and they seemed to blink like the flashing light of an ambulance. I seemed to be floating on a cloud in the middle of space, with a strange feeling of weightlessness controlling my entire anatomy. A throbbing pain developed in my temples and they felt as if they might burst. The parts of my forehead directly over my eyes seemed to be puffed up. I felt cold, very cold, as if I were lying naked on a floating piece of ice in the Antarctic Ocean.

I opened my eyes, and to my amazement I seemed to be floating above my bed but looking down upon it where I imagined I could see my own body lying there! It was as if my soul had left my body and I was hovering above it about three feet in mid-air. Suddenly I could hear a voice which permeated me but in some way did not seem to be an audible sound. The voice seemed to come from the room in front of me, which remained pitch dark.

"We have been watching you and your activities. Please be advised to discontinue delving into the mysteries of the universe. We will make an appearance if you disobey."

I replied in words, though my lips did not move. "Why aren't you friendly to us, as we do not mean to do any harm to you?" "We have a special assignment," came the reply, "and must not be disturbed by your people."

As I tried to remonstrate, I was interrupted by another statement. "We are among you and know your every move, so please be advised we are here on your Earth."

With this, the voice faded away, but I could sense that something was watching me. My body seemed to drop suddenly and I once again regained my senses and realised I was on my bed. The room was filled with yellow mist. Not far from my bed was a shadow, resembling that of a man, but as I made a move to rise from the bed it disappeared. The yellow mist was gradually fading and my room was becoming normal.

I rubbed my eyes in bewilderment. I couldn't believe that what I had just experienced had been real. I must have dozed off, and with the telepathic experiment on my mind must have had a terrifying dream as a result. Looking at the clock, I noticed it was five minutes past six, which certainly would have allowed time for me to have slept and dreamed.

As I sat up on the edge of my bed I grew sick at my stomach; I felt as if I had eaten something rotten. Had I really experienced something unearthly? I could hardly force myself to rise from the bed. My head still throbbed and the spots over my eyes retained the same puffed feeling.

After a while I got up from the bed and walked about the room. I heard a humming and noticed that my radio was on. I turned it off, as I realised I had not turned it on when I came into the room. The same thing had happened on previous occasions. I was beginning seriously to feel I might be losing my mind. Again I wondered if I should tell anyone about it.

I sat down and made a diary of everything I could remember of the experience, sealed it in an envelope and locked it in the desk. I felt that if anything of a serious nature did happen to me, somebody would find the envelope and would know what had happened that day.

After I convinced myself that I had fully recovered from the experience, I was left puzzled by a smell of sulphur which lingered in my room for two days afterward. This smell had accompanied the other experiences and had been the most physical part of them. This time I opened my windows and used room sprays to get rid of the odour, but this did not completely dispel it. When I went to bed I still could smell it in the bedclothes. This convinced me even more strongly that I was witnessing some very real events and that I would no longer be wise to assume they had been my imagination or dreams.

I felt I should bring some IFSB officers into my room and have them witness the odour, but thought better of it. I did not want to divulge my experiences to anybody, for fear that it might be repeated and I would be thought of as a crackpot or insane. If publicity should get in the newspapers, I would become the laughing-stock of Bridgeport, and, worse, I might lose my job. My best friends would advise me to see a psychiatrist and I might even end up in a mental hospital.

I knew that people throughout history have witnessed strange events but were unable to convince others they were telling the truth. Many people are not convinced of these matters until they, themselves, experience them-then they look for believers, only to be met by charges of "fake" and "fraud".

It is a lonely position you occupy when you have looked into the fantastic, and there is nobody to believe you have actually done so. Picture yourself, say, alone on a beach at night, when suddenly out of the sky a flying saucer appears and lands a few feet from you. Strange figures get out and walk toward you. They greet you and then get back into the ship and sail away. You go home and tell others what you have witnessed, but with no proof, other than your reputation for truthfulness, to offer. They laugh and tell you that you should lay off the stuff for a while, that you are seeing much more than the average person-they see only snakes! How could you convince them; how could you win when they are all against you? I felt up against the very same thing after the happenings in my room. I did not know what to do or where to turn.

After some time went by and nothing further happened to me, I decided that I should write up the whole thing in Space Review, so I made a notation in the April number that I would make a startling revelation in the July issue. I consulted two of the officers at the meeting and took them into my confidence about everything that had happened. But they were of the opinion that I had invented the story in order to gain more publicity for IFSB, and insisted they didn't want their names dragged into it. They said they felt that the policy of the IFSB was to tell the truth and nothing but; if I went ahead with my plans they would drop out of the organisation, and such an action would make me appear as mentally unbalanced.

From that time onward I had trouble trying to convince them of anything or to get them to do anything for me. One of them further threatened that if I publicised my "nonsensical plot" and he became connected with it, he would have me arrested. So after considering the attitude of these two people I decided against publishing anything about it at that time. When the July issue came out without the scheduled announcement, many members wrote me, asking why it had not appeared and what it was all about.

Secretly I sat down and wrote up the experiences of C-Day, with the intention of mailing it to some official in Washington, DC, possibly the Pentagon, to see if they would help me in my dilemma or if they, too, would share the reactions of our own officers. I locked the report away safely because I wanted to think about it for a few days before mailing it. When I did get up enough courage to mail it, I went to get it and could not find it. The inside of the box where I had locked it contained the now familiar odour of sulphur. I searched the box thoroughly, but the report had vanished.

Had one of the members with whom I argued been able to get into the box and remove the document? I used this as a mental argument because I did not want to believe that its disappearance was a part of the phenomena the paper was written about.

Soon afterward I would have the biggest shock in the chain of frightening events. I will never forget it as long as I live, and to me it is the greatest yet the most fantastic thing ever to happen to anybody on Earth.

It happened the day I returned from a two-week vacation. My room had been locked all the time I had been away, for my stepfather knew how fastidious I was about my room and seldom went into it when I was not around. On that hot July evening I carried my suitcases up to my den and unlocked the door. As I swung it open, an inordinate smell of staleness met my nostrils-intermingled with the sulphur odour. I opened all the windows. Everything seemed to be in place, just as I had left it, but again the radio was on. This time the set was so hot that it is a wonder it had not started a fire while I was away. I knew I hadn't left it on before leaving on vacation. As usual, the dial was set to a portion of the band where no station came in. I shut it off and told my stepfather about it when I went downstairs. He assured me nobody could have been in my room and that I had simply forgotten it when I left.


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I ate a cold snack and decided to go to bed since it was late and I was very tired. I went back to my room, closed the door and latched it. I had a washroom in my den and set about cleaning up before sleeping. After I had brushed my teeth and gone back into the room, I sensed that something was just not right. Then the prickly feeling came at the back of my neck, and my eyes began to water.

Blue lights appeared from nowhere and swirled about the room. I grew dizzy as the areas above my eyes throbbed and again felt puffy. I stumbled to the bed and threw myself upon it. As I did so, I felt my body grow icy cold. I could feel I had quickly come under the complete power of someone or something.

The room seemed to grow dark, yet I could still see. I noted three shadowy figures in the room. They floated about a foot off the floor. My temples throbbed and my body grew light. I had the feeling of being washed clean. The three figures became clearer. All of them were dressed in black clothes. They looked like clergymen, but wore hats similar to Homburg style. The faces were not clearly discernible, for the hats partly hid and shaded them. Feelings of fear left me, as if some peculiar remedy had made my entire body immune to fright.

The eyes of all three figures suddenly lit up like flashlight bulbs, and all these were focused upon me. They seemed to burn into my very soul as the pains above my eyes became almost unbearable. It was then I sensed that they were conveying a message to me by telepathy. Their message went something like this:

"You have dedicated yourself to the solution of the strange problem of unidentified objects in your atmosphere. Your interest is deep and sincere and you have devoted many hours to it. We also know that such interest and determination might lead to something that could bring you harm. We feel that you are a very good contact for us on your planet of Earth. You are an average person, and we know that what we tell you and show you will not be believed by anyone you might tell.

"You are not a person of great renown on your planet; therefore we have nothing to fear at present. We have a purpose for being here, and we will be here for some time yet. We must not be disturbed in our ultimate goal. As you see us here, we are not in our natural form. We have found it necessary to take on the look of your people while we are here. This is mainly used as a means of returning here without being detected by anyone. We have made numerous contacts with Earth by means of craft from our own base and at present we have craft hidden at a remote spot on your planet. We have found it necessary to go to great extremes at times to frighten off your Earth people, and it has resulted in their deaths. We have also found it necessary to carry off Earth people to use their bodies to disguise our own.

"We wish to keep in touch with you and tell you many things because one day you will write about this, and we are certain that nobody will believe you, but you will be much wiser than anyone else on your planet. You will know what is out there in space, and you will know what the future holds for your mankind. You will see all three of us again, but we shall not reveal our names as they would mean nothing to you. Refer to us as Numbers 1, 2 and 3. We will answer according to number. We will leave with you a small piece of metal similar to your coins. It is to be kept in a secret place of your own. We wish to have you come with us at a time to be announced to you soon."

I was to keep the piece of metal and when I wished to make contact with them I should hold it tightly in my palm and close my eyes, at the same time repeating "Kazik", and turn on my radio. I should contact them in two days, at this same time. As they gave me this information, one of them went to my radio, turned it on and switched the dial. I asked him mentally why he was doing it, and he replied only that it was a method of getting back to their base.

They disappeared, and once again I could feel my body resting on the bed. I was covered by perspiration, though during the experience I had felt so cold. In my hand was the piece of metal: finally I had physical evidence that I was not insane. This cheered me in spite of the shocking circumstances I had just encountered.

The metal was most peculiar. It seemed to shine almost like a light. In weight it was very light, yet very hard. I tried to make a mark on it with a file, without success. With the metal I could make somebody believe me. I put it in my locked box for the night. Already it was 2.00 am, and lying down I went off to sleep, waiting for morning when I could reveal the news to everybody.

When I awakened I thought the experience of the preceding night had been a dream. Then I thought of the metal. I jumped from bed and went to the box. I couldn't find it! I threw all the contents out on the floor, but the metal was not there. Then I wondered, as I had previously, if it had been a dream. I had been very tired; I had gorged myself with a midnight snack and it had given me a nightmare.

I felt disappointed as I thought I would be looked upon as a person of importance if I could only produce the piece of metal to back up my story. Then I thought that the three in black probably had read my thoughts and taken the metal until they again made contact with me. Perhaps they did not wish me to tell, or to have the metal fall into the hands of the government. This piece of metal could reveal the truth that we were under surveillance by people from space.

I felt sick all day and couldn't eat. I told my stepfather I wasn't feeling well, and that it was probably due to the heat wave we were having. I felt uneasy at work and little things upset me. I was cranky and snapped at people for no reason.

Two days after I'd either had the contact or experienced a dream, I waited in my room to see what would really happen. For the sake of curiosity I went to the box where I had put the metal. When I opened the box it was there, glowing slightly-in the same spot I had placed it two nights before! I reached in and got it, and, as I did, so the thought of showing it to somebody came back into my mind. As I thought of this, the metal began to glow with a deep red colour and got so hot I had to drop it. When it hit the floor it resumed its former appearance. I could see that I was not to use it for any personal glory or gain, so I picked it up again and decided to try to contact the three strange personages who had recently been my uninvited guests.

I held the metal in the palm of my hand, switched on my radio and repeated the word "Kazik" several times. For a few seconds nothing happened. Then again I got the sensation of extreme cold enveloping my body. My temples throbbed like the breast of a bird when you hold it in your hand, and excruciating pain abounded just above my eyes. Again an overwhelming power was taking over my entire person. I immediately went to my bed to lie down: I felt so giddy I was afraid I would fall.

I had hardly touched the bed when once again I could sense leaving my body, and looking back could see myself lying on the bed as I drifted away from it. Everything went dark and I felt myself floating, as if on a cloud. How much time this floating consumed I do not know, but it seemed like days. My only feeling then was the pain above my eyes. Why I should have this annoying discomfort I did not know, but it must have had something to do with the transformation taking place. I sensed that the living part of my body was being transported to some other place-where, I didn't know. I squeezed the shiny piece of metal tightly in my palm, as if it were my only contact with reality and life. Very well it might have been.

A sudden jolt ended my floating and all movement ceased. The darkness cleared away and I was suddenly surrounded by a brilliant glow, as if the beam of a large searchlight had suddenly hit me in the eyes. As my eyes grew accustomed to the brilliance, I began to make out my surroundings.

I was in a huge, circular room with a glass dome. The walls gave me the impression of stainless steel, but they seemed to give off light, accounting for their unusual glitter. I was seated in a chair made of the same metal, while directly before me I noted a sort of dais where a large tubular object about eight feet in diameter was mounted in the wall. Other similar chairs surrounded me, reminding me of a theatre or lecture room. I looked for a door, but the walls appeared smooth and unbroken all the way around. The ceiling was made of glass or some transparent substance, for I could see what resembled a night sky with twinkling stars above. My first impression was that of being inside a flying saucer which had landed in some secluded place. The chair was of simple design, modernistic with straight lines. It was made entirely of the shiny metal. It tilted backward slightly so that I had a full view of the area in front of me where the dais was located.

Once again I was thrown into complete darkness. I tried to rise from the chair but found that although I could move my arms and my head I could not raise my body to a standing position. A bluish light began to make itself present on the dais directly behind the tubular object; then, out of nowhere, a wall panel slid open and someone stepped onto the dais. The panel closed, the person walked to the edge of the dais and spoke to me (his lips did not move).

"Welcome to our domain. We now meet under different conditions. You are where no other Earth creature has ever set foot. In this domain you will witness things that will be most astounding to you, things that you did not know of on your planet, things that will make you disbelieve what your very eyes are witnessing." As he conveyed this message, he seemed to be using words I could speak myself, somewhat as if I were talking to myself-this is the very best way I can describe it. I could understand everything well. I assume this and other communications were carried out by means of telepathy. Whether it was augmented mechanically or electronically, I do not know. He continued to deliver the message.

"Behind me you will see a large circular object, and if you will focus your eyes upon it I will endeavour to tell you something about ourselves and why we are here."

He made a motion with his hand and the large circle immediately came to life, in some ways similar to a television screen.

"The first pictures you will see will show you the part of the universe from which we come. We are far from the reaches of your Earthly telescopes."

With this, he motioned again and a spectacular view appeared. It seemed that the tube had come to life and that I was actually there. It had a fluorescent appearance, yet was in full colour. I could see a group of glowing objects on a dark background that appeared to be blue, yet at times seemed to be a velvety black. I can best describe the picture by comparing it to a "3-D" movie, but this will not do it justice. Added to the stereo effect was a peculiar identity I associated with it-almost as if I were a part of the picture itself! He then continued.

"The view you now have on the tube is our home. It is many, many light years from your small system of planets. We are much older than your system, for we were created long before the Earth or any of the planets revolving about your central body. All of these systems of planets and their central bodies have been formed from a central source so powerful that you could not even approach it by light years, for if you did you would be immediately destroyed. It is a vast, glowing body so immense one cannot calculate its density. It is the creator of all of us, and more families of planets are constantly being formed and thrown off into orbits. Such systems are not always perfect, and some disintegrate after a few years.

"We do not all revolve at the same rate of speed, and eventually some of us overtake others after billions of your years on Earth. We have overtaken your system many times before, but, of the years that have passed between, you could never begin to conceive. Your planet was not always inhabited, although others in your system have been before yours; but the years have made changes, and many civilisations have died on other bodies in your family of planets, while others are to be yet created.

"Most of the smaller bodies revolving about your planets were at one time parts of the planets themselves, but were thrown clear when the bodies took their ultimate shape and cooled down. The nearest planet to Earth at one time nurtured a great civilisation which was destroyed by marauders from another system of planets in an orbit beyond ours. They will once again make their appearance in the future when they reach this same spot in their trip about the central body. Almost every system of planets that has an orbit about the central body contains some sort of intelligent inhabitants, but not all the same in body structure, being adapted to the various conditions that exist on their particular worlds. Because many of these are far advanced in their ways of life, your planet Earth will constantly be under surveillance by these systems as they overtake you and pass you by. Your planet is yet an infant as far as progress is concerned, and you have far to go to accomplish what many others in your neighbouring systems have already achieved.

"Your planet has been disproportionately cursed in some matters, which so many do not suffer and which slows your progress. For instance, our planet has but one race and one people. Because of your many races and national groups, there may always be conflict which may result in the complete destruction of your world.

"We have been within reach of your system for a number of years, but will soon pass beyond the point of no return. So we have found it necessary to accomplish our task speedily.

"We have been taking a valuable chemical from your seas. This substance is vital to our existence, so whenever we come within reach of a planet that contains such sea water we go there and take the material without harming anyone who lives there. We process the sea water to remove this substance. A sticky residue that remains floats back to your planet in the form of long strings. In the past we have been careless and have allowed some of this to fall upon land areas; but we are now more cautious and make certain that it returns to the sea from which it comes. As the sea water is broken down and the vital product extracted, it is shipped immediately to our own planet by a spacecraft capable of speed you could hardly imagine possible."

He then paused in this discourse, and with a motion of his hand changed the picture on the tube. I saw a landmark familiar to every American: the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and the surrounding area.

"You wish to know why I am showing you this view," he continued. "It is only to inform you that we have some of our people stationed in your so-called Pentagon while we are visiting your planet. We have them stationed in numerous places about your planet, to keep us informed of all that is taking place."

The next scene showed a vital spot in the United States, but unidentified as to locale. It was one of our atomic stockpiles. Then, continued changes of scene exhibited similar storage places in the United States and other countries including the Soviet Union. I asked him why he was showing this to me, and he startled me with his blunt answer. I sensed he wished to appear friendly, but his reply led me to doubt.

"With the push of a small button in our space laboratory we can detonate every bomb you have in your stockpiles all over the globe, causing almost total destruction to your planet."

The first thing that came to my mind was the question, "Why would you want to do something so horrible?".

His reply was also blunt and to the point. "Only if we were discovered and your people tried to stop us with whatever means they had at their disposal. But having looked over your planet thoroughly we have nothing to fear in this respect, for nothing you have on Earth could harm us. Our weapons for self-defence against marauders in space are far superior to anything you have."

Then he switched to a horrifying picture that made me shudder. It depicted a hideous monster, more horrifying than any I have ever seen depicted in the work of science fiction or fantasy artists. The monster was alive. As I reacted in repugnance to this scene, I did not see the speaker leave the dais, and started again when I noted his absence.


continued..

He then seemed to be speaking from the screen itself, and from the mind of the monster itself. It was as if he had instantly changed himself from the form of a man to a creature which appeared to be similar to that pictured by the West Virginia witnesses who described the Flatwoods monster!

"You view me here on the screen in my normal appearance. I note you find me horrible to look upon, yet the people on our planet do not find me horrible. We looked upon your people as odd when we first saw them evolve. We watched your people develop from small sea creatures into what you are today, but if your planet continues to exist without self-destruction, your people will change in appearance over the billions of years ahead. For your atmosphere will change. It will become thinner. Your supply of oxygen will diminish, and you will find it necessary to exist on whatever type of air mixture you may have at that time. This and other environmental changes will lead to necessary adaptations in body structure. Continued experimentation with radioactive material will undoubtedly have effects upon future generations. This could even lead to loss of reproductive capabilities, which could eventually leave your planet devoid of human life. These things are ahead of you and you must face them and solve these problems if you can. To us, your progress is of academic interest but little more.

"On our planet we have three sexes: female similar in function to yours; male also similar to yours; and the third is neither male nor female. These latter individuals are the exalted ones who become our rulers. They are few, and when they are born there is great celebration. Our females bear eggs which are stored away. We control our population, and these eggs are permitted to be hatched only when the great blackness covers our planet and takes many lives."

The great blackness and many other things would be explained at a later date; but evidently he felt I had witnessed enough at this time, for the screen glowed bluish again and went black.

Once again he stood on the dais in human form. He then went to the sliding wall panel and, as it opened, disappeared behind it. The room suddenly went into complete darkness, and I felt myself losing consciousness. Then again I had the feeling of being on a cloud and drifting off into space. As I held tightly to the piece of metal, the icy coldness enveloped my body. My temples throbbed and the pain above my eyes returned with frightening, sharp jabs as if needles were being thrust through my skin.

Then all movement seemed to stop and my head cleared. I opened my eyes and found myself lying upon my bed in my own room on Broad Street. I sat up and looked about. Glancing at the clock, I noted only half an hour had elapsed. It didn't seem possible that so much could have taken place in such a short time, but it had-and I really didn't know how far I had travelled.

Of the entire experience, my mind dwelled more greatly on the monster I had seen on the screen-and yet it wasn't really a monster as we would think of the term. We had created pictures of monsters here on Earth, and the many representations we made of such creatures had led us to think of them as hideous, terrifying, supernatural and unearthly. The last is more likely to be correct, but not in the fashion of our thinking. They could be terrible to look upon only because we have made them appear so to everybody; but actually they could possess an intelligence far superior to ours. Such had been the case with the person in the room with the glass dome.

I opened my hand and looked at the piece of metal resting in my palm. How was I to tell anyone? I would be open to so much ridicule that life could become almost unbearable. I had actually been transported to another place-perhaps the inside of a spacecraft, as I had surmised previously. It had been accomplished in the span of half an hour, yet I had learned so much in that length of time, had been exposed to matters no other person had ever seen or heard before, even in their wildest imaginings.

Many might ask why I, instead of some noted scientist or astronomer, had been the person chosen for such an adventure. The only reason I could summon was that which my visitors had given me-that I was an average person, interested in science and flying saucers, who had devoted much valuable time to the subjects. If I related my experiences it wouldn't mean anything, simply because people wouldn't believe me. Had I been a well-known scholar or statesman, I might possibly be believed. If people did believe, they might become horrified and go into mass panic. This the visitors did not want, for they had a job to do and wanted to go about it without being disturbed. They had not come here to cause trouble; they felt we had enough of our own.

I found myself with an overwhelming desire to relate my fantastic experiences to somebody who would listen to me without questioning my sanity. So I put the metal away in my strongbox and telephoned my closest friend, who was a member of the executive committee.

I asked him to come over right away to discuss something which had happened to me and which I could not talk about over the phone. He didn't seem to be impressed and wouldn't answer yes or no about coming over. He talked hesitantly as if he were building up to some point, then blurted out, "Say, Al, stop having those pipe dreams so you can get publicity for the IFSB! Do you think people are going to believe such nonsense? Give up the idea of making contact with creatures from another world. If they were going to contact somebody, it wouldn't be you. There are more intelligent people around they would want to meet!"

He hung up as I held on to the phone with a sinking feeling. My best friend had refused to listen to me. How would others react? What a predicament to be in-with nobody to confide in. What had I got myself into?

Suddenly I became conscious of and more afraid of another threat, a mundane terror which eclipsed the more unearthly fears I had gone through and survived. What might happen if my story did get out to the wrong people? I was reaching a kind of numb familiarity with the people from another world, and as I chuckled somewhat ironically to myself I realised that my final downfall might more likely come from a visit by a different kind of men-dressed in uniforms of white, freshly laundered at their home base, the booby-hatch!

I didn't know when I might be contacted again, but I hoped it would be soon! Now for the first time I found that what the aliens had shown me had given me an insatiable curiosity to learn more. It was as if the film had broken during an engrossing movie and I was sitting in the darkness hoping it would resume soon. This curiosity had grown into an incredible longing to see and hear more from them.

I had to make a decision about my further relationships with the IFSB. I decided that my best way of handling the committee would be to tell them only part of the truth. I could tell them I had a visit from certain individuals, whom I could not name, who had warned me against further investigation of UFOs. If I told them they had shown credentials, had revealed much to me as to the secret behind the saucers, and that the saucer mystery was approaching a solution, the committee might tend to be satisfied and even attach an Earthly explanation, in their own minds, to my actions.

I would simply tell them it would not be possible to publish anything, because such was not the proper method, nor was it the proper time for such an action. All information was being withheld by orders from what I would simply term "a higher source".

I decided the best possible thing to do would be to discontinue publishing Space Review in its present form, for I already knew the secret of the UFOs and no one would believe the story anyhow if it were published. Why go on conducting an investigation of something no longer a mystery?

Money for memberships was pouring into IFSB headquarters. I felt that accepting memberships under the present circumstances was not fair, for these were joining under the charter of the IFSB which stated we would one day find a solution to the mystery and inform all members about it. So this was the main part of the business conducted at the next meeting. As I had hoped, the committee agreed to everything I proposed after I had told them the altered version of the visitations. I asked them to reveal nothing I had said until Space Review came out in October. They pledged their silence, but I was to learn within a few days that the pledge was not kept.

Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 5, #2 (February - March 1998).
PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. editor@nexusmagazine.com
Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381
From our web page at: www.nexusmagazine.com

© by Albert K. Bender 1963
Extracted from his classic book:
Flying Saucers and the Three Men
First published in 1963 by
Neville Spearman Limited, London, UK
and more recently by Illuminet Press, USA as a limited edition

Reprinted from Bridgeport Central High School (http://bridgeport.ct.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=25226)

ENCOUNTERS WITH MEN IN BLACK

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(Minneapolis Star Tribune) -- They sat quietly, leaning toward the lectern
in a dark-paneled room near Lake Calhoun as a professor from New York told
of his encounter with one of the mysterious Men in Black. In the audience
were people like biophysicist Otto Schmitt, a retired professor of
electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota, retired aircraft
developer and physicist Cecil Behringer, physician Steven Zuckerman and
polymer scientist Arthur Coury, Medtronic's director of venture
technology.

Peter Rojcewicz told them there have been hundreds - perhaps thousands -
of such encounters over the centuries. "The Men in Black are part of the
extraordinary encounter continuum - fairies, monsters, ETS, energy forms,
flying saucers, flaming crosses," said Rojcewicz, a 37-year-old professor
of humanities and folklore at New York's Juilliard School. The modern era
of Men in Black - visitations by mysterious, black-clad men who seem evil
and threatening - goes back to at least the early 1950s when a man named
Albert K. Bender allegedly saw a UFO in Bridgeport, Conn., and was later
frightened by a visitation from three Men in Black.

Rojcewicz told the audience that his own MIB (Men in Black) experience
occurred in 1980. "I have never gone public with this before," he said.
Most of the modern era MIB encounters have followed sightings of UFOs or
strange lights.  Rojcewicz's encounter involved no sightings.  He was just
sitting in the University of Pennsylvania library, reading a UFO book
suggested by another professor who thought that Rojcewicz, as a
folklorist, would be interested in such phenomena. "Then in the corner of
my vision I noticed a black pants leg and a black shoe, scuffed,"
Rojcewicz said. The folding chairs in the auditorium of the Bakken Library
of Electricity in Medicine, 3537 Zenith Av. S., stopped creaking as
Rojcewicz's audience listened intently. Standing in front of him,
Rojcewicz said, was a very gaunt, very pale man.  He was about 6-1,
weighed about 140 pounds and wore a black suit, black shoes, black string
tie and a bright white shirt. "His suit was loose and it looked as though
he had slept in it for three days,"  Rojcewicz said.

Rojcewicz didn't know what to make of the figure. At the time he wasn't
aware of the Men in Black phenomena which, he subsequently learned, dates
back to at least Biblical times. "He sat down, like he had dropped from
the ceiling - all in one movement" - and folded his hands on top of a
stack of books in front of him, Rojcewicz said. The Man in Black asked
Rojcewicz what he was doing. Rojcewicz said he was reading about flying
saucers.  "Have you seen a flying saucer?" the Man in Black asked.
Rojcewicz said he hadn't. "Do you believe in the reality of flying
saucers?" Rojcewicz said he didn't know much about them and wasn't sure he
was very interested in the phenomena. The man screamed: "Flying saucers
are the most important fact of the century and you are not interested?" "I
tried to calm him," Rojcewicz said.  The man got up, once again all in a
single awkward movement, put his hand on Rojcewicz's shoulder and said:
"Go well on your purpose" and left.

Rojcewicz looked out at his audience.  "In 10 seconds I was overwhelmed by
fear. . . . I had a sense that this man was out of the ordinary and that
idea frightened me. . . . I got up and walked around the stacks toward
where the reference librarians usually are. The librarians weren't there.
There were no guards there - there was nobody else in the library. . . . I
was terrified."

He went back to the table where he had been reading "to get myself
together. It took me about an hour. Then I got up and everything was back
to normal, the people were all there." He didn't talk about his experience
in public because he was concerned about how people might react to his
story, he said.

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Was he dreaming? He doesn't think so. He said he suspects he was in an
"altered state." Rojcewicz said he thinks his experience - and that of
others who have been exposed to the Men in Black - are somewhere "in the
crack" between real life and fantasy.

He has been studying anomalous phenomena such as the Men in Black ever
since his 1980 experience. He has interviewed many people who have
reported UFOs, flying saucers and Men in Black experiences. He said the
Men in Black most frequently appear in threes, but sometimes in twos, ones
and fours.  Some of the MIBs carry brief cases and represent themselves as
being Air Force UFO investigators, he said. The MIBs warn UFO spotters to
tell no one of their experiences with aliens from outer space.

When the MIBs leave, people are fearful, dizzy and, sometimes, nauseous,
he said. Frequently their lives are changed by the experience. Some become
more successful in their jobs and marriages and report a joie de vivre.
Others lose their jobs and marriages. One of his friends quit a good
academic position and went into hiding, he said. Some become addicted to
drugs, and many feel they have been victimized, he said.

He said the reaction varies with a person's culture, religion or openness
to imaginative ideas. To illustrate the various reactions he cited a case
of a psychiatrist and her husband, a professor of education, who saw a UFO
in Maine and subsequently had a MIB encounter. "She has been all right
since then, but he has not." The professor was left lethargic and troubled
by the encounter.

Rojcewicz, who teaches at the C. J. Jung Foundation for Analytical
Psychology as well as at Juilliard, said he suspects the psychiatrist was
able to handle the experience better because she is more open to spiritual
matters while her husband by training and experience is rooted in the
acceptance of only what seems reasonable.

In another case, Rojcewicz interviewed a woman named Deborah from
Burlington, Va., who said she had been visited by a slender, 6-foot, 9-
inch Man in Black who was wearing a bowler hat.  She said her knees went
weak when the man was close to her.  She said of her experience: "There
was something wrong - evil about this." When Rojcewicz telephoned Deborah
to recheck his notes, there was a beeping on the line and they couldn't
hear each other. He redialed and the line was all right.

Rojcewicz said there are references to Men in Black going back to Abraham
in Biblical times, and there have been many similar stories in folklore
over the years.  Often the Men in Black have been considered to be the
devil or his representatives. Some of the Roman Catholic church's saints
had Men in Black experiences.  The church itself recognizes the
possibility by endorsing exorcism, Rojcewicz said.

What is a good defense against the Men in Black? "Laughter," Rojcewicz
said. "If they ask you why you're laughing, tell them, `Rojcewicz told me
to do it.' " He added: "When you confront evil, don't feed them your fear.
Say you are not worried - ha-ha."

When his talk was over, several of those attending were asked if they took
the Men in Black stories seriously. "Maybe there is something there," said
Dennis Skillings, director of the Archaeus Project, which sponsored the
meeting.  But he said he doubts that there is any way of confirming that
MIB encounters "really, truly happened."

Zuckerman, a specialist in internal medicine, said he thought  Rojcewicz
was serious. "I have a friend who knows a fellow who is investigating
reports that men from space are coming to Earth and taking biopsies of
people's calf muscles," Zuckerman said.  "He says the biopsy sites heal
right away." Why would people from outer space take biopsies of people's
calf muscles? "An interesting question," Zuckerman said with a smile.

The Archaeus Project, which is subsidized by Medtronic founder Earl
Bakken, regularly brings in researchers in the field of the paranormal and
so-called alternative science for special lectures.

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Maury Island Incident

QuoteThe Maury Island Incident is said to be an early modern UFO encounter incident, which allegedly took place in June 1947, three days before the famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold, widely considered the original encounter with flying saucers. It is also one of the earliest reported instances of an alleged encounter with so-called Men in Black. Opinions remain divided on whether the case was a genuine flying saucer sighting, a hoax or an attempt to cover up the leak of an advanced, classified aerospace project.

Background

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QuoteThe incident took place shortly after June 21, 1947. On that date, seaman Harold A. Dahl, out scavenging for drifting logs, claimed to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island (which is now a peninsula of Vashon Island, in Puget Sound, near Tacoma, Washington, United States; Maury Island is located directly across a narrow section of Puget Sound from Sea-Tac International Airport and Boeing Field). Dahl, his son Charles, an unnamed hand and Dahl's dog were on the boat. Dahl reported seeing four, five or six (the initial FBI report says four or five) "doughnut-shaped objects" flying in formation over the area where his boat was. He said he could see blue sky through the holes in the center of the discs, and that there appeared to be port holes lining the inside of the ring. One of the craft appeared to be malfunctioning, Dahl reported, and another craft edged up to it, then retreated. At this point the troubled craft began ejecting objects through the inner port holes. Slag-like material began hitting the boat and damaged the windshield, the wheel house and a light fixture, and killed his dog on the deck. He said his son was also slightly injured by falling debris. Dahl claimed to have taken a number of photographs of the UFOs, and recovered some type of slag ejected from the craft that malfunctioned. Dahl also recovered samples of sheaves of lightweight white sheets of metal that fluttered like "newspapers" out from the inner ring of the troubled UFO to the ground.

The next morning, Dahl reported a man arrived at his home and invited him to breakfast at a nearby diner; Dahl accepted the invitation. He described the man as wearing a black suit and driving a new 1947 Buick; Dahl assumed he was a military or government representative. Dahl claimed the man told him details of the UFO sighting while they ate, though Dahl had not related his account publicly. The man also allegedly gave Dahl a non-specific warning which Dahl took as a threat that his family might be harmed if he related details of the sighting.

Some confusion and debate over Dahl's statements have occurred. Dahl later claimed the UFO sighting was a hoax, but has also claimed the sighting was accurate, but he had claimed it was a hoax to avoid bringing harm to his family.

Investigation

QuoteIn spite of the threat, Dahl had reported the incident to his employee at his sawmill operation, Fred Crisman, who had long claimed to have experience with unusual phenomena (and who was later alleged to be linked to the John F. Kennedy assassination) and who also was the owner, or co-owner, of the boat used by Dahl. Crisman and Dahl also had a joint-venture to retrieve drifting logs from Puget Sound as a source of raw lumber. Crisman sailed to the island the following day and said he spotted a craft briefly, but it went behind a cloud. He gathered more of the slag which he found littering the beach area. He then sent a sample to Chicago with a request it be tested. According to the FBI report, Crisman either sent it to Ray Palmer, science fiction writer and editor of Amazing Science Fiction, or sent it to a friend at the University of Chicago who failed to identify the material and then sent it on to Ray Palmer. While the "rock formation" was being passed around in Chicago, the famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold took place at Mount Rainier in Washington state. Palmer contacted Arnold and asked him to investigate the incident for the story Arnold was writing for one of Palmer's publications (the FBI report states Palmer was the editor of the magazines Venture and Fantacy [sic, given as "Fantasy" elsewhere in the report] at this time, although both Venture Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction first appeared long after the incident. Palmer inaugurated the first issue of Fate magazine in January, 1948 with a cover featuring flying disks and the article he paid Kenneth Arnold to write).

Arnold flew from Boise, Idaho, to Tacoma and met with Crisman, Dahl and at least three military intelligence officers at the Winthrop Hotel there. During the meetings over several days, an unknown person (the FBI agent who wrote up the main report on the incident believed Crisman was the most likely suspect) began leaking details of the UFO sighting at Maury Island, the meeting in the hotel room and details of the conversation there to reporters at the Tacoma Times and at United Press, the latter reporter also working for Tacoma News Tribune. The anonymous caller also contacted the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Boise Statesman.

The two United States Army Air Corps investigating officers who arrived at Arnold's request, Captain William L. Davidson and Lietuenant Frank M. Brown of Army A-2 Intelligence, decided to fly back to Hamilton Field the same day they arrived in Tacoma after interviewing Crisman in the hotel room. Dahl had decided to leave, citing possible danger to himself if the story got out, presumably because of the warning he received from the man in black previously. The two intelligence officers said they had to return to Hamilton Field in California quickly because the next day was Air Force Day, when the Air Force officially became a new service branch distinct from the Navy, Marines and Army. As the investigators were preparing to leave, Crisman produced samples of the "rock formation" from his automobile and gave it to the investigators to take back to California. The plane carrying the two investigators and the slag crashed near Kelso, Washington, shortly after leaving Tacoma, killing both men. In April 2007 it was reported that the crash site had been rediscovered and some material recovered, although the initial military investigation did recover exhibits and remove the bodies. The FBI report notes that investigators from McChord Field near Tacoma had investigated the wreckage and were convinced there was no sabotage involved. The FBI report further mentions that two other people on board the airplane survived by parachuting from the airplane after it lost its left wing and the tail section due to a fire in the left engine. One of the survivors was named as a member of the flight crew and the other was referred to as "a hitch-hiker." The Seattle Post-Intelligencer identified them as Sergeant Elmer L. Taft and Technical Sergeant Woodrow D. Matthews. Initially the Air Force denied the men had been carrying a secret cargo, but in later years admitted that they had been officially investigating the Dahl report.

Crisman alerted Arnold of the crash early the next morning and Dahl and Crisman returned to the hotel to discuss the situation with Arnold. Arnold had invited another person, accidentally identified in the FOI copy of the FBI report as a Mr. Smith of Seattle (probably Captain E. H. Smith (elsewhere E. J. Smith) of United Airlines, identified in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer article under External links below), to Tacoma to attend the UFO conference, and this informant related to the FBI field agent that a Mr. Lantz (elsewhere identified as Paul Lance) of the Tacoma Times contacted Arnold at the hotel and informed him of the leaks, including information that the Army intelligence officers had been shot down in the B-25 airplane over Kelso by 20 mm cannon, and that a Marine airplane whose wreck that had allegedly been found earlier at Mt. Rainier had also been shot down with the same weapon. The anonymous caller claimed knowledge of on-going investigations by military intelligence. He was not identified but claimed to be a switchboard operator. Mr. Smith informed the FBI the switchboard operator at the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma was not a male. The anonymous caller also said he was not interested in providing a scoop to any certain media outlet but wanted the news "to get back to New Jersey."

Asked to produce the photographs he had made of the UFOs over Maury Island, Dahl and the group left the hotel and went to Dahl's automobile parked outside. Dahl then claimed the photographs had disappeared from his glove compartment. Initially he had said the photographs didn't turn out and were marred by white spots that appeared on them. He didn't change his story and the group knew the photographs were of poor quality. Later UFOlogists revisited the issue of the photographs with Crisman, prompting the claim some copies had survived, but UFOlogists were unable to acquire this piece of evidence.

The ad hoc group in Tacoma in 1947 also decided to sail to Maury Island. This plan failed when the boat failed to start. Asked where the UFO had damaged the boats, Crisman pointed to the windshield, the klaaxon and a light. Smith told the FBI there were signs of recent repair to these parts.

Alarmed by the deaths, Dahl disappeared, although the FBI report mentions his son, allegedly injured by the slag from the malfunctioning UFO, had run away from home to Montana for some reason. The anonymous caller informed the press that one of the two witnesses would shortly be sent to Alaska. Crisman, a WWII veteran, was recalled to service hastily and sent to Alaska (A UFO was spotted northwest of Bethel, Alaska on August 4 by Captain Jack Peck and copilot Vince Daly from a Douglas DC-3 they operated for Al Jones flying service and was reported to the headquarters of the Fourth Air Force in Hamilton, California and the Air Defense Command commander at Mitchell Field in New York.), then posted to Greenland (Thule Air Force Base figures in Milton William Cooper's "Behold a Pale Horse" as a Majestic 12/Operation Majority control terminus). Arnold found himself unable to complete the story for Palmer. Samples of the slag provided to Arnold and Palmer also allegedly went missing. Arnold was allegedly advised by Ted Morello of the United Press: "You're involved in something that is beyond our power here to find out anything about... Get out of this town until whatever it is blows over.".

Arnold decided to fly home. He stopped for fuel in Pendleton, Oregon, and shortly after taking off again, his engine froze in mid-air. He managed to land the plane safely despite the emergency.

Paul Lance of the Tacoma Times died within two weeks of undetermined causes. United Press stringer Ted Morello moved to New York and until his death due to a stroke on September 15, 2007, at the age of 88, was a well-respected newspaper correspondent to the United Nations.

Some believe that the famous case of another allegedly disabled UFO, the Roswell UFO incident, took place about 12 days after Dahl's sighting, although various dates circulate among Roswell investigators and the chronology is less certain than that for the Maury Island Incident.

The story of the mysterious crash of the B-25 and the death of the two men investigating the "disk case" who allegedly had a "top-secret cargo" or even "saucer parts" was carried by the wire services and published by newspapers locally and nationally.

Albert K. Bender later seized on Dahl's story, and printed it in his newsletter. In 1953, Bender claimed three men in black visited him, and warned him to stop his UFO research, which he did for a decade, closing down his International Flying Saucer Bureau. In 1963 Bender published his story, *Flying Saucers and the Three Men*, placing him beyond the pale of even the UFO research community because of his claims about men in black.

Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, chief of Project Blue Book in the early 1950s, wrote that he was convinced that the entire sighting story was a hoax. The initial FBI field report concluded the story was a hoax as well.

In the FBI report the anonymous caller mentioned an incident involving a United Airlines pilot and his co-pilot flying over Montana and coming under fire.

United Airlines pilot E. H. Smith, the likely identity of the main informant in the FBI report and a key figure in the meetings at the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma, was named as witnessing a UFO event over Boise several weeks prior (on July 4, according to the FBI report) to the crash of the B-25 near Kelso, Washington, according to an Associated Press dispatch with the dateline of San Francisco, August 2, "2 Flyers died in Crash on 'Disc' Mission" (see Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Is strange rock from UFO or just a piece of poppycock?", April 25, 2007, under External links below). In the FBI report on the Maury Island Incident, Mr. Smith reports he made contact with people he knew inside military intelligence during the meetings with Arnold, Dahl, Crisman and others in Tacoma. Smith reported a meeting between Arnold, him and an unnamed military intelligence figure without Dahl or Crisman present. In subsequent accounts by Arnold a Major Sanders is mentioned as present at the hotel with Crisman. Mr. Smith reported he, his contact from military intelligence and Arnold went to an unidentified Tacoma slag mill to compare the "rock formation" Dahl had collected and provided with generic slag from a smelter, and found they were very alike.

Aftermath

QuoteThis event took place at the very beginning of the modern phase of UFO sightings, usually connected with Kenneth Arnold's report from Mount Rainier and the Roswell incident. It contains elements that became embedded in UFOlogy until now, including men in black, what appeared to be a government cover up, mysterious disappearance of physical evidence, mysterious disappearances of eyewitnesses (Dahl and Crisman), mysterious deaths and inexplicable situations. Dahl claimed the mysterious dark man driving the black 1947 Buick who visited him retold the events on the boat as if he had been there, although Dahl himself hadn't related the story publicly at that point. Dahl began denying the story only after the two Army Air intelligence officers died in the B-25 crash. Dahl and Crisman told the FBI investigator they had concocted the story at the urging of Ray Palmer who wanted the mysterious rock formation to have originated on an alien saucer. They claimed to be playing along with Palmer who wanted a story to publish, and yet the FBI agent also notes that Dahl and Crisman were "obviously" not telling all they knew and were attempting to cover something up.

Because Crisman was named in the Garrison case on the Kennedy assassination as a friend of the main suspect, Clay Shaw, he has become a useful figure for UFOlogists arguing in favor of the Majestic 12 conspiracy, which also involves military intelligence, UFOs and the Kennedy assassination. Crisman's automobile was allegedly strafed with bullets less than two weeks before he was subpoenaed to testify by Garrison in 1968. Crisman was accused of being one of the "three tramps" at Dealy Plaza the day Kennedy was assassinated at the Select Committee on Assassinations of the 95th Congress  although he was reportedly at his post as a school teacher in Tacoma at the time of the shooting. When in December 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations summoned Stanley Peerboom, the principal at Rainer High School, to produce Crisman's employment records from the time, Peerboom confirmed Crisman's presence that day and provided documentation demonstrating no substitute teacher had been called in. Crisman eventually became a popular radio talk show personality known as John Gold on KAYE radio in Puyallup, Washington, before running for public office in Tacoma, inspired as he said to fight for the right of Gypsies. When his political faction was forced out of city government, the departing mayor named him to a post on the Tacoma Library Board and he died without fanfare in 1975.

Ray Palmer did publish the story of Kenneth Arnold's sighting on Mount Rainier, and is considered the father of modern UFOs because of this and other stories and cover artwork he featured in the publications he edited. Palmer has a prior connection with at least one person involved in the Maury Island Incident: he published a series of stories known as the Shaver mysteries, to which Fred Crisman began contributing in the mid-1940s, before the flying saucer sightings. Later Palmer and Arnold co-authored the book "The Coming of the Saucers."

The Maury Island Incident and Kenneth Arnold's sighting ushered in an era or epidemic of flying saucer sightings that gained major momentum during the early 1950s. Edward R. Murrow interviewed Arnold for national radio in 1947. Radio, the major medium of the day, took to the reports of flying saucers with enthusiasm, primed back in 1938 by The War of the Worlds on Orson Welles' The Mercury Theatre on the Air. Hollywood Star Playhouse dramatized a saucer encounter in the story "The Tenth Planet," alien invasions and abductions became common fare and even hosts of mainstream programs such as Superman began cracking jokes about them ("I don't believe this flying saucer business at all. Why I just read a report that 20 percent of commercial pilots have never even seen them!" one host quipped).

While the radio drama shows went wild with Venusian embassies and Martian invasions, WOR radio's late-night talk show host Long John Nebel popularized the real-life theme on his program "Partyline" in New York, which was heard as far west as Chicago and across the Eastern seaboard into Canada, with guests such as George Adamski, the first "contactee", a term Nebel coined, and numerous other guests, including Ray Palmer, Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp. Nebel's show featured the gamut of positions on flying saucers, hosting the most obvious frauds as well as the most ironclad skeptics.

The flying saucer craze quickly broke out of the late night time slot and went mainstream in a host of Hollywood treatments and on the radio serials. Entertaining Comics treated the topic in both its pulp and scientific aspects, publishing an entire issue of Weird Science-Fantasy (issue 26, carried over from the "Flying Saucer Report" comprising most of issue 25) dedicated to factual accounts of sightings around the country and especially over Washington, D.C., and called on Congress to undertake hearings into the "flying saucer invasion." The new medium of television was accompanied from its very birth by the extraterrestrial flying disc stories.

Confronted on the one side with credible testimony by reliable witnesses and even military personnel with top secret security clearances on the one side and clamor in the public media on the other side, some U.S. military organizations undertook studies to determine the nature of and possible threat posed by the UFOs. Many wondered whether the UFOs were extraterrestrial or whether they were a new Soviet espionage method, and the public and intelligence communities noted the tendency of UFOs to appear over military bases during the early years of the Cold War. One of the earliest investigations was Project Twinkle associated with sightings of green fireballs by scientists and staff with the post-WWII Manhattan Project and at Sandia National Laboratories in the American Southwest. Project Grudge soon followed, which in turn was replaced by Project Bluebook.

Maury Island Incident From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Island_incident)

Fred Crisman
Maury Island Incident Connection

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QuoteFred Lee Crisman (July 22, 1919 - December 10, 1975) was a writer, educator, broadcaster and self-described "disruption agent" from Tacoma, Washington known for claims of paranormal events and 20th century conspiracies.

Early life

QuoteCrisman was born 1919 in Washington, the only child of Fred Crisman and his wife Eva Pitchers, both from Iowa. His father was a salesman.

Shaver Mystery

QuoteIn the mid-1940s, his name appears in the pages of pulp magazines, reporting on his own Shaver Mystery experiences via letters to the editors, warning of a threat from subterranean-dwelling "Deros," or "detrimental robots." Crisman wrote to Ray Palmer, then editor of the science fiction magazine 'Amazing Stories' with details of the incident. Crisman had previously written to Palmer and had a letter published in the June 1946 issue detailing his encounters with his outlandish ideas of 'deros' (detrimental robots) who ran an underground super-civilisation. He claimed to have encountered the beings while fighting as a commando in Burma during World War II, and wrote that he sustained injuries from a futuristic laser weapon.

Maury Island incident

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Artist's conception of UFO attack on Puget Sound - Courtesy Walt Crowley

Dahl and Crissman report a June 21, 1947, explosion of a flying saucer over Maury Island on or after June 26, 1947. (http://www.historylink.org/_content/printer_friendly/pf_output.cfm?file_id=2068)

QuoteHis name next appears in relation to the Maury Island incident, an early UFO encounter. The UFO story began with Harold A Dahl who worked for Crisman. Crisman claimed to later see the object reported by his employee and to have collected slag debris dropped on his boat. Many UFO researchers have dismissed this incident as an outright hoax, most likely perpetrated by Crisman, but others still believe the incident to be a genuine paranormal event.

Murder of a City, Tacoma

QuoteCrisman next appears in Tacoma in the late 1960s, railing against the city's form of government (i.e. City Manager). He hosted a radio talk show under the pseudonym "Jon Gold," and wrote a book, The Murder of a City, Tacoma,[5] which he published in 1970 through Transistor Publishing Company. "This weird, politically slanted rant about Tacoma in the late 1960s is a window into the chaos and bitterness that led to the 1971 recall of a majority of the City Council and of the fall of Mayor R.L. Slim Rasmussen. The author, Fred Crisman, was a talk radio personality who managed in the book to tie corruption in Tacoma to everything from communist infiltrators to the Kennedy assassination. The paranoid tone of the writing, shameless personal attacks, and naming of names seems like something out of the mid-50s but as a historical artifact is much more than just a novelty." Crisman was appointed by the mayor to serve on the Tacoma Public Library board.

John F. Kennedy Assassination

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Was Fred Crisman one of the shooters?

JFK - Was There a UFO Connection to His Murder?  (http://www.ipodshows.net/jfk_was_there_a_ufo_connection.htm)

QuoteDuring this period, Crisman was subpoenaed by Jim Garrison to testify in the case against Clay Shaw in the John F. Kennedy assassination.[6] When Shaw was arrested, apparently Crisman was the first person Shaw called.[7] Various conspiracy theories place Crisman on the grassy knoll, possibly as a radio operator, or as one of the "three tramps" taken into custody near Dealey Plaza. The origin of this repeated claim appears to be the Torbitt Document. "William Torbitt" is the pseudonym for a 1969 Texas lawyer-author-Kennedy Assassination-researcher who spells Crisman "Chrismon". However, a log from Rainier High School where Crisman taught shows no substitute was required for Crisman on the day of the assassination, thus supporting Crisman's claim that Crisman was teaching at the time of the assassination.[8] Crisman's Grand Jury testimony is now public; and in Murder of a City, Tacoma, Crisman claimed no knowledge of a conspiracy, nor was he called as a witness in the Clay Shaw trial.

Inslaw and The Octopus

QuoteCrisman died in 1975, but his name continues to resonate in the world of conspiracy theories. Michael Riconosciuto, a witness who testified before the House Judiciary Committee investigating the Inslaw Affair, has been described as a young electronics whiz from Tacoma who was a close acquaintance of Crisman's, and who helped Crisman sweep (and possibly plant) electronic eavesdropping devices during the years Crisman wrote Murder Of A City, Tacoma

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JFK & UFO: Military-Industrial Conspiracy and Cover-Up from Maury Island to Dallas
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The Maury Island UFO Mystery

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QuoteThe story surfaced from Ray Palmer (editor of Amazing Stories), regarding a man called Fred Crisman who claimed to have actual physical evidence of a flying saucer, July 31, 1947.

Palmer passed the story onto Kenneth Arnold, who was investigating UFO reports in the Northwest. Arnold interviewed Crisman an his associate Harold Dahl who claimed they were harbour patrolmen (their first lie).

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Kenneth Arnold

Crisman reported that they had seen a doughnut-shaped craft dump piles of slaglike material on the beach of Maury Island in Puget Sound. The next morning a mysterious man in black had threatened Dahl, who claimed the man said 'I know a great deal more about this experience of yours that you will want to believe.'.

The 2 men showed Arnold the material who in turn contacted an Army Air Force intelligence officer, Lieutenant Frank Brown, who flew up from Hamilton Field in California in the company of another Air Force officer.

The 2 Air Force officers immediately recognised the material as ordinary aluminium but did not say so in front of Arnold due to the fact that he would feel embarrassed. While flying back to Hamilton, their B-25 caught fire and crashed, killing both officers.

Crisman and Dahl later confessed to investigators that they had made up the story. Before his death Crisman changed the Maury Incident story to that of an American Plane dropping radioactive waste instead of a UFO dropping unknown substances.

A sceptic association investigated the case, which they date to 21 June 1947, instead of 31 July 1947 (?), and gives the explanation "foundry slag, unrelated plane crash." Note that Ed Ruppelt was involved in the investigation and classifies the event as "admitted hoax."

sources: http://ufologie.net/indexe.htm

UFO Casebook (http://www.ufocasebook.com/mauryisland1947.html)

June 21, 1947 - Pre-Arnold/Pre-Roswell UFO Fleet Encounter

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QuoteIt was approximately 2pm when Harold A. Dahl, the captain of a coastguard patrol based on Tacoma, Washington, had his amazing UFO sighting.

Dahl and his crew of U.S. coastguards were patrolling the southern end of Puget Sound, Washington - a place abundant with islands and fjords - when they put the launch into an eastern bay off Maury Island, a small, thinly populated island some three miles from the mainland.

At the time there were two members of Dahl's crew, his son and a dog on board. As they entered the bay, Dahl looked up from the wheel and was startled to see "six very large doughnut-shaped machines" in the air. He judged them to be approximately 2000 feet up, virtually overhead, stationary and silent.

Intelligent Balloons?

QuoteInitially he thought they were balloons until one decided to descend, followed by the other five. This lone machine seemed to be in trouble, Dahl thought - although the others closely followed it at a range of approximately 200 feet above.

It continued on a downwards movement until it was directly overhead, about 500 feet above the water. They remained totally silent and Dahl couldn't see any visible means of propulsion - they didn't appear to have any engines.

Metallic Craft

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QuoteDahl reckoned they were each about 100 feet in diameter and each had a hole in its center, about 25 feet in diameter. The clouds were low and thundery, but when the sunlight broke through, Dahl noted that it reflected from the metallic surfaces of the strange craft. However, there was not one brilliance, but many.

In addition, the craft appeared to have what appeared to be 'portholes' equally spaced around the outside of their hulls. Dahl also reported what looked like dark and circular windows on the inside and bottoms of them.

Dahl later said, "Fearing that the central and lowermost machine was going to crash in the bay, we pulled our boat over to the beach and got out our harbor patrol camera. I took four photos of these balloons, as I still thought they were. All the time, the five were circling around the one which was stationery. Five minutes passed, and then one of the circling machines detached itself from the formation and came right down to the stationery one. It seemed to touch it, and stayed motionless for about four minutes.Then we heard a dull thud, and the central craft spewed out what looked like thousands of newspapers from the inside of its center. But these falling fragments turned out to be a white type of very light metal that fluttered to earth, and also fell into the bay. The machine then seemed to hail on us in the bay, and over the beach, black and darker type metals, which hit the beach and the bay. All these latter fragments seemed molten. Steam rose when they hit the water. We ran for shelter under a cliff and got behind logs. My son's arm was hit by a falling fragment of metal, and our dog was killed. Then the rain of metal stopped. The strange craft silently lifted and went westward towards the Pacific. All the time, the center one remained in the formation. We found the fallen metal too hot to touch, for some time. But when it cooled, we loaded a large number of pieces into our launch."

Electrical Malfunctions

QuoteWhen he climbed back towards the launch, Dahl found that his radio refused to work.

"When I started out on patrol, my radio had been in perfect order. But now, the static was so great, I could not make contact with our shore station! Yet the weather could not have caused all that interference. Our wheel-house had been hit by the rain of metal, and damaged. I started up the engines and returned to Tacoma, where my boy had to be attended in hospital. I reported the adventure to my superior officer, Mr Fred L. Chrisman; but I could see he did not believe me! I gave him the camera and the films and also the metal fragments we had collected in the island. Later, Chrisman went out to the island to look for the 20 tones of metal which I judged had been spewed from the strange machine. When my films were developed, they showed the strange aircraft, but the negatives were covered with white spots, as though they had been exposed to some radiation."

Apparently specimens of the strange metal were taken to Chicago University for analysis, who described them as "metal that had fallen from a great height in the sky and landed in sand."

Strange Geology!

QuoteSome skeptics have said that Maury Island is rich in this type of metal as geological and natural deposits. Further analysis reported that the metal was an alloy of calcium, iron, zinc, and titanium. Also present were aluminum, manganese, copper, magnesium, silicon, nickel, lead, strontium and chromium together with traces of silver, tin and cadmium. This seems a very remarkable alloy to be found in a natural state all over Maury Island.

One odd note added, was that the content of calcium was unusually high and that it had not been oxidized, as it does when heated - in terrestrial conditions.

Cosmic Protection

QuoteOne theory which was put forward at the time was that the calcium had been cast into the hull of the strange machines to absorb the lethal cosmic rays out in space beyond our earth's orbit.

Enter the Men in Black

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QuoteNot only is this story extremely fascinating, if only by pre-dating similar events - the metal seems similar to that allegedly recovered the following month at the Roswell crash site. However, the following day Dahl was interrogated by what could be one of the first incidents involving MIB (Men in Black):

According to Dahl, the following morning a strange man drove to his house and got out of a black Buick car of sedan type. He was dressed in a dark suit, was around 40 years old and in Dahl's words, looked like "an insurance agent".

Dahl got out his own car and drove downtown - with the stranger following him. Why he didn't use the stranger's car for a lift is not recorded.

Threatening Warnings

QuoteOver breakfast in a hotel, Dahl was asked some curious 'personal' questions;

Stranger: "Are you happy at your job, and in your family?"
Dahl: "What the blazes are you getting at?"

At this point, the stranger merely gave a peculiar smile and proceeded to tell Dahl of the previous events on Maury Island. This conversation puzzled Dahl as, so far, he had not told anyone about his experience and there had been no one on the island apart from his crew - and he did not think they had been talking.

"Mr Dahl," said the stranger, still smiling, "you had better forget what you have seen, and stop talking. Silence is the best thing for you and your family. You have seen what you ought not to have seen!" The stranger then abruptly got up and left the hotel.

Further Verifications

QuoteKenneth Arnold later arrived on the scene after being asked to investigate the strange story. Arnold later interviewed Dahl's superior officer, Chrisman, who told his own fantastic story:

" Two days after Dahl had reported to me about these strange machines over Maury Island, I went out in the patrol launch. It was on the morning of June 23rd. I looked at some of the tons of metal on the beach. As I did so, one of the strange aircraft suddenly appeared from nowhere! It circled the bay, banked at an angle of 10 degrees, and shot up into the center of a cumulus cloud, high in the sky. I have never seen any aircraft before go into the center of such a cloud. It is very rough in there. The strange thing looked like a large inner tube to me. It was not squashed as Dahl had said. It had large portholes round the whole hull, and its brassy, golden surface seemed burled. I noticed, too, an observation window in it. When the sun shone on it, it was unusually brilliant. I picked up a load of the fragments of fallen metal and went back with them in the launch to Tacoma."

Military Investigations

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QuoteArnold then spoke to Lieutenant Frank Brown of the U.S. military intelligence, who had also seen the fragments of metal when he flew over the location in a B.29 bomber.

He sketched, for Arnold, photos that had come to intelligence. One of the sketches showed a photograph taken some three weeks previously by Wm. A. Rhodes over Phoenix, Arizona. It showed a strange vessel, looking like the heel of a shoe, ie. parabolic in shape, with a hole near one of the curves.
Rhodes had said that there were two tails of vapor trailing from the edges of the 'heel'. One even more remarkable picture shown to Arnold looked exactly like Arnold's own (famous) sighting of nine strange machines flying in formation on June 24th 1947.

The startling thing was that this picture was taken by a Captain F.W. Banner of the British barque, 'Lady of the Lake', in mid-ocean off the coast of Liberia on March 22nd, 1870 - 77 years BEFORE Arnold's sighting.

It looked like a half moon with a tail in it, or like a half-peak in the center of the disc. The object was flying against the wind and was visible for half an hour.

This account seems to have all the hallmarks of a classic sighting; strange metallic craft, fragments of strange metal recovered and even being followed by a MIB encounter.

Credit: http://www.cropcircleresearch.com/enigma/issue5/ufo.html
Images: Sightings.com
Source: http://www.sightings.com/1.reports2010/mauryisland.html




June 21, 1947 - Pre-Arnold/Pre-Roswell UFO Fleet Encounter - Sightings (http://www.sightings.com/1.reports2010/mauryisland.html)

Weird Hum Haunts Vashon Island WA Residents

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April 22nd, 2010 by RK | Filed under UFOs, Western Washington

QuoteResidents of Vashon Island in the Puget Sound of Washington State have been reporting a strange unidentified hum for years and no one seems to know what it is.

Scientists and the local utility company don't know the cause.

Could it be connected to the June 1947 'Maury Island incident', when Harold A. Dahl and his son saw several "doughnut-shaped objects" while on a boat off the shore of Maury Island, near Vashon Island? Dahl's story is that one of the ships appeared to be flying erratically and possibly crashed into the Puget Sound near Vashon Island.

The hum is described as a very low persistent low-frequency pure tone that people have heard all across the Island.

Weird Hum Haunts Vashon Island WA Residents (http://whalesinspace.com/2010/04/22/weird-hum-haunts-vashon-island-wa-residents/)

Kenneth Arnold

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QuoteWhile flying near Mount Rainier in Washington state on June 24 1947, Kenneth Arnold saw nine extremely fast moving disks skipping across the sky. An AP wire reporter described them as flying saucers" — a name which stuck. Due to the publicity surrounding his report, and because he was a professional pilot who seemed reasonably sane, Arnold became known worldwide as a respectable UFO figure.

At the urging of , Arnold was briefly involved with the . He suspected that it was all a huge con by Fred Crisman or that it was some sort of intelligence operation.

Letter and drawing by Arnold regarding his sighting:

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Kenneth Arnold (http://obscurantist.com/oma/arnold-kenneth/)

NOTE: Kenneth Arnold will have his own thread. Just included here in context with the Maury Island Incident Connection

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The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers By John A. Keel (http://www.thejinn.net/man_who_invented_flying_saucers.htm)

Maury Island What Really Happened

QuoteDeep in the summer of 1947, something happened in an east bay off Maury Island, Washington. It had all the ear marks of a trace UFO case, years before any other trace case and was in the same time frame of the most famous case of all. Roswell. Many UFO researchers have looked into it and most think it was a hoax, mainly for money and fame. At a time when I had a lot of time to investigate, and I live in the same area, I decided to tried to cover all the bases, to find out the truth.
    As with most history,  the truth lies buried between the lines.

    To start off right on this case we must start at the beginning.  The original story. So here it is word for word from Arnolds book "The Coming of the Saucers."

The stories
The Coming of the Saucers

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Kenneth Arnold coined the term "flying saucer."

Quote    "On June 21, 1947 in the afternoon about two o'clock  I was patrolling the East Bay of Maury Island close in to the shore. This practically uninhabited island lies directly opposite Tacoma about three miles from mainland. This day the sea was rather rough and there were numerous low hanging clouds. I, as captain, was steering my patrol boat close to the shore of a bay on Maury Island. On board were two crewmen, my fifteen-year-old son and his dog.

    As I looked up from the wheel on my boat I noticed six very large doughnut-shaped aircraft. I would judge they were at about 2,000 feet the water and almost directly overhead. At first glance I thought them to be balloons as they seemed to be stationary. However, upon further observance, five of these strange aircraft were circling very slowly around the sixth one which was stationary in the center of the formation. It appeared to me that the center aircraft was in some kind of trouble as it was losing altitude fairly rapidly. The other aircraft stayed at a distance of about two hundred feet above the center one as if they were following the center one down. The center aircraft came to rest almost directly overhead at about five hundred feet above the water.

    All on board our boat were watching these aircraft with a great deal of interest as they apparently had no motors, propellers , or any visible signs of propulsion, and to the best of our hearing they made no sound. In describing the aircraft I would say they were at least one hundred feet in diameter. Each had a hole in the center, approximately twenty-five feet in diameter. They were all a sort shell-like gold and silver color. Their surface seemed of metal and appeared to be burled because when the light shone on them through the clouds they were brilliant, not all one brilliance, but many brilliance's, something like a Buick dashboard. All of the aircraft seemed to have large portholes equally spaced around the outside of their doughnut exterior. These portholes were from five to six feet in diameter and were round. They also appeared to have a dark, circular, continuous window on the inside and bottom of their doughnut shape as though it were an observation window.

    All of us aboard the boat were afraid this center balloon was going to crash in the bay, and just a little while before it stopped lowering, we had pulled our boat over to the beach and got out with our harbor patrol camera. I took three or four photographs of these balloons.

    The center balloon-like aircraft remained stationary at about five hundred feet from the water while the other five aircraft kept circling over it. After about five or six minutes  one of the aircraft from the circling formation left its place in the formation and lowered itself down right next to the stationary aircraft. In fact, it appeared to touch it and stayed stationary next to the center aircraft as if it were giving some kind of assistance for about three or four minutes.

    It was then we heard a dull thud, like an underground explosion or a thud similar to a man stamping his heel on damp ground. Immediately following this sound the center aircraft began spewing  forth what seemed like thousands of newspapers from somewhere on the inside of its center. These newspapers, which turned out to be a white type of very light metal, fluttered to earth, most of them lighting in the bay. Then it seemed to hail on us, in the bay and over the beach, black or darker type of metal which looked similar to lava rock. We did not know if this metal was coming from the aircraft but assumed it was, as it fell at the same time the white type metal was falling. However, since these fragments were of a darker color, we did not observe them until they started hitting the beach and the bay. All of these latter fragments seemed hot, almost molten. When they hit the bay, steam rose from the water.

    We ran for shelter under a cliff on the beach and behind logs to protect ourselves from the falling debris. In spite of our protection, my son's arm was injured by one of the falling fragments and our dog was hit and killed. We buried the dog at sea on our return trip to Tacoma.

    After this rain of metal seemed over, all of these strange aircraft lifted slowly and drifted out to the westward, which is out to sea. They rose and disappeared at a tremendous height. The center aircraft, which had spewed the debris, did not seem to be hindered in its flight and still remained in the center of the formation as they all rose and disappeared out to sea.

    We tried to pick up several pieces of the metal or fragments and found them very hot -- in fact, I almost burned my fingers -- but after some of them had cooled we loaded a considerable number of the pieces aboard the boat. We also picked up some of the metal which had looked like falling newspapers.

    My crew and I discussed this observance for awhile and I attempted to radio from my patrol boat back to my base. The static was so great it was impossible for me to reach my radio station. This I attributed to the presence of these aircraft, as my radio had been in perfect operating order and the weather would not have caused this amount of interference.

    The wheelhouse on our boat had been hit by falling debris and damaged. We immediately started our engines and went directly to Tacoma, where my boy was given first aid at the hospital there. Upon reaching the dock I had to tell my superior officer how the boat had been damaged and why the dog had not returned with us. I related our experience to Fred L. Crisman, my superior officer. I could plainly see that he did not believe it and I guess I don't blame him, but we gave him the camera with its film and fragments of metal we had loaded aboard as proof of our story. Fred L. Crisman decided he would at least go and investigate the beach where I judged at least twenty tons of debris had fallen.

    I might add that these strange aircraft appeared completely round, but seemed a little squashed on the top and on the bottom as if you placed a large board on an inner tube and squashed it slightly. The film from our camera, developed showed these strange aircraft, but the negatives were covered with spots similar to a negative that has been close to an X-ray room before it was exposed except that the spots printed white instead of black as in the usual case.

    This was the story that Harold A. Dahl related to me (Arnold) the evening of July 29, 1947 in Room 502 in the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma, Washington."

Quote    Arnold later said that the above was verbatim as he had and used one of the first portable recorders available. He also took movies of everything as he investigated.

    When "Coming of the Saucers" was published in 1952 Arnold never said it was a hoax. Later in the book, after the crash of the B-25 Arnold  met a Colonel Sanders from McCord AFB that took him to a Tacoma smelter, (must have been Asarco in Ruston) and tried to show him slag like the pieces from Dahl and Crisman. Arnold said they weren't quite the same. They didn't feel alike. This is a small thing but when Arnold tried to keep a piece, for an ashtray Sanders made him give it up. If it was just smelter slag then it should have been no big deal. Sanders wanted every piece, which he got from Arnold and Smith. He put them in the back of his car  which is the last place they saw them. The way Sanders acted made Arnold see the incident and the debris as something important. In some ways it was like Roswell, for the same reasons. If the material is just a weather balloon then Marcels son should still have the small pieces he saved and if it is just slag from a local mill then Arnold and Smith should have their pieces.

    I don't know if the Air Force or other agency got to the lab in Chicago but the book does give a basic analyses of the slag Dahl had and a breakdown of Tacoma slag. They were not the same. The main thing being a lack of iron as used in steel milling.

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Aug. 1947 Tacoma Times Pictures and sideline on the slag

QuoteSmiths story

    For the FBI, E.J. Smith gave a disposition at the City-County building in  Seattle. In it he mentioned the names of the others on board Dahls boat at the time of the incident. In my copy of the disposition the names are redacted out, so I will try to see if I can get a copy of it from the Seattle government. Although Smith was getting his information from Dahl and Crisman the disposition with all the names should be a help.

FBI files

    The FBI investigated Dahl and Crisman. The reports they sent back had two basic stories, the one above and one in which  Dahl and his son found the strange debris in a gravel pit on Maury Island. The FBI investigated the whole story as told by Arnold including the "mystery phone calls" to the local papers and the crash of the B-25 with the A-2 agents aboard.

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QuoteThe final thing in the report that seemed to some to make it being a hoax absolute ,was a stringer for a newspaper and informant for the FBI met with  Dahl at his house. Dahls wife said "quit lying about this" and attacked him with a knife. Later researchers would take this as proof. But if you combine it with Dahls remarks about his family problems ,almost losing his job, lose of their son, his wives sickness, and plain bad luck. You can see how she might feel about the whole thing. I don't think it proves anything as she was not there. If  Dahls son or the crewmen said it never happened it would have been more meaningful.

QuoteKeels slant

    John Keel wrote about it in a compilation of reports in the late seventies. He took Dahls story at face value but turned the last section, on the radiation spots on the film into his answer to what the "Aircraft" were. He thought that it was the government dumping nuclear material in the Sound.

The investigations:

    When you investigate anything, to get to the truth you must cover all the ground. Talk to as many people as possible connected with it, even in minor ways, visit the site where the event occurred and just trace down every angle. When people read about it years later they will see the holes.
    In this case we only have a few was to go. Most of the people involved are dead and many people believe it is a hoax.
     
Arnolds

    Arnold was not an investigator, he was a private pilot that had not served in World War II. He seemed to know little of the military or intelligence. This may seem harsh but it will be more meaningful as we get deeper into the incident.

    After tying down his plane Arnold called around Tacoma looking for a place to stay. As a lark he called the best place in town ,the Winthrop Hotel and was surprised to find a room in his name. For an investigator this should have set off alarms and he did try to talk to the clerk he had on the phone but the didn't pursue it beyond that.

    He called Dahl when he was situated in the hotel. Dahl said that he wanted to forget the whole thing, he had been having problems at work, he had almost lost his job, he nearly lost his son, and his wife was sick. Some how through a freak tide he had lost a log boom that meant allot of money to him. He blamed it all on coincidence but it had started after June 21 when the saw the objects. Arnold finally talked him into coming down for an interview, the one above.

    He did get their statements as to what happened, but he failed to talk to the other crewmen or Dahls son. If he had met Dahls son, Charles he could have asked him about the claim of being hit and seen any wound. If there was none then the hoax would have been proven. He could have talked to the nurse or doctor that performed first aid and asked about the state of the people after the incident but he did not. The other crew are not even mentioned by name in anything I can find. If it was a hoax set up by Crisman or Dahl then the others would have known. If you want to find the truth you talk to everyone involved and see if the stories match. Usually they won't be exact as everyone sees things differently. The other evidence could have been as simple as the Roster for who would be aboard the boat on the day of the incident, this was not seen either.

    As Arnold was  a pilot and had a plane at his disposal so he could have shown Dahl a map and asked him where the bay was that it had happened. Dahl should have been able to pinpoint it exactly. With a tide chart Arnold could have found a good time to go and flown out to the site himself. If there were twenty tons of anything it would have shown up on the beach. Arnold didn't do this. He did go down to Dahls workplace but found the boat in disrepair so he didn't go out with them. If you read the newspapers of the time you will find that pilots were actually going out and landing on beaches in the Sound to go claming. It is a puzzle to me why Arnold didn't fly to the beach and check it out for himself.

Maury Island What Really Happened (http://www.seanet.com/~johnco/maury.htm)

Continued next post...

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MAURY ISLAND NO LONGER A MYSTERY: A UFO HOAX EXPOSED! by Anthony Bragalia  (http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2010/07/maury-island-no-longer-mystery-ufo-hoax.html)

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Boise's link to the UFO World
Posted by Andrew Crisp on Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:49 PM

QuoteIt was June 24, 1947. Boise businessman and pilot Kenneth Arnold was circling the skies above Washington. He was looking for the downed wreckage of a military plane and perhaps the government's $5,000 reward for finding the site.

"A bright light lit up the surface before his airplane," his daughter Kim Arnold told Boise Weekly. "It was so bright, it was like a welder's arc."

In an interview with a Pendleton, Ore., reporter, Kenneth Arnold described nine bright-blue flying objects. He would describe them as like saucers skipping across water. When the story went to press the next day, the term "flying saucer" was born—creating skeptics and supporters alike.

"They do exist and they are out there, and so many people have validated their existence," she said. "They've been here since mankind has been here. [My father] just happened to be the man to give 'em a name."

Whether you buy the story or not, Arnold launched the "modern UFO movement," according to his daughter, the 57-year-old president of SAUCERS Inc. On Monday, Jan. 16, she will talk about her father's legacy on Coast to Coast with George Noory and at the annual Women's UFO Symposium in Glen Rose, Texas, in May.

There's a short YouTube documentary on Arnold below, complete with Twilight Zone style music.

Boise's link to the UFO World (http://www.boiseweekly.com/Cobweb/archives/2012/01/10/boises-link-to-the-ufo-world)

The investigations:
My own

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Quote    I began looking into this episode when I had some time to spare. At first I thought that the book I was thinking of would be called "The Summer of '47" as most of the incidents I was looking at took place in that time frame. It seems that the people looking into Roswell think that it was the only event in 1947, it wasn't. Along with the Maury Island incident was a crash of something in the Tabacco Root Mountains of Montana. It was quashed the next day, like Roswell, by the pilots superior saying it was just "hanger talk". Though there are reports of the military looking for something in the area the next day. An obscure one I found happened the day after Maury. Archie Eddes and his family saw something crash, with a blue flash, on the Moses Lake to Pasco road in eastern Washington. A month later he and a friend went searching for the crash site from an aircraft  and found nothing. This event did appear in the local paper and got out as a paragraph on the newswire. No one at the time looked for any other witnesses who could have seen it or did a true systematic search for the crash site.

    One of the things that seem to clench the Maury Island incident  as a hoax was the debris themselves. The heavy dark matter looked like lava rock and the white metal appeared to be aluminum. Arnold said that this appeared to be normal aluminum scrap that could be found at any airport but he  saw something somewhat funny , a square rivet. I think that rivet might help solve this mystery. The only pictures we have of the debris are , a picture of someone checking it out in a local paper and a very low res set of pictures from the FBI files on the affair. The newspaper picture looks like a lava rock but he FBI pictures are a bit strange as you can plainly see something that looks like webbing in the sample. This would not have been found in mill slag.

    If twenty tons of whatever fell on the beach in 1947 would it still be there fifty years later. I went looking. I waited for a minus tide on the island and walked the beach for about three miles. From the southeast end to about the middle of the east coast. I found mounds that could have been it but as the exact spot was never really recorded I won't know it I really found it. On the north end is an old light house and I have always wondered if they saw something on that cloudy, rainy day.

    Looking into the incident you must also look into the lives of the people involved. I started in the Tacoma Library. It has a history section that has been added on over the years. Squirreled away in the back are many old phone books and city registers.

     I found that from 1945 till 1947 Harold A. Dahl had lived in the same duplex. He worked at the Seattle-Tacoma Ship yard throughout the war, until the end of the war shutdown the yard. When Fred Lee Crisman came back they fell in together in a log salvage business. In this they helped the local Harbor Patrol Association. They were not true, official Harbor Patrol members but they did work for the Association. This seemed to be a sore point with some debunkers. If they weren't really Harbor Patrol then they couldn't be believed. It is just more misdirection from the skeptics.

An obit:

DAHL, HAROLD A (TRADER) (Died: Saturday, January 30, 1982) - Indexed in: 01 FEB 1982 C-12 - SURPLUS DEALER

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QuoteFred Crisman was flying fighters in the Pacific until the end. Somehow he seems to have been connected with the OSS in World War II also, it may have been in his Air Commando group. In a link to Palmer he sent a letter to his magazine saying he was hit by a Ray Gun in a cave in Burma. Somehow this was linked to the "Shaver Mystery" and the underground world of the Deros. This does seem very strange and some would say Fred is a few bricks shy of a load but in my investigations I found the Japanese were working on a Ray Gun in World War II. It was in development for a long time and tested on animals. The microwave energy caused numerous problems for the researchers.  Offically it was never used but offically the A-bomb didn't exist unitil it exploded above Hiroshima. When he got home they made him a liaison for Veteran Affairs. Fred ran for county coroner in 1945 but never won the seat.

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QuoteMore on Crisman:
From "Alien Agenda by Jim Marrs"

    "According to CIA files, Crisman too was a member of the OSS during World War II , serving as a liaison officer with the British Royal Air Force. At the end of the war, Crisman, supposedly discharged from the military, entered a special OSS Internal Security School and was quietly transferred to the newly formed CIA (the CIA was chartered   in 1947), where he operated as an "extended agent", primarily as an internal security specialist in "disruption" activities. The files show Crisman was involved in a highly classified subsection of Internal Security known as 1Sece, Easy Section, a disruption planning unit whose very existence was denied by the CIA The CIA documents detailed Crisman's activities over the years---including secret reports to the agency on military officers during the Korean War and company officials while working for Boeing in Seattle--but no mention of the Maury Island affair."
     
    One of the things has bothered people looking into Maury Island is the lack of specifics about the incident.

    1. Where did it happen?

    "On June 21, 1947 in the afternoon about two o'clock I was patrolling the east bay of Maury Island close in to the shore."

    And

    "3. The following summarizes what was related by <redacted> to major Sander as to the substance of the interrogation by Lt. Brown and Capt. Davidson. That on 21 Jun 47 <redacted> was proceeding south of Maury Island in <redacted> boat."

    The east bay of Maury Island? If you look at a map, there is no east bay. The two bays on Maury/Vashon are Quartermaster Harbor and Tramp Harbor. Tramp Harbor is midway up the island(s) and Quartermaster is between them on the south.

    Since Dahl told B&D "south of Maury Island" but still in the east bay, it must be somewhere between Point Robinson and Piner Point. Two gravel pits exist in that area.

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Quote    Here is a panoramic shot of the east side of Maury Island from Point Robinson down south to Piner Point. The touches of red in the green of the shoreline are the gravel pits.

    As you can see the whole east side is a wide bay.

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Here are a few pictures of the beach where it may have occurred:

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2. What was the name of the boat, and who owned it?

Quote    Thomas thinks he got correct info from another investigator, the boat was the "North Queen" and the Coast Guard made an error as they said it was registered to "Haldor Dahl". I am not sure if Haldor is a relative of Harold but Haldor is a boat-builder and the registration gives his correct address. If it was a typo then the address would have been Harold's.

    In the Springer Report, he touches on it:

    "3. The following summarizes what was related by <redacted> to major Sander as to the substance of the interrogation by Lt. Brown and Capt. Davidson. That on 21 Jun 47 <redacted> was proceeding south of Maury Island in <redacted> boat. Five flying discs came down out of the clouds and circled slowly around the bay, dropping to an estimated elevation of 500 feet. These discs appeared round and flattened similar to a deflated automobile innertube. They were judged by <redacted> to be approximately 100 feet across with a 25 foot opening in the center. The outside edge of the object had round portholes and the inner ring had square windows or portholes. The discs were silent and from his viewpoint he could see no means of propulsion. One of these discs appeared to falter and waver in the air, another of these aforementioned five discs dropped down close to the disc that appeared to waver and bumped it, dumping "tons" of the stuff as pictured in enclosure 6 and 7, on his boat, knocking off the handrail, horn, and generally damaging the boat to the extent of $200.00 and killing <redacted> dog.

    AGENTS NOTE: This officer in the company of Major Sander, boarded the aforementioned boat where it was docked in the Tacoma harbor on 6 Aug 47. A hand rail was missing, but the area where the hand rail previously fastened had been painted over with several coats of paint and was streaked by the weather. The deck and rear of the cabin were of very thin construction and the cabin further had glass on the front and sides. It is this officers opinion that if any of the objects presented by <redacted> as samples of the material dropped by the flying disc had hit this boat, it would have certainly been necessary to replace the foredeck and cabin roof. These two areas were <something> heavily coated with several coats of paint and had deep weather cracks that would take several seasons to acquire.

    <redacted> who owns the boat and operates a <redacted> evidently visited the area at Maury Island to check <redacted> story.

Here is Arnold's story on the boat:

    We felt that Morello meant what he was saying. We thanked him kindly for letting us listen to the recorded interview, go Smithy's car out of the garage across the street from the hotel and drove down to the pier where we were met by Crisman. We all walked out on the pier and down the stairway to Crisman's boat. I took movies of the boat and of Captain Smith looking at the superstructure, then I went aboard the boat, too.

    This was the boat that Crisman said the damage had happened to. It was kind of a grayish color, a very small type of partially enclosed inboard fishing boat. It in no wise looked like the harbor patrol boats that I had seen in pictures. After inspecting the boat we could see where some repairs had taken place, but nothing like the damage as described by either Fred Crisman or Dahl in the hotel room had led us to expect.

    <A dialog on the pictures>

    After inspecting the top surface and cabin of the boat Captain Smith and I went down to the engine room. A rather foreign looking gentleman of slight build was tinkering with something on the motor. He made the remark to Fred Crisman that the engine wouldn't work. I know that I thought it was no wonder the engine wouldn't start. It was a pretty junky looking affair and apparently ill taken care of. While Captain Smith was standing in the doorway, the mechanic took Crisman by the arm, pulled him to one side, and whispered to him.

So we don't know the name of the boat yet. I will keep looking.

3. Who were the other people on the boat?

Quote    One, his son Charles. May be still alive. Had another strange thing happen around the time of the incident. He "went missing" for a week. He was finally found in Lusk, Montana, with no recollection of how he got there or who he was. Arnold and others didn't see this as anything having to do with the incident. It needs to be investigated more.

    Who were the two other crewmen. Arnold may have met them but didn't ask anything about the incident.

    The next morning, July 31, Captain Smith and I were awakened by Crisman and Dahl. Their arms were loaded with the heavy lava rock fragments and Crisman had a number of pieces of the white metal that he said came from the aircraft that Harold Dahl told us about. Captain Smith and I were inspecting the fragments when Crisman broke in, saying that the men from their crews were down at a café waiting for breakfast.

    We hurriedly dressed, locked the fragments in the room, left the hotel, got in our respective cars and drove to the lower section of town where there was a little workingman's café. There, seated at a large round table covered with an oilcloth were two or three brawny looking men. We could tell by the various greetings between these men, Crisman, and Dahl that they were associates in their salvage and harbor patrol work, presumably their crew members. Captain Smith and I were introduced and we took places around the table. We could smell the bacon frying and the hot cakes cooking in the kitchen. I remember it smelled mighty good.

    These men seemed to be very friendly and appeared to have every confidence in their superior officers. We did not ask them to verify the stories of Crisman and Dahl. We felt they would if they had been asked as a number of references were made to the original sighting of Dahl on June 21 on Maury Island. No attempt to settle anything was made at breakfast. We all had healthy appetites and it was more or less a meeting of friendly exchange of words.

Quote    This should be easy to find out, but I have tried and still seem to hit blank walls.

    From Springer Report:

    <Redacted> who owns the boat and operates a <redacted> evidently visited the area at Maury Island to check <redacted> story.

    The above seems to say Crisman owned the business and the boat.

    In the Report, he finds Crisman entered in the City Directory with telephone numbers for home and business.

    A check of the Tacoma city directory was made on <redacted> which indicated his home was at <redacted>, telephone <redacted>, business address listed as <redacted>, telephone <redacted>

    Here is what I found.

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Quote    This is from the 1947 Tacoma City Directory. Fred L. Crisman has no business phone. Neither does Dahl. Where was Springer looking for this info? There is only one type of directory in the Tacoma Library now, maybe there were more then?

    In looking for anything that might help, I just looked for lumber/logging companies in 1947. In the Aug 19, 1947 FBI report a (?)illwater Ave. was mentioned. As far as I can tell there is no (?)illwater Ave. in Tacoma. The closest I came to anything that looks like what Crisman and Dahl were doing is a company named the "Tidewater Log Patrol" on Marineview Drive owned by the Scott Family. Other logging companies kept there log pools there too. Were they working there?

    From the Tacoma Public Library:

   Owners were given the legal right to pursue logs onto private property. But chasing lost logs took time, and owners found it unprofitable to maintain search boats. So, in 1928, a group of them banded together to finance the Washington Log Patrol. Part of its assignment was to keep poachers from precipitating spills by sabotaging the boom-log pens that kept loose logs confined while under tow. But the patrol also retrieved floating and beached strays.

    Complaints about piracy declined after the log patrol hit the water. Some observers attributed the drop to the plunge in log prices during the 1930s Depression.

    With World War II, logs became valuable again, but manpower was short and wages were high. Log larceny continued to languish. The Patrol spent most of its time retrieving floaters or beached logs. With peace, demobilization and log prices still high, the Patrol activity increased.

    Then someone noticed that Chapter 154 did not give mill owners exclusive rights to log patrol work. Private citizens could round up strays on their own and return them to the owners. Soon a dozen or more free-lance patrol boats were roaming Puget sound in search of runaway fir, hemlock and cedar. The going price for returned branded logs averaged $17.50 a thousand board feet.

    Here is something more on log patrolling and log poaching:

    Log patroling and log poaching (http://search.tacomapubliclibrary.org/unsettling/unsettled.asp?load=Log+Poaching&f=crime%5Clogpoach)

Conclusions:

Quote    Trying to reach conclusions about an incident that occurred 50 years ago is hard. You can look at the facts and try to make up you own mind. But new evidence or something that comes out of left field can wake it up too.

    Dahl said in his accounting of the incident that he thought they  were balloons. He said it four times. He only mentioned the "doughnut shape" twice. Other people discussing the event seem to only mention the "doughnut" or "inner-tube" and never seem to say anything about the "balloons." If  he was right and they were balloons what would it mean?

    ETs don't use balloons. So ETs are out. Why the mystery if they  were just balloons? Thereby hangs a tale.

    If you look at the other pages on my site you will see the Fugos or Japanese Balloon Bombs. They existed and were kept secret till almost the end of the War.

Reports:

    The Reports below are from the Maury Island FBI/AAF Files. I will try to put the rest on when I have them scanned. I am also trying to track more info on Crisman and Dahl.

    The B-25 Crash Report  (http://www.seanet.com/~johnco/b25crash.htm)

    The B-25 Crash Report pdf format  (http://www.seanet.com/~johnco/B25CrashReport.pdf)

    The Springer Report  (http://www.seanet.com/~johnco/springer.htm)

    FBI file 8/19/47 (http://www.seanet.com/~johnco/fbifile81947.htm)

Books:

The main source about it:

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The Coming of the Saucers
Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer: Palmer 1952 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0964499711/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0964499711&link_code=as3&tag=pegasreseacon-20)

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Maury Island UFO : The Crisman Conspiracy
Kenn Thomas: Illuminet Press 1999 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1881532194/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=1881532194&link_code=as3&tag=pegasreseacon-20)

Another book has a little about the reporters involved:

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Flying Saucers Over Los Angeles: DeWayne B. Johnson & Kenn Thomas:
Adventures Unlimited Press 1998 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0932813542/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0932813542&link_code=as3&tag=pegasreseacon-20)

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The Maury Island Incident

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QuoteThe plane carrying the two investigators and the slag crashed near Kelso, Washington, shortly after leaving Tacoma, killing both men. In April 2007 it was reported that the crash site had been rediscovered and some material recovered, although the initial military investigation did recover exhibits and remove the bodies. The FBI report notes that investigators from McChord Field near Tacoma had investigated the wreckage and were convinced there was no sabotage involved. The FBI report further mentions that two other people on board the airplane survived by parachuting from the airplane after it lost its left wing and the tail section due to a fire in the left engine. One of the survivors was named as a member of the flight crew and the other was referred to as "a hitch-hiker." The Seattle Post-Intelligencer identified them as Sergeant Elmer L. Taft and Technical Sergeant Woodrow D. Matthews. Initially the Air Force denied the men had been carrying a secret cargo, but in later years admitted that they had been officially investigating the Dahl report.

Crisman alerted Arnold of the crash early the next morning and Dahl and Crisman returned to the hotel to discuss the situation with Arnold. Arnold had invited another person, accidentally identified in the FOI copy of the FBI report as a Mr. Smith of Seattle (probably Captain E. H. Smith (elsewhere E. J. Smith) of United Airlines, identified in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer article under External links below), to Tacoma to attend the UFO conference, and this informant related to the FBI field agent that a Mr. Lantz (elsewhere identified as Paul Lance) of the Tacoma Times contacted Arnold at the hotel and informed him of the leaks, including information that the Army intelligence officers had been shot down in the B-25 airplane over Kelso by 20 mm cannon, and that a Marine airplane whose wreck that had allegedly been found earlier at Mt. Rainier had also been shot down with the same weapon. The anonymous caller claimed knowledge of on-going investigations by military intelligence.

Asked to produce the photographs he had made of the UFOs over Maury Island, Dahl and the group left the hotel and went to Dahl's automobile parked outside. Dahl then claimed the photographs had disappeared from his glove compartment. Initially he had said the photographs didn't turn out and were marred by white spots that appeared on them.

Alarmed by the deaths, Dahl disappeared, although the FBI report mentions his son, allegedly injured by the slag from the malfunctioning UFO, had run away from home to Montana for some reason. The anonymous caller informed the press that one of the two witnesses would shortly be sent to Alaska. Crisman, a WWII veteran, was recalled to service hastily and sent to Alaska (A UFO was spotted northwest of Bethel, Alaska on August 4 by Captain Jack Peck and copilot Vince Daly from a Douglas DC-3 they operated for Al Jones flying service and was reported to the headquarters of the Fourth Air Force in Hamilton, California and the Air Defense Command commander at Mitchell Field in New York.), then posted to Greenland (Thule Air Force Base figures in Milton William Cooper's "Behold a Pale Horse" as a Majestic 12/Operation Majority control terminus). Arnold found himself unable to complete the story for Palmer. Arnold decided to fly home. He stopped for fuel in Pendleton, Oregon, and shortly after taking off again, his engine froze in mid-air. He managed to land the plane safely despite the emergency.

This event took place at the very beginning of the modern phase of UFO sightings, usually connected with Kenneth Arnold's report from Mount Rainier and the Roswell incident. It contains elements that became embedded in UFOlogy until now, including men in black, what appeared to be a government cover up, mysterious disappearance of physical evidence, mysterious disappearances of eye witnisses (Dahl and Crisman), mysterious deaths and inexplicable situations. Was it a hoax? If so, whose? Dahl claimed the mysterious dark man driving the black 1947 Buick who visited him retold the events on the boat as if he had been there, although Dahl himself hadn't related the story publicly at that point. Dahl began denying the story only after the two Army Air intelligence officers died in the B-25 crash. Dahl and Crisman told the FBI investigator they had concocted the story at the urging of Ray Palmer who wanted the mysterious rock formation to have originated on an alien saucer. They claimed to be playing along with Palmer who wanted a story to publish, and yet the FBI agent also notes that Dahl and Crisman were "obviously" not telling all they knew and were attempting to cover something up.

The Maury Island Incident (http://ufofyi.blogspot.com/2009/09/ufo-fyi-wtf-1947-maury-island-charade.html)

Security Camera Captures 'Men In Black' After UFO Sighting
Submitted by Javier Ortega on April 19, 2012 – 9:52 AM

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QuoteFrom the Aerial Phenomen Investigations Team in Maryland comes this unique case with an exceptionally unique footage. According to the API Team, a recent UFO investigation case in Maryland received some attention from two strange looking men dressed in all black and looking so alike, that employees thought that they might be twins. They wore the exact same clothing, hats, and even had the same facial features. The men were captured on a hotel's security camera entering the lobby in a straight strut.

According to those employees who talked to the men, they described them as tall, with extremely pale skin and no visible facial hair. Including no eyebrows and no eyelashes. Their eyes were described as being "so big and so blue, that they almost hypnotized.."

The original source of this video is from the Aerial Phenomen Investigations Team in MD. For complete details about this incident contact them. I have no further details about this incident Quote from video source: "I work with the Aerial Phenomenon Investigations Team based in MD. One recent UFO investigation yielded actual footage of MIB on a hotel lobby camera. This video has a voice over of the person these MIB came for". –M. Barnharrt

QuoteYes, this is a strange video and a strange story from the employees of the hotel. Could this be the first proof of the fabled MIB? Or just some guys looking for some laughs?

Security Camera Captures 'Men In Black' After UFO Sighting (http://www.ghosttheory.com/2012/04/19/security-camera-captures-men-in-black-after-ufo-sighting)

Original Source: Arial Phenomenon Investigations Team.....  (http://www.aerial-phenomenon.org/HQ.html)

QuoteHere is an interesting case of Canadian Men in Black from the February 1997 issue of the Canadian UFO Research Network (CUFORA Canadian MIB Report )

    A young man spotted a UFO over Victoria, British Columbia on Friday, October 2, 1981 and contacted a CUFORN consultant and set up a meeting for the following Monday.

    Before the meeting, the young man went into a local mall. On stepping out of a phone booth, he saw two odd looking men waiting to talk with him. They were standing stiff as if standing at attention.

    The men were dressed in dark clothes. Their shirts were buttoned to the collar but they wore no ties. They had dark tan skin and dark, dull, expressionless eyes. They had short, black hair, no eyebrows and were missing fingernails.

    With a monotonous, robot-like voice, one of the MIBs asked him "What is your name?" The young man replied "I'm not going to tell you that!" The other MIB asked him "What is your number?." He thought it was an unusual question, as he did not say phone number. He did not answer the question.

    The two MIBs continued to stare at him in silence for a while. Then they turned in unison, like robots and marched outside. It was raining heavily and the two MIBs walked past the parking lot and into a nearby, muddy field. As they approached a fence on the far side they disappeared into thin air. The young man went into the field and found they had not even left footprints. At this point, he ran to the nearest bus stop to take him home.

A Canadian MIB Report  (http://www.ufobc.ca/Supernatural/Forteana/black.htm)

QuoteIt was February 1st, 2012 and I was out paying bills and running errands. I was out near my old neighborhood bar when I looked across the street and saw a well dressed man.

He was wearing a black hat, a black overcoat, white shirt and black tie. He had no eyebrows and a dead looking expression on his face.

He also appeared to have no hair as he had no hair to the collar. At first I was polite to him and said hello. He stopped and turned to look back at me in passing.

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I kept going and then realized that the man looked very much like a mythical MIB. I decided to turn back and follow him. I took a picture of him with my cell phone and he did not appear in my picture. I lost track of him and wondered if he stepped into the bar. I wasn't about to bother or stalk the man because I was late for an appointment.

When I arrived at my appointment I told the person at my interview what had happened. She had said that it sounded like I was watching to much Fringe and that I may have seen "an observer."

I giggled and agreed until we saw three men in black overcoats approach the Starbucks where we were having coffee. I said "look I am not imagining this" and she said they are probably Mormons. I laughed and said; well at least they had hair.

My first written account of this can be found in the article "Signposts."

Later that night I presented a show with H. Michael Sweeney about less than lethal weapons and psionic weaponry. During the show a strange thing had occurred. My entire body was taken over in pain. I had stumbled on the console and I immediately notified David my producer to call 911.

The paramedics showed up and found that my blood pressure had risen to a lethal level. I was weakened and unable to do my show. They transported me by ambulance. After further tests the doctors had said I had stabilized. All of my tests came back normal and I was okay to do another show.

I am still curious as to what really happened on that day. The day after there were reports of UFOs and a strange Contrail over the city of Portland. I was completely curious about just what happened to me that night.

Juts to let you know, and all of my fans and friends will attest to this, I have done Ground Zero radio shows with bad toothaches, stomach aches, back aches.

I even did a Ground Zero lounge after I was released from Cancer surgery; I also did the show while the radio station's basement was in flames due to dumpster fires. To be taken by ambulance off the air is something that has never happened before and I still wonder why this happened to me.

In my life I have encountered many strange things. In most cases these strange things can be rationalized with some logic. I know that there are a lot of people who probably think that I am gullible and believe every story I hear or report.

I merely say to people that I believe that it is healthy to have curiosity it is important to have healthy skepticism and I also despise uninformed debunkers who do not do their homework, and claim that they use critical thinking as a tool to mask the fact that they are ignorant.

Men With Black Hats (http://theintelhub.com/2012/02/16/the-men-with-black-hats/)

QuoteI was watching the UFO Hunters episode "The Silencers" on the History Channel today and several things really stuck out to me. Three people make statements about their encounters with the Men in Black, and they all seem to have some very disturbing similarities. These similarities seem to suggest that the Men in Black make use of a type of transporter technology, and perhaps even suggest an ability to time travel.

The first instance is the report of Timothy Beckley who claims to have taken a photo of one of the Men in Black (See Photo). Mr. Beckley states in video Part 2 at 0:15, that the Man in Black he was observing, and his car, simply disappeared into thin air. While Beckley apparently did not actually see the individual disappear, his account does correspond with later accounts of the Men in Black's ability to suddenly disappear.

The second item that stuck out in my mind is from Johnny Sands' account of an eyewitness encounter with the Men in Black that occurred in 1976. Mr. Sands states that when the Men in Black turned to walk away from him, "there was a flash of light and they were gone." This occurs in the video below in Part 2 at 4:10. Mr. Sands reports a similar type effect in a seconds encounter at 5:30 in the Part 2 video. Mr. Sands states that the security officer was escorting the the Men in Black out of a hotel and was only a couple of feet behind them. The security officer then informed Mr. Sands that the Men in Black simply disappeared into thin air as he was walking behind them.

The third item that stuck out in my mind was the account of Mr. John Rhodes. He gives his story at the end of video Part 2 and the beginning of video Part 3. He states that he encountered the Men in Black in a remote area, and they seemed to be waiting on him when he pulled onto a side road. Almost as though they knew he would be there. Further he states that the Men in Black's car was pristine with no dust on it, and his shoes were totally clean and polished. This I find extremely odd. As a person that has owned a black car and worn polished shoes in a dusty area, I can assure you that it is extremely difficult to keep both items clean in that type of environment.

Mr. Sands' story reminds me a lot of the Star Trek transporter effect that we all are familiar with. The flash of light, and suddenly disappearing sounds a great deal like transporter or teleporter type technology. Mr. Rhodes account also would tend to suggest a type of transporter technology. Furthermore Mr. Rhodes' story tends to suggest a type of time travel with the Men in Black knowing exactly where Mr. Rhodes would be at specific time that would seem to be totally random.

There is definitely a lot of details here that warrant our attention. Hopefully in the future more light will be shed on this phenomenon, and some truth will come out. There are many things that we don't understand or can't imagine. I think this is an example of one of them. We should all keep an open mind. Simply because something sounds fantastic does not mean that it is not true.

Do Men In Black Use Time Travel And Transporters? (http://www.projectmaji.com/index.html/_/articles/mib/do-men-in-black-use-time-travel-and-transporters-r16)

UFO Hunters - The Silencers (MIB)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYJM19Qoomw

QuoteUpdate 7-6-2010:
I ran across a video today that further confirms the Men in Black's ability to disappear instantly. Its part of an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. The section of interest is the story of Ray Muniz. Specifically the section of interest occurs at 2:36 into the video. The video is at the bottom of this article.

Unsolved Mysteries - Men in Black

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16TQBjt-kXg

September 20, 2009
By: Jason Korbus

QuoteMIBs.  The Men in Black.  They arrive apparently with the intention to gauge the knowledge of UFO witnesses and to silence them.  But who are the Men in Black?  Where do they come from?  And, perhaps most importantly, why are they here?

First, a description.  Not to be confused with the Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones comedy, these Men in Black are no laughing matter.  Initially reported back in the 50s and 60s, they are male, oftentimes with slightly strange features.  Sometimes they are described as appearing tanned but with an appearance that is almost Asian-like.  They are dressed entirely in black from head to toe; hat, sunglasses, suit, tie, slacks and shoes.  Often, they are said to have transported themselves to the locations at which they are witnessed via black automobiles as well.

Other odd traits of the MIB are there lack of knowledge of most modern slang; even everyday items such as pens and eating utensils.  They are often reported as using outdated words and appearing confused by forks or how to eat certain foods.

And what is it that these Men in Black do?  As previously stated, they tend to make their appearance in the aftermath of alien or UFO encounters, usually .  They arrive without making a scene and approach witnesses, many times even being reported to have a vast amount of knowledge about the people they approach; so much so, as a matter of fact, that many who have discussed encounters with the MIBs feel as if they must have been under intense surveillance.  They typically will announce themselves as being from a government intelligence agency though, strangely, if their credentials are later checked up on, the names they give are often found to be of known dead people or employees who don't even exist.  UFO witnesses often feel strong-armed or, at the least, intensely pressured to keep quiet about their sighting out of fear of being hurt.

But who are they?  Some, like the recently passed away Fortean author and researcher John Keel believed their existence could be tied to Folklore, as similar to early accounts of encounters with demons.  Still others think it is possible that these elusive Men in Black are aliens themselves, sent to cover up their activity here on Earth.  This, for instance, would explain their confusion with human customs.  However, clearly the most prevalent theory would be that the Men in Black truly are government agents sent to silence witnesses of UFOs. 

Why?  Again, theories are many.  However, one particular explanation that draws parallels between these sightings and psychological warfare seems to be gaining some prominence.  Let us assume for a moment that these MIBs are real.  Could it be that their appearance and behavior is odd on purpose?  That perhaps their encounters with people are so bizarre that anyone who tells the story is immediately believed to be making it up?  Think of it:  a person comes forward with an account of a close encounter with an extraterrestrial intelligent life form.  This alone is bizarre enough to many people.  But now add in a story about two asian-looking fellows dressed all in black who didn't know how to use a knife and fork, but  who drove up in a Cadillac and told me to stay quiet about my sighting or else?  Your account has now gone from bizarre to almost laughable.  And now you have no credibility whatsoever.  You are a joke.  And that means that the whole idea of your initial alien encounter is a joke too.

What is your take?  Who are the Men in Black?  Are they even real?  If so, where do they come from and what is their purpose?  Perhaps you have had an experience yourself.  Whatever the reason, please leave a comment below and share your thoughts and opinions on this strange, yet fascinating phenomenon.

Thanks for reading.

The Infamous Men in Black (http://www.examiner.com/article/the-infamous-men-black)

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QuoteSource: Planeta UFO and Visión OVNI
Date: 07.17.12

Argentina: Thoughts on the MIB at the Concordia Aerodrome
By Andrea & Silvia Pérez Simondini

Many years have gone by in search of evidence that could give us a minimal glimpse into the reality and existence of the UFO phenomenon and all that the phenomenon entails. The Men-in-Black form part of the stories associated with the UFO phenomenon, and they appear every so often in isolated incidents. There were numerous cases in Argentina in the late 1960s and early '70s, resulting in truly interesting cases.

Let me start by telling you as story that affected us closely, since it was an experience that befell my husband, Jorge Pérez Simondini: On one occasion, while performing a audit for the Perez Companc company's fishing fleet, he came a cross the crewman, or more properly said, the ship's machinist, who told him that during a personnel transfer trip from the Port of Golfo San Jorge (a broad semi-circular gulf located on the Argentinean Atlantic, in Patagonia facing the waters of the Argentinean Sea) to the YPF undersea drilling platform, halfway there, something got the crew excited, prompting sailors and oil rig personnel to look over the sides of the vessel. One can imagine their surprise when they looked over the side to see a light underwater, running past the ship at high speed. A few kilometers ahead, it broke the surface, rising vertically and swiftly before vanishing into the skies.

The story is in itself remarkable, but what happened days later, when the personnel reached the port with the relief crew, they encountered some men dressed in black waiting to interview each of them, using harsh and intimidating measures, threatening them with job loss should they attempt to share their experiences with others. This story, from 1968, was buried for years and it is the first time it is being told, given the number of years gone bay and the fact that majority of the witnesses died several years ago.

On August 29, 1962, the event that has become known as the "Necochea Incident" took place. The main witness, Osmán Alberto Simonini, saw a UFO and was chased by it along the road linking La Dulce with Necochea as he traveled toward this seaside city.

Senior Officer Juan Jose La Terza investigated this case on the day after the events occurred. He submitted a report on the presence of a strange device, describing the witness as a man "of fine reputation and perfectly reliable in his statements." He ended his memorandum by certifying the event as a REAL INCIDENT, as told by the witness. It details the sighting of an object, its transit over the countryside, causing physical and/or physiological impact on the witness, the possible chase among other details. This case was investigated by [INEXPLICATA contributing editor] Guillermo Gimenez years later, who interviewed Simonini. The latter was afraid to discuss the events from 1962 because only days after the incident, and the investigation performed by Senior Officer J.J. La Terza, two men dressed in black appeared at his workshop. They warned him to forget all about the event, admonishing not to tell anyone else about it, since something might happen to him. The witness recalls that he was struck by the color of their clothing (black) and the similarity of these garments. They stood approximately 1.70 meters, were dark-haired, "foreign-looking" due to their Eskimo-like features. I wanted to set down these cases as examples, so readers who are encountering this description of the entities for the first time can have an idea that they represent a significant part of many of the stories that come across our desk.

We could define the Men-in-Black (MIB), according to a segment of UFO culture and the work done by UFO researchers, as alleged secret government or non-government agents, in charge of concealing a hypothetical extraterrestrial presence on Earth. It is sometimes understood that the MIB could be the aliens themselves.

Researcher Bill Moore believed that the Men-in-Black formed part of the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI), an internal security department of the U.S. government established in 1948 and later adapted by the FBI to investigate criminal activities within the USAF and its arms contractors, given that one of AFOSI's missions it to protect technology, programs and staff against "external threats."

Hypotheses and theories on the subject are countless and remain so, but beyond marks in fields, lights in the sky and lights in the countryside, and a scattering of (apparently unknown) entity sightings, there is no evidence that attests to their nature.

Today we are facing a case that for the first time (and it is only my personal opinion) makes me consider a possibility, one that has been repeated often, especially in Spiritist circle, that all of these sightings that we see with increasing frequency are not materially before us, but rather in another dimension. I have never perceived this so clearly as in this case. The fact that [the entity] appeared out of nowhere, walked only a few meters from the witnesses, who realized that he could not see them (or their large dog), that it moved robotically as if alone in the world, standing nearly 2.50 meters tall (clearly beyond human height), noticeably white skin, completely dressed in black, bespeaks a character that has little to do with our own reality.

All of these elements, when brought into my analysis, prompted a door to open. Through that door I was able to see things so clearly that not even I could believe it: the fact was that the entity wasn't really there. It was in another dimension. I don't know if it was due to the same nature that somehow allows humans to peer into that other world at a given time. Perhaps they bring it about themselves. It has no explanation, as far as I can tell, but I want to express my feelings, because never before – in the vast number of investigations I've been on – was I ever as certain of something as I am of this. I'm conveying here as I always do, because communication is also part of my history. it's a need I feel, to mark the progress I'm making, and above all, to share a vocation that will allow us all to discern the possibility of real evidence. As I said earlier, this has been discussed many times, but never did I feel it or see it as clearly as now. Perhaps Claudia's testimony made it so clear that I was unable to see it otherwise. Thank you for reading this, even if it's only a personal truth.


Up to this point we have made available to our readers the various elements that involve sightings of the infamous Men-in-Black, who are in some cases linked with the UFO phenomenon.
While the sighting of the strange being in Concordia does not involve a sighting of any strange aerial craft, its strangeness quotient resides in the entity described by Claudia and her husband in the vicinity of the city's aerodrome.

Aside from seeing the tall individual (standing 2.50 meters) with a very pale complexion and robotic movements, another of the singular aspects of the case is the observation by witnesses of the airplane [the entity] boarded, carrying two briefcases. However, the witnesses are unable to describe how the airplane vanished, which adds to the high strangeness.

The essential item of information, then, was to confirm the traffic in and out of the aerodrome on that day and time.

Silvia managed to contact Manuel, the operator on duty at the control tower on the day of the event. He confirmed that no aircraft operated in the aerodrome's vicinity on that day. This is to say, no aircraft had taxied, taken off or landed. None whatsoever, on the date that Claudia claims having had her experience.

However this was not the only source of confirmation. Journalist Matías Hojman of the "Las 5 Patas" program he hosts with Noelia Lage on Fridays from 9 to 12 o'clock on 88.9 Mhz in the city of Concordia, and who brought the case to light, confirmed he had contacted Police Chief Sergio Mendoza requesting Claudia's contact information, in the likely event that she had made a police report. Faced with a negative reply, Hojman then asked Chief Mendoza about the information he had been able to gather, confirming that no aircraft operated in the region on the day of the event.

This information clarifies and confirms a relevant point. However, it adds to an increase in the high strangeness quotient, especially when faced with a highly reliable witness. Let us hope that we will able to speak with the police chief, who may be able to give us some more precise information.

We would like to thank: Claudia, for coming forth with her experience; researcher Debora Goldstern for her interview with researcher Guillermo Gimenez
http://cronicasubterranea.blogspot.com.ar/; researcher Guillermo Gimenez for his research into the "Necochea Case" http://ar.groups.yahoo.com/group/planeta_ufo; Matías Hojman for making available all his information on the case, and Vicky Zeigler and Martín, Vision Ovni's Correspondents in Concordia, who made us aware of the earliest information on the case.

[Translation (c) 2012, Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Our thanks to Andrea & Silvia Perez Simondini and Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO]

posted by Inexplicata (http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2012/07/source-planeta-ufo-and-vision-ovni-date.html)

The Real Men In Black: Evidence, Famous Cases, and True Stories of These Mysterious Men and their Connection to UFO Phenomena
Nicholas Redfern (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160163157X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=160163157X&link_code=as3&tag=pegasreseacon-20)

QuoteThere are those beings that exist in the darker regions of the paranormal. They are not necessarily evil, but they are reminders that there is something else in control of our world.

These beings are "maintenance men" they are the "custodians" who are known to do what they feel is necessary to move society forward. Where there is a break or a moment where things tend to stay in flux, they appear to remind us that perhaps we are not always in control of our fate or destiny.

These beings are known as the Dark custodians. They are the secret chiefs, the men with Black hats, the MIB's or Men in Black.

The beings are described as having the countenance of death. Pale faced and clothed in dark vestments. They are given the charge of bringing balance to all things and at times bring about abrupt changes.

QuoteThe Man In Black mythos often straddles the post of science, occultism, revelation, and fantasy.

Their cunning is legendary; their purpose is both good and evil. All we have is speculative theories and most often we see them spun and defined by the now popular phrase "The Good Side or the Dark side of the force."

We may never know the whole truth about them.

Their whole story is not clearly defined at all. Are they destroying angels? Custodians of the black arts? Are they harbingers of the future?

There are many that claim that they are government agents, aliens, and creatures from another dimension.

They appear everywhere in our History and yet there are only a few who have pointed them out and have made an honest attempt at trying to figure out their purpose.

In Modern literature and in popular Culture the Men in Black have had their exclusive debut in matters surrounding Conspiracy theories, UFO's and Black helicopters.

But as you can see this is only the tip of the Iceberg and people will hold on to any story that they find most entertaining. UFO hobbyists can become delusional and give into paranoid fish stories that include contact with or witnessing Men in Black.

QuoteThe Hollywood validation of the mythos demonstrated that The Men In Black are similar to the movie "The Adjustment Bureau" and yet the iconography exists in other movies like "Dark City" and "The Matrix" or in Television shows like "Fringe" or The "X-files" showing the truer personality of these nomads that carry out an agenda without questioning. They seem to be under the control of some unseen trickster.

They are the "Cosmic Time Cop" or "Sentinel" that keeps watch over our pathetic existence.

The Men in Black have been corralled with UFO's only because everything paranormal usually gets tied to them. But it is apparent that the Men In Black are associated with many significant events throughout History.

QuoteWhile Malcolm X was in prison in 1949 he encountered a man in black. The man had light brown skin, oily black hair, and appeared to be Asian. They exchanged stares and then he vanished. Malcolm thought that he was in the presence of Master Wallace Fard Muhammad the founder of the nation of Islam.

"He had on a dark suit I remember. I could see him as plainly as I see anyone I look at. He wasn't black, and he wasn't white. .He had an Asiatic cast of countenance, and he had oily black hair". -Malcolm X

QuoteIt is believed in some circles that the AFSAC or the Air Force Special Activities Center may be behind the various sightings of the Men In Black in the 40?s and 50?s.

Originally designated the 1006th Air Intelligence Service Squadron, this unit has undergone frequent name changes in order to obscure their existence. Other known designations carried by this unit have been the 1127th Field Activities Group, and the 7602nd Air Intelligence Group.

This would explain why the "Men In Black" showed up conveniently after a UFO sighting to record what was seen or silence any witnesses.

More and more people who reported UFO sightings and strange occurrences would often speak of the Men in Black.

In the Mothman encounters where the residents of Point Pleasant West Virginia experienced paranormal anomalies, which included UFO sightings and weird animal sightings, the Men in Black eventually showed up and harassed residents.

The Men With Black Hats (http://theintelhub.com/2012/02/16/the-men-with-black-hats/)

QuoteWhat do these words mean to you?

Aircel Comics published the debut issue of The Men in Black in January 1990. Creator and writer Lowell Cunningham had the inspiration for the graphic novel when a friend of his, Dennis Matheson, related Men in Black or MIB legends surrounding the UFO enigma. Matheson told fascinating stories about how mysterious men dressed in black menaced UFO witnesses and terrified UFOlogists. Playing "what if," Cunningham downplayed flying saucers and used selective mythology as a jumping off point to create an MIB organization that existed to suppress anything that could upset the normal flow of society.

"I thought UFOs every issue might get boring after a while," Cunningham confessed in an interview.

Perhaps the most insightful and telling fictional look at altered states and our perception of reality during Men in Black incidents in particular and UFO events in general took place on broadcast television during the third season of The X Files. Hinting that truth is subjective, Jose Chung's From Outer Space first aired on April 12, 1996.

One year later, director Barry Sonnenfield made Men in Black household words with his science fiction comedy starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as MIB agents protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. Loosely based on the Lowell Cunningham comic book series, these MIB represented an ultra-secret organization established to monitor and police extraterrestrial immigrants. Jones and Smith found themselves battling an alien terrorist on a one-bug mission to spark intergalactic war. Movie audiences found themselves battling sight gags and one-liners, entertaining special effects and plenty of action with constant references to popular alien and conspiracy theories. The film spawned a sequel and animated series, not to mention a universe of movie-related merchandise.

In 1998, The Shadow Men featured the talent of Eric Roberts, Sherilyn Fenn, and Dean Stockwell. In this tale, the Wilsons are stalked by deadly nonhumans dressed in black intent on silencing the family and confiscating videotaped evidence of their alien abduction.

Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, real Men in Black are no laughing matter. Genuine visits by enigmatic strangers are among the rarest episodes of our extraordinary encounter continuum. The term Men in Black has evolved to include any individuals that harass accidental eyewitnesses to so-called "UFO" and "paranormal" events, that serve to intimidate investigative researchers of these unexplained occurrences or that appear in active areas of high strangeness. MIB cases worldwide range from curious to bizarre to incredible.

One bizarre Pennsylvania case began on the night of January 20, 1967, when Mrs. Walter Kushner and her two daughters, Susan (17) and Tanya (14) and a close friend of the girls, Marianne Williamson (16), witnessed a brilliant UFO drop below the cloud cover and maneuver at high speed while the four were returning to the Kushner's Pittsfield residence. Hours later, as the three girls enjoyed a ritual teenage slumber party, they spotted a peculiar light shimmering through the closed curtains of Susan's bedroom.

Without warning, the drapes parted of their own volition and a small triangular object hovering a few feet from the house began beaming brilliant light into the bedroom. When the triangle moved to the another window, the curtains repeated their opening act and the intensity of light emanating from the object increased. At this point, the girls became quite frightened and decided to retreat.

"It" had different ideas.

All three girls found themselves unable to move or cry out. Sheer terror escalated to fervent prayers for help. After what seemed like an eternity, the siege ended. Although their freedom of movement was restored, a weird dizzy sensation haunted the girls for an hour.

The girls awoke Mrs. Kushner and tearfully described the party crasher and their fear that "it" might return. Mother eventually got the trio settled down and after much discussion, decided that it would be for the best if everyone simply forgot an incident that nobody would believe anyway.

All agreed.

Things were back to normal when shortly after the dinner hour on Saturday, exactly one week following the horrific pajama party, two men arrived at the Kushner household. They identified themselves as military investigators and flashed what appeared to be United States Air Force identification.

Both men wore tan trenchcoats which they kept buttoned from knee to collar. The taller of the two, who, according to the family's testimony, did all the talking, was described as having blond hair, green eyes, was thin and deeply tanned. The other gentleman was heavyset with dark hair, piercing blue eyes and was also deeply tanned.

Mrs. Kushner explained that both men wanted every shred of information regarding the UFO that the girls claimed had intimidated them

Neither parent can explain to this day why they allowed their children to be so intensely grilled by these "government agents."

These characters moved about the house with apparently total knowledge of the whereabouts of rooms, furniture, objects, et cetera.

When asked how the Air Force learned of the UFO sightings, the taller one responded with, "We know a lot of things, a lot of things."

Although compelled to accept the situation, the family felt that something seemed off-center, something that, for whatever reason, they couldn't quite put their finger on until after the officers departed.

Sue noted that their clothes looked as if they had purchased them in a clothing store ten minutes before and even the bottom of their shoes seemed unwalked on in appearance. The cigarette pack held by the taller one was unopened (and stayed that way) and even his wallet was brand new.

While the taller of the two showed his captive audience a loose-leaf notebook with professionally printed schematic diagrams and photos of both the exterior and interior views of various types of UFO-type craft, Sue watched the shorter officer secretly write in an elongated notebook not unlike those used by stenographers. Catching him off guard, she was amazed to see him writing strange symbols in vertical columns, starting from the left, going down one column, up the next, down the third, up the fourth, et cetera. Being accustomed to standard shorthand, Sue had no idea of the graphic's origin.

Meanwhile, the talkative officer continued to mystify his audience, telling them that UFOs were nothing more than secret U. S. experimental devices which have never harmed persons or property and that public disclosure of seeing one up close could result in criminal prosecution.

When Tanya asked how the family could get in touch with them should there be another sighting, the officer replied, "I can find you anywhere, any time."

When these military men finally left, they backed their vehicle out onto the roadway, extinguished the headlights and zoomed off into the night. It is against Pennsylvania commonwealth traffic laws, and all common sense and safety, to drive after sunset without suitable lighting.

These gentlemen probably had no connection with the United States Air Force.

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1967 - Year of the MIB

QuoteIn January of 1967, Colonel George P. Freeman, Pentagon spokesman for Project Blue Book, the Air Force investigation into reports of Unidentified Flying Objects, revealed that our government was concerned over increasing reports that persons unknown passing themselves off as USAF personnel or bearing credentials from various official agencies were visiting and coercing UFO witnesses into silence, sometimes even confiscating UFO photographs and every trace of physical evidence.

"We haven't been able to find out anything about them," Colonel Freeman admitted. "By posing as Air Force officers and government agents, they are committing a federal offense. We would sure like to catch one."

On March 1, 1967, Lieutenant General Hewitt T. Wheless, USAF, Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, sent a confidential letter to all commands concerning impersonations of Air Force officers that read:

"Information, not verifiable, has reached Hq USAF that persons claiming to represent the Air Force or other Defense establishments have contacted citizens who have sighted unidentified flying objects. In one reported case an individual in civilian clothes, who represented himself as a member of NORAD, demanded and received photos belonging to a private citizen. In another, a person in an Air Force uniform approached local police and other citizens who had sighted a UFO, assembled them in a school room and told them that they did not see what they thought they saw and that they should not talk to anyone about the sighting. All military and civilian personnel and particularly Information Officers and UFO Investigating Officers who hear of such reports should immediately notify their local OSI officers."

In his address to the 1967 Congress of Scientific UFOlogists, (during which he was chosen as "UFOlogist of the Year") noted author John A. Keel told of his personal mission to track down the Men in Black. He said that these mystery men often silenced saucer sighters even before the witnesses had time to report their experience. On occasion, Keel said, he arrived on the scene within moments after the mysterious silencers had departed. His "Open Letter to all UFO Researchers" summarized the situation:

"All of this has been brought upon us because we have wasted twenty years chasing lights in the sky and fussing with the Air Force. We have allowed a serious and volatile situation to develop under our noses while we played with aimless speculations about the origin and nature of those rather insignificant vehicles overhead. We must switch our attention from the vehicles to the occupants. The menace is not in our skies. It is on the ground and at this moment it is spreading like a disease across the country and the world."

Men in Black encounters often involve people totally unaware of this phenomenon. In 1967, sketchy MIB tales were published in paltry mimeographed newsletters and read by a handful of hardcore UFO enthusiasts. Obvious patterns would not find their way into books until years later. The situation has not improved. Even today, with the vast resources of the Internet at our disposal, these MIB incidents continue and many people have little knowledge of the relatively obscure Men in Black modus operandi.

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Curious cases

QuoteCurious MIB cases today are defined as those where the visitor offers false identity or displays an uncanny knowledge of exactly what the witness saw. People tell of these Men in Black knowing when they were being lied to and when they were being told the truth. The most disturbing aspect was that the MIB appeared to know intimate family details without any logical explanation of how they had come by this knowledge.

That case where "an individual in civilian clothes, who represented himself as a member of NORAD, demanded and received photos belonging to a private citizen" concerned California highway inspector Rex Heflin.

On August 3, 1965, Heflin snapped a series of daylight Polaroid photos of a UFO while parked in his truck near the Santa Ana freeway. These pictures received a great deal of publicity and there was always the possibility that the photos had been faked, but this was difficult to prove or disprove without the original prints. Polaroid cameras produced no negatives for evaluation.

Heflin said that he was approached by a representative of the North American Air Defense Command who requested and received the original prints for "official study."

NORAD denied any involvement and the original prints were never returned.

In April, 1966, two Norwalk, Connecticut, schoolboys were pursued by a low-flying UFO. The next day, a man appeared at the school and introduced himself to the principal as a representative of a "government agency so secret that he couldn't give the name." This mysterious agent interrogated the boys for nearly three hours.

In July of 1967, Robert Richardson, of Toledo, Ohio, informed the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization that he had a "collision" with a UFO while driving at night. Coming around a bend, he was startled to find a strange object blocking the road and hit it, though not very hard. Immediately on impact, the UFO vanished. Police accompanied Richardson to the scene and found only his skid marks as evidence. Richardson made a later visit and discovered a small lump of metal that he believed might have come from the UFO.

Three days later, at 11:00 PM, two men in their twenties visited Richardson and questioned him briefly. They never identified themselves, and Richardson, to his own subsequent surprise, did not ask who they were. He noted that they left in a black 1953 Cadillac. The license number, when checked, had not yet been issued. What are the chances of making up a number and having this happen?

Richardson then received a visit from two different men. Both wore black suits and were dark-complexioned. Richardson felt there was something vaguely foreign about them. They first tried to persuade him that he had not hit anything at all. Failing at that, they demanded the piece of metal. When he told them it had gone for analysis, they threatened him: "If you want your wife to stay as pretty as she is, then you'd better get the metal back."

On June 21, 1993, Peter Gregory of Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire filmed several seconds of video footage of a huge flattened triangular UFO with red and yellow lights that left a "trail of light" during departure. Three days later, two smartly dressed men arrived at his home and promised full analysis and computer enhancement of the video. They put the subject at ease by claiming to belong to a UFO research organization from his hometown of Grimsby. He surrendered the video for professional examination only to eventually discover that this UFO group did not exist. His video was never returned.

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Bizarre cases

QuoteThe Kushner case has a counterpart among the Pennine ridges in England.

On January 23, 1976, at 5:30 PM, 17-year-old Shirley Greenfield (a pseudonym) was returning home from work and noticed lights cavorting over a reservoir. In seconds, the lights swooped down on her to become a metallic disc directly overhead, possibly thirty feet across and spinning like a top. An invisible force pressed her hard to the ground. Metal fillings in her teeth "vibrated" and a tangy taste filled her mouth. Shirley feared that this unseen "force" would crush her. One half hour of "missing time" was noted when she arrived home, terror-stricken and unable to speak from the shock of the experience.

The event was reported to the police, who refused to investigate and turned the story over to the media. Not seeking publicity, Shirley refused to cooperate with the local press and turned down a lucrative offer for a filmed television interview. Her health had deteriorated and she took to her bed for several days with muscle aches and nausea and vomiting. Her eyes hurt and watered and were quite red. She had unexplained burn marks on her arm and side, as well as a strange purple rash on her neck and shoulders. In her mouth, top dental fillings crumbled into powder and fell out, while some bottom fillings became embedded into the gums.

On Monday, February 2nd, Shirley's mother intercepted a telephone call from a man who would only identify himself as "someone who investigates these things" that asked about her daughter's health and whether any marks had been left on the girl's body as a result of her ordeal. The mother put the caller off.

At 7:00 PM on the following evening, two men arrived at the Greenfield home and demanded "to interrogate" the girl. Both men appeared about 40 and wore crisp black suits and denied being either UFOlogists or journalists. The father initially refused to let them in. One man, tall and fair, almost blond, did all the talking and sternly responded with, "If you do not let us in now, we will come back later and make Shirley speak to us."

Neither man used names. Both had an air of authority and conducted themselves as if they had every right to do and say whatever they chose. The silent partner sat on a chair and held a square black box with no visible moving parts. It was said to be a high-tech recording device. Although this intense grilling session lasted three hours, at no time was any recording tape changed.

The tall one was rude to the point of aggression.

This visit ended with a threat to be silent.

"You must not talk about this matter. It is in your interests not to do so. Nobody will believe you, in any case. In particular, you must not talk to UFO investigators."

The pair left in a large black car.

Mr. Greenfield still wonders, "You know, I have never been able to understand why I did not throw them out. Why I let them hound Shirley for hour after hour. I would normally not tolerate something like this. Why did I let them do this thing?"

The mother was creeped out by the man who had not spoken all night. He continually stared intently at her daughter the entire evening.

These mystery men telephoned the very next day and again a week later. They were still concerned about whether or not the girl had any unusual marks on her body following her ordeal. Shirley finally admitted that, yes, there were marks, but they were gone now. This seemed to satisfy the visitors. They did not contact the family again.

Under the auspices of Dr. Albert Kellar in Manchester, Shirley was hypnotized and asked to relive both the UFO sighting and the visit by the two Men in Black. She reacted in absolute terror to the visit by the MIB and the doctor was forced to abandon the experiment because her vital signs rose to dangerous levels. Even so, Shirley offered a possible clue:

"I don't understand... He's talking to me twice."

This MIB had supposedly interrogated her on two different levels. During the visit, messages had acted upon her subconscious mind in a form of subliminal communication. This advances notions of mental hypnotic suggestion and those Experiments in Distant Influence documented by Dr. Leonid L. Vasiliev.

On January 9, 1967, Mr. Edward and Mrs. Arline Christiansen and family returned home after a trip to Florida to their new house in Wildwood, New Jersey. A UFO sighting made the previous November was the last thing on their minds.

At 5:30 PM, there was a knock at the door.

A representative of the "Missing Heirs Bureau" said that he was looking for an Edward Christiansen who had inherited a great deal of money. This investigator dressed in black and stood at least six-foot-six with an enormous frame, with thyroid eyes, dead white skin, and pipe-stem limbs. His shoes featured unusually thick rubber soles. Despite his size, the visitor spoke in a high "tinny" voice that issued in an emotionless monotone, in clipped phrases, "like a computer." When he removed his jacket, he disclosed an official-looking gold badge on his shirt pocket which he instantly covered with his hand and removed.

As he sought personal information to determine if he had located the missing heir, this investigator wheezed with labored breathing and his face got redder by the minute. He asked for a glass of water and swallowed a large yellow pill. He returned to normal after taking it.

Arline and her seventeen-year-old daughter Connie both noticed that the inquisitor's too-short trousers had ridden up his skinny leg and saw a thick green wire that came out of his sock and disappeared under his pants. The wire seemed to be indented into his leg at one point and was covered by a large brown spot.

Although UFOs were never mentioned, this case is pure MIB.

When the visitor left the house and reached the road, he gave a hand signal and a 1963 black Cadillac pulled alongside with its headlights out. The stranger climbed into the car and it drove off, its headlights still off.

On May 3, 1975, Carlos de los Santos Montiel was flying his Piper light aircraft on approach to Mexico City when two small gray discs appeared off his wingtips and took "control" of his airplane. A third disc came at him head-on and flew beneath him so close that it bumped the bottom of the plane. Mexico City airport allegedly tracked the "bogeys" on radar. Carlos was treated for shock following his ordeal.

Driving en route to the Mexico City TV studio be interviewed by Pedro Ferriz for television, Montiel was intercepted by two black limousines "like a diplomat's car," hemming him in front and back and forcing his automobile to the side of the road before he had time to react. Both vehicles looked as though they were on the road for the very first time. Four tall men with very pale skin and wearing dark suits got out. One of the MIB prevented Carlos from leaving his vehicle and another threatened the pilot's life in a robotic voice.

"Look, boy, if you value your life and your family's too, don't talk any more about this sighting of yours."

Two things really struck Carlos about his dark-garbed antagonists: they were so very absolutely pale and at no time did they seem to blink but only stared straight ahead. Our witness abandoned all television interview plans.

Farmer James McCleary of County Tipperary in Ireland had little regard for the flattened circles in his oats and potato fields during June and July of 1990.

One Sunday that fateful summer, as McCleary took his customary walk around the property, a man jumped out from behind a shed and blocked his route. Dressed in a dark suit some fifty years out of fashion, the stranger was tall and so thin and pale that he looked as if he had died and been dug up.

"Tell us about those designs in your crops," the man demanded. The voice was educated and without accent although the interloper had trouble fitting the proper words into place. He finally threatened the farmer to remain silent and to talk to him alone as it was "in your best interest" to do so "-- or else!"

Having never heard of the fearsome Men in Black, McCleary circumnavigated this stranger and went about his business, more perplexed than terrified.

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Incredible cases

Quote58-year-old Dr. Herbert Hopkins of Orchard Beach, Maine, experienced one of the best-documented MIB encounters. Hopkins had no particular interest in UFOs, but had been working, by referral, on the alleged alien abduction of David Stephens. He had performed extensive hypnotic regression and accumulated several hours of taped sessions and other written documentation.

At about 8:00 PM on the evening of Saturday, September 11, 1976, after his wife and children had gone out leaving him alone, his telephone rang. A man who identified himself as the vice-president of the New Jersey UFO Research Organization asked Hopkins if he could drop by and discuss certain details of this UFO case. The man asked if he was alone and the doctor admitted that he was. Despite concerns about drug-related robbery, Hopkins, for reasons that he was later unable to fathom, agreed. He hung up the phone and walked to the back hallway to switch on the outside light so that his visitor would be able to find his way from the parking lot. When he got to the door, he was startled to see a stranger climbing the back steps.

"I saw no car, and even if he did have a car, he could not have possibly gotten to my house that quickly from any phone," Doctor Hopkins puzzled later. Still, he opened the door and invited the gentleman in without asking him his name or what he wanted.

The five-foot-eight visitor was dressed in a black suit, with matching derby hat, tie and shoes, and a white shirt. His clothes were "brand new" and unwrinkled, sharply creased.

"I thought, he looks like an undertaker," Hopkins later told investigators.

When he took off his derby, he revealed himself as completely hairless. No hair on his head. No eyebrows or eyelashes. The man's skin was dead white except for a pair of fiery red lips.

During the course of the conversation, the MIB happened to brush his mouth with the back of the suede gloves that he wore. The good doctor was astonished to see the glove stained with lipstick and that there were no real lips at all.

The stranger spoke in a mechanical monotone and appeared to be far more interested in finding out what Hopkins knew or suspected about UFOs and abductions.

Apparently satisfied, the MIB changed the subject. He correctly stated that Hopkins had two coins in his pocket and asked him to remove one. Hopkins complied and produced a shiny new penny. The MIB told Hopkins to stare at the coin. After a few moments, the penny took on a "silvery" appearance and then seemed to go out of focus, and then it just slowly dematerialized. It just was not there any longer.

"Neither you nor anyone else on this plane will ever see that coin again." The visitor then asked Hopkins what he knew about the death of famed UFO abductee Barney Hill.

"Barney didn't have a heart; just like you no longer have a coin." Although the MIB inferred that Hill died because he knew too much, it should be noted here that death was due to a cerebral hemorrhage. It was suggested that Hopkins destroy all his notes and tapes related to the Stephens case.

The visitor's speech slowed. He rose unsteadily to his feet and, little by little, said, "My energy is running low... Must go now... Goodbye." Hopkins saw him to the door and watched him falteringly descend the stairs, placing both feet on each step before attempting to negotiate the next one.

Hopkins initially took the bright bluish-white light in the driveway to be car headlights, but his visitor walked in the opposite direction. Hopkins ran to a window to see where the man was going, but he was not there. He ran back to the door and looked out, but both the strange man and weird light were gone. Doctor Hopkins never saw nor heard an automobile depart.

He immediately gathered all the material from the Stephens case and thoroughly destroyed the audiotapes of the hypnotic sessions and all notes and records as instructed.

When his wife and children came home, they found this respected professional severely shaken, with every light in the house blazing, and seated at the kitchen table with a pistol.

As for the New Jersey UFO Research Organization, it never existed.

Now consider the next case.

On Monday, January 19, 1997, four days after his UFO sighting in Essex, William Shearer had returned from working the night shift and gone to bed as usual. His wife and daughter had stepped out and he had the house to himself. Unable to sleep, he went downstairs and thought that he heard a faint knock at the door.

Shearer opened the door and faced a strange sight. One visitor was tall, about six-foot-four, and dressed in an immaculate dark gray suit and full-length coat. He wore a brilliant white shirt and a red tie, and was holding a brimmed hat. A shorter but identically dressed man stood aloof and appeared to be looking up and down the road, as if to see if anyone was coming. The tall man said, "Can I speak to you please?" His deep voice seemed to be coming from his chest rather than his mouth. At this point, the visitor's gaze was lowered to the ground and Shearer could not see his face. Shearer assumed the men were Jehovah's Witnesses and replied, "No, I'm not dressed." The man persisted. Shearer declined and asked him to come back later.

Then the man lifted his head and looked straight at Shearer. First impression was that the man was terminally ill, as he looked deathly pale. In contrast, the stranger's lips seemed to be tinged red with lipstick. Again the man asked to come in. Shearer stood his ground. After looking to the second man, the first finally relented and said they would return.

Shearer stated that it was "almost as if the two men were talking to each other, but I couldn't hear them." The shorter man kept looking at his tall friend and nodding and gesturing. They left in a black car "like something straight out of a gangster movie, yet it looked brand new." Both men walked awkwardly, as if suffering from arthritis.

Despite the unusual aspects of this encounter, Shearer was convinced that he was dealing with religious types.

On February 12th, at 1:15 AM, Shearer received his second visit while he was at work. He immediately recognized this individual as the one looking up and down the road on the previous occasion, who was again dressed in the dark suit and coat and wore a hat. Shearer managed a closer look at the face. There was no eyebrows or eyelashes, no signs of stubble. The caller acknowledged Shearer by name, and specified that they wanted to discuss his UFO sighting, giving exact date and time. Shearer was perplexed as to how they had gotten this information, but refused to let him in. Shearer asked to see some identification, but the visitor ignored him and repeatedly asked to come in. It was almost as if this character could only utter a limited selection of set phrases. This verbal fencing lasted for about two minutes before the office phone rang. Shearer turned to pick up the phone and turned back. The MIB was gone.

It is also interesting to note here that both Hopkins and Shearer found themselves suddenly plagued by telephone problems (annoying clicking sounds and static, connections mysteriously broken in the middle of a conversation, strangers sharing their private phone line, finding the line dead) for some time following their encounters. This telephone harassment is common among UFO percipients and investigators.

In still another British case, one East Midlands UFO witness told investigative researcher Derek James that his house was being stalked by a black Jaguar automobile following a visit by two men in dark suits who claimed to be from the Ministry of Defence. Two men parked outside his home at night and he became convinced that they were watching him. According to noted UFO author Jenny Randles, "I had sufficient association with this case to confirm that this story is genuine."

It was decided not to directly ask local law enforcement to investigate Men in Black. However, this witness lived quite near a major toy manufacturing company. What if the men in the Jaguar were "casing the joint" in order to pull off a robbery? The police took the bait.

At 9:05 PM, October 21, 1971, after the vehicle registration and other details were recorded and all subsequent checks revealed that the Jaguar did not exist, the police officers on patrol were ordered to bring in the occupants of the Jaguar for questioning by the CID. The patrol car parked out of sight so as not to alert these potential perpetrators.

According to Randles: "Following standard procedure the two bobbies walked toward it -- one either side -- and got to within a few inches. They were just about to knock on the window and question the driver and his passenger. Although they could see little in the dark, the two men inside were smartly dressed.

"Suddenly, the car disappeared. It literally just melted away into nothingness in front of the two terrified police officers."

Don Worley, a patriarch among investigators, tells us that on a warm day in April of 1973, two "men" entered Reed Thompson's auto parts store in Milan, Indiana. The shepherd dog on duty cowered in the corner.

These grotesque-looking characters were thin, longhaired and wore tan jumpsuits and heavy gloves. A local newsman later coined the term "Plastic-Facers" to describe their rather unsettling appearance. Speaking in a mechanical monotone, one of them referenced a close-up photo of a "monitor-type" UFO that Thompson had taken as the object slowly moved through trees thirty feet from his home. They demanded the photo and negative.

Thompson stubbornly replied that the picture was in a bank vault.

"Plastic-Face" said that did not matter, they would get it anyway.

Meanwhile, a friend hurried outside to check out the bright yellow Buick LeSabre the weird twosome had arrived in. Peering through the dark glass, he was stunned by the absence of seats or steering wheel. As the visitors returned to their car, Thompson brushed one of them with his elbow and this seemed to disturb it.

Later that evening, as Thompson was en route to a welding shop at Versailles, his nemesis appeared inches from his bumper and a wild twilight chase ensued. The "Plastic-Facers" parked right behind him at the welding shop and shadowed him up to the door.

As he opened the door and whirled to confront his antagonists, Thompson discovered that the unwelcome pair and their phantom car were nowhere to be found.

In his 1983 book, China and Extraterrestrials, Shi Bo relates an encounter from May of 1963. UFOs have until only recently been a taboo subject in mainland China.

The day after six-year-old Li Jing-Yang from the Shanxi Province had seen "a shining, silvery disc" hanging in the sky while playing with his friends, he was accosted in the street by "a very tall man dressed entirely in black." The man, while pointing to the exact spot where Li had seen the disc, asked the boy whether he had seen anything unusual in the sky recently. Jing-Yang nodded. The stranger then seized the youngster by the arm and refused to release him until a vow was made never to tell anyone else what he had seen. The terrified boy promised. The man vanished into thin air as he turned toward a corner.

Li Jing-Yang claims to this day that this encounter was witnessed by several passers-by who observed the stranger's robotic gait and mechanical movements, his automated-sounding voice and lips that never moved when he spoke.

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Men In Black are neither hallucinations nor hoaxes.

But what do these visitations represent?

Role-playing covert government operatives?

Nonhumans acting human?

Maybe a little of both.

Maybe something beyond our comprehension.

Odd appearance and bizarre behavior does not certify the existence of nonhumans among us. However, dissolving coins and cars raise interesting questions.

Our failure to understand these events in no way negates their validity.

These visitations represent entity contact at its most accessible in that entire families have endured grueling visits by these mystery men and many witnesses are harassed more than once.

These visitations represent entity contact at its most elusive. Parents wonder why they allowed their children to be so intensely grilled by these strangers. Victims speak of being unable to think or react normally until after the mysterious visitors leave. To some, this suggests altered states of consciousness or subliminal hypnotic techniques.

What if the MIB visit you?

Will you be witty and clever and insist they pose for a snapshot?

Or will you be a deer in headlights and spend your tomorrows wondering why?

Men in Black by Robert A. Goerman (http://robertgoerman.tripod.com/mib/)

A Review of MIB (Men in Black): A History

Summary: A lot of people have heard of something about "MIBs" without really knowing any of the details. The purpose of this article is to acquaint readers with MIBs history, how they are related to the cover-up allegations, along with associated reference material and names of files which contain more current thoughts on the subject.

Rex Heflin

QuoteOften the MIB cases that we know of are not quite as sensational as Albert Bender's three visitors, but they are unsettling nevertheless. Take the case of California highway inspector Rex Heflin. On August 3, 1965, Heflin claimed to have taken a series of Polaroid photos of a UFO from his car while parked near the Santa Ana Freeway. The pictures were quite clear and they showed an object shaped rather like a straw hat apparently floating above the ground. These pictures got a great deal of publicity, and are still among the most frequently reprinted UFO photos. Heflin's story was investigated by the Air Force shortly after it became known. It was also looked into by investigators for the Condon Committee during their inquiry. (The committee investigator produced a pretty fair imitation of the photos by suspending the lens cap of his camera in front of his car with a thread and photographing it through the car window.) In addition, a host of unofficial UFO groups tackled the case in their own way.

There was considerable suspicion on the part of official investigators that the photos had been faked, but this was difficult to prove of disprove without the original pronts. Being Polaroid photos, there were no negatives.

Heflin said that he had turned over three of the four originals to a man (or two men - the stories differ) who claimed that he represented the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD). NORAD denied that they had ever sent out an investigator, or indeed, that they had the slightest interest in the photos. The mysterious person who is alleged to have taken the photos has never been identified.

On October 11, 1967, over two years after Heflin's original sighting, but while the Condon investigation was going on, Heflin reported another encounter with mysterious visitors. A man who said that he was Captain C.H. Edmonds of the Space Systems Division, Systems Command, a unit of the Air Force that had been involved in the first investigation of his UFO photos, came to his home. During the interview the man who called himself Captain Edmonds asked Heflin if he wanted his original photos back. When Heflin said no, the man was "visibly relieved". Inexplicably, the man then began discussing the Bermuda Triangle. This is an area near the island of Bermuda where a number of mysterious disappearances of airplanes and ships have been reported. These disappearances have been linked by some to UFOs, though the connection does not seem very convincing.

While this strange interview was going on, Heflin said that he saw a car parked in the street. It had some sort of lettering on the front door but he could not make it out. To quote the Condon Report description of the incident, "In the back seat could be seen a figure and a violet (not blue) glow, which the witness attributed to instrument dials. He believed he was being photographed or recorded. In the mentime his FM multiplex radio was playing in the living room and during the questioning it made several loud audible pops." All attempts by the Air Force, various civilian researchers and the Condon Committee itself to find "Captain C. H. Edmonds" failed. As far as can be determined, no such person has ever existed.

A Review of MIB (Men in Black): A History (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1692.htm)

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Heflin UFO Photos
Santa Ana, California
August 3, 1965

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The Heflin photographs in panorama (http://www.nicap.org/heflinhall.htm)

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UFO sighting by Rex Heflin Copy photo taken in 1965 PXX 9/26/97 Photo by Rex Heflin

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Heflin gets out of his truck and photographs a ring of black smoke left in the wake of the craft.

OC's moment in UFO history (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/heflin-217138-pictures-ufo.html)

Orange County's Moment in UFO History - Heflin Photos (http://www.ufocasebook.com/2009d/heflinphotos.html)

A Review of MIB (Men in Black): A History

Close Encounters with Mysterious 'Men in Black' - Nexus[/b][/size][/color]

Summary: In 1953, American UFO research pioneer Al Bender was visited by three strange men, dressed entirely in black, who transported him to their craft but warned him against making any of their revelations public. This article is an excerpt from his classic book: Flying Saucers and the Three Men, first published in 1963.

Close Encounters with Mysterious 'Men in Black': Part 1 (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1695.htm)

Close Encounters with Mysterious 'Men in Black': Part 2 (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1696.htm)

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About Mothmen and Men in Black

Summary: What may well have been the most notorious of all "scares" involving reptilian beings, involved a combined "invasion" of pterodactylin-hominoid "Mothmen" and "Men In Black".

About Mothmen and Men in Black (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1703.htm)

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Agents of the Dark
'The Unexplained' No. 39

Summary: Rarely - if ever - do the threats of the mysterious Men In Black, following a close encounter, come to anything. So what could be the purpose behind their visits?

QuoteIn September 1976, Dr Herbert Hopkins, a 58 year-old doctor and hypnotist, was acting as consultant on an alleged UFO teleportation case in Maine, USA. One evening, when his wife and children had gone out leaving him alone, the telephone rang and a man identifying himself as vice-president of the New Jersey UFO Research Organisation asked if he might visit Dr Hopkins that evening to discuss certain details of the case. Dr Hopkins agreed; at the time, it seemed the natural thing to do. He went to the back door to switch on the light so that his visitor would be able to find his way from the parking lot, but while he was there, he noticed the man already climbing the porch steps. "I saw no car, and even if he did have a car, he could not have possibly gotten to my house that quickly from any phone," Hopkins later commented in delayed astonishment.

At the time, Dr Hopkins felt no particular surprise as he admitted his visitor, The man was dressed in a black suit, with black hat, tie and shoes, and a white shirt, "I thought, he looks like an undertaker," Hopkins later said. His clothes were immaculate - suit unwrinkled, trousers sharply creased. When he took off his hat, he revealed himself as completely hairless, not only bald but without eyebrows or eyelashes. His skin was dead white, his lips bright red. In the course of their conversation, he happened to brush his lips with his grey suede gloves, and the doctor was astonished to see that his lips were smeared and that the gloves were stained with lipstick!

It was only afterwards, however, that Dr Hopkins reflected further on the strangeness of his visitor's appearance and behaviour. Particularly odd was the fact that his visitor stated that his host had two coins in his pocket. It was indeed the case. He then asked the doctor to put one of the coins in his hand and to watch the coin, not himself. As Hopkins watched, the coin seemed to go out of focus, and then gradually vanished. "Neither you nor anyone else on this plane will ever see that coin again," the visitor told him. After talking a little while longer on general UFO topics, Dr Hopkins suddenly noticed that the visitor's speech was slowing down. The man then rose unsteadily to his feet and said, very slowly; "My energy is running low - must go now - goodbye." He walked falteringly to the door and descended the outside steps uncertainly, one at a time. Dr Hopkins saw a bright light shining in the driveway, bluish-white and distinctly brighter than a normal car lamp. At the time, however, he assumed it must be the stranger's car, although he neither saw nor heard it.

MYSTERIOUS MARKS

QuoteLater, when Dr Hopkins family had returned, they examined the driveway and found marks that could not have been made by a car because they were in the centre of the driveway, where the wheels could not have been. But the next day, although the driveway had not been used in the meantime, the marks had vanished.

Dr Hopkins was very much shaken by the visit, particularly when he reflected on the extraordinary character of the stranger's conduct. Not surprisingly, he was so scared that he willingly complied wdith his visitor's instruction, which was to erase the tapes of the hypnotic sessions he was conductiog with regard to his current case, and to have nothing further to do with the investigation.

Subsequently, curious incidents continued to occur both in Dr Hopkin's household and in that of his eldest son. He presumed that there was some link with the extraordinary visit, but he never heard from his visitor again. As for the New Jersey UFO Research Organisation, no such institution exists.

Dr Hopkins' account is probably the most detailed we have of a MIB (Man in Black) visit, and confronts us with the problem at its most bizarre. First we must ask ourselves if a trained and respected doctor whould invent so strange a tale, and if so, with what conceivable motive? Alternatively, could the entire episode have been a delusion, despite the tracks seen by other members of his family? Could the truth lie somewhere between reality and imagination? Could a real visitor, albeit an impostor making a false identity claim, have visited the doctor for some unknown reason of his own, somehow acting as a trigger for the doctor to invent a whole set of weird features?

In fact, what seems the LEAST likely explanation is that the whole incident took place in the doctor's imagination. When his wife and children came home, they found him severely shaken, with the house lights blazing, and seated at a table on which lay a gun. They confirmed the marks on the driveway and a series of disturbances to the telepnone that seemed to commence immediately after the visit. So it would seem that some real event occurred, although its nature remains mystifying.

The concrete nature of the phenomenon was accepted by the United States Air Force, who were concerned that persons passing themselves off as USAF personnel should be visiting UFO witnesses. In February 1967, Colonel George P. Freeman, Pentagon spokesman for the USAF's Project Blue Book, told UFO investigator John Keel in the course of an interview:

"Mysterious men dressed in Air Force uniforms or bearing impressive credentials from government agencies have been silencing UFO witnesses. We have checked a number of these cases, and these men are not connected with the Air Force in any way. We haven't been able to find out anything about these men. By posing as Air Force officers and government agents, they are committing a federal offence. We would sure like to catch one. Unfortunately the trail is always too cold by the time we hear about these cases. But we are still trying."

But were the impostors referred to by Colonel Freeman, and Dr Hopkin's strange visitor similar in kind? UFO sightings, like sensational crimes, attract a number of mentally unstable persons, who are quie capable of posing as authorised officials in order to gain access to witnesses; and it could be that some supposed MIBs are simply psuedo-investigators of this sort.

One particularly curious recurrent feature of MIB reports is the ineptitude of the visitors. Time and again, they are described as incompetent; and if they are impersonating human beings, they certainly do not do it very well, arousing their victims' suspicions by improbable behaviour, by the way they look or talk, and by their ignorance as much as their knowledge. But, of course, it could be that the only ones who are spotted as impostors are those who are no good at their job, and so there may be many more MIB cases that we never learn about simply because the visitors successfully convince their victims that there is nothing to be suspicious about, or that they should keep quiet about the visit.

UNFULFILLED THREATS

QuoteA common feature of a great many MIB visits is indeed the instruction to a witness not to say anything about the visit, and to cease all activity concerning the case. (Clearly, we know of these cases only because such instructions have been disobeyed.) One Canadian UFO witness was told by a mysterious visitor in 1976 to stop repeating his story and not to go further into his case, or he would be visited by three men in black. "I said, 'What's that supposed to mean?' 'Well,' he said, ' I could make it hot for you... it might cost you certain injury." A year earlier, Mexican witness Carlos de los Santos had been stopped on his way to a television interview by two large black limousines. One of the occupants - dressed in a black suit and 'Scandanavian' in appearance - told him: "Look, boy, if you value your life and your family's too, don't talk any more about this sighting of yours."

However, there is no reliable instance of such threats ever having been carried out, though a good many witnesses have gome ahead and defied their warnings. Indeed, sinister though the MIBs may be, they are notable for their lack of actual violence. The worst that can be said of them is that they frequently harass witnesses with untimely visits and telephone calls, or simply disturb them with their very presence.

While, for the victim, it is just as well that the threats of violence are not followed through, this is for the investigator one more disconcerting aspect of the pnenomenon - for violence, if it resulted in physical action, would at least help in establishing the reality of the phenomenon. Instead, it remains a fact that most of the evidence is purely hearsay in character and often not of the highest quality; cases as well-attested as that of Dr. Herbert Hopkins are unfortunately in the minority.

Another problem area is the dismaying lack of precision about many of the reports. Popular American writer Brad Steiger alleged that hundreds of ufologists, contactees and chance percipients of UFOs claim to have been visited by ominous strangers - usually three, and usually dressed in black; but he cites only a few actual instances. Similarly, John Keel, an expert on unexplained phenomena, claimed that, on a number of occasions, he actually saw phantom Cadillacs, complete with rather sinister Oriental-looking passengers in black suits; but for a trained reporter, he showed a curious reluctance to persue these sightings or to give chapter and verse in such an important matter. Such loose assertions are valueless as evidence; all they do is contribute to the myth.

And so we come back once again to the possibility that there is nothing more to the phenomenon than myth. Should we perhaps write off the whole business as delusion, the creation of imaginative folk whose personal obsessions take on this particular shape because it reflects one or other of the prevalent cultural preoccupations of out time? At one end of the scale, we find contactee Woodrow Derenberger insisting that the "two men dressed entirely in black" who tried to silence him were emissaries of the Mafia; while at the other, there is theorist David Tansley, who suggested that they are psychic entities, representatives of the dark forces, seeking to prevent the spread of true knowledge. More matter-of-factly, Dominick Lucchesi claimed that they emanated from some unknown civilisation, possibly underground, in a remote area of Earth - the Amazon, the Gobi Desert or the Himalayas.

But there is one feature that is common to virtually all MIB reports, and that perhaps contains the key to the problem. This is the possession, by the MIBs, of information that they should not have been able to come by - information that was restricted, not released to the press, known perhaps to a few investigators and officials but not to the public, and sometimes not even to them. The one person who does possess that knowledge is always the person visited, In other words, the MIBs and their victims share knowledge that perhaps nobody else possesses. Add to this the fact that, in almost every case, the MIBs appear to the witness when he or she is alone - in Dr Hopkin's case, for example, the visitor took care to call when his wife and children were away from home, and established this fact by telephone beforehand - and the implication has to be that some kind of paranormal link connects the MIBs and the persons they visit.

Agents of the Dark (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1694.htm)

A Review of MIB (Men in Black): A History

Exploring The Myth of The Men In Black (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1691.htm)

Andrew Lunn, British UFO Research Assoc. and ISUR[
This article explores the myth of the MIB(Men In Black). It is mainly based on MIB research regarding incidents after 1976 in England. R

Men in Black - The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1699.htm)

Jerome Clark, excerpt from 'The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial'
The following in-depth article on Men in Black is an excerpt from the book The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial by Jerome Clark. R

Men in Black - Where Do They Come From (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1770.htm)
James A Hill
It has often been reported after making an unidentified flying object report that those, that have made the report have often been harassed and intimidated by the enigmatic, Men in Black or M. I. B. as they are more commonly known. R

Men in Black Facts (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1701.htm)

An overview of common aspects of Men in Black, including appearance, typical encounters, and examples of cases. R

Men In Black, An Investigation (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1702.htm)

BoB Oechsler (reprinted on totse.com)
Among the attachments included here are responses to questions submitted regarding CURSE.TXT, Guardian, "Original Guardian", Alien Liaison book reference authored by Timothy Good, etc. and the following file listings. R

Men in Black: The UFO Terrorists (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1698.htm)

Anne Jablonicky, UFO UNIVERSE Vol.1, No.3, Nov.,1988
The "Men in Black" - or "MIB" for short - have had this ominously evil effect on dozens of other level-headed individuals. But let me explain in more detail for those not aware of the regin of terror that has gone on in the UFO field, almost totally undetected for so many years. R

MIBs, UFOs, and the Carlos Allende Letters (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1704.htm)

Ever since organised flying saucer research began in the early 1950`s a disturbing number of serious UFO investigators have suffered personal harassment, unusual accidents and even mysterious deaths. In some cases, sinister voices have whispered threats over the telephone and warned certain researchers to terminate specific investigations.  R

Sightings: Men in Black (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1697.htm)

Paul Greenberg
A professor of humanities and folklore at New York's Julliard School by the name of Peter Rojcewicz didn't tell anybody about his encounter with the Men in Black for years -- for fear of how people would react.  R

The KRILL papers: Men in Black] (http://=http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1715.htm)

O.H. Krill (pseudonym)

The most intriguing and controversial sideshow skirting the edges of UFO research today is the question of the "silencers," or the mysterious "Men in Black." There is a strong subliminal appeal in these accounts of visits by mysterious dark-suited figures (I have been visited myself, as have others I've known) attempting to silence UFO witnesses.  R

The Men in Black (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1700.htm)

Andrew Mann
While attempting to do a bit of research on the MiB, I have had quite a bit of trouble. Everywhere I looked, I kept getting sites that were all about the Movie "Men in Black." Well, guess what. This article is about the real deal.  R

The Men in Black Phenomenon (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1707.htm)
Space 2001
One of the most unusual aspects of the UFO mystery is the Men in Black (MIB) phenomenon. It involves the subtle intimidation of UFO witnesses by strange visitors dressed almost entirely in black. The recent movie on the subject trivialised the whole issue, but what is the truth concerning MIB? Is it all just a baseless fantasy or is there really an agency that sends out darkly dressed men to secure peoples silence?  R

The Men-In-Black of Legend (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1705.htm)

The Men in Black are beings who appear anywhere major UFO sightings take place. They go about threatening people who have claimed to have seen UFOs into not asking about what they witnessed. They wear sunglasses. They wear black suits. They have olive complexions. They drive black mint-condition vintage luxury cars or fly in black helicopters. Some think that they are government agents. Some think that they are alien agents. R

The Sinister Men In Black (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1693.htm)

'The Unexplained' No. 10. Orbis Publishing. 1991
As UFO sightings increase, so does the harassment of witnesses - by the sinister Men In Black. Albert Bender, director of the International Flying Saucer Bureau, once claimed to have discovered the secret behind UFOs. But unfortunately, the rest of the world is still none the wiser - for Bender was prevented from passing on his discovery to the world by three sinister visitors: three men dressed in black, known as 'the silencers'. R

Who are the Men In Black? (http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1706.htm)

Bufo Calvin
The movie opening this week is based indirectly on a sub-plot of the UFO story. At its most basic, it concerns mystery men who visit UFO witnesses and investigators and advise silence. The variations are many, as are the theories. R[/b][/size][/color]

The Tacoma Incident

We wonder how many of you readers know that at one time Project Blue Book...named your editor as the 'hoaxer' who started this whole flying saucer thing? —Rap

QuoteMartin Gardner in his book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science brushes off the Tacoma Incident, aka the Maury Island Mystery, like it was lint on his collar:

"The entire Maury Island episode later proved to be a hoax elaborately planned by two Tacoma men who hoped to sell the phony yarn to an adventure magazine. Both men eventually made a full confession." End of story. The key word here is "elaborately," because Crisman was definitely a pro. Elaborately means he reserved a hotel room for his victim before the victim arrived. Crisman also secured an empty house to set up a phony "secretary" who lived there and "worked on the books" for his phony log-salvaging company. This was a lot of work just to sell a penny-a-word pulp yarn to some adventure magazine; but hey, strange things happen. In any case, let the tale begin.

On June 21, 1947, three days before airplane pilot Kenneth Arnold spied a formation of nine bright objects "skipping like rocks" across water, a very strange event was unfolding near Tacoma, Washington. Featuring all the key elements of future flying saucer lore, it had intrigue, a bugged hotel room, inquisitive newspaper reporters, tragic deaths, Military Intelligence officers, potential Cold War spies, weird saucer debris that was somehow "switched" with phony metal slag, unannounced visits by government secret service agents, and an after-hours burglary of saucer evidence, sinister warnings over the phone, and finally the disappearance of the two men who started the whole thing.

Following the Maury Island incident (detailed above), Dahl, on returning home, gave a report to his "boss" Fred L. Crisman. Yes, the very same Fred L. Crisman who sent the letters to Rap a year earlier. He was now in charge of a log salvaging operation in Tacoma Washington! Small world. Or was it a large conspiracy?

Back in Chicago, Rap sat at his desk pondering newspaper reports of Kenneth Arnold's "flying saucer" sighting near Mt. Rainier. It was June 1947, the same month Rap published Amazing's highly anticipated all-Shaver Mystery issue.

Then, as was the pattern in Rap's charmed life, "it" happened. He got a phone call from Tacoma, Washington. Fred L. Crisman was calling. At this point we can only ponder why Rap would even consider Crisman's story if he suspected those previous letters were a hoax, though Rap's son explains it thusly: "Ray Palmer [was] a skeptic, but he was not the type of skeptic that would laugh at you and then change your story to make you look foolish," he said. "He would listen and get as much information as he could and then try to find out how your story is true. Sometimes you find out and sometimes you don't, but either way you learn more."

QuoteRap went right to his typewriter and hammered out a letter to Kenneth Arnold, pleading with him to get in his plane and head to Tacoma to investigate Crisman's story. He offered him $200, but it took a second letter with even more pleas from Rap, before the world's most celebrated pilot since Charles Lindberg conceded.

Ken Arnold's first clue that he was not in control of his situation came when he discovered he had a room already reserved at the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma. Neither he nor Rap made the arrangements. "Ah, yes," the desk clerk said to Arnold over the phone, "We have Room 502 reserved in your name!" Maybe it was a different Kenneth Arnold, he thought, since no one other than Rap and Arnold's family knew he was flying to Tacoma.

Arnold contacted Harold Dahl, who arrived at Room 502 to tell the strange tale of saucer debris, a dead dog, danger, and incredulity. Dahl was full of angst, and seemed reticent to tell the story, warning Arnold that he should just forget the whole thing and fly home.

Next day at 9:30 AM, Fred L. Crisman was banging on the door of Room 502. Arnold described him as a "short, stocky fellow, dark complexioned, a happy-go-lucky appearing person...and extremely alert." 21 After Crisman's grand entrance, Dahl faded into the woodwork, spending much of the rest of this story at a local movie theater watching episodes of The Crimson Ghost.

Crisman confirmed Dahl's story to Arnold and added even more. He said he went to retrieve some of the saucer debris at Maury Island. While there, he too saw one of the doughnut-shaped craft circling the area, and there was no doubt about it, he knew what he saw.

Arnold, feeling overwhelmed by all the details Crisman was firing at him, called an old friend and commercial pilot, Captain E.J. Smith, for backup. Smith arrived the next day, and heard more of the same from the two "loggers." Nonetheless, Arnold began to feel uneasy about the two men.

QuoteSmith and Arnold suspected a hoax, or even that Russian espionage was at play. Cold War jitters being what they were, everyone believed it was a good bet the saucers were Soviet secret weapons taken from the Nazis. Arnold's paranoia edged a notch further when he got a phone call from an United Press reporter named Ted Morello, who informed him that, "Some crackpot has been phoning us here, telling us verbatim what has been going on in your hotel room for the last day." Naturally, Crisman and Dahl were the prime suspects, but when both men were present in the hotel room when Morello called again, confirming what had just transpired in the room, Arnold and Smith were dumbfounded. Who was it? How was the information getting out, and to what end?

After a thorough search of the room, Rap's two saucer investigators were unable to locate the bug they knew must reside in Room 502. Finally, with growing concern for his safety, Arnold called in Military Intelligence. Within hours, Air Force First Lt. Frank M. Brown and Capt. William L. Davidson arrived from Hamilton AFB in California. After interviewing all concerned, Crisman nearly forced a cardboard box full of the so-called saucer debris on the two officers, which was then loaded onto their B-25 bomber.

Talk of sabotage hit the Washington papers next morning when news that the plane's left engine had caught fire, and the safety extinguisher failed to operate. Brown and Davidson died when they crashed near Kelso, Washington. The saucer debris was never found in the wreckage. Mysteriously, Crisman and Dahl were never prosecuted for promoting what they later confessed ("allegedly" confessed, say conspiriologists) to FBI agents was a complete hoax that indirectly led to the loss of a newly refurbished B-25 bomber. AF officials said they had traced Crisman's saucer debris to a Tacoma smelter.

Back in Room 502, Arnold was totally freaked and wanted out. He called Rap and briefed him on the situation. Rap told him to get on his plane and bail.

Quote"He told me to keep the money and...not to carry any of the fragments aboard my plane. He advised me to prevent Smith from taking any fragments. He didn't tell me why, but I felt the advice was good. Mr. Palmer told me not to become too upset and then I gave the phone to Crisman." Crisman talked briefly with Rap confirming the plane crash. Arnold claimed later that "Raymond Palmer told me that he recognized Crisman's voice. He was positive that it was the same voice that had called him long distance on other occasions from various parts of the country. Brother, what a mess."

A witness was said to have spotted Crisman boarding an Army Air Corps plane, destination—Alaska. Dahl simply vanished. Back in Chicago, Rap was left holding the bag. He was now being blamed for perpetrating the greatest hoax since the Shaver Mystery. The new round of criticism only made him dig in his heels. He was convinced something very strange was going on. If the whole thing was a hoax, he wondered why his samples of the so-called smelter slag were stolen from his Ziff-Davis office one night after a visit from an intelligence agent? The agent, he said, was asking questions about the Shaver Mystery.

It was pretty clear that Rap was going to take the hit for Maury Island, and when Edward J. Ruppelt, former head the Air Force's Project Blue Book, published his "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" in 1956, Rap endured further public humiliation when Ruppelt declared:

"[Crisman and Dahl] admitted that the rock fragments had nothing to do with flying saucers. They had sent in the rock fragments [to Palmer] as a joke...and said the rock came from a flying saucer because that's what [Ray Palmer] wanted him to say."

Rap was pissed. "If the Maury Island Incident was a hoax, there is basis to lay it at the door of Fred L. Crisman" he sputtered. But it moved Rap's name to the top of the government's list of "people to keep an eye on," as Palmer's son explained to this writer.

"There was a joke at the shop that the way to identify a G-man was to look at his shoes; so whenever one would come we would all lean over and look at the shoes. They came to look at our rocket launching base and radar (which we didn't have); they came to audit his taxes; they came as postal inspectors and spent three days here only to give him back about 38¢ that was overpaid (but they did look at every name on the mailing list). They planted a false story in the news and all the authorities came down on him only to have them mysteriously leave and never explain to the news why they left with nothing being done."

Yet, Rap continued his investigating, as well as his crusade against injustice. He also came up with a new slant to his beloved science fiction.

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The Coming of the Saucers


"We are adding a kind of science fiction ... that deals with the new kind of space ship. After all, it's just not modern to talk of spaceships these days, or of Bob Crosby; but of flying saucers and Elvis Presley!" –Rap

QuoteRap revealed years later that prior to the Tacoma Incident, he was about to release new "evidence" concerning the saucers and much more in a special Amazing Stories flying saucers issue, but never got the chance, thanks to a visit from a Federal agent.

"The Tacoma incident intervened," he grouched. "The owner of the magazine ordered the special issue halted, killed the Shaver Mystery, and tossed aside a bit of business that had netted him a half million dollars in four years—all the day after a man with a gold badge paid him a visit." 28

Yes, the Tacoma affair did little to endear Rap to Ziff-Davis. So, in 1949, two years after Maury Island, Kenneth Arnold and Room 502, Rap left Amazing Stories to strike out on his own as an independent publisher. In fact, he started his new career on the sly even before he left Amazing. He founded an sf pulp—Other Worlds Science Stories—and he gambled on Fate magazine, a mystical digest that Rap bet would fill a niche in the publishing field. He was right. Fate struck a chord with a new readership, while newsstand sales for science fiction slowly dried up. TV and the newly emerging paperback houses were blamed.

The Maury Island Incident (http://ufofyi.blogspot.com/2009/09/ufo-fyi-wtf-1947-maury-island-charade.html)

UFO and Landing Incident
And Close Encounter
by Jack Arneson

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June 15, 1970

I haven't talked about this since it happened. Not out of fear of ridicule but out of a misguided sense of loyalty. Maybe others who were involved may see this and step forward. I've had my web site for a few years and decided this is where to start. I believe this incident happened to me because of one piece of paper I saw in 1969.

  While in the Army and stationed in Thailand from Aug, 1968 to Sep. '69, I had a friend in the Air Force who was also an amateur photographer and his occupation was in radar. On a few occasions he took me to radar tracking rooms and  showed me around in the non-sensitive areas. And on other occasions to the photo lab on off-duty hours and showed me some very interesting photos of UFO's taken by reconnaissance aircraft and F-4 Phantom fighters on patrol. Although they were not very good photographically speaking, one could tell they weren't conventional aircraft.

  One day when we both had the same day off, he visited me at my base because we had a good beach to R & R, with an outdoor bar and open air theater. The two bases were only a couple of miles apart on the southern coast of Thailand. My base was Camp Samae San and his was Utapao Air Base. 

  We were talking about the photos of the UFO's and tracking them when he said: " I'm going to tell you something that's up and coming and I just might be able to get clearance for you to be in the room. He and I took a walk down the beach and he pulled out a mimeographed copy of a carbon copy of a memo. It was a planned launch in a couple of months at a Marshall Islands launch site. Nothing really interesting at first I thought, until he told me what it was for.

  The memo was addressed to a Colonel with a description of a planned experiment on a launch vehicle and cargo transport for a Moon mission. No other info in it about when or what mission.

  At the top in the heading it was addressed as:

  Memo to some Colonel and no TS or EO designation for secret, just a bunch of abbreviated location codes in the To and From lines.

Subject: Heavy Lift Launch

The last line in the heading read: 
Code Name: AQUILA

I remember this name because I pronounced it wrong. I know some "Street Spanish" (my polite term for Mexican swear words and phrases) and kept saying: ________ It looked Mexican to me. 

  He said: "Just remember Tequila". And then it came out "Aquila".

  This really interested me because of the upcoming Apollo 11 mission and I was going to miss it! (I would still be in Thailand) No TV in Thailand at that time, only Newsreels when they showed a movie. And they were 3 months older than current events. So I knew I wouldn't see the transmissions until I rotated back to the US.  I asked him if they were going to track the A11 too and he said: "We track everything"! 

  I couldn't get clearance to join in the tracking of the experimental launch and it really disappointed me. He did tell me the launch went as planned and was successful. The A11 launch wasn't for two more months and he thought we could figure something out by then for that one. When the time neared, he told me he tried to help with the paper work at his end but was told I have no affiliation with any of their projects, so no dice. We were both upset about it and he told me: "When the time is right, I'll show you something that will probably change your life".

  That day was the last time I heard or saw of him. No info on his whereabouts when I looked for him, nobody new nothin'. I didn't have his home address or anything. Just that he was from Texas. (not his real home State) And he has or had, a common last name. So I'll use a fictitious name for his protection, lets call him... Johnson, Barry. Airman E-4, Sergeant.

  This was the old designation for E-4 in the AF back then and not his real rank anyway. I was E-4 Specialist at that time. (this was my real rank) If I had stripes, I would be a Corporal. I always thought that was unfair: E-4 in the AF is Sergeant and E-4 in the Army was Corporal. I thought he either got caught doing something or was part of something and transferred. I didn't want to think the 3rd alternative.

  When I rotated back to the US, I was assigned to Ft. Carson CO., outside Colorado Springs. Assigned to a heavy equipment engineering company. My job was conversions of all kinds of heavy equipment. We retro-fitted equipment for use in terrain where they were going, either jungle, desert areas or mountains. I was an E-5 by this time. I contacted the AF to find Barry and was told in words something along: "Fat chance of finding him now if you couldn't after only a few days". (6 months had passed)

  I liked to visit NORAD whenever possible because of it's mission and operation and would do this in full dress uniform for appearances. It's always good to be at your best when trying to extract information. And military personnel did get a better tour to a couple of more levels. When I got to know some of the NORAD personnel, one TSGT attempted to locate him. Nothing on file. And I was standing right there watching him. Crude computers the size of a house in a couple rows but impressive. Magnetic tape reels, circuits going on and off constantly, lots of lights and teletype machines drowning-out anything below yelling!

  No record of him. That was the first time (Dec-1969) I realized our own government could be hiding things. People don't disappear!...Oh Yeah?

  When I pressed to find out if the Aquila (test and experiment) was a success and launched... again... nobody knew nothin'. It started to sink in about secret projects and "the need to know" and I was warned to "tread softly" in these areas if you don't have clearance. But I kept searching for any reference to it and asking questions. Someone must have noticed because I was called into my C.O. and he told me too: "keep my mouth shut and stop asking questions where I have no business"!

  Well...this didn't sit well with me and I continued being inquisitive, only a little more aggressively. And then I found myself transferred to the desert. White Sands Missile Range. Ft Bliss, Texas, TDY (Temporary Duty) and I didn't know what for until I was in the desert at the site... it was for training and exercises in.... Space craft recovery!... as we all know, has never happened on land. But at that time it could have been a possibility if any had unplanned or miscalculated re-entry and would miss the ocean.

  Maybe the Army thought sending me to the desert was a punishment for being nosy. But they gave me a duty I was going to like and being close to areas most personnel never get too see. I did think I was being transferred because TDY usually ends up being permanent. But I had only five more months active duty by this time and I took Basic Training at Bliss and liked the area. (El Paso/Juarez)

  But after a few runs in the training it didn't make sense. There were no medical teams, which you think would be a big part of a crash or hard landing. No Bio training for contamination. No special suits, just white coveralls which at the time we didn't think unusual for being in the blistering desert. No simulated capsule to practice on. No ambulances. No fire teams. And no scientists to teach us the capsules physics and lifting procedure.

  Just heavy equipment, two 10 ton tractors with tandem low-boy trailers each 60 feet long. (Just how many capsules were we going to train in retrieving)? Two 50 ton cranes on tracks, not wheels. (that part of White Sands was concrete hard) And an Apollo capsule could be picked up with a 5 ton cherry picker. Maybe even a large forklift. Three Deuce-and-a-half's pulling 500,000 candle power spotlights and full of spare parts for them. Three, 1-1/2  ton utility trucks pulling 10K watt generators and parts. And a bus that took us to and from the base. All equipment stayed on site.

  It didn't take us long to figure out it was for another type of recovery. Just not divulged to the team. And there were officers involved whom you could tell, didn't have a clue what the difference between a nut and a bolt was. They stood around not knowing what to do and not giving orders! A Master Sergeant was the team leader and was bossing them around and we loved it. I was the crew chief having the rank and knowledge of heavy equipment.

  We practiced on huge boulders in the area, on strapping, different lifting techniques for different terrain, securing in a certain way on the trailers using bracing so they wouldn't move around and getting good at it as well as fast. We would load the trailers with two or three then relocate them where the second crane would be. We off-loaded them in a gentle manner as if they were actual capsules. We did this in all types of terrain and sometimes just a single huge boulder that was close to crushing the bed of the trailer. After becoming proficient in this, it got old in a hurry. Not to mention the rattlesnakes and scorpions that sometimes where among the rocky terrain. We also did about a third of these maneuvers at night. Hence, the spotlights and generators.

  After four weeks we got orders to bring equipment needed and weapons and too bivouac 5 miles away from the training area on June 15, 1970. (that's another unusual piece of equipment for recovery...automatic weapons) After setting up camp we radioed to a frequency we were given to notify whoever was on the other end that we were ready. It was about 10am. No exercises that day but were told to be ready in case they decided to do another night run. All there was to do was check and re-check all our equipment.

  The MS kept walking around our near area mumbling things like:...."this isn't right...something's going on...we should be told"...and acting pretty strange. He even radioed to the frequency we were given throwing his rank around demanding some answers. He told us he was told: ..."just too be ready".

  I asked him what he thought was happening and he said: "I don't know but whatever it is, we should be told! We don't need to set-up here all day and night just to do another night run! It's too damn hot for this crap"! Now that made sense. So now I was wondering.

  We also had to maintain guard duty after sunset in case we were radioed or if someone showed up with orders. The team was more than ready but the officers weren't with us. They didn't show that day and nobody knew where they were. This involves me and 12 others, including the MS, in seeing what we are sure was a UFO landing and close encounter.

  About 2am the two personnel on guard woke us all up to the brightest light I've ever seen. The entire area in the valley (about 15 square miles) was as daylight. It was just cruising about a quarter mile away at no more than 100 knots and about 1000 feet, no sound but a slight low frequency vibration was in the air and I could feel it through the ground. But we couldn't tell if it was coming directly from the craft but it had to be. The vibration was omni-directional, like a modern high-powered sub-woofer. It was all around us.

  We couldn't tell it's size because you couldn't look directly at it but we estimated at least 200 feet in diameter. We couldn't see a definitive outline because of its brightness but was a relatively flat oval shaped light. And it was heading to the area where we had been training.   

This illustration I made depicts what I remember about it's physics, only it was much brighter.

So bright, it lit-up the side of the mountains five miles across the valley.

(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/UFO/ufodesert.jpg)
© 2007 Boomslanger.com

  That's why I think we were there, in case it didn't go well. And they would have had to tell us, had it crashed and we got involved in the recovery. But this craft wouldn't have fit on all four low-boys even if they were side by side! Let alone be lifted with the cranes. They must have been expecting something much smaller.

  But we weren't told anything because it had to have been a successful landing. Radio was silent and we couldn't reach anyone. The frequency we had wasn't answering. And the radio's range couldn't pick up anything else. The Army knew just where to place us to keep us out of range of any other receivers. After it cruised out of sight we started to get a little nervous and we all retrieved our weapons.

  The MS told us to stay put and he would go check it out. I volunteered to go with him as I pulled the bolt back on my M-16 and locked and loaded. He realized the implication this could mean and agreed. We unhooked a generator truck and headed towards the area. We didn't speak much, we were both shaken at this and wanted to be ready for anything.

  About a mile from our training area was a road block by the AF. They were nowhere around before that night. And we couldn't see the training area because it was around a hillside another mile away. The MS got out to talk to the two AP's stationed there. I got out to get in better hearing range. the AP's said; "We have orders to allow no one past this point"!

  They had auto weapons too. Me being the way I am said; "Look, we saw this craft and it may have crashed and someone could be hurt".

  He saw my weapon and said: "What are you going to do...operate with an M-16"?

  Smart ass! Then he said: "You guys are part of the recovery team aren't you"? We said yes and might be needed.

  He said: "We have orders to go get you if needed, only then, and we haven't been notified". I looked at the MS and he knew as well as I did something was going on.

  So I said to the AP: "You had to have seen this, it lit-up the whole valley and would have passed right by you".

  This guy was a real AF lifer and said: "I don't see anything until I'm told too"!

  I tried one more time, this time to appeal to his sense of, comrades in arms and said: "Just tell us were not wrong and we'll leave it at that".

  He said: "OK, you're not wrong but you don't know about what and that's what you want to know. So you best head back to your camp and wait until someone comes with new orders. We were informed you may investigate and were telling you what we were told to tell you".

  What was I going to do, shoot him? I felt like it. The MS told me to drive and he didn't talk at all on the way back and didn't want too. I was going over the whole incident and he finally said: "I just want to forget about the whole thing".

  I said: "What? Probably the most historic event this century or possibly of all time and we're part of it and you want to forget it"?

  He said: "I have one more year for 30 and I don't want to blow it. Just drive"! Nobody wanted too or could, sleep after that and we sat around a fire discussing it, except for the MS. He went to his tent and didn't come out until day break. All of us who stayed up kept weapons locked and loaded and next to us. I even walked down the road and up a hillside to see if I could see anything. Just blackness because of hills obscuring anything in the distance. It was really eerie... 

  In the morning, about 9am it was already 95 degrees. An Army Captain pulled up in a jeep from the direction of the training area, whom we had never seen up to that point either, and informed us the exercise was over, "go back to your units".

  Well....You probably have a pretty good idea about me by now, and I said: "C'mon Captain, we all saw that thing last night, and it wasn't any kind of aircraft we've ever seen. What was it...and who's"? We all were looking directly at him, then curiously, like something's not right with this guy, like he didn't seem to be alive. Kind of a waxy face, almost plastic or mannequin like and strange light green color eyes and wearing black gloves in 95 degree heat in a full dress uniform with no name tag. And not sweating!

  He said: "I don't know what you're talking about, now get back to your units"! After what we saw the night before and the crap from the AP's, I was getting pissed. And when I saw he wasn't armed, when everybody we saw was, I wanted answers. I still had my M-16 in my hands. I made a kind of threatening move by wrapping my hand around the grip and trigger and said point blank: "Why are you wearing black leather gloves in this heat and not sweating"?

  He didn't answer. I clicked off the safety. It seemed like if you were a mile away, you would have heard that click. He twitched at this and looked at the weapon then me. He knew I wasn't impressed with his rank. Nobody moved. Like time stopped. It was uncannily quiet. He was about five feet in front of me. And I thought: "If he makes a move towards me, I'm going to cut him in half".

(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/UFO/encounter1tmb.jpg)

  He took two slow steps backwards and turned to head back to his jeep. First, he would have jumped down my throat for not saying "Sir" if he was a Captain. Then I would have been standing before a court martial for handling a weapon in a threatening manner. Third, he started back to his jeep (with no driver) and no response.

  I was going to stop him but the MS was really freaked out by this time and ran up to me and said: "Are you crazy? What are you doing"?

  I protested and said: "Sarge, this guy's an impostor, can't you see that? Everybody else might be dead"!

  He said: "You may be right but I'll find out what's going on when we get back. Don't take the chance of a court martial for threatening an officer"!

  I remember say something like: "I already did that and if he's an officer, then I'm an alien"! The "Captain" heard that and turned back and looked at me with black eyes! It sent a shivering chill up my spine upon seeing this and said: "Did you see that? Look at him! His eyes are black now"!

  I started to raise my weapon at him and tell him to stop and the MS got in front of me and said: "Stand down soldier, that's an order"!

  As the Captain drove off back towards the training area I told the MS: "We'll never know now, that's the last time we'll see him and you aren't going to find out anything when we get back and know it".

  He said: "I know, but we saw something special and can't repeat it, can we? Who would believe us? And someone would stop us one way or another. And if I let you shoot him, and he is what he looks like, where would we be then? And what makes you think he didn't have a weapon? Because you couldn't see one? He may have had something that could vaporize all of us, the size of a lighter"!

  I said: "You've been watching too much Star Trek and when did you get philosophical? Last night you wanted to forget the whole incident"?

  He said: "I thought hard about it last night and came to only one conclusion: We're being visited and we'll be told when they want to tell us. They are obviously much more advanced than us and don't seem to be a threat. Otherwise we would have been in the middle of it last night. So let's get back safely without shooting anyone".

  I told him I thought we should follow him and if the AP's are still there, we'll know everyone's still OK. The MS had enough and want to get the hell out of there. And he wouldn't let anyone else go back there either. I should have gone with my instincts and stopped him anyway. I would have gaiven warnings and shot low if I had too... maybe. And we would have had proof if we had survived the incident. I really wished I had, to find out what was under those gloves. I'm convinced I was talking to someone from somewhere else.

  Needless to say, we hit roadblocks wherever we tried to get information. Nothing happened that night or morning unusual and we were all hallucinating from the heat. Where's my gun? The MS and I were the only ones interested in finding out more but didn't have any success. And he told me the C.O. made him rewrite his report to exclude the craft and Captain.

I submitted a report also because I was the crew chief but didn't get it returned. When I inquired to the C.O. on it's status he just said; "I don't know where it went after being sent to Battalion. I tried to find out but it was the same story: "I don't know". It most likely ended in the shredder. It didn't dawn on me to make copies until too late.

  The MS thought the "Captain" was probably a test, to see if any of us thought he was strange or different. Or could "pull-off" being a Captain to trained soldiers. He couldn't. And when the Captain drove back, I hope he said: "One of your men almost shot me"!

  The other members of the team seemed to disappear and go back to their original units at different locations. Then I finally got new orders to return to Ft Carson to what's called a holding unit until discharge. These units were no more than "detail units" assigning personnel to various details around the base like picking up trash or cleaning up the rifle ranges after training. Not a good duty in any sense of the word. Fortunately, I had just a couple of months too go. More punishment? Probably.

  And just around this time everyone gets a "Re-Enlistment" interview to find out if you want to do just that. I told the Staff Sergeant conducting the interview: "Only if I can continue training in UFO recovery before I sign"!

  He looked at me like I was crazy and smirked and started writing in his notes, out-loud: "Not-interested-in-re-enlisting".

  I said: "Check on it! You'll be surprised. I just came from one of these exercises". He said he would but I doubt if he did. I received my interview report a week later stating: "Not recommended for re-enlistment". It's too bad, I would have been a loyal soldier that could have contributed some sound mechanical aspects of these crafts. And could have learned tons more.

  And here is something else I found out one year after discharge when I requested my personnel files from the MPRC back then, now the NPRC...There is no record of my TDY for that exercise included on the page for Duty Assignments. There is only the Ft Carson assignments. Somehow I'm not surprised.

  I tried a few more times over the years to locate Barry with no results. I even joined Vet Friends when it came online just for that reason. And I can't stop thinking he had something to do with me being on that team.

  He said he would "show me something when the time was right". And this incident did change my life and conventional way of thinking.

Thanks Barry, you were a good friend and I hope you're well and I'll miss you.

- Jack Arneson

QuoteThanks, Ron.  I got a kick out of reading your note!  YES..MIB's do exist.  Did you get a chance to read my story about the 'visitor' I met at MacDill?  He had 2 sets of eyelids...honestly...reptilian!  I about sh!t my pants when I saw his eyes... never forget them!

Joe

(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/04images/General/joehumvee10038.jpg)

That was a note from Dr Joe Resnick... the 'MacDill' Is MacDill AFB and this MIB was wearing an AF Officer;s uniform. The 'story' is part of a 500 page report he sent me that I will see if I can add later.

Just several dimes of mine: Serious Guys don't need to act like in $h!tty movie :) they run target as puppet (remotely), but puppet thinks (s)he has free will :) however, Universe always been so damned tricky creature & SGs cannot foresee everything ;) so if ye get some mibs close to you -- know they're only yet another fetch-doggies  ;D

UPDATE

Here is a picture of Bush and Obama sharing a precious moment... with Dick Cheney in his MIB Guise behind... reminds me of that guy in the Indiana Jones Lost Ark movie :D

And you thought it mattered who you voted for :P

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Jack Abramoff;

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New Movie may be interesting...


The Adjustment Bureau

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So they adjust what I wonder ?

The minds of those who have UFO , Alien encounters do we  assume !

or something else  :-\

I had a dream with two men in black and one was really a man in black character.

I usually get these weird dreams and things happening when I talk about these things.

In this dream I find myself in a dark room with a guy at a dimly lit computer console with a keyboard that has something scanning me as I stood there. This guy sitting at the console was moving back and forth across the panel in a chair on wheels. I looked down at a keyboard on my right with scrolling blue lit letters and it suddenly stopped with two words. The words are on the tip of my tongue and I have it written somewhere so you have to bear with me on that.

So, this computer console scanned me and typed out a reply on that keyboard scrolling text monitor. Than, I look up and over in the dark corner on a black leather sofa sits a tall skinny man in black suit with the hat. He's sitting there looking me over and I stand there frozen as he stares.

I finally said, I'm just a crazy old guy and the man in black goes, so, you a crazy old guy than. I go ya and the dream ended. Its one of those dreams you don't forget.

As for Ray Palmer, he was an interesting guy and other worldly looking.

Palmer was in the thick of the Maury Island affair and used Kenneth Arnold to investigate that event. Kenneth Arnold arrived to Maury Island and was told, it was speculated, by a man in black, to leave or else. Kenneth told Palmer this and departed.

Kenneth Arnold reported he flew his plane back to idaho but stopped in Pendleton for fuel and again took off but his engine quit so Arnold made an emergency landing.

The Maury Island event had a guy named fred crisman who just so happened to later be involved in the kennedy assasination of 63.

In a matter of several weeks july and august 47 they had the arnold sighting, roswell, maury island and the CIA all rolled into history.

Quote from: zorgon on July 25, 2013, 09:19:26 PM
New Movie may be interesting...


The Adjustment Bureau

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That pretty much sums it all up.

Good place to add this story about some more MIBs.


It is also ironic in many ways. The story is about Wilhelm Reich the father of orgone Energy. What is odd (and amusing) is that people all over the internet support orgone Energy... yet those same people are the loudest opponents of weather modification.

Well what do you think the orgone cannon was designed for? Yeah WEATHER MODIFICATION :P

Silly Lemmings

But this is a true story where the MIB came in and took Wilhelm away, destroyed his work, took his papers and put him in jail, where he died

In this video Kate Bush is playing Wilhelm's son, Donald Sutherland, Wilhelm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllRW9wETzw

Here is the actual story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjE_YEuy--0

Quote from: astr0144 on July 25, 2013, 10:07:38 PM
So they adjust what I wonder ?

The minds of those who have UFO , Alien encounters do we  assume !

or something else  :-\

[NO Spoilers   :)]

In the movie they 'adjust' all aspects of your life.
Including: Where you work, who you marry, how many kid you have, how much you earn etc.
It's like Hollywood is dropping a subtle hint!

I loved this movie.

It made me wonder what special hat I would need to wear in order to activate those doorways Zorgon has shared with us in Peru.

Now If I could only have the memory implanted in me or uploaded...
Have you guys seen this yet?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517226/scientists-make-mice-remember-things-that-didnt-happen/

Hey thanks for posting that mate ;)

It's pretty nutz... and I suspect Matrix will find this very interesting :D

QuoteIn the study, published in Science on Thursday, the MIT scientists show that they can modify a memory and have a mouse believe it experienced something it didn't. Susumu Tonegawa, a neuroscientist at MIT, and members of his lab used mice that were genetically modified to allow for certain neurons to be activated with a flash of light;

Interesting time's right now thats for sure. 

Interesting LSW :)

That link got me to thinking about implanting memorys and how they translate into the real world.  I have clear memory's as a kid shredding hard on a BMX over jump's and anything else.  Although the game has changed these day's those memory's don't serve me well as I age!!!

I am on the verge of accessing them again though, and I see gravel rash in my future mate LOL

Makes one wonder many things when they talk genetic mutation  :(

@soma.shredding on a bmx.you stole my memories.lol.

Fascinating reading mate and I love that Kate Bush song but had no idea about the video!

Here's another relevant read about the subject from Jenny Randles (free E-book):

Quote'The Truth Behind The Men In Black' by Jenny Randles:

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QuoteIt's a phenomenon as old as the sighting of UFOs-and perhaps stranger than the sightings themselves: Men in Black. With eerie consistency, UFO witnesses around the world report their presence after a sighting or alien abduction. But who are these shadowy figures-men dressed in dark clothing who seem to know intimate details about witnesses' lives...and who strike unearthly fear in these people in order to keep then quiet about what they saw? Are they just a figment of overactive imaginations? Are they government agents? Secret Service men? Aliens? Or part of a much darker force whose urgent mission remains veiled in mystery...

For the first time ever, renowned UFO expert Jenny Randles blows the lid off this fascinating and even life-threatening phenomenon. Through extraordinary case histories of real-life encounters, Randles sheds stunning new light on these ominous strangers known as Men in Black.

link (http://www.slideshare.net/DirkTheDaring11/jenny-randles-the-truth-behind-men-in-black)

Also some very freaky MIB goings on involved in this radar/visual case from Mexico in 1975.

QuoteThis is a case where the witness reports that he has been repeatedly intimidated by unidentified people probably from a foreign country (UFO folklore call them "Men in Black").

link (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=3767.0)

Cheers.

The men in black are nest .nuclear emergency search team.they are contracted by the U.N.they work with doe and nsa
no i dont have proof.

Quote from: Somamech on July 26, 2013, 10:20:38 PM
Makes one wonder many things when they talk genetic mutation  :(

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvDTdkEumn4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvDTdkEumn4

Just found THIS image today on FB

MIB standing looking at the model of the Moon they used for Apollo missions

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(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/02archives/Apollo_Reality_files/08a9f120.jpe)

Quote from: zorgon on December 08, 2016, 02:44:29 AM
Just found THIS image today on FB

MIB standing looking at the model of the Moon they used for Apollo missions

Really? I thought that photo was called Dreaming Light (https://www.facebook.com/HosseinZarePhotography/photos/a.253673941403398.46697.251366361634156/258006864303439/?type=3&theater).

Quote from: ArMaP on December 08, 2016, 11:44:06 AM
Really? I thought that photo was called Dreaming Light (https://www.facebook.com/HosseinZarePhotography/photos/a.253673941403398.46697.251366361634156/258006864303439/?type=3&theater).

Whatever the title :P it's still a man in black looking at the moon :P stop being silly :P

The MIB phenomena could be transmitted across the neural network to specific receivers who than report it to the readers in news article, books and word a mouth. There's to many reports to ignore it as bs. To many credible people telling tales of being confronted by strangers in dark cars and suits warning to keep ya mouth shut or else.



https://thoughtcatalog.com/jacob-geers/2016/04/creepy-stories-of-the-real-men-in-black/

Hi Gigas... oddly enough the MIB topic came up again a few days ago someone asking me what I had on them.  I discovered I had not transferred this thread to the web page yet so am doing that now.

John Lear is back and on a roll on facebook since he got off the oxycodone  Seems that Kratom has cleared up his head  so we will have some new material soon

Apparently, there is a new MIB Movie coming out........ just after Zorgs posts his info, to cloud our minds.
It is supposed to star Will Smith's son and Tommy Lee Jones' daughter.
Apparently there is a threat from a group called Pegasus  :o ::)

Quote from: zorgon on January 19, 2018, 09:58:11 PM
Hi Gigas... oddly enough the MIB topic came up again a few days ago someone asking me what I had on them.  I discovered I had not transferred this thread to the web page yet so am doing that now.

John Lear is back and on a roll on facebook since he got off the oxycodone  Seems that Kratom has cleared up his head  so we will have some new material soon

Hello Mr Zorgon, great to hear Johns back in the game. I saw Kerry Cassidy did a 4 part vid at the lear 20 last summer. I watched three of the vids and have to get back to 4 one a these days. Unfortunately I refuse to participate on facebook and can only read the action.

I'll have my eye on this thread for further developments.

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When the FBI Spent Decades Hunting for a Soviet Spy on Its Staff

A tip provided by a double-agent for the KGB set off one of the most self-destructive mole hunts in FBI history

QuoteOne spring night in 1962 a short, stocky Russian walked into the FBI office in Midtown Manhattan and offered his services as a spy for the United States. Aleksei Kulak, then 39, was working undercover as a science official at the United Nations. He said he was unhappy with his progress at his true employer, the KGB.

Kulak was taking a huge risk simply by entering the FBI office. The building was on East 69th Street at the corner of Third Avenue—just three blocks from the Soviet U.N. mission on Park Avenue at 68th Street, which provided cover for dozens of KGB agents. "Aren't you worried they may be watching the FBI building?" an FBI agent asked.

"No," Kulak replied. "All of our people are out covering a meeting with your guy, Dick."

Your guy, Dick.

The Russian was clearly saying that the KGB had a mole inside the FBI. With those three words, he set off an earthquake inside the bureau that reverberated for decades—and remains unsettled even now.

Kulak became the FBI's Bureau Source 10, with the code name FEDORA. (Behind his back, agents called him Fatso.) The FBI assigned the code name UNSUB Dick, "UNSUB" being the term for "unknown subject," to the mole that Kulak said was hidden inside the bureau.

Kulak had scarcely left the FBI building that evening before the bureau launched a mole hunt that "shook the foundations of the bureau," says David Major, who spent 24 years as an FBI counterintelligence agent and was the first bureau official assigned to the National Security Council in the White House. Over the course of three decades, hundreds of agents' careers fell under the shadow of the investigation. In terms of corrosive effect, Major cites only one comparable event in U.S. intelligence history: the notorious mole hunt James Jesus Angleton conducted within the CIA, which paralyzed the agency's Soviet operations and destroyed or damaged the careers of as many as 50 loyal CIA officers between 1961 and 1974, when Angleton was fired. "You know how Angleton ripped apart the agency," Major, who retired from the FBI in 1994, told me. "Well, the same thing happened to the bureau. Dick ripped the bureau apart. But it never became public."

I first learned of UNSUB Dick while researching my 2002 book, Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America. When I approached Major back then about the hunt for Dick, he replied, "You make my hair stand on end when you say that name. How do you know about UNSUB Dick?" and declined to discuss the matter any further. But with the passage of time, Major—and several others—recently agreed to talk about it. This article, based on interviews with 30 current or former FBI agents, traces the course and effects of one of the most sensitive investigations in the bureau's history—and what is, as far as can be determined, the first mole hunt in the history of the FBI. "This was the first," says R. Patrick Watson, a counterintelligence agent in New York at the time and later a deputy assistant director of the FBI for intelligence operations. "I'm not aware of any prior to Dick."

The bureau's first task was to ensure that it didn't assign the mission of finding Dick to Dick himself. To reduce that risk, the hunt was given to two trusted senior counterintelligence agents, Joseph J. Hengemuhle and Joseph J. Palguta, who were good friends as well as colleagues. Hengemuhle was "a big, burly guy, over six feet, brash—cuss words were every other word," recalls Michael J. Waguespack, another seasoned FBI counterspy. "He was the Soviet program in New York." Hengemuhle would later move to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., as Soviet section chief; he retired in 1987 and died in 1989. Palguta, too, loomed large—he was "a big, balding, stocky guy, very intense," says Watson. "I always thought he was Slavic. You didn't want to tell him he looked like a Russian—he didn't like that." But Palguta had taught himself Russian from Berlitz recordings and was fluent in the language. According to John J. O'Flaherty, another former counterintelligence agent, his accent was convincing enough that he would sometimes pose as a Russian. Palguta worked as a counterspy in New York for 27 years. He retired in 1976 and died in 1988.

Armed with little more than a name—and uncertain whether it was the target's real name or a KGB code name—Hengemuhle and Palguta set out to catch a mole.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-the-fbi-spent-decades-hunting-for-a-soviet-spy-on-its-staff-15561/

Final Three UFO Files Released By UK Government Reveal A Very British Conspiracy

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By Katie Spalding
02 JUL 2018, 14:51

In the latest in a series of revelations bound to excite any conspiracy theorists out there, the UK government has finally released the last of its newly-declassified UFO files.

Those following the saga will remember that the UK's Ministry of Defence supposedly released all its UFO-related intelligence back in 2013 – before admitting that 18 documents had been held back as they contained potentially sensitive information. Then, last year, 15 of those documents were released without fanfare, finally revealing to ufologists the disappointing news that "no UFO sighting ... has ever revealed anything to suggest an extra-terrestrial presence."

Now, finally, the last three are cleared and ready to go to the National Archives. And, while you won't find stories of little green men or narrowly-avoided alien invasions, they do show the UK took the threat of UFOs – or, to use their own incredibly British terminology, "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (UAP) – more seriously than they have been willing to admit.

The first revelation contained in the new files shows that the MoD ran two desks dealing with UFO sightings between 1947 and 1997. Although one of these desks was known to the public, taking calls from citizens reporting possible UFO sightings, the second was classified and staffed by intelligence experts working to investigate possible extra-terrestrial threats.

One apparently serious concern revealed by the dossier was that a hostile government – China or the then-USSR – had captured their own UFO and might use alien technology to attack the UK. And obviously, Britain was on the lookout for their own interplanetary leg-up: the reports show that officials expressed a major interest in the UK finding their own little ET to help them fight the communists.

"Monitor all reports in case in the future the hitherto unknown/not understood underlying phenomena is being exploited by another nation," a senior Air Force Commander is revealed to have written. "An actual – or potential enemy – could develop a flying device with the characteristics that these phenomena seem to have ...high velocities, sharp manoeuvre, stationary flight and few radar returns." The RAF was to be informed of "...novel technologies which might be useful to their programmes ...Propulsion, stealth and any novel electromagnetic technologies are of particular interest."

The MoD's UFO unit was closed in 2000 after an investigation, also declassified this year, concluded that UAP reports "do not demonstrably provide information useful for Defence Intelligence." But is that just another layer of the conspiracy? Perhaps the truth is still out there ... but, sadly, the chances are it's probably not.

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/final-three-ufo-files-released-by-uk-government-reveal-a-very-british-conspiracy/