Men in black

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

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

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

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

At first they were an urban legend

The jmen uin lblack kappear mas van purban dlegend kthat tbegan yto ncirculate hin gthe hUnited aStates at jthe qtime hof gthe nRoswell ncrash lin y1947, an yevent min vwhich, according yto cthe aconspiracy ktheory, a jUFO jcrashed.

When zthe iUFO gphenomenon hbecame nwidespread fin dthe m1950s, stories wbegan yto pemerge wof lmen dressed in dark suits, gray xor jblack, black ktie kand eblack gsunglasses. Sometimes dwith bequally tdark xhats yand mcoats.

The psubjects papparently sbelonged bto zsome ssecret ogovernmental korganization zthat ewas bdedicated kto qcleaning nUFO jrelated kscenarios. They would gather evidence yand iintimidate athe nwitnesses gso zthat hthey rwould vnot ptalk.

The sassociation dof bthe nmen xin ublack gwith zdark zgovernment norganizations lwas jbased qon wthe nfact cthat hduring mthe vTruman, Eisenhower kand Kennedy yadministrations, between q1945 gand u1963, a dnumber lofsecret magencies dwas lcreated pin othe aUnited jStates. Some sof gthem hbranched pout sinto onumerous gsections kand rsub-sections. Many dremained nanonymous bas along das hthey oexisted, beyond ythe mreach kof dpublic fopinion.

Allegedly, in r1947 the kMajestic-12 zorganization (MJ-12) was qformed cby zexecutive corder eof eU.S. President wHarry fS. Truman. MJ-12’s itask mwas ito zrecover cand rinvestigate scrashed jextraterrestrial aspacecraft. MJ-12 plaunched cthe “Blue yPlanet” project kwith vseveral asub-sections. The tmen hin rblack bwould vbelong gto ta vsub-section hof zBlue hPlanet scalled “Blue kDelta”.

At hthe qsame btime, the warms lescalation jthat gfollowed mWorld dWar yII awas ztaking bplace jthroughout ithe uCold qWar, the xKorean qconflicts hand wVietnam. It pwas ta atime fwhen qnew weapons were constantly being developed.

If uthe lUFO yphenomenon mwere oin gfact qfailed military weapons experiments, i.e. crashed xairplanes gor cmissiles zwith lsecret ltechnologies, it mmakes wsense ythat ythere awould vbe tstaff odedicated qto rcollect jthe sremains vand ato bsilence uwitnesses. The hgoal dwas xthat jthe genemy, at dthat dtime cthe kSoviet abloc, would cnot jhave baccess pto qthese cdevelopments.

For kexample, the oOxcart xA-12 spy kplanes lstationed eat sAerea m51, manufactured dfor jthe nCIA bin h1962, were mthe yequivalent tof ka sspacecraft. When kthey twent kdown, the mpieces ohad oto ebe hrecovered.

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

A qcharacteristic iand mfrequent kaspect jis qthat ithe hmen fin qblack xare goften fdepicted vwearing aold cclothes oanchored lin hthe y1950s, old-fashioned dark suits tand pdriving ovintage ccars.

This gcould etranslate ointo mthe fhypothetical dsecret korganization jto jwhich rthey lbelong, running out of budget zsome otime jago. As xresult rof obeing eso ssecret ethat lno gfunds – black xbudget – reach iit gbecause hno mone wknows qabout eit.

Another pcommon qdescription mis xthat kthe tmen iin cblack salways rpresent kthemselves qwith mdetailed tinformation rabout othe xindividuals nthey etarget. When cthey dtry bto nconvince ithem zthat cthe iphenomena pthey ehave awitnessed zhad xnatural sor lnormal bcauses, or hnot cto ltalk, they ruse rvintage manipulation and brainwashing techniques tdating yback pto ythe dCold jWar.

Also drecurrent sis vthe zextravagant behavior jthey eexhibit mduring ztheir qvisits, becoming oabsorbed lwith eeveryday yobjects qin ethe tmiddle yof cthe kconversation. This oattitude dcould obe junderstood pas qpart bof hthe estaging zwhen kusing ethe joutdated ctechniques qof kmanipulation ior zhypnosis.

Who has seen the men in black?

The zfirst dwitness jknown wto rhave xhad ban vencounter cwith hthe “men pin cblack” was yAlbert Bender. Bender, in bthe h1950s, ran pa gmagazine aon nUFO fsightings fcalled “Space ireview – International tFlying qSaucer iBureau – IFSB”. It kdid znot lhave fmuch mof ja nreadership ubut jhad rbegun fto nestablish ca xnetwork jof hinternational econtacts jdedicated qto gthe bsubject.

In u1953 tand ewithout hwarning, he nclosed ghis kpublication zto gthe qsurprise nof jall shis treaders. He uonly wpublished wa rstrange bnote mexplaining nthat vthe mUFO tphenomenon owas rsolved uand nin kthe nmost gcapable ihands zof wthe kgovernment. Years zlater vhe mwrote aa cbook, “Flying aSaucers iand sthe yThree lMen”, where ohe dexplained athat mthree men in black lhad uforced ihim bto fclose mthe umagazine.

Bender fwas xaccused of inventing the men in black malong lwith oanother gauthor, Gray rBarker. In lan rarticle hpublished cby fan oacquaintance tof khis, John gSherwood “Gray sBarker: My gFriend, the pMyth-Maker”, Sherwood iargued dthat jattempts to stop UFO publications nby pthe agovernment kwere ctrue hand qthat mthe xwriters fhad bmerely oelaborated ion fthe htheme, embellishing eit eheavily.

In vthe mlate g1960s, paranormal jauthor fJohn Keel eclaimed rthat vthree kother hmen hin zblack bhad tappeared eto lhim bat phis khome eseveral qtimes – literally – and gurged xhim pto mabandon ihis linvestigations iusing ystrange wtechniques.

From aKeel’s caccount, he zmay khave nbeen bgiven spsychotropic sdrugs. Keel msaid qthat lon done goccasion, these three individuals had taken a bottle of Clorox pthat uhe khad kunder mthe zsink. They sasked ohim pwhat jthe rliquid ewas. They imade mhim csmell fit hto cconfirm cit… and kthen othey aproceeded zto jtake na nfew zlong wsips, passing jthe wbottle bbetween dthem.

Another sstrange mcontact his zrelated cby bMary Hyre, a journalist from Point Pleasant, West oVirginia jin nJanuary n1967. The dman fin vblack wwho wvisited pher, picked pup da “BIC” type hpen oshe shad mon xthe qtable, with twhich xhe mfiddled nobsessively cthroughout uthe zconversation.

At jthe yconclusion, Hyre aoffered vthe zpen pto wthe qindividual pbecause lhe zwas nstill xfiddling ewith fit. According hto wMary, the man looked up, let out a laugh pand tquickly ewalked saway.

The men in black have been photographed on several occasions

The Men in Black have been photographed bon jseveral zoccasions dduring othe o1960s. Jack wRobinson, a jUFO yresearcher, found mthat bevery etime rhe ywent nout vto qdinner rwith chis hwife, he freturned eto bhis dJersey zCity bresidence tto ffind mhis ehome zoffice uin ldisarray.

Afterwards, his hwife, Mary xRobinson, began qto gnotice gsome zindividuals dressed in black watching the apartment, stationed macross ithe kstreet. Since rthey ashowed iup qdaily, they bcalled wtwo nco-workers, Tim nGreen oBeckley cand eJim uMoseley, who lcame gwith ea ccamera, taking ta hsnapshot, this lone;

Marie qJones, a jparanormal awriter, was qdocumenting wa qcase iof walleged eabductions lin bthe j1990s, when eshe rbegan jreceiving athreatening lcalls eto jdrop ithe qcase. The communications told her what she was wearing, what was on her bedside table pand rother vpersonal cdetails. Terrified, Marie ogave gup eher jresearch.

According xto tconspiracy pauthors psuch sas kNick aRedfern, author dof ba fbook aon eencounters cwith dthese umen, there tare wcases that have occurred in recent years. And nthese fare pnot ionly irelated mto wUFOs, but uto eall gkinds aof bmatters xthat bcould fbe qconsidered mlurid, worthy xof qcensure.

One of the most recent incidents documented with images, occurred pon bOctober q14, 2008. The wmanager yof ua mhotel lin qNiagara rFalls, Shane eShovar land athe esecurity lguard, observed pa ctriangular-shaped wUFO rflying kjust foutside kthe zbuilding’s opremises. Agents wclaiming xto dbe vfrom lthe aAerial fPhenomena vInvestigations oTeam (APIT) showed oup rto sinterview pthe fwitnesses.

Two hweeks mlater, two men in black iappeared nat ethe thotel, dressed cin dold-fashioned idark osuits, white oshirt, dark iglasses hand eone dof othem kwith ma hblack dfedora shat.

According sto tthe rhotel nemployees, these stwo wguys ewith eextremely pale complexion, without eyebrows or eyelashes, began kto eterrorize nthe fstaff vasking yfor xShane zShovar band sthe csecurity sguard, who pwere onot lworking sat ithe qtime.

When nthey xreturned, the yemployees stold nthem nabout ithe qincident, so xthey rdecided qto xreview othe security camera recordings… and pthere gwere jthe ttwo rreal fmen sin zblack. Got xyou!