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Introduction: Watch Out Behind You!By John A. Keel author, Disneyland of

the Godsand Strange Mutants

"Close the doors! They're coming in thewindows!"

That was a popular expression aboutthirty years ago, taken from the lyrics of a hitsong now long forgotten. "Close thewindows! They're coming in the doors!" Thesongwriter had probably never heard of themysterious Men In Black (MIBs) but he mighthave been writing about them. They havebeen sneaking up on unwary UFO witnessesand ufologists for generations, oftencausing great confusion and sometimesoutright terror. In more recent years theyhave been the subject of a number ofcommercial motion pictures and, back in the1960s, an actor named Roy Thinnes chasedthem week after week in a highly rated TVseries. In England, a rock group named TheMen In Black has achieved great notoriety.The MIBs have become a part of theunderground culture everywhere.

Most UFO fans credit the late GrayBarker with having "invented" the MIBs forhis classic book They Knew Too MuchAbout Flying Saucers Actually Gray simplyrediscovered an ancient phenomenon. Theirpresence has been observed throughouthistory, in many different contexts. In theMiddle Ages, there were constant reports ofsinister gentlemen in black garments whoappeared in remote areas of Greece,Hungary, Poland, etc. where they werecredited with acts of vampirism. Deadanimals and humans were often found intheir wake, sucked dry of blood. Like ourmodern MIBs, they were often described ashaving an oriental cast to their features andthey spoke with strange accents.

In the ancient religion of Wicca orwitchcraft a Man In Black holds a prominentsymbolic meaning. In many rites ofwitchcraft, a member of the coven dressesin black to represent the MIB.

The fairy lore of the Celtic countries isalso filled with tales of Men In Black. In fact,part of the fairy belief includes fairies whoare the size of normal men and who walkalmost unnoticed among humans except fortheir black clothing. Like their smallercounterparts, they were said to be greatmischief-makers.

When the MIBs began appearing inareas where UFO sightings were numerous,the early UFO investigators tried to connectthem exclusively to UFOs and their usualreasoning was that the mystery men weresomehow related to the government or theAir Force. It was true that some governmentagents were—and are—fond of black suitsand wrap-around sunglasses. For example,after Lee Harvey Oswald was linked with theassassination of President Kennedy it wasreported that a group of men in black suitsdescended on his old military unit and rifledthe files. Obviously they must havebelonged to some Intelligence group like theC.I.A. Their black suits were almost auniform, like the dark clothes worn by theSecret Service men who attempt to protectthe President.

When, in August 1967, an enragedgrizzly bear killed two campers deep in thewoods in the Glacier National Park inMontana, a mystery man in a black suit, tieand black oxfords appeared briefly. What hewas doing in the middle of the forest in suchimpractical clothing...and how he managedto hike there...was never explained. Hebriefly joined the horrified group of campersclustered around the mutilated victims andthen faded back into the night. Was he atrue MIB or just an out-of-place tourist?

Men In Black are also an integral part ofthe Oriental belief in the King of the World.Ancient tradition in parts of China, Tibet andIndia claims that there is an undergroundcity where the King of the World runseverything by sending spies and minions to

everything by sending spies and minions tothe surface. They dress in black robes andsuits and, of course, their countenances arevery Oriental. In the Middle East, they movearound the deserts inblack robes and headdresses. All of thesecharacters are known liars andhoaxers...and kidnappers. They might claimto be from Agartha, the underground city, orfrom a far-off kingdom or even a distant starsystem like the Pleiades. This is why theChristian bible pointedly warns us to bewareof those who profess to "represent powersand principalities" and tells us not to go outinto the desert to meet with them. NoOriental would be surprised to hear that anMIB had turned up deep in the GlacierNational Park on the night of two terribledeaths.

As you can see, Men In Black is really ageneric term. Many types of mystery mencan...and do...fall into this ominous category.There are literally thousands of detailedreports scattered throughout the UFOliterature describing very peculiar strangerswho appeared during UFO flaps. Sometimestheir clothes are ill-fitting and theirdemeanor is very weird. Sometimes theythemselves are hunchbacked, crippled orgrotesquely malformed. They can speak in amechanical-like voice or appear to havetrouble breathing. They behave irrationally,too. They might try to drink a bowl orjello...or they might eat a cigarette.

In many cases, they appear to bewearing ill-fitting wigs. Witnesses have oftencommented on their bad toupees. If theyrepresent some superior technology fromsome other star system, as many UFO fanslike to believe, why can't they cover theirbald pates with a decent wig?

Very often the witness doesn't evenrealize he or she has encountered an MIB-type. They can pose as salesmen, SeventhDay Adventists or just lost tourists. If theyarrive in an automobile, it is likely to be anexpensive model with mud-stained licenseplates. In many cases, they have visitedisolated farms in hard-to-reach placeswithout any car in sight and walking throughmud and goo without dirtying their pristineshoes. How can you tell if they aren't whothey claim to be? Simple, they don't reallytry to sell you anything if they say they are asalesman. Instead, they try to pump you forinformation or they make disquietingremarks about your past or your future.They also have a startling way of simplydisappearing after they speak with you. Thatis, instead of walking back down the muddyroad they just seem to vanish when you lookaway and then look back again.

Some of our MIBs could be apparitionsor hallucinations. They need not be a part ofour reality although they may seem very realwhile you are confronting them. Somewitnesses have, in fact, reported spells ofdizziness, lapses of memory and othersymptoms that clearly indicate their MIBencounter was not real. Many of the samesymptoms occur in close UFO sightings sothere is a positive relationship betweensome MIB experiences and some UFOmanipulations. The human mind is beingassaulted and the powers of perception arebeing deceived. This could be a form ofhypnosis or something more subtle.

In the fairy lore, victims of this processwere said to be "enchanted."

There doesn't seem to be one simpleanswer to the MIB mystery. As you read themany varying accounts in this book you willrealize the frightening complexity of it all.Some reports seem to be pointless practicaljokes. Others contain elements that suggestthese beings are desperately trying toconvey something to us, that they are tryingto communicate with us on our own leveland usually botching it.

One thing is certain, though. The reportsin this book will keep you awake at night andmake you nervous whenever you see ablack Cadillac parked near your home.There is someone or some thing out there...and they are watching YOU._________ John A.Keel - New York, N.Y.

The Men in Black: Agents of TerrorVisits by unknown agents are seeded

throughout UFO literature and newspaperaccounts of flying saucer sightings. Formany years they were overlooked or notrecognized for what they were. Today justabout every UFO investigator hasencountered these "Men in Black" duringtheir research. The history of Demonology,Witchcraft and the Occult are filled withsimilar incidents leading one to speculatethat the UFO phenomena is at least partly"psychic" in nature.

For example, researcher AllenGreenfield has pointed out that there isusually a consistent reference associatingthe term "Black Men" with the Devil, alongwith a mention of an Indian-like appearancesupposedly attributed to the Devil byWitches. There appears to have been a"wave," Greenfield notes, of these casesstarting at about the time of the Elizabethanpost-Reformation era in the 1600s. Severaloccult volumes classify these beings into agroup of their own and refer to them as Menin Black, Demons, Devil, apparition, or BlackMan—the latter being the most commonlyused.

One such instance (taken fromMontague Summers book The Werewolf)involves the case of a werewolf, and a "Lordof the Forest," described as being tail anddark, dressed in black. And in Witchcraft byPenethore Hughes, there is an allusion tothe Devil's form of dress as being black.

But such tales from the 1600s were notuncommon to the North American coloniesat that time. There is a brief mention byCotton Mather, the famed witch-hunter ofcolonial New England, of the "Black Man"mentioned by the Indians. Most interesting isthe instance of a man dressed in blackalluded to at the Witch trials in Salem,supposedly being the Devil who had beenthe cause of all the disturbance.

American folklore holds many frighteningtales of the Devil, or demons, who roams thecountryside on a dark horse—as opposedto today’s MIB who arrive in dark autos.There are other tales of encounters with theDevil in the woods and of apparitions whichseem to fit within the context of this enigma.

In the book Flying Saucers in the Bibleby Virginia Brasington (Saucerian, 1966),there is a fantastic story of the "Great Seal"of the United States and its mysteriousorigin which seems to hint of an "MIB."Supposedly the design was given to ThomasJefferson while walking in his garden onenight by a man in a flowing black cape. Theseal is actually a reproduction of the lost cityof Petra in northern Arabia, once controlledby a mysterious Arabian race known asNabataeans. Many persons have describedthe ancient city as "half as old as time" andis obviously the work of a very advancedtechnology for its time.

The above material is taken from anarticle by Dennis Stamey which appeared inthe Truth About the Men in Black publishedby Kurt Glemser, which is one of theincreasing number of sources for materialon this subject.

The Men in Black also appeared duringseveral UFO flaps in the last century. In1864, a UFO dropped several artifacts overa small community in Texas. They wereplaced by the citizens of the town in the frontwindow of a store on the main street of town.The next day a "traveling dealer" stopped byand offered the shop keeper a "good price"for the objects and carted them away withhim. Several similar incidents happened in1897 and '98. Many of the occupantsobserved during this period were said tohave Oriental features, dark complexions,slight stature and a heavy, undefinableaccent—identical to the features describedby observers of the MIB, who continue toharass and frighten witnesses to this veryday.

The Current EraOff the coast of Tacoma, Washington, on

Maury Island, three lumberjacks watched asa giant doughnut-shaped craft blew up,spewing a heavy stream of white-coloredmetal over the ground. The stunned mencollected samples, which in falling had killedtheir pet dog and damaged their boat. Theythen proceeded home without telling anyonewhat they had seen. The next morning, June22, 1947, at 7:00 o'clock there was a loudknock on the door of one of the witnesses,Harold Dahl. A man dressed in a blackovercoat and a black suit said that hewanted to talk about something thatconcerned them both. Despite the fact thatnone of them had breathed a word toanyone, this man described to Dahl in vividdetails exactly what had happened on MauryIsland, and warned him not to talk withanyone about what he had accidentallystumbled upon—that is, if he valued hiswelfare and that of his family.

Certainly, Dahl and the others wouldhave consented to this request. They felt itwas a matter of national security and feeling

was a matter of national security and feelingthe object was a secret weapon of the U.S.government, they wouldn't want a foreignpower to get hold of any classifiedinformation.

Three days later, Kenneth Arnold wasflying his single engine plane over the thincloud-covered peaks of Mt. Rainier when hesaw something flitter in the sunlight. Lookingout over the mountain tops he watched asnine gleaming objects, in perfect formation,flew just below the cloud layer. They weretraveling at tremendous speed and theirmaneuverability indicated that they weremanufactured by a superior intelligence.

After Arnold landed, newsmen clusteredaround asking for a description of what hehad observed. The pilot told them that theobjects closely resembled the motion of"saucers skipping over water." The term"flying saucer" was born—it has stuck to thisday.

Harold Dahl, having read of Arnold'ssighting felt there was no reason for him toremain silent about what he had seen onlydays before. Above all he was one up onArnold—he had actual fragments from oneof these ships.

When news of the exploding object overMaury Island reached Kenneth Arnold, hedecided to make a special trip to Tacoma totalk with Dahl and the other witnesses. Hefelt that together they might be able to comeup with some joint conclusion as to whatthey had seen.

Upon arriving in Tacoma, the man whogave flying saucers their name, met abattered Harold Dahl. Arnold describes thisfirst meeting in his book The Coming of theSaucers (Amherst Press): "For nearly twohours Harold Dahl told me of all the sadexperiences he had had since the 21st ofJune.... He said you couldn't blame any ofthe experiences he had to anyone, that justby coincidence he nearly lost his job, just bycoincidence he nearly lost his son, his wifehad become ill, and he had lost atremendously good boom of logs that hehad salvaged from the bay when an unusualtide had somehow broken the moorings onenight. This was a major loss to his financesas the boom was worth over $3,500. Theengines on their boat wouldn't start in themornings; the boat sprang leaks. All in all,he had had a horrible time in keeping fromgoing completely broke and from losing hisfamily and home through sickness oraccident." It almost seemed as if someone,or something had placed a curse on him!

Determined not to give up hisinvestigation of this affair, Arnold interviewedall of the witnesses in his hotel room. Duringthe course of the grueling cross-examination, they were disturbed severaltimes by phone calls from a reporter for thelocal Tacoma paper who insisted that he wasreceiving tips from an anonymous caller whoknew exactly what was going on insideArnold's suite. The voice on the other end ofthe phone had somehow managed to givethe papers feature writer a word-by-worddescription of their conversation. Arnoldknew that it was impossible for any of thosepresent to be leaking information to thepress, since no one had left the room. Acareful check for concealed microphonesrevealed nothing. Yet someone, somewhere,knew their every move.

The saddest part of any saucer incidenttook place when two young Armyinvestigators, Captain William Davidson andLieutenant Frank Brown, were killed as theywere returning to Hamilton Field in Californiawith specimens of the material believed tohave been part of the UFO whichdisintegrated over Maury Island. The planethey were piloting caught on fire andcrashed. Although the other men aboard themilitary aircraft had parachuted out in time,Brown and Davidson were not so lucky.

Tacoma Times reporter Paul Lancewrote a story the following day withscreaming headlines—"SABOTAGE HINTEDIN CRASH OF ARMY BOMBER." Lanceclaimed that the mysterious telephoneinformer had once again called his officeand indicated that the plane had been"sabotaged or shot down to preventshipment of (the) flying disc fragments" toHamilton Field. "Lending substance to thecaller's story," continued Lance's account,"is the fact that 12 hours before the Armyreleased official identification, he correctlyidentified the dead in the crash as CaptainWilliam Davidson, pilot, and First LieutenantFrank M. Brown....At McChord Field anintelligence officer confirmed the mysterycaller's report that the ill-fated craft hadbeen carrying 'classified material.'" Directlyor indirectly, two young officers diedbecause of a flying saucer. They were thefirst, but there have been others!The Bender Episode

In 1952, a Bridgeport, Connecticut, mannamed Albert K. Bender, organized a UFOresearch group which he called theInternational Flying Saucer Bureau. TheIFSB was well received and in no time at allbecame a thriving organization withmembers in most states, and in variousforeign countries.

Suddenly, one day, Bender announcedthat he was closing his group upon orders ofa HIGHER AUTHORITY. Bender insisted thathe had been visited by three men, whoalthough otherwise very normal inappearance, had worn black suits and hats.They revealed to the Connecticut groupleader the secret of the saucers and thenwarned him not to discuss anything abouttheir visit.

We shall probably never know thecomplete circumstances surrounding thevisitation, but from the little Bender revealedat the time, we can state the following with areasonable amount of certainty: Bender hadbeen thinking of a UFO theory, which heeventually sent to a certain other person.Shortly thereafter the three men came, andone of them was carrying in hand the samesheet of paper that Bender had mailed. Thevisitors were very threatening in theirmanner, hinting at dire consequences ifBender printed his theory, as he hadoriginally intended to do. For several hourstwo of the men drilled the researcheron the explanation for the UFO mystery,while the third merely sat and carefullyobserved Bender. The story they gave was"fantastic" and extremely frightening, Benderlater said, and it portended great changes inall fields of human endeavor, particularly inscience. Before leaving, one of the MIBturned toward Bender and said, "If I hearanother word from your office, you're introuble."

Later Bender made a telephone call to afriend in which he casually mentioned histheory and subsequent visitation of thethree men. Immediately after hanging up,the phone rang. A voice uttered that heknew of Bender's conversation and that hehad made a "bad slip" and warned him to bemore attentive in the future.

From this moment on Bender refused todiscuss anything else concerning hisvisitation or theory.

In 1953 several other researchers hadsimilar visits from enigmatic entities whobestowed the disks upon them after theyhad been very close to printing the truth,unknowingly, in their publications. One ofthose visited was Edgar Jarrold, head of theAustralian Flying Saucer Bureau, and aregular correspondent of Bender's. In fact,many researchers suspect that Jarrold is theone to whom Bender first imparted his"secret."

Jarrold seems to have undergone theeerie spectrum of visitations, weird phonecalls and poltergeist activity. Jarrold was alsopuzzled by a mysterious black car whichhung around his office at night. The autocontained two persons who evidently hadhim under surveillance.

Although no one knows what became ofthe Australian investigator, apparently theultimate climax came when he was in a largedepartment store in Sydney. Jarrold was atthe top of a flight of stairs leading from theground floor when he received a violentpush from the back, which sent him flyingdownstairs. This took place in broad daylightand from all accounts nobody was standingnear him. Whatever pushed him wasinvisible, yet retained its physical bulk inorder to carry out the attack.

This ties in with poltergeist activityreported in connection with UFO sightings inmany areas including Point Pleasant, WestVirginia, home of the "Mothman." In Canada,recently, an entire household was besiegedby invisible entities soon after the occupantshad close UFO sightings. At about the sametime, in Toledo, Oregon, the residents of thissmall community were puzzled with thefrequent visitations made by strangecrawling lights which seemed to move up thevery walls of their homes. A UFO flap was inthe process during this period and sightingsincluded reports of stump-like creatures andpulsating UFOs which brightened up theneighborhood at night.

Kenneth Arnold himself seems to havebeen visited by these invisible entities: "Atmy home I have been visited by unseenentities whom I believe to be pilots of theseweird disks. They were invisible to me and

weird disks. They were invisible to me andmade no attempt to communicate. I wasaware of their presence because I could seemy rugs and furniture sink down under theirweight as they walked about the room or saton various objects."

In many cases, these poltergeists arethe forerunners of the Men in Black whofrequently turn up anywhere from 24 to 48hours after these invisible pranksters firstshow themselves. In some cases the silencers seem to bring about theseoccurrences which follow shortly after theirvisits.

Since the beginning in 1967 theactivities of these MIB have been on therise. Important investigators across thecountry have reported a weird series ofevents which include strange phone calls,visits by invisible beings and harassment byvarious persons claiming to be from thegovernment. They have continuallyphotographed the homes of persons havingclose encounters with UFOs and havedisguised themselves as governmentofficials, salesmen, poll takers and termiteexterminators, in order to gain access tosaucer information.

Because the Air Force has beenaccused of sending these individuals, onMarch 1, 1967, a memo entitled"Impersonations of Air Force Officers"signed Lieutenant General Hewitt Wheless,Air Force Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, wassent to all commands. It read: "Information,not verifiable, has reached Hq USAF thatpersons claiming to represent the Air Forceor other Defense establishments havecontacted citizens who have sightedunidentified flying objects. In one reportedcase an individual in civilian clothes, whorepresented himself as a member ofNORAD, demanded and received photosbelonging to a private citizen. In another, aperson in an Air Force uniform approachedlocal police and other citizens who hadsighted a UFO, assembled them in a schoolroom and told them that they did not seewhat they thought they saw and that theyshould not talk to anyone about the sighting.All military and civilian personnel andparticularly Information Officers and UFOInvestigating Officers and UFO InvestigatingOfficers who hear of such reports shouldimmediately notify their local OSI officers."

Some More Men in Black CasesAccording to Saucer News, Mr. Tad

Jones, who witnessed a hovering sphere ona major highway in January, 1967, receivedtwo threatening notes warning him not to tellanyone what he had seen. The printing ofthese "prank" warnings was identical to theprinting of a note placed under the door ofConnie Carpenter in Middleport, Ohio.Respected researcher John Keel, author ofnumerous articles and books, has writtenextensively about would-be "kidnappers"who have come after UFO witnesses andUFOnaut sighters.

O n Long Island, two men in Air Forceuniforms harassed UFO witnesses. One ofthese men identified himself as LieutenantFrank Davis and threatened two differentpeople with a revolver, warning them to"watch out who you talk to." It almost seemsas if this MIB had stolen his identity bycombining the names of the two Army investigators who died in the airplane crash in theMaury Island case. If so it was a sickdisguise.

A Colonel John Dalton interviewed atleast three other Long Island residents andasked them to fill out complicated formswhich contained involved questions aboutthe witnesses' personal lives. Throughofficials on Long Island, John Keel had acheck run on the men. The Air Force deniedthat it knew anything about either one orthat men with those names were assignedanywhere on the Island.

Lt. Davis turned up again in a postman'suniform and later engaged in takingphotographs of the homes of UFO sighters.In yet another MIB case a black Cadillacmade a deliberate attempt to run over aUFO witness on the main street of a LongIsland town.

During the same period, one of my closefriends, investigator Robert Easley, ofDefiance, Ohio, was reportedly followed by aman in a black sedan with no license plates.The man was dressed in black shoes, blackpants, and a blue pullover shirt.

In the wee hours of July, 11, 1967, Mr.Easley was awakened by a phone call froma lady who told him that she and sevenothers were observing two bright fast-moving UFOs. After she hung up, he immediately got dressed and went to the scene.While checking on this report, he noticedthat he was being followed by a man in ablack sedan with no license plates.

On July 15th, he was again followed bythe same man in the same car as he wasdriving home. When he pulled into hisdriveway, the unknown car sped off. Laterthat evening as he sat talking with his girlfriend on the front porch, the car came downthe road and stopped right in front of thehouse, as soon as the topic of UFOsentered their conversation. Easley couldfeel the man looking at them. When they gotoff the subject the car left, but when they gotback on it about an hour later, the same carcame back again. It was as if the drivercould hear what they were saying or readtheir minds!

On July 17th, as Easley was checkingout another routine UFO report, the manappeared and followed him to and from thescene of the sighting, dressed in the sameblack shoes, black dress pants and darkpull-over shirt.

Between the 11th and 17th of July, Bobreceived a total of 12 strange phone calls. Ineach case, the only sound on the other endof the line was a strange beeping noise,each call lasted for about 15 seconds,followed by complete silence. The beepsounded far away, as if coming from amachine.

In Europe as well, witnesses are beingthreatened into silence! Mysterious voicesand sounds are appearing on telephonesand tapes and imposters pretending to beeither famed saucer investigators orgovernment officials, are visiting contacteesand those claiming to have observed UFOsat close range.

Even Dr. J. Allen Hynek ran into theseaccounts. In the December, 1967, issue ofPlayboy, he said: "I have on occasion beentold what seemed to be a straightforwardstory, when suddenly the witness lapsed intoa highly confidential mood and told me thathe was sure that his phone was beingtapped or that he was being watched,sometimes on a regular schedule either bythe 'government' or by 'occupants of thecraft.'"

Following the death of Snippy the racehorse in Alamosa, Colorado, attributed to aflying saucer, there were several strangeincidents in the area. One witness, aUniversity student, wrote a letter to RileyCrabb, director of the Borderland SciencesResearch Foundation, in which he told ofthe odd things which had happened to himafter his consecutive sightings of a brightUFO on September 17, 1967, and anothermade in the company of 100 fellow studentsat Highlands University, the followingWednesday. "The day immediately after thissighting I received a phone call from a friendwho said that his life had been threatened ifhe so much as magnified the incident tohigher authorities. He said I should refrainfrom doing the same."

A week later, Crabb's correspondentwas out riding with a detective who servesas night police on the campus. They droveup into the mountains near Gallinas canyonto get a view of the town. Suddenly, a lightappeared in the sky. At first it didn't seem tobe different from any other aircraft. Then itmoved erratically and reversed directionwithout the circular deviation of knownaircraft. It declined in the Eastern horizonnear an old water tower, located above fivemiles distant from the witnesses. "Wedecided to take a chance and raced fullspeed in that direction. By the time wearrived, there was a series of small brushfires near the tower. After extinguishingthese we searched the area for the culprit.There was a deserted ranch house nearbywith a wooden fence. On the other side ofthe fence was a sharp decline into anothercanyon. Upon reaching this fence westopped to obtain our direction and radio ina report. Just as suddenly as you blink aneye it became terribly hot. The areaimmediately before us in the decline becameblood red. At that moment an object about50 to 75 feet in diameter shot straight upinto the sky at fantastic speed. The objectwas blood red. After an intense overallsearch of the area we radioed in for officialhelp."

Two days later the student received aphone call late at night warning him that itwould be better if he forgot what he hadseen. Above all he was told that he shouldtell no one about his experience, becausethey wouldn't believe him anyway. "The nextday a stranger met me in the street on myway into town. He knew about everything

way into town. He knew about everythingrevolving around the sighting and evenadded information that confirmed some ofmy own research on Atlantis. About thesighting he made an open threat to keep mymouth shut."

A few days later, he was again walkingdowntown along the road when a black carcame speeding in his direction. "It veeredover and almost hit me. I was too angeredand shaken to forget that car. The windowswere not clear glass, but tinted a smokycolor, making it impossible to see theoccupants. The rear license plate did notregister any state. It showed nothing butthree X's."

Even this was not the end of thestudent's encounter with an unknown."Toward the end of October, while having acup of coffee at my favorite cafe, a shotbroke the monotony of the smoke-filledroom. The bullet came through the frontwindow and slammed into the wall about aninch above my head. Had I not just bentover to sip my coffee I would have beendead!"

This was followed by a streak of badluck and freak accidents. After being bed-ridden for two weeks with pneumonia andfailing his studies, he began to take the hint."I've lost all hopes of returning to HighlandsUniversity. Here I am back home andunemployed, and classified 1-A."

The officer who had been with thestudent during the spectacular sighting laterlost his job and was divorced by his wife.

Mystery on the MohawkFor a period of approximately four

years, an area on the banks of the New YorkState barge canal (Mohawk River) in Scotia,New York, was the site for very unusual MIB-type activities.

According to Jennifer Stevens, a highlyqualified UFO investigator fromSchenectady, in April of 1967, a woman,identified only as "Peggy G." was walking afriend to her car at about 11:00 p.m. The twostopped to watch what appeared to be avery large bright star. As they watched the"star," it began to get closer and before theyknew it the object was hovering a shortdistance from them. Suddenly, a baseball-sized projectile shot from the larger UFO,went whizzing over their heads anddisappeared into the trees across the street.

Nothing more was seen for a period ofsix weeks. Then Peggy called Mrs. Stevensand told her that there had been additionalsightings in the immediate vicinity of herhome. Also, some of her neighbors hadreported animals missing. One of theneighbors had told several people that "littlemen" had kidnapped her dog.

Peggy also stated that she hadexperienced "poltergeist" activity in herhome, beginning shortly after her originalsighting. She had seen the shadow of a manmaterialize and then disappear on severaloccasions, and had also seen objects in thehouse moving, apparently by themselves.Her cat, she said, had suddenly taken tohissing, spitting, and arching its back atnothing which could be seen.

During the Christmas season thesemanifestations got worse and finally came toa climax with the meeting of a strange man.In order to make extra money, Peggy hadtaken on an afternoon job in a localdepartment store while her children were atschool and her husband at the office. Aftershe had worked in the store for only a fewdays, a man employed as a guardapproached her and seemed interested intelling her something. At lunch the man,whom Peggy describes as being "old andyet young," informed her that he was amember of a secret organization working onearth called the "Cosmic Brotherhood." Hetold her that at one time he had been aprofessor in a well-known college and wasincredibly old. A co-worker overheard theconversation, and mumbled under hisbreath that the security guard was crazy.With this the guard looked up and halfshouted, "If you don't get away from hereand forget what you've heard, I'll turn myselfinto the most horrible thing you've everseen." As Peggy watched, rays of light shotfrom the security officer's eyes and the otherworker retreated in terror. Not too long afterthis the guard left his job and attempts totrack him down have been fruitless.

In February of 1968, two young menwere returning home late one evening whenthey claim to have come upon a flyingsaucer which was resting on the frozenMohawk River. They thought they could seethe outline of a white-suited human formnear the craft.

According to Mrs. Stevens, the nextmorning some 300 yards from where theUFO had been seen, a 16-year-old boy wasfound dead. His body had been frozendeeply into the ice. "The police called it'death due to exposure,' but they wereunable to explain why his tracks showed thathe had apparently been running, thendragging onefoot as if pulled from above," Jennifer pointsout with concern.

On subsequent nights after the strangedeath, Jennifer and a group of investigatorsfrom a local UFO organization patrolled theriver bank to se if they could gather furtherclues. "After several nights of freezing toesand noses, we had a good sighting of ourown. An oval, red-glowing object fluttered insilence. It hovered, blinked off and on in afive-four pattern. I grabbed a brightflashlight and signalled back in an identicalmanner. In a moment the UFO blinked back.This exchange went on for several minutes,and then the object began to come towardus. The hair began to rise on the back of myneck. Had I done a stupid thing? Were we introuble?" Just then a plane appearedoverhead, the object blinked out anddisappeared from view.

This was not, however, the end of theeerie entanglement with these littleunderstood aspects of the UFO enigma.Several days after the events on theMohawk, Jennifer’s husband was seated in acafeteria sipping a cup of hot coffee when astrange man took the stool next to him.Without any introduction the mysteriousstranger began to discuss, with a greatdegree of knowledge, the eventssurrounding the UFO sighting.

He began with, "There have beenpeople watching the sky every night downby the river in Scotia." Mr. Stevens wasrather shocked since he had been one ofthose involved, but keeping his cool he said,"I beg your pardon?" The man then went onto talk about UFOs. He refused to answerany questions directly and either parried oravoided them completely. Before leaving hewarned, "People who look for UFOs shouldbe very, very careful."

This meeting with a possible MIB wasfollowed by the usual pattern of phone callsand poltergeist activity in the Stevens'household. At about this same time, PeggyG. also reported interference on hertelephone and claims she observed twolight-skinned men with completelyexpressionless faces, stringing silver tapeover the wires near her home. After callingthe police they disappeared as if listening inon her call. Later one of the officersremarked unconsciously, "Oh, the silver tapeagain."

During the next three weeks all partiesinvolved were repeatedly followed by a lightblue Lincoln which would even park outsidetheir homes, sometimes for hours.

The mystery of the strange death on theMohawk, the disappearance ofneighborhood pets, the weird poltergeistphenomena and the sightings of the UFOsthemselves have never been explained.They are part and parcel of the flyingsaucer mystery.

Physical EvidenceIf a common denominator is to be found

in any of the MIB cases, it appears to bethat these individuals are greatly concernedwith any physical evidence, any piece ofactual hardware being in the hands ofcontactees. It almost appears as if they aredetermined to confiscate any material whichcould easily prove UFOs to be real at anycost—even death! We can't forget soonenough the Maury Island case, which involved "slag," or let's take, for example, thestory Brad Steiger relates: "Late oneevening in mid-February, 1968, I received along distance phone call from a close friendof mine who is a traveling salesman for alarge automotive parts company. 'Hey, Brad,'he said, after telling me that he was callingfrom a city about 300 miles from my home,'Would you believe that I'm in the midst of adamned saucer flap? A mother anddaughter say they saw a UFO in their field.Several farmers have been seeing UFOsland regularly. Hell, the locals here drive outon certain evenings and watch the thingshover over high-tension wires. Everyone intown, including the cops, take the things asa matter of course.'"

Brad asked his friend to investigate firsthand and report to him in a few days. Twonights later the salesman called back. Hehad managed to track down the various

had managed to track down the variousstories and was astonished at the high levelof intelligence shown by most of thewitnesses. His entire manner ofconversation had changed as well as hisformer skepticism about UFOs. He askedBrad several questions which led theconcerned researcher to believe that hehad somehow had a bout with the MIB.Informed it would probably be best if he leftthe town, he told the Iowa author that hewas going to stay on and would call againthe next evening. "The next night his callnever came. At midnight I tried calling hismotel and was told that my friend had neverchecked into a room at that roadside inn,"Steiger recounts. "I persisted and told theclerk that my friend had been registeredthere for nearly a week. At last, she foundthe card, expressed amazement that it hadbeen pulled from its regular place in the file.I was unable to make connection with himthat night. The next morning I was comfortedto hear his sleepy voice answer my call. Hehad just begun to fill me in on what he haduncovered when we got cut off. It took myoperator five minutes and three channels tore-establish our call."

"When the call was finally completedagain, the automotive parts salesman toldBrad that he had been given "something"and would have to stay over another nightto complete his investigation. What was thissomething? Three days before, a farmerhad given him a specimen of a metal whichthe man had seen falling from a UFO. Thefarmer had kept one for himself. "Two nightslater I was surprised to find my friend at mydoor. He had driven nearly 300 miles out ofhis way to come to see me; he lookedterrible. Dark circles rimmed his bloodshoteyes and it was apparent that he had notslept for quite some time. He told me that hehad returned to his hotel with the specimenonly to find two men waiting in his room forhim. They had already gotten the farmer'spiece and wanted his."

Standing before Brad, trembling in fearand rage, he wanted to know what all thismeant, and how the men knew he had themetal specimen to begin with! "Besidesbeing specific about what would happen tome, if I didn't give them the material,"Steiger's friend said, "They told me it was forthe good of 'my family, my country and myworld.'"

An Amazing LandingA parallel account was once described

to me by the late Gray Barker, who waspresident of Saucerian Books, publisher ofvarious flying saucer volumes. He heardabout the case while attending a conventionfor audio-visual products. Striking up aconversation with one of the salespersonnel, the man Mr. Barker was speakingto related a saucer incident involving theMIB, which he had personally encounteredduring the course of his work.

While waiting to talk with the principal ofan elementary school in Arko, Utah, hisattention was drawn to a drawing on abulletin board in the hallway, captioned "MyTrue Flying Saucer Story."

Asking some of the children who werewalking through the hall what the illustrationwas all about, he managed to put together atruly weird story in which one of the seventhgraders, Robert McCallister, actually claimsto have possessed an artifact given to himby some UFOnauts.

The youth was trapping coyotes duringthe Christmas holidays, hoping the bountieshe would collect would add to the fund whichwould help send his scout troop to Salt LakeCity for a state meeting. Checking his trapsin an isolated area, he suddenly came upona strange circular vehicle hovering about sixfeet above the ground. His first thought wasthat it was one of the governments"hovercrafts" he had seen in ScholasticMagazine, an educational schoolpublication, so he had no qualms aboutapproaching to a few feet of thecontrivance. The machine made no noise. Itwas about 15 feet in diameter, and hadtriangular-shaped ports about three feetapart. No person seemed to be inside orabout the craft.

Then from behind some rocks emergeda rather odd group. Three persons, tall,their heads encased in helmets like diverswear, held onto a cable, onto which wasattached, about ten feet off the ground, akind of chair, which seemed to be floating,as if attached to an invisible balloon. On thechair sat a smiling, apparently aged man,with striking silver hair and a wide smile. Thesilver-haired man wore no helmet, nouniform but a kind of blue flowing tunic, andsandals. Moving as if they did not notice himat all, the three "floated" the chair to themachine, in which a door suddenly opened,through which the chair floated. Two of themen also entered the door floating upwardto it. When the door closed, there was noindication any opening had been there.

The man remaining outside approachedRobert, and placing his arm about him, ledhim all around the craft, speaking in astrange language and pointing all the whileat various features of the craft, such as aprotruding antenna-like device and a thinglike a rudder. All the while, Robert thoughtthat perhaps the man might be a Russianastronaut and remembered he had readsomewhere that Russians were friendlypeople. He was enjoying the strangeexperience and whenasked why he wasn't afraid he said therewas no reason to be. Finally the man noteda ball point pen in the boy's pocket andpointed to it. Robert undipped the pen andhanded it to the man, whereupon the manwithdrew a piece of very thick paper from aninside pocket and scribbled with a pen on it.He handed it back, whereupon Robertmotioned him to keep it. The man smiledand seemed to be delighted with the smallgift. Then he reached inside his pocketagain, and withdrew a somewhat similarobject, and exchanged it with the boy.

Just then the door again opened andthe man floated up to it and disappeared,after waving for Robert to move back. Heretreated a few yards, then turned to watchthe craft again, but the door opened again,and the same man once again motioned forhim to move further away. Robert retreatedfor about a hundred yards, and then turnedto observe the machine, which was thenrising slowly and soundlessly. Suddenly itshot upward at incredible speed.

When Robert breathlessly told his storyto his parents and older brother theylaughed at him, and told him he was too oldto be making up such stories. Then he tookthe object the "spaceman" had given himout of his pocket and showed it to them. Itwas a black plastic tube, all in one piece,with a glass or plastic point at the end, andwith an opening from which a sepia-coloredink flowed onto paper when written with.

When school resumed after New Years,Robert brought the pen to school and toldhis classmates about his experience. Theteacher, while not believing his story, allowedRobert to pass the pen around.Unfortunately, by the time Mr. Barker'sacquaintance found out about the incident,the "pen" had already been "lost."

After showing it all through the schoolthat day, he was doing his home work, aloneat his house. His older brother was atbasketball practice; his mother and fatherhad taken two younger children with them tothe supermarket.

There was a knock at the door. A small,obsequious, smiling man, stood there,making motions along with talking in a weirdgibberish language. Then the man exhibiteda "deaf mute card," the standard itemoffered for sale by deaf solicitors, showinghand signals, which is the deaf alphabet.Robert figured the man wanted acontribution, and he motioned for the man towait there while he went back into the livingroom for some change. When he offered thecoins to the man, he would not accept them,but instead pointed to the card and madevarious signals. Then he motioned towardthe pen in the boys shirt pocket andindicated that it be given to him to write with.As soon as Robert handed him the pen, theman clutched it in his fist and ran around thehouse at a remarkably speedy gait. Robertheard a car motor rev up behind the houseand the screech of tires "burning rubber."

Gray concluded his story to me bystating that an investigation disclosed thatnobody else in the neighborhood had beensolicited by deaf mutes. The young studenttold his story at school the next day, and hisclassmates were disappointed his "outerspace men" had been stolen. They collectedsome money and brought him an expensivepen and pencil set, which he exhibitedproudly to the salesman when interviewed.Thus, the search for physical evidence hitanother snag.After observing a UFO form this symbol inthe sky, a UFO witness from Virginia told hisfamily about what he had seen. The nextday—though no formal report had been filed—the man was visited by a strangely-dressed MIB who told him to remainsilent—"Or Else!"

The UFOnauts Are Here!

Do alien visitors from other worlds walkamong us?

According to Philadelphia researcherMilton L. Scott, at times the television show,The Invaders, which was popular someyears back, seemed to be just "a bit morethan a concoction of a science fictionwriter's vivid imagination; the kidnappings,murders, and sabotage being done byDavid Vincent's adversaries with theopposable pinkies are the same thingsbeing done by their true-to-lifecounterparts." Or so says Mr. Scott.

Furthermore Scott points out that thedifference between the television invadersand the real aliens is that there are nofunny-looking fingers to make them easy tospot. Thus in order to carry out their variousacts while on Earth, it is necessary for them"to resemble us as closely as possible." Inorder to do this they need not "involve themselves with using some fantastic hypno-screen that 'clouds' our minds to their true,gruesome appearance" because they areno more gruesome looking than Chinese,Japanese, Vietnamese, or Ainus.

Because of their Earth-like appearancethey are able to carry on various acts of"espionage" without being detected.

How does a planet wage an undeclaredwar with yet-to-be invented weapons againstan enemy who is not supposed to exist? Milton Scott says: "You might start off byalerting the nation's power companies to theever-present danger of sudden blackouts,and advising those stations to close eachand every switch within reach when theydetect a gigantic surge of power racingdown the lines from an unknown source."

Or: "You might also make noble-sounding pronouncements of peace andfriendship to the world—hoping thatwhoever is listening outside our civilizationbelieves it. You could sign treaties amongnations to ban wars in outer space;clutching at the powdery straw con- tacteeshave left to us in hopes that flying saucersinvading our skies really are big brother-type angels who shed tears over our savagenature.

"You could even build giant radiotelescopes to send messages beamingacross space: 'We are really nice fellows.We can't hurt you. We only hate each other.Don't hurt us.'"

Scott asks: "Then what to do you dowhen the blackouts keep occurring, and thedeaths and the kidnappings continue tomount?

"You could explode nuclear bombs highin the atmosphere in the hope that theradiation will disrupt the machinery of thesaucers or even kill their occupants. Youcould even test your theory by having thebomb explode in the vicinity of a satellite—like the Transit 4-B satellite, and when thesatellite suddenly stops sending signals, youcould congratulate yourself on a theory wellproved. Then, what do you do when thesatellite suddenly comes back to life fiveyears later—and starts rebroadcastingagain?"

Obviously Scott is convinced that theUFOs are here on a non- peaceful mission.We asked him how he reached thisimportant conclusion. His answer:

"For over 20 years the public has beenfed false information from both thegovernment and newspapers who scoffed atanyone who dared report a flying saucer. It'sgotten to the point that the Air Force and theCIA can expect more information from aMartian than they can from John Doe. Ol'John just won't tell anybody anything.

"That's where my tale begins: the firststages of the war that the flying sauceroccupants have been waging against us hasbeen psychological. They have spreadconfusion, fear, and doubt from one cornerof the globe to the other in order to keeptheir movements and their purpose a secretuntil they are ready to make their move. It'sa fantastic tale of ghosts, ESP, thoughtcontrol, liars, dupes and murder.

"The most important battle in the war ofthe worlds was waged and won in the mindsof the people. If there can be one glaringfault on our part that led to our defeat, it wasthe view that we were the supreme result ofbillions of years of a thing called evolution—that wewere the only intelligent beings in theuniverse.

"Our scientists, philosophers and clergyboosted our egos by telling us, endlessly,what great works of God we were—socomplex (and so stupid) that there couldn'tpossibly be anyone else as grand and aswonderful as we were. It was a perfect set-up and the characters from the flyingsaucers exploited it to the fullest extent; theymade a few flights over villages,countrysides, swamps and cities to shake upthe public and drive a wedge between beliefin what the government says and what ourown eyes say."

In order to keep their mission a secretand make UFOs look like the work of idiots,Scott claims that they used ships of varyingshapes, sizes, colors, and methods ofpropulsion to spread confusion among thefew investigators, and they even used aneffect that produced a number of imagesfrom a few actual saucers so that theviewers would think there were whole fleetsof saucers tooling about the skies. Thus thesubject of flying saucers soon became athing of disbelief and tired old jokes.

Scott contends that the hundreds of littlemen, gods, beautiful space men, wingedmonsters, and surplus Atlantean Biplanesand talk of UFOs being from the bowels ofthe Earth, fifth dimension, an antimatteruniverse, etc. was nothing more than liesand false leads, implanted in gullible Earthlyminds by the aliens.

In reality we were lulled to sleep whilemore land was taken. We needed anddreamed while more men and materials fromother worlds were flown in. We giggled asthings rushed rapidly toward a point of noreturn. The government refused to believethe abundance of evidence before its eyesuntil it was too late.

Adamski, and all the other contactees,Scott tells us, did have real enoughexperiences but they were selected for theirgullibility, and they wrote books that werejust as naive and as gullible as they were.The books got the large hee-haw from thepublic that the aliens had expected, and thecase for flying saucers was laughed into obscurity for ten more years while the alienswent about their plans uninterrupted.

If, as Milton Scott says, the alien'spurpose for being here is other thanpeaceful and they look almost exactly likeus, how then can they be identified? Theanswer may lie in the scientific analysis of a"suspected" alien once he has beencaptured. "Perhaps the answer is in thechemical balances of the body or in thetheory that the little DNA molecules onlyhave a limited number of types to choosefrom among Earthlings."

Interesting theory? So much so that,upon hearing of Mr. Scott's opinions back inthe 1960s, Dr. Edward U. Condon, of the ill-famed University of Colorado UFO study,requested that we send reproductions tohim of several newspaper columns whichhad carried these ideas.

The DiversionsIn accord with many of the opinions

expressed by Mr. Scott is another famedUFO investigator, John A. Keel. Besidesbeing one of America's foremost authoritieson flying saucers, Keel has long had ahistory of objective scientific study of otherphenomena. He has been a reporter formore than 40 years and has authoredseveral best-selling books dealing with bothoffbeat and more conservative topics.

Commenting upon various diversionsinherent in the UFO enigma, Keel told usthat: "From 1897 on it has been a commonpractice for the UFOs to leave behindordinary debris such as newspapers, piecesof metal, articles or ordinary clothing,mundane chemicals, etc. Investigators whohad discovered such items have often beenled to believe that the whole incident was ahuman hoax or prank of some kind. It is alsoquite common to find ordinary tire tracks ininaccessible fields where landings havebeen reported." Keel warns us that weshould not permit ourselves to be misled bythese "negative factors." Keel points out thateven in these cases a thoroughinvestigation should be made. "We havediscovered that a multiple group of thesenegative factors often leads to positive proofthat a UFO event did occur."

Other odd factors inherent in UFOcontacts is that "ancient Greek is oftenemployed by the UFO occupants. Greeknames and phrases are frequently used fortheir non-existent planets. Many of theentities adopt Greek nouns as theirpersonal names. The witnesses very rarelyrealize this or understand it. Prepareyourself by obtaining and studying a book ofGreek mythology."

Keel also suggests that we should alsostudy "our own techniques of psychological

study "our own techniques of psychologicalwarfare which are often employed by theUFOs." Diversionary landings or seeminglyimportant incidents frequently are staged afew miles from an area where a trulysignificant UFO activity is taking place. Thediversion wins all of our attention andpublicity and the important activity goesunnoticed.

Like Scott, Mr. Keel informs us that weshould discard all preconceptions: "Youmust learn to accept only the correlativeevidence and ignore the assortedspeculations which have dominatedUFOlogy. We are interested only in hardfacts. All of these facts indicate that we aredealing with an environmental phenomenon,but that we have been misled into believingthe extraterrestrial thesis."

Thus unlike Milton Scott, John Keel isconvinced that the flying saucers, althoughvery real are not from other planets. "Solong as we accepted the ET concept, thephenomenon and its source are safe andfree from interference. Deliberate hoaxeswere executed to sustain skepticism andconvince government agencies that the

was convinced of the ET thesis, which wasunacceptable to both the general public andthe scientific community, and by loudlyadvocating it, they succeeded in heapingridicule upon the subject. Thus the UFOsource was able to operate unhindered for20 long years."

Hallucinatory EffectsUFO believers usually rebel at any

suggestion that the UFO phenomenon maybe hallucinatory or psychological. However,Keel points out: "In recent years, manypsychological factors have been discoveredand various groups of psychologists andpsychiatrists are now actively engaged inUFO research. Unfortunately, very fewUFOlogists are trained or equipped tounderstand or even to investigate theunderlying psychological factors. You shouldread at least one good book on psychiatryand/or psychology."

As far as the contact stories areconcerned, Keel tells us that "at least someof these cases have proven to behallucinations, because it seems that theeffects were produced in the witnesses'minds by an exterior influence. These effectsare similar to hypnosis. While the witnesses'bodies undergo one sequence orexperience, false memories of anothersequence of experiences are planted intheir minds.

"Frequently the true (but forgotten)experience surfaces from the witnessessubconscious later on in the form of adream or nightmare. We cannot outline thewhole process here, but it must beconsidered as a very important factor inmany cases."

Important Factors in UFO SightingsSome of the important factors to look for

in UFO sightings, according to Mr. Keel,include:

"Emotional Reactions—In low-levelsightings, auto pursuits, etc., the emotionaland psychological responses of thewitnesses are extremely important. Get themto explain in detail how they felt immediatelybefore, during and after the sighting. Didthey suffer fear, nausea, dizziness? Did theyhave unusual dreams afterward? In somecases, these reactions are more importantthan the sighting itself.

"Sounds—The sounds accompanyingthe objects can be of great importance.Many of these sounds have proven to be'mental' in nature. That is they were notaudible movements of air, but were electricalresponses in the brains of the observers.Beeping sounds frequently indicate that thewitness was subjected to an unconsciousexperience. Such witnesses may find thatthey are unable to explain lapses of time orgeographical transfers during suchsightings. Such witnesses should beexamined by a qualified psychiatrist whenever possible.

"Eye Burn—Witnesses who suffer fromburned or inflamed eyes after viewing aUFO should be examined immediately by aprofessional doctor and a full medical reportshould be obtained. In those cases involving'eye burn' weeks or months previous to theinvestigation, the investigator should get thewitness to draw up a full statementexplaining in full the reactions suffered.Medical documentation is most important.

"Dreams—Many witnesses sufferunusual nightmares weeks before their UFOsighting. Others have strange nightmaresfor weeks afterward. These dreams areimportant, and you should obtain fulldescriptions of them. Some witnesses beginto have prophetic dreams after their UFOexperience.

"In landing cases when definite markingsare found on the ground they should bephotographed and measurements carefullymade. For the past 40 years hundreds oflandings have been neglected even thoughthe markings are always similar to size andformation. If we had collected anddocumented photos of all these landings wewould now have an impressive body ofcorrelative evidence."

In further investigating importantsightings, landings and contact experiences,under no circumstances should any witnessbe hypnotized by anyone other than aqualified psychiatrist. Amateur hypnotistshave ruined several important cases inrecent years.Types of Men in Black

During this same period of which Keelspeaks of, there has been a growingnumber of cases which involve the Men inBlack. These strange individuals have beenknown to warn UFO witnesses not to revealwhat they have seen long before the case isever made public. Keel comments on theactivities of these MIB by pointing out thatmany different investigators in "flap" areashave no had confirmatory experiences withthe MIB and only a small percentage ofthese cases have been published. Thereare several different types of MIB. Onegroup appears to be more psychic orhallucinatory than real. They appear anddisappear suddenly in bedrooms and thewitnesses often experience paralysis or asudden rise in temperature during their presence. We now have dozens of such cases inour files.

Another type now common throughoutthe U.S. is represented by men who travel inpairs. The same description is always given.One is tall, blond (usually has a crewcut),fair-skinned and seems to be aScandinavian. His companion is shorter, withangular features and a dark olivecomplexion. The blond usually does most ofthe talking while the other remains in thebackground. There seems to be severalidentical pairs of these individuals operatingsimultaneously in several states.

Other types of MIB include men withoriental features, dark complexions, slightstature and a heavy, undefinable accent.These men sometimes pose as salesmen orpoll takers. The witnesses usually regardthem as "a little strange" but think nothingfurther about them. Always ask witnesses ifthey have recently received any "unusualvisitors or salesmen" but do not offer anydescriptions. See if the witnesses can offercorrelative descriptions to the above.Naturally, every stranger is not an MIB.

Going further, and here we are in totalagreement with Mr. Keel, researchersshould "never alarm witnesses by displayingunusual interest in such visitors." Neverdiscuss "silencing" or MIB cases withwitnesses.

Other types of MIB include "dark-skinned, dark-haired females of about 18years of age." Other MIB types "pose asphotographers and offer to take free photosof the witness' entire family."

These MIB use various types of vehiclesincluding the well-known "black Cadillac’s"and other cars including "assembly-lineFords and Volkswagens. White stationwagons have now been mentioned in anumber of widespread incidents."

In any case involving the MIB,researchers should not attempt toapprehend them alone. "Do not attack themphysically. Approach them with greatcaution. They frequently employ hypnotictechniques. Collect adequate testimonialevidence before reporting them to the localpolice or FBI. You must prove that theseindividuals are breaking the law before theauthorities can take any action."

In the cases where the MIB dress inmilitary uniforms, researchers shouldcontact local Air Force or military bases anddetermine the validity of their identification.In several cases the Air Force impersonators have adopted the names of existingofficers, but changed the rank. Thus, whenyou try to check out a "Colonel RobertWithers" you may find that a LieutenantRobert Withers is actually stationed nearbyand knows nothing of the incident.

Concluding Keel points out that "a largeproportion of all the available UFO literatureis based upon hearsay and speculation, andmany of the real and important problems

many of the real and important problemshave been suppressed at the source by thewitnesses themselves, or have been ignoredby superficial investigations which wereconcentrated on obtaining descriptions ofthe objects rather than studying all theevents and factors surrounding thesightings. A massive body of sighting datahas now been published but has goneuncorrelated. The practice of concentratingon the objects alone has produced a verylow yield of 'hard' facts. The failure of thismethod—or lack of method—demands thatwe develop and utilize a new system forcollecting and analyzing the data.

"Many of the aspects which havepreoccupied UFOlogists for years haveproven to be misleading or have failed tocontribute to a better understanding of thewhole. The UFOs represent only a small partof a much larger phenomenon which is nowoccurring on a world-wide scale. By beingmore thorough and objective in ourinvestigations we can—and will—learn moreabout the main phenomenon itself.

"Emotional 'causes' frequently blindresearchers to important but hidden facts.We must abandon the tiresome tactic oftrying to prove any cause. Don't jump toconclusions about the reliability of witnessesor the validity of their stories. Simply collectall of the facts and report them. Thousandsof important cases have been slighted in thepast because unqualified investigators havemade hasty negative judgments."

Carol Wayne Watts of Loco, Texas tooka series of close-up pictures of mysteriouscigar- shaped object only to find his lifeturned into a "living hell" when he wasstopped on the road, hit over the head, andhis home riddled with machine-gun fire.

The Watts CaseIt was a rather dry evening in Loco,

Texas, when Carroll Wayne Watts began hisjourney home from his father's residence,about 10:30 p.m. on March 31, 1967. Halfway home he saw a light coming from wherean abandoned house stands.

He proceeded to turn off the dirt road hehad been traveling on and headed in thedirection of the glow. As he approached itseemed to take on a definite shape. Whenhe got within 20 feet of it, he could see thatthe light was actually a craft some 100 feetlong and eight or ten feet high.

"At first I wasn't frightened at all," Wattstold an investigator for the now-defunctmagazine, Saucer News. "I thought it mustbe some new aircraft the Air Force haddeveloped and that it must have made anemergency landing or something. I know thissounds odd but that was the first thing thatwent through my mind. I also thought thatthere might be injured crewmen aboard, andI wondered how to find out, since thereweren't any windows or doors. I scroungedaround and found an odd rotting fence postand pulled it out of the mud, and startedbanging and sounded out the machine byhitting it with the post.

"Suddenly, a door that I had neverdetected before, slid open, something likean elevator door, and that was when I begangetting scared; though somehow I just stoodthere, looking into this opening. Inside therewas no crew or anything, just machinery andall kinds of meters and dials lit up by thisstrange bluish light.

"Then there was a loud cracking like thebeginning of a Victrola record, and then avoice, sounding like it came from a machineor was recorded, began talking to me. Itknew my name and everything and it told methat it wanted to give me a physicalexamination. It said that no harm wouldcome to me whatsoever, and that theexamination would be completely painless."

Watts asked why he should take theexamination, and they told him that if hepassed the physical that they would takehim for a brief flight into space.

The voice told Watts that all he had todo was stand before a machine which stoodagainst the opposite wall of the craft. Nearthis machine was a map about a yardsquare which the Texan failed to identify,although he felt that it might have been amap of their planet.

Again the mechanical voice requestedWatts to stand in front of the machine andtake a physical. At this point his nerve brokeand he left without taking the examination.

As he drove off, the object lifted from theground and headed in a southerly directionwithout a sound. The entire experiencelasted only 15 minutes.

What should have been the end of analready eerie event, proved to be only thebeginning of what is certainly the mostinteresting and confusing contact case inthe annals of UFO study.

For the next 10 days Watts ponderedwhat he had seen and remembering themany accounts of similar sightings in thearea, vowed that if he ever saw the machineagain he would hold his nerve and try to findout more about the strange device and thedisembodied voice.

On the night of April 11th, all theheavens seemed to break loose. Thelightning flashed and the thunder roared, asthe first spring storm drenched the area inrain and blew down an old tree on Watts'property. Stepping out on his porch to viewthe damage, Carroll Watts' attention wasdiverted, again to the vicinity of theabandoned shack. There was the flickeringlight again, and this time he promisedhimself that he would investigate withoutrunning away.

Before reaching the spot where he firstsaw the machine he noted that an ovoidcraft, much smaller than the long cylindricalobject, had descended and was hoveringbehind him. He got out to see a doorstanding open and four men beckoning forhim to come inside.

According to Saucer News, again anelectronic-type voice spoke, urging him tocome inside and take the painless physicalexamination.

The occupants of the craft were five feettall, muscular, clad in white coverall-typesuits and had what he described as "wrap-around eyes." They had only superficialears and noses, and slit-like smiling mouthswhich did not move, as they presumablytalked and created the electronic voice.

The drizzle had turned into heavy rainonce more, and Watts made an importantdecision. Quickly, he stepped through thedoorway into the small craft. The doorslammed shut automatically. Watts said itreminded him of a heavy car door, such asthat on a Cadillac, closing.

He was shown to a metal chair on whichhe sat. Surprisingly, the chair seemed to beflexible and gave slightly to the contours ofhis body and was most comfortable. Hedidn't have much time to examine theinterior, for the lights suddenly dimmed toalmost darkness, and his weight pushed atthe flexible chair in a short jolt. He knew theyhad taken off, but following this there was nosensation of acceleration. In what seemedlike a couple of minutes, "though it couldhave been longer or shorter," as he put it,there were three very light bumps and thecraft seemed to vibrate slightly. The lightscame up and the door opened; this time notto the outside but to what appeared to be alarge room. Later he figured that the smallmachine had attached itself to the largercraft he had visited during their firstmeeting.

Then followed a strange physicalexamination with delicate wires probinggently on his stripped body. The small menstood in another room, huddling over anilluminated circle, apparently studying theresults. Wanting some proof of hisexperience, and seeing a small green cube,"like an oversized ice cube, though with nodots on it," setting on a table, hesurreptitiously slipped it into the hip pocketof his jeans which had been left hangingnearby. Later, after he dressed, one of themen simply reached into the pocket toretrieve the object. Watts said he grabbedthe man's arm, and was immediately struckunconscious.

That was the last he remembered. Whenhe regained consciousness, he was againsitting in his truck. He felt no ill effects. Whenhe returned to the house his wife wasunworried, for he had been gone only a halfhour, although to him it seemed like a muchlonger period of time had passed.

During subsequent contacts, Wattsmanaged to get a series of 11 photographsof the craft he had been taken to, along withone shot which he maintained showed oneof the small creatures who had spoken tohim in a mechanical voice.

News of the incidents in Loco soonreached top officials in the Air Force. Wattswas referred to the Condon Committee. Hewillingly sent them copies of all his photosand lengthy testimony on what had happened. Copies of the photographs weresent to Dr. Hynek, then still civilianconsultant to the Air Force on UFOs. Hynekreported that his preliminary examination ofthe photos revealed no obvious fraud. "Ifthis is a hoax, it is a very, very clever one,"he said. "In fact, it would be such a cleverhoax that it would be almost as interesting

hoax that it would be almost as interestingas what this farmer claims has happened tohim." Dr. Hynek quickly suggested that a liedetector test be given to Watts to see if hisstory would hold out.

When it seemed that at last saucerbelievers and contactee followers wouldhave final proof that such experiences weretrue, the entire story blew wide open. Wattsflunked the test given by I.R. Wynne, ownerof the Amarillo Security Control Company,and a member of the state board whichlicenses all polygraph operators. Wattsbroke under the strain and said that hisstory had been contrived by a local artistwho, under hypnosis in four sessions hadplanted the unworldly events of his contactexperience in his mind.

At long last it looked as if the Watts storyhad made its final imprint on saucer lore andwould be set to rest along with other hoaxesthat have been made over the years.

In the meanwhile, Dr. Condon had sentthe late Captain Robert Loftin, an EarlyWarning Network Coordinator from theUniversity of Colorado, and a close friend ofthis writer, to visit Watts and get hisconfession first hand.

In an hour-and-a-half interview withLoftin, Watts related he deliberately flunkedthe lie detector test because he had beenbeaten and his family threatened. The FBIhad been called in on the case and hadtaken four of the photographs of the"spaceship." Watts tells this story: "I gotready to drive into Amarillo to take the liedetector test. It's about a 100 mile drive fromhere. A few miles out of Loco I came upon acar, I'd say a '55 Plymouth, stalled in theright-hand lane, and a woman about 25 withblonde hair and dressed in a light flowereddress under a rather plain looking coat, wastrying to get the hood of the car up. I pulledoff the road and got out to offer her someassistance.

"At that moment, I was hit on the headfrom behind, I guess with a billy club. I wentdown but it didn't knock me quite out. As Irecovered from the blow, I looked up andthere stood two men in dark business suits.One of them was holding an automatic rifleon me.

" 'If you pass this test, there's going tobe a lot of daylight seen through you inmore than one place,' he told me.

"'Now Git! ' he exclaimed, and I got.'"After he returned home late that evening

and told his wife how he had "flunked" thetest, a car drove by the Watts residence andsprayed the house with large caliberammunition, from a machine gun or someother automatic weapon.

Who was responsible for making Wattschange his story and deny his earlystatements, then go to the extreme ofshooting at his home as a further warning tobe silent? An organized group exists whoseonly purpose is to silence individuals whoknow too much about flying saucers. Onething which is agreed upon is that neitherthe Air Force, CIA, nor any othergovernment agency, is behind these sinisterattempts to hush UFO witnesses andcontactees.

Seeing a flying saucer or encounteringits occupants is not always a pleasantexperience, as the Watts case illustrated.Disaster has stalked many contactees andpersons involved in low-level sightings in asenseless pattern of destruction,unfortunate luck and even death.

Men in Black, Strange Cadillacs,Doppelgangers and Laser BeamsAuthor's Note The late John J. Robinson

was a close friend of the writer for manyyears. He was a tireless and fearlessinvestigator who was never for a momentfazed when the unknown seemed to comeright to his front door. In the followingaccount, Robinson tells of odd encounterswith possible MIB, witnessed, in part, by hiswife, Mary.

Before I begin to recount all that hasbeen happening, let me state that I am onlyreporting. I have seen nothing, nor hasanything happened to me. Sometimes I wishit would, for I feel sort of left out.

I have no reason to doubt my informants—and as for one of them, I had better not,for she is my wife!

The beginning of this report might besaid to start on the battlefields of Korea, forit was while one of my informants, GeorgeSmyth, was fighting in that land that hebecame interested in UFOs. He and twoother soldiers saw a flight of two saucerssweep over them, and reported the incidentto their commanding officer. They wererequested to report to Intelligence. Whenthey did so, they were then told that theywere suffering from battle fatigue.Regardless of this "battle fatigue," however,they were not relieved of their front-linefighting duty.

Smyth then became very interested inthe UFO phenomena and began to seekinformation regarding it. When he returnedto civilian status he proceeded to study itfrom his home in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Healso became a Saucer News subscriber.

On October 10, 1966, two teenage boyso f Elizabeth reported observing a very tall(more than six foot) being, which was greenin color, while they were walking in nearbywoods. Before they ran away, however, theyalso noted that the green-headed being hadtwo small beady red eyes and a mouthwhich seemed to be drawn into a horriblegrimace. The creature had no nose, ears,nor hair on its head.

Smyth learned of the incident and joineda crowd of people who were questioning thelads. As he did so he also noticed a largeblack car parked a good distance from thecrowd. While the excited crowd questionedthe teenagers, he observed two dark-visaged, heavy-set men who emerged fromthe car, leaving one of their party seatedbehind the wheel. The two men joined thecrowd as Smyth watched them and once ortwice he heard them question the boys.Smyth also noticed they had a slight slant totheir eyes and spoke with an accent whichhe was unable to identify.

Smyth informed Saucer News about theincident, and a team of investigators fromthe magazine investigated the report.Smyth, who remained outside the home ofone of the lads while the team interviewedthe witness inside, again noticed the sameblack car parked down the block from thehouse. Again the same two men got out;they came close and watched the houseuntil the Saucer News investigator emerged;then they returned to the black car. Otherwitnesses in the neighborhood reported tohim later that the car remained in the vicinityfor at least ten minutes before it departed.

Two weeks after the incident, Smythreceived a mysterious phone call. Anunidentified voice told him to give up UFOinvestigation and then broke the connection.A year passed without any further incident.Then on Thanksgiving eve of 1967 a blackcar stopped in the dark, a short distancefrom his home, while Smyth was in front ofthe house, walking his dog. A swarthylooking man got out of the car andapproached Smyth, calling him by his name,as the dog arched its back and began tohowl like a wolf. The man, who neveridentified himself, told Smyth that he wantedall the material on any UFO investigation hehad obtained. When asked for identification,the man would give none. Smyth refused toshow him anything.

"Are you sure you want it that way?" theswarthy man asked.

"Yes," Smyth replied."You'll be sorry!" stated the visitor, as he

returned to his car, the door of whichopened weirdly for him without his touchingit. The door had no handle which Smythcould observe. He was able to get a glimpseof a red upholstered interior before the carmoved off silently, as if it might have beenelectrically powered. He also noticed a gold"V," with a lightning bolt superimposed uponit, decorating the door, and the license platewhich bore the number, "U 1496."

Smyth reports that the man's eyesseemed to have a hypnotic quality andtended to affect him in an unexplainedmanner.

The next day a battered car driven by ablack-leather-jacketed man wearing largesun glasses almost ran him down in adeliberate manner; the day after, a very tall,white-faced man, with silver-colored hair,followed him to the usual bus he took forwork, passing him as he got on the bus, andturning the corner. As the bus reached thecorner, Smyth observed a large dark carspeeding away. The next day was uneventfuluntil an evening telephone caller advisedhim to give up his interest in UFOs. Then thephone went dead.

About a month later, a man phoned,claiming to be a Major White, of "UFORICE."When Smyth said he had never heard ofany such group, White said it was aCalifornia organization, that he was visitingNew Jersey and had received informationabout Smyth from a friend. He knew a greatdeal about Smyth, including incidents whichthe latter had not mentioned to anybody.White refused to identify the friend,

White refused to identify the friend,explaining, "I do not wish to get him into anytrouble."

The next day Smyth observed the samewhite-faced man with the silver-colored hairfollowing him again, this time from work tothe bus stop. Once again he disappearedrapidly. A week later Major White called andasked him if he would be interested inseeing a UFO. When Smyth answered in theaffirmative, he was told to be at MontanaPark, in Elizabeth, at 8:30 PM. Smythcomplied, but no UFO appeared aspromised.

About the same time the above eventswere transpiring, a Mrs. Caporino, of JerseyCity, reported to me that she had sighted aUFO out over the ocean, from the shore ofOcean Grove, New Jersey. The sighting wasreported in the Robinson Report (a limitedUFO news report service made available tothe author's colleagues in the UFOinvestigative field) and carried in severalUFO publications. Mrs. Caporino laterreported to me that just after dark on threeconsecutive Fridays at exactly the sametime (7:00 P.M.), a large black car with redupholstery pulled up under a tree, which leftthe car in the dark, and on each occasiontwo men got out, mounted the steps of herhouse, stood in the darkest spot of theporch after ringing her bell. One of the mencarried some sort of case with him.

Mrs. Caporino did not answer the dooron any of the three occasions, after peekingthrough the Venetian blinds to ascertain whowas ringing. She was too frightened to findout who the men were, and also unable toget their license number and other pertinentinformation.

Chased By Men in BlackA person in North Jersey (who did not

wish his name or research group identified)called me about the same time to give mesome unusual information. This man, Ron (Iam permitted to use only his first name), hadextensively investigated the Wanaque Lakesightings in the 1960s and had continued toinvestigate the entire area.

He was particularly interested in aconvent which had previously housedchildren each summer, but which had closeddown after the wave of strange sightings;and a college in the same area which hadalso closed its doors, and erected a steelbarricade on the road leading to it.

Ron was driving over the roadssurrounding the reservoir when suddenly hiscompanion in the car called his attention toa parked car with some kind of electricalequipment set up in the rear seat. Theequipment, with extensive dials, illuminatedin a bright, bluish light, reminded him of alarge amateur broadcasting set a friend ofhis once possessed. As they drove on,discussing this development, he noticed aroadside telephone booth in his rear viewmirror. A man suddenly emerged from it anddarted to a car across the road which beganto follow him. Ron drove up a dead end roadand stopped. The other car drove past him,with only one man, carefully keeping hisface in the shadow, inside it. It parked 50feet beyond Ron's car. When Ron turned hiscar around and drove off, the other car tookoff after him.

Ron drove into the town of Wanaqueand parked outside the police station. Theother car drove about 100 feet beyond himand also parked. This alarmed Ron and hiscompanion further, so he made a U-turn andleft the town, with the other car in hotpursuit. An expert driver, Ron managed toelude the pursuing car in turnpike traffic andswiftly drove home. Since this incident herequested and received a permit to carry agun.

The ImpostersDuring the first week of May, 1968, a car

pulled up across the street from the home ofGeorge Smyth. Three men stepped out.Although Smyth had never seen the menbefore, he quickly identified them from apicture published in Saucer News. Theywere John Keel, Gray Barker, and James W.Moseley—or so he thought. Smyth, who hadobserved the men from an upstairs window,ran down the stairs to greet them, only tosee their blue Volkswagen speeding awayup the street. It bore no license plate.

Feeling there had been somethingstrange about the men, he telephonedMoseley and Barker, who told him they hadnot been away from home all day. Hechecked again with the picture. Although themen bore facial characteristics identical tothe men in the picture, including Keel's then-copious beard, Smyth knew there had beensomething wrong with what he now believedto be an impersonation. Then heremembered: Barker and Keel had been ofthe same height— that is the impersonators—while Moseley was the shortest of thegroup. In reality, the actual order of height inthe picture was Barker-Moseley-Keel!Whoever the impersonators had been, theyhad "goofed" on heights.

A week later, while he was passing aparking lot on his way home from work,three men stepped out of a black Plymouth,of 1960-62 vintage, and which bore WestVirginia license plates (strangely distorted,since the "West Virginia" was printed at thetop instead of properly at the bottom—whilethe numerals, "1436," have since beendetermined not to exist on such plateswithout some other type of prefix ordesignation).

The men accosted him as if they knewall about him, even though they asked him ifhis name was George Smyth. When hereplied in the affirmative, they displayedS.A.U.C.E.R.S. membership cards (asmembers of Saucer News operatingorganization), bearing the names of ArthurDavidson, Thomas Murphy and WalterMulburry (or Mul-barbery). They nextasserted that they were well aware of all theevents which had happened to Smyth andwhich he had related to the Saucer Newsstaff. They simply wished him to relate oncemore the events as they occurred. Smyththen reviewed for them the entire series ofstrange happenings, while one of the triowrote in a notebook. Then they urged him tocontinue to report all future events toSaucer News.

Later, when Smyth spoke to Gray Barkerby telephone, he learned that neither Barkernor any of the staff had disclosed any of theinformation to anybody!

Our House is WatchedDuring the last week of May the strange

series of events seemed to be drawingcloser home, when my wife, Mary, mentionedduring a supper conversation that she hadnoticed some odd people near the houseeach morning as she went marketing.

A large black car was parked near ourfront door and a statue-like, tall, corpse-white man with very light hair was alwaysstanding beside it. The car, she told me, hadbright red upholstery. The tall man, however,had not caused her any alarm. But a dark,swarthy-faced man in a dark or black suithad looked piercingly at her as sheemerged from the outer door, and then hadpeered into the vestibule, as if to determineif anyone else were coming out. Since thishad occurred on four successive days, itwas getting on her nerves. She hadhesitated to mention it, she told me, for fearI would think she was "imagining things," andassured me that she actually had seen themen.

I pondered on this, for I knew that when Ileft work at 8:00 each morning, I had seennobody on the street. Whoever the menwere, they were avoiding me and showingup half an hour later, whenMary went shopping. Why did they not try tofrighten me, for I had been involved with theSaucer News investigation of theexperiences of Smyth, and other strangeevents?

Suddenly I remembered that James W.Moseley's name was on my mail box. He didthis so that he could receive mail fromcertain confidential sources at our address—and then he often stayed for several daysat a time at our house when engaged onresearch projects which involved muchreading and concentration (thus he wouldavoid telephone calls and the manypersonal visits by friends and people interested in interviewing him).

Could it be that the visitors werechecking up on Jim and were relativelydisinterested in Mary and me?

I immediately phoned Jim and told himabout the men, though noises on the lineled me to believe the line was being tapped.Jim told me to instruct Mary to secure thelicense number of the car, should she see itagain, and suggested I familiarize her withthe Cadillac emblem so that she mightrecognize it. (Both Jim and I knew that mostof the men-in-black reports included a largecar, usually a Cadillac.)

The phone call evidently set off anotherseries of happenings which are difficult—orimpossible—for me to evaluate.

Next morning when Mary went to shop,nobody stood at the factory entrance as

usual; nor did a large black car with a pale-faced individual occupy its usual position.However, as she returned home, shenoticed Jim Moseley standing in the middleof the nearby street acting almost, itseemed, like a traffic policeman! She stoodand watched him for perhaps three to fourminutes, while he turned and looked in alldirections, apparently without noticing orrecognizing her. Mary had the impressionthat he was attempting to see what wouldhappen if he exposed himself, and that heevidently did not wish her to approach him.So she entered the house. She gave it littlefurther thought, except for thinking that itwas a very early hour for Jim, who usuallyarose about noon, to be in Jersey City (Jimat that time lived in Manhattan and the tripto Jersey City would have consumed about45 minutes).

A grocery item she had forgotten topurchase made it necessary for her toreturn to the market, so she went out again.Jim was still standing in the same position,still looking in all directions and notappearing to notice her. She observed thatwhile he was dressed in the usual businesssuit, he was also wearing the gray topcoathe had worn the past winter. She knew that Ihad gone to work dressed only in abusiness suit, and that I had remarked howwarm the morning was. In fact, the topcoatwas the only circumstance which reallystruck her as odd about his being at theintersection.

She went to the store, and when shereturned, she again stood and watched Jimat his "station." Then she entered the houseand proceeded to clear the breakfast table,with the thought that Jim probably would ringthe bell, have a cup of coffee and a chatbefore he returned to New York. She alsoagain wondered how Jim had managed toget up so early—for he liked to do his UFOresearch late at night, and into the earlymorning hours, away from the pressures ofhis office and the many telephone calls.

In about ten minutes the phone rangand it was Jim on the line. He explained hewas still in bed, but has awakened and waswondering about the "MIB" situation. He hadan impulse to call her briefly before goingback to sleep. He asked her if she hadlooked outside yet to see if the men werestill there.

Without explanation, she asked Jim tohold the phone. Then she ran outside (ourwindows do not overlook the street). Jim orthe man who had looked exactly like him,was no longer there, and, for the first time,this was very upsetting to my wife. Shewondered if she were "imagining things,"due to her worrying about the visitors. Sheran back into the house, and tried to explainwhat she had seen to Jim; though by thattime she had become quite shaken.

Although he couldn't quite understandjust what she had seen, Jim advised hereither to stay in the house, or dash over toher neighbor's house and stay with her untilI returned that evening.

When I returned I found a veryfrightened wife, who by that time hadregained her composure and was able togive me all the details in a coherent manner.

I called Jim, and although I kidded himabout Mary's seeing his doppelganger, Isecretly wished that I were able to get myhands on the impersonator. Later that NightI called Gray Barker and gave him all thedetails, and he tended to connect it with theSmyth report of the impersonationsdescribed above.

Days passed without further incident.Mary, however, had begun to leave thehouse the same time as I did on weekdays,and would visit various neighbors while I wasaway. On Saturday, May 18, Jim called tomake arrangements for Timothy GreenBeckley and himself to visit us and makecopies of some of my many tape recordings.It was agreed that they would arrive early(for Jim), at ten o'clock the next morning.

As they approached my house, theyobserved a black Cadillac parked in front ofthe closed factory next door. They decidednot to stop, but to drive around the blockand make some passes in front of thehouse, to observe and take pictures (Jimhad thoughtfully brought his camera). Theyalso noted the swarthy man Mary haddescribed, standing in the factory entrance.They managed to make only two passesand to secure the two picturesaccompanying this article, before the manevidently fled; on the third circuit of thehouse both he and the Cadillac were gone.

Mary had identified the man in thephotograph as the same person who hadlooked at her so piercingly on those fivemornings.

At this writing (July 1st), there has beenno repetition of any of the visitations. Yet, onJune 11, George Smyth had called me with areport which seemed to tie in with Mary'sexperiences.

He asked me what I thought Jim hadbeen doing in Elizabeth that morning, and Ireplied that he had not been there, for I hadjust talked to him at his apartment, havingawakened him in order to get a telephonenumber which I urgently needed.

Smyth then related what had occurred.He had been on the bus, going to work asusual, and had observed Jim standing infront of the Carteret Hotel in Elizabeth, as hepassed there on his usual route. Jim, hesaid, had smiled and waved at him. Smythstated that Jim had worn a gray suit, withstriped tie and white shirt (Moseley’s favoritemode of dress). The only relevantinformation concerned a trench coat "Jim"carried on his arm, which Smyth described.Jim has never worn that type of coat, to myknowledge.

A day or two after the incident, Smythbegan to hear from acquaintances who toldhim they had been questioned by a very tall,gray-haired man, who also made inquiriesabout him. All but one of the people hadasked the man for identification, whereuponhe departed abruptly without furtherquestioning. Those questions by the tallstranger had one thing in common: all wereemployees or owners of the various eatingplaces Smyth frequented near his place ofwork. Only one person, the operator of a hotdog stand, had spoken at length with theperson. Apparently the tall man alreadypossessed a great deal of information aboutSmyth (although the stand operator knewmuch about Smyth, it seemed he wasunable to supply the man with anything hedid not already know!).

During the early evening of June 15,Smyth's phone rang and a "cultured voice,"as he described it, advised him to stop allsaucer research and to discontinue anyconnections with Barker, Moseley, Beckley,Keel and myself. Further, he should not

attend the forthcoming Congress ofScientific Ufologists (later National UFOConference) in Cleveland. If he did notcomply with the requests, he would deeplyregret it, the voice warned.

Since Smyth does not know Beckley, norexchange information with him, and since hedid not plan to attend the Congress, hiscaller was evidently partially misinformed.

On the 18th Smyth called to tell me hadhad been unable to go to work that day, dueto a particularly upsetting occurrence. Earlyin the morning, as he was preparing to leaveand catch his bus, his dog had begunhowling like a wolf while it looked out thewindow. Smyth went to the window andlooked out. On the other side of the streetwas a large black car, with one man in thedriver's seat, and two people in the rear,both of which were attending some kind ofelectronic equipment. One of the menapparently wore earphones, while the otherraised a contraption which he described as"a crystalline wheel," with a two to three footrod extending from it. The wheel began toglow with a yellow light; then the lightsuddenly concentrated into a yellow beam,which shot out, striking Smyth in theforehead, as he felt a blast of heat. Beforehe blacked out, he was able to note thelicense plate on the car. It resembled a U.S.Government plate, and bore theidentification, "U 1436." The car quickly leftafter the ray struck Smyth. When herecovered consciousness, he was sufferinga splitting headache. The headachepersisted throughout the day and two more"blackouts" occurred.

They Have Been in Cleveland, OhioDuring the Cleveland Congress, a rather

odd incident occurred in the luncheon roomof the Wild Boar Inn, a part of the SheratonAirport Motor Inn, where most of theattending delegates were lodged. On theafternoon preceding the Open Session, agroup of delegates met to have lunch priorto departure for the Valley Forge HighSchool auditorium where the public lectureswould take place.

The tables, each seating four, wereoccupied by the elite of the Congress, suchas Captain Robert Loftin, Moseley, Beckley,Ralph Fanning, Gene Duplantier, and AllenH. Greenfield. Mary and I, along with Barkerand Roseanne Maruca (a bibliographer,interested in Ufology, who has justcompleted cataloging the huge UFOpublication collection of Moseley—and istrying to track down the many items whichrecently have disappeared).

Mary suddenly glanced toward a table,directly behind me, and near the door of theInn. In a voice, which suddenly had beenraised, and which startled all of us, sheexclaimed, "Concentrate, everybody, we arebeing watched. Quiet everybody! We areunder surveillance!"

Barker looked up from his late breakfastto determine what was causing Mary'sconcern. He said nothing, but just staredpast me. As quickly as propriety allowed, Imanaged to turn my chair and my head tolook in that direction. I saw the backs of twomale figures, leaving the room in a mostprecipitate manner.

Mary, who had observed the men forsome minutes before speaking out, andthen, in her fright, had cried out ratherloudly, told us that a very pale, blue-eyedman, with silver-colored hair, had beenstaring at Barker from an uncluttered tablenear the entrance of the room. He had beendressed in a black turtle-necked sweater,and had been accompanied by anotherman, in a black suit, and who wore large sunglasses. The latter had not been looking atour group; but when Mary made herexclamation, he appeared to be startled,quickly arose, and beckoned for the silver-haired man to follow him.

And that is just about all of it. Barker didcall me, immediately after he had returnedhome from the Congress, noting that he hadbeen unable to evade the constant "tailing"of a car driven by a dark-clothed priest,which followed him most of the way homefrom Cleveland.

'Doppelganger is a German worddescribing the exact double of an individual.It is not so much associated with the ethericor astral body as it is a kind of physicaldouble. Although this phenomenon is said tooccur rarely, it is firmly implanted in occulttradition. I personally feel this case involvedan impersonator, carefully made up toresemble Jim, with the rather glaring mistakeof wearing a topcoat in summer.

Much evidence points to Moseleyhaving a double, or that a person of the NewYork area looks very much like him. When Iappeared with him on the Long John Nebel"Versus" show early in the spring of thatyear, John chided Jim for not speaking tohim when he encountered him in a passingtaxi cab. He told Jim he had rolled down thewindow and spoken to him, and that he (Jim)had looked him directly in the eye, but hadapparently not recognized him at all. Jim hadbeen on various Long John radio showsmany, many times, and surely wouldrecognize John. Jim told John he had nomemory of the encounter, and apologizedfor not speaking—though he could not possibly imagine how he could fail to recognizethe famous radio personality.

'Smyth's dog behaved similarly to"Bandit," the dog belonging to Newell Partridge, of West Virginia, who complained theanimal might have been kidnapped by"Mothman," in November, 1966. He said thedog "howled like a wolf' prior to his seeingtwo glowing eyes near his barn. Men inblack were also connected with theMothman sightings. Readers may alsoremember that Albert K. Bender, who firstpublicized the three men, suffered painfulheadaches (see Flying Saucers and theThree Men, published by Paperback Library,Inc.).

Inc.).

The Problem of Unidentified FlyingObjects

There has been a new theory advancedto explain—and not explain away—the moremysterious elements and behavior patternsof the flying saucers. Much of thespeculation on this theory came from AllenGreenfield, of Atlanta, Georgia, one of theprincipal proponents of the "AlternateReality" theory. When first advanced in the1960s, the theory caused a spark ofspeculation among many saucerresearchers as to the actual origin of manyof the objects reportedly observed.

Although now retired from UFOresearch, Greenfield met with us in the daysof his heavy UFO involvement. On one suchoccasion, we sat him down to sound him outon his theory.

Our first question was an expected one:"What actually is the Alternate RealityTheory?"

"Maybe it's just another theory, like somany others: hoaxes; psychologicalsolutions; natural phenomena; spaceships,4-D or whatever. But I think we just mayhave hit upon something of significance—asI suspect my colleagues in this theory willagree." Mr. Greenfield went on to explainthat if his theory turns out to be valid, we aredealing with "awesome implications whichare really tremendous. It will alter our entireconcept of human history. Indeed, it may wellalter our very way of living."Greenfield continued by making thefollowing six points:

1. The UFO phenomena and other"border" phenomena seem to be, at least insome cases, linked.

2. Many of the accounts of contact ornear-contact seem to betrue to the extent that they are reasonablyaccurate subjective accounts of actualexperiences of one kind or another.However, there are indications that theseexperiences, while accurate so far as thewitness is concerned, and while havingobjective external stimuli, are viewed withinthe context of the observer's ownbackground experience. Also, there is thedistinct possibility that some amount of willfuldeception may be involved on the part ofthe UFOnauts.

3. The concept of "they walk among us"is not only not "farfetched," but is probablyquite true. This may serve to explain a number of baffling cases that have shown upover the years.

4. We seem to be dealing with groupsof entities with more than one purpose. Inother words, some saucers may well behostile, some unconcerned, some friendly inone sense or another.

5. The work of such persons as TomCornelia (Peter Kor), the late Ray Palmer,Steve Erdmann, Jerome Clark, Paul Thomasand others are particularly important tounderstanding this theory.

6. Other works, outside the direct usualUFO sphere, are also relevant.

Greenfield then pointed out that the Fall,1966 issue of Saucer News, edited byJames W. Moseley, had an article whichshould be of interest to anyone engaged in"AR" studies. The article, "Perspective:Flying Saucers—Physical or Psychic." is byPeter Kor. In this article, Kor poses threepossible frameworks of explanation for thesaucer phenomena: 1. Psychic; 2.Conventionally Physical; 3. Substratic(intangible).

"Each of these frameworks has uniqueconsequences," Kor points out, "which canbe tested by fundamental trends in thesaucer evidence. Which one do you thinkbest fits the history and facts of the flyingsaucer saga?"

While the degree of Greenfield'sagreement with Kor's alternatives is"tenuous" (in his own words), he did findmuch of what Kor had to say of interest."Here we apparently have a new termintroduced to the field: substratic. Let's notmake a mistake, 'substratic' is not the sameas 'alternate realities.' It seems to mean aUFO phenomenon that is inherentlytangible. It would be interesting to hear how,within this framework, Mr. Kor accounts forcases of physical evidence."

At about the time interest in Greenfield'scomments on the AR theory had attracted anumber of "inner circle" researchers in theNew York area, who had gathered mainly forthe purpose of discussing plans for the1967 Congress of Scientific Ufologists. Mr.Greenfield continued by stating that"Another article can be gleaned from theJuly- August, 1966 issue of the outstandingBritish journal, Flying Saucer Review. Thearticle by Jerome Clark, 'The Strange Caseof the 1897 Airship' poses a very basicquestion about the nature of UFO and contact accounts: Are they accurate to theextent that the witnesses are reporting whatthey have seen within the witnesses' ownecological framework? If the answer isaffirmative, the implications are quite vast.

The following series of informalquestions concern, generally, the "AR"theory, and were asked of Mr. Greenfieldover the course of many deepconversations on the subject.

In relation to the so-called"interplanetary" theory of saucers, whatdoes the AR theory have to offer:

"As you know there are inconsistenciesin the interplanetary theory, that is, inrelation to the evidence. The AR theorydoes not rule out the possibility ofinterplanetary visitations, but rather saysthat this may be only a part of theexplanation for the phenomena observed.Pure physical phenomena might explainsome of the evidence submitted, but there isa large body of evidence that it does notexplain. Similarly, a wholly non-physicalphenomenon would not explain all theevidence. The AR theory seeks tocoordinate all the evidence into a singlecoherent pattern."

How then, Mr. Greenfield, does the ARtheory account for saucers, per set

"At this point, a theory does not offer adefinite reason for UFOs. There does notseem to be the idea that they are vehicles ofa sort, though their exact nature and reasonfor existence is unsure. There is also thematter of the sub-theory of seeing thephenomenon as a manifestation of theviewer's own background experience, that isas subjective viewing of an objectivestimulus, the exact nature of which iscurrently unknown."

Does the AR theory account formysterious disappearances?

"Yes, if one accepts the idea that realityis not fixed (at least not fixed in our presentunderstanding of reality), it is not difficult tounderstand how persons or objects might becaught in some sort of reality warp andenter or leave a given state of reality. Thiswould serve to explain many legends andFortean phenomena as well."

In relation to the above answer wepointed out to Mr. Greenfield that manysightings are made by more than oneperson, each of at least a slightly differentbackground, yet their descriptions normallycoincide to a large extent. His reply was wellthought out.

"Firstly, persons coming from the samegeneral ecological framework wouldprobably see a given UFO in generally thesame way. Secondly, there are cases wherepersons of totally different backgroundssight unidentified aerial phenomena(example: the Rev. Gill incident). Furtherstudy of these special cases would beneeded before a full evaluation of thisconsideration may be given."

Just what then are the mechanics ofinter-reality travel?

"At this point we can see several trendsin the evidence. First, if UFOs are indeed insome way manifestations of vehicularactivity, then it would follow that some formof vehicular inter-reality transmission ispossible. Secondly, we have the abovementioned matter of 'reality warps.' Thirdly,there are the indications of fixed transferpoints, such as the Holes at the Poles RayPalmer often mentioned."

Another question which came to ourmind was: "Why do some UFOs appearhostile, and others not?"

"In our opinion, some UFOs appear tobe hostile, some do not, and others appearto be indifferent. Using 'reasonedspeculation,' one may assume from this thatwe are dealing with at least three differentgroups of entities. This seems consistentwith the Shaverian concept of dero, tero and'elder races.' It is also consistent with ourown experience in that there do seem to bethree possible basic points of view on agiven question: pro; anti; and neutral."

We then asked Allen Greenfield how hemight approach the various contact cases inlight of his theory.

"The alternate reality can shed a wholenew light on cases of alleged contact withalien entities. The idea that contactees havebeen honestly reporting things as they seethem is not new. Dr. Leon Davidson someyears ago posed this idea in relation toAdamski's case, but attributed the deception

Adamski's case, but attributed the deceptionto the government. The flaw in this is thewidespread nature of these cases, and thelack of real motivation.

"However, the AR theory can provide amuch more plausible rational explanation.For example, if we accept the ecologicalpremise, we can easily see how a contactee,having a legitimate experience, will hearfrom the space people what he wants tohear. We can also see why persons frommore sophisticated backgrounds might haveless sophisticated experiences.

"The problem of deliberate deceptioncan be dealt with in either of the followingways: An individual chances upon a landedUFO. The entities aboard are not welcomingcompany, so they tell the unfortunatepasserby some cock-and-bull story andsend the poor devil on his way.

"The other instance would be theplanting of deliberately contradictory storieswith various contactees in order to keep astate of confusion about their nature ineffect. Either of these instances areplausible.

"The 'Men in Black' type cases mighthave connections in the same vein. Herethere might also be an authentic element ofknowing too much about flying saucers,'although at least in the famed Bender case,it hardly seems possible that Bender knewall that much. In fact from his magazine ofthe period, one would be inclined to say thatBender seemed to know very little aboutUFOs."

UFO Witness Abducted By Agents of

Terror—The Men in Black Strike OnceMore

We will not reveal to you in what Easterncity Patricia Hyde currently resides. Thecracking in her voice as she tells her tale ofpersonal terror is sufficient reason for us tobelieve that the last few years have been aliving hell for this young woman. For Patriciais the first to admit that it took her quite along time before she was able to go abouther everyday business without looking overher shoulder at every little sound, paranoidthat someone—or something—was keepingtabs on her movements.

Before July 1972, Pat Hyde hadn'tthought much about UFOs. Sure she hadread articles in the popular press; however,still in her early twenties, she had morepressing matters on her mind. But on thehumid summer evening when it all began,Pat was to have her consciousness alteredand at the same time leave herself open forharassment by the sinister Men in Black,whose sole purpose seems to be to "silencefor good" those individuals who have hadclose encounters with other-worldlyintelligence and are not bashful aboutkeeping their experience a secret.

It was around 9:00 P.M. and Pat was inthe front seat of her car attending anoutdoor movie with her mother in Arcadia,Florida when something unusual in thetwilight attracted her curiosity.

"It started off looking kind of like anordinary star in the evening sky," Pat beganher fascinating narrative. "But as I watched itmove across the heavens from north tosouth over the giant movie screen, I beganto realize that the object could not beattributed to any astronomical phenomena,as the bright yellowish light was tumblingtoward the earth in a falling leaf motion.

"When the object got directly over thecar I couldn't see it any more so I got out ofthe parked automobile and strained my necklooking upward, interested in knowing if itwas still visible to the naked eye. At thispoint, I saw a white light—a ray—shootingout from beneath the object. The best I candescribe it is to say it closely resembled asearchlight beacon in that it scanned theground near where I stood before eventuallylanding directly upon me."

Pat was understandably frightened asthe eerie beam was cast down onto herbody. Looking up directly into the blindinglight the witness was almost positive that shecould make out the bat-like shape of a hugecraft hidden behind the brilliant glow thatmade it difficult for her to see.

"The light stayed on me for only three orfour seconds, I would estimate. Then itcontinued to move along the ground as if itwas searching for something." Pat says theonly sensation she got from beingenveloped in the light was a feeling of"warmth." For the duration of herexperience, Pat's mother was trying to makeher get back into the car. "She was almosthysterical, near tears. People in the othercars were caught up in the emotion.Someone yelled, 'Is it a helicopter?' —I knewit wasn't and my curiosity got the better ofme. I just wanted to watch it, so in awe was Iof this object."

Suddenly the beacon of light flickeredout and the object itself got dimmer anddimmer. "The yellow glow faded and thenwent straight up into the air out of view in amatter of a second or two."

Pat says she got back into the car, butnever got to finish seeing the movie as hermother was too upset and wanted to betaken home. And while Pats mind whirledwith the realization that she had beensubjected to a very important experience,her mother refused to discuss their sighting,saying that it continued to frighten her. "MyMom even had nightmares about this for along time afterwards. She would dreamthat they were coming to get her and takeher up in the ship or something. In thenightmares I was always standing outside ofthe car telling them to come on and land."

Being inquisitive, Pat found herselfasking a lot of serious questions. "I sincerelywanted to know what other people hadexperienced, if there were others besidemyself who had encountered such things."The witness went so far as to keep a notebook in which she jotted down informationderived from interviewing local residentswho had also observed UFOs.

I gathered some really interesting data,"Pat proclaims. "There was this one elderlyman who had been sitting on his front porchwhen he looked up in the early afternoonsky and saw what he initially thought was ajet with sunlight shining off it. He watched theobject travel across the sky and then itstopped and moved in closer and camedown to within a couple of feet of theground. He told her he was frightened sobad that he almost had a heart attack. Hedidn't now how to handle the experience sohe ran inside to call the police and theHighway Patrol came to his house rightaway. On their way to talk to him, one of thepatrol cars nearly ran off the road, as thisstrange craft was sitting practically in themiddle of the road."

Like others who have had encountersand contacts with UFOs, Patricia yearned torelate her story to someone who would notthink she was crazy. Sometime after herbewildering experience she wrote to a smallUFO organization located near her homeand that's when the really puzzling chain ofevents started happening one right afteranother.

"I met this man on the street in front ourhouse one afternoon. He said he wanted totalk with me, that he was a reporter whoknew what had happened, and was quiteinterested in UFOs himself. Almostimmediately he started talking about allthese strange things, UFO propulsion andso forth. He told me he could teach me howto build a UFO and invited me to his housefor a demonstration. I thought he was kind ofa nut and I got a genuinely eerie feelingabout him, so much so that I even avoidedshaking hands with this man. He sort ofscared me and I never found out for surehow he learned of my interest in UFOs. Heclaimed my mother had run into him one dayin the supermarket—she supposedly knewhis wife—and when the subject of flyingsaucers came up in the course of theirconversation she mentioned my sighting. Atthe time I didn't think too much about this aswe lived in a rather small town and mostpeople know one another."

Pat said she got the impression that theman was evil and meant to "freak me out."He went so far as to indicate that she shouldrefrain from talking about what hadtranspired at the drive-in theater. "I got thefeeling from him that I should keep mymouth shut from now on."

After the man had visited Patriciaseveral times, a truly peculiar thing occurredwhich continues to alarm her to this day. "Iwas in the backyard when I saw this cardriving by. I noticed it was a black car and itslowed down as it passed by the house. Thecar had tinted windows and so I couldn't seeinside. The car went around the corner and Ireturned to working in the garden when Iheard the sound of a car engine beinggunned as it came around the block. It wasthe same car and this time it came to acomplete stop at the curb and I could seeseveral faces peering out from behind thedarkened glass windows."

Staring transfixed at the strange vehicle,Patricia's hypnotic gaze was only broken bythe sound of the phone ringing inside thehouse. "I hurried to answer it, anxious to getindoors where I would be safe from whatever

indoors where I would be safe from whateverwas threatening me. I perceived a definitefeeling of evil intent about those inside theblack car." Lifting the receiver, Pat wasstartled to hear the voice of the strange manwho had come to see her about hersighting. He was screaming, "What are youtrying to do to me? Why did you send thosemen out to run me off the road?" Aftercalming him down, Patricia was able to drawfrom him the fact that he was out walkingwhen suddenly a car came barreling aroundthe corner, headed directly for him. He hadto literally make a dive for the curb, or hewould have been struck down and probablykilled, since he estimated the automobilewas traveling at least 70 miles an hour. "Ashe got up and brushed himself off he saidhe was able to see inside the car as it droveoff and that there were three men in thevehicle. He claimed they were all Orientallooking."

Interested in getting to the bottom of themystery, Patricia hung up the phone anddecided to drive over to the man's house.She had written the address down in hernotebook and had actually gone by severaltimes in her car and had noticed him eitherin the yard or on the porch. "There wasn'tany doubt that he lived there. However,when I got to the house it was locked tighterthan a drum." The neighbors told her theyhadn't seen signs of anyone around theproperty for a while, though she found thishard to believe since she had just spoken tothe man on the phone minutes before.

Pat was naturally puzzled by the bizarresequence of events surrounding the strangeblack car, as well as the disappearance ofthe strange man who had frightened her.She wasn't at all familiar with the fact thatother individuals who have close encounterswith UFOs had also gone through similarexperiences.

Life Goes On!In the years that followed, Pat left home

to join the Navy. Upon leaving the serviceshe moved to Washington, D.C., and got ajob working for the FBI as a typist.

"I want you to understand that I didn't goaround talking about my interest in UFOsduring working hours," she explained."There weren't that many people who I feltwere open-minded enough to relate myexperience to." Patricia pointed out that thefederal government doesn't have thereputation for hiring kooks and so she kepther UFO activities pretty much to herself.

"Late one night I was already in bed inmy small apartment when there was a knockat the door. I got up and cracked the dooropen only an inch or so, leaving the chainlock in place. There standing in the hall wasthis Oriental man. At first I didn't think it toostrange, because I had an Oriental friendand this man called me by name. But it'swhat he said next that really shook me up.'Miss Hyde, you will stop investigating flyingsaucer si'\ just looked at him kind of funnyand said, 'You must be crazy,' because I'mnot the type of person to be frightened soeasily. Next he said something to the effect,'I'm telling you, you will!! '"

Pat says she slammed the door in theman's face. "I got so mad that I turnedaround to open the door all the way and yellout at him. However, when I looked up anddown the hall there was nobody there." Patcouldn't see how it was possible for anyoneto have disappeared so fast.

What was the strange Oriental mandressed in? "Well, he had on a suit that waseither dark blue or black." She did noticethat he had "deeply slanting eyes," more sothan any other Oriental person she hadever met.

Disturbed by the quick disappearance ofthe midnight spectre who bid her personaldoom, Pat tossed and turned the rest of thenight, finding it impossible to shake thethought of what had transpired from hermind. Unable to get a grip on reality, soonafter this incident, Patricia Hyde quit her jobwith the FBI.The Worst Was Yet To Come!

"I was walking on the street, going backto my apartment one night when this mancame up and grabbed my purse. I kind ofthought, well, he's going to rob me. He juststood still and dumped the contents of thepocketbook upside down, and when I askedhim what he was doing, he said it was noneof my business. He searched througheverything, throwing my wallet to one side. Iknew then he wasn't looking for money, butwhat was he searching for? Eventually hecame across my notebook containing noteson the UFO sightings I had investigated inFlorida—I still carried it around with me.Finding this he ripped the little pad intomany pieces."

Patricia started to protest and with thisthe man identified himself as a police officer."I asked him to show me some identificationand as I stepped forward to defend myrights as an American citizen, he pushed measide and then backward. As I made a movetowards him, I felt someone else grabbingme from behind and two men took hold ofme."

With her hands held tightly behind herback, Patricia was unable to take defensiveactions against what she was now certainwere muggers. "I was turned around andpushed toward a van at the side of the roadwith both the front and side doors open. Ibegan to fight with all my might as I realizedthey planned to abduct me. I knew theyweren't police officers as they were dressedin dark clothing and none of them saidanything to me, except the first individualwho had stated that it was none of mybusiness what he was doing."

Dragged into the waiting van, Patriciawas handcuffed and driven around the cityfor a while. With the doors shut tight and thewindows of the van blackened over, it wasimpossible for her to ascertain where themen were taking her.

"The next thing I knew it was like sevenhours later. I don't know what happenedduring that time and frankly I know we didn'tdrive around more than 15 minutes. Butwhen we arrived at our final destination, theclock on the wall said 5:00 A.M., though itshould have been only around 9:00 P.M."

Patricia was dragged down a hallwayand two other men told her that she was in ahospital because she had tried to commitsuicide by jumping out the window at the FBIbuilding. "This I knew was a boldfaced lie,because I hadn't been working there forseveral weeks and I'd never thought aboutcommitting suicide in my entire life."

The men took her into an elevator andthey came out in an underground passagesomewhere. "My voice echoed in there, andthere were trap doors in the ceiling. It sort ofreminded me of an old armory. When I got tothis one room, they wanted me to drinksomething, and I told them that I wasn'tgoing to do it and they almost broke myneck making me take this liquid down.

"They threw me in a tiny room after thisand untied my hands, which had beenbound from the time they had put me in theback of the van. They wanted me to sign apiece of paper, and when I refused, they leftme alone and didn't come back till the nextday."

Pat woke up the next morning feelinglike she had been drugged. "There was asmall window near the ceiling which wasbarred and there was a plant growing up bythe window so I couldn't see out to theground. I went toward the door and itopened when I took hold of the doorknob,so I wasn't locked in. I walked out and therewas a man standing in the hallway. I askedhim who he was and he said it didn't reallymatter and he chuckled and said I was in apsychiatric ward. He explained that mydoctor had me committed for trying tocommit suicide the night before. I told him Ididn't have any doctor that I was perfectlywell and wanted to go home."

Eventually, Patricia was brought to thehead "doctor's" office. "I don't know if he wasa foreigner, but he had light-colored hairand sounded German. He said to me, 'I'myour doctor,' and when I askedwhat his name was he just told me it didn'tmatter. He knew who I was, my full name,where I had worked. When he told me I hadtried to jump out the fifth story window of theFBI building, I reminded him that all thewindows there were barred. With this helooked at me and said, 'You will admit thatyou tried to kill yourself or you'll never leavehere."

Pat says the "doctor" asked her all kindsof questions. "He wanted to know if I hadpsychic powers, could talk to the dead, if Ibelieved in flying saucers. Somethingclinked in my mind, and I just looked at him,refusing to speak."

Pat was kept in the same tiny room dayafter day. She felt she was beingbrainwashed. "They went through the samequiz regularly and tried to convince me that Ihad tried to kill myself. I kept denying thisand about a week later the doctor put atelephone in front of me and said I could callmy mother. 'Tell her to come and get you.'"As Pat reached for the receiver, the "doctor"pulled the phone out of her reach. "But onlyif you promise not to do any more UFO

if you promise not to do any more UFOresearch.... "

Seeing that it was the only way out ofthis horrifying situation, Patricia told the manshe wouldn't mention the subject ever again."I called my mother, told her what was goingon, but she didn't believe me. Beforeallowing me to dial my Mom's number, theman had given me an address where hesaid she could pick me up in Georgetown. Isaid, 'Is this the address of the hospital I'min?' and he said, 'no,' that they were goingto take me somewhere and drop me off."

Patricia's mother took the next plane toWashington, got into a cab at the airportand had the driver take her to thedesignated address. "I had been loadedback into the van and driven around for awhile before being taken to the drop offpoint. When my mother collected me, shecommented, 'What is this—it's just a vacantbuilding!'"

"We went to the police station, but theyweren't able to help us, other than toconfirm that no one had been taken intocustody for trying to commit suicide or anyother crazy thing."

Doing the only reasonable thing,Patricia's mother took her daughter home,not wishing to recall the incidents that hadhappened, perhaps on some nether-worldon the astral plane. For where could PatriciaHyde have been taken? Who were the menthat had tried to prevent her from speakingabout flying saucers? Are they agents of theU.S. government? Not hardly, for theyoperate in a totally alien manner. Are theythe occupants of UFOs, then?

Perhaps we will never be able tounderstand what happened to this youngwoman, what type of spell she was placedunder. Maybe many of the tortures sheunderwent were implanted in her mind by apower so foreign—so sinister—that we hadbetter not get mixed up in the matter.

But until we get to the bottom of thismystery in all probability the Men in Blackwill return once again—today, tomorrow, inthe very near future—and may threaten youor me into silence.

Tucson's Mysterious CaseA strange story brought to our attention

back in 1979 indicated that the mysterious—and deadly sinister—Men In Black hadreturned to the western part of the countryafter a long absence.

According to a seemingly sincereTucson, Arizona newsboy, Warren Weisman,he was delivering the Arizona Daily Star onFebruary 19, 1979, between 5:00 and 6:00A.M. when he saw an odd looking objectcrash into a parked car at the side of theroad.

This is the youth's story:"I was on Winstel Boulevard when I saw

this 'falling star' come from the sky. It wastraveling at great speed and landed about ablock away. It smashed the back of a whiteVolkswagen, throwing off its right rear wheel,rolled off the car and knocked over amailbox on a post nearby."

The 10-year-old fifth grader said theobject was about the size of a microwaveoven, was black, shiny, and had lots of"lava-like" holes all around it. Weisman saidthe object was smoking when he walkedover to it.

As he bent over to examine his unusualfind, a brown car pulled up and, says thewitness, "A skinny man in a brown suit andwhite shirt got out of the car. He was an FBI-type. He told me, 'Why don't you go aheadand deliver the rest of your papers?'"

As he stood talking to the man, whatWarren thinks was a Pima County Sheriff'scar pulled up alongside the brown car. "I wasafraid that the man in the brown suit wasgoing to pull a gun," Warren said. He quicklydeparted for home to tell his mother aboutwhat had happened.

Twenty minutes later, he returned to thescene of the "crash" with his mother. "All wefound was the tire and the broken mailbox."The smashed car and the smoking objecthad totally vanished without a trace.

Interviewed later, the boy claimed hehad put a small chip from the object into hispocket while looking it over. However, whenhe got home a little while later, it was gone.

"I don't know what happened to it," heconfessed. "I didn't have any holes in mypocket from which it could have fallen to theground!"

What at first might seem to be a "talltale" fabricated by a highly imaginativeyouth has additional verification in that therewere other witnesses to the event.

The Arizona Daily Star says that "threecounselors who patrol the area whilechildren deliver newspapers saw it fall butdidn't see where it hit the ground."

The woman who lives in the housewhere the mailbox was knocked down, saidshe and her family assumed someone hadhit it with a car. Margaret Pierce said shehadn't heard anything unusual that morning,but around the time Warren usually deliversthe paper to their house "our dogs juststarted barking and we couldn't calm themdown. They were really upset and that's notlike them at all."

Shortly after the incident was reported,the then-active national UFO organization,Aerial Phenomena Research Organization(APRO) got involved in the investigation andtried its best to get to the bottom of whatactually happened. Other witnesses whomight have seen the object crash weresought. Though final evidence never cameforth, Warren Weisman—just like so manyothers—became one frightened individual,due to a possible visit by a MIB. Abduction and MIB Incident in Canada

Another weird account of MIB activitycomes our way from Lawrence J. Fenwickand Joseph Muskat, Co-Directors of theCanadian UFO Research Network(CUFORN).

Two different cases involving theabduction of humans by UFO entities inCanada occurred pretty much around thesame time in August, 1979. The peopleabducted were a girl of 14 and a man ofabout 43 years of age. The girl was aboardfor 15 minutes, the man for an unknownlength of time.

The incidents were investigated byCanada's then-largest UFO investigationgroup, the Canadian UFO ResearchNetwork, or CUFORN. The evidenceincluded matted-down grass, residual radiation, physical effects on one abductee, anMIB visit, and an independent observer whosaw the UFO moving to the spot where thegirl s abduction took place. To this day, theindependent observer, a woman, does notknow that there was an abduction involved.

The first of a series of UFO sightingswhich culminated in the abductionshappened in the eastern part of Toronto,Ontario, on Thursday night, August 2.

That same night, one hour later,similarly-shaped UFOs were reported inNorthwestern Kansas and SouthwesternNebraska, 1150 miles southwest of Toronto.Articles about the sightings in the Norton,Kansas Telegram and the McCook,Nebraska Gazette were sent to CUFORNheadquarters by Edmonton, Alberta memberJohn Mus- grave. He sent them as part ofhis monthly UFO clipping service.

CUFORN, founded in December 1977, isa group with 55 members in five countries.Its membership is restricted to persons withexpertise in dozens of scientific fields.CUFORN's policy is to avoid contacting themedia which distorts, ridicules, fabricatesand exploits UFO events, especially in majorcities. This leads to crank phone calls andharassment of UFO observers.

In order to avoid this, the names of threegirls and one of their mothers have beenchanged in this article. The three girls areSarah Hines, 14, Cathy R., 14, and JackieB., 11. They and Jackie's mother filled outthe appropriate CUFORN sighting reportforms, CE2's and one CE3 form.

The incidents involved seven teenagers,13 parents and one young boy. They saw sixUFOs, two of them arrowhead in shape. At9:50 P.M., August 2, Sarah saw something inthe sky nearby and told her two girlfriends tofollow her to the field nearby, which is ownedby Ontario Hydro. Two lights were hoveringlow near high tension power lines. The twoobjects rose when they arrived, one headingsouth, the other north. From his housewindow, Cathy's father saw one of theobjects at 9:50 P.M. He later refused to fillout a sighting report form. When the twoobjects had left, Cathy sighted twoarrowhead-shaped objects, which appearedto be moving backwards from the northwestat 9:52 P.M.

A minute later, Sarah and Jackieobserved a cigar-shaped object. It was blackwith white lights around the periphery and agreen light at one end. The cigar wasfollowing an arrowhead-shaped UFO atabout 500 feet elevation. The cigar emitteda sound like a generator operating at lowpower.

An oval-shaped object appeared at 9:55PM. It had a green haze around it and hadfour curved legs longer than the body of theobject. There was a dull red light on top, red

object. There was a dull red light on top, redlights along the bottom and yellow lightsaround the circumference. It appeared tohover over the senior public school roof, twoblocks northwest of Sarah's home. Thisobject was 12-15 feet in diameter and aboutsix feet in height, excluding the legs. Anothergirl, Jodi, saw the object over the roof. Whenshe approached the wall of the school, shefelt paralyzed and began to cry. The seventeenagers on the school grounds were soonjoined by their parents. The parents saidthey did not see the oval object, only thearrowhead and cigar objects. The teenagerssaid the crickets in the vicinity stoppedchirping during the incident.

The oval object lifted off the roof about30 feet, hovered again and thendisappeared from sight when its lights wentout at 10:05 PM. Immediately, the sound ofthe crickets was heard again.

Sarah normally sleeps four to five hoursa night, but this night she slept 12 hourswith no dreams.

On Friday the 3rd at 9:50 P.M., the sameobservers plus Cathy's mother, a friend, BillMacMillan and Jackie's brother, Ernie, wentto the field, which is adjacent and to the eastof the school grounds. Again, the sounds oflife in the field seemed to stop. No cars wereseen or heard on the normally-busy street,which led to Buttonville Airport, three milesto the north.

They saw an oval object the size of afootball field at a 300-foot elevation. It wasflat, dark and solid appearing, with largecheckered patterns and three large "fans" of50-foot diameter beneath. The entire objectturned over slowly, rose and headed southvery slowly.

A t 10:00 P.M., Bill and Ernie observedtwo large arrowhead objects at about a 500-foot elevation north of the field. The angle ofelevation to the observers was 50 degrees.One object seemed to explode silently. Thepieces separated as if a jigsaw puzzle wasbeing taken apart. The object's total sizewas now doubled by the separation of thepieces. This object and the intact objectwere now separated by 200 feet.

Sarah had an urge to go alone toanother field 3/4 miles northeast of theHydro field. Sarah walked, as if in a trance,to the other field. There she saw four brightlights hovering at about 500 feet elevationa t 10:10 p.m. Sarah returned home andagain slept 12 hours with no recall ofdreams.

A t 10:30 P.M. that night, Cathy dialedthe telephone operator and asked her whomto call to report a UFO sighting. Theoperator suggested she call the OntarioProvincial Police. She spoke to David Craig,an OPP public relations officer. He called anacquaintance of his who knew Joe Muskat,CUFORN Co-Director and President. Muskatphoned Sarah on the 5th. That night hevisited and interviewed Sarah and hermother Alice, after notifying Co-director andSecretary Lawrence J. Fen wick.

Events began once more at 9:50 P.M. onSaturday, August 4. The same teenagers,along with Jackie's father, went to the Hydrofield. Jackie's mother, at this time, waswalking a few blocks away and saw anarrowhead object heading north at about 20miles an hour about two feet above thestreet level.

Just after her observation, the people inthe field watched two hovering arrowheadobjects for about two minutes. Then, at 500-foot elevation, the objects all headedeastward "like a flash."

Also at 9:50 P.M., Sarah felt compelledto walk away from her friends to the fieldnortheast of the Hydro field. All sounds oflife seemed to stop. Sarah crossed the roadto the field without looking for cars. She saidshe had the feeling that there would be nocars and there were none. There usually issome traffic on the street even late at night,since it is a main North-South Street.

Upon reaching the field at 10:05 PM.,she saw an arrowhead object move off thestreet to the field and in front of her. Itsettled slowly to a height of two to three feetabove the foot-high grass. She walked towithin two feet of the object. Suddenly shesaw four shadowlike figures emerge fromthe object and hover in a semi-circle twofeet above the ground. The figures werefour feet tall, football-shaped, one and a halffeet wide and less than an inch thick, likewafers.

She looked at them for one to twominutes and passed out. She recalled beingon the UFO and observing the general area.She also saw a man in a blue suit walking adog. She remembers waking up in the field15 minutes later at 10:20 P.M., stretched outon the ground about 15 feet south of wherethe object had been.

Again, upon her return home, she slept12 dreamless hours. Muskat asked her whyher face was orange-red. She said, "Youwon't believe this." He asked her if she hadany other marks on her body. She said"Yes." She showed Muskat her right hand.One pin-prick mark was clearly visible on theinside of her index finger and a one-eighthinch diameter elongated red scrape markwith a pin prick inside it was on the base ofthe thumb. These marks healed in five days'time with no medical attention.

Her mother said Sarah's eye pupils weredilated and that she had washed off some ofthe redness on her face the next morning.She had done this out of curiosity and fear.By the morning of the 5th, the dilation wasgone, her mother said.

Muskat asked Sarah "What was thething you said I wouldn't believe?" Shereplied, "I was onboard a UFO."

Muskat, Sarah and her brother, Jay,went to the site, where they saw a triangulararea of depressed grass which had a greypallor as if the chlorophyll had gone from it.The measurements that Muskat took therecorresponded very closely to the descriptionby Sarah. Muskat photographed her hand,the matted-down area and called Larry Fen-wick and Harry Tokarz.

All three went to Sarah's house to askfor further details. Following this, theyproceeded to the field. There, she showedthem approximately where she hadawakened. During the search for the exactlocation, Sarah noticed a nickel and a pennylying on the grass. She searched herpockets, telling them she had eleven centsthe previous day. She only found a nickel inher pocket. This money was found at thelocation at which she had awoke, 15 feetfrom where the grass was matted down anddried out.

On August 7th, Claude Freeman,CUFORN member and pilot, was asked toget a Geiger counter to check for radiation.That night very heavy rain fell, preventinguse of the Geiger counter. On the 8th,Freeman and Henning Jorgensen, CUFORNradar and electronics expert, took radiationreadings, while Muskat obtained soilsamples.

The readings were 1.6 to 1.7 higherthan the normal background radioactivescintillations. Geiger readings were taken inareas as far as five feet away from thedepressed area. The readings ranged from14 to 19 at that distance. Inside thedepressed area, they ranged from 23 to 34scintillations per minute.

Muskat interviewed Cathy on August 9th.Cathy described her observations of August2nd. She said the arrowhead object had ared mist around it. It was silent and, insidethe red mist, the surface appeared whiteand smooth. It hovered and moved up anddown slowly. She said that at arms lengththe object would have been the size of anautomobile.

On all three nights, the weather wasclear and warm. There were many stars inview and the moonlight ranged in intensity,from dull to bright. There were a few fluffywhite clouds on the night of August 2nd.Cathy said the arrowhead object came fromthe northwest on August 2nd. She said therewere six objects in view that night. She alsonoted that the wind was almost non-existent,and was from the southeast. The edges ofthe arrowhead object appeared sharp. "Thebottom looked like pipes on the bottom of acar."

Sarah said that on the sightings of the2nd, she began to cry while she watched theoval object and could not believe what shewas seeing. Cathy also said that on the 2nd,she saw an "orange-red ball of fire." Cathysaid that on the afternoon of the 4th, somefriends helped her get up on the schoolroof, where she saw oil and half-squaremarks. These were no longer visible a daylater, when investigators arrived.

CUFORN contacted a doctor whospecializes in hypnosis in Toronto.Regressive hypnosis sessions took place onOctober 10, 18 and 24, with Sarah’s motherpresent. The doctor’s name is omitted hereas he does not want to be bombarded byphone calls from persons who wish to haveregressive hypnosis. He prefers to becontacted by CUFORN.

The following is a summary of the taperecorded regressive hypnosis sessions. Forcoherence, a few statements made in thesecond session are included with those of

second session are included with those ofthe first session.

October 10, 1979: Sarah said she wastaken on foot through the UFO's wall. Theinterior was brightly and uniformly litthroughout and sharper than regularlighting. Sarah detected the odor of chicken.Her hands went through everything shetouched, except for an ordinary cat fromEarth. She was told they had been "growingit" onboard and it was to be releasedeventually. The creature had not done anytests on the cat, which roamed around freelyon the UFO.

She said there were seven shadowycreatures on the UFO and that she couldsee right through them. They were long andoval, like large American style footballs andwere four feet tall. They appeared crystalline. Each was of a different, but strangecolor. They told her telepathically that theyhad taken her for tests to see what humansare made of. They said they had been onEarth before and would return when shewas 25. She felt she was onboard for "whatseemed like a year. Dr.: Did you stay here on Earth and just lookat it from the air?Sarah: Yes. I saw the whole world.Dr.: Did they take you to any other world?Sarah: Well, they showed me this place. It'sreal and it's there, but it's not.Dr.: Was it another planet or star?Sarah: Yes.Dr.: Do you remember what they did to youthat made your skin become tanned, sort oflike a sunburn?Sarah: The bright lights. They've got to stayon. They have to have light.Dr.: Why?Sarah: To keep them alive.Dr.: Why did the bright lights only cause sortof a sunburn on your face and neck and noton your hands?Sarah: Cause my hands were glowing.Dr.: Do you know why they were glowing?Sarah: No. October 18, 1979 (Second Session)

Sarah described the physicalexamination administered to her. They putan instrument in her mouth. A "light" was puton her thumb and index finger whichpainlessly burned holes in each of them.Blood was extracted from the holes. Amachine was placed on her head "to find outwhat I know." She asked the creatureswhere they were from, but she said she didnot know what the answer was.

Sarah saw an ordinary English-speaking human man on the UFO. He saidhe was there for the same tests. He told herhis first name only, but she recalled merelythat it began with an "A." He was "fromhere," Sarah said, but not from herneighborhood. The man said he was takenaboard after she arrived on the UFO. Hestayed onboard after she was let go. Thecreatures told her that they were going to lethim go after they had released her. Thisman may or may not be a Canadian.

"A" told her he did not mind being onthe UFO. He asked the creatures questionswhen Sarah was present, but Sarah couldnot recall them. "A" had dark hair, which was"going a bit gray." He looked about 43. Hewas "not very tall" and wore casual clothing.He told Sarah he was a store owner.

Sarah said there were a lot of plantsand computers on board, although most ofthe computers were in another room whichshe got a glimpse of. Dr.: How did you get off the UFO?Sarah: They took me out the door. It wasn'ta different color door. It was just a little holein the wall. I went through a little hole. Andthen they put me back to sleep and then Iwas on the ground.Dr.: Do you remember how they put you tosleep?Sarah: Yes.Dr.: How?Sarah: They told me to go to sleep.Dr.: Does it still seem very real to you ordoes it seem like a distant dream?Sarah: I'd say "real."Dr.: Were you frightened at all?Sarah: No.Dr.: Did you feel they were good people,good beings?Sarah: Yes. October 24, 1979 (Third Session)Note: The incident referred to here occurredon October 11, 1979, one day after the firstsession. Dr.: What are you seeing?Sarah: A funny man. He's tall, skinny, andhe's got funny-looking shoes on.Dr.: How are the shoes funny looking?Sarah: I don't know. They're just funny.Sarah told the doctor she was in the schoolcourtyard at lunchtime along with herfriends. He had followed her to the courtyardfrom the cafeteria. The MIB came over toher and told her to move away from whereher friends were. Then he started askingquestions. She said he wanted desperatelyto find out who her friends were.Dr.: He gave you no reason why he wantedto know?Sarah: I think he wanted to kill them.Dr.: Why? Did he think they weredangerous?Sarah: Yes, I guess.

The Man In Black said he had a lotof partners everywhere. He warned her thatif she did not tell him about everythingonboard the UFO that he and his friendswould get after her. And if she went awayfrom him while he was talking to her, hewould scare her again. She thought aboutcalling for help, but could not because theman's "mind was stronger" than hers.

Sarah told him exactly what she hadseen and heard on the UFO. He seemedpleased with her information, only showingsurprise when she mentioned thecomputers. He said he knew there was aman on the UFO. He told her that he hadspoken to the human man since that time.

Dr.: How did your conversation end?Sarah: He just went.Dr.: You mean just walked away?Sarah: No, he just disappeared.Dr.: Right in front of you?Sarah: Yes.Dr.: Do you think that he was human?Sarah: No.

Sarah had told Muskat about the Man in

Black on October 12. She said he stood sixfeet tall and looked like a dead person. Hehad a dull grey-toned face, slanted eyesand wore a black suit. Sarah could notremember the shape of the lips, but recalledthat his grin was sinister. He had a verypointed nose and long fingernails ontapering fingers. His feet were pointingoutward at 90 degrees. His shoes had threeto four inch heels.

In a summary of the sessions, the doctornoted that Sarah had been taken to apsychiatrist several months before herexperience asa result of school problems, the strains ofadolescent adjustments and sibling rivalry.He said she had a vivid imagination and hadclaimed to have seen some bizarre-lookingghosts. She had a very strong interest in theoccult for the past few years, but, accordingto her mother, not much interest in UFOs.She had not read books or magazines onthe UFO subject.

The doctor said the UFO incidentsbegan on July 23, whereas the three-nightsequence of sightings started on August2nd. He mentioned that Sarah "claimed" tohave seen some UFOs on that night and thetwo succeeding evenings. He used the word"claimed," although he admitted he did notinvestigate the sightings by other people inthe area at the time.

The doctor commented that Sarah wasremarkably nonchalant about the entireexperience both before and after thehypnosis. This was her attitude toward herfather's death, he added. Her nonchalanceconcerning his demise was understandabledue to a reason which must remainconfidential. Her casual attitude toward theUFO incidents is partly explained by theabsence of serious side-effects on her. Animportant point to note is that she toldCUFORN's investigators that the experienceinside the UFO was moderately pleasant.

He said the Hines girl seemed candidlysurprised to hear what she had said underhypnosis when the tapes were played backto her. He said her casual attitude returnedafter her initial surprise.

What he does not know is that, from themoment CUFORN was in touch with her andup to a week after the hypnosis was complete, CUFORN'S investigators repeatedlytold her to be calm about the incident. Shewas told that abductions are not as unusualas most people think and that any sideeffects on her would disappear very shortly.In other words, the investigators conditionedher to a casual attitude.

This attitude conditioning was referredto by CUFORN member, John Musgrave, in

to by CUFORN member, John Musgrave, inhis article, "The UFO Investigator asCounselor and Healer," Proceedings of the1976 CUFOS Conference, pp. 198-200.

The hypnotherapist said that "subjectsdo not have to relate the truth whilequestioned under hypnosis." If Sarah waslying, the doctor would not have said thatshe experienced genuine surprise athearing a playback of the tapes of thehypnotic sessions, others with years ofexperience in the UFO field have stated thatsubjects cannot lie under deep hypnosis.These include Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle,University of Wyoming, and Dr. James A.Harder.

Dr. Alvin Lawson, in "What Can WeLearn from Hypnosis of ImaginaryAbductees?," 1977 MUFON UFOSymposium Proceedings, pp. 107-131,stated that it is possible to lie under deephypnosis only when subjects aredeliberately told to imagine an event andare fed leading questions and outrightsuggestions.

After the first session, CUFORN'S LarryFenwick asked the doctor if he wouldmonitor Sarah’s bodily direct currentelectrical field in subsequent sessions. Thistechnique was suggested by Dr. Harold A.Cahn, a clinical hypnotist, in his article, "Useof Hypnosis To Discriminate 'True' and'False' UFO Experiences," The A.P.R.O.Bulletin, March, 1979, pp. 4-5. Cahn saidwhen a subject is faking there is either "nogreat DC potential charge (no trance) orwhatever verbal account they present isobviously derivative. The doctor declinedFenwick's suggestion, saying that the deviceis unreliable, despite the fact that he hasnever used the instrument.

The hypnotist said that the sessionsshould stop because of the death of Sarah'sfather and her recent depressed state.However, the threat by the Man in Black atthe school may have been the real reasonfor discontinuing the hypnotic regression.

Possibly, deeper hypnosis could elicitmuch information from Sarah. Although theyare omitted in this article, five times duringthe hypnosis she said "I don't remember,"indicating that mental blocks may have beenimplanted in her subconscious by the alienentities. It is ironic that the doctor stated thathe hoped his summary "will be of use to youand your colleagues in attempting to get abetter understanding of the UFOphenomena" (sic).

The doctor's written summary made noreference to the taped session describingthe Man in Black. He did not mention thatSarah saw a cat inside the UFO. He did notrefer to the photos Muskat showed him ofthe marks on her thumb and finger and thather mother noted that the pupils of Sarah'seyes were dilated for 12 hours. In thesummary and in a conversation with HarryTokarz, Joe Muskat and Lary Fenwick, thedoctor said that Sarah told him underhypnosis that she heard buzzing andbeeping sounds when she was aboard theUFO. Her account of this was not on thetapes.

CUFORN's Joe Muskat arranged for soilsample analysis, which was done on August17, at the Radiation Protection Laboratory,Special Studies and Services Branch,Ministry of Labour, at Ontario governmentoffices in Toronto.

ROI readout time was 2,000 seconds forgross counts inside the area where thedepressed grass was found. Naturallyoccurring Radon daughters ranged from123 to 178, with a naturally occurringannihilation peak of 256. Cesium 137, along lined fallout nuclide reached a peak of331. Potassium 40, naturally occurring, wasalso noted. Radiation accounts for the soilranged from 3 to 83, with an average countof 44.

The counts for the background ornormal soil outside the site ranged from 1 to23, averaging out to 6.743. Thus, theaffected soil was more than six times as highin radiation as the soil outside the site, evenafter a heavy rainstorm.

In the light of the doctor's lack ofinvolvement with this and the other facets ofthe investigation, it is not surprising toCUFORN that he made the followingstatement: "I do not believe that anyconclusive judgment can be made at thistime regarding the validity of her account."In contrast, and in conclusion, CUFORNjudges that this was a genuine doubleabduction incident.

An Alien In Our MidstThroughout the years there have been

widely-circulated rumors indicating thatextraterrestrials have already infiltrated intoour society and are at this very momentwalking unhindered and defiant amongst us.

Exponents of this ever-growing theorymaintain the reason they are not easilydetected is because—like chameleons, withthe ability to blend in perfectly with theirsurroundings—these alien beings have thepower to literally hypnotize human beingsinto believing they are as normal-looking asyou and I. Others who postulate on this areof the firm opinion that any abnormality thatmay show is simply chalked up to somemental disturbance.

Society is filled with individuals who justdon't "fit in." There are the vagrants whoinhabit the streets day and night, the"shopping bag" ladies who call the city'ssubways their home, and the "crazies" whowe try to avoid every day. We simply shakeour heads at these unfortunate ones andcontinue on about our business, oftenclosing our eyes totally to that which we liveside-by-side with—shut away from ourworld— but part of it nevertheless.

"You've just got to talk to this fellow. He'sno crackpot!" I had been a guest on theLarry Ford talk show several times. Aveteran of Pittsburgh radio, Larry has akeen interest in the offbeat, and he's notafraid to air the views of experts in a widerange of controversial fields. As usual, Larrywas right in his character analysis.

Pittsburgh musician Tony V. recentlycame face-to-face with a "man" whoseunusual behavior and strange abilities ratehim as being "mighty peculiar" in anybody'sbook. For anyone who can vanish with outwalking away, who can materialize behindlocked hospital doors in the middle of thenight, and who is the possessor of "highlyunusual" body characteristics, is certainly"strange," as you are likely to agree as youread further along in this amazing incident.

"Being a musician, I get to play in somepretty unusual places," the talenteddrummer points out. Tony has done thecircuit of bars, concert halls and after-hoursclubs. It's simply a part of his job—what hedoes in order to make a living.

Tony remarks that a lot of the bars heperforms in are packed to the rafters onweekends. "They're the types of placeswhere the girls come to dance and the guyscome to pick up chicks."

One evening, Tony was standing nearthe bar in one of these places when he wassuddenly engaged in conversation by astranger. "He said his name was Robert andthat he was interested in astronomy andUFOs. Someone, he said, had told him that Iwas interested in the same subjects and hefelt we might have something in common."

Tony brought out that the man said helived around Arnold, Pennsylvania, and hadread lots of books about flying saucers. Atthat point, Tony didn't feel anything was outof place. Then the man began discussingFrank Edwards, author of several bestsellers on UFOs. "My new companion thenmade a rather strong statement: ‘You knowhe's dead.’ And when I told him I hadn'trealized the fact, he continued, saying, 'Youwouldn't want to know what happened tohim.'" Tony said the man's voice was ratherominous as though his words were meant tobe a warning or some type of threat.

From Tony's description, we candetermine that the individual who calledhimself Robert was very cold—calculating.He was also quite peculiar in that he wasabnormally thin compared to the woman healmost always came into the bar with, whowas exceedingly fat. The woman wassupposedly Robert's wife.

As a further description, Tony says theman was Caucasian, but with yellowish skin,as though he were suffering from Jaundice,a disease due to excretion of bile pigmentsin the blood, characterized by yellowness ofthe skin. His eyes were slanted, but hewasn't Oriental. He was about 5'7" and hishairline came to a widow's peak. I never sawhim dress in anything but black. His mannerof speech was low and sort of stiff. He didnot have a good command of English,although he seemed to have knowledge ofscience.

Tony explained: "The three of us wereseated at one of the tables one night whenRobert suddenly passed out. It was asthough he'd had a seizure—that is he justkeeled over. He was out cold. I tried torevive him, but there was no sign of aheartbeat."

Tony says that he and another customerpicked up the man and took him to Tony'svan, which was parked outside. "I was going

van, which was parked outside. "I was goingto drive him to the hospital, even though itappeared that he was dead." This was whenTony noticed that the man had some verystrange physical characteristics. "Iunbuttoned his shirt, and I saw that he hadabsolutely no body hair. In addition, he hadno belly button, nor nipples."

Apparently, the man came to, andapologized for being trouble. "The reallystrange thing was that his wife seemed to beunconcerned about her husband'scondition. She didn't try to help us and wentabout her business as though nothing hadhappened which was out of the ordinary."

As peculiar as that night might havebeen, Tony tried to push Robert out of hismind. "I had dislocated my shoulder and wasin extreme pain." He checked into a privateroom in one of the area hospitals andcompletely forgot about the incidentinvolving the strange man at the bar.

"While I was in the hospital, Robert cameto visit me a few times to see how I wasgetting along. I really didn't have much tosay to him, but I figured it was nice to have avisitor in my condition." It wasn't until Robertshowed up at the hospital in the wee hoursthat Tony began to put two and two together.

"I really don't know how he got into thehospital or past the security desk at thathour, but I awoke at about 3:00 A.M., andthere he was, standing right beside my bed."Having been under sedation at the time,Tony was extremely tired and couldn't talk tothe man. "I just sort of told him to come backlater, at another time. It was as though hehad materialized in the hospital room andjust as suddenly vanished into thin air."

As far as his interest in UFOs went, Tonysays the individual who called himselfRobert had a technical fascination with thesubject. "Hewas interested in the mechanics of howthese interstellar craft operate. One night,after I'd been out of the hospital for sometime, he called me up and said to meet himin a rather isolated wooded area about 40miles north of Pittsburgh. He said that hewanted to show me something. Being that itwas such a desolated spot and that I wasbeginning to feel increasingly uncomfortablearound him, I decided to ask a friend of mineto come along for the ride."

Then, together, Tony and his frienddrove to a spot very near the river. "We satin the car waiting for him. It was a cold dayand so we were anxious for him to show up.We never did hear or see a vehicleapproach, but from out of nowhere he wasstanding in front of our automobile."

Tony maintains that the man seemedunduly upset because the musician had notcome alone. "My friend was almost laughingat this guy, that's how strange he looked. Itwas kind of comical. I couldn't hear himspeak—his mouth didn't move—but I hadthe distinct impression that he was in a badmood. He repeated several times the phrase"You must get out of here. It's dangerous."

One minute Robert was beside the carand the next he was inside in the back seat."If he opened the door I didn't see him."Tony can't swear that it was a case ofwalking through a solid car door or ofteleportation, but doesn't rule thesepossibilities out completely.

Tony never did find out why he wasasked to come to this particular area."There has been any number of UFOsightings and landings in Pennsylvania overthe years, but none that I know of in thisvicinity."

Because of what had transpired, Tonydidn't want anything more to do with the manas he thought he was quite dangerous."One of the girls, who hung out at the barwhere Robert usually showed up, said hescared the hell out of her just by beingaround. She wanted to know why Iassociated with characters like this.

"Anyway, he telephoned me again onenight and said he had to see me once moreand I told him in no uncertain terms to getlost, that I really had no time for this kind ofstuff. It was just so weird how he always worethe same clothes—the same black pants,the same black shirt, and the same, verycheap-looking black sports-coat. He wouldgive the creeps to a ghost."

At around this time, Tony's arm startedacting up again, and he wasn't able to playfor a while. "About five months later, I wentback to drumming in the same after-hoursbar and I just happened to ask the owner ifhe's seen my peculiar-looking friend. I wastold he hadn't been in the place since I'dstopped playing."

I asked Tony if he'd noticed anythingelse particularly unusual about the "man inblack." Tony thought about the question fora few minutes before answering. "He wouldnever drink. He didn't smoke, and for the lifeof me I never saw him eat anything."

As far as UFOs are concerned, Tonyfeels this person knew quite a bit about thesubject. "I'm pretty well read on the topicand know more than the average person.However, he knew a whole lot more. Hewould talk a great deal about how UFOsactually ran and he went into this big spielabout radio waves, and concentrated radiobeams which I couldn't make heads nor tailsof. At times he sounded like a physicsprofessor while on other occasions he saidsome really stupid things."

Several times the man talked about howhe wanted to actually capture an alien. "Hehad this device which he said told him whenUFOs would appear at certain times of theyear. He said this contraption would make ahuge beacon, like a homing device would. Itwas really off the wall."

Tony doesn't' know what to make of theincident. He isn't one hundred per centpositive—not having any concrete proof—that Robert was a genuine alien, but thenagain so many strange things happened inconnection with this man that he isn't willingto rule out this possibility. Tony would like toknow the truth, but he isn't about to spendthe rest of his life searching for it by tracingdown this man.

If he should show up again, he's quiteready to ask him all kinds of questions. Butin the meanwhile, he's more concerned withhis musical career. Tony's group has beengetting quite a bit of attention and theirmusic has begun to get airplay on someradio stations. Maybe fortune will be goodand he'll make it too—right to the top. Thenhe'll be among a select group of celebritieswhose talents may be known about in somepretty distant places.

The MD & MIBDoctor Herbert Hopkins of Orchard

Beach, Maine, is no kook or crackpot. Infact, up until he became involved in usinghypnosis on a young man who claims tohave undergone a series of UFO-relatedexperiences, the reputable physician hadn'tpaid that much attention to flying saucers,although he admits that he read anoccasional magazine article on the subject.Usually, though, he refused to take the matter seriously, feeling that the reality of UFOscould not be proven or disproved.

It was not until he received a telephonecall from a woman friend who was interestedin probing the subconscious of a youthnamed David Stephens, that Dr. Hopkinsever had any first-hand dealings with thisfield. A bright and intelligent person, he isn'tby any stretch of the imagination anoverzealous investigator of suchunexplained phenomena. And while he wasconvinced that young Stephens had no reason to lie when he said he was sitting in acar one night and a large mother shipappeared in the sky and took him and afriend onboard, Dr. Hopkins does notnormally involve himself with aliens andother dimensions. However, what transpiredlater, after his investigation was completed,convinced him in no uncertain terms thatstrange beings are quite capable ofwandering into our reality and out again.

Many of the Men In Black cases can nodoubt he attributed to paranoia on the partof those who have been shocked into astate of fright by face-to-face confrontationswith the unknown. The same cannot be saidfor Dr. Hopkins, who has been trained in theworkings of the human mind. Though he wasnot anxious to talk about his meeting with anobvious MIB, he did agree to speak withinvestigator Lee Spiegel, since Spiegel hadtraveled all the way from his New York Cityhome just to meet with the doctor. Thefollowing is an accurate transcription of theinvestigators interview, conducted in Dr.Hopkins' home.

### It started out one night when I was alone

in the house. You see, I'm practically neveralone, as my wife goes out only maybe for10 minutes to half-an-hour at a time, to stopat the store. But that Saturday night—September 11, 1976, the time was 8:00P.M.—my wife and son decided to spend theevening at a drive-in movie. There wassomething they wanted to see, and so theyasked me if I'd mind if they went out. I didn'tobject, saying I'd had plenty of things to doat home.

at home.And so they left, leaving me alone for an

extended period of time —for the first time,virtually ever you might say. It practicallynever happens. I don't go to movies. I sithome and watch TV, although I feel I'd bebetter off utilizing my brain power absorbedin something of factual interest. It has to befact, something I can make use of. I neverread about the MIB, but I most assuredlyhad heard of UFOs, flying saucers andwhat-not. Who hasn't? Usually, though, ifthere is a magazine story about UFOs, Icharacteristically skip over the article,because I feel it's neither proven nordisproven, because there is other factualmaterial that I want, material that is known,that I could use as part of my knowledge.

Anyway, while they were out to themovie, the telephone rang, and I answeredit, and a voice on the other end said—heidentified himself, if I remember correctly—he was from the New Jersey UFOResearch Organization. He told me he wasthe vice president of the group, in fact. Iunderstand from Dr. Berthold Schwartz thatthis has been checked out and verified andthere is no such organization. He used apurely fictitious name. And he wanted toknow if he could come here and talk with meabout an abduction case I'd been asked toinvestigate. Well, I thought, the man hascredentials. Strange, though, that I didn'task his name, and this is not characteristicof me, as I always like to know who I'mdealing with.

Anyway, he asked if I was alone. I saidthat I was and agreed to talk with him. Andafter saying that he'd be right over, he hungup. I walked from the telephone in thehallway to turn on the light in the room andthe man was already coming up the stairsoutside, leading to the second floor. Now, ifhe was even as close as across the streetor even next door, he couldn't have possiblygotten here so soon.

I just opened the door and said, comein. That too is not entirely characteristic ofme, either. I don't know what was the matterwith me then to be so lax, so open. So theman came in, asked if he could sit down,and I said, yes. So he took a seat, and whiledoing so I noticed that his attire struck meas a little odd. He wore a black suit—aneatly tailored black suit—black shoes,black socks, and what looked like a verydark blue shirt—it wasn't quite black—and ablack tie. He wore a derby—you just don'tsee derbies very often these days—and thatwas black, too. The derby was round andpolished, and I thought to myself, my God,this guy looks like an undertaker.

We sat down, and I said to myself, thischaracter is as bald as an egg, and indeedhe was. He didn't even have eyebrows, oreyelashes for that matter, and I saw this assoon as he removed his derby. He hadsmooth skin, like a soft plastic, smooth, likea dolls. But it was a dead white color. Hisnose was very small, set low and set ratherfar back. His features didn't have the normalbalance. His lips were ruby red— brilliantred—which I thought was odd, and Iwondered about it.

As we talked, he wanted to know aboutthe Stevens case. I asked him what hewanted to know, specifically. He began toquestion me, and to everything I said hewould nod and agree with. He'd say, "That'sthe way I understand it." His eyes were—remarkable. They weren't round. Theyweren't slit-like. And from where I was sitting,I really couldn't tell the color of his eyes.They certainly appeared to have an irispupil, but I wasn't observant enough to seethe color, except that they were darkish,perhaps dark blue—I'm just not sure.

The lights glowed very brightly and Inoticed when he sat quite still he had theappearance of a clothing store dummy. Hissuit looked like it had just been put on, asthough it had never been worn before oreven walked in for that matter. And not awrinkle. Flawless, with a nice sharp creasein the pants. And the odd thing was, whenhe seated him self, the crease just stoodright out over the knee. The superperfection of this individual's attire, evenafter he sat down, was still absolutely-perfect—it struck me as uncanny. Heconfirmed that it was as he understood it,and I wondered why he was even asking methese questions if he already knew theanswers. The only talking he did was to askme "what happened next?"

He didn't lead me on, or ask me toomany questions. He simply kept theconversation going by saying, "And thenwhat?" Other than that he didn't speak muchand when he did talk he spoke in an expressionless monotone. This was the way Irecognized his voice being the one on thetelephone earlier. It was characteristic. Hespoke flawless English, absolutely perfectEnglish with no accent whatsoever. He constructed no phrases and contracted nosentences—just a sequence of words veryevenly spaced. A scanning speech they callit. His voice was completely neuter andpassive—no inflection, no intonation, nonothing! Just like you'd get from a machinethat could talk, if you could picture that.

He was wearing gloves. They looked likegray suede, and he idly brushed his lips withthe back of the glove, and when he put hishand down, the back of his glove was brightred, and the red on his mouth was smeared.At that point I said to myself, this guy issome sort of queer—he's wearing lipstick.Then I could see that his mouth was perfectly straight. He did not have what we calllips, so the lipstick, I concluded, was thereas some sort of decoy, so to speak, only itwas done poorly. The lips did not turn down.They did not smile. They did not turn up, nordid they form an oval. They were just simplyflat, like a dummy—Charley McCarthy—andI didn't see any teeth, and his head seemedto blend into his collar. He had a recedingchin, and he didn't move his head at anytime. Neither did he nod his head. He wasperfectly immobile except that his entirebody moved. He could apparently read mymind, telling me that I had two coins in myleft pocket. Everything else was in my wallet,and it was in bills. So I admitted that I didhave two coins, and he asked me to removeone of them and hold it in my hand. I put myhand in my pocket and took out the larger ofthe coins—the penny.

It was a bright new copper penny, and Iheld it up in my fingers, but I was asked tohold it flat in the palm of my hand. I did soand looked at him not knowing what toexpect next. "Don't look at me, watch thecoin," he said. And I did. It suddenly beganto develop a silvery color—and the silverbecame blue, and then I had trouble focusing. I could focus on my hand perfectly well—that was my reference point—but the coinsimply was gone. Not abruptly. It simplyslowly dematerialized—it just wasn't thereanymore. I didn't smell anything. I didn't feelanything. I didn't hear anything.

I was just fascinated at that point. I wasspellbound, and I knew something strangewas happening in my hand, because I couldfeel the weight of the penny going away. Idon't know how he did this. He didn'tperform any hocus-pocus; he didn't movehis hands in any way.

Then with a sudden change of subjecthe asked if I knew Barney and Betty Hill. Isaid I'd heard of them, yes, but I don't knowthem personally or anything about them,except that I was under the impression thatBarney Hill had died. To that, his onlyresponse was, "That's right, and do youknow what he died from?" I said that I wasn'tentirely sure, but I thought he died suddenly,so it might have been from a heart attack. Ilater found out that this was not so. And hesaid, "That is not entirely the case. Thereason he died was because he knew toomuch!" He added, "Barney didn't have aheart, just like you no longer have a coin."It's pretty convincing evidence to me thatthese things can be done. I knew it, with myown eyes, it's not a second-hand thing thatcould have been rigged.

Later I discovered that Barney Hill haddied under suspicious circumstances. Thenhe told me—or, rather stated—that I hadtape recordings on the Stevens case in mypossession. Naturally, I was a little frightenedafter the coin disappeared. I got a little moreuneasy when he ordered me to destroy thetapes and any other correspondence, andanything I had in writing or otherwise thathad anything to do with UFOs. It was not theleast bit indignant, not the least bit angry, hejust said, do it. That's all he said and hewould know when I had done so. He didleave a threat that if I didn't do so, I wouldsuffer the same fate as Barney Hill. He didnot say that he would come back oranything, just that he would know. It was allput in an inhuman machine-like way.

As he spoke his last words, I noticed thathis speech was slowing down, slowing upmarkedly, not slowing down in a phonographway, with a change in pitch. His wordsbecame slower and farther spaced, butretained the same tonality. He slowly got tohis feet unsteadily and he said, "My energyis running low—must—go—now—goodbye."He spoke like that. He walked a few steps tothe door—I never got his name. I must have

the door—I never got his name. I must havebeen absent of my senses that night. Iopened the door for him and he clung tightlyto the wall and walked down the steps onefoot at a time—in other words he didn't gofrom step to step; he took one step at a timewith both feet on the step, very unsteadily.And I was afraid that he might fall, and Iwatched him, he very slowly walked to thecorner of the building, not the way he hadcome in, but towards the other way.

He walked to the corner of the buildingand held on to the corner of the building fora long moment and then he disappearedaround the corner. Well, as he was goingout, I saw a bright light coming down thedriveway. As he disappeared around thatcorner I first became aware of the light, and Ithought he was getting into a car. I figuredhe must have a car parked in the driveway.But it was different; no ordinary automobileheadlights; the light was bright, bluish-white,and it was a cold light, brilliant. I did noticeone other thing. I didn't see his shadow ashe walked. I suppose he was walkingtowards the light and wouldn't cast ashadow, and I reasonably and firmly believethat, if he were in the beam, he would havecast a shadow, because he was of materialsubstance, no question about that.

Next, I rushed to the kitchen windowwhich was right alongside the driveway,because I wanted to see if he were gettingto a car, and I didn't see anything. I didn'tsee any light, nor any car, nor did I see anyman. I rushed out to the front porch—that'sthe only way to get out of the driveway,because there's the large hedge on oneside and the house on the other. You can'tget through the hedge very easily.

I waited there for a few moments, butnothing came out of the driveway, so I wentoff the porch, went to the entrance of thedriveway, I didn't see anything—cars weregoing by, but I didn't see any cars going out,and I didn't see anything in the driveway. SoI wondered if perhaps it had gone through.You could drive through this driveway andaround back of the other house and comeout another driveway. It's sort of ahorseshoe-shaped driveway, which servesthree houses. So I didn't know what to makeof it. I didn't think to look up. It just didn'toccur to me. If I had looked up, I might haveseen something or I might have not, I don'tknow. I was shaken badly. I'm not a little boyafraid of the dark, but I wanted to know whowas around me.

The rest of the night I kept the outsidelights on. I kept the kitchen lights on as well.The "interview" took only a matter of minutes. I can't tell how many, because I didn'thave much of a sense of time, maybe 20minutes. One other thing that comes to mind—when he came to the house, the dog, halfcollie and half German Shepherd, began towhine, and ran into the closet and hid. Thecat was unmoved. But the dog was horrified.I had quite a time getting the dog out of thecloset. He was so frightened he had evenurinated right there. I was afraid if he wasoutside he would never have come back in.Normally, the dog is not a scaredy-cat.Really, he's a darned good watchdog. I'dnever seen him frightened of anything at all.He just has no fear. And if anyone made amove towards me or any member of myfamily, well, he's right there.

I did something irrational then. I took outmy revolver. I have a .38 Special for self-defense. I never had to use it, but I havehad a few scares with junkies coming intothe office looking for drugs and I decided Ishould have a weapon for protection. Thepolice had to be called a couple of times,and the Chief of Police advised me topurchase a handgun. I was unwilling at first.I never before had a gun in my life. I neverhandled one, except when I was a kid, I hada BB-gun. I dislike guns, but he advised meto carry one, and his plea was put sostrongly that I finally relented, secured apermit and purchased a personal weapon.He said, "I know you're not going to shootanyone. You're safe enough to have apermit." I guess he regards me as a fairlystable individual.

So, I sat at the kitchen table with the gun—terrified. Then, after a while I got up,taking the gun with me. I had the tapes andUFO- related correspondence in the otherroom, and I just ruined the whole thing. Idemagnetized the tapes—all of them—and Idestroyed them physically. I absolutelywanted to get rid of them. And so I burnedevery damned thing I could.

Eventually my family returned from thedrive-in and I told them of the experience.My boy said, "let's look at the driveway," andhe got a flashlight. He wanted to see if therewere any tire marks. And right in the middleof the driveway we found a series of marksthat looked like a stalled caterpillar tractor-trailer, not indented in the top but there wassome sand and stuff that had blown on thedriveway and the marks were in the sand.The marks were about 4 inches wide andcontinued for about a foot-and-a-half. Thedriveway was not clean; there had been astorm, and there was a lot of sand blowingaround, and if anything had been moved outof the driveway there would be a continuoustrack, and no automobile could possiblyhave made it, being that the driveway is toonarrow for a car to get far enough so itswheels could get in the middle of it. Also,they had been too deep and distinct to havebeen made by a motorcycle. A rubber tiredoesn't make a track that looks like that—even snowtreads. This looked like it wasan imprintable metal—a clean-edged metal.

The marks were gone the next day andthe driveway had not been used in themeantime. And there was no high windduring the night. It had been quite calm. Notraffic in the driveway. Immediately aftereverything had been destroyed I called awoman reporter I knew who had been doinga story on this particular case for theNational Enquirer. I asked her to tell themnot to publish anything on the case, that Iwould not endorse it. I wanted this stoppedright then and there. And I really hated tospoil those tapes. They weren't hurtinganybody.

I was still terrified though I slept well thatnight. A week later I had recurrentnightmares in which I could see thiscreature's face getting bigger and closer.The nightmares stopped in about a weekand they did not come again. But since thenI had an awful lot of trouble with thetelephone. And I just about drove thetelephone people crazy with my complaints. Ihad this difficulty with the phone going deadand not being able to call outside. Patientswould complain that they were unable toreach me, and wasn't I answering the phoneanymore. And time and time again theywould get a voice telling them that thenumber they'd dialed was no longer inservice. That's a standard tape thetelephone company uses. And I assuredthem that the phone was in service, neverhas it been out of service, and never will itbe out of service—as long as I'm aliveanyway.

I had to inform them when they hadtrouble reaching me to immediately contactthe phone company and tell them it's amedical emergency and that the operatorwould get hold of me. In several instances,however, they couldn't even reach methrough this method. The operator said shejust couldn't get through. In one particularcase, a patient had to get through to me, sothe operator rerouted the call. I've also hadcalls cut off, and people getting quite upsetwith me because they'd said I'd hung up onthem. I had to assure them over and overthat this just wasn't true. Lots of times therehave been clicks following backgroundsounds indicating an open line someplace,and I could hear things going on, and theyweren't going on here or at the other end ofthe telephone line. I never heard any voices.I just heard sounds, something beingmoved, or paper rustling, or whatever. I didsome complaining myself to the telephonecompany—many times— but there was noway, they informed me, that anybody couldget through my line, except at the centralstation, where a repairman could —butthere was nothing there. No repairman wason the line—at any time.

They had telephone men come out hereand listen. They connected a "demand-on"tape recorder, so that anytime the phonewould be used, the recorder would startautomatically. It would also start any time theinstrument would ring. In fact, themechanism was locked in. I couldn't take itoff even if I wanted to. The telephone peoplecontacted me and reported there was noquestion about it: somebody was tamperingwith the telephone. So they put in aseparate relay stack for my phone, locked ina separate steel box, so nobody—absolutelynobody—could touch it.

In summation, there is no telephoneclose enough to my back door that he couldhave made it there by the time I turned thelight on. I don't have enough basicknowledge to guess about this, the onlything I know for sure, from what he saidabout the coin, is the reference he madeabout the coin: that it was no longer on thisplane. He didn't say planet, or place—but

plane. He didn't say planet, or place—butplane. Scientists have theorized for years onalternate dimensions. As to what I think thisman was, or where I think hemay have come from, from his statement,and from the fact that the coin did vanish, isthat there are other dimensions. And, I trulybelieve that this individual undoubtedly wasfrom another plane. I must then go alongwith what many think: that there are otherdimensions. And I think this manundoubtedly was from such a place. He isnot an invader. I don't think so, anyway. But Ido feel he—and others like him—arearound, nosing about. I don't think theyintend to do harm to any of us, and certainlyas the known record verifies, they haven'thurt anyone as yet. Now there is thisnagging, pinching question in the back ofmy mind that disturbs me quite often—whatreally happened to Barney Hill?

### Just as investigator Spiegel was

concluding the interview, Dr. Hopkins' wifewalked into the room. She was prompted todiscuss the strange events which had sodiscombobulated her husband.

"When we came home that night he wasso shaken that he couldn't remain still forvery long. He had the gun out on the table.I'd never seen my husband that way—soshook up like that. He said that he just didn'twant to have anything further to do withUFOs. He was all white and shaking. We sawhim destroy everything he had on thesubject (as he was told to). Or else, as herelated it, he would join Barney Hill. Wedidn't want that alternative. As he broughtout in the interview, we've had more troublewith our telephone since the incident.People can't seem to reach us. They call—the line is busy. We're not on the phone.There have been days—two days in a row—that people just couldn't get us. He's hadit, you know. He didn't want to talk about it.He was afraid to! He didn't know what wouldhappen to him. That was quite a night, onewe'll always remember. Coming home andseeing the gun out like that on the table. Hewas that scared. And as John, our son said,'Dad, what good is the gun to a person likethat. The bullet will probably pass rightthrough him.' I said that I wished we'd beenhere—he might not have come. Now, everytime we go out to a movie, I'm afraid to leavehim here alone. I'm always fearful now, if heopens his mouth, what might happen next?"

Researcher Pat Dela Franier of theStratford UFO Research Team in Stratford,Ontario, Canada, was not shy aboutreporting on this MIB episode.

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It looks like there might have been an

MIB incident at Camp Bordon. Camp Bordonis a Canadian Forces Base located justoutside of Toronto. I was engaged in writingthe story at the back of the September issue[of my publication] at the time it happened,and I was stuck at the scene of the radarroom. Tracy, one of my members, was goingt o Camp Bordon with her father, and saidshe would ask if I could get into the radarroom there. When they arrived at the campthey pulled up to one of those gate stationswhere the cars are checked when they goin. The public can enter this base but haveto state who they are going to see to get in.Lou had been there many times before,being a Korean War Veteran.

The station had one of those bars theycan lower to block the road and stop thecars, but the man standing at the stationdidn't seem to know that he was supposedto use it, or else he just didn't want to. A carwas proceeding through as they pulled up tothe man. Lou, her father, had never had anyproblem getting into Camp Bordon before,but this time was different. The man put hishand up to stop them, and walked over tothe car. Tracy saw that he wasn't much tallerthan the top of their car because he hardlyhad to bend over to look inside. Hisshoulders were incredibly wide—almost outof proportion with the rest of his body. Hishat didn't seem to fit him right—it appearedtoo big for his head. He was wearing darksunglasses and when he bent over to lookinto the car, Tracy could see above them.She said his eyes were very strange—reminding her of Mongoloid eyes. Theywere large and shaped oddly.

The man asked her father to step out ofthe car and accompany him into thebuilding. He spoke very softly with almost afemale sounding voice. Lou pulled the car tothe side of the road to let the traffic passand went with the man into the station.There were two cars behind them—one wasa military car, the other just a regular car.Both cars proceeded through without havingto stop or be questioned. This guardseemed interested only in Lou, and both ofthem went inside the station. Tracy was leftin the car by herself. The military car pulledover to the side of the road directly in frontof their car and two men were in it talkingback and forth. Tracy got out of the car andwas at the side of the road playing with awoodchuck that had come right up to thecar. She was amazed that the animal wasn'tfrightened of her. When she stopped playingwith it, she walked up past the military carand could hear both men talking. When sheapproached it, both men shut up right awayand just sat there in silence. She felt shewas intruding and went back to the car. Herdad came back out and got in the car, andjust at that moment the military car startedup and drove away.

Tracy quizzed her father on whathappened. He told her that the man had toldhim directions on how to get to their friend'shouse in the camp (directions that Loualready knew), but the man gave him thewrong directions! You would think if the manworked at the base he would know wherethe officer lived!! Lou said he talked andtalked, but really about nothing, almost as ifhe was trying to hold him up. When theyfinally got going and drove into the camp,they saw the friend they were going to see,driving out. They had to make a U-turn andchase him out. As they went through thegate station again, the man was on theother side watching them leave. The gatestation was pretty wide, and there were carspassing by the station unattended on theentrance side. It took them close to eightmiles before they caught up with the manand he stopped. There was no time then totalk to him so they made another date tohave him over their place in Stratford.

The man came down to Stratford andvisited them, and Lou asked him about megetting into the radar room. He told themthere should not be any problem—and hewas sure I would get in. He promised to calland let him know. Days passed and he didn'tcall. Lou tried calling him, and got through—but nobody knows where he is. To date,they still haven't gotten ahold of him! No oneknows where he is! I never got into the radarroom, so I had to use whatever knowledge Icould get from some of my members to writethe scene. I think it turned out alright—but itcould have been better if I could have gotten in to Camp Bordon.

Former Air Force Project Blue Bookconsultant, Dr. J. Allen Hynek noted duringhis interviews with various UFO witnesses,that many felt certain they were beingfollowed, their mail was being opened, andtheir phone tapped by unknown forces.

An Astronomer's Valued InvestigationThe late Dr. J. Allen Hynek by no stretch

of the imagination could have beenconsidered a crackpot. His credentials wererespected even by skeptics, andfurthermore he was employed for manyyears as a consultant to the United StatesAir Force to analyze data as part of theirnow defunct Project Blue Book.

A full-time astronomer who taught atseveral universities over the years, Hynekeventually formed the Center for UFOStudies in Evanston, Illinois, and even actedas special consultant to producer StevenSpielberg on the blockbuster motion pictureClose Encounters of the Third Kind (he hada bit part in the movie also, right near theend of the film). It was Hynek, in fact, whoderived the various "classifications" thathelped place into separate categories thevarious types of sightings, landings andface-to-face contacts with UFOnauts.

One thing can be said for certain, andthat is that Dr. Hynek was very"conservative" in his approach to UFOs. Hewould seldom go "out on a limb," nor was heprone to accept some of the far-out caseswhich may have intrigued his fellowassociates. Hynek felt that investigating the"nuts and bolts" cases would best provemost helpful in convincing the scientificcommunity that UFOs were worthy of consideration as a legitimate phenomenon.

Candidly in a number of conversations,however, he professed an avid interest inthe more bizarre aspects of this intriguingsubject. As his research took him furtherand further, he became convinced thatsome of the " hair-raising" tales told bywitnesses might, indeed, have

a degree of basis in reality. In an articlepublished some years ago in Playboy, Hynekadmitted that he was genuinely puzzled bythe stories often told by witnesses of theirphone being tapped, or of being watched—sometimes on a regular basis—either bythe "government" or by the occupants of thecraft themselves. Hynek told the author ofthis book in an interview that he consideredthe MIB to be a "mighty big puzzle," mainlybecause "those experiences are damn hardto relate to!"

Reclining in his chair to get morecomfortable, the astronomer started torelate several puzzling stories involving the"UFO Silencers" ...stories that he had runinto personally during the course of hisresearch. This is what he had to say....

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"The most recent 'Men in Black' case I

am familiar with concerns Carlos Montiel, theyoung man whose plane was flying nearMexico City in May of 1976. Several weeksafter his encounter the witness wassupposed to appear on a TV show in Mexicoto talk about what had happened. He nevershowed up at the studio. Carlos Montiel laterclaimed that his car had been forced off theroad while he was driving to the station. Astrange-looking man dressed in blackclothing approached him and said it wouldbe wise if he did not go on the show. Thefollowing Saturday, I interviewed him for twohours in my hotel room. As we concludedour conversation, Carlos promised to havebreakfast with me on Monday morning.Again he pulled a 'no show' routine. Overthe telephone that afternoon he explainedhow the same individual in black had again'requested' he not meet with me. It was a'better not or else,' sort of veiled threat.

"As for an explanation: We really don'tknow what the nature of these 'silencers'might be. It seems to belong, in many cases,in the category of a psychic occurrence, assome of these 'Men in Black' seem to beable to read the minds of witnesses, thusknowing what course of action they plan totake following their UFO encounter. Again,you're seeking answers and all I can giveyou is a problem."

But Hynek was not finished relating whathe knew about the MIB as he continued onto tell us another tale.

"Now I'll tell you a whopper! Someonecalled the Center's 'Hot Line' in the middle ofthe night—got me out of bed. It was a policeofficer from a small town in Minnesota,where a localized flap had been going onsince November [1975]. What he told meseems to fit in with these paranormalelements.

"It seems that a couple was riding downa highway toward town, when the manremembered he had to make a phone call.He swung his car into the driveway of amotel and proceeded to walk toward an outdoor phone booth. Just as he was about toopen the door to the booth, a big blackCadillac pulled up in front of him, blockinghis path. A man hopped out of the front seatand literally pushed the gentleman out ofthe way in an effort to get to the phone first.Miffed by this uncourteous action, the mandrove down the highway until he came to asecond roadside telephone. This time themysterious black car nearly drove the fellowand his wife into a ditch. They narrowlyescaped injury. As before, the big 'Caddy'came to a screeching halt, the front doorflew open and out raced the sameindividual. His destination was thetelephone. 'He just about took the dime outof my hand!' was the way he reported theincident.

"The story is not over..."According to the police officer who

called me, the identical format was followeda third time. By now the couple was burningmad. They chased the car down the highwaytrying to copy down the license platenumber, which they were successful indoing. Suddenly—and this is where thewhole episode gets eerie—before theireyes, the vehicle in front of them lifted upinto the air and disappeared 'as if it hadflown into another dimension'!

"Immediately, the confused couplecontacted the police. The investigatingofficer—the lawman who called me—said hisdepartment verified the fact that thisparticular license plate number had beenissued to a gentleman residing in a nearbytown. When questioned, this individualrefused to say whether or not he wasinvolved in the episode. Eventually theofficer impressed him with the fact that hemight be charged with reckless driving if hedidn't 'come clean.' With this, the man statedthat he was a Jehovah's Witness andtherefore could not tell a lie. The outcomewas that he did not see the episode as aUFO experience but accepted it in thecontext of his religion. Normally he wouldn'tbother to investigate this sort of thing, butsomehow it just seems to fit in. I know thereare many unanswered questions here, butwe will just have to leave it as a cliff-hangeruntil a later date."

Christa Tiltons Personal MIBEncounters

In UFO circles today, Christa Tilton hasbecome a key figure. This is due to herclaims of having been abducted andexamined by aliens, as well as possiblyhaving been impregnated by an otherwordlyforce. Her story is a long and sometimescomplex one, involving trips to anunderground UFO base with its many levelsand weird genetic experimentation whichshe observed while being escorted aroundby an alien "guide."

In may, indeed, seem like UFOs and ETshave attached themselves to this blonde-haired UFO percipient like a hive full of beeswould to honey. The truth is, Christa can talkfor hours about the things that havehappened to her...things often so bizarreand "out of place" that it becomes difficult tocategorize them at all properly.

Currently, Christa is busy working on abook about her experiences—it promises tobe a doozie—and edits a journal called Crux(Box 906237, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74112), inwhich she keeps others posted on her UFO-related activities, as well as the stories ofothers which seem to confirm her tales ofextraterrestrial intrigue.

As might be expected from this briefintroduction, Christa has not gone unnoticedby the MIB. They have managed to keeptabs on her, to the point where she wasnearly run off the road at least once. But, it'sbest if we let Christa go into the detailsherself, as she tells them so much better—and concise—than anyone else possiblycould.

### In May of 1987, I was attending Tulsa

Junior College. I had been accepted for anursing course, but I had some prerequisitecourses that I still had to take. I was takingan American History course at the southcampus which is in a semi-rural, somewhatisolated area.

I should explain that at around this timeseveral things were occurring in may life. Ihad begun seeing a person in Tulsa whowas trying to help me come to grips with andacknowledge the fact that I was havingabduction experiences. I was havingproblems, including sleeping.

I had been taking this night class inhistory at the south campus, plus anotherclass in Pathogenic Microbiology at thedowntown campus. There were only twoclasses being taught at the south campusthe nights I attended. There was apsychology class next to our class andthose were the only two on that basementfloor. There were about 25 students in myclass. I felt a little uncomfortable in that I wasin my thirties and most everyone else wasmuch younger. So I befriended a Pakistaniwoman in her late thirties. She and herhusband had come to the United States andwere getting their citizenship, and she wasgoing through the same nursing program asI. So we exchanged phone numbers so wecould share notes and use a buddy-systemof studying.

One evening in May of 1987, while I wasstill taking history class, somethinghappened to me at the south campus. Thisevening we were to take a difficult exam onthe Civil War—not my thing! I was out in thehall cramming for this history exam with mybook open and notes in hand. Everyonewas either sitting in the classroom orstanding there in the hall. I rememberseeing my teacher coming down the hall. Hecommented, "You'd better be ready for thistest!" "I am," I told him, trying not to look himin the eye. By then it was obvious to me thatno matter how hard I studied, I just couldn'tkeep my mind on the answers. I noticedpeople were gathering for the psychologyclass next door. I was leaning up against thewall when someone tapped me on theshoulder. I turned around and there was themost unusual person I'd ever seen. He wastall and lanky and very scary looking!

He was wearing a dark brown suit. Mygrandfather used to wear one just like that.My first thought was, "Gee, how old-fashioned." The pants did not fit right. Theycame up too high on his ankles. He waswearing a thin black tie and a starched whiteshirt. He had Oriental-type features. I triedto pinpoint whether he was Japanese,Korean or what. His skin was olive-coloredand it looked like he was wearing makeup tomake his face look lighter. He appeared tobe wearing eyeliner on his eyes, toaccentuate his eyes. I do not know if he wastrying to make them look larger or smaller.This person had powder all over his face.He had black hair, smeared back withgreasy Brylcream stuff. It reminded me of agreasy monkey! Also his lips appeared to bereddened in some way. This fellow was myworst nightmare!

I looked forward to going back toBoynton Canyon, which is considered to beone of the vortex areas around Sedona. It'sconsidered to be electromagnetic in nature.Some people go there and feel "charged" orenergized; but it makes me feel verypeaceful, very calm.

When we arrived, my friend Barbaradecided to take one of the trails up in thecanyon. She wanted to go up higher whereit was sunny. I am allergic to sunlight so I toldher I would go and sit under this tree by theroad. I was only 15-20 feet from the pavedroad. I laid my blanket out and sat down tolisten to my tapes that always calm me whensome other hikers went by. I rememberBarbara reiterating that I shouldn't leavewithout her. I wondered why she would evenconsider that possibility.

Just as I settled down, I heard a carengine on the paved road. My back was tothe road. I realized that after many secondshad elapsed the driver of the car was notplanning on turning the engine off. So Iturned around. What I saw was the weirdestblack car I had ever seen. I have never seenone like it. It reminded me of a car a queenwould ride in. It was so shiny black, that youcould see my reflection in it. Everythingabout this car was black. It was an oldermodel of limousine, but not a stretch limo.The glass was completely black. The tireswere black, no whitewalls. The car was afour-door. The back right- hand dooropened and there was a man sitting in theback seat. He had sunglasses on and hishair was black and combed back. Instead ofgetting out of the car, he just sat therelooking straight ahead. All of a sudden hishead turned to the right and he looked atme. He stuck his arm out and motioned forme to follow them. His head turned around,almost robotically and then the door justshut on its own without his reaching to shutit. From what I could see it looked likeeverything in the back seat was black also. Ihad my camera around my neck and I feltlike, "This is it!" I have to go and see whatthey wanted.

I definitely felt this had something to dowith my abduction experiences. Maybe theyplaced that idea in my mind, but I don'tknow. I then screamed for Barbara to comeand she yelled back for me to go on but tocome back and pick her up in a few minutes.I then jumped into my own car, placed a tapein the recorder and pulled onto the road.The black car had driven to my right, whichleads to a private compound at a dead-in.There was a guard station at the gate. Ifigured it was some type of retirement

community, but the guard was wearing olivegreen. He looked military to me. Hemotioned for me to stop. I asked him wherethe black limo went. He said, "Lady, I don'tknow what you are talking about. I neversaw any car like that." I knew the car had tohave been seen because it would havebeen stopped by the same guard. Anyway,that scared me, so I turned the car aroundand decided to drive down about a mile towhere there was a fork in the road. The roadto the right was a dirt road that leads to thecenter of the canyon. The paved roadleaves back into town. As I was driving, I wasthinking that they probably passed me whenI was calling to Barbara. Just at thatmoment, I reached the fork in the road andthere was the black car. It was facing theright towards the dirt road.

Something told me not to drive up tooclose because I thought they were going torape me. That is exactly what went throughmy mind. So I rolled up my window, but leftjust a crack so I could breathe.

It was very hot and the sweat wasrunning down my whole body. I suddenly wasriddled with fear! About that time I saw thesame back door open up like before. Thistime I had a little different view into the caras I was sitting slightly back to the right rearof them, not exactly side-by-side. I coulddefinitely see that there was a driver andanother man in the back. They all looked thesame—dark-haired. They were all wearingthe same type of sunglasses. Their skinlooked almost like concrete. They wereexpressionless. After sitting for a while it wasobvious this guy wasn't getting out and Iwasn't about to get out, so I just waited. Irolled my window down a couple of inchesmore and he turned his head to the sideand said something like, "The time is allwrong." Then he rambled something aboutthe topography of the area —about it notbeing suitable. I thought, "Now wait a minute.These guys must be part of' them'" and Igathered what he was telling me was thattheir craft was unable to land in that area. Iwanted to ask him a question, whensuddenly the back door closed and I wouldsay they took off in a flash, because dirt wasflying up everywhere.

They drove off down the old narrow dirtroad. I realized I had my camera around myneck. I said to myself, "YOU DUMMY, youhad a chance to get a photo of that car." SoI floored the car and followed after them. As Igot up close to them, I grabbed my Canonand aimed. I was ready to feel that clickwhen suddenly I felt nothing. It had gonedead. I tried the shutter again, but to noavail. I stopped the car long enough toexamine the camera. It said I was out of film!What was really strange was I had plenty offilm left in the camera when we left to go tothe canyon. Now there was none. Sodespondent I was that I decided to driveback and get Barb. There she was standingby the trail sign with her blanket in hand.You have to understand something aboutBarbara, she is not afraid of anything. She'srock solid. She has been my guide, a sourceof light in my life. She helped give mecourage when other people would not.

I got her in the car and immediatelyasked her if she had seen the big black car.She said she hadn't. I then began to explainthis strange story to her. Then she said,"Christa, you are just letting your imagination run away with you." She told me to put itout of my mind and for us to continue ourtrip. It seemed strange that she had been soopen to my experiences before, and now itseemed like she was brushing this off toimagination. I then drove on down to the forkin the road, when suddenly I turned the carto the right and went down the old dirt road.Suddenly, Barbara got real panicked. Now,as I have stated before, she is really strong;she just doesn't get like this. She said,"Please stop this car. Let's get out of hereNOW!" I asked her what was wrong, and shesaid, "I do not want to be in this area." Shewanted to leave that area immediately. Iwanted to go just a bit further to see if Icould find that car and prove to her it didexist!

Then we came up to a clearing,surrounded by trees. There was abig circle of dirt and I said, "This is wherethey landed." This is what is so weird; it'salmost as if something told me to drivearound this circle.

I began to drive around and around andthen Barbara panicked and screamed,"Let's get the hell out of here NOW." Well,first of all, she doesn't use that type oflanguage. Secondly, she doesn't panic. But Icould tell she was very scared; of what Ididn't know. So I turned the car around andonce we reached the paved highway, herpersonality completely changed. It was likenothing had happened and everything wasjust fine. We did not even discuss it afterthat. I thought this was all so very strange. Itwas as if this area was having an effect onher and myself. I began to really wonder ifthe black car was just a projection designedjust for me to experience...

It raised a lot of dust for a projection,and since the guard said he hadn't seen thecar—where did it go? How did it turn aroundwithout the guard seeing it? I don't know if itwas real, paranormal, imagined, or aprojection, but it seemed real to me.

My next experience took place aroundlate August of 1987.1 had been invited tostay at an investigator's home and take careof it while he was away. I did move in thereand it was that next week that I began toreceive harassing phone calls.

Anyway, I was driving during the dayalong Davis-Monthan Air Force Base inTucson, near the main gate. There are aseries of underpasses that you go under,and I was driving along in my aunt's car,when all of a sudden, from out of nowhere,there was this big black car —not a limo likethe one in Sedona, but a big black Lincoln. Itwas staying parallel to me. Again, they had ashaded windshield, but it was slightly tinted.It was not as black as the other car. Irealized something funny was going on. Andjust about then the car inched over into mylane and bumped the side of my car. Iswerved over to my right and slammed thebrakes on. I was so shaken and scared. Iwatched them pull over into the right laneahead of me and they stopped their car. Itwas as if they were waiting for me to comeback along. I was going to have to passthem to get back, because I couldn't turnaround. I felt they were trying to harass me,even threaten my life. But then I thought ifthey had really wanted to hurt me theywould have slammed harder into the side ofthe car. I did not get out of the car to checkfor any damage. I was afraid. I thought tomyself, "Why don't I have any mace with meor a billy club, or for that matter a gun?"

Then I thought the least I could do wastry to pull up far enough to get a licenseplate number. So I did just that. And just as Igot up far enough, they sped away. So Iwent back to the person's home where I wasstaying and I got out and looked at myaunt's car. Sure enough, there was a veryslight dent on the side door with a blackstreak running down the side. It was soonafter that I began receiving threateningphone calls—threatening me not to marry.They also seemed to know about mypersonal life. And then about a week later Ifinally received my first visit from the man Iknow as "John Wallis." I cannot explain anyof these experiences, but they are indeedstartling and need to be explored further.Those experiences were more frighteningthan my abductions.

The Mystery Helicopters— MIB of theAir!In an alarming development which

seems to bring the MIB into the New Age,quite a number of researchers havereportedly been repeatedly harassed bymysterious, unmarked, black helicopterswhich have kept them under surveillanceboth day and night.

Bob Luca—an abductee himself—ismarried to Betty Andreas- son, aConnecticut woman whose experiences withaliens has been highly documented and isthe subject of three best selling books,including The Watchers by Raymond Fowler,which is just in current release.

Over the course of the last few years,the Lucas' say their home has been buzzedseveral times by these sinister lookingwhirlybirds whose pilots try hard to keeptheir true identity a deeply hidden secret.They have also reportedly seen thechoppers in the vicinity of their UFO contactpoints, and feel very strongly that there is afrightening aspect to the UFO enigma, andthat the helicopters are part of thisnegativity. They also believe that the tragicdeath of one of Betty's sons is connectedwith this negative aspect of UFOlogy, and ithas taken a great deal of courage for themto go forward to tell the world of theirencounters with beings from other worldsand dimensions.

During many of the animal mutilationsout west, helicopters have been seenmaking daily fly-bys as if keeping a closewatch on their prospective prey.

For many years, Riley Crabb was thedirector of the Borderland SciencesResearch Foundation in Vista, California.Today, retied from his duties, Crabb livescomfortably in New Zealand, where he hasmoved partly due to the fact that he believeshis UFO activities brought him undueharassment at the hands of the authoritiesin the United States. Recently, Crabb filedthis special report with us which takes intoconsideration this new tactic by the UFOsilencers to keep a watchful eye on UFOwitnesses, abductees and contactees. It is adisturbing side of our story which has to betold.

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One proof of the consuming interest ofthe U.S. Government in flying saucers is thesudden appearance of unmarkedhelicopters at the site of UFO activity,whether it be physical or mental. Of coursethe appearance of the copters may be anillusion, created by advanced beings fromother planets, other systems, but even thiswould still be proof of surveillance!

In the book UFO Crash, Bill Steinmanwrites that unmarked helicoptersovershadowed him when he was leaving acanyon after finishing his investigation of theAztec, New Mexico UFO crash site.Contactee Bob Luca reports that unmarkedhelicopters of various makes kept his NewEngland home under surveillance. He ishusband of abductee Betty Andreasson.Photos of the copters shown to airport andother authorities drew a blank. No one wouldadmit to owning them!

And then there is the famous, orinfamous, Cash-Landrum case, in whichover 20 unmarked helicopters accompaniedthe diamond- shaped, glowing UFO floatingalong at low altitude over a highway onenight in Texas. Of course no governmentemployee or government agency willacknowledge the event.

Now we have author Ed Conroyadmitting to surveillance while he was writinghis book on Whitley Strieber. According tothe May, 1990 issue of UFO Universe, Edhad his first taste of unmarked helicoptersurveillance on January 16, 1988. He wasraking leaves in his mothers front yard inlate afternoon when the unwelcome craftstartled him with its presence overhead. Hehad already been involved for some time inwriting the book on Strieber. The whirlybirdcame down to treetop level and to convincehim that Big Brother was watching, a lightwas shone on him—scarcely an illusion—forhis mother ran out of the house to find outwhat was going on.

There was a more spectacularappearance, and in quantity, in early March.This was while Ed Conroy was writing thebook in a downtown office building on theseventh floor. He identified the craft as anunmarked Bell-47. Again a light was shoneon him through the office window. But othersappeared: a Chinook and a Huey, to buzzthe building. All were unmarked but paintedin different colors. More difficult to explainwas the appearance of unmarkedhelicopters over his home or office when hewas talking on the telephone about flyingsaucers. It appeared that these invisibleagents were capable of reading his mind!!

The revelation of Ed Conroy'sexperience in 1988 reminded me of my ownsurveillance by unmarked helicopters inSouthern California in 1970-71. At that time Iwas editing and publishing the Journal ofBorderland Research from my home inVista, about 40 miles north of San Diego. Amajor item of borderland research was thereality of flying saucers and had been sincereading Major Donald Keyhoe's articles inTrue magazine in 1949, backed up by FrankScullys impressive classic in 1950, Behindthe Flying Saucers. This was in Honoluluand the authorities were overwhelmed withreports of sightings and contacts by bothcivilian and military personnel. Mrs. Crabband I moved to California in 1957 and I tookover Borderland Sciences ResearchAssociates in 1959.

But it wasn't until June of 1970 that I gotambitious enough to set up a flying saucerdetector. It's a simple device for reacting tomagnetic anomalies in the vicinity. We didget false alarms from breezes comingthrough the open patio door and frompassing "hot rodders" with souped upignition systems.

It's a simple open circuit using a buzzeractivated by the 115 volt house current. Theswitch is a metal loop about six inches indiameter, and a four-inch Alnico bar magnet,with the South Pole down. In our case thebuzzer was mounted near the ceiling on thewall with the electrical current coming inthere. The switch combination was mountedon the mop board close to the floor; so thesuspension wire for the bar magnet wasover seven feet long. Our loop was astainless steel strap or ribbon from an oldpercolator. Because of natural magneticattraction between magnet and loop, themagnet had to be suspended several inchesabove the loop. A bare copper wireextension below the magnet assured contactwith the loop when the magnet was pulledsideways. Then the Buzzer warned of aclosed circuit. There would be danger ofshock from this circuit in a home with petsand/or children, so a battery poweredBuzzer would be safer.

Let me now quote from the July-August1970 Journal of Borderland Research: "June24th, 11:35 AM. There was a loud, insistentbuzz. Mrs. Crabb looked up from her desk inthe study. The leaves on the garden treeswere hanging still. She rushed outside tolook up into an empty sky, 3-D empty, atleast. Your editor was occupied in theworkshop, but I was thinking of the Men inBlack at the time, planning a new flyingsaucer talk for the San Francisco FlyingSaucer Club in September. How nice to havea physical reminder that we are not aloneand unobserved!"

That was the first inkling I had thatmental activities only could be "read" andacted upon by both Good Guys and BadGuys from outer space, and even by specialsensors in certain government agencies,possibly human or mechanical?

"The next morning, at 9:50 A.M. therewas again a long, insistent buzz from ourSaucer Seeker. This time I was at mytypewriter framing a suitable letter toAssociate Marian Nardil." She is a sensitivewho had conscious contact with members ofthe Ashtar Command for years. Their self-chosen responsibility is to patrol the bordersof the solar system and to challenge entry ofinvaders from other planets and systems.She had written to say that her father diedsuddenly of a massive stroke—psychicattack? It was Andrew Hardie who took thetime and trouble to transcribe the channeledmessages from Ashtar, through hisdaughter, and send them to me forpublication in the Journal and thus sharewith the associates.

"This time there was plenty of activityoverhead! A helicopter with U.S. MarineCorps markings made a low pass over ourheadquarters, and far above I could see thecontrail of a jet plane at extreme altitude—but no circular, glowing disc of any kind.Were they looking for an invisible UFO inour area picked up on radar? Or were thesephysical aircraft illusions, hoaxes, projectedat our senses to distract attention fromsomething else?

Reality or Actuality"After reading John Keel's UFOs,

Operation Trojan Horse and RichardShaver's astute observations of 25 yearsago, one must always take the hoaxpossibility into consideration. Back to mytypewriter for five minutes and again aninsistent buzzing brought me out into theopen again, but only the inconstant, waningmoon was faintly visible in the morning sky.

"Then a third possibility occurred to mewith heart-warming insistence. This was atangible, undeniable manifestation of theinvisible presence of Andy and his friends ofthe Ashtar Command, Lance, Hanford,Mario, Bayham, West, Sananda, Ashtar andthe others. Thanks for the encouragement."

The surveillance continued for sometime, so in the September- October Journal Ireported: "Since June 25th we havereceived periodic inspections by low-flyinghelicopters, both military and civilian, atleast twice a week. The craft came in at lowaltitude of only a few hundred feet andcircled our area three times before goingaway. It may be the authorities aren't sure atthis time exactly which home down below isthe UFO contact point, but I'm sure the spothas been pinpointed on maps of the northSan Diego county area, at El Toro MarineCorps Air Base, 40 miles north of here, andother government agencies in the area, so itis subject to periodic check-ups from theair."

In his UFO classic of the 1950s, TheyLive in the Sky, the author, Trevor JamesConstable, describes his UFO research onthe high desert of Southern Californiaaround George Van Tassel's Giant Rock

airport. He saw Air Force jets from nearbyGeorge AFB fly back and forth throughspots where Etheric forms were hovering orfloating. Using infrared filters on his camerahe obtained photographic proof of this.Trevor's book contains many messagesfrom Ashtar describing the Command'spatrol activity in the atmosphere of theEarth.

And finally, this quote from the March-April 1971 Journal of Borderland Research:"By mid-January, with no buzzing signalsfrom the UFO detector for weeks, and nolow-flying helicopters, it seemed that we hadbeen crossed off the surveillance list. Then,at 3:04 P.M., the afternoon of January 14th,a helicopter came over so low we could feelthe pressure-wave beat of the blades rightin our house! I ran outside to see a military-colored Whirlybird zooming up and awayafter making only one pass over our place.X marks our spot on somebody's map, that'sfor sure. And it almost seemed that'someone' had been reading my mind." Now,after reading Ed Conroy's experience 17years later, in UFO Universe, I'm convincedof it!

"Four days later, at 6:20 p.m., theinsistent sound of motor and rotor broughtme out to watch an aerial inspector maketwo leisurely circles above us at about 300feet, before heading back toward SanDiego. The striking picture of the craft'sflashing red and white warning lights againstthe sunset sky is still strong in my memory.Prince Phillip is "In The Know"

"Then came to mind an item told us by[the late] Ric Williamson in one of his LosAngeles area lectures in 1958. Whilelecturing on flying saucers in London, hehad a royal guest, the Duke of Edinburgh.Afterward, Prince Phillip invited him to thepalace for a personal chat. Among otherthings the Prince showed Ric a huge wallmap of the world. It was studded withpinpoint locations of flying saucer appearances, sightings and contacts all over theplanet.

"Now, 12 years later, it becomes clearthat similar maps could be used to mark thelocation of everybody who is anybody inUFO research; not only contactees, butwriters, researchers, and publishers ofUFOzines. Highly sensitive magnetometers,at strategic locations around the country,are on 24-hour alert. If a significantmagnetic disturbance is detected near anyone of these pinpointed locations, airbornemobile units are on their way within minutes.You can imagine that the pilots of theseoutfits are as eager to see a real flyingsaucer as is the researcher on the ground.They like successful missions too!

"At 4:25 P.M. on February 5th, apersistent sound of buzzing finally registeredon my hearing, through a curtain ofconversation and radio music. I rushed tothe patio to find the UFO detector jammedon. The polarity shift at the surface of theEarth as to pull the downward pointingSouth Pole of the magnet onto the contactring and bending the copper contact wirealmost 90 degrees from vertical. This wasafter running into the backyard and lookingup, to find the blue afternoon skycrisscrossed with jet contrails at 20,000 to30,000 feet in all directions!

"There were no physical objects of anykind visible in the sky, including the jetaircraft, though I could hear them faintly. Oh,the Moon was there, with AstronautsShepard and Mitchell resting comfortably intheir Lunar Excursion Module after their firstexploration of the Moons surface. If therewas a UFO flap in this part of SouthernCalifornia that afternoon, as seems likelyfrom the jet activity above, no hint of it wasin the daily papers—just another classifiedreport in the files of the CIA's Flying SaucerBoard, in Washington, D.C."

The Ordeal of the Country-Western

SingerIn my book, Psychic & UFO

Revelations in the Last Days, I detailed thestory of Country-Western singer JohnnySands, who on January 29th, 1976,experienced a hair-raising close encounteroutside of Las Vegas.

We'll recap that night just briefly, as wewant to get on to Sands' follow up "ordeal"as soon as possible.

"I was 14 or 15 miles outside of Vegas,heading Southwest on the Blue DiamondHighway," states Sands, who had beenperforming that evening in a well known LasVegas hotel. "I was headed back into town,when I noticed a light to the side of mecoming along the same way I was driving. Itwas quite high up, but it was losing altitude."Sands' car malfunctioned and he thought hewas running short of fuel. "I pulled over tothe side of the road and got out of theautomobile. I opened the gas cap and shookthe rear of the car to see if the gas wouldflush. I could hear gas so I went around tothe front of the car and raised the hood. As Ipushed the hood upward over my head Inoticed there was a craft directly over me,about a thousand feet in the sky."

The musician says the craft landed andtwo beings emerged from the object. One ofthe UFOnauts proceeded to walk towardsSands until he stood right in front of him."The being looked to be about 5 feet 8inches tall and was completely bald. His facewas really pale. He had no eyebrows, noeyelashes—no hair at all. To me he lookedlike somebody frozen to death."

The alien and the singer communicatedby telepathy. "He touched something on hisbelt and right after he did so I got impressions in my mind. It was like listening tosomeone talking over the telephone from agreat distance away." The being asked whatthe lights were in the distance and whatSands was doing in the desert.

At one point during their conversation,the alien placed his hands behind his backand brought them back out in front of himseconds later. "In his hands," notes Sands,"he held a silver ball the approximate size ofa basketball. He held it out in front of him ashe turned back to me. He let the ball go andit floated there right in front of us. Hepassed his hands over the object and madeit start rotating in a circular motion as theEarth rotates around the sun. He started toexplain something that tied in with ournuclear devices, and why they were cominghere. He said nuclear devices cause a'confliction' in the galaxy—those were hisexact words. He then put his hand over thetop of the ball, and as he did so there wasan explosion just above its smooth surface.There was a flash, a minor explosion like afirecracker going off in an eruption similar toa volcano. Next, the ball started to act up abit, as if it were being stirred up by theexplosion. He said that when we use nucleardevices that it causes both our world as wellas his planet to vibrate like this. He addedthat because of these tremors, the rotationof the Earth is slowing down, and we areactually losing time, and thus we grow oldermuch faster. Sands admits that the alien didnot go into detail nor did he explain any ofthe things which he said. However, the performer contends that all during theconversation he felt like he was talking to avery wise person, who had been around along time.

Though he had originally decided toremain "quiet" about his experience with thealiens, eventually the story leaked out andwas published in the Las Vegas Sun, a citydaily with a wide circulation. In no time at all,Sands became a kind of "local celebrity,"appearing on area talk shows and eventelling his story in the lobby of a hotel on"the Strip," where a painting he did of one ofthe bald-headed aliens was beingprominently displayed.

Because of his newly found "CelebrityStatus," Sands didn't think twice when hereceived a telephone call from the managerof a TV crew requesting an interview. Littledid the entertainer know that he was soon tobe confronted by an even bigger mystery,which involved MIB-types, as well as hairybeasts not of this world.

But Johnny tells the story best in aninterview conducted shortly after this allhappened.

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The men called and said they were

doing a UFO television special, and wantedme to go on location. I agreed to go withthem and show them the spot where theencounter took place. We went out there inthe daytime, and when we finished theywanted to do a polygraph and voice analysisas a part of this segment.

I suggested we go down to thepolygrapher's office and I would permit themto set me up in the chair like I was taking thetest and let the polygraph examiner read theresults. At first they thought it was a goodidea and then they changed their minds andthen said they'd like to go out in the desertand read the polygraph results. It didn'tmake too much sense to my way of thinkingto go out in the desert at 10:00 o'clock atnight to read the polygraph results.

They were supposed to have this

camera truck and all. At first I told mybusiness manager—he was a policeman for17 years in Philadelphia—and he said he'dheard a lot of things and that didn't makeany sense. Why would they want to go in thedesert at 10:00 o'clock? But, I met them.They asked me to meet them at theTropicana in Las Vegas. When I drove up,they were all parked outside; two cars and acamera truck. They said they were all goingto load up and go in one car, and just takethe camera truck. Before leaving, they had amixed drink—I think it was a Manhattan—and offered me one. They gave me oneand we started driving on out.

I had parked my car, I rode in their backseat. They were riding in a Cadillac.

As we started going out to the spot, thedrink I had had started to make me feel alittle woozy. Normally, I didn't drink at all, so Ipoured the rest out. What happened was wedrove on past the location. And when wereached a new location about six miles upthe road, there were about 40 cars parkedthere waiting for us.

They had all driven off the highway andhad turned their headlights back across theroad and aimed them at the car I was in, sothey ail faced in the same direction. Wecame to a stop so that their headlights wereshining right on us. It was then I realized thatall these people knew in advance about ourcoming here, because the productioncompany didn't know anybody in town, andwe hadn't advertised that we were going intothe desert.

The men got out of the car, but when Istarted to follow, they said, "Just wait in thecar a minute!" So I just sat there, and I couldsee they were standing in the road.Eventually, a fat man with glasses on cameacross the road and shook his finger at theothers, and was pointing at the car where Isat.

He was saying that I knew too much—meaning me. "We took this thing too far.It's no sense taking it any farther. He knowstoo much." And then one of the guys withthe motion picture company said, "He onlyknows what they have let him know." Andthen I thought I was hallucinating. I thoughtperhaps I had been in the desert too manytimes.

I said to myself they can't be talkingabout me. I don't even know that man. Hewas just out there raising hell. I tried to getout of the car, I wanted to see what wasgoing on for myself.

As I opened the door—this is the partthat really makes the whole thing soundtotally strange—there were two fuzzy-looking, furry-type creatures, standing in thedesert in an upright position, kind of like agorilla, only they were more square.

Their heads looked like it was not evenwith their shoulders—like a robot. Theylooked to be about five feet tall. I thoughtthe whole thing was just my mind, that I washallucinating.

More than ever, I wanted to get out ofthe car, but they had done something to thatdrink. As I got out of the car, one of thosefurry things started running towards thedoor. It scared the hell out of me, so I shutthe car door right away, locked it, and rolledthe window up.

This thing ran right up to the window andjust looked in. Eventually, it walked towardswhere the two men and the fat man werearguing. He made some kind of talk with thefat man and the other two men, then hewent back to this direct location where hecame from to start with, and stood there likehe was on guard.

Then I passed out, and went I came to,they were getting in the car. It seemed like itwas only five minutes, but I found out later itwas really three hours.

Inside the car, the production peoplelooked at me. I woke up then, and they said,"You have done a good job, we liked thefilming."

When we got ready to leave, the carswere gone, everybody was gone. When I gothome I told my manager what happened,and he called them up. He played like Iwasn't home and said to them, "Hi, have youseen Johnny?" And they said, "Didn't hecome home?" And he said, not yet, to whichthey replied, "He probably stopped somewhere to get coffee, because we finishedfilming in the desert."

I told my manager to hang up and so hehung up and then I told him, "I don't care ifyou believe me or not, but during the time inthe desert, I didn't do any filming because Ididn't get out of the car."

I told him about the 40 cars, the fat man,and everything. He didn't believe me at first,so I called a friend and told him to watchthese people, and check them out. I startedraising questions. To start with, the fat manthat was doing all that arguing, and one ofthe guys said, "I don't know, he wasn't myfriend, he was my buddy's." Then I went totalk to the other man, asking him about thefat man. He also said, "That wasn't myfriend. It was my buddy's." I asked how thefilming went, and he said it didn't turn out sowell, so they were going to do it again.

I asked to see the film we had done, andhe said it was torn up because it didn't comeout right. I asked him about the 40 cars andhe said he didn't know anything about them.

Investigating some more, I found outthey had just come into town three daysbefore. They claimed their home base wasin Hollywood, but they had moved theirproduction company to Nevada. Now, sincethen they have not been in contact. Theymade me sign a contract that I would notrelease any likeness of the alien whatsoeveruntil after their television special. They saidthey paid for the artist's conception, andsaid they did not want it exposed.

They had no office, just an answeringservice. Later, I found out that the FBI had awire tap on their telephone. When I calledone of them up, he said not to talk about theincident over the phone, because the FBIhas a tap on his phone. I went over thereand asked why, and he said, "It's something Idon't want to get into." They could be the"Men in Black!"

Warning From The MIBWilliam Alexander Oribello is a highly

spiritual person who channels the essenceof Count Saint Germain and other highly advanced souls, including members of theAshtar Command. On his way to visit theauthor, he maintains that the MIB tried to dohim in. Fortunately, he survived the attack.Here is his story.

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"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,but againstprincipalities, againstpowers,against the rulers of the darkness ofthisworld, against spiritual wickedness in highplaces."Ephesians 6:12 (The Holy Bible)

Dear friend, what I am about to sharewith you is of vital importance to you, yourfamily, and all inhabitants of the Earth. Thismessage will cause unrest among those whopervert the way of truth, but will bring hopeand comfort to all workers of the Light onthis planet.

Since the beginning of time a battle hasbeen in progress throughout the cosmos.The battle began in the misty past when thegreat light-bearer, Archangel Lucifer,rebelled AGAINST the cosmic plan of God,and plunged into the lower regions of thecosmos, taking legions of rebellious spiritswith him.

Much of humanity is influenced by thesefallen angels of darkness and this hascreated all the negative thinking and deedswhich have marred the original beauty oflife. A person once told me that she believedthat there is no such thing as evil—that ifGod is good and if God created everything,then everything is good, and there is no evil.My answer to her was this: Yes, God isgood, and when God made all things He sawthat it was good. However, it was therebellion of the angels, and later humankindthat caused the evil that is so evidentaround us. God gave all beings—angel andhuman, the mental and emotional power forgood, but these beings misused this powerto generate all types of negativity, includingwars, slavery, deceit and violence. The evilthoughts of corrupt men and spirits continueto plague the Earth.

In my own experience, I have metseveral individuals who wererepresentatives of a group known as the"Great White Brotherhood" or "The Mastersof the Wisdom." These great beings walkamong us to guide humankind into higherlevels of thinking and progress. Some of thepeople who direct mystic churches andorganizations are channels for the Mastersof Wisdom. I also wish to add that leaders ofnations who believe in the freedom of all arerepresentatives of the Brotherhood of Light.An example of this is our own nation, theUnited States of America. This great nationwas founded under guidance and inspirationof the Kingdom of God, and His blessingcontinues to flow to us in our generation.

I have also crossed paths with

representatives of the Brotherhood ofDarkness, who have tried to hinder andoppose my work for God. While growing up Ikept seeking the right path and means bywhich I could fulfill my divine mission that Iknew was assigned to me. However, atdifferent crossroads of my life wereindividuals who tried to steer me in thewrong direction.

Dear friend, take heed to my warning:when you are on the path of Light youbecome a marked person for theBrotherhood of Darkness; you may have afriend (so called) who may, in allappearances, be a normal human being—but beware, if they seek to influence youto neglect or depart from your path of Lightthey are (knowingly or unknowingly) workingfor the cause of the Brotherhood ofDarkness. Some people who appear verynormal, may in fact be one who has soldtheir soul to Lucifer and live for the purposeof blocking the chosen of God. Some ofthese individuals have crossed the point ofno return and are what is known as a "soul-less one" or an M.I.B. (man in black). TheBrotherhood of Darkness does exist, and ifyou give in to their influence, they will causeyou to miss the purpose for which you wereborn.

I would like to share a more recentexperience with you: When I completed myrecent book, The Final Solution, theBrotherhood of Darkness tried to BLOCK itspublication. To begin with, there were alltypes of problems which arose during themonths in which I was writing the book;personal difficulties, of which I cannotexplain, setbacks in schedule planning,mechanical problems with office equipment,and other annoying events which delayedthe completion of this book. The negativeforces did not want this book published. MayGod ever bless my publisher, Timothy GreenBeckley, of Inner Light Publications. He wasa constant source of encouragement ingetting the book out to the public. On theday that it was completed, I was directed totake a train from Philadelphia to New York todeliver the manuscript in person rather thanmail it. On that day, I witnessed anothergreat demonstration of the eternal conflictbetween the forces of Light and Darkness. Iwill now share the details of that experiencewith you.

As I stood on the platform of the stationi n Philadelphia, I suddenly felt negativeenergy at the back of my head, trying topush me off the platform, and onto thetracks. With such intensity of spirit, I calledfrom within my inner being on the name ofAlmighty God and the Masters of Wisdom,who assist me. Then I felt a release of thenegative force, turned around and saw twomen staring at me. These men were verywell dressed like businessmen, but theirclothing was all black. There was somethingevil about their very presence, and when myeyes met theirs, it was like looking into theeyes of Satan himself. These men wererepresentatives of the Brotherhood ofDarkness, sent to destroy me so that thismanuscript would never reach the publisher.

I invoked the great power of the Light ofthe Christ to surround me, and a fewmoments later, the train arrived and I was onmy way to New York. Mr. Beckley and Ienjoyed a time of fellowship as we plannedfor this and other works to help humankind,and soon I was on my way back to thestation for my return trip to Philadelphia. Atthis time one of the Messengers of Lightmanifested and encouraged me with agesture of blessing in my determination todo my work for the Kingdom of Light.

Before giving my closing remarks andwords of blessing, I want to tell you of arecent vision. It was late at night and I wasworking on a forthcoming book, whensuddenly, the scenes of the room vanishedand a great multitude of people appeared.These people looked fearfully at a greatlight which appeared and became brighterby the second. And then it was as though anintense heat emanated from the light andtheir clothes melted off them, and they stoodnaked before this great light. Then I noticedthat a mud-like substance began to formover the bodies of these horrified souls, andthey began to scramble violently to escapethe light. Suddenly a voice said, "These arethe souls of them who have failed to enterthe path of Light, to bring about theprogress of their own souls, some throughslothfulness, others through dedication toevil principles. The closing of a Cosmic Dayand the Great Judgment is near. Therefore,tell the people that now is the time to lookwithin and find the Kingdom of God. It is timefor souls everywhere to awaken to their truenature in relation to the cosmos."

Dear friend, I strongly suggest that youread my book, The Final Solution, publishedby Inner Light. It reveals life's mysteries in asimple, yet profound manner, which will giveyou the power to overcome your problemsand take control of your life. You will receive,with your copy, a lovely crystal heart whichthe Masters of Wisdom have inspired youfor protection and good fortune. And now, Ipray God's blessings come to you in everyway. May the Light of God surround andprotect you, and may peace be with youalways. Amen.

UFO Terrorists of ChinaAntonio Huneeus is a top flight

investigator with many worldwide contacts.Even before it became "fashionable,"Huneeus, through his many "diplomatic ties,"was corresponding with Eastern block andAsian investigators. Even from behind the"Bamboo Curtain," the last stronghold ofcommunist censorship, he has managed toextract important news of UFOdevelopments, including the following MIB"attacks" in mainland China.

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Though the vast majority of UFO casesrecorded in China consist of purely visualsightings, there are relatively few CloseEncounters of the Second Kind (CE-2),where physical evidence such as landingmarks or interference with machines iscaused or left by a UFO; and still fewerinstances of Close Encounters of the ThirdKind (CE-3), as well as abductions andcases of alleged contact with aliens.

One fairly obvious reason for this gap isthat Chinese UFOlogy is still in its earlyinfancy—publicly acknowledged only sincethe late 70s. Nocturnal lights in the sky ordaytime sightings are still considered acontroversial matter. Surely, space alienswould seem like something too outrageousfor a country where the media is underheavy government control and communismis the official ideology—nowadays enforcedin the so-called People's Republic at thepoint of a gun, if necessary.

The fact that CE-3's are not reportedwidely in China, however, doesn't mean thatthey don't exist at all. They do! The problem,again, is that they are not reported in theChinese press or hardly even in thespecialized publications like CURO's Journalof UFO Research. Therefore, they are quitehard to track down, but not impossible. InShi Bo's China and Extraterrestrials, alandmark book published in France in 1983,there is a whole chapter entitled,"Humanoids and Close Encounters."However, only four such cases are detailedout of a total of some 130 UFO reportscontained in the book.

Curiously enough, two of these casesare somewhat related to the Men-In-Black(MIB) category of the UFO folklore;particularly one incident in 1963, when theMIB warned the witness to remain silentabout a UFO sighting. Then there is theclose encounter with a strange, big-headedman who was wearing a helmet. Thechapter's final section is about a psychicand contactee who claims to have visited aflying saucer three times. Hardly original inthe U.S., in China this is explosive stuff.

The oldest case reviewed by Shi Bo tookplace in 1963 in the outskirts of the city ofYangguan in Shansi province. Li Jing-yang,a security officer in a military factory, wasinterviewed by journalist Wang Shili, aboutan experience he had with Men-In-Blackwhen he was six years old, the day after heand some friends had seen "a shining,silvery disc hanging stationary and silent inthe air very close to them. It was aboutseven or eight meters wide and shaped likeone plate reversed on top of another plate.No portholes or windows were visible. Itlooked hermetically sealed and its metallicsurface was very smooth." Since UFOs wereat the time a subject totally forbidden andunknown to the Chinese people, the boyssurmised the disc had to be some kind ofnew aircraft.

On the following day, however, the boywas stopped in the middle of the street by "avery tall man dressed entirely in black," whointerrogated him as to whether he had seenthe disc the day before, pointing even to theexact spot in the sky where the object hadhovered. As the boy responded affirmatively,the MIB warned him "never to tell anyoneelse what he had seen," refusing to let him

go until Jing-yang promised that he wouldkeep the secret.

"I recall that I was worried, thinking aboutthis unknown character," continued Jing-yang. "His skin was dark and I was surprisedby the aspect of his face and intonation.Several people saw him; everybody wastalking about him but no one understood hisgestures." Yet the most striking similarity withAmerican reports of MIBs emerged at theend of the interview, when Li Jing-yangstated that "the man in black was walking ina mechanical motion; he spoke, but withoutmoving his mouth and he disappearedsuddenly as he turned a corner." "When thejournalist asked him if he could have been anormal person, Jing-yang responded, "Itspossible, but I swear that everything that I'vetold you is true."

The second MIB report took place inGansu Province on July 29, 1974. KeJungzhi, a student at the constructionworkers' polytechnic at Lanzhou, kept thestory of the "luminous black man" to himselfuntil he began reading about UFOs in theCURO Journals few years ago; he thenfinally sent an account of his encounter toace UFOlogist Shi Bo, who included it in hisbook. At the time, Jungzhi was a member ofa workers' brigade operating in TengkeliDesert in China's northern Gansu Province.

"On the evening of July 29, 1974," wroteKe Jungzhi, "I was going to eat at therestaurant reserved for the young personnelfrom the city on duty in the fields. As Iwalked around a rice field, I suddenlyspotted a man all black, some 30 feet infront of me. He seemed tall and robust, witha height of about 5.9 feet. I couldn't discernhis facial features, since it was very dark,yet the black man was plainly visible in thedarkness because his whole body wasfaintly luminous."

Thinking at first that the black man hadto be a peasant which had come to inspectthe irrigation system, Jungzhi shouted andasked him to identify himself. The MIBremained silent and motionless and then,"began to glow more brightly, disappearingsuddenly between the tall grass." Thestudent looked at him, but couldn't find atrace of the mysterious visitor. Although hedidn't say a word about it, he heard that "twodays later, at precisely the same spot, thechief of our brigade encountered a faintlyluminous black man." Only after reading anarticle about MIBs in the USA in the fourthissue of China's Journal for UFO Research,did Jungzhi finally decide to report hisadventure.

In 1981, Shi Bo received a letter fromthe city of Chongqing, in Sichuan Province,which contained a story of a CE-3 with "aman with a big head," dressed in a "spacesuit" like a "metallic coverall." The incidenthad taken place ten years earlier, but thewitness—an old peasant named ZhangRongchang—had died in 1972. Shi Borequested further information from hiscorrespondent, receiving eventually a morecomplete account from the old man'sgrandson, Zhang Chuanxiu. In the secondletter, the grandson related that towards theend of August, 1971, his grandfather hadarrived one day very upset to his house atlunchtime, telling his family and neighborsthat, "I saw today a man with a big head."

As it turned out, after working in thefields, Rongchang was returning home ashe was hungry, when he saw an odd man onthe road walking towards him. The man wasrobust and otherwise normal, except for hishuge head, which was about three times thesize of a normal human head. He wasunable to distinguish his facial features, however, since the head was covered by ahelmet; the man was wearing a one-piecesuit covering his entire body from the neckto the feet. The "man" didn't seem to walk ina very flexible manner, "he was faster thanus." The elderly Rongchang asked thefigure to identify himself and state what hewanted, but as the stranger remained silentand motionless, the peasant was overcomeby fear and ran away; a few seconds laterhe turned his head "to see him one moretime, but he had already vanished."

Chuanxiu's account adds that when hisgrandfather reached the village, he askedsome youngsters to look for the stranger inthe fields, but they could find no one.Afterwards, the old man was in a state ofconstant fear, his health deteriorated, andhe died a few months later, in January of1972. Shi Bo concluded that this CE-3 wastoo controversial to be published in CURO sJournal, yet he believed that "the event istrue and the man with a big head could havebeen a space robot," or a MIB!

A Phantom Car and ProtectionYou want to know how to protect yourself

from the MIB? If you were attacked by avampire, you'd carry some garlic; awerewolf, a silver bullet. Frank Stranges hashis own approach:

In addition to being a popular Christianevangelist, Rev. Frank E. Strangers is along-time UFO investigator and Director ofthe National Investigations Committee onUFOs. Because of his bold attitude on thesubject of extraterrestrials, and the fact thathe claims to have met a space being namedVal Thor in the Pentagon, Rev. Strangershas come under continued attack from the"Men in Black," and other "Luciferianoriented silence groups" who have tried tokeep such matters hush-hush. His life hasbeen put in severe danger on many occasions. Just recently, for example, he wassent to the hospital after being pushed offthe road by a "phantom car." In this story,Rev. Stranges tells about this incident, aswell as his special "Ring of Fire" blessing,which he has devised, so that others mayshield themselves from negative forces atwork in the cosmos.

Notice

The information found herein hasoriginated from an unimpeachableintelligence source in time and space. Thereader maintains the option to either acceptor reject its contents.

### On the 11th of April, a few years back,

Dr. and Mrs. Frank E. Stranges were drivingon Boulder Highway, returning from HooverDam, when all hell cut loose without warning.

The weather was clear, the sun wasbrightly shining, and the Highway wasuncluttered when, without warning a"Phantom Car" cut directly in front of ourcar, causing a series of events that almostpromoted us both from this planet. Our carswerved to avoid hitting the "Phantom Car,"blowing a front tire—being struck frombehind by another vehicle, thus sending usspinning into the dirt meridian separatingthe oncoming traffic from that which we weretraveling.

According to the Nevada Highway Patrolaccident report, the "Phantom Car" was alsoviewed by witnesses who claim that the carwas nowhere to be seen following theimpact.

Dr. Stranges had no feeling from hisneck down. When the emergency vehiclesarrived on the scene, they carefullyremoved Dr. Stranges from his car (underthe watchful eyes of a deeply concernedwife) who sat in the front seat of theambulance, continuously looking over hershoulder and wondering at the fate of herinjured husband.

Upon arrival at the hospital, they wereboth taken to the emergency room. Mrs.Stranges suffered injuries in her neck aswell as to her right wrist.

Dr. Stranges was taken to an isolatedarea where the resident doctor, following aquick examination, instructed that x-rays be

shot to diminish his pain, while he was beingprepared for the x-ray room. The longjourney through the hospital corridorsseemed endless as he lay helplesslywatching the ceiling lights dash by. He waswheeled into the x-ray facility when a voicerang out from the corridor requesting thatthe three men come out to the corridorimmediately.

This is when it happened! From his righteye, Dr. Stranges saw a lone, uniformedfigure approaching the stretcher upon whichhe was still lying.

Commander Val Thor simply stated"Frank, please lie still. Do not move." (Hishead was still taped down to the steelstretcher upon which he had been placed atthe scene of the accident.) CommanderThor then said, "Do not worry, do not speak,everything will be all right." CommanderThor then placed both his hands over thetop of Dr. Stranges head, and began topray.

Within seconds, Dr. Stranges felt whathe described as "warm water" passing fromthe top of his head to the very soles of hisfeet.

All Pain Was Gone!When the technicians had returned to

the x-ray room, Commander Thor was"gone." They proceeded to x-ray Dr.

Stranges from head to toe.Following this, he was quickly returned

to the emergency room for furtherexamination and evaluation for treatment.Dr. Stranges was then subjected to a host ofquestions by the Medical Doctors, becausehe (1) had no pain anywhere in his body, (2)there were no marks or bruises on his body(3) he was sitting up, ready to get dressedand leave the hospital under his own(?)power...

Result? The car suffered over $ 1500.00damage, and both Dr. and Mrs. Strangesare alive and well—Thanks be to theprovision made by Almighty God byassigning His Ministering Angels to assistand help in the hour of deepest need. At thiswriting, they are both receiving minimal carefrom their family doctor in the city of VanNuys.

As a result of the above, I, Dr. Frank E.

Stranges, present to you, for the very firsttime, a topic that will indeed be a challengeto all of our members—friends, andassociates, worldwide.

On the following pages, I am presentingthe secret of the "Doctrine of the Ring ofFire."

You will read for the first time, certaintruths, that if properly applied, can alter yourlife. Please remember, that this ceremony ofwhich you will read, is also practiced bythose from other spheres before they setfoot upon this planet.

Do not be at all surprised if you findyourself motivated to travel to Van Nuys,California, in order to observe and take partin this important ceremony that will prepareyou to meet the future head-on.

Special WarningNow, please prepare yourself. Do not lay

this report aside until you have completelydigested the entire report. Do not allowanything or anyone to interrupt you in anyway, shape or form. Disconnect your phone(if necessary) and then, read on.

The Ring of "Fire"For the first time, you are being

informed, in this writing, of a major segmentof Divine Order that was established beforethe very foundations of this planet were laid.

You are about to read powerful wordsthat are "absolute" in all respects. Themystery of the "Ring of Fire" will become avital part of your life, whether you residewithin the United States or abroad.

The "Ring of Fire" is:a. essentialb. necessaryc. importantd. the only way that you will survive on

this planet without being snuffed out like theflame of a candle.Proposition One:

Since war was declared (many eons agoin the Heavenlies), Lucifer, the son of themorning was thrust forth and literally castout of the Holy sphere along with "millions"of his angels (demons). Cast where? Castdown and into this Planet Earth.Proposition Two:

Holy books the world over, record thatsince the dawning of that awesome morning,the Planet Earth has been captive by Luciferand his evil forces. He is, in fact, the Princeof the powers of the air, the Prince ofDarkness and also, the god of this world.Proposition Three:

Lucifer is also the one who has pollutedthe atmosphere that you breathe. Thiscondition is prevalent around this planet 24hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days ayear, thus creating a devastating effect onthe human family since the very beginningof man's sojourn on this planet. And—thesituation is not growing any better. It isgetting rapidly worse.Proposition Four:

Every evil act that is committed on Earthtoday by members of the human race aswell as those of the animal kingdom isattributable to the Luciferian effect. Satan'shold on this planet hangs heavily like adrape of doom. This also accounts for all ofthe ravages of crime, civil disorder andgeneral disharmony on Earth today.Proposition Five:

Because of this condition, those fromother planets are instructed to perform aceremony called the "Ring of Fire." This hasbeen performed by a small number ofpeople in Bible days. However, because ofthe threat brought to by certain high ChurchOfficials, few people even know of the powerof the "Ring of Fire."Proposition Six:

There is a formula by which all of youcan benefit by the Divine Protection which isthe result of the Ceremony. Some of youmay even take issue with the manner inwhich this power is invoked. But, this isimmaterial. The Name in which theInvocation is pronounced may cause friction.But I will take this liberty of informing you ofthis great truth because by ignoring it, youmay lose your life.Proposition Seven:

The proof lies in the results. The formulahas been "time tested." If those friends fromspace have invoked this divine protectionbefore setting foot on this planet, can we beso complacent that we can afford to allowthe evil forces on this planet to continue to"rule our lives, "plunge us into constantdanger, plague us with an atmosphere untilthere is no more life left in us? Or, shall wemaintain an open mind and accept thefreedom and protection that has beenprovided?And Now Proposition Eight:

Fire has always represented divineprotection, cleansing and purification. Thethree Hebrew children (of the OldTestament) walked freely in the fiery furnacethat was heated seven times hotter thanusual at the command of the evil Kingbecause the three refused to bow down tohis idol. They survived (accompanied by afourth man who was also seen with them inthe furnace). In this 20th Century, far toomany people are perishing before their time.UFO researchers are fast becoming thetarget for ungodly forces. Sickness anddisease are running out of control in thisgeneration. Governments are likewisedeceiving the people into believing a greatlie. In view of this, do you or do you notneed to be surrounded by the "Ring ofFire"?Please Do The Following:

1. In the privacy of your home, office, etc.,place a lighted white candle before youon a table.2. Do not permit anyone or anything todisturb you until you are completelyfinished with this ceremony.3. Repeat the Lord's Prayer.4. Pray the following proclamationwithout doubt in your heart. As you pray,believe that the God of Creation ishearing you at the very moment that youare praying! Do not close your eyes, butlook into the flame. Maintain your fullsenses and know what you are doing atall times! Then, repeat this proclamationaloud: "Eternal Father, Creator of theUniverse, hear my petition. Surround menow... with your Divine Ring of Fire. TheFire of Protection, The Fire of YourAbundance, The Fire of CompleteHealing, and The Fire of DivineAbundance. I command the Hand ofAlmighty God on my behalf. Let it be so...this moment, in the Blessed name of theLord Jesus Christ. Amen!"

Finally:Extinguish the candle. Do not remove

yourself from the room for at least three fullminutes. Stand before the extinguishedcandle with your eyes open and feel thepresence of the Ring of Fire. You will neverbe the same.

Do this. Follow the instructions verycarefully, and you will find actual changestaking place in your life.

MIB In The AndesIntroduced previously, global investigator

Antonio Huneeus has come across only ahandful of MIB-related cases, but he has nodoubt about the authenticity of this report,which, he says, deserves more merit thansome of the other cases he knows about.

### Traditionally, incidents of "Men in Black,"

or MIBs, have been largely associated witht h e United States. This is not surprising,since both the story of Albert K. Bender,which started it all, and the book by the lateGray Barker, They Knew Too Much AboutFlying Saucers, which popularized MIBs,originated in this country. However, a carefulperusal of the foreign UFO literature willproduce a few significant MIB incidentsanywhere from Mainland China to the highAndes of Peru.

A case that took place in 1975 in thetown of Sicuani, not far from the famous cityof Cuzco in Peru, is of particular interest,since it contains the basic theme of MIBharassment of a UFO witness in an attemptto confiscate important evidence in his

possession—in this case a photograph ofthree flying saucers over the village ofCapillani taken by a reporter from Lima.

The case is also important because boththe photographer and the investigator,Cuzco Ufologist Anton Ponce de Leon, wereprobably unaware of the rich Americanliterature in this subject. Ponce de Leon, forinstance, doesn't speak English at all. Thus,the case is likely "uncontaminated" byprevious accounts, something whichsociologistsand folklorists studying this or other similarphenomena consider of great importance.The incident has never been published inEnglish as well until this book.

Anton Ponce de Leon is ananthropologist, Ufologist, author and socialworker from Cuzco, the ancient capital of theIncas, who studied at Cuzco University andthe National University of La Plata inArgentina. He was the regional director inCuzco of the pioneer UFO group IPRI (thePeruvian Institute of InterplanetaryRelations) founded in the 1950s by CarlosPaz Garcia in Lima, and has thereforedocumented many interesting UFO cases inthe area of Cuzco and Urubamba, thesacred valley of the Incas. Some of hisworks and ideas were featured in ShirleyMacLaine's third metaphysical book, It's AllIn The Playing, which describes heradventures in Peru at the time of the filmingof the TV mini-series of her bestseller, OutOn A Limb.

I met Senor Ponce de Leon during hisvisit to New York City in 1988, where helectured in Queens about UFO sightings inPeru and Inca Cosmology. He was alsodrawing support for his latest cause,"Samana Wasi" (The House of Rest), aretreat he built in Cuzco for the care ofabandoned children and elders. At his well-documented lecture in Spanish, SenorPonce described many interesting UFOsightings and close encounters in the Cuzcoregion which he had personally investigatedduring the late 70s. These included landingcases with traces of radioactivity, incidentswhere car engines were stopped, and evena fascinating account of a truck driver whowas apparently healed of cancer of thestomach by a light beam from a UFO. Theincident that concerns us here, however, isthe MIB story from Sicuani, a town locatedsouth of Cuzco.

As told by Ponce de Leon, "In the yearof 1975 there was much talk about UFOsightings in Sicuani, particularly at night,and the peasants were talking aboutsomething very worrisome to them, that theywere hearing noises under the ground as ifmachines were working there, according totheir expression." Ponce went to Sicuani toinvestigate the flap, which had also spreadto the Indian villages of Capillani and Chumoin the high Andes, and met in Sicuani areporter from the newspaper Ultima Hora ofLima, who was looking for him for aninterview and background information on theUFO flap. The reporter traveled to Capillanithe next morning, where he saw and took avery clear photograph of "three craftcrossing behind the tower of the chapel,"explained Ponce.

The reporter returned very enthusiasticto Sicuani with his photo and left the roll offilm with a photographer friend to bedeveloped, because he wanted to returnand take more photos. This is the momentwhere mysterious and so far unidentifiedMIBs entered the scene. As put by Ponce inhis lecture, "When the man returned to hishotel [in Sicuani], he found that his roomwas all messed up. He inquired with theconcierge, who told him that 'two gentlemenin black and with hats had come saying thatthey were friends of yours. As they told methat they were looking for you, I let thementer your room because they were going towait for you there. Now, I don't know fromwhere they left the hotel.'"

That was just the beginning of a cat andmouse game that went on for several days.When the reporter went to check the photoswith his friend, he discovered that "the menin black had visited the photographer andrequested the negatives, saying that thereporter wasn't able to come and had askedthem to pick up the photos," continuedPonce. Fortunately, the photographer, whoknew that the shot of Capillani was veryimportant, thought that there was somethingwrong with the story and told the MIBs thatthe reporter had already been there to pickup the photos.

The harassment went on, according toPonce de Leon, and the reporter wasbecoming very worried: "He would leavesome papers and the papers woulddisappear, he would return to his hotel andhis room had been inspected again, hechanged hotels but the problem continued.Finally," added Ponce, "he grabbed a taxiand came to Cuzco very frightened. Hevisited me in Cuzco, where I personallystudied the negatives and I have no doubtthat they are authentic. As he was extremelyfrightened, he took the first plane back toLima and left the negatives with me. I sentthem by mail and a few days later the storywas published in the newspaper UltimaHora."

Thus, the MIBs were thwarted in thisparticular case, although I have not yetlocated a copy of the photograph of thethree saucers over the skies of Capillani.Indeed, I have never even seen a referenceto this photo in the three-volume UFOpicture book by Spanish writer J.J. Benitezor the book, Los OVNIy la EvidenciaFotografica by Argentinian UfologistGuillermo Roncoroni, both of which containnumerous UFO photos from South America.So it is possible that the MIBs may havesucceeded after ail in stealing the negativesfrom the editorial offices of Ultima Hora inLima. Who knows?UFO Contactee Howard Menger (inset) sayshe was paid a visit by mysterious "agents"following his taking of photos and movies ofUFO and space aliens landing in hisHighbridge, New Jersey backyard. The Incredible "Men-in-Black Summer"

of 1968With over 15 million books in print, best-

selling author Brad Steiger is well aware ofthe MIB phenomena, having beenconfronted with evidence for severaldecades that the MIB are not the product ofoverworked imaginations. Here is what hisresearch shows.

### The unpleasant phenomenon known as

the men-in-black, the MIB, appears to be anongoing program of harassment conductedby an agency that remains unknown andunidentified—although nearly everyresearch in UFOlogy has nominated hismost likely candidate for the "men behindthe mask." I have dealt with the MIB and themore sinister aspects of UFO research insuch books as Mysteries of Time and Spaceand the newly released The PhiladelphiaExperiment and Other UFO Conspiracies. Itend to believe that we are dealing with anenigma that has both a physical and aparaphysical reality, and I will refer thereader to either of the two above-mentionedworks for a more complete examination ofmy theories. For this present work, I wouldlike to recall the summer of 1968, a time thatwas maddeningly busy with significant MIBactivity.

On the morning of Saturday, June 14,1968, a man representing himself as an AirForce Major contacted Thomas Wedemeyer,security chief of the Commission on AerialPhenomena (C.A.P.), Jamestown, New York.The officer presented papers identifyinghimself as Major Smedley, an Air Forceinvestigator operating out of Jamestown.

Major Smedley questioned Wedemeyerabout James Norene, the director of C.A.P.He demanded to know who headedinvestigations for the organization, and wasparticularly interested in any informationwhich C.A.P. might have acquired regardinga report made by two state police officersconcerning a UFO that had landed outsideof Buffalo, New York, on June 12th.

Major Smedley was not driving anautomobile and did not carry an attachecase. He was wearing an Air Force uniform.Wedemeyer remembers being intrigued bythe peculiar accent with which the visitorspoke. After the Major left, Wedemeyersuffered from an acute headache and couldremember nothing of their conversation, forabout five minutes.

Later, a C.A.P. check of the local AirForce authorities revealed that there was noMajor Smedley working out of Jamestown.

"Upon receiving this information," C.A.P.Director Norene wrote to me, "weimmediately checked with Air ForcePersonnel (via teletype) in Boston,Massachusetts. The reply was mostinteresting. The Air Force lists no MajorSmedley on their records. In other words,such a man is not a member of the UnitedStates Air Force. The fact that this person,whoever he might have been, seemedworried that our organization might have

pertinent information concerning thereported landing outside of Buffaloprompted us to further our investigation ofthis incident."

On August 10th, the officers of theC.A.P. were visited by freelance UFOinvestigators from Erie, Pennsylvania. In thecourse of conversation, the visitors toldNorene and his staff about a strangeincident that had occurred to an associateof theirs.

In the summer of 1967, thePennsylvania UFO investigator had beencontacted by an Air Force officer, whowished to question him regarding hisresearch. The officer had been alone, onfoot and carried no briefcase. He hadinterrogated the researcher for an hour.After the Air Force officer had left the UFOresearcher became violently ill and had tobe confined to his bed for two weeks.

The Air Force "officer’s" name? MajorSmedley!

The descriptions of the MIB range fromthe common "short men, dark complexions,Oriental features, heavy accents" to "tall,blond, crewcut, fair-complexioned,Scandinavian-types." Sometimes theyappear as "odd-couples," a tall blond with ashort, dark companion.

Spreading Confusion and Discouraging

ResearchIn the summer of 1968,1 received a

long-distance telephone call from ajournalist friend who was covering a UFOflap area for his local newspaper. "BlastBrad Steiger and Joan Whritenour and downwith John Keel!" he thundered.

Recognizing my friend’s voice, I askedhim what the trouble was.

"I'm trying to cover this flap over here—My lord! Everyone has seen these UFOs!—but every time I try to dig deep, thewitness clams up and says, 'I won't say anymore. Brad Steiger says awful things willhappen to me if I tell too much!' One ladysaid that John Keel had told her that shewould be carried off by the saucer people ifshe talked to anyone about her sighting."

I knew that neither Keel nor I were in thatparticular flap area at that time, and thatneither of us would say such things in evena jesting manner if we had been in thelocale, so I pressed my friend for details.

"Well, damn near everywhere I go, thewitness has been given a copy of one of theSteiger-Whritenour books or a magazinewith an article in it by you or Keel!"

"And the books and articles aresupposed to frighten them?" I questioned."Whoever is delivering these things must beadding their own interpretation."

"I don't know about that, but what thehell are you people saying in these articles?" the frustrated newsman wanted to know.

"Haven't you read them?" I countered."I don't need to read them!" the

journalist roared. "Every UFO witness Iinterview is waving a copy in my face andtelling me about all the terrible things thatwill happen to him if he elaborates on hissighting report."

"But who are the delivery boys?" Iasked. "Have you seen them?"

"Not until this afternoon," the newsmananswered. "I guess I must have arrived atthis farmhouse just a few minutes after theydid. Damn unfriendly little monkeys!"

"Could you describe them?""Well, I didn't pay a whole lot of attention

to them. I just shot an irritated glance atthem every once in a while. You see, I wastrying to talk to the farmer's wife, while theywere chattering at the farmer and waving acopy of this magazine in their hands andtelling the man how Brad Steiger waswarning all UFO sighters not to talk."

"I see," I mused. "How ironic that theyshould use Keel, Whritenour, and myself tosilence saucer sighters. But you must havean impression of their general description."

"Oh," the newsman hesitated. "Theywere short men in dark suits. All three ofthem had deep suntans."

"Notice anything about their eyes?""Nope. I can't recall even seeing their

eyes. Come to think of it, they all wore darkglasses."

"Did you speak to them?""Well, I spoke with one. But he lied to

me.""What do you mean?""He told me that he and his friends were

NICAP investigators, but when I checkedwith the area NICAP man a bit later to get aquote for my article, he said that he didn'trecognize any of the names they gave meand he knew no one in the local group whowould fit their general descriptions."

What is the meaning of this experience?My journalist friend had not read the articlesor books which dealt with the MIB enigma.He described the short, dark-complexionedmen in a tone of naiveté. It was after he hadgiven their description that I urged hisreading of the material that dealt with UFOsilencers.

I discussed the MIB with severalmembers of NICAP. Certainly neither thecentral office of NICAP, nor its responsiblemembers, would tolerate their investigators"silencing" UFO sighters. It is possible thatsome NICAP-ers become overly enthusiasticwith their investigative work or becomeoverly impressed with themselves, but itwould seem libelous to suggest that NICAPis in any way responsible for the MIBreports. The serious, responsible NICAPmember never leaves an interviewee withthe impression that he represents the government, rather than a private, civilian,organization.

Certain witnesses of UFO activity havebeen approached by "Major Smedleys," thatis, by individuals impersonating military orother governmental investigativeorganizations. Colonel George P. Freeman,Pentagon spokesman for Project Blue Booktold John Keel that these men were notconnected with the Air Force in any way, andKeels investigations could turn up no otherUnited States security group that wouldclaim them. Colonel Freeman informed Keelthat they would like to catch one of the MIBthemselves, since the silencers arecommitting a federal offense by posing asAir Force officers and government agents.

The MIB Recover A Metal Specimen

From A UFOLate one evening, I received a long

distance telephone call from a close friendwho is a traveling salesman for a large,automotive parts company.

"Hey, Brad," he said, after telling me thathe was calling from a city about 300 milesfrom my home, "would you believe that I'm inthe midst of a damned saucer flap?"

I did not believe it. My friend was askeptic. For four years he had kidded aboutmy interest in flying saucers and had nevermissed an opportunity to give me theneedle.

"But it is true," he persisted. "You shouldcome on over and interview these people."

I was putting the finishing touches on anew book and could ill afford the time to betaken in by one of my friend's practicaljokes. "Tell me about the flap," I challengedhim.

"A mother and a daughter say they sawa UFO in their field. Several farmers havebeen seeing UFOs land regularly. Hell, thelocals here drive out on certain eveningsand watch the things hover over high wiresand transformers. Everyone in this town,including the cops, take the flying saucersas a matter of course."

"Have you talked to the observers?," Iasked.

"Too busy selling, man," he replied, "butthat's what I've been hearing. Are youcoming over?"

"Too busy writing, man," I answered,thinking that I had thwarted my friends joke."You go chase the lights in the sky and thelittle green men on the ground."

Two nights later, my friend called back.An intelligent fellow with a lion's share ofcuriosity, he had stayed in town to trackdown the facts behind the UFO flap. He hadbeen amazed at the high level of intelligenceof those who had reported sightings. But histone had changed in another way. This manwas no naive teenager filled with imaginativeterror tales telling me that mysterious men-in-black were after him. Someone, he toldme, had been following him.

I became extremely concerned about myfriend's welfare. The man was unfamiliar withrecent areas of UFO research, and had noidea of what he might be up against. Hefired questions at me, and I advised him toget out of town. True to form, he told me thathe planned to stick around to ask somemore questions. He promised to call againthe following night.

The next night he did not call. Atmidnight, I tried calling his motel. I was toldthat such a party had never beenregistered. I persisted and told the clerk thatmy friend had been staying there for nearlya week when at last the man's card wasfound. The clerk expressed amazement thatit was not in its regular place in the file. I,however, was unable to contact my friend

that night.The next morning I was comforted to

hear my friend's sleepy voice answer mycall. He had just begun to fill me in on whathe had uncovered when the call was cut off.It took my operator five minutes and threechannels to re-establish the connection."That's odd," the operator kept mumbling,as she tried one plug after another.

My friend said that he had been givensomething of great interest. He would stayover one more night to acquire someadditional information before leaving forhome.

Two nights later, I was working in myattic-office when one of my children ran upto say that they had heard someone movingaround on the first floor. When Iinvestigated, I was surprised to find myfriend standing halfway up the stairs. He haddriven nearly 300 miles out of his way to visitme. He looked terrible. Dark circles rimmedhis bloodshot eyes, and it was apparent thathe had not slept for quite some time.

Three days before, a farmer had givenhim a specimen of a metal that he had seenfall from a UFO. The farmer kept one of themetal shavings for himself.

The next night, the salesman hadreturned to his hotel room to find two menwaiting for him. They did not smile at his wry,"Where's the third man"! they came directlyto the point. They wanted that piece of metalwhich my friend had intended to bring to me.They had taken the farmer's specimen fromhis pickup when he had gone into the store.They had been unable to discover wherethe salesman had hidden his piece, andwithout further delay, they wanted that stripof metal.

My friend had come up against hardmen before. When he asked his two visitors,"What happens if I say no?" their responseconvinced him that they meant business.

"Besides being specific about whatwould happen to me," the salesman said,"they told me that it was for the good of myfamily, my country, and my world.'"

My friend stood before me, trembling infear and unreleased rage, wanting to knowwho these men had been and how they hadknown about the metal specimen. "Whatdoes all of this mean?" he repeatedly asked.I could do little to answer the former skeptic.

The MIB on the Telephone LineOn the evening of July 13, 1968, at

a p p r o xima t e l y 8:15 P.M., youthfulinvestigator Dan O. was conversing withanother UFOlogist when their call wassuddenly interrupted by an unknown thirdparty on the line. Dan O. assured me thatone of the telephone lines was a privatebusiness line and the other a privateresidential line.

"The third party identified herself as aMrs. Slago, who, as she said, wasaccidentally connected with our line," DanO. writes. "She had been listening to ourconversation strictly out of curiosity. A checkwith the telephone company revealed that amisconnection of this type could not possiblyhave been made."

"Mrs. Slago" began to question Dan O.about his research. When he told her only afew ambiguous details, she told him that heshould not be inquiring into the question ofwhether or not aliens exist on Earth.

"She also stated that UFO organizationsshould not attempt to further theinvestigation and study of UFOs, becauseas she put it, 'Earthpeople do notunderstand....' She suddenly stopped shortof what she was about to say, as if shecaught herself about to say something that Ishould not hear," Dan O. remembers.

At this point, Mrs. Slago said that nomore could be discussed on the telephone,but it would be wise to discontinue all UFOresearch. Dan O. asked the woman whereshe might be reached so that they coulddiscuss the matter in greater detail. Herequested her name once again. Thewoman then told Dan O. that her name wasMrs. Nelson and that she was engaged inresearch for the local police authorities.

"When we checked with the policeheadquarters, the officers told us that theyhad no knowledge of either a 'Mrs. Nelson'or a 'Mrs. Slago' being connected with anyphase of police research," Dan O. says."Following this incident, we had a completecheck made on our telephone lines, but thecheck revealed no evidence of wire-tappingor anything of that sort."

The MIB Invade PittsburghMajor Joseph Jenkins, Retired, Field

Investigations Director for the UFOResearch Institute of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, presented "A Serious Look atthe Men in Black" for a recent issue of thebulletin of his organization.

"Do we have the 'Men in Black' in thePittsburgh area? Are people here beingintimidated because of knowledge ofexperiences with UFOs? What is the localpicture regarding this mystery?" Major Jenkins writes that such questions have beencropping up in the minds of the UFOResearch Institute's investigators since afew experiences occurred to force them totake a serious look at the MIB.

A sighting over Pittsburgh on June 7,1968, was photographed by two youthsusing a Polaroid camera. "Under thecircumstances," Major Jenkins writes, "thepictures were rather good."

On July 5th, a "Captain Munroe" calledone of the young men and identified himselfas a representative of the UFO ResearchInstitute. Captain Munroe told the lad thatthe pictures had been faked. The boy wastold to keep his mouth shut or somethingunpleasant would happen to him. This callwas followed up by another threateningtelephone conversation.

"Needless to say," Major Jenkins says,"the calls were not authorized, not were theymade, by anyone from the Institute...it couldall be dismissed as the work of a prankster,but whom? The persons had told no oneexcept their parents after reporting to us.We at the Institute had told no one, includingother members, until after this particularincident had passed. (Primarily, the delay inpassing the information or to anyone elsewas necessitated by time required to studythe pictures, make sufficient enlargements,etc.)"

Major Jenkins goes on to detail theexperience of an active UFO investigator,whom he calls Frank. Frank, a UFO groupchairman from a neighboring city, was in themiddle of studying a large flap when hebegan receiving telephone calls warning himto "forget the UFO thing." Frank ignored thecalls, except to report them. Later, someradio equipment was stolen from hisautomobile, and Frank was warned bytelephone, "The next time it won't be yourtangible assets."

"Later," according to Major Jenkins he[Frank] had a visit by three men dressed inblack suits that reminded him of the quilteduniforms used in the Korean War. The menspoke in a strange manner, seemingly out ofbreath, and never directly mentioned theUFO subject, but they made intimidatingremarks. Frank had the foresight to copydown the license number of their car, but inchecking it out, found the number did notexist in the state's files. He had probablymade a mistake in copying it, or it couldhave been altered. The men had represented themselves as members of a NICAPsub-committee from a city that has no suchorganization."

When Frank sighed over the telephonethat he was ready to "drop this whole UFObusiness," he later received an anonymouscall saying that they were glad that he wasfinally wising up.

In January, 1968, Major Jenkins said, aman sighted a UFO in the middle of theafternoon and got a very good look at it. Hediscussed it briefly with a few of his co-workers, but, finding his observation elicitedonly ridicule, he dropped the subject. Later,he began to notice a black car following himabout. It appeared too often to be coincidence—the same black car, the same twomen inside.

"He didn't connect this with the UFOsighting at first," Major Jenkins writes, "buthe did mention it to his wife, and he alsomentioned that it was worrying him....Thenone morning on his way to work, he spottedthe same car with the same two men. Thistime it was coming toward him, straighttoward, him. He cut his wheels and ran offthe road to avoid a collision, and althoughbadly shaken, was unhurt. Was there anyconnection between this incident and hissighting of a UFO?"

Major Jenkins also tells of a man whohad eleven minutes of color film of a UFOove r Viet Nam. He promised to give theInstitute a showing of the film, but a visit bythree men from the "Department of InternalSecurity" nearly prevented any member ofthe UFO investigative group from everseeing the film. These men had requestedthat the film be turned over to him. Theowner refused to do so unless the menproduced a search warrant, which they wereunable to do. As the three men left, he wasable to see that their car did at least have

able to see that their car did at least haveWashington, D.C. license plates. An attemptto follow up on the strange visitors met withno success.

Letters containing reports of men andwomen having received mysterious visitorsafter witnessing UFO activity continue toreach my desk. In-field investigation of UFOflap areas invariably uncovers bizarre,frightening encounters with UFO silencers.Whether the MIB are crude, thoughtlesspranksters, a secret branch of agovernment intelligence group or allies orautomatons of the UFO occupants, theenigma of the men-in-black continues tooffer a challenge to the UFOlogist, and,perhaps, "to our families, our country, andour world." Postscript: MIB: A Global Phenomenon

By Diane TessmanStrange entities usually dressed in black

and always evil and cold in intent, haveappeared to those who have seen UFOs inEurope, Australia, and Africa, as well as toAmerican UFO witnesses. Thus the group oragency which sends these enigmatic beingsdoes not answer to one government alone,but is planet-wide in nature...or perhapsgalaxy-wide. In my years of researchingUFOs, I have interviewed many peopleabout the "Men in Black" aspect of the UFOphenomena. I have even had a few "closecalls" with these entities myself.

Thus, I have concluded that the Men inBlack are bound to "enter the picture" atsome point when an individual takes up aUFO interest; whether that interest isspurred on by a recent sighting or simplyfrom the fascination of knowing more aboutthis unsolved mystery.

There have been several Men in Blackincidents in Europe during the continent-wide UFO flap of 1990, tying in withaccounts of mysterious crop swirl activity.Crop swirls are thought by many to be evidence of UFO landings and by others to beevidence of Earth's ley line energy rising tothe surface. It is believed that this leyenergy is to Mother Earth what psychicenergy is to an individual.

The incident involving both crop swirlsand a Man in Black comes from a farmer inCo. Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, who was"questioned" by one of these MIB, after cropswirls appeared on his land (he has had noUFO encounter or sighting that heremembers). In June, 1990, perfectlycircular swirls started showing up in JamesMcCleary's fields. There were two whichshowed up in an oat field overnight, and onewhich manifested exactly a week later in ameadow which had long grass that had notbeen walked in or tilled for months. Finally,an oval-shaped swirl manifested threeweeks after the first swirls appeared, thistime in a small field of potatoes. Mr.McCleary noted the swirls because theydamaged the crops, but the damage wasnot significant and so he hadn't paid muchattention to the phenomenon, embracing theIrish country attitude that the supernatural isin fact just a part of the natural world.

However, the morning after the final ovalswirl occurred—when Mr. McCleary went fora quiet Sunday morning walk around hisproperty—a thin, gaunt man dressed inblack stepped out from behind a shed,which is out of sight from his house. Mr.McCleary was alone on his walk, and he feltan intuitive shiver of fear come over him ashe focused on this stranger. Mr. McClearyhad not seen him in the vicinity before, but itwas not the fact that he was a strangerwhich frightened him. "There wassomething, well, DEAD about him," hestated."

"I don't know how else to put it!"The stranger was dressed in a "proper

suit," but looked as though he'd been"pulled out of a trunk which had been lockedfor at least 50 years." Mr. McClearycontinues, "The first thing he mumbled tome was something about it being a nice day.It was a common enough thing to say, but hehad the words slightly 'wrong.' Now, I amused to Americans and other visitors, butthis problem he had with the language waspeculiar somehow."

Mr. McCleary explains that the strangerthen mumbled abruptly, "Tell us about thosedesigns in your crops you've been having."

"I thought to myself," laughs Mr.McCleary, "that he had some nerve usingthe word 'us' when there was almost not oneof him, he was that skinny and sicklylooking. 'Us,' who?"

Mr. McCleary refused to answer thequestion, not because he thought the cropswirls were a secretive thing, but becausethe man's attitude was annoying andfrightening. "I told him I had to be gettingon my way and that he had better get ontothe main road again. I meant to insinuatethat he should get off my property, but Ididn't want to be overly rude."

"But you didn't tell us about the designs."Why did the second and third bunch comeup when the first bunch already had?"asked the MIB. "It is in your best interest totell us...or else!"

"His question made little sense to me,"noted Mr. McCleary. "First, I hadn't thoughtof them as 'designs' and certainly not as'bunches.' And how the hell would I know'why they showed up? He acted as if I wastheir master or their maker. He talked as ifthey were trained animals who had foundtheir owner. It was all so illogical that histhreat bounced off me."

Moving on, as we view the MIB from aglobal perspective, is the account from afriend in South Africa. Due to the politicalsituation in South Africa, my friend wishes toremain anonymous as he is not totallyconvinced that the men who intimidated himwere not simply South African agents. He isconsidered "colored" in South Africa—hisfather being from India and his mother beingfrom a South African mixture. Bob is veryinterested in New Age subjects and feels hehad several UFO encounters as a child. Hehas always felt these encounters were withfriendly, loving beings and he is not afraid ofthe unknowns. In fact, he feels more at easewith UFO and related "spacey" subjects thanhe does in frightening daily life inJohannesburg.

Bob's encounter with the MIB was atraumatic and scary incident which occurredtwo nights after he had a dramatic UFOsighting and possible encounter. He was justgoing to bed when very bright lightsappeared outside his window. Since hiswindow overlooks a wide ditch (I suspect wewould call it a "ravine" in the U.S.), he wassurprised to see lights. There is some fearof teenagers coming to this area to drink, orcriminal activity going on, but it isinaccessible to some degree and neverlighted. Bob jumped out of bed to see abrilliantly-lighted glowing silver disc, aboutthe size of a Volkswagen.

The disc spun around as if on an axis,and Bob guesses that it hovered, notmoving an inch upward or downward, for atleast five minutes. It was approximately 20feet off the ground. He saw a small door as itturned, and also three round windows. Heremembers seeing movement inside thewindows.

Two nights later, just as he was going tobed, he heard voices down in the ravine.The thought crossed his mind that twonights earlier there had been a beautifulsilver ship, now there were thugs ordrunkards in the ditch. But, he soon realizedone voice was calling his name, and heopened his window slightly, keeping a handready to slam it shut. He could tell from thevoice that people were not right outside hiswindow, but down in the bottom of theravine. Or so he thought! The minute heopened the window a notch, an unusuallystrong hand forced it out of his grasp andopened it wide! There, staring him in theface, was a "very ugly, smelly man with agreenish and unhealthy swarthycomplexion."

Next morning, Bob could find nothingunusual in the ditch which would indicate hisvisitors had been there. His UFO encounterand subsequent MIB experience took placein November, 1989. Since then he has notencountered the Men in Black, though theydid indicate to him they'd be back. Hisfamily's phone rings often and no one isthere, something which was not happeninguntil the MIB encounter. The phoneannoyance started two days after hisfrightening night.

I n Australia, an amazingly similar MIBvisit happened to Penny Carlton ofMelbourne. She and her friend SusanNelson saw a brilliant UFO while on a bikingtrip. Five days later, three MIB knocked atPenny's door to "have a little chat." It seemsMen in Black always talk in clichés as ifhaving viewed too many "B" films. Theypushed their way in, they threatened her,they warned her to talk to no one else. Aswith the garda's well-timed appearance inCo. Tipperary, Ireland, Penny's ordeal ofinterrogation was cut short when herhusband returned from work a half hourearly, not feeling well.

"All three of these men arose en masseand hurried for the door, as my husband

and hurried for the door, as my husbandmade the usual noise driving up and comingin."

Penny has no idea where the men went;they had no visible car. Last seen, they hadturned the corner of the housing complexand Penny comments, "They couldn't evenwalk very well, or else they walked too well,like they were ice skating."

In the two years since the encounter,Penny has been "plagued" by poltergeistactivity and emotional ups and downs.

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