"Who Are Those Guys?"
Paul Newman
From the movie, 'Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid'
Thanks to the hit
movie starring Will Smith and Tommie
Lee Jones everybody has heard of the Men in Black. The movie proposed
that their
job is to protect the earth from the "scum of the universe." Well,
that's just movie talk. The truth is a lot harder to get a handle on.
Nobody
knows if these guys are government agents, aliens in disguise, or just
a group
of intelligence operatives trying to keep a secret.
Here's what I do know:
They're real. They generally show
up when ordinary citizens have an extraordinary sighting or encounter
with a
flying saucer or its occupants. They seem bent on intimidating those
individuals into not talking about what they have seen. They even
attempt to do
this with law-enforcement officers and military personnel. There have
been
hundreds if not thousands of incidents reported about these men in
black.
What "Black" Means
The word 'black' when
used in this context means covert,
undercover, not seen. When a person enters the intelligence community
and
becomes involved in operations and projects, all their government files
basically disappear. They are no longer accessible through the normal
channels.
When this happens it is said the person has "gone black."
Some people think the
MIBs are Aliens Complicating matters
is the fact that many times it
appears that the men in black are humanoid-type aliens masquerading as
humans.
Many people in the military are aware that this may the be case (in
some
instances).
Are some Men in Black Aliens?
Dr. Herbert Hopkins Dr. Hopkins was
actively investigating a UFO abduction
case in 1976 when one evening during the summer a stranger called him
on the
phone and asked if he could come by and talk to him about the case.
This was
despite the fact that the case had not been publicized at all. Hopkins
agreed,
hung up the phone, and immediately walked to his door to turn on the
porch
light so the caller could see the steps when he arrived. Hopkins was
surprised
to see a man walking up the stairs of the porch as he was turning on
the light.
He was shocked when the man introduced himself as the person who had
just
called him. (There were no cellular phones in 1976.)
The Black Suit Routine
The man was dressed in
black suit, black tie, black hat,
and gray gloves. In the summertime! The man's skin was a pale sickly
color and
he appeared to be wearing bright red lipstick, a fact which turned out
to be
true as Hopkins later watched some of the lipstick rub onto the man's
gray
glove.
Vanished Into Thin Air
The man asked Hopkins
to take out the two coins that were
in Hopkins' pocket. Stunned, Hopkins did it. He told Hopkins to watch
the coins
in his hand. The two coins simply vanished into thin air! Then the man
told
him, "Neither you nor anyone else on this planet will ever see those
coins
again."
The man then said his
"energy was running low"
and left. Shortly after stepping off Hopkins' porch, the man himself
disappeared.
When the Scare Started
The first widely
acknowledged case of Men In Black
intimidating UFO witnesses occurred in 1953. A fellow by the name of
Albert K.
Bender was the editor of a magazine called Space Review. He was also
the
founder of an organization called the International Flying Saucer
Bureau.
During the summer of
1953 Bender apparently discovered
some vital information pointing to the cover-up of the existence of
flying
saucers by the U.S. government. He had written several articles
scheduled to
appear in the next issue of his magazine. The next thing he knew, three
guys
show up at his door all dressed in black: black suits, black hats, and
sunglasses. They told him they had read his article, even though it had
not yet
been published. They told him his information was accurate, but that he
better
not publish the article. In fact, they told him that he'd better not
publish
anything more about flying saucers. They said, "We advise those engaged
in
saucer work to please be very cautious." They basically scared him so
badly that Bender officially retired from UFO investigations.
Super Secret ' Man In Black'
Other MIB Reports
* A teenager is
threatened by MIBs and has photos of flying
saucers seized from him.
* MIBs make a coin
disappear from a UFO witness and tell
him, "Your heart will do the same if you talk."
* A former Air Force
officer who learned about information
on extraterrestrials from NASA was harassed, tranquilized, and
interrogated.
Even the Military
Doesn't Know Who MIB's Are
In 1967 the United
States Air Force expressed concern
about finding out more about these guys in black who were going around
scaring
people and saying they were from the U.S. armed services. Here's a
statement by
Colonel George P. Freeman, the spokesperson for Project Blue Book at
the
Pentagon:
"Mysterious men dressed
in Air Force uniforms or all in
black and bearing impressive credentials from government agencies have
been
silencing UFO witnesses. We have checked a number of these cases, and
these men
are not connected to the Air Force in any way. We haven't been able to
find out
anything about these men. By posing as Air Force officers and
government
agents, they are committing a Federal offense. We would sure like to
catch one,
unfortunately the trail is always too cold by the time we hear about
these
cases, but we are still trying."
Air Force General Hewitt T. Wheless
The Joint Chiefs of
Staff are in the Dark Too!
Assistant Vice Chief
of Staff of the United States Air
Force Lt. General Hewitt T. Wheless sent a memo on March 1, 1967 to
various
agencies in the Department of Defense. Here's what it said:
"Information, not
verifiable, has reached Hq.USAF that
persons claiming to represent the Air Force or other Defense
establishments
have contacted citizens who have sighted unidentified flying objects.
In one
reported case, an individual in civilian clothes, who represented
himself as a
member of NORAD, demanded and received photos belonging to a private
citizen.
In another, a person in an Air Force uniform approached local police
and other
citizens who had sighted a UFO, assembled them in a school room and
told them
that they did not see what they thought they saw and that they should
not talk
to anyone about the sighting. All military and civilian personnel and
particularly information officers and UFO investigating officers who
hear of
such reports should immediately notify their local OSI offices."
Three Real Cases
Here are three
encounters with the Men in Black that were
told to me personally. In each case the person told me about this event
without
my initiating the conversation on this topic. Each person asked that I
not use
his or her real name if I told anyone else. In honoring those requests
I'm
using a pseudonym for the individual. Understandably, there seems to be
a need
to tell someone about what happened. With the secrecy and intimidation
still
surrounding any event that has to do with flying saucers or alien
beings,
people who have these encounters generally don't trust telling someone
who
doesn't have a clue that these guys even exist.
Larry
Larry approached me
following a meeting on UFOs. He was
about twenty-five years old, casually but nicely dressed. He walked up
to me
and said, "You know, I had something very strange happen to me and my
buddy. I don't like to talk about it because it kind of scares me." So
I
asked him what happened. He was clearly nervous and even stuttered a
little.
Here's what he told me:
Late one night in a
state of semi-sleep, he felt a
presence in his bedroom. The "presence" communicated with him and let
him know it was from another world. Larry asked why all the secrecy and
if they
were real why they didn't just show up in the daytime. They told him
that the
next time he was with his best friend (whom they called by name) he
would
indeed see them and he would know it was them.
Larry said the entire
conversation did not exactly take
place using words. It was more like he understood what they were
thinking and
feeling without actual words. I know it sounds weird, but this is very
common
in human/alien interactions. For the most part, none of the aliens use
verbal
language, it is all telepathic, and sometimes it's in the human's own
language.
Many times it is a combination of feeling, "a knowingness", and
understanding on a level we have not yet discovered how to describe.
When Larry woke in the
morning he wasn't sure if he had
been dreaming or not, but the experience was so vivid and unlike any
dream he
had ever had before that he thought about it daily for months
afterwards.
Larry's best friend
was now in the military and he didn't
see him for months. His friend returned home just in time for the
Fourth of
July, and they decided to go down to a local park where some of his
family
members were holding a big picnic. The two of them were just kind of
standing
around, when a black van pulled up about fifty yards away. The two
front doors
opened and two men dressed all in black suits with black hats and dark
sunglasses got out. Larry was startled because he began to remember his
"dream." The two men opened the sliding door on the side of the van
and two more guys got out. They too were head-to-toe in black, with
shades.
Larry said, "First of
all, it was hot. It was the
middle of the afternoon and well over 80 degrees, and these guys were
in black,
with hats! Next, the two guys who got out of the side looked different.
They
didn't look human. I can't describe it, but their arms looked too long
or
something. Then they sat down at a picnic table and they all turned
around and
looked right at me and my buddy. After that he got real quiet. Then
they just
got back in the van and drove off. My buddy won't talk about it. He
pretends
like nothing happened, but I know he saw them and he knows I know."
Christine
Christine was a career
military person. She is a pilot
and flew in the Armed Forces of the United States. She is even a member
of the
now infamous "Tailhook Association." For those who don't know,
Tailhook is an association for Navy Fighter pilots. The name Tailhook
comes
from the hook on the back of fighter jets that is used to catch the
planes when
they land on an aircraft carrier. Here is what Christine told me:
"One night a large UFO
showed up and hovered over the base
for about forty minutes. Everybody saw it. We were all pilots and we
knew it
wasn't ours. We could also tell because the brass didn't know what it
was
either. When it left, it took off at phenomenal speed. The next day a
bunch of
black sedans showed up on the base. Each one had four guys all dressed
in black
with hats. They got out and went to every building on the base and
"encouraged" us not to talk about what we saw. I'm not easily
intimidated. I know how to use a firearm and I've flown in combat
conditions,
but these guys meant business."
Colonel Rogers
Colonel Rogers had
retired from the military and lived
alone. Rogers had mentioned to some people he had seen UFOs and his
work in the
military had assured them that they were real. Several days later a man
dressed
in black showed up at his door. When Rogers opened it the man began to
warn him
about not talking about UFOs. Rogers told the man, "OK, just a
minute." He excused himself went into his bedroom and came back to the
front door with a loaded .45 pistol. He cocked it, pointed it at the
man's head
and said, "I don't know if you are CIA, NSA, or an alien, but somebody
will have a lot of explaining to do if I blow your head off. Now get
out of
here."
The next day another
man showed up wearing regular
business attire (no black suit with shades). He hailed the colonel from
the
front yard with his arms raised, said he was unarmed, and asked if he
could
talk to him briefly. The colonel allowed the guy to approach. The guy
said,
"Look Colonel, we're sorry, no more guys will show up at your house.
Some
of this UFO information is still classified and we would appreciate it
if you
just didn't talk too much about it. OK? Thanks." And, then the guy left.
Unmarked Black helicopters
(©1997 William L. McDonald)
Black Helicopters
These are similar to
the Men in Black. Abductees,
contactees, and people who have UFO encounters often report being
followed by
black helicopters. Once again, no one is sure if these are government
aircraft
or alien craft disguised as helicopters. There are cases which point to
both.
One contactee, author
Kim Carlsberg, has recorded being
followed by black helicopters on the days following a nighttime
abduction
experience.
It's Probably the Army
Unconfirmed sources
say these black helicopters belong to
the U.S. Army, 160th SOAR Division. The helicopters are black, or in
some cases
a very dark green, because they are "stealth aircraft" technology and
cannot be detected by radar, just like the stealth bombers and
fighters.
Apparently these craft are also made available to other government
agencies,
including but not limited to the CIA, FEMA, and NSA.
FEMA Agency Logo
FEMA Again
I mention this again.
FEMA stands for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency. This is the organization you hear about on
your
local news whenever there has been a hurricane, tornado, earthquake,
flood, or
any other major catastrophe. FEMA manages the funds that are doled out
by the
government to states and individuals to help them recover from these
events.
In looking into covert
or "black" operations,
FEMA comes up again and again. It appears that FEMA is used as a cover
to
direct funds into these covert operations. Can I prove it? No. However,
FEMA
turns up again and again from all kinds of different sources whenever
government secrecy and funding is the topic. No other "civilian"
agency does. Not the FDA, FAA, or USDA! Not only that, but after any
major
disaster people seem to have a hard time getting relief from this
agency, as if
there were not enough money there. Let's get a budget review done of
FEMA funds
and check it out!
Former U.S. President Richard Milhouse Nixon
A Personal Note on FEMAShortly
after the printed version of my book was published, a close friend of
mine named Kevin read it and then told me the following:Kevin
said that his dad had worked for FEMA for years. However, he didn't
know exactly what his dad did. Unlike other dads, his father never spoke
about his work and he would often take short unexplained business trips out of
town. Kevin always felt that there was much more to his
fathers job at FEMA than just helping out with civilian emergencies. One
day Kevin was watching the news on TV with his dad and he asked him,
"Dad, what is it exactly, that you do?" At the time, the televsion was giving a
news broadcast showing then President Richard Nixon and Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger. Kevin's father pointed at the screen and said:"You
see those two fellas there? I was in the same room with them
yesterday." That was the end of the conversation. Kevin's dad never
said another word about his job or his duties at FEMA.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger