WHO ARE THE MEN IN BLACK?
An alien encounter is a freaky experience, but what happens after can be just as unsettling. Some witnesses describe visits from shadowy characters dressed in sharp black suits, who demand they zip their lips.
One night in 1953, Albert Bender, a leading researcher in flying saucers and other UFOs (unidentified flying objects), was visited by three men wearing dark suits. They scared him so much he gave up all his work on UFOs.
In 1965, traffic cop Rex Heflin took three photos of a metallic-looking disk in the sky that he thought was a flying saucer. He claims he was visited by men dressed in black suits who claimed to be from NORAD, the US government agency for aerospace defense, who made him hand over the pictures.
Dr. Herbert Hopkins was visited by a Man in Black in 1976 after he made research notes about two alien encounters. Hopkins claims the man made a coin dematerialize and then threatened to make Hopkins’s heart vanish in the same way if he didn’t destroy all his notes.
THE THEORIES:
Government agents?
A popular theory is that the Men in Black are really government agents. The reason they target alien watchers is uncertain. Does the US government want to keep people in the dark about aliens? Or are they simply concerned that the public will discover military secrets?
All in your head?
The Men in Black could just be figments of people’s imaginations, created when in a dreamy state of mind, or when under extreme stress. It could be that the alien witnesses are undergoing some sort of mental upheaval at the time of the encounter and are more prone to fantasy.
Aliens in disguise?
Some people say the Men in Black are aliens who disguise themselves as human beings. The makeover isn’t always that convincing. Herbert Hopkins described the Man in Black who visited him as having very pale skin, lacking eyelashes and eyebrows, and wearing bright red lipstick!
Fictional fakes
The idea of Men in Black may be an elaborate hoax by an American UFO researcher. Gray Barker published books about alien encounters and often included stories about Men in Black. However, one of his colleagues claims that Barker often presented fictional tales as factual accounts. Did he make up the Men in Black tales?
Mothman
In 1966 and 1967, several people in West Virginia claimed they saw a strange creature the size of a man with eyes in its chest and moth wings. Since mysterious men dressed in black had also been seen in the area, some people speculated that they were linked.
An alien encounter is a freaky experience, but what happens after can be just as unsettling. Some witnesses describe visits from shadowy characters dressed in sharp black suits, who demand they zip their lips.
One night in 1953, Albert Bender, a leading researcher in flying saucers and other UFOs (unidentified flying objects), was visited by three men wearing dark suits. They scared him so much he gave up all his work on UFOs.
In 1965, traffic cop Rex Heflin took three photos of a metallic-looking disk in the sky that he thought was a flying saucer. He claims he was visited by men dressed in black suits who claimed to be from NORAD, the US government agency for aerospace defense, who made him hand over the pictures.
Dr. Herbert Hopkins was visited by a Man in Black in 1976 after he made research notes about two alien encounters. Hopkins claims the man made a coin dematerialize and then threatened to make Hopkins’s heart vanish in the same way if he didn’t destroy all his notes.
THE THEORIES:
Government agents?
A popular theory is that the Men in Black are really government agents. The reason they target alien watchers is uncertain. Does the US government want to keep people in the dark about aliens? Or are they simply concerned that the public will discover military secrets?
All in your head?
The Men in Black could just be figments of people’s imaginations, created when in a dreamy state of mind, or when under extreme stress. It could be that the alien witnesses are undergoing some sort of mental upheaval at the time of the encounter and are more prone to fantasy.
Aliens in disguise?
Some people say the Men in Black are aliens who disguise themselves as human beings. The makeover isn’t always that convincing. Herbert Hopkins described the Man in Black who visited him as having very pale skin, lacking eyelashes and eyebrows, and wearing bright red lipstick!
Fictional fakes
The idea of Men in Black may be an elaborate hoax by an American UFO researcher. Gray Barker published books about alien encounters and often included stories about Men in Black. However, one of his colleagues claims that Barker often presented fictional tales as factual accounts. Did he make up the Men in Black tales?
Mothman
In 1966 and 1967, several people in West Virginia claimed they saw a strange creature the size of a man with eyes in its chest and moth wings. Since mysterious men dressed in black had also been seen in the area, some people speculated that they were linked.
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