Men in Black - people (or like who will "guys") in black appeared on the arena of history some 60 years ago, at a time when the phenomenon of "flying saucers" began to arouse great interest in the American public. They considered that vehicles of foreign or genius of Soviet engineers were behind the UFO sightings. Over time, there were also reports of encounters with unique "agents" who tried to convince people that public talk about aliens could end badly.
Unfortunately, the people in black (abbreviated as MIB) were nothing like their film counterparts, and their business seemed to have a "double bottom". They became heroes of both completely absurd and quite interesting relationships. For example, in May 1975. Blond guys dressed in black detained a Mexican pilot on the road, who was on TV to talk about the perfect several days of UFO sightings (wytropionego also radars of the airport in Mexico City). The man was advised that he had to keep his mouth shut. A few weeks later, before meeting with astronomer J. Allen Hynekiem (the so-called "father of ufologii"), someone again tried to intimidate him. But why?
- It's hard to say who they are MIB - says Onetowi Albert Rosales, an American ufologist and creator of a database of close encounters of the third kind. - I think that some of them could be werbowanymi government or private institutions people whose task was to contact witnesses [UFOs] or forbid them to come here in order to obtain potential evidence, such as photographs.
Where did the people in black come from?
The most famous case of its time, the pursuit of men in black concerned Albert C. Bender (1921-2002), an American aviator and publisher of the Space Review magazine, which published the latest reports of UFO sightings. In 1953, Bender announced on its pages that he had finally managed to unravel the mystery of flying saucers, but soon after that, in very strange circumstances, he curtailed his activities and disappeared. As he later admitted, zagadkowi "agents in black" changed his life to hell.
Associated writer Gray Barker (1925-1984) sought to learn more about this topic. As determined by the MIB it was to force Benderze to abandon further UFO involvement. Soon, in a not-too-new book called Those Who Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, Barker drew the basis for the legend of the Men in Black. Gradually, other strange cases began to appear.
Relationship collector, about meetings with the MIB was John Keel (1930-2009) - American writer and journalist dealing with phenomena from the borderlands. From the collected material it follows that there were very colorful and varied cases. Witnesses asserted that the men in black "differed not only in their dress. As a rule, they looked like Asians or southerners, they spoke with a strong accent, or behaved so strangely that some doubted their earthly origin.
Hide the truth about UFOs
The Men in Black were most interested in people who claimed to have met a UFO or its passengers. Just ask Jim Templeton, a British Carlisle firefighter and author of the famous Burgh Marsh Astronaut. In the spring of 1964, during a Sunday outing out of town, Templeton took a photograph of a figure appearing next to his several-year-old daughter, resembling an astronaut or a man in protective overalls. The man was soon visited by two agents, calling themselves "Number 9" and "Number 11", who ordered him to go to the places where the photo was taken.
A year later, the meeting with the MIB was formalized by the Texas policeman Robert Good, who, along with his colleague, William McCoy, he stumbled upon while patrolling a UFO in the form of an illuminated rectangle. Soon two unknown officers appeared at the local sheriff's office. When Goode was found, it turned out that they knew the entire course of the incident from somewhere. They warned him that in the event of another meeting with an unidentified object, he must keep his mouth shut, and if necessary ... interact with his passengers.
The aforementioned Dr. Gyneka described the case of two men working for the military, who in 1961, on a rainy night, they observed mysterious lights in North Dakota. Recognizing what could have led to the plane crash, we went in their direction. To their surprise, on the spot, they saw a flying car settled on the ground, around which the humanoids were circling. Nobody was informed about the strange experience, however, the very next day the house of one of them was przeczesany through mysterious "agents" who carefully examined the clothes and shoes that the witness was wearing last night ...
Things were even stranger, as you saw Christiansenowie from Wildwood (New Jersey), which at the end of 1966. made UFO sightings. Soon, a man dressed in black with a "kanciastej" face knocked on their door, who, under the pretext of collecting information about missing relatives, he began to ask them about the details of a close meeting. The greatest impression was made on the witnesses by his bulging eyes and unnatural behavior. After interrogation, the stranger was taken from the house by a black limousine.
Demoniczni agents
Who, then, were the "men in black"? Because most of the messages came from the United States, they began to guess that they have some kind of relationship with the American government. The well-known British ufologist and writer Philip Mantle, however, claims that this is a myth: - MIBs are not really government agents - at least not so officially working.
An alternative opinion says that the stories of men in black "may be a new release of old legends of the devil, stemming from the same current as our stories of black wołdze. A similar position was taken, in particular, by Peter M. Rojcewicz, who in the late 80s. in the pages of the Journal of American Folklore, argued that there are analogies in the MIB stories in folk stories about the Bad. As an example, he cited the rather strange impression of a certain Mr. Michael Elliot, who, while searching for information about a UFO, stumbled upon a man in black ... in a library.
It was 1980. For the man sitting over the books, a dark-skinned man came up, dressed in black and strangely biased towards the word stranger, who asked him about his personal experience with UFOs and said that "flying saucers are the greatest thing in the world." After a while, wishing Elliot good luck, he disappeared, and the mixed witness noted that he was alone in an empty hall. In this event, the most remarkable thing is that, as it later turned out, Michael Eliot, he was alone ... Dr. Rojcewicz.
John Keel, who considered the people in black "at the sight of the real, had a very specific theory about their origin. He admitted that the stories about them can be compared in previous relationships, about the devil, demons and vampires. What distinguished him from folklorystów, however, was his conviction that there was a real, though not discovered, intellect that had accompanied humanity since time immemorial.
In the stories of men in black, real events have merged with legends to such an extent that it is difficult to be convinced of this. Doing no harm to anyone, MIBs disappeared into the mists of time. And if not for the cinema, probably no one would have remembered them. Or does the myth of the men in black "have, therefore, any connection with reality?
“Perhaps not,” says Philip Mantle. - Do not wykluczałbym that curious government agents use their masks to get to potential witnesses. It seems, however, that they are doing it for their own interests, and not through official or unofficial government decrees ...
MIB stories taken from:
J. Keel, The Cosmic Question, 1978.
J. Keel, Why UFOs. Operation Trojan Horse, 1970.
P. M. Rojcewicz, The Men in Black Experience and Tradition. Analogues with the Traditional Devil Hypothesis, "The Journal of American Folklore," t. C, no. 396, 1987.
People? Aliens? Or a figment of the imagination? The mysterious people in black do not explain the purpose of their visit, they are confusing and suspicious. Those who have met them often said they felt fear and anxiety.
Men in black are people who appear and ask questions to eyewitnesses of UFOs or other strange phenomena. As a rule, they come in three, completely dressed in black, often wearing sunglasses. Usually they are men, but sometimes women also come with them. In some cases, they claim to be employed by US federal agencies such as the CIA.
This phenomenon has become a part of American pop culture and urban legends. In 1997, the first film of the Men in Black trilogy was shot, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. In addition, these people appeared in the famous 90s TV series "The X-Files", in a comedy episode. Their roles are played by former wrestler Jesse Ventura and popular TV journalist Alex Trebek.
It is believed that the expression "men in black" was coined by the writer John Keel, who studied UFOs and the paranormal and wrote the book "The Prophecies of Mothman" (1975). In 1967, Keel wrote an article for Saga magazine entitled "Alien Agents of Fear," in which he described his investigation into these mysterious figures. Subsequently, they will be called "people in black", reports The Telegraph.
Confirmed cases
One of the first confirmed cases of Men in Black involved journalist Albert K. Bender, who published the Space Review, a UFO magazine. In October 1953 he stopped publishing the magazine. In 1963, in his autobiography, he admitted to being intimidated by visitors dressed in all black, according to ufoevidence.org.
Recently, an incident occurred with actor and paranormal researcher Dan Aykroyd. While preparing for a UFO show for the SciFi Channel in New York, he was on the phone and saw a black sedan with Men in Black. One of them stood next to the car and looked at Aykroyd, the other gave him an unfriendly look from the car. Aykroyd turned away for a short moment. When he looked at that place, the sedan was gone.
“I turned around half a second later and she disappeared. The car didn’t pass me, it didn’t make a U-turn ... This car just disappeared, ”Aykroyd noted.
Later that day, Aykroyd was informed that the show with his participation was canceled. Many ufologists are wondering whether "people in black" were involved in this.
Is it just fiction?
Due to the strange phenomena associated with these characters, a lot of speculation arises around them. Many ufologists believe that these are really government agents, while others believe that they are aliens. Some skeptics are of the opinion that this is just an expression of American paranoia.
Researcher Peter Roysevich, who studied UFOs and himself met with the alleged "man in black", gives a different explanation. He believes that "Men in Black" is part of culture and folklore, a modern version of the angels and fairies that people have seen in the past. From his glasses of vision, people themselves create these creatures in their consciousness in order to strengthen their vision of the world. They help to understand reality as we see it, writes Roisevich in his lecture "Beware of the physical in the material: imagination, popular beliefs and the eclipse of reality."
Whatever the truth, these creatures often instill fear in humans. They are inextricably linked to UFOs and have influenced pop culture in the form of science fiction stories, films and documentaries. Perhaps one day we will be able to find out what the "people in black" really are.
Many researchers, based on the testimony of the military, point to a secret agreement between the leading world powers to conceal from the general public information about the presence of aliens on our planet in order to prevent panic among the population.
In this case, the position of the official authorities seems to be quite justified. Nevertheless, the "men in black" have nothing to do with the official authorities, and this is confirmed by certain documents. One of them, published on March 1, 1967, signed by the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, Lieutenant General H.T. Welles, reads: “There are reports in the General Headquarters that some persons claiming to be representatives of the Air Force or the Ministry of Defense come to eyewitnesses of UFOs and demand photographs or convince them of the erroneousness of their sightings. All military and civilians who know about such cases are obliged to notify the local offices of the Office special studies ".
The US Military Bureau of Investigation has long been trying to track the appearance and activities of the "men in black", which poses a certain threat to people. Sometimes they use hypnosis and influence people through willpower in order to force them to cooperate and, as a rule, such contacts with aliens cause unreasonable fear in people and sometimes lead to the manifestation of poltergeist phenomena in the victims' houses (moving and missing objects). Researcher V. Zabelyshensky characterizes them as follows. way: "Men in Black" pose a clear threat. Who they are and where they are from remains only a fragment of the great secret of the UFO phenomenon. Any UFO witness can collide with them, and more often come into contact with the male part of UFO contacts, with those of them who seek to convey information about them The collective appearance of the "men in black" is quite characteristic: an oriental type of face, piercing gaze of strange, almost unblinking eyes, a white shirt with a black tie, a black hat and a very new black suit. Many meeting with "black people" had the impression that that their look and appearance were similar to those of the manner of FBI agents from Hollywood fighters. If there were several at once, it was almost impossible to distinguish them from each other.
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"Copies" of each other, or, more likely, several types of copies, each of which performs some kind of work among us mortals ... In an incomprehensible way, they unmistakably find in a human mass a person who observed a UFO or picked up some details at the landing site, and sometimes just collecting information about UFOs. "
Analysis of the behavior of "black people" and numerous descriptions of eyewitnesses about contacts with them allows us to draw several definite conclusions. First, they resemble biorobots sent into our world by a certain alien civilization to prevent "leakage" of information about UFO activities. There is no reason to unequivocally believe that these aliens have arrived in our world with another star system. Comparative analysis allows us to associate the phenomenon of "people in black" with the civilization of the Igvas, described by the famous Russian clairvoyant D. Andreev in the "Rose of the World".
The description of the cars used by the "men in black" also suggests this idea. All these "Cadillacs" and "Jaguars" copy their appearance models that were out of use 20 years ago, but at the same time they look like completely new. The numbers used on these machines, copying our cars, do not exist in reality. This was proved by repeated investigations carried out the police and the FBI.
But the main evidence that these guests came from another dimension, and the cars themselves are more complex technical devices, is evidenced by the phenomenon that the special services have repeatedly encountered in pursuit of these "cars." the corner of the house. This confirms the use of technical devices by aliens that can overcome the energy barrier separating parallel worlds, make temporary movements to other realities, and possibly travel in time.
Often in places of UFO activity, eyewitnesses see some "black helicopters" without identification marks, which also behave quite aggressively towards people, especially if observers try to film phenomena on video equipment. and abroad. While it is difficult to say whether these helicopters are connected with the activities of the special services, or is this another kind of dummy subtechnical means of mankind, used by the "people in black"?
Be that as it may, the information about the "people in black" collected in America and Europe is not advertised among the general public by representatives of the special services. However, at least some of the aliens visiting our world are exactly aliens, not aliens, i.e. That is, they come from other stellar systems, and not from parallel worlds.
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"Men in Black" is one of the legends of ufology. According to the testimony of the people who met them, shortly after someone saw a UFO in the sky, a mysterious man dressed in a black classic suit came to their home.
Most often there were two, sometimes three.
These people behaved so strangely that many had the impression that in front of them was a robot, only outwardly similar to a human. Usually "men in black" were engaged in intimidation of UFO eyewitnesses, ordering them not to tell anything about what they saw, otherwise they were supposedly in great trouble. They disappeared as strangely as they appeared, and all their threats were usually unfulfilled.
As the ufologist Vladimir Zabelyshensky described them figuratively, “these strange“ people ”descend from the hills, walk in the night and in the rain, and snowstorm along muddy, distant roads like elves looking for impoverished shoemakers.”
The statistics of the cases and their analysis indicate that the "men in black" are directly related to the UFO phenomenon. What are the goals of these aliens? What mission do they perform in the environment of human society? Their not always successful copying of a person's appearance and behavior puzzles not only the people at whose door they knocked, but also experienced researchers.
Many skeptics of this phenomenon believe that "Men in Black" is just a "horror story", an urban legend that became popular with the light hand of writer Gray Barker and journalist John Keel, who described the appearance of strange men in black clothes in their books. Keel considered the "men in black" to be demonic entities and attributed to them a significant influence on the course of world history - meetings with Caesar, Napoleon, the transfer of the US coat of arms to T. Jefferson, prediction of the fate of Louis XV's mistress Madame Dubarry.
According to Keel, "people in black" is a kind of electromagnetic form of the mind, capable of causing radiation of different frequencies and inexplicably passing into a solid state, assuming any appearance, which causes the materialization of both "people in black" and spiritualistic ghosts.
Thanks to these features, these "ultra-beings" listen to telephone calls, observing the fields induced by currents in telephone wires, and cause visions in people - the brain works as a receiver of electromagnetic waves. Keel also explains other supernatural concepts such as telepathy, mediumistic trance, and automatic writing with this.
Visit to the Christiansens
One of the most detailed descriptions of the "man in black" was given by the American Christiansen family.
On the afternoon of January 9, 1967, Edward Christiansen and his family returned to their new home in Wildwood, New Jersey after traveling to Florida. Earlier, in November, the entire family observed a brightly glowing UFO in the evening sky, but neither the Christiansens' address nor telephone number were registered anywhere.
In the evening there was a knock at the door.
“Look who’s there,” Alina Christiansen told her 17-year-old daughter Connie. Connie looked up and said, "This is the strangest person I've ever seen." Mrs. Christiansen went to the door and unlocked it. It was dark outside and very cold. She did not see the car, and it seemed strange to her, since their house was located in a rather secluded place.
The stranger, with a height of about 195 cm, was unnaturally wide in the torso, he wore a hat with a black visor and a very long black coat made of a thin material too thin for such cold weather.
“I have to ask you a few questions, it will only take 40 minutes,” he said, taking off his hat.
His head was very unusual - large and round (while his face was thin and pointed), with black short hair that seemed to have just grown on a newly shaved skull, and on the back of his head there was a completely round spot without a single hair.
At first glance, the nose and mouth were ordinary, the eyes, unnaturally large, widely spaced and protruding, moved in a strange way. The stranger took off his coat. A badge was pinned on his shirt pocket, which he quickly covered with his hand, and then removed it, placing it in his coat pocket. It was quite clear that he did not want the owners of the house to consider this badge.
He was not wearing his jacket. Under a thin coat, he wore a short-sleeved shirt made of a material similar to dacron. The black trousers were clearly short for him. The dark shoes struck with unusually thick rubber soles.
Alina and Connie were especially surprised by a strange detail - a long thick green pipe (or wire) that came out of the sock and disappeared under the pants. In one place it seemed to be pressed into the leg and was covered with something brown, or maybe it was just a brown spot.
The Christiansens noticed that their visitor was unnaturally pale. The stranger's speech seemed to them also strange - his voice was high-pitched metallic, he spoke in a monotone and cut words. The incoherent phrases concerned some possible legacy that the Christians had no idea about.
Connie got the impression that he was recounting everything from memory, his speech sounded like a recording. Giji's dog barked and rushed at him, he quickly calmed her down; tail between her legs and whining, Gigi literally crawled away.
The stranger was breathing heavily, as if he had an asthma attack. After introducing himself as an insurance agent at the end of the conversation (which lasted exactly 40 minutes!) And promising that the insurance company would make itself felt within 10 days, he put on a hat and coat.
Alina decided to watch him. Approaching the road, the stranger waved his hand, a black 1963 Cadillac drove out of the trees and stopped near it (the headlights were off). A strange "agent" climbed into the car, and she disappeared into the darkness.
Later it turned out that the named insurance company did not exist and does not exist, just as there was no such "agent" in all the insurance companies of the district.
Man and woman in black
In 1976, hypnosis specialist Herbert Hopkins helped ufologists interview UFO sightings.
One day, he received a call from someone who introduced himself as a ufologist from New Jersey and asked for a meeting.
The caller said that he would arrive immediately. And literally a couple of seconds later, Hopkins was surprised to see the caller walking up the steps of his porch! (Let me remind you that cell phones did not exist at that time.)
The strange visitor's appearance reminded Hopkins of a funeral director. They did not speak for long. At some point, the speech of the "ufologist" became indistinct - he muttered something about the depletion of energy and quickly left.
A few days later, a stranger called Hopkins' daughter. He said that he knew her husband John, and asked permission to come to them. We agreed to meet in a small restaurant nearby. John saw a man and a woman dressed in black. They looked strange, especially the woman. It seemed that her legs did not bend at the joints, and her breasts hung too low.
The man with whom John entered into a conversation, suddenly began to ask questions about intimate life, caressed his companion in front of everyone, and then asked if he was doing it right.
When the strange couple was about to leave, the man suddenly went limp, as if paralyzed. The woman asked John to help her bring her companion to the car, but the man just as suddenly came to life, and they, without even saying goodbye, took small steps out of the house.
Hopkins argued that these were robots or aliens from outer space who really wanted to be like people, but they did not do it well.
Devilish smiles
In Belpre, Ohio, a young family faced a whole bunch of UFO problems. The head of the Ben family saw an unidentified object hovering over a chemical plant. He heard that in such cases it is possible to signal the UFO with headlights, which he did.
After a moment, the headlights turned off, the car's engine stopped working. Opening the hood by the light of a flashlight, Ben found that the entire electrical system was out of order - it simply burned out. Surprisingly, the car itself did not burn down.
This meeting was followed by a chain of all kinds of mysterious events. In Ben's house, the desk drawers opened by themselves, the heavy, cumbersome bureau, which stood at the very window, was moved by some incredible force. Things began to disappear irrevocably. Ben's wife began to notice unusual people in the area.
Once, Ben himself on Perkersberg Street (where he came on business) suddenly saw two people in all black, smiling broadly at him with some kind of devilish smile, which made Ben feel uneasy. The strangers had a strange gait - they seemed to have a hard time maintaining stability while walking and it was clearly difficult to get around. Ben was so scared that he crossed over to the other side of the street.
One day a car stopped in front of their house, and a man in a black suit took several photographs of the house with a huge camera. There were often strange, metallic voices on the phone, reminding Ben of his encounter with a UFO. He was assigned indefinite dates, usually in the evening.
At the same time, it was mentioned that on the street, as a rule, far from his house, a car would be waiting for him and THEY would approach him themselves. If the date takes place, THEY will be able to show him something, and if he agrees to cooperate, then he will be able to see the night panorama of many cities from a great height.
Ben had no goodbye. Unreasonable fear took possession of him, and he was close to despair when he realized his powerlessness in front of an alien mind and the power of its influence.
The Men in Black are believed to pose a clear threat. Who they are and where they come from remains only a fragment of the great mystery of the UFO phenomenon.
Any UFO witness can encounter them, and more often they come into contact with the male part of UFO contactees, with those who seek to convey information about them to others.
Many who met black people had the impression that their look and appearance were similar to the look and manner of Hollywood action movies. If several met at once, it was almost impossible to distinguish them from each other.
They are “copies” of each other, or, more likely, several types of copies, each of which does some kind of work among us mortals ... In an incomprehensible way, they unmistakably find in the mass of people a person who observed a UFO or picked up some either details, or even just collecting information about UFOs.
But why do they choose a form of behavior inherent in different types of agents? Why does their camouflage contain flaws that distinguish them from humans?
Perhaps all this is not accidental, and noticeable inconsistencies and oddities are key moments in some complex psychological experiment, which is carried out against the background of people's interest in everything abnormal. One way or another, the question of the goals, tasks of the "men in black", as well as the fact of their very existence, is still "covered in darkness."
Share on your social network👇 👆On July 2 this year, Men in Black, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, will celebrate its 20th anniversary. It was an incredibly successful film that surpassed $ 600 million at the box office. The next two films from this franchise exceeded this figure by several dozen more.
The films, which were based on Lowell Cunningham's comics about two secret agents who control the presence of aliens on Earth, have cemented in the minds of people the possibility of a super-secret agency deeply undercover right in the heart of the US government. However, in reality, things are a little different.
Of course, the three Men in Black films are made purely for family entertainment. But when it comes to the real Men in Black, everything is shrouded in darkness. And it's not about the black suits. It is ironic that the films portrayed the "men in black" as some kind of "secret agents 007". However, "secret agents", in fact, is not the most appropriate explanation for this phenomenon.
After the release of the first film, some ufologists complained and moaned that Hollywood heroes are very different from the real "men in black". So what are they really? We'll have to leave fiction and turn to the facts.
"People" is probably not the best and most accurate way to describe these strange creatures. Imagine pale or even "olive" faces, whose skin looks plastic, like after Botox. On top of that, weird dark wigs and bulging eyes. Mistakes in words, robotic voice and "programmed" behavior - this is how eyewitnesses describe the "men in black". In some cases, their growth does not exceed one and a half meters, but there are also two-meter individuals.
The ability to control the minds of their victims is what comes up most often when confronted with the "men in black." No, they don't use a neutralizer to erase memory like in the movie, it's more like a weird form of hypnosis. Experts advise always and everywhere to stay as far away from these creatures as possible. Why? The history of meetings with "men in black" shows that they in some supernatural way infect those with whom they communicate. It may sound strange and threatening, but many people felt very bad and often got serious illnesses.
This secret also has a supernatural connotation. According to eyewitnesses, after meeting them, the smell of sulfur or "rotten eggs" remains in the air. And mediums who practice seances call them "shadow people."
It is also worth mentioning the cars of the "Men in Black". In the films, these are high-tech cars that surpass almost anything that can move on the road. And of course they are black. And in our world, "cars in black" are no less strange. These are always old models that look brand new. For example, the Cadillac of the 1950s is the favorite of the Men in Black. Eyewitnesses describe cars that disappear right before their eyes, become flashing and then invisible, and even take off into the sky.
Unlike the characters portrayed by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, the real Men in Black are more than little green UFOs. Are they snow people? Or lake monsters? Pennsylvania-based researcher and writer Stan Gordon has investigated several cases involving Yeti and Men in Black. There are even several reports that they were seen on the shores of the Scottish Loch Ness in Scotland. Needless to say, what else lurks in its dark depths. Without a doubt, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Men in Black, there will be much more to be heard and seen about the Men in Black phenomenon.
