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Post by jcurio on Feb 11, 2020 9:04:53 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Mar 27, 2020 14:45:03 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/03/the-men-in-black-shape-shifters/ The Men in Black: Shape-Shifters?by Nick Redfern / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/nredfern/March 28, 2020 Mention the notorious MIB and most people will instantly think of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones – such is the incredible success of the Men in Black movie franchise, which began back in the 1990s. Of course, those with an interest in the paranormal mysteries of our world will know that the movies were based upon real reports of encounters with mysterious, dangerous men dressed in black, ones who were intent on silencing people who had encountered UFOs, aliens, and even the likes of Bigfoot and the Mothman. There is, however, one big difference between Hollywood’s MIB and those of the real world. Smith and Jones characters – J and K – are the employees of a secret agency that oversees the alien presence on our planet. In other words, they are what we might accurately term ufological 007s. In reality, however, the Men in Black are clearly not government agents: they don’t even look human. That’s because they’re not. “Pauline,” who I interviewed in 2013, had a very strange encounter with a Man in Black back in October 1973, when she was living in Pasadena, California. It’s notable, and probably relevant, for me to reveal that a major UFO wave was going on at that time, and all across the United States. While hiking in the California hills one Sunday morning, Pauline encountered a classic, silver-colored flying saucer-style UFO which, at first, at least, was high in the sky. Suddenly, it dropped to around fifty or sixty above her, hanging there in an odd, wobbling fashion. Amazed, Pauline could only stare as the silent craft bobbed around – like a boat on churning waters – and then shot away at high speed. Pauline raced home and excitedly told her family of what had just taken place. They, apparently, weren’t the only ones who knew what had occurred on the fateful morning in 1973. Three days later, and after sunset, Pauline had a visitor. Not a welcome one, I should stress. It was a Man in Black, a skinny – almost emaciated – old man, dressed in a shabby black suit, looking pale and ill, and wearing an old, 1950s-style fedora hat. Pauline said that she felt her mind was briefly enslaved, as the MIB near-hypnotically asked her to invite him into her home. In a slight daze, and to her eternal cost, she did exactly that. She retreated to the couch, stumbling slightly and feeling ice-cold. The old man followed her, and stood in the living-room, looming over her, as he warned her – in no uncertain terms – never to discuss her close encounter again. Ever. The MIB then turned around and headed to the door. At that exact same moment, Pauline felt her mental faculties return to normal and she raced after him, just as he exited the door and closed it behind him. Pauline threw the door open wide, only to find the old Man in Black gone. In his place, however, was something else: it was a large, black dog with bright red eyes. It snapped and snarled in Pauline’s direction and in what was clearly a deeply malevolent, dangerous fashion. She stared in horror as the glowing-eyed monster prowled around the yard, clearly intent on adding to the malevolent atmosphere that was already firmly in place. Suddenly, and as if out of nowhere, a black Cadillac – that looked decades-old in design – appeared and screeched to a halt outside of Pauline’s home. It should be noted, here, that the MIB almost always drive such cars of that particular type, age and color. Pauline watched, shocked and scared, as the back door on the driver’s-side opened and the fiendish black hound bounded across the front yard and leapt into the back of the Cadillac, which shot away at high speed! Today, Pauline – now a grandmother and someone who is fairly comfortable about sharing her bizarre experience – is of a firm opinion that the aged MIB and the red-eyed beast were one and the same. As Pauline sees it, something unexplained, but also something which could take on “different disguises” as it saw fit. As controversial as that might sound, let’s not forget that we saw in a previous chapter how, in England of centuries ago, so-called phantom black dogs were said to possess the ability to shapeshift into human form and vice-versa. Moving on, but still focused on Pasadena, California – interestingly enough – there is the very strange story of the “Maxwell” family, who I met and spoke with in 2014. In the summer of 1987, they spent a week vacationing in and around San Francisco, staying with friends in Menlo Park. On their way back home, they traveled along California’s famous Highway 101, which provides a paannamic view of the Pacific Ocean, and for mile upon mile. They chose to drive through the night, when the highway would be at its least busy; thinking that it would be to their benefit. How completely and utterly wrong they were. As fate would destine to have it, after a couple of hours of driving, the family of four spotted a strange light in the sky. It was described as a bright green ball of light, about the size of a beach-ball, one which paced their car and that stayed with them for a couple of miles, at a height of around sixty feet. There was nothing frightening about the encounter. Rather, they were all amazed and excited. It wasn’t long, however, before things got very disturbing. The day after the Maxwell’s got home was a Sunday, meaning they had an extra day before returning to work and school. It was while one of the teenage children was sat on the porch and playing music on an old Walkman that she caught sight of a man on the other side of the road. He was dressed completely in black, aside from a white shirt. He even wore black gloves, on what was a bright, summery day. The girl was particularly disturbed by the fact that the man sported a weird grin and was staring right at her. So unsettled was she that she went back into the home and told her father of what had just happened. He quickly went to the door but – no surprise – the MIB was gone. Later that same night, the girl had a frightening and graphic dream – if that is all it was – of the very same Man in Black standing next to her bed and staring at her in malevolent style. She woke suddenly, around 3:00 a.m., soaked in sweat. On the following night, the girl’s younger brother had a similar dream. And, two days later the husband and wife saw a pair of creepy, pale MIB clearly watching, and following, them in a local supermarket. Oddly, as the husband, angry and confused by what was going on, decided to confront them, they headed quickly to another aisle and vanished – as in literally. They were nowhere to be seen. Matters reached their conclusion on the next night, when Mr. Maxwell was woken up by the sounds of loud scratching at the front-door; scratching which strongly suggested some form of wild animal was trying to get in the home. He decided to try and catch the beast off-guard and raced into the backyard and to a gate that gave access to a small alley between his and the house next door. He crept along, reached the front of the house, and peered at the front-door. To his horror, there was no monster, but a man – in black, it scarcely needs saying – crouched down and pawing at the door in deranged style. Mr. Maxwell shouted in his direction, at which point the MIB stopped what it was doing, stood up to a height of around seven-feet, and stared directly at him. Then, in an instant, the figure dropped to the floor, took on a wolf-like appearance, and bounded off into the darkness, leaving a shell-shocked and trauma-filled witness behind it. The MIB that became a wolf was not seen again and the Maxwell’s did not experience anything else untoward. The strange series of events was finally at its end. mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/03/the-men-in-black-shape-shifters/
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Post by auntym on Apr 4, 2020 14:05:38 GMT -6
www.ufoinsight.com/the-men-in-black-who-or-what-are-they-a-case-study/ The Men In Black – Who Or What Are They? – A Case Study April 4, 2020 Written by: Marcus Lowth When we think of the Men In Black most people are likely to imagine the movie franchise of the same name. And while the general premise of those films are in sympathy with the general notion that this mysterious group deploys agents to visit those who might have witnessed UFOs, the real-life accounts often paint a much more disturbing picture. There are several theories as to who this mysterious group might be. Some suggest they are a top-secret governmental department specifically tasked with suppressing evidence and reports of UFO sightings and even of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth. Others suggest the chilling men are, in fact, extraterrestrials themselves, either in their genuine form or in some kind of assumed form. Yet other researchers have declared the real possibility that the Men In Black are connected to an underground civilization, perhaps one indigenous to the Earth but who were forced underground long ago? Indeed, many ancient writings do speak of such events taking place. And some researchers today suggest there is an invisible conflict taking place between the two opposing forces (although it is not a notion shared by all or even most in the UFO community. The Men In Black would appear to be a much more nuanced organization with a much more layered agenda than even those who have studied them might imagine. And we should note that many of those who have researched these menacing figures extensively return some quite disturbing claims. Just Who Are The Men In Black?We have touched on accounts of the Men In Black previously in other articles. And while most of us imagine this strange and disturbing group show up simply after a person witnesses a UFO, the fact is (according to the many accounts on record) is their appearances are much more complicated. As are their apparent reasons for making contact, and indeed their true origins. For example, when we examined the bizarre and intriguing account of the Ingrid Cold interactions with Woodrow Derenberger in the winter of 1966. The incident is similar to that of Robert Richardson a year later (who we will examine shortly) and would see the mysterious man appear in a car on an otherwise quiet road, while at the same time a strange craft landed nearby. In our book From Deep Within The Archives Of UFO Insight, we examine several intriguing Men In Black encounters, including that of Dr. Hopkins, who after conducting research into UFO accounts in the mid-1970s, would receive a sudden visit from a strange gentleman dressed in a black suit, hat, and large coat. What’s more, when he removed his hat, his head was completely hairless and pale-skinned. In short, the mysterious visitor would “recommend” Dr. Hopkins refrain from his research, but of interest here, as we will explore in more detail shortly, is that the gentleman would comment to Dr. Hopkins that he had to leave as his “energy was running low”. This is an interesting point and one we will return to shortly. It certainly suggests that the Men In Black have an otherworldly origin. And that despite their appearance, they are not at all human. CONTINUE READING: www.ufoinsight.com/the-men-in-black-who-or-what-are-they-a-case-study/
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Post by auntym on Jun 9, 2020 13:37:19 GMT -6
www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2020/06/mib-man-in-black-on-new-york-state.html Tuesday, June 09, 2020 MIB (Man in Black) on the New York State Museum ElevatorPosted by Lon Strickler A bizarre account involving a boy and his classmates, who shared a ride on an elevator in the New York State Museum...time slip and alternate reality included.
I received the following account:"After hearing story after story of strange encounters with strange men dressed in black suits, I wanted to tell a story from my childhood that to this day I have been unable to explain. This took place in 2001 when I was 8 years old. It was summer and I was on a field trip with my town's community center daycare program. We were at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY. I was in a group with maybe 2 or 3 other kids and one of the daycare workers for a chaperone. We got there in the morning and were told we could roam around the museum with our group until either 12 or 1 when we had to meet back up with everyone for lunch on the 3rd floor. Our group walked around, looking at all the exhibits and after a while, we realized we had lost track of time. We only had a few minutes to get up to the 3rd floor for lunch and attendance and we were on the other side of the museum from where the elevators are. We hurried quickly to the lobby and hopped into an elevator. Out of breath from the near sprint we had done to the lobby, our group piled into the elevator, we hit the 3rd floor button, and my chaperone said we had made it in time and that we still had a minute or so to spare. Then as the doors were closing, an extremely well-dressed man walked into the elevator. He was wearing black shoes, a black suit with a white dress shirt, black tie, black leather gloves, and a black fedora, and was carrying a black leather briefcase. At the time I thought nothing of it, but I've always looked back at this and thought this was very odd as it was summer and he was dressed for the dead of winter. As the man got on, I noticed that he kept his head down, almost as though he didn't want us to see his face. He quickly turned around, only then lifting his head. He just stood there with his back to us, and I don't remember ever seeing him select a floor. The elevator doors closed and this eerie feeling seemed to be emanating from the man in black. We had left the lobby on the first floor and were going up the third floor, so the ride should have been maybe 10 or 20 seconds at most. The elevator's display showed we had arrived at the third floor, but the elevator didn't stop. the numbers just kept climbing, and we were definitely still moving. (I want to preface this by saying those elevators in the lobby only have access to 4 floors, and to my knowledge the museum only has 4 above ground floors. I'll talk more about that at the end.) At this point, it had been well over a minute since the elevator started moving and the numbers on the display continued to climb; as did the elevator. That eerie feeling that had been seemingly emanating from this man was getting more intense and the air in the elevator was beginning to get extremely heavy, this seemed to get more and more noticeable as we continued to go up. The higher the elevator climbed, the feeling turned from eerie to foreboding. I remember getting the feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you know something bad is going to happen. Something definitely wasn't right, the display was saying we had passed the 50th floor and we were still climbing. At this point it had been around 5 minutes in the elevator. The atmosphere in the elevator had gotten almost unbearable. This heavy, ominous feeling was something I've never experienced since. The closest thing I can compare it to is that feeling you get when you walk down a dark hallway after watching a horror movie, and even that doesn't begin to describe this. Suddenly, the elevator stops. There's a sudden shift in the atmosphere of the elevator. It went from this foreboding feeling to a feeling of impending doom. Then I remember an almost panic when I thought about was on the other side of those doors. I was telling myself over and over again that the buttons on the elevator don't go past the 4th floor, so there aren't any floors beyond that, so whatever on the other side of those doors can't possibly exist. This whole experience can't possibly have happened, and when the doors open I'll see all my friends from the other groups eating lunch and everything will be okay. But that's not what happened. And this is where things have always gotten fuzzy for me. I remember getting on the elevator with my group, the man walking in, and the elevator going up. But I can't remember my group being in the elevator after a certain point. I know it was at least five minutes from the time we entered the elevator before it stopped, and yet I can't tell you how much time passed between when the elevator stopped and when the doors opened. I can remember looking at the display to see what floor we were on, but can't remember what it said. I remember being frozen there, with no sound or movement whatsoever. I remember feeling like if those doors opened, something bad was going to happen, to the point where I remember panicking inside my head, pretending that none of this wasn't happening. But every time I opened my eyes that sinister man was still standing there, as still as a statue. And then all of a sudden, the man who was responsible for all of this, who had not moved a single muscle since the elevator doors closed, drops his briefcase. Not even a second after the briefcase hit the ground, the doors of the elevator opened. And yet I can't remember what was beyond those doors. I have tried for the last 18 years to remember and have never been able to see it. I just remember it being white and bright. The man then calmly picked up his briefcase, tipped his fedora, almost as to bid us goodbye, and walked off the elevator. I then remember the doors closing and that ominous feeling being gone, and in an instant we were on the 3rd floor and the doors popped open. Only then do I remember seeing the rest of my group on the elevator. All of them looking as terrified as I did, especially our chaperone. Looking out, I saw the rest of the kids and chaperones from the other groups. We walked out of the elevator, and had been expecting to be extremely late for lunch, but we had made it on time. Which is impossible, because we had initially made it to the elevator a minute or so before lunch started, and that encounter on the elevator had lasted at least five or ten minutes. I remember our chaperone pulling the other adults aside and I assume told them what had happened to us on that elevator. I remember sitting at the table with my friends eating a pizza Lunchable and the kids from my group and I sharing the story of what had just happened, no one believing us. I remember the chaperone I had avoided the subject for the rest of the day, and the other kids in my group seemed to have dropped it as well. I remember that I told my mom what had happened and I've always felt as though she didn't believe me. But before writing this, I wanted to make sure that really did happen since I was so young and it had been well over a decade since this happened, and that it wasn't something my mind made up over the years or maybe just a very vivid dream. So I asked my mom if she remembered me telling her about this, and she said she did. She remembers picking me up from the community center and the second we got into the car I had told her all about the man in black and the elevator going up all these floors and even that he had dropped his briefcase. She said she also remembers me telling her that he had said something to me, though she doesn't remember what, and I don't have any memory of him saying anything. So there is my story. 18 years later, I still have absolutely no clue who that man was, where the elevator took us, what was beyond the doors where the man walked off, or anything that happened in that elevator. I just know that it happened. I have no idea how long we were in that elevator, it could have been minutes or even hours, but what I do know is that time seems to have been separate from our reality, since no time had actually passed when we got to the third floor. Hopefully you have heard something similar or at least have an idea what happened. I've gone through every explanation I can think of and none of them make sense. From not remembering correctly what elevator we got on, and perhaps getting in one somewhere else, but that's impossible for reasons I've listed in the paragraph below this. I've thought maybe it was a really vivid dream, but my mom remembers me telling her right after picking me up from daycare, the day of the field trip. I've even considered a gas leak in the elevator causing us to hallucinate.The one thought that's always been in the back of my mind has been that we got onto the elevator and took a ride through another dimension. Just a little side note, I had a job with a catering company in the Albany area last Summer and one of the most common venues we catered at was the New York State Museum. Over that summer, I rode probably every public elevator in that building, and even a cargo elevator they have, and not a single one I rode on had any buttons beyond the 4th floor." ES www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2020/06/mib-man-in-black-on-new-york-state.html
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Post by auntym on Jun 1, 2021 14:46:00 GMT -6
www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2021/06/black-eyed-man-in-black-continuously.htmlTuesday, June 01, 2021 Black-Eyed 'Man in Black' Continuously Manifests in Experiencer's BedroomPosted by Lon Strickler An experiencer has seen several manifestations of a black-eyed 'man in black' in is bedroom after waking. The being would appear amid a bluish light and talk to the witness. I recently came across the following account:"I don't know much about UFOs or aliens beyond fiction, which is why I'm a little baffled at having met a 'man in black' four times. There's not much I can do for evidence so if you don't believe this, that's fair enough. I'm well aware that it sounds far-fetched. I am hoping I can find people who've had similar experiences though. The most "logical" explanation is that it's sleep paralysis. Or hallucinations. But it doesn't seem to quite add up. He appears in my room at night. Very consistent every time. He dresses like it's 1952, neat suit, trench coat and wide brimmed fedora. He used to wear dark sunglasses, but he stopped doing that more recently. His eyes are entirely black. Sketch provided by witness The first time I saw him was last September. I woke up to a bright blue light shining from outside, and a man standing at the foot of my bed in front of the window. I felt extremely sleepy. The first thing he said to me was, "you're going to be fine." I feel like the next thing he said does nothing to help my credibility, but he told me to "remember Mothman Prophecies 9 66". I hadn't heard of that book at the time. It took me months to get around to reading it, since I'd written off the initial experience as some sort of fever dream. I'd been very sick at the time it happened. The second time I saw him was in January. I'd nearly finished reading 'Mothman Prophecies' by then. I was dreaming, I saw the man on a street and I ran over to him. I said, "excuse me", and he turned and said, "you should come with me now." I woke up and he was kneeling next to my bed, his face close enough that I could make out his features despite my bad eyesight. The room was lit with blue light like it was before. This time I could barely keep my eyes open and it was difficult to focus. He told me, "don't worry, you're just in a trance." I'm not entirely sure what he said then, but it was something about computer programs and minds. He told me to finish reading 'Mothman Prophecies' and that I should keep a record of my dreams. I was very much convinced that it was just sleep paralysis and a whole lot of coincidences. But in February I saw him in a dream again. He showed me the opening scene of a horror movie that I wouldn't watch until a week later (I've been having a lot of prophetic dreams, I don't want to go on that tangent here). In the dream he gave me his hat. When I woke up, my room was once again lit up in blue light, but this time I wasn't so sleepy. I sat up in bed and noticed that the hat he'd given me in the dream was on the pillow next to me. This is why I'm not so convinced that it's sleep paralysis. I was able to pick up the hat, and I could feel the material and the weight of it. It seemed exactly like a regular hat. After some minutes though it disappeared, it looked like one of those optical illusions with the vanishing dots. Very bizarre. The next time I saw him was in April. I don't remember dreaming about anything this time, I just woke up and he was there. No blue light now, my lamp had been turned on. He was kneeling next to my bed like before but this time I felt more awake. I looked at my clock, 5:08am. I looked at him and said, "this must be sleep paralysis." He said something that sounded like gibberish to me. I said, "what?" and he repeated himself, very calmly. I didn't have a clue what he was saying. I think he repeated himself 3 times before I started to fall asleep. I was startled awake by the sound of my door being closed, the lamp was off now. My clock said 5:12am so whatever this was happened in real time, which makes me think I wasn't dreaming. He came back again the same night. The room was lit in blue again and he spoke English this time. I just stared at the ceiling. He said, "your sleep paralysis demon is trying to contact you." I got to assume that was an attempt at a joke, given that I've been calling it sleep paralysis for so long. He told me to take note of the number 4, and then he was gone. I got up to get my dream journal, but as I flicked through the pages it seemed like it wasn't mine. It was full of drawings I didn't recognize rather than writing. I went to the front page and written there was "My name is Michael." Is that what he'd been trying to say earlier? I put the book down and went back to bed. My most recent encounter was again in April, a couple of weeks after the previous one. I woke up to blindingly bright blue light and 'Michael' was standing next to my bed. He was talking to somebody but I couldn't tell who. He said, "people who experience reality shifts sometimes come back changed. She thought that's what happened to her, but she's always been this way." I haven't got a damn clue what that's supposed to mean. Please let me know if you've experienced anything similar, or if you have any idea what's going on." AC NOTE: This is very interesting, The incidents seem to correspond to some of the events that occurred in Point Pleasant, WV after the Silver bridge collapse, namely, the appearance of the 'Men in Black.' The name 'Michael'...some people may interpret this as a manifestation of Michael the Archangel (though I doubt this). I'm sending a message to this experiencer in the hope that they will follow up with any further incidents. Lon www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2021/06/black-eyed-man-in-black-continuously.html
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Post by auntym on Aug 25, 2021 23:41:43 GMT -6
UFOs are the biggest mystery of our time and somebody--or something--seems determined to keep it that way. Hundreds of UFO researchers and witnesses have told of terrifying encounters with mysterious men, in Season 3, Episode 12, "The Silencers." #UFOHunters
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Post by auntym on Oct 15, 2021 16:39:33 GMT -6
www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2021/10/ufo-alien-encounter-possible-mib.htmlFriday, October 15, 2021 UFO & Alien Encounter / Possible MIB Interrogation Near Tonopah, ArizonaPosted by Lon Strickler / The following report concerns alien contact and a possible MIB interrogation. It was submitted to NUFORC several years ago and occurred near Tonopah, Arizona on July 1, 2009 at approximately 10:30 PM. The area is in Maricopa County, Arizona in the Soannan Desert, approximately 50 miles west of downtown Phoenix off Interstate 10. The community of Tonopah is near the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, the largest nuclear power plant in the country. There have been considerable UFO/alien accounts from this general area including rumors that a deep underground military base / facility (D.U.M.B.) is nearby: "While in the desert near the Palo Verde Nuclear Plant, the main witness and some friends saw a very large triangle shaped UFO. They were driving down a dirt road and saw a bright flashing light. They had seen objects in the area before and their intentions were to look for UFO’s. According to the witnesses, people that live in this area have been chased in their cars and seen objects on a regular basis. They went off the road behind some mountains, and no sooner had they come around the mountain they saw the large flashing light. All of them were scared but, at the same time, curious. The main witness friend’s girlfriend was crying and telling them to turn around; they got within 2 to 300 yards from the light. It was the size of three football fields, triangular in shape, and had windows around it. It was about 3 stories tall, and about 30 feet off the ground, they flashed their lights and it flashed back, in the same sequence of flashes. The main witness and his friend, James, got out of the car and walked closer. The closer they got, the better they could make out what was standing in the windows. They could see small big headed aliens, and then 7 to 9 foot tall aliens, they based this on the size of the windows. Some of the windows they could see through, the other windows were dark, but then the dark windows, cleared up one by one, and as they went clear more and more aliens appeared on the windows. James was supposedly videotaping the whole time. The main witness was terrified but excited at the same time. They walked closer and had to stop because the heat coming from the craft was so intense. The craft hovered and then landed. A large panel at the bottom of the craft opened and two aliens proceeded to walk out. This absolutely terrified the witnesses, but they couldn’t move or talk. The main witness remembers trying to scream and run but they couldn’t move or talk. Two others were in the car honking the horn, and screaming for them to come back, but they couldn’t respond or move. The aliens walked up to within 20 feet of them. One of them was very thin and tall, about 8-9 feet, the other one was about 3-4 feet tall. The witnesses stood there in amazement, shocked because they couldn’t move or speak. Then calmness came over them and the aliens began speaking to them telepathically, they were saying not to be scared that they were not going to harm them. This “conversation” went on between the 4 of them for 15-20 minutes. They said they were here to help us, so that we would not destroy our planet, and that there was a horrible event coming soon, that it had to be stopped. One of the witnesses asked if it was something like ‘9/11’ and they said that it was bigger and that it would come from the Middle East. The main witness then thought to himself that he had been in this situation before and the tall alien heard his thoughts and repeated his name and said that yes, he had been visited before when he was 6 years old in Deming, New Mexico. He had been in the desert exploring and they had talked to him then. He had blocked that out, but it all suddenly came back, they said they knew they were coming and wanted them to warn people about global warming and what was to come if they didn’t take start taking care of our planet. Visions of disaster then entered their heads, as if to show them what was to come. The taller alien then walked closer, and held his hand. He was no longer scared, neither was his friend, James. They said that they would see them again soon and to warn people about ‘saving our planet’. Supposedly James was recording the whole time. The aliens then returned to the craft and it was gone in a split second. When the craft left they both felt weak, but managed to make their way back to the car, when they got there the occupants of the car, Heather and Jamie, were not crying anymore they just hugged the witnesses. For a minute the car would not start and suddenly it just turned on by itself. As they started to drive away three military helicopters appeared and began shining their lights on the witnesses. Then two military Hummers showed up and chased the witnesses. They tried to avoid the Hummers but were told over a speaker to pull over or they would be forced to shoot at them. They pulled over and military personnel surrounded their vehicle. Two men dressed in black opened the door and asked them to get out. One of them looked familiar to the main witness. He asked the witnesses to get out and both questioned them, while the military personnel searched the car. They asked them what they had seen, how long they had been there and if they had had any contact with the alien ship. One of the soldiers then found the video camera. The men in black reviewed it and told the witnesses they were not to speak of this, they then confiscated the camera and took the main witness with them. The other 3 witnesses asked where they were going and they told them not to worry about it. He left with them and they questioned him further. He kept staring at one of the men since he looked familiar. They then dropped him off on the I-10 highway near Tonopah Joe’s restaurant. There he was later picked up by his friends." www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2021/10/ufo-alien-encounter-possible-mib.html
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Post by auntym on Oct 30, 2021 15:23:44 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/10/men-in-black-the-odd-mythos-of-ufo-silencers-and-dark-suited-visitors/Men in Black: The Odd Mythos of UFO Silencers and Dark-Suited VisitorsMicah Hanks / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/mhanks/October 31, 2021 UFO studies from over the years have given rise to many subgenres of related phenomena. Among these, one of the strangest and most unsettling involves the so-called “Men in Black.” Stories of odd visits from official-looking individuals that occur following a UFO sighting have become a significant part of the narratives of UFO witnesses over the years. The stories usually involve an observation or other experience involving a UFO, after which the witness is visited by someone who attempts to encourage silence about what they observed. These visitors, often (but not always) clad in dark suits, sometimes behave strangely, or even humorously. More often though, the visits have an ominous or threatening tone, leaving the witness afraid and intimidated. In light of this description, it’s no wonder that such stories have taken on an almost mythical quality. This is not to say that the experiences don’t have some basis in reality, but rather, it acknowledges the long traditions involving the color black and its association with darkness and evil. This, as well as the idea of mysterious strangers and their appearances often being associated with a sense of foreboding or danger. Religious scholar David Halperin, who has analyzed the UFO phenomenon in the context of religious visionary experiences, has noted historical examples where people in centuries past who observed what appeared to be anomalous aerial phenomena also described meeting people clad in black thereafter. Nick Redfern has also noted the folkloric aspect of these stories in his many books on Men in Black (a topic I specifically addressed in an essay he included in one of these volumes). Acknowledging this folkloric aspect of the Men in Black experience is not to say that there haven’t been legitimate instances in recent decades where people have met mysterious strangers, who appeared to have had knowledge of unusual aerial phenomena they witnessed. However, even some of the best-known cases involving purported “Men in Black” bear the hallmarks of mythology at times, and seemingly blur the lines between fact and folklore. One of the earliest instances that involved an individual who claimed to have been warned not to talk about a UFO sighting had been Harold Dahl, one of the participants in the long-disputed Maury Island UFO incident. Dahl may have also been one of the earliest to have described this individual as clad in a dark-colored suit. The following decade, early ufologist Albert Bender wrote about the visit he received from three individuals, similarly dressed in dark suits, who allegedly threatened him about his UFO interest. In Bender’s view, these men were government agents working to aid in covering up the reality of UFOs, an idea that has long accompanied claims of Men in Black meetings over the years. Numerous other witnesses throughout time have claimed to have met these strange visitors, although many of the individuals suspected of being “Men in Black” weren’t even wearing dark suits; some wore military uniforms or even regular civilian clothes. In several instances involving possible Men in Black recounted by author John Keel, the individuals were described as dressing no differently from the average person, although their behavior was often very strange. In one of the more famous cases recounted by Keel, an individual he had given the nickname “Tiny” actually appears to have been a ufologist whose name was known to other researchers. After a description of this individual appeared in his book The Mothman Prophecies, Keel received a letter from Charles Bowen, then editor of British Flying Saucer Review, who explained that a man who perfectly matched Keel’s description of “Tiny” had traveled to visit him in the United Kingdom. This individual, whose actual name Bowen knew, stayed for a short time with the Bowen family, which “regarded him rather as they might do a cobra, and expressed a feeling of repugnance” toward him. “Tiny”, in other words, was probably no Man in Black at all, but merely one of the many oddballs who became attracted to the UFO subject as public interest in it reached a crescendo during the late 1960s. John Keel Author and researcher John Keel. Despite mundane explanations like these for some of the encounters with Men in Black from over the years, their mythic status has no doubt been helped along by writers like Keel, who in likelihood had been genuinely perplexed by such stories himself. Ironically, Keel was well aware of how cases of mistaken identity and other mundane happenings had likely resulted in purported encounters with Men in Black. As he describes near the beginning of The Mothman Prophecies, a goateed Keel, clad in black and going door-to-door in need of a telephone to call a tow truck one evening, might also have led to a few reports of a mysterious “Man in Black” in West Virginia in the 1960s. So who or what are the mysterious Men in Black? It seems unlikely that every story from over the years that involves UFO witnesses having encounters with strange, sometimes threatening individuals are entirely folklore. Nonetheless, certain aspects of the Men in Black stories bear the obvious hallmarks of myth, and one that has no doubt helped to build the curious mystique that surrounds these strange visitors and their unusual relationship to the UFO mystery. mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/10/men-in-black-the-odd-mythos-of-ufo-silencers-and-dark-suited-visitors/
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Post by paulette on Nov 2, 2021 17:37:32 GMT -6
I liked the recollection where the mother substantiated what her child had told me 18 years before. I wish I had that benefit.
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Post by auntym on Nov 3, 2021 13:01:16 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/11/the-origins-of-the-men-in-black-thanks-to-albert-bender-part-2/The Origins of the Men in Black, “Thanks” to Albert Bender: Part 2by Nick Redfern / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/nredfern/November 4, 2021 PART ONE: mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/11/the-origins-of-the-men-in-black-thanks-to-albert-bender-part-1/Now, it’s time for the second installment of my 2-part article on the origins of the Men in Black. It’s a story that revolved around Albert Bender, an eccentric Ufologist, and someone who pretty much brought the M.I.B to the UFO scene. Evidently, and wisely, and warned off by the Men in Black in the 1950s, Bender chose to take his very own advice: he walked away from UFOs and began corresponding with an Englishwoman named Betty Rose,: she had been subscribing to Bender’s self-made journal. They actually corresponded for a number of years, finally marrying and settling down in the States and running a motel in California; but not before Betty came to visit Bender in New York – a period that totally changed his life. As Bender put it, when it was time for Betty to fly back to the U.K.: “As she walked up the stairs to enter the plane, she gave me one last wave, then moved quickly through the doorway. A strange feeling hit my stomach. I stood there still waving and could not move from the spot until I saw the plane taxi to the runway and take off. As the plane vanished in the distance I realized I had left something important undone, an unasked question which she now had no opportunity to hear from my lips. And so it was that I found out, for the first time, that I was in love.” Marriage in 1954 to Betty, emotional stability, and a complete end to ill-health, were – thankfully – the orders of the day. Despite his worries about his health, Bender lived to the ripe old age of ninety-four, no less. The M.I.B. were gone. UFOs were finally behind Bender – for a while. And, as time progressed, Bender set up yet another project; a very different one: he founded the Max Steiner Music Society. Steiner wrote the music for (among others) the original King Kong, Casablanca, and Gone with the Wind and became a great friend to Bender. The organization ran until 1981. It has to be said that although Bender fled the UFO scene, it certainly didn’t prevent his fellow UFO researchers from still digging into those claims Bender made of M.I.B. threats in 1952/1953. In 1956 Gray Barker – author and publisher – wrote a book on Bender’s experiences of a few years earlier. It was titled They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers. Notably, Barker largely backed-away from the paranormal aspect of the Bender affair – mainly because Bender had not shared with him the full story. Barker, then, was forced to fill in the gaps. In doing so, he presented the three mysterious men as agents of the U.S. government. For Barker, that was no problem: he was known for his ability to, ahem, “embellish” stories when such a thing was required. Hunter S. Thompson-style “Gonzo”-type writing became more and more present in Barker’s writings. Unfortunately, as time went on, embellishment became outright lying – and all for the sake of an exciting page-turner. Such is the nature in certain portions of They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. After Barker’s hardback hit the bookshelves, Bender made a tactful retreat. That is, however, until 1962. That was the year in which Bender made a brief comeback with his very own book on the controversy. It was titled Flying Saucers and the Three Men. No guesses who those three characters were. The book is a bizarre one. And it’s also one that Bender almost certainly regretted writing. In his book, Bender expanded further on that terrifying night in 1953 when that trio of M.I.B. paid him a visit. Bender wrote he saw “…three shadowy figures in the room. The figures became clearer. All of them were dressed in black clothes. They looked like clergymen, but wore hats similar to Homburg style. The faces were not clearly discernible, for the hats partly hid and shaded them.” He added: “The eyes of all three figures suddenly lit up like flash-light bulbs, and all these were focused upon me. They seemed to burn into my very soul as the pains above my eyes became almost unbearable.” That’s quite a difference from the picture Barker presented for his fans back in 1956 – with the FBI prowling around – and in They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. Bender’s own book achieved some degree of publicity, mainly because it was so far removed from the average, mainstream world of Ufology – something that made the overall story extremely controversial, but also intriguing, to Saucer-sleuths. Indeed, its threads include aspects of black magic, the occult, spiritualism and demonology – and not forgetting aliens and UFOs. Bender’s book was quickly followed by Bender Mystery Confirmed, a now-very-rare and pricey 99-page-long booklet self-published by Barker. It was filled with letters sent to Barker from readers of Flying Saucers and the Three Men and who wanted to give Barker their thoughts on the whole situation. One of those letters came to Barker from Trevor James Constable, the author of They Live in the Sky; a classic 1958 UFO book. Constable wrote to Barker: “Dear Gray, It is difficult indeed for me, as an occultist with some firsthand experience of this field of UFOs, to sort out Bender’s journeys back and forth across the threshold line between the physical and the astral. A biometric examination of Al Bender would probably indicate similar things to what it revealed about certain other researchers – total inability to distinguish between events on two planes of reality.” Constable was not finished: “Bender’s honesty I do not for a moment doubt. His discrimination I would deem non-existent. It seems almost incredible that the man could relate the full story of the construction of his chamber of horrors in the attic in the way Bender has. This is what convinces me of his honesty. Nothing could be more logical, in an occult way, than that the invisible entities he invited by the preparation of this locale, should indeed manifest to him, and thereafter proceed to obsess him for a protracted period, using hypnotic techniques that brought the man completely under their control.” When Bender read Constable’s words he vowed never, ever, to return to Ufology. A couple of lectures and a few radio-based interviews in the sixties aside, Bender pretty much stuck to his promise. Bender and Betty had a long and loving life together: they moved permanently to California, never looking back. The Men in Black skulked off elsewhere. mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/11/the-origins-of-the-men-in-black-thanks-to-albert-bender-part-2/
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Post by swamprat on Nov 4, 2021 12:01:41 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jun 29, 2022 18:30:08 GMT -6
Ancient Aliens: Aliens in Disguise Warn Researcher - "We've Taken Many Humans" (Season 18)
Apr 21, 2022
UFO researcher, Albert K. Bender, had to halt his studies after being visited by strange entities dressed in all black, in this clip from Season 18, "The Shadow People."
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Post by auntym on Jul 13, 2022 21:08:25 GMT -6
www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2022/06/men-in-black-encounter-after-ufo.htmlSaturday, June 04, 2022 'Men in Black' Encounter After UFO Incident Disclosed by Alaska WitnessPosted by Lon Strickler / A North Pole, Alaska woman observes a massive, but silent, saucer-shaped craft hovering over her house. Other strange things occurred, including her being approach by 'Men in Black' asking questions. In March 2018, in North Pole, Alaska, Renee Bullock had just gotten home from work when she noticed that her dogs were barking wildly at something. She described it as a “weird bark.” They had a look of fear and concern in their eyes. She tried to calm them and looked to see what might be stirring them up and causing them to act that way. It was then she looked into the sky and observed something truly bizarre. Hovering nearby was an enormous, completely silent craft of some type. It had 4 lights, 40 feet apart and was saucer-shaped. It was so massive that she thought it could easily suck up her entire house. After some time, it eventually drifted away. When her husband came home, she told him of her weird sighting. They assumed that was the end of it, but things would get even stranger. About one week after her sighting, Renee and her husband noticed a massive communication tower had been erected not far from their home. One week it wasn't there, the next week it was. It was shocking to the couple, especially since it was still very much winter. Renee and her husband were in the construction business and they understood how hard it was to do digging work in the winter and at the time it was 40 below, bitter and the ground was permafrost, yet someone felt it was extremely important to construct a massive communication tower that week, just a few days after a UFO appeared in the area. Bizarre. (Editors Note: I found some information pertaining to a company named Kintronic beginning installation of a 425 foot tower in March 2018, to be completed over the summer – not sure if this is the same one?). Later, Renee was in 'The Screaming Weasel Bar,' a place she and her husband often frequented after work, when two men in black suits walked in and began asking her pointed questions regarding her UFO encounter. “They looked like 'The Men In Black,' I kid you not,” Renee noted. They asked her about what she saw and told her that they knew she saw something. Renee refused to tell them what they wanted, though she suspected they already knew everything and just wanted her to confirm it for them. The two men eventually left the bar and she never saw them again. www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2022/06/men-in-black-encounter-after-ufo.html
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Post by auntym on Mar 11, 2023 11:24:10 GMT -6
Who Saw The Men In Black
Mar 11, 2023
Discover the truth behind Men in Black experiences and eye witness accounts since the beginning of the UFO cover-up history.
Who are the Men in Black? Many have reported their own Men in Black experiences and eye witness accounts since the beginning of the UFO cover-up history. Walk through the true history of Men in Black events from the 1940s until now.
Many have reported their own Men in Black experiences and eye witness accounts since the beginning of the UFO cover-up history. Mysterious men who seem to always show up right after credible UFO events. What are their motives? Explore the true history of Men in Black events from the 1940s until now with Richard Dolan, and Mike Ricksecker, Richard Doty, John Burroughs, many experiencers and many other researchers.
Credible witnesses to UFO events always report the same pattern of events afterward. These events similarly recall an encounter with strange men who prove to have interest in coercing witnesses to stay quiet about what they experienced. Do these men work for some shadowy department of the government? Or are they not of this world? Being watched, stalked, followed by foot or car, and harassments by any means necessary seem to be common attributes to men in black encounters. Throughout history their tactics have evolved though. We now understand famous UFO debunkers and skeptics may have been supported by the military to close the lid on the UFO topic. Fake news and infiltration of the UFO research community becomes their next target. It seems this also can be proven to be true through Richard Doty's involvement.
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Post by auntym on Jun 1, 2023 17:56:23 GMT -6
www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-security-camera-films-eerie-shadow-figure-in-costa-rican-street/Watch: Security Camera Films Eerie Shadow Figure in Costa Rican StreetJune 01, 2023 By Tim Binnall / www.coasttocoastam.com/pages/tim-binnall/A security camera watching over an intersection in Costa Rica captured footage of what appears to be an eerie shadow figure walking across the street. The peculiar video was reportedly filmed at around 4 AM last Friday morning the neighborhood of San Cayetano, which is located in the city of San Jose. In the footage, a puzzling shadowy form suddenly manifests in the middle of the road and appears to erratically walk through the intersection. The video was subsequently posted online and quickly went viral on social media in Costa Rica with opinions on the odd scene largely divided between those who suspect the anomaly is supernatural in nature and more skeptical observers arguing that the 'apparition' is possibly an insect or something similarly prosaic. Intriguingly, when local authorities were asked about the curious scene, they indicated that their security cameras in the area did not detect anything unusual that evening. That said, residents of the neighborhood contend that ghostly activity is a frequent occurrence at that particular location, which is what prompted them to install the monitoring devices. Meanwhile, purported paranormal experts consulted by a Costa Rican media outlet have noted that the anomaly appears to move at ground level and argued that this would preclude the source of the shadow being a person or bird, since they would also be seen in the video. What do you make of the puzzling footage? www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-security-camera-films-eerie-shadow-figure-in-costa-rican-street/
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Post by auntym on Sept 29, 2023 0:23:59 GMT -6
www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-doorbell-camera-captures-visit-from-men-in-black/Watch: Doorbell Camera Captures Visit from Men in Black?September 28, 2023 By Tim Binnall / www.coasttocoastam.com/pages/tim-binnall/Sep 27, 2023 City Unknown, Eyewitness states: My mother has a ring door bell. And she witnesses two guys she has never seen before knocking on the door. She texts her children and asks of we knew them. We do not. Then I noticed something unusual in the back ground. AN floating or flying object. A peculiar video captured by doorbell camera in California shows two mysterious suit-clad individuals knocking on the front door a home as what appears to be a UFO hovers in the sky outside and some suspect that the puzzling pair could be the infamous Men in Black. The very weird scene reportedly unfolded last Wednesday afternoon when a woman's Ring system alerted her to the presence of some mysterious strangers at her doorstep. The visitors in question, one of whom was knocking on the door, were two men wearing suits and dark sunglasses. Uncertain as their identity, she texted her children to see if they might know them, but they did not, though when they later looked at the video they noticed something rather strange in the background. As the two men linger at the woman's doorstep waiting to see if they will answer them, a dark orb can be seen hovering in the sky behind them. The mysterious strangers combined with the curious-looking UFO have led many to wonder if perhaps they were Men in Black or perhaps even aliens visiting the woman's home for reasons unexplained. Of course, more skeptical viewers argue that the two men probably had an innocuous reason for the house call and that the 'UFO' in the background is a balloon or some other prosaic object that just so happened to film at the 'perfect' time. www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-doorbell-camera-captures-visit-from-men-in-black/
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