Sherwood claims that, in the late 1960s, at age 18, he cooperated when Gray Barker urged him to develop a hoax-which Barker subsequently published-about what Barker called "blackmen", three mysterious UFO inhabitants who silenced Sherwood's pseudonymous identity, "Dr. In his article "Gray Barker: My Friend, the Myth-Maker," John C. In his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, he describes a late-night outing in 1967, where he himself was taken for an MIB while searching for a phone to call a tow truck. Keel has argued that some MIB encounters could be explained as entirely mundane events perpetuated through folklore. Historian Aaron Gulyas wrote, "During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, UFO conspiracy theorists would incorporate the MIB into their increasingly complex and paranoid visions."
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Ufologist John Keel claimed to have had encounters with MIB and referred to them as " demonic supernaturals" with "dark skin and/or 'exotic' facial features." According to ufologist Jerome Clark, reports of men in black represent "experiences" that "don't seem to have occurred in the world of consensus reality." He maintained that the men were secret government agents tasked with suppressing evidence of UFOs. Bender claimed he was visited by men in dark suits who threatened and warned him not to continue investigating UFOs. In 1947, Harold Dahl claimed a man in a dark suit warned him not to discuss his alleged UFO sighting on Maury Island. In the 1950s and 1960s, ufologists adopted a conspiratorial mindset and began fearing they would be subject to organized intimidation in retaliation for discovering "the truth of the UFOs." Men in black feature prominently in ufology, UFO folklore, and fan fiction. Lewis compares accounts of men in black with tales of people encountering Lucifer, and speculates that they can be considered a kind of "psychological trauma". Stories about men in black inspired the semi-comic science-fiction Men in Black franchise, and an album by the Stranglers.įolklorist James R.
The "MIB" supposedly appeared throughout different moments in history. Several alleged encounters with the men in black have been reported by UFO researchers and enthusiasts. The term is generic, used for any unusual, threatening, or strangely behaved individual whose appearance on the scene can be linked in some fashion with a UFO sighting.
The term is also frequently used to describe mysterious men working for unknown organizations, as well as various branches of government allegedly tasked with protecting secrets or performing other strange activities. In popular culture and UFO conspiracy theories, men in black ( MIB) are purported men dressed in black suits who claim to be quasi- government agents, who question, interrogate, harass, threaten, allegedly memory-wipe, or sometimes even assassinate unidentified flying object (UFO) witnesses to keep them silent about what they have seen.
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