In 1997, the film "Men in Black" was released. In the center of the plot is a well-secret organization dealing with alien issues. Employees find housing for them on Earth, help them get used to new conditions. They do everything to prevent ordinary earthlings from guessing that aliens from other planets live next to them. Most viewers believe that this whole organization is just an original invention of the author. Few know that Barry Sonnenfeld simply took as a basis the events that actually happened in America in the second half of the twentieth century.
Where did the "men in black" meet?
"Men in black" ufologists called those who come to people who have seen UFOs. They persuade eyewitnesses not to spread about the meeting with the UFO. If a person refuses them, they use threats. They always manage to get their way.
For the first time, a meeting with "people in black" was recorded in 1953. Then in America the well-known UFO society was closed, and its creator Albert Bender stopped publishing the magazine of this society, which was then popular. He said that three men came to him. They were dressed in new black clothes. The guests told him what a UFO is, but demanded to be silent about it, threatening to jail. When he did try to share the knowledge he had gained, he was tormented by a headache of enormous strength. Only in 1962 did he manage to write a book about it. He was laughed at, but the writer John Keel began collecting information about similar visits. It is he who owns the term "people in black", and its introduction into popular culture.
Fragment of video footage of strange visitors from a surveillance camera.
In 1967, two guys from Norfolk saw a UFO. The next day a "man in black" came to their school. He began to question the boys. It is not known how long he would have asked questions if he had not been kicked out of school.
In November 1966, the Christiansen family from Wildwood saw a UFO. In January of the following year, a man came to their house. Tall, with an unnaturally wide torso, he looked strange. He was dressed in a thin black cloak, it is very cold to walk in such in January, but he came to them on foot. There were short black hair on the head, only on the back of the head there was a circle without a single hair. The man introduced himself as an insurance agent and promised that the conversation would only take 40 minutes. When he sat down, there was a thick green wire coming out of his sock and going under his pants. As the conversation began, new oddities emerged. The stranger spoke as if the information had been pre-recorded in him. Finally the man ended the conversation and promised to make himself felt within 10 days. Exactly forty minutes have passed since his arrival. He went out on the roadand a black old-model Cadillac drove up to him. The man got into it and left. Later it turned out that not only this man, but his insurance company had never existed.
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This is how people in black look according to eyewitness accounts.
In 1976, Herbert Hopkins, who was fond of ufology, received a phone call. The caller introduced himself as a member of the UFO Society of New Jersey and offered to come to discuss some business. Literally a few seconds later, an unknown person was already ringing the doorbell. Hopkins let the guest in. The man was wearing new black clothes. Most of all, he resembled an FBI agent. The man was completely bald, he did not even have eyelashes and eyebrows. He was very pale, only his lips were bright scarlet. When the guest ran his gloved hand over his face, and a red mark remained on it. Hopkins noticed that gradually the man in black's speech slowed down, as if he were falling asleep. Finally the man said that he was running out of energy and had to leave.
These were only the most famous cases, in fact, there were many more. In many cases, the Men in Black claimed to be FBI agents or Air Force officers. They were all similar to each other, so that it was not even always possible to distinguish them. The "people in black" come in the evening. They often drive away in black old model cars with non-existent license plates.
Who are the people in black?
There are few hypotheses about the nature of these people. It is believed that this is the staff of the American special services dealing with aliens and UFOs. But the Pentagon denies that these people serve in the FBI or the Air Force. But, despite such a refutation, the hypothesis about intelligence officers is still relevant.
Those who do not believe in UFOs argue that the "people in black" are just a massive hallucination. After all, it is known that the writer John Keel collected information about these people, and then published a book about them. Then many other UFO eyewitnesses began to talk about the "people in black" just to make themselves popular. The novel They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers was written about them, which inspired Sonnenfeld to create Men in Black.
Another hypothesis says that "people in black" are alien robots. They are sent to Earth to track down those who saw UFOs and prevent them from spreading information about it.
