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29| the men in black

i'm back! i've been gone for three weeks now but i'm back and posting more conspiracy theories that no one's going to read. today's theory is shorter than the other ones that i've been posting, and it's about the men in black and whether they are real. it ties into another theory about the men in black and archaeology, which i'll also include in this chapter.

THEORY 1 - THE MEN IN BLACK ARE REAL

in pop culture (like the men in black movies) and conspiracy theories, men in black are men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents. they harass or threaten ufo witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen. it is believed that they may be aliens themselves. folklorist james r. lewis compares accounts of men in black with tales of people encountering lucifer and speculates that they can be considered a kind of "psychological drama". however, men in black are prominent in ufo folklore and ufology.

in the 1950s and 60s, ufologists adopted a conspiratorial mindset and began to fear they would be subject to organised retaliation for finding out "the truth" about ufos. a few men in black incidents are -

1. the maury island incident

on june 21st, 1947, fred crisman and harold dahl claimed they saw falling debris. most of the information we have about this incident is from kenneth arnold, who claimed to have seen ufos in the area around that time. crisman and dahl told arnold that they were harbour patrolmen on a workboat near maury island and that they saw six doughnut shaped objects in the sky (some of thanos's ships?). according to crisman and dahl, one of the objects dropped a substance similar to lava or "white metal" onto their boat, breaking a worker's arm and killing a dog (thanos is truly heartless).

dahl also claimed that he was later approached by a man in a dark suit and told not to talk about the incident. the fbi proceeded to investigate the case, and concluded that crisman and dahl's sightings were a hoax. the claim that they were harbour patrolmen was proved to be false, but arnold was convinced that their story was true and contacted an air force intelligence officer, who flew in from california with another officer. the officers concluded that the metal objects were made of aluminium and not of interest. they didn't say this to arnold, though, so he wouldn't be embarrassed. the officers then died in a crash on their way back to california.

2. albert k. bender

in the mid-1950s the ufologist albert k. bender claimed he was visited by men in dark suits who threatened him and warned him not to continue studying ufos. bender believed that the men in black were secret government agents tasked with suppressing evidence of ufos. bender admitted that he had been approached by three men in black in 1953. they visited him in his house and communicated with him telepathically. he received a metal disk from them and he reported that he felt like he was being transported.

these men apparently shared insight with bender about the nature of ufos and the origin of ufos. after this he got sick and didn't eat for three days. other ufo investigators encouraged bender to share what the men in black had said to him about ufos, but he refused. bender suffered from frequent headaches after the visitation and his coworkers said that he seemed scared. that's all on him because he had so many encounters.

3. other encounters

ufologist john keel claimed to have had encounters with men in black and called them "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 reality".