Rise.

Subject: Ole B-ack He's Back In Town. Jan. 3, 2008.

Or maybe that should be Mike He's. Here's something
about The Men In Bl-ck. You don't want to fool about with
these guys caused they are bad. It's hard to talk about
them without cracking a smile.

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December 2004

The success of the 1997 movie "Men In B-ack", starring
Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, rekindled interest in this
poorly understood aspect of UFO/paranormal phenomena. As
the movie raked in millions at the box office and factual
books on MIBbery appeared on the bookstands, it seemed
impossible to believe that only three years ago, a Spanish
magazine had wistfully mentioned "the almost forgotten
Men-In-Bl-ck" in passing as part of an article on global
UFO phenomena. The prolonged absence of these
somberly-dressed, nefarious characters (believed by many to
be either agents from a top-secret g-vernment agency, a
"silencing" organization belonging to an extraterrestrial
power carrying out clandestine operations on Earth, or
manifestations of negative paranormal forces) had removed
the aura of fear that envelops the phenomenon. However,
recent years have proven that the dreaded Men-in-Blac- have
returned to the scene with renewed vigor after their
extended sabbatical.

Men-in-B-ck reputedly harass eyewitnesses to UFO
sightings and encounters, usually turning up at their homes
(or places of business, as transpired in one Puerto Rican
case) usually way before the witnesses have even thought
about going public with their stories. Case histories have
them dressing in -lack suits, white shirts and jaunty red
ties (the fabrics, however, have often been described as
being unusual or unearthly),travelling in threes, more
often than not aboard spanking new models of large,
outdated cars. With notable exceptions, they seem to
deliver a boilerplate warning: do not discuss the
particular sighting, if a witness, or cease and desist
investigation, if a ufologist.

These sartorial agents of silence have acquired
mythic proportions in the UFO community over a timespan as
lengthy as the phenomenon itself. From the first appearance
of a bl-ck suited, red-cravatted man in the wake of the
infamous Maury Island "Hoax", threatening witness Harold
Dahl to silence, to a growing number of appearances in the
'90s, MIBs remain an enthralling facet of the supernatural.

A Troubling Early History

Early UFO sightings always ended with the involvement
of the Air F-rce as the best qualified source of
investigating the precise nature of these things. Airmen
routinely turned up at witnesses' homes to ask questions,
and in many instances, to confiscate evidence--such as
samples of elusive "a-gel hair" taken from the home of
journalist R. DeWitt Miller (author of You Do Take It With
You) in 1954. When Asiatic-looking men in blac- suits
started showing up claiming an affiliation with the Air
Fo-ce, no one thought to question them, but their strange
behavior--and uncanny p-ychic abilities--soon arose
suspicion.

After being pursued by a UFO over the Mediterranean
in 1951, Col. Jim Doherty was visited by a spindly young
man in an Air For-e lieutenant's overcoat.
The gaunt-looking fellow warned Doherty, in an
oddly-accented voice, to forget all about the UFO
encounter. Doherty was to learn later on that there was no
such officer working for AFOSI. Years after the incident,
Doherty was still nightmares about his UFO encounter in
which a spindly being, reminiscent of the false lieutenant,
figured prominently.1 The Air Forc- promptly denied any
connection whatsoever to the Men in -lack. A P-ntagon
colonel told author John Keel that they had looked into a
number of Men in Bl-ck reports.
The same Pe-tagon official stated that the UFO silencers,
whoever they were, were committing a federal offense by
impersonating a member of the armed fo-ces.
These trivialities did not seem to trouble the Men in
Bl-ck: One such impostor, using the handle "Captain
Munroe", turned up to threaten the teenage photographers of
the Beaver Falls, PA UFO in 1968. The impostor told one of
the young Pennsylvanians that something unpleasant might
happen to him if he continued discussing his sighting.2

The Men in Bla-k phenomenon soon took on a life of
its own when Albert K. Bender, director of the
International Flying Saucer Bureau, announced his
retirement from "flying saucer investigation" and the
IFSB's shutdown in 1953, as a result of harassment by three
men in blac-. As rumors flew concerning the provenance of
the trio, Bender himself would later state that they were
not from the F-I, but "from another branch."3 The Men in
Bl-ck proved to have quite a long reach, as well: Edgar J.
Jarrold, head of the Australian Flying Saucer Bureau,
received a mysterious visitor who advised him that "the
most fantastic situation it is possible to conceive by
normal standards" 4. Jarrold would disappear mysteriously
years later. Bender would try to expand on the reasons for
his hasty departure from ufology in his UFOs and the Three
Men, where he describes Kazik, the dismal homeworld of the
Men in Bla-k, and the experiences he endured at their
hands.5 Bender could claim the distinction of being the
first investigator to be molested by these unknown
quantities, and his story would repeat itself in the lives
of a number of investigators hence.

Warren Smith, a noted writer during the 1970's (under
the name Eric Norman), had acquired a piece of metal
allegedly recovered from a UFO in Madison, Wisconsin which
had dumped "slag" (=E1 la Maury Island) over an interstate
highway. Aware that someone was tailing him during the
investigation, Smith chose to conceal the fragment of slag
within a television set in his motel room. Upon returning
to his room one evening, he was faced by two men who
demanded that he turn over the find, threatening harm to
his family if he chose not to.6

While never caught red-handed, the disappearances of
UFO related documents, even copies stored in different
locations, have been blamed on Men in Bla-k. A NJ housewife
who made a one-line entry about a UFO sighting in 1973 in
her diary lost the entire book, which was in a locked desk.
UFO researchers Ivan Sanderson and Capt. Edward Ruppelt
both had files containing UFO data stolen from their homes
in break-ins where objects of value to an authentic burglar
were left untouched.7

Men in Black were also involved in the disappearances
of children. In August 1969, an alarming number of children
suddenly vanished from the Brazilian town of Vilha Verde,
reappearing with equal abruptness weeks later.
The children had no recollection of where they had been
during their absence, but their last recollection seemed to
be having taken a ride in an expensive automobile driven by
a "gentleman all dressed in -lack." 8 One girl claimed
that a man in b-ack had led her to the outskirts of town to
a strange machine, having asked her to take her a ride "in
his airplane", but seeing her discomfiture, gave her a
handful of candies and told her to go back home.
Nor have they apparently shied away from involvement in
the cattle mutilations.

John Keel, whose delving into the subject would make
him the unquestioned expert in these matters documented the
uncanny powers of these beings: in 1960, William Dunn Jr.,
a UFO investigator, had his home burglarized, his files
burned, and his photos stolen.10 Men in Bl-ck were notably
active during the West Virginia "Mothman" Sightings of
1966-67 as well as in Long Island, N.Y. Far from believing
them to be extraterrestrial agents, Keel introduced the
concept of the Men in Bla-k as negative, paraphysical
forces whose warnings were not to be taken lightly. His
sentiments would be echoed by other writers and
researchers. Some, like David Tansley, believe that they
are a form of de-onic p-ychic energy--a conjecture
substantiated by records from past centuries. Others opine
that they are thought-forms of some sort, although whose
thought forms remains unclear.11

Mike Meets a MIB

In 1966, Mike Lonzo wrote a 58-page UFO report for a
high-school English class. His effort was awarded an "A"
grade and placed on display in his school after he was
asked to read it to an entire convocation of students.
This coincided with his mother's interest in signing up
for a correspondence course on creative writing, sponsored
by an outfit known as "Famous Writers".
The volume of work required clashed with Mrs. Lonzo's
other duties, so she became discouraged.

One afternoon (date uncertain, but school was out for
the summer), a strange character paid a visit to the Lonzo
household. Mike describes him as wearing an olive-green
sharkskin suit and having dark wavy hair and the facial
structure of a "Filipino/Pakistani". The man extended a
business card and introduced himself as "Mr. Marx", a sales
rep for "Famous Writers". Mrs. Lonzo was concerned at
first, believing that he had come to chide her on her lack
of progress in the writing course.

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John Winston. johnfw@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Ole B-ack He's Back In Town. Part 2. Jan. 4, 2008.

This talks about some incidents of this nature happening
in South America.

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"Mr. Marx", however, appeared more interested in UFOs
and asked if either Mike or Mrs. Lonzo had seen any in the
area. Mike promptly volunteered that he had recently
completed an award-winning report on the subject. "Mr.
Marx" went on to tell Mike that Wright-Pat-erson AFB had a
museum in which captured saucers were "on exhibit". He
later offered to take Mike's report to his superiors for
possible publication as a pamphlet. "This was 1966," Mike
observes, "and Kinko's [a commercial photocopying
establishment] wasn't around yet." No other copy of the
document, which included photos, was available at the time.
As a curious aside, Mr. Marx told the Lonzos that he lived
in West Mifflin (outside of Pittsburgh, PA) in one of two
"round houses" built in the 1950's and which were
well-known to townspeople due to their irregular,
futuristic style.

Mike went to bed excited about the possible
publication of his project. But as days went by, no word
was heard from Mr. Marx. A call was placed to the number on
his business card, only to be told that there was no "Mr.
Marx" working for Famous Writers as a sales rep. A helpful
operator suggested that they try the Cleveland office. The
reply there was the same: there was no Mr. Marx working in
any capacity for their company.

Mike and his father went to West Mifflin to find the
purported Marx character at one of the "round houses". They
were stunned to discover that there was no Mr. Marx or
Marx family at either of the structures. The fate of his
school report remains a mystery to this day.

A Chinese MIB

Most readers will be surprised to learn that
Men-in-Bl-ck are not an exclusively Western phenomenon. In
his book, China and The Extraterrestrials (Difel, 1985--
translation available in French and in Portuguese), author
Shi Bo relates an interview between newspaperman Wang Shili
and a m-litary chaffeur named Li Jingyang, who had a UFO
experience in Shansi province in 1963, when he was only six
years old. While out with his friends, Li Jingyang noticed
an awe-inspiring discoidal object emerge from the clouds in
an otherwise clear sky. The terrified boys observed the UFO
closely, which remained static in the sky for some ten
minutes. The following day, while walking the streets
alone, Li was surprised by a tall man "completely dressed
in bla-k" who stopped him in his tracks, barring his way
and demanding to know what the boy had seen. "Since I
didn't understand him very well," the hapless witness
explained, "he repeated his question, and I replied yes. He
pointed at the sky, where the luminous object had staged
its appearance and aked me again: was it there? I told him
yes. He advised me to never tell others what I'd seen. Only
after I gave him my word of honor did he allow me to
leave."

Li Jingyang recalls the man as having dark skin,
adding that many other people saw him and discussed the
strange character, whose "gestures were incomprehensible."
The Man-In-Blac- walked in a mechanical manner and its
mouth did not move whenever it spoke. It disappeared
suddenly after turning around a street corner.

South America's "Hombres de N-gro"

M-xican researcher Dr. Rafael A. Lara notes that on
the evening of June 24th, 1967, over 110 UFO incidents were
logged in a 24-hour period in the skies over Argentina,
Chile, Brazil and Uruguay. Perhaps more astonishing than
the scope of this UFO event was the fact that it had been
foretold by a Man in Bl-ck.

Four days earlier, the newsroom of the Cordoba
(Argentina) "Los Principios" journal had received the visit
of a very strange man dressed in blac-. The unusual
character left a long letter addressed to the paper's
editor, saying that before the week was out, the skies of
the South American landmass would be swarming with
extraterrestrial vehicles. The day before the sightings
began, the paper received a phone call stating:
"Attention!...it is about to happen at any moment."

But the MIB's work in South America was hardly
finished. During several days in the month of August, 1968,
strange lights were seen in the night skies over Santa,
Argentina. Farmers were surprised to find strange circular
burn marks on their properties as a result of these
sightings; numerous animals d-ed as a result of some sort
of radiation in the area. A local family witnessed a jeep
carrying four men in b-ack coveralls drive up to their
home.
One of the men asked the owner what was the best way to
get off the property. UFO sightings over the region ceased
shortly after the incident involving these jeep-riding MIB.

In 1971, two physicians -- Arguello de la Mota and
Antonio Arocha -- were in San Juan de los Morros, a small
town not far from Caracas, Venezuela when they were
startled by the unexpected arrival of two characters
dressed in -lack who drove into the dusty town in a sporty
Mustang. Unaware that they were being watched, the MIB
exchanged remarks and donned orange-colored belts.
Suddenly, a brilliant object appeared in the sky,
descending rapidly to the surface. The physicians, swore
that the object was a 60-foot wide disk-shaped craft which
produced a parabolic ladder while hovering inches off the
ground. The MIB entered the vehicle, which rose into the
skies and vanished out of sight (no information is
available on the fate of the brand-new sports car they left
behind). The story was circulated worldwide by U-ited Press
International.

When Karl Brugger, author of the "Chronicles of
Akakor" (a narration of "lost" underground cities in
Brazil) was mysteriously m-rdered on the streets of Rio de
Janeiro in January 1984, a number of South American
investigators promptly placed responsibility for the crime
on the HDN (hombres de ne-ro, the Spanish acronym for MIB).
Fabio Zerpa, editor of the now defunct Cuarta Dimension,
declred: "These de-ths always have the appearance of being
natural events, but curiously enough, every time someone
has important information on a crucial subject, strange
accidents seem to befall them."
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