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Topic started on 12-2-2003 @ 12:10 PM by quaneeri

Ordered to Quit

by the Men in Black

One day in 1953, Albert Bender, a thirty-two year old saucer and occult enthusiast who ran the International Flying Saucer Bureau out of his home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, received a surprise visit from "three men wearing dark suits" who "flashed credentials" from a "higher authority" and told him "not roughly, but sternly and emphatically, to stop publishing flying saucer information." Bender told a reporter from the Bridgeport Herald in November that the visitors took five copies of each issue of his newsletter.

He said that he was so frightened by the encounter that he could not eat for a "couple of days."

This incident would enter UFO lore as one of the original appearances of the "Men In Black."

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The story would seem to be just another case of a rather self-dramatizing marginal individual making sensationalistic claims, and gives the impression that the "visitors from a higher authority" - if they actually existed - were members of some secret government agency. But it is typical of the weirdly convoluted world of UFOs in the 1950s that the CIA did get involved in this "MIB" case, if only in a peripheral way.

According to documents preserved in the CIA's online Electronic Documents Release Center, in the summer of 1959 a Mr. George Patrick Wyllie of Cleveland, Tennessee sent CIA Director Allen Dulles a copy of Gray Barker's book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," which greatly embroidered on the 1953 intimidation of Bender.

Dulles did not ignore the letter or return the book with a polite acknowledgment. Oddly, he forwarded it to the Agency's Office of Scientific Intelligence, and on July 2nd, OSI director Herbert Scoville replied to Wyllie, returning the book. Did Dulles refer it to OSI because he detected some indication that the book might refer to CIA activity in relation to the Bender case? The reply was drafted by C. W. Matthews of the OSI Fundamental Sciences Division.

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reply posted on 12-2-2003 @ 12:12 PM by quaneeri

Flying Saucers Found In Maryland!

The Glen Burnie Incident: the Air Force's Second Officially Announced Flying Saucer Capture

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It was one of the oddest incidents of the early Flying Saucer era, with all the elements of a pulp magazine potboiler: a revolutionary flying machine created in a secret workshop by a shadowy inventor, a nationwide manhunt by military intelligence agents, rumors of stock swindles and a flurry of sensational headlines.

One afternoon in August 1949, a group of Air Force special agents and officers of the Maryland State Police broke into a shed on a farm near Glen Burnie, a suburb of Baltimore, and discovered two bizarre disk-shaped experimental airplanes. By the next morning, newspapers all across the country carried the shocking announcement by an Air Force official that the devices were probably the "original prototypes of the flying saucer," and that the Air Force was staging a massive manhunt for their missing inventor. The two year old flying saucer mystery seemed to be on the verge of a solution. But a few hours later, Air Force Headquarters in Washington issued an adamant denial that the Glen Burnie disk-planes had any connection to the flying saucer phenomenon -- or that flying saucers even existed at all. Within a few days the excitement blew over and the strange objects, along with their shadowy creator, lapsed back into obscurity.

What was behind this bizarre three-day episode? Was the Glen Burnie Incident a media hoax, some sort of bungled intelligence operation -- or more ominously, another example of a massive Air Force coverup of the truth about flying saucers?

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reply posted on 12-2-2003 @ 12:16 PM by quaneeri

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A frame from the color Tremonton UFO film - the so-called "U Film," shot by a vacationing Navy photographer on July 2, 1952. It showed virtually featureless points of light milling around in groups against a nearly featureless blue sky background. It was considered a genuine anomaly by Photo Intelligence Laboratory head Arthur Lundahl (who knew Delbert Newhouse, the photographer), but this was disputed by the Air Force's own Photo Reconnaissance Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB. Some analysts consider the objects to be Great Salt Lake seagulls

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The Great Falls, Montana UFO film ("M Film"), taken on August 15, 1950, showed two small luminous dots speeding horizontally behind nearby buildings. Critics considered them to be sunlight glinting from F-94 fighters from a nearby Air Force base and calculations showed speeds consistent with aircraft, but proponents argued that the constancy of illumination over a wide range of angles ruled out this possibility. Lundahl also considered these objects unexplained

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reply posted on 12-2-2003 @ 12:20 PM by quaneeri

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The first pilot known to have used the term "Foo Fighter" to describe a UFO-like nocturnal light was Lt. Donald J. Meiers of the US Army Air Force's 415th Night Fighter Squadron, who was a native of Chicago. As it's likely that he had seen the comic strip in his hometown newspaper, the probable origin of the phrase isn't so mysterious. Their many fruitless attempts to track nocturnal targets may have left the young pilots of the 415th feeling like Smokey Stover's "False Alarm Fire Company."

The photo shows Meiers with his British-built Bristol Beaufighter night fighter

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reply posted on 12-2-2003 @ 12:22 PM by quaneeri

The shape of the rotodome (which had a strong resemblance to Price's supersonic saucer design), probably combined with company lore about the UFO incident on the WV-2 (and maybe Van Tassel and Angelucci too), proved too much for Lockheed's engineers, and just before the dome was installed on the aircraft, they decided to have a bit of fun by using it as a prop in a saucer spoof photo.

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reply posted on 13-2-2003 @ 12:50 PM by Gazrok

Love the Lockheed pic...