NR: Albert Bender was a man who, in the early 1950s, established a UFO research group – called the International Flying Saucer Bureau – in his home-town of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. Can you tell us about his encounters with the MIB? ND: The Men in Black first appeared in the early 1950s, to a UFO investigator named Albert Bender. So, that was the other, main purpose in writing the book: to reveal that while the government secret-agent angle is certainly valid, it doesn’t tell the whole story. The reality, however, is that most MIB are described as being far stranger than that – they sound almost alien, creepy, weird, and not even human in many respects. But, they only portray the MIB as agents of a secret arm of the government. The films are good fun, and entertaining. The second reason was because many people’s views on the MIB were kind of based on the Hollywood Men in Black movies starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. So, that was one reason to write the book – to demonstrate that the phenomenon is still very much ongoing, and not just a mystery of the past. However, I had in my files cases as late as 2009. In other words, many people assumed the MIB had gone away and aren’t active today. The first was that, even in the UFO research community, many people assumed that the mystery of the Men in Black was one that was mainly set in the 1950s and 1960s. NICK REDFERN (NR): In speaking to people about the MIB phenomenon, two things became clear to me. NEW DAWN (ND): What prompted you to write about the Men in Black (MIB)? Originally from England, Nick Redfern lives in Arlington, Texas with his wife, Dana, and his website is New Dawn magazine spoke to Nick about the Men in Black – their origins, some classic cases, previously unknown reports, secret government files, and the many theories that have been presented to explain the mystery. In his latest book, The Real Men in Black: Evidence, Famous Cases, and True Stories of These Mysterious Men and Their Connection to the UFO Phenomena, the popular, bestselling author Nick Redfern delves deep into the strange world of these mysterious operatives. In real life, they are fearsome individuals who attempt to silence the witnesses of UFO and other paranormal phenomena.
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Who are the “Men in Black”? In the blockbuster Hollywood movie of the same name, they were fictional characters. From New Dawn Special Issue 17 (Sept 2011)
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