It then began to fade and, eventually, disappeared altogether. After a few moments the coin took on a “silvery” appearance and then appeared to be going out of focus. The MIB told Hopkins to watch the coin closely. Hopkins complied and held the coin, a shiny new penny, in the palm of his hand. informed Hopkins that there were two coins in Hopkins’ pocket (which was correct) and asked him to remove one.
Here’s how it went according to the website The Night Sky: After the bizarre visitor was finished questioning him about the UFO case, the visit got even stranger. Hopkins’ dog began barking erratically the minute the man entered the home. The man was wearing a black suit and black tie, and had very unusual facial appearances, with no hair or eyebrows, and an extremely pale figure. One evening he received a phone call from someone purporting to be an activist in the UFO community, asking him if he could visit Hopkins to discuss the case. Herbert Hopkins was working as a consultant on a UFO case in Maine. The real MIB agent who made a coin disappear as a scare tactic.ĭr. There is currently no way to establish whether any of the claims made in the following stories were true, only that it’s true that several people have claimed experiences that are eerily similar.īelow we’ve collected stories about the encounters with the real men in black from across the web. Since the 1997 release of the original Men in Black film and its sequels, reports of encountering MIBs have remained fairly steady. Whether or not Sherwood’s story is true, this still doesn’t account for the fact that Howard Dahl’s report of a Men in Black sighting predates Barker’s alleged hoax by almost a decade. Ron Hubbard invented Scientology as part of a bet with another science-fiction writer as to whether he’d be able to invent a successful religion. Sherwood swears that Gray came up with the theory as a joke, similar to rumors of how L. Writer John Sherwood claims that his friend Gray Barker concocted the “myth” of the Men in Black in a 1956 book called They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. Since then there have been countless reports where people who’ve claimed to have witnessed aliens say that they were subsequently visited by men in black suits who warned them to keep quiet about their experience. The first known report of a mysterious stranger showing up and warning someone not to talk about their UFO encounters was in 1947 with Howard Dahl (covered in Item #3 below). In this climate of high-tension suspicion arose the first mass sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in American history. Others, however, insist the Men in Black are part of a real government agency designed to prevent the public from learning “the truth about UFOs.” They also insist that their experiences are real and that anyone who thinks they’re crazy is merely a tool of government propaganda and manipulation.Īt the moment, there is no way to definitively declare whether the Men in Black are “real” or not, because if they are part of a secret government agency, they may not have entirely kept the secret, but they’ve prevented any conclusive evidence of their existence from leaking out to the public.Īs the dust settled from World War II and the USA launched into a Cold War with Russia, paranoia and conspiracies spread throughout the land. Some folklorists, however, claim that the whole idea of “Men in Black” is itself a form of mass panic or of “psychological drama” due to suggestibility and a willingness to believe. In many cases, the Men in Black have also seen aliens-in some accounts, they are aliens themselves or some form of “demonic supernaturals.”īut why would the government want to suppress information about UFOs? As the theory goes, it’s because aliens are closer to us than you think-they might actually be everywhere-and if ordinary citizens realized just how real the threat was, there would be a mass panic and a breakdown of the social order
The Men in Black always appear unannounced, are usually clad in black business suits, and warn people to give up their research into UFOs or face dire consequences. By Jacob Geers Updated SeptemWho are the real men in black?ĭepending on whom you ask, the “Men in Black” (MIB) are either another nutty UFO conspiracy or they are part of a secret government agency designed to prevent the public from learning more about UFOs.
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