Case · UFO Afrinews No 19, January 1999
Albert Bender and the three men in black (Gray Barker's book)
not stated, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Hind opens her editorial with the story that gave the Men in Black legend its shape. Gray Barker's book tells of Albert Bender, an American who ran an early UAP group and one day announced in his magazine that he knew the secret of UAPs. Shortly afterwards three men dressed in black called on him and threatened him, and within days of the threat he withdrew from the UAP field. Hind found the whole thing very suspicious: the three men were never identified, Bender and Barker are both dead, and the account was dramatic but unproven, so, like most serious investigators, she dismissed it rather airily. It is her first reason for having long regarded the MIB label as a misnomer.
What Hind made of it
Extremely dramatic and unproven; the three men were never identified, and Hind dismissed the story rather airily.
In their words
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It all sounded very suspicious to me.
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It was all extremely dramatic and unproven and like most serious investigators, I dismissed it rather airily.
Cross references
- The Men in Black by Gray Barker
- Little Haven Hotel twins (this issue)
- Edwin of Pinetown (this issue)
Connected
Edwin of Pinetown: the men with police badges and the confiscated radioCase fileHind follow-up
19-03-3 is outside this cluster: Hind's editorial on Albert Bender's men in black, which she uses to frame Edwin's Pinetown episode as her second reason for doubting the MIB label. Editorial linkage only.