The Ufo Silencers: Mystery of the Men in Black (7 page)

" 'If you pass this test, there's going to be a lot of daylight seen through you in more than one place,' he told me.

"'Now Git!' he exclaimed, and I got.'"

After he returned home late that evening and told his wife how he had "flunked" the test, a car drove by the
Watts
residence and sprayed the house with large caliber ammunition, from a machine gun or some other automatic weapon.

Who was responsible for making Watts change his story and deny his early statements, then go to the extreme of shooting at his home as a further warning to be silent? An organized group exists whose only purpose is to silence individuals who know too much about flying saucers. One thing which is agreed upon is that neither the Air Force,
CIA
, nor any other government agency, is behind these sinister attempts to hush UFO witnesses and contactees.

Seeing a flying saucer or encountering its occupants is not always a pleasant experience, as the
Watts
case illustrated. Disaster has stalked many contactees and persons involved in low-level sightings in a senseless pattern of destruction, unfortunate luck and even death.

Men in Black, Strange Cadillacs, Doppelgangers and Laser Beams

Author's Note The late John J. Robinson was a close friend of the writer for many years. He was a tireless and fearless investigator who was never for a moment fazed when the unknown seemed to come right to his front door. In the following account, Robinson tells of odd encounters with possible MIB, witnessed, in part, by his wife, Mary.

Before I begin to recount all that has been happening, let me state that I am only reporting. I have seen nothing, nor has anything happened to me. Sometimes I wish it would, for I feel sort of left out.

I have no reason to doubt my informants—and as for one of them, I had better not, for she is my wife!

The beginning of this report might be said to start on the battlefields of
Korea
, for it was while one of my informants, George Smyth, was fighting in that land that he became interested in UFOs. He and two other soldiers saw a flight of two saucers sweep over them, and reported the incident to their commanding officer. They were requested to report to Intelligence. When they did so, they were then told that they were suffering from battle fatigue. Regardless of this "battle fatigue," however, they were not relieved of their front-line fighting duty.

Smyth then became very interested in the UFO phenomena and began to seek information regarding it. When he returned to civilian status he proceeded to study it from his home in
Elizabeth
,
New Jersey
. He also became a Saucer News subscriber.

On
October 10, 1966
, two teenage boys of
Elizabeth
reported observing a very tall (more than six foot) being, which was green in color, while they were walking in nearby woods. Before they ran away, however, they also noted that the green-headed being had two small beady red eyes and a mouth which seemed to be drawn into a horrible grimace. The creature had no nose, ears, nor hair on its head.

Smyth learned of the incident and joined a crowd of people who were questioning the lads. As he did so he also noticed a large black car parked a good distance from the crowd. While the excited crowd questioned the teenagers, he observed two dark-visaged, heavy-set men who emerged from the car, leaving one of their party seated behind the wheel. The two men joined the crowd as Smyth watched them and once or twice he heard them question the boys. Smyth also noticed they had a slight slant to their eyes and spoke with an accent which he was unable to identify.

Smyth informed Saucer News about the incident, and a team of investigators from the magazine investigated the report. Smyth, who remained outside the home of one of the lads while the team interviewed the witness inside, again noticed the same black car parked down the block from the house. Again the same two men got out; they came close and watched the house until the Saucer News investigator emerged; then they returned to the black car. Other witnesses in the neighborhood reported to him later that the car remained in the vicinity for at least ten minutes before it departed.

Two weeks after the incident, Smyth received a mysterious phone call. An unidentified voice told him to give up UFO investigation and then broke the connection. A year passed without any further incident. Then on Thanksgiving eve of 1967 a black car stopped in the dark, a short distance from his home, while Smyth was in front of the house, walking his dog. A swarthy looking man got out of the car and approached Smyth, calling him by his name, as the dog arched its back and began to howl like a wolf. The man, who never identified himself, told Smyth that he wanted all the material on any UFO investigation he had obtained. When asked for identification, the man would give none. Smyth refused to show him anything.

"Are you sure you want it that way?" the swarthy man asked.

"Yes," Smyth replied.

"You'll be sorry!" stated the visitor, as he returned to his car, the door of which opened weirdly for him without his touching it. The door had no handle which Smyth could observe. He was able to get a glimpse of a red upholstered interior before the car moved off silently, as if it might have been electrically powered. He also noticed a gold "V," with a lightning bolt superimposed upon it, decorating the door, and the license plate which bore the number, "U 1496."

Smyth reports that the man's eyes seemed to have a hypnotic quality and tended to affect him in an unexplained manner.

The next day a battered car driven by a black-leather-jacketed man wearing large sun glasses almost ran him down in a deliberate manner; the day after, a very tall, white-faced man, with silver-colored hair, followed him to the usual bus he took for work, passing him as he got on the bus, and turning the corner. As the bus reached the corner, Smyth observed a large dark car speeding away. The next day was uneventful until an evening telephone caller advised him to give up his interest in UFOs. Then the phone went dead.

About a month later, a man phoned, claiming to be a Major White, of "UFORICE." When Smyth said he had never heard of any such group, White said it was a
California
organization, that he was visiting
New Jersey
and had received information about Smyth from a friend. He knew a great deal about Smyth, including incidents which the latter had not mentioned to anybody. White refused to identify the friend, explaining, "I do not wish to get him into any trouble."

The next day Smyth observed the same white-faced man with the silver-colored hair following him again, this time from work to the bus stop. Once again he disappeared rapidly. A week later Major White called and asked him if he would be interested in seeing a UFO. When Smyth answered in the affirmative, he was told to be at
Montana
Park
, in
Elizabeth
, at
8:30 PM.
Smyth complied, but no UFO appeared as promised.

About the same time the above events were transpiring, a Mrs. Caporino, of
Jersey City
, reported to me that she had sighted a UFO out over the ocean, from the
shore
of
Ocean
Grove,
New Jersey
. The sighting was reported in the Robinson Report (a limited UFO news report service made available to the author's colleagues in the UFO investigative field) and carried in several UFO publications. Mrs. Caporino later reported to me that just after dark on three consecutive Fridays at exactly the same time (7:00 P.M.), a large black car with red upholstery pulled up under a tree, which left the car in the dark, and on each occasion two men got out, mounted the steps of her house, stood in the darkest spot of the porch after ringing her bell. One of the men carried some sort of case with him.

Mrs. Caporino did not answer the door on any of the three occasions, after peeking through the Venetian blinds to ascertain who was ringing. She was too frightened to find out who the men were, and also unable to get their license number and other pertinent information.

Chased By Men in Black

A person in
North Jersey
(who did not wish his name or research group identified) called me about the same time to give me some unusual information. This man, Ron (I am permitted to use only his first name), had extensively investigated the
Wanaque
Lake
sightings in the 1960s and had continued to investigate the entire area.

He was particularly interested in a convent which had previously housed children each summer, but which had closed down after the wave of strange sightings; and a college in the same area which had also closed its doors, and erected a steel barricade on the road leading to it.

Ron was driving over the roads surrounding the reservoir when suddenly his companion in the car called his attention to a parked car with some kind of electrical equipment set up in the rear seat. The equipment, with extensive dials, illuminated in a bright, bluish light, reminded him of a large amateur broadcasting set a friend of his once possessed. As they drove on, discussing this development, he noticed a roadside telephone booth in his rear view mirror. A man suddenly emerged from it and darted to a car across the road which began to follow him. Ron drove up a dead end road and stopped. The other car drove past him, with only one man, carefully keeping his face in the shadow, inside it. It parked 50 feet beyond Ron's car. When Ron turned his car around and drove off, the other car took off after him.

Ron drove into the town of
Wanaque
and parked outside the police station. The other car drove about 100 feet beyond him and also parked. This alarmed Ron and his companion further, so he made a U-turn and left the town, with the other car in hot pursuit. An expert driver, Ron managed to elude the pursuing car in turnpike traffic and swiftly drove home. Since this incident he requested and received a permit to carry a gun.

The Imposters

During the first week of May, 1968, a car pulled up across the street from the home of George Smyth. Three men stepped out. Although Smyth had never seen the men before, he quickly identified them from a picture published in Saucer News. They were John Keel, Gray Barker, and James W. Moseley—or so he thought. Smyth, who had observed the men from an upstairs window, ran down the stairs to greet them, only to see their blue Volkswagen speeding away up the street. It bore no license plate.

Feeling there had been something strange about the men, he telephoned Moseley and Barker, who told him they had not been away from home all day. He checked again with the picture. Although the men bore facial characteristics identical to the men in the picture, including Keel's then-copious beard, Smyth knew there had been something wrong with what he now believed to be an impersonation. Then he remembered: Barker and Keel had been of the same height— that is the impersonators—while Moseley was the shortest of the group. In reality, the actual order of height in the picture was Barker-Moseley-Keel! Whoever the impersonators had been, they had "goofed" on heights.

A week later, while he was passing a parking lot on his way home from work, three men stepped out of a black Plymouth, of 1960-62 vintage, and which bore West Virginia license plates (strangely distorted, since the "West Virginia" was printed at the top instead of properly at the bottom—while the numerals, "1436," have since been determined not to exist on such plates without some other type of prefix or designation).

The men accosted him as if they knew all about him, even though they asked him if his name was George Smyth. When he replied in the affirmative, they displayed S.A.U.C.E.R.S. membership cards (as members of Saucer News operating organization), bearing the names of Arthur Davidson, Thomas Murphy and Walter Mulburry (or Mul-barbery). They next asserted that they were well aware of all the events which had happened to Smyth and which he had related to the Saucer News staff. They simply wished him to relate once more the events as they occurred. Smyth then reviewed for them the entire series of strange happenings, while one of the trio wrote in a notebook. Then they urged him to continue to report all future events to Saucer News.