They are a shadowy component of the UFO phenomena, they appear after a sighting to silent witnesses and warn them away but who are the men in black and where did they come from?
In 1947 In the earliest days of the modern UFO era Ray Palmer would write an account of and UFO crash near Maury Island, following this crash the witness would claim he was harassed by a  man dressed all in black who told him never to speak of the incident again.  Later the witnesses would claim the incident was a hoax and never talk about it again.
In 1952 Enthusiast and Researcher  Albert K Bender would found the world’s first UFO CLUB the IBFS and publish a successful quarterly newsletter for its  members. Shortly after founding the Bureau Bender began to run into various problems and a year later in 1953 he shut down the IFSB after being visited by three strange men in black suits who told him to leave the topic alone and to stop publishing his newsletter.  Gray Barker one of the IFSB members would record Benders incident in his 1956 his book They knew to Much About Flying saucers to paint a story about mysterious government shadow men dressed  in black who had harassed Bender.  These entities would come to be called the Men In Black.
Several years later in 1962 Bender would write his own book Flying saucers the 3 men in which he  revealed the reason he had disbanded the IFSB. He claimed the that the MIB were of extraterrestrial origin and that they had their own agenda, a 15 year mission, they had warned Bender not to speak until after their mission was completed and they had left, which he did.
 Are the MIB just a legend, a hoax? A legend by a clever writer created from a retelling of a hallucination? What about the 2004 reports of strange government agents who allegedly seized the original radar tapes of the TIC-TAC incident and more oddly who are the men in plaid that are said to coerce BF and dogman witnesses to keep silent?
Join us as we look deep at the legends and see if there is any truth to the legend of the MIB on this episode of wild and weird radio.

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