Everyone who has watched the film Men in Black knows that the secret agency’s goal is to hide evidence of strange, paranormal phenomena.
How it all started
The history of people in black begins on June 27, 1947. Harold Dahl and his son and dog were swimming that day off the island of Moree, off the coast of Washington state that day. He saw six donut-shaped objects. One of the objects exploded in the air. Debris killed Harald’s dog and injured his son. Dahl even managed to take a few shots of aerial objects, which he later showed to his boss, Fred Crisman.
Crisman was skeptical
Chrisman visited the scene and saw a strange machine, crashed, with his own eyes. The next morning, Dahl was visited by a man in a black suit. They went to a local eatery, where a man with incredible details retold everything that had happened.
“I know a lot more about this than Dahl would like to think,” he added.
Dahl was told to be silent about everything he saw. Otherwise, unpleasant and bad things could happen.
Events near Mori Island still add fuel to the fire of conspiracy theories. The mere mention of a man in a black suit led to the emergence of a separate theory, which penetrated even the popular culture in the form of comics and science fiction films.
People target in black
The goal of people in black always remains to hide the presence of supernatural, alien and paranormal phenomena.
These agents almost always wear black suits, hats and sunglasses, drive black cars and arrive in two or three. Sometimes they are represented by FBI agents.
In other cases, they are described by creatures with strange proportions and luminous eyes.
Kenneth Arnold – the first action movie character
The process of turning people in black from government servants into militant characters began with Kenneth Arnold. This pilot, he claims, saw a UFO during a flight on June 24, 1947. This happened three days after the incident on Mori Island. It was after the story of Arnold that the phrase “flying saucer” appeared. Dahl and Crisman turned to one of Chicago’s magazines, trying to sell their story. The editor of the publication contacted Arnold. He called for help in the investigation of the Dahl case of two officers from the army intelligence service.
In July 1947, officers arrived at the scene. The next day, their plane caught fire and crashed, adding oil to the fire of conspiracy theorists. The story with Mori Island attracted a lot of attention from ufologists until the appearance in 1956 of a book that talked about this incident and contained notes by the very editor of the Chicago magazine.
The author of the book also made a connection between a man in a black suit who came to Dahl and three black-clad people who came to ufologist Albert Bender in 1953.
Who started hysteria and why
It was Bender who began the hysteria associated with people in black. He described them as three people in black suits with a menacing expression.
They entered and began to put forward various demands.
In his 1962 book, Bender describes them as follows:
“they looked like clergymen, they also had hats on them. These people hovered above the floor, and their faces could not be distinguished. From time to time their eyes flashed, and their sight hurt me.”
The mythology of people in black has since spread and penetrated into popular culture, turning them into frigthening, comic proportioned figures. But even this can be just part of a conspiracy to hide the truth from people.
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