After she’d gained entry into the witnesses homes she began asking odd questions about the sightings, being most peculiarly interested in the health and personal lives of the witnesses after their encounters. It seemed that now there were also the WIB, or ‘women in black,’ to contend with.
The males of her kind, meanwhile, were not idle. Black cars plagued the area, spewing forth tanned “oriental” or “Hawaiian” looking men in dark suits who stopped people in the streets asking questions or, sometimes, taking surprise photographs of the witnesses then running off. In several instances people were visited by similar characters claiming to be ‘social workers’ and asking questions about the personal welfare of the children of the house. Other times, just like their ‘alien’ brethren, they merely asked for water.
On the morning of February 22nd, 1967, Connie Carpenter, one of the original Mothman witnesses, was walking to school when a dark-colored car pulled up ahead of her. It was an old fashioned style car but looked shiny and brand new.
When she approached, a “deeply suntanned” man with black hair got out as if to ask for directions, then suddenly tried to grab the girl and pull her into the vehicle. Luckily, she managed to escape her would-be abductor and make it back home. That afternoon a note was slid beneath her front door. It read, “Be careful girl. I can get you yet.” Police maintained round the clock surveillance of the address but no one ever showed up to make good the threat.
On one of his visits Keel, in the company of two other witnesses observed a black car parked in the TNT area one evening. Inside was a man dictating notes into a microphone. He refused to answer any questions, and only grunted at the men. Keel reported a number of other strange events that took place in Point Pleasant and surrounding areas and even claimed to have had a run in with MIB in Manhattan after receiving phone calls asking him to go to Long Island. On arriving, he encountered strangers in dark cars who warned him to quit his investigations “or else.”
Another Point Pleasant woman named; “Jane” also claimed to have had a similar experience in June, 1967. After her UFO sighting a strange woman told her that she had been “selected for contact,” after which she was followed by a black Cadillac which drove up alongside her as she walked down the street. A very suntanned man wearing a dark suit and sunglasses got out. He told her his name was Apol.
The man turned up again, this time at her house, on June 12th, though how he got her address was a mystery to her. The peculiar visitor asked for water to take some pills. He then gave Jane three small capsules, one of which was “to have analyzed and assure herself it was safe.” As if under some kind of spell, she swallowed one of the pills. This gave her a blinding headache and affected her vision temporarily. Keel did later have the capsules analyzed and found they were made of a sulphur compound similar to drugs used to treat urinary infections.
On June 16th, a man called her home claiming to be “Colonel John Dalton.” He wanted her to come, he said, to his Air Force base and be asked some questions. Jane had seen enough of the Air Force, however, so she declined the interview. But the “Colonel” was persistent and she finally agreed and asked for the address of his office. At this point he changed tactics. “Never mind,” he told her. “We’ll come to see you.”
The very next day, just moments after her parents had gone out, Colonel Dalton arrived at her home. With him was a young lieutenant and, again, the mood of the interview was described as threatening. They pressured her to tell them all about the flying saucer activity in the area, as well as the curious stranger she’d met. Then he produced a lengthy form filled with bizarre questions about her personal life such as, “How did your grandmother die?” When she reacted negatively to the document she was advised by Dalton to “just sign it without reading it.” She refused, of course, and the two men stormed out of the house, got in a blue station-wagon, and drove away.
Another UFO witness; Jaye Paro, claimed to have been abducted by a man in a shiny black Cadillac that had pulled up alongside her in the street one evening. There was a series of flashing lights on the dashboard of the car, she claimed, which seemed to hypnotize her. The inside of the vehicle smelled like a hospital. At one point a small, pungent smelling bottle was held under her nose, then she too was asked questions which made absolutely no sense at all to her. Eventually she was dropped off, dazed, shaken and confused but otherwise unharmed, at the same spot from which she was taken.
John Keel was also involved in another MIB incident, although indirectly, when he showed up in New Jersey in May of 1968 in front of UFO witness George Smyth’s house, in the company of two other men. The men, easily identified by their descriptions, were Gray Barker and James Moseley; also well-known UFO investigators. The problem was, neither Keel , Barker nor Moseley had been anywhere near that location that day. The men were imposters.
Smyth had been in contact with another investigator, John Robinson, about his experiences and was planning to attend an upcoming UFO conference in Cleveland. Then he received a phone call warning him not go to the conference. Furthermore, he should stop all investigation into his sighting and immediately end contact with all investigators including Robinson. John Keel, Gray Barker and James Moseley were all three named as well, as people whom he should stay away from. A dark car had stopped Smyth one afternoon as he was walking down the street. He wrote down the plate numbers but, when later checked the license plate did not exist.
At this point the attentions of the MIB apparently switched to Robinson and his wife Mary. For four days in a row a large, black car driven by a strange man had parked outside the Robinson’s New Jersey home; always after John had left for work and his wife was there alone. John thought that the man was attempting to warn him off the case by scaring his wife, given the fact that John, as a UFO researcher, was familiar with the MIBs and their tactics. That night he phoned James Moseley in Manhattan and told him what was going on.
The following morning the black car didn’t show up. Later that morning, as Mary was returning from the store, she was surprised to see Moseley standing on the street corner. Oddly, he was waving his arms about, as if directing traffic. After a few minutes she concluded that he was trying to “draw out” the mysterious visitor by making sure he was seen by all. His attempts were unsuccessful, she saw, as the car was nowhere in sight when she arrived home.
As it turned out, she’d forgotten an item from the store and left a few minutes later to go get it. She noted that Moseley was still standing there on the corner as she passed, and still there when she returned shortly afterwards. When she got back inside she thought sure that Moseley, tired from his exertions, would stop by for a chat and a cup of coffee when he was done, so she started preparing for his visit. Then the phone rang. To her complete surprise it was Moseley calling from his home in Manhattan, an hour away.
Later that month Moseley and fellow investigator Timothy Green Beckley visited the Robinson’s to talk with them about these matters. On their arrival they noted a black Cadillac parked on the street opposite the Robinson’s home. A strange man dressed in a black frock coat and old fashioned hat was standing beside the vehicle. The two decided to circle the block and managed to take two pictures of this man and his vehicle. When they circled round once again both the man and the car were gone. These two pictures are the only photographic evidence of MIB known to exist.
A visit by the MIB can happen to any UFO witness, it seems. One does not always have to be abducted or ‘taken over’ by the ‘space people.’ Sometimes even the most mundane UFO sightings can draw the attentions of the nefarious visitors. Such was the case when, in late August of 1971, Jim Wilson had observed a white light moving slowly across the skies of the East Midlands of England.
There was nothing extraordinary about the ambiguous sighting, the likes of which happen every day throughout the world. Nevertheless, Wilson soon found himself visited by two men wearing new business suits. They’d driven up to his residence in a dark-colored car, got out and flash
ed identification badges claiming they were from the Ministry of Defense and wanting Jim to recount his sighting. When he had done they politely told him that he might as well forget about it; it was merely a Russian satellite that he’d seen.
Later Wilson complained to friends that his home was under surveillance by two men in a black Jaguar, which had started parking outside his house at night. One of those friends was related to a police officer in his town and, while it was decided not to mention the MIB/UFO subject, Wilson just happened to live nearby to a large toy manufacturing company. A well placed call about a suspicious vehicle possibly casing the place for robbery was made, and on October 19th, a patrol car was dispatched to keep a look out for the vehicle. It didn’t have to look for long.
The Jag was parked right there as the patrol car made his rounds. It remained parked there for about half an hour then drove off. The same thing happened the following night and the vehicle’s license plate numbers were recorded. A subsequent check revealed that the plates did not exist, and now the police were very interested in what was going on.
The following evening on October 21st the officers were instructed to bring the Jaguar’s occupants in for questioning. Sure enough, there it was parked in the usual spot. The two officers then got out and approached the automobile, one on either side. They could just make out two neatly-dressed men inside.
The officers were only inches away from the car. One of them was just about to knock on the window and question the driver, when suddenly the entire car, occupants and all; vanished into thin air right before their eyes! When the policemen had calmed down somewhat, a search was made, although they knew full well the vehicle had simply disappeared. The two then decided on a cover story to tell headquarters. It was simply not deemed possible to tell the truth under the circumstances.
October 16th, 1973 finds us back in England. Around eleven p.m. that evening a woman, Mrs. V., was driving to a friend’s house down a lonely spot of road in Langton Budville, in Somerset, when she spotted a light beside the lane. Almost immediately afterward her automobile sputtered and died. She coasted to a halt and tried to restart the car, to no avail. She could now see that the object was dome-shaped. It was glowing as it rested in a nearby field. There weren’t many cars about at this hour. She realized that she hadn’t seen one in some time, and this, along with the weird light, worried her.
Hoping against hope that the car’s malfunction was something simple that she could rectify, she got out of the car and raised the hood. Nothing looked amiss to her, however, so she slammed the hood shut, fearfully wondering what she would do next, completely unaware that her next few hours were already planned out. She felt a heavy hand on her shoulder, and quickly turned around; only to see a six-foot tall inhumanoid figure wearing a metal suit standing next to her. Mercifully, the woman then fainted.
She awoke inside the craft, naked but for a small blanket, and strapped to a cold metal table. Three normal looking men wearing surgical masks and gowns then appeared to carry out the classic UFO ‘examination’ process so often reported in abduction cases. Both tissue and blood were collected from the victim. All the while one of the ‘doctors’ kept repeating telepathically, “Do not be afraid.” Then a clear tube came down onto her groin and extracted fluids from that region as well.
The men soon left the room, but minutes later, one of them returned. He stared at her lower body without obvious emotion, then stuck a long needle or pin deeply into her thigh which caused her entire body to go numb, effectively paralyzing her. Then, while she was unable to move or speak, the entity silently raped her. When he was done he scrubbed her body with a blue cloth and left. Soon thereafter, Mrs. V. lost consciousness again.
She awoke, weak and terrified but fully dressed, beside her car, which started right up on the first try. She drove home to find her husband waiting up and worried. It was 2:30 am. She reluctantly confessed the entire ordeal to him, including the rape. After talking it over it was agreed that they should tell no one else of the incident. No one would believe them anyway, it was reasoned. Best to just try and “put it behind them.”
The couple went on with their lives, keeping the terrifying events to themselves. About eight weeks later, however, they started getting the phone calls. The voice on the line always repeated the same thing over and over. Then anonymous letters signed by ‘a friend’ began being delivered, with exactly the same message as the caller, “You must forget what happened to you in October. You should not tell anyone about it.”
Then there came the visit by the two men, only this time, the MIB had changed their image. They seemed “like ordinary men” dressed in old-fashioned clothes and dark sunglasses. One of them was about 40 years old, stocky and bald. The other was taller and younger. He was wearing a black jacket and had a short beard and looked to be about 25. Their faces were so similar that they might have been father and son.
When greeted at the front door the older man, who seemed to be the ‘talker’ of the two, said, “It is wise that you should let us in because we have to discuss a private matter.” And, even despite the off-kilter appearance and language, the two strangers were allowed inside the house to conduct their nefarious business, which should come as no surprise by now. Both Mr. and Mrs. V. would later say of the unexpected visitors, “there was something very odd about them.”
Once inside, the couple was shocked as the man began to describe, in impeccable detail and manners, the entire encounter of that fateful October night. Indeed they seemed to know even more detail than even Mrs. V. could recall. “If you value your health, welfare and sanity,” the older man said politely when he had finished, “You must not report this matter to anybody.” Mrs. V. thought that his voice sounded familiar to the one on the phone, but couldn’t be sure. When asked if they were responsible for the calls and letters the man bluntly denied any involvement. The two strangers wouldn’t say who they were or where they were from. In fact, they refused to answer any questions, give any names, or explain how they came by their knowledge of the encounter.
The two strange ‘men’ then left. But they would return again and again. On the second visit Mrs. V. was determined not to let the well-mannered strangers into the house “but I felt compelled to let them through the door.” Both the men returned a number of times after that, and sporadically up until 1977. Mr. V. was present during several of these visits. During one of the early ones he had threatened to call the police on the strangers. Again he was answered with flawless courtesy and manners. “It would be very unwise of you to do that,” he told him, “unpleasant things will happen if you do.”
In light of this threat, the couple decided to tolerate the occasional visits. All they seemed interested in accomplishing was to give further reasons why the two should continue to keep silent about the affair.
“It is not in this country’s best interests to part with too much information. It is best to leave well alone,” they said. “You are not supposed to let any of this out to anybody but if you do then you will be branded as a lunatic,” they warned. “These things just happen. There is no control over them. Sometimes they go beyond a certain point and this happens. Please leave well alone.”
Then something peculiar started to happen during the visits. A large, black car, “like those used by diplomats,” started cruising by their house at very low speed, as if waiting for someone. Most of the visits happened at night, and the car had tinted windows. Despite this, it never had the headlights on, only the side lights. When the two men left they got into the back seat of this car and it drove away. During several other visits, while the men were yet inside the house, the car made a point of pulling up to the front of the house, opening its side door for a few seconds, closing it again and driving away without anyone getting in or out of the vehicle.
“Keep quiet for a while and no harm will come to you,” the younger said during one of the final visits. “Everything will be brought out into the open soon and the whole world will know ab
out them. They come in peace and harmony and are worried about your high technology and low intelligence.” Peace and harmony indeed. But they couldn’t very well come right out and say, “we are thieves, torturers, rapists and liars,” now could they? In any event, soon afterwards the two decided to contact a UFO network to get the whole ordeal “off their chests.” The two were paid a final visit in 1977, during which the two expressed gratitude for keeping the matter quiet for so long, and inexplicably, relief that it was finally coming out. They advised the two that they would not return, and didn’t.
Also from 1973, just three days after Mrs. V. was abducted by aliens, another otherworldly event took place in Southern France. On the evening of October 19th of that year, Gabriel Demogue and his girlfriend were motorbike riding on La Malmont, a 1500 foot high hill in Draguinan, France, when a peculiar orange light appeared, crossed their path, then disappeared over a rise up ahead. This disturbed the couple, so they left the mountain and headed back into town where they told some friends what had just happened. Four of these friends immediately jumped into two separate cars and headed back to the location to see if they could see anything.
As it turned out, they got far more than they bargained for that night. On arriving at the spot, they heard strange whistling/screeching noises and then felt “waves of heat” coming over them. In addition, they spotted a red light coming in their direction. When it approached closer they saw that the light was coming from the chest of a tall, black figure.
Suddenly, three of these black-suited figures surrounded the vehicles and panic immediately set in. The occupants of the first vehicle were able to drive away at high speed, but the people in the other one weren’t so lucky. Their car wouldn’t start. Terrified to find themselves trapped at the top of the mountain and surrounded by three otherworldy entities, one of the men shouted, “Are you good or are you bad?”
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