gray barker is an interesting guy. barker makes a pretty good living publishing books about supposedly true ufo encounters, but to friends privately calls flying saucers a bucket of -- so very much capitalizing on this trend. but he's going to more or less launch this idea of the men in black in his 1956 book, "they knew too much about flying saucers," a book that's based on the experiences of a factory clerk from connecticut, a man called albert bender, who claimed that three men in black suits had approached him and intimidated him into not telling the truth about his alien encounter. now, obviously bender had not been that silenced given that he, a, was able to tell gray barker about it and, b, publish his own book about it in 1962 in which he explains that it is not the martians or the venutians. in fact, he had been taken to a ride in a flying saucer to the south pole by grizzly, monster-like aliens from the planet casak, wherever that may be. despite the -- let's be generous and say scepticism with which we might

obviously, bender had not been that silent given that he a, was able to tell gray barker about it and b, publish his own book about it in 1962 in which he explains that it's not the martians or venn ugs as. he had been taken for a ride in a flying sawyerser to the south pole by grizzly monoster like aliens from the planet kasic, where ever that may be. despite the let's be generous and say skepticism which with we might greet albert bender's story, the idea that government agents and these sinister men in black are working to hide true information really gains popularity. and it really takes off going through the '60s and '70s. as an interesting phenom knop going on with the men in black themselves, in the quite often, they're characterized as all together human agents of the state, but at the same time they're often given many inhuman or unearthly characteristics. characterists that align the difference between these explanations and quite often, almost demonic powers are ascribed to the men in black. walking as of though they are not of this earth. not blinking, unnatural powers of