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I may have encountered the sinister Men in Black (MIB) during my UFO investigation. The fact that I’m unsure is part of the problem surrounding these legendary figures best known from the hilarious Will Smith movies.


Of course, those movies came about because MIB accounts are real aspects of the UFO mythology. The claim is that mysterious figures pop up after UFO sightings and attempt to dissuade witnesses from talking about what they have seen. Theories on their identity have ranged from terrestrial intellig­ence units to alien entities. Some believe they are eccentric UFO buffs – “Walter Mitty types”, as ex-MoD section head Nick Pope described them to me when arguing for this explanation.