Oklahoma MUFON Newsletter: "MUFONEWS" April 1993, A monthly
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THOSE MYSTERIOUS MIBS

by Richard D. Siegfried
Oklahoma Director of Investigations

The evolution of the comprehension of the UFO phenomenon and
related subjects has, by April, 1993, accepted to some
degree such extraordinary happenings as abductions, cattle
mutilations, and even so-called Bigfoot sightings. I guess
it is time for me to acquiesce and consider the really far-
out subject of the infamous Men In Black. I don't like to
think about them for I have always thought the subject not a
little silly.

Since 1977, the year of my great enlightenment, Men In Black
have been mentioned to me by a few citizens. In fact, around
1979, at an Ohio UFO Investigators public presentation in
Cincinnati, Ohio, my friends and I may have encountered two
of the "creatures."

During the registration for the conference two men entered
the lobby. They were dressed in very neat dark suits,
sported very GI haircuts and what looked like Air Force
regulation dress shoes. The twosome would not speak to
anyone.

Neither would they register, although they paid the
admission fee. Actually I have always thought that they were
Air Force Intelligence agents who forgot to change their
shoes.

But then, at the end of the program we were walking down a
long corridor leading to our vehicles. The two mystery men
were walking ahead of us. We were laughing and talking
rather loudly. Both men turned and looked at us. At that
point the corridor made a right angle turn. They rounded the
corner. Although we were probably no more than forty or
fifty feet behind them by the time we turned the corner the
two men had disappeared.

We were all astonished. We looked for a door that they could
have ducked into and at the same time were wondering why
they would do that. Three of us ran to the outside door and
looked around the parking lot. They were gone. Unless they
did duck into one of the unmarked doors what they did was
inhuman.

Some years later a married couple moved into an apartment
complex just two blocks from my residence. The lady, a
nurse, had had some very unusual experiences. Somehow she
had found out that I was a MUFON investigator and came down
to the house to discuss her situation. I can't remember what
she told me.

But, I do remember what her husband said. They had moved
from Akron, Ohio. While there the husband became the leader
of a rather healthy UFO group of citizens. He would rent
part of the enormous hangar of the Goodyear Blimp and
conduct meetings in it.

Since it was so long ago I can't recall how the warnings
began but eventually the Men In Black became involved in an
attempt to scare him off. He didn't scare. That is, he
didn't become frightened until his little giris told him
that two men, in dark suits and hats, driving a large black
automobile, were following them to and from school.

The implication was clear. Either he stop his UFO activities
or something would happen to the children. That is when the
family moved to Dayton. The gentleman would have nothing to
do with any UFO organization.

There was no reason for me to doubt the authenticity of the
story.

Somewhere around the end of the 1970s the Men In Black were
made known to me again. That time, I felt, the story was
filled with humor.

I taught a senior high school class in Anthropology. There
were two sisters, who were my students. Their heritage was
part Native American. In fact, their mother was a Native
American from South America.
Mrs. X was a citizen of Chile. During the terrible days of
the Chilean revolution and the following years of
dictatorship she became involved in supporting Allende, the
legitimate Communist presidente of that suffering nation.
Then, the Communists were thrown out of office, with what
seems to be considerable support from the United States
intelligence community, Mrs. X, realizing that the Communist
leader was far better for her country than the military
dictator, became quite vocal. Prudence dictated that they
flee while they were still alive. They went to Brazil.

The father and the daughters, my students, were American
citizens and I think the wife also was a U.S. citizen.
Peculiar things happened and they were unable to leave
Brazil for the United States. A long time passed and finally
they made good their exit from Brazil before the authorities
could catch on to their plan for legally leaving Brazil.

Both parents were professors at one of the Ohio state
universities. Both came in and lectured to my students about
the primitive natives of South America and other peoples of
the world.

One day the gentleman told me about their experience with
Men In Black.

At that time the family lived in a community east of Dayton.
By the time I had met them, the mother and both daughters,
because of their heritage, had been accepted into the local,
urban, Shawnee Tribal Council.

What happened to them next is what we wish would never
happen in America. Someone was watching them. They
discussed the problem and decided that either a foreign or
United States intelligence organization was watching them
and at the same time intimidating them by being obvious.
They didn't consider the situation dangerous.

One evening two members of the Shawnee Indian Nation visited
the family's home. The men in that council are large, for
the most part; very impressive physical specimens; proud
descendants of the famous Tecumseh.

Somewhere in the course of the conversation the one Native
American said, "There are two guys sitting out there in the
alley watching your house. What's going on?"

The response was, "Oh, those two sit out there about every
night. Don't worry about them. But they do make us nervous."

The Shawnee replied, "Don't worry about them. We'll take
care of it."

The next night the black vehicle was once again parked in
the alley, both men, clad in dark clothing, were watching
the house. Suddenly the two Shawnee appeared, one on each
side of the car.

"Hey, man! What are you doing out here in the dark?"

The car windows were rolled down and the occupants had no
recourse but to respond. "Nothing. Just sitting here. We
aren't doing anything."

"Yes you are," said the deep voice of one of the Indians.
You are bothering our friends inside the house."

"No. We're just sitting here."

"Look, man, we say you are. Do you know what's behind your
car, at the end of this little alley? Well, I'll tell you.
There is a swamp. The swamp is deep and boggy. In fact, my
buddy and I could roll this car backwards into the swamp and
it would sink and no one would ever find it. Get it?

Don't ever show up here again or bother our friends again or
you will disappear forever."

My story teller, a college professor, mind you, laughed.
"They took baseball bats and smashed out all of the lights
and windows on the car. That's the last we ever saw of the
Men In Black."

Because of that story I never took The Men In Black very
seriously. I was prone to think they were costumed agents of
a paranoid government agency running amok.

In the May 1992 edition of Lou Farish's UFO NEWSCLIPPING
SERVICE, there is an article that is far more serious than
what I have written. The validity of the report is
questionable. I don't know any of the people involved,
writers or witnesses. That isn't to say the story isn't
true.

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