Newsletter - Dec 22, 1997

Admission of Experiences with MIBs

Subj: UFO Disinformation

Date: 97-12-06 12:30:44 EST

From: carmac@co.tds.net (Jane Cartwright)

To: SHnSASSY1@AOL.COM (Mrs. Louise A. Lowry)

In answer to Pat Welsh's "Swan Song" dated 10-30-97.

From PUFOR = Paranormal and UFO Research.

I am just now getting over 80 E-mail messages which took me over three weeks to receive. One of them being the above.

The Disinformation regarding UFO subjects is with out a doubt a WAR.

You must realize how ever that when an agency threatens you, your family and your High ranking Military relatives and their families, YOU do what they want. No questions asked. I've spent 40 years of my life jumping at the sound of a telephone or a door bell. I've constantly looked over my shoulders when I left my residence to see if I was followed. I have lived in total fear for the lives of my loved ones. All the government has to do is contact someone and threaten their family, to have them suddenly change their opinions regarding the UFO syndrome.

Unless YOU have had that experience then I can not tell you what it is like. Words are cheap, but instilled fear is not, it come at a very high emotional price. That is paid for by emotional stress, the inability to talk to your family or to trust anyone. It breaks up happy marriages and family trust. It is probably worse than brainwashing. Because you know if you say anything and the word get's out YOU are DEAD and maybe some of your family members too. Yes it sure as hell is a WAR out there. Many people are afraid to talk.

I've had eight operations for the removal of 23 tumors. They can not hurt me any more, God has taken care of that. At age 63 they are no longer interested in me. The only thing I worry about is the tumor they can not remove in my head.

The WAR is self preservation. We have two governments one apparently does not know the other. But they do co-exist. One being a people government and the other being a covert government. Example what goes on at area 51, Sector 4. Dulce, Alamagordo, Edwards AFB, White Sands AFB. ETC. , If any of you know someone who can recommend a publisher for my 68,000 word manuscript which I want to have published, please have them write to

Car-Mac Ent. 4319 E-50 Drive, Crawford, CO. 81415-9725. Thank You.

Some More Men in Black Cases

According to Saucer News, Mr. Tad Jones, who witnessed a hovering sphere on a major highway in January, 1967h1, received two threatening notes warning him not to tell anyone what he had seen. The printing of these "prank" warnings was identical to the printing of a note placed under the door of Connie Carpenter in Middleport, Ohio. Respected researcher John Keel, author of numerous articles and books, has written extensively about would-be "kidnappers" who have come after UFO witnesses and UFOnaut sighters.

On Long Island, two men in Air force uniforms harassed UFO witnesses. One of these men identified himself as Lieutenant Frank Davis and threatened two different people with a revolver, warning them to "watch out who you talk to." It almost seems as if this MIB had stolen his identity by combining the names of the two Army investigators who died in the airplane crash in the Maury Island case. If so it was a sick disguise.

A Colonel John Dalton interviewed at least three other Long Island residents and asked them to fill out complicated forms which contained involved questions about the witnesses' personal lives. Through officials on Long Island, John Keel had a check run on the men. The Air Force denied that it knew anything about either one or that men with those names were assigned anywhere on the Island.

Lt. Davis turned up again in a postman's uniform and later engaged in taking photographs of the homes of UFO sighters. In yet another MIB case a black Cadillac made a deliberate attempt to run over a UFO witness on the main street of Long Island town.

During the same period, one of my close friends, investigator Robert Easley, of Defiance, Ohio, was reportedly followed by a man in a black sedan with no license plates. The man dressed in black shoes, black pants, and a blue pullover shirt.

In the wee hours of July, 11, 1967,h1 Mr. Easley was awakened by a phone call from a lady who told him that she and seven others were observing two bright fast-moving UFOs. After she hung up, he immediately got dressed and went to the scene. While checking on this report, he noticed that he was being followed by a man in a black sedan with no license plates.

On July 15th, he was again followed by the same man in the same car as he was driving home. When he pulled into his driveway, the unknown care sped off. Later that evening as he sat talking with his girl friend on the front porch, the car came down the road and stopped right in front of the house, as soon as the topic of UFOs entered their conversation. Easley could feel the man looking at them. When they got off the subject the car left, but when they got back on it about an hour later, the same car came back again. It was as if the driver could hear what they were saying or read their minds!

On July 17th, as Easley was checking out another routine UFO report, the man appeared and followed him to and from the scene of the sighting, dressed in the same black shoes, black dress pants and dark pull-over shirt.

Between the 11th and 17th of July, Bob received a total of 12 strange phone call. In each case, the only sound on the other end of the line was a strange beeping noise, each call lasted for about 15 seconds, followed by complete silence. The beep sounded far away, as if coming from a machine.

In Europe as well, witnesses are being threatened into silence! Mysterious voices and sounds are appearing on telephones and tapes and imposters pretending to be either famed saucer investigators or government officials, are visiting contactees and those claiming to have observed UFOs at close range.

Even the late astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek ran into these accounts. In the December, 1967, issue of Playboy, he said: " I have on occasion been told what seemed to be a straightforward story, when suddenly the witness lapsed into a highly confidential mood and told me that he was sure that his phone was being tapped or that he was being watched, sometimes on a regular schedule either by the `government' or by `occupants' of the craft.'"

Following the death of Snippy the race horse in Alamosa, Coloradoh1, attributed to flying saucer, there were several strange incidents in the area. One witness, a University student, wrote a letter to Riley Crabb, director of the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, in which he told of odd things which had happened to him after his consecutive sightings of a bright UFO on September 17, 1967h1, and another made in the company of 100 fellow students at Highlands University, the following Wednesday. "The day immediately after this sighting I received a phone call from a friend who said that his life had been threatened if he so much as mentioned the incident to higher authorities. He said I should refrain from doing the same."

A week later, Crabb's correspondent was out riding with a detective who serves as night police on the campus. They drove up into the mountains near Gallinas canyon to get a view of the town. Suddenly, a light appeared in the sky. At first it didn't seem to be different from any other aircraft. Then it moved erratically and reversed direction without the circular deviation of known aircraft. It declined in the Eastern horizon near an old water tower, located above five miles distant from the witnesses. "We decided to take a chance and raced full speed in that direction. By the time we arrived, there was a series of small brush fires near the tower. After extinguishing these we searched the area for the culprit. There was a deserted ranch house nearby with a wooden fence. On the other side of the fence was a sharp decline into the canyon. Upon reaching this fence we stopped to obtain our direction and radio in a report. Just as suddenly as you blink an eye it became terribly hot. The area immediately before us in the decline became blood red. At that moment an object about 50 to 75 feet in diameter shot straight up into the sky at fantastic speed. The object was blood red. After an intense overall search of the area we radioed in for official help."

Two days later the student received a phone call late at night warning him that it would be better if he forgot what he had seen. Above all he was told that he should tell no one about his experience, because they wouldn't believe him anyway. "The next day a stranger met me in the street on my way into town. He knew about everything revolving around the sighting and even added information that confirmed some of my own research on Atlantis. About the sighting he made an open threat to keep my mouth shut."

A few days after his encounter, he was again walking downtown along the road when a black car came speeding in his direction. "It veered over and almost hit me. I was too angered and shaken to forget that car. The windows were not clear glass, but tinted a smoky color, making it impossible to see the occupants. The rear license plate did not register any state. It showed nothing but three X's."

Even this was not the end of the student's encounter with an unknown. "Toward the end of October, while having a cup of coffee at my favorite cafe, a shot broke the monotony of the smoke-filled room. The bullet came through the front window and slammed into the wall about an inch above my head. Had I not just bent over to sip my coffee I would have been dead!"

This was followed by a streak of bad luck and freak accidents. After being bed-ridden for two weeks with pneumonia and failing his studies, he began to take the hint. "I've lost all hopes of returning to Highlands University. Here I am back home and unemployed, and classified 1-A."

The officer who had been with the student during the spectacular sighting later lost his job and was divorced by his wife.

Physical Evidence

If a common denominator is to be found in any of the MIB cases, it appears to be that these individuals are greatly concerned with any physical evidence, any piece of actual hardware being in the hands of contactees. It almost appears as if they are determined to confiscate any material which could easily prove UFOs to be real at any cost-even death. We can't forget soon enough the Maury Island caseh1, which involved "slag," or let's take, for example, the story Brad Steigerh1 relates: "Late one evening in mid-February, 1968h1, I received a long distance phone call from a close friend of mine who is a traveling salesman for a large automotive parts company. "Hey, Brad," he said, after telling me that he was calling from a city about 300 miles from my home, "Would you believe that I'm in the midst of a damned saucer flap? A mother and daughter say they saw a UFO in their field. Several farmers have been seeing UFOs land regularly. Hell, the locals here drive out on certain evenings and watch the things hover over high-tension wires. Everyone in town, including the cops, take the things as a matter of course."

Brad asked his friends to investigate first hand and report to him in a few days. Two nights later the salesman called back. He had managed to track down the various stories and was astonished at the high level of intelligence shown by most of the witnesses. His entire manner of conversation had changed as well as his former skepticism about UFOs. He asked Brad several questions which led the concerned researcher to believe that he had somehow had a bout with the MIB. Informed it would probably be best if he left the town, he told the Iowa author that he was going to stay on and would call the next morning. "The next night his call never came. At midnight I tried calling his motel and was told that my friend had never checked into a room at that roadside inn," Steiger recounts. "I persisted and told the clerk that my friend had been registered there for nearly a week. At last, she found the card, expressed amazement that it had been pulled from its regular place in the file. I was unable to make connection with him that night. The next morning I was comforted to hear his sleepy voice answer my call. He had just begun to fill me in on what he had uncovered when we got cut off. It took my operator five minutes and three channels to re-establish our call."

When the call was finally completed again, the automotive parts salesman told Brad that he had been given "something" and would have to stay over another night to complete his investigation. What was this something; Three days before, a farmer had given him a specimen of a metal which that man had seen falling from a UFO. The farmer had kept one for himself. "Two nights later I was surprised to find my friend at my door. He had driven nearly 300 miles out of his way to come to see me; he looked terrible. Dark circles rimmed his bloodshot eyes and it was apparent that he had not slept for quite some time. He told me that he had returned to his hotel with the specimen only to find two men waiting in his room for him. They had already gotten the farmer's piece and wanted his."

Standing before Brad, trembling in fear and rage, he wanted to know what all this meant, and how the men knew he had the metal specimen to begin with! "Besides being specific about what would happen to me, if I didn't give them the material," Steiger's friend said, "They told me it was for the good of `my family, my country and my world.'"

An Amazing Landing

A parallel account was once described to me by the late Gray Barkerh1, who was president of Saucerian Books, publisher of various flying saucer volumes. He heard about the case while attending a convention for audio-visual products. Striking up a conversation with one of the sales personnel, the man Mr. Barker was speaking to related a saucer incident involving the MIB, which he had personally encountered during the course of his work.

While waiting to talk with the principal of an elementary school in Arko, Utah, his attention was drawn to a drawing on a bulletin board in the hallway, captioned "My True Flying Saucer Story."

Asking some of the children who were walking through the hall what the illustration was all about, he managed to put together a truly weird story in which one of the seventh graders, Robert McCallister, actually claims to have possessed an artifact given to him by some UFOnauts.

The youth was trapping coyotes during the Christmas holidays, hoping the bounties he would collect would add to the fund which would help send his scout troop to Salt Lake City for a state meeting. Checking his traps in an isolated area, he suddenly came upon a strange circular vehicle hovering about six feet above the ground. His first thought was that it was one of the government's "hovercrafts" he had seen in Scholastic Magazine, an educational school publication, so he had no qualms about approaching to a few feet of the contrivance. The machine made no noise. It was about 15 feet in diameter, and had triangular-shaped ports about three feet apart. No person seemed to be inside or about the craft.

Then from behind some rocks emerged a rather odd group. Three persons, tall, their heads encased in helmets like divers wear, held onto a cable, onto which was attached, about ten feet off the ground, a kind of chair, which seemed to be floating, as if attached to an invisible balloon. On the chair sat a smiling, apparently aged man, with striking silver hair and a wide smile. The silver-haired man wore no helmet, no uniform but a kind of blue flowing tunic, and sandals. Moving as if they did not notice him at all, the three "floated" the chair to the machine, in which a door suddenly opened, through which the chair floated. Two of the men also entered the door floating upward to it. When the door closed, there was no indication any opening had been there.

The man remaining outside approached Robert, and placing his arm about him, led him all around the craft, speaking in a strange language and pointing all the while at various features of the craft, such as a protruding antenna-like device and a thing like a rudder. All the while, Robert thought that perhaps the man might be a Russian astronaut and remembered he had read somewhere that Russians were friendly people. He was enjoying the strange experience and when asked why he wasn't afraid he said there was no reason to be. Finally the man noted a ball point pen in the boy's pocket and pointed to it, Robert unclipped the pen and handed it to the man, whereupon the man withdrew a piece of very thick paper from an inside pocket and scribbled with the pen on it. He handed it back, whereupon Robert motioned him to keep it. The man smiled and seemed to be delighted with the small gift. Then he reached inside his pocket again, and with drew a somewhat similar object, and exchanged it with the boy.

Just then the door again opened and the man floated up to it and disappeared, after waving for Robert to move back. He retreated a few yards, then turned to watch the craft again, but the door opened again, and the same man once again motioned for him to move further away. Robert retreated for about a hundred yards, and then turned to observe the machine, which was then rising slowly and soundlessly. Suddenly it shot upward at incredible speed.

When Robert breathlessly told his story to his parents and older brother they laughed at him, and told him he was too old to be making up such stories. Then he took the object the "spaceman" had given him out of his pocket and showed it to them. It was a black plastic tube, all in one piece, with a glass or plastic point at the end, and with an opening from which a sepia-colored ink flowed onto paper when written with.

When school resumed after New Years, Robert brought the pen to school and told his classmates about his experience. The teacher, while not believing his story, allowed Robert to pass the pen around. Unfortunately, by the time Mr. Barker's acquaintance found out about the incident, the "pen" had already been "lost."

After showing it all through the school that day, he was doing his homework, alone at his house. His older brother was at basketball practice; his mother and father had taken two younger children with them to the supermarket.

There was a knock at the door. A small, obsequious, smiling man, stood there, making motions along with talking in a weird gibberish language. Then the man exhibited a "deaf mute card," the standard item offered for sale by deaf solicitors, showing hand signals, which is the deaf alphabet. Robert figured the man wanted a contribution, and he motioned for the man to wait there while he went back into the living room for some change. When he offered the coins to the man, he would not accept them, but instead pointed to the card and made various signals. Then he motioned toward the pen in the boy's shirt pocket and indicated that it be given to him to write with. As soon as Robert handed him the pen, the man clutched it in his fist and ran around the house at a remarkably speedy gait. Robert heard a car motor rev up behind the house and the screech of tires "burning rubber."

Gray concluded his story to me by stating that an investigation disclosed that nobody else in the neighborhood has been solicited by deaf mutes. The young student told his story at school the next day, and his classmates were disappointed his "outer space pen" had been stolen. They collected some money and bought him an expensive pen and pencil set, which he exhibited proudly to the salesman when interviewed. Thus, the search for physical evidence hit another snag.

History of the Agents of Terror

Visits by unknown agents are seeded throughout UFO literature and newspaper accounts of flying saucer sightings. For many years they were overlooked or not recognized for what they were. The history of demonology, witchcraft and the occult is filled with similar incidents leading one to speculate that the UFO phenomena is at least partly "psychic" in nature.

For example, long-time Atlanta-based researcher Allen Greenfield has pointed out that there is usually a consistent reference associating the term "black men" with the devil, along with a mention of an Indian-like appearance supposedly attributed to the devil by witches. There appears to have been a "wave," Greenfield notes, of these cases starting at about the time of the Elizabethan post-Reformation era in the 1600s. Several occult volumes classify these beings into a group of their own and refer to them as Men in Black, demons, devil, apparition, black man-the latter being the most commonly used.

One such instance (taken from Montague Summer's book "The Werewolf") involves the case of a werewolf, and a "Lord of the Forest," described as being tall and dark, dressed in black. And in" Witchcraft" by Penethore Hughes, there is an allusion to the Devil's form of dress as being black.

But such tales from the 1600s were not uncommon to the North American colonies at the time. There is a brief mention by Cotton Mather, the famed witch-hunter of colonial New England, of the "Black Man" mentioned by the Indians. Most interesting is the instance of a man dressed in black alluded to at the Witch trials in Salem, supposedly being the devil who had been the cause of all the disturbance.

American folklore holds many frightening tales of the, devil, or demons, who roam the countryside on a dark horse-as opposed to today's MIB who arrive in dark autos. There are other tales of encounters with the devil in the woods and apparitions which seem to fit within the context of this enigma.

In the book "Flying Saucers in the Bible" by Virginia Brasington (Saucerian 1966), there is a fantastic story of the "Great Seal" of the United States and its mysterious origin which seems to hint of an "MIB." Supposedly the design was given to Thomas Jefferson while walking in his garden one night by a man in a flowing black cape. The seal is actually a reproduction of the lost city of Petra in northern Arabia, once controlled by a mysterious Arabian race know as Nabataeans. Many persons have described the ancient city as "half as old as time" and it is obviously the work of a very advanced technology for its rime.

The Men in Black also appeared during several UFO flaps in the last century. In 1864, a UFO dropped several artifacts over a small community in Texas. They were placed by the citizens of the town in the front window of a store on the main street of town. The next day a "traveling dealer" stopped by and offered the shopkeeper a "good price" for the objects and carted them away with him. Several similar incidents happened in 1897 and `98. Many of the occupants observed during this period were said to have Oriental features, dark complexions, slight stature and a heavy, undefinable accent-identical to the features described by observers of the MIB, who continue to harass and frighten witnesses to this very day.

Mystery on the Mohawk

For a period of approximately four years, an area on the banks of New York State barge canal (Mohawk River) in Scotia, New York, was the site for very unusual MIB-type activities.

According to Jennifer Stevens, a highly qualified UFO investigator from Schenectady, in April of 1967, a woman, identified only as "Peggy G." was walking a friend to her car at about 11:00 PM. The two stopped to watch what appeared to be a very large bright star. As they watched the "star," it began to get closer and before they knew it the object was hovering a short distance from them. Suddenly, a baseball-sized projectile shot from the larger UFO, went whizzing over their heads and disappeared into the trees across the street.

Nothing more was seen for a period of six weeks. Then Peggy called Mrs. Stevens and told her that there had been additional sightings in the immediate vicinity of her home. Also, some of her neighbors had reported animals missing. One of the neighbors had told several people that "little men" had kidnaped her dog.

Peggy also stated that she had experienced "poltergeist" activity in her home, beginning shortly after her original sighting. She had seen the shadow of a man materialize and then disappear on several occasions, and had also seen objects in the house moving, apparently by themselves. Her cat, she said, had suddenly taken to hissing, spitting, and arching its back at nothing which could be seen.

During the Christmas season these manifestations got worse and finally came to a climax with the meeting of a strange man. In order to make extra money, Peggy had taken on an afternoon job in a local department store while her children were at school and her husband at the office. After she had worked in the store for only a few days, a man employed as a guard approached her and seemed interested in telling her something. At lunch the man, whom Peggy describes as being "old and yet young," informed her that he was a member of a secret organization working on earth called the "Cosmic Brotherhood." He told her that at one time he had been a professor in a well-known college and was incredibly old. A co-worker over heard the conversation, and mumbled under his breath that the security guard was crazy. This time the guard looked up and half shouted, "If you don't get away from here and forget what you've heard, I'll turn myself into the most horrible thing you've ever seen." As Peggy watched, rays of light shot from the security officer's eyes and the other worker retreated in terror. Not too long after this the guard left his job and attempts to track him down have been fruitless.

In February of 1968, two young men were returning home late one evening when they claim to have come upon a flying saucer which was resting on the frozen Mohawk River. They thought they could see the outline of a white-suited human form near the craft.

According to Mrs. Stevens, the next morning some 300 yards from where the UFO had been seen, a 16 year old boy was found dead. His body had been frozen deeply into the ice. "The police called it `death due to exposure,' but they were unable to explain why his tracks showed that he had apparently been running, then dragging one foot as if pulled from above," Jennifer points out with concern.

On subsequent nights after the strange death, Jennifer and a group of investigators from a local UFO organization patrolled the river bank to see if they could gather further clues. "After several nights of freezing toes and noses, we had a good sighting of our own. An oval, red-glowing object fluttered in silence. It hovered, blinked off and on in a five-four pattern. I grabbed a bright flashlight and signaled back in an identical manner. In a moment the UFO blinked back. This exchange went on for several minutes, and then the object began to come toward us. The hair began to rise on the back of my neck. Had I done a stupid thing? Were we in trouble?" Just then a plane appeared overhead, the object blinked out and disappeared from view.

This was not, however, the end of the eerie entanglement with these little understood aspects of the UFO enigma. Several days after the events on the Mohawk, Jennifer's husband was seated in a cafeteria sipping a cup of hot coffee when a strange man took the stool next to him. Without any introduction the mysterious stranger began to discuss, with a great degree of knowledge, the events surrounding the UFO sighting.

He began with, "There have been people watching the sky every night down by the river in Scotia." Mr. Stevens was rather shocked since he had been one of those involved, but keeping his cool he said, "I beg your pardon?" The man then went on to talk about UFOs. He refused to answer any questions directly and either parried or avoided them completely. Before leaving he warned, "People who look for UFOs should be very, very careful."

This meeting with a possible MIB was followed by usual pattern of phone calls and poltergeist activity in the Steven's household. At about this time, Peggy G. Also reported interference on her telephone and claims she observed two light-skinned men with completely expressionless faces, stringing silver tape over the wires near her home. After calling the police they disappeared as if listening in on her call. Later one of the officers remarked unconsciously, "Oh, the silver tape again."

During the next three weeks all parties involved were repeatedly followed by a light blue Lincoln which would even park outside their homes, sometimes for hours.

The mystery of the strange death on the Mohawk, the disappearance of neighborhood pets, the weird poltergeist phenomena and the sightings of the UFO themselves have never been explained. They are part and parcel of the flying saucer mystery.

The Andreasson Legacy

by Raymond E. Fowler

I highly recommend the reading of this book!

At the time I have posted this article, Bob Luca sent me some info in getting this book, if you don't get out much. They also are autographing copies for those that are interested (HARD COPIES) only. My many thanks for their trust and friendship!

Hi Louise,

Sorry to be so late in getting out a reply but I am, right now about a week behind in, it seems my whole life. First off if anyone wants to order an autographed book from Betty, Becky and I they can send to my address P.O. Box 613 Hayes VA. 23072. If they want to order from Ray Fowler His address is 13 friend court Wenham MA. 01984. The price of the Books (Hardcover is 24.95 + 2.95 shipping and handling) or they may order from publisher at 1-800-788-3123 or check out the local book store. .

Your friends,

Bob & Betty

A. INTRODUCTION *A Tale of Two Families* by Raymond E. Fowler

*This Except is taken from The Andreasson Legacy, also note that there are other books out called The Andreasson Affair, The Andreasson Affair Phase Two, The Watchers and The Watchers II.

This book marks the final chapter of an investigation that spans over two decades. It started with a letter to Dr. J. Allen Hynek in August of 1975 from Mrs. Betty Andreassonh1. Her letter was in response to a newspaper article about the Center for UFO Studies. Hynek, former chief United States Air Force UFO scientific consultant, headed the new civilian study. He requested the public to report UFO experiences to the Center for Scientific Study.

Betty's letter was an account of a blinking light at a window, strange entities in the home, and several pages of rambling theories about UFOs. The letter's redeeming factor was a sketch of one of the entities, since it was typical of those reported by many others. Although unimpressed with Betty's weird theories, Hynek placed it in his files.

The letter was resurrected a few years later when Hynek sent it to a group who studied reports of UFO entities. Since Betty lived in Massachusetts, the study group asked Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Massachusetts personnel to investigate. An initial interview with Betty indicated that she was interpreting her experience within the context of her fundamentalist Christian beliefs. She believed that the entities that had entered her home were angels. However, apart from her esoteric interpretations, the core elements of her experience were those of a UFO abduction.

The decision was made to conduct a through investigation of her claim. Our enquiry revealed one of the most detailed abduction accounts on record. I had joined the team as MUFON's Director of Investigations and edited the final report. The report, in turn, instigated my first book on the experiences of Betty and her family: THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR.

Evidence gleaned from a number of independent sources indicated that the event took place between 6:35 and 11:00 P.M. on January 25, 1967, at South Ashburnham, Massachusetts. At the time, Betty was in the kitchen, and her parents and seven children were in the living room. Her husband was in the hospital. Both Betty and her daughter Becky relived a bizarre experience under hypnosis.

At about 6:35 P.M., the house lights suddenly blinked off and on and then went out. This coincided with a pulsating reddish orange light that shined through the window facing a large field. Betty calmed her frightened children and told them to stay in the living room while her father investigated. Her father, Waino, dashed to the window and saw a group of strange creatures floating toward the house with a hopping motion. They stopped momentarily, and on looked in at him. He became paralyzed and remembered nothing more.

In brief, the creatures entered the house. The rest of Betty's family was put into the same state of suspended animation. Telepathic communication was established with Betty. She was asked to follow them out of the house. She tried to resist, but her will somehow was overpowered. She told them she was concerned for her immobilized family. They demonstrated that they were all right by bringing her older daughter Becky out of the trance like state.

One creature remained behind as Betty and the others floated through a solid door and into a small craft which was parked against the hillside in back of the house. The craft accelerated upwards into a larger craft. Betty was subjected to the effects of various instruments both before and after a physical examination. A BB-sized object removed from her nose indicated that she had been abducted previously. Follow-up investigations revealed a history of UFO experiences from childhood.

Betty was then taken to a strange otherworldly place. At one point she was floated along a track through an area with a red atmosphere. It housed scores of small headless red creatures with two large eyes protruding from stalks. From there, she was floated along the track into a immense area. Far below the roller coaster-like track she saw water, a strange pyramid, and glass-domed buildings in the distance.

The terminus for her trip was a holographic-like depiction of the death and rebirth of the legendary Phoenix. As she watched, transfixed by the sight, she heard a booming chorus of voices announce that she had been chosen to bring a message to the world. Afterwards, she was returned home to find everyone still in a state of suspended animation. Then, under mind control of the entities, everyone was put to bed in a state of unawareness.

All evidence, including transcripts of fourteen hypnotic regression sessions, was placed in a 320-page, two-volume report. Rigid character reference checks and lie detector tests indicated that Betty and Becky were credible witnesses. Psychological interviews did not reveal any psychotic traits in Betty. Both relived very vivid, detailed experiences under hypnosis. These were both internally and externally consistent with many other cases of this type.

It is not my purpose at this time to review the many experiences of the Andreasson and Fowler families that have been published in my previous books. This will be accomplished later on within the book. However, for the sake of the new reader, these will be briefly alluded to in the introductions to Part 1 and Part II of the book. They will serve as an introduction to these two families. These sections will also introduce new information revealed during my ongoing investigation of the Andreasson and Fowler families. Betty's 1967 encounter was mentioned only to establish witness credibility and a starting point for my initial involvement with Betty and her family.

The results of the initial investigation revealed that Betty, her family, and her husband's family have had encounters with UFOs and paranormal phenomena from childhood. My follow-up investigations are documented in the books preceding THE ANDREASSON LEGACY: THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR-PHASE II, THE WATCHERS, and THE WATCHERS II.

My investigation of Betty and Bob's childhood experiences triggered memories of similar experiences from my childhood which I had not associated with the UFO phenomenon. These experiences, coupled with those of my family, brought me to a startling realization. I had been investigating the UFO phenomenon since 1963, but the same phenomenon had been investigating me since 1938.

This was confirmed by an abduction dream about my leg being operated on which was accompanied by physical evidence. It consisted of the overnight appearance of the typical scoop mark that has appeared on many other abductees. Incredibly, this was coupled with the overnight appearance of three similar scoops on Betty's arm during the same week! This was just one of a number of synchronistic parallels linking the Andreasson and Fowler families together.

Soon after, I was able to enhance a number of my memories through the use of hypnotic regression. I decided to go public with them and some of my own family's UFO experiences. These and more of Betty and her husband's experiences were documented in THE WATCHERS. One of their abductions was paraphysical in nature. Both were abducted in an out-of-body (OBE) state of being. During this abduction, they witnessed some of their children being operated upon by alien entities.

Later, my continuing investigation was centered on the paraphysical experiences of Betty and her family. These and evidence for their commonality with the near death experience (NDE) were documented in WATCHERS II. Again, a family member was witnessed aboard a craft with her during one of Betty's OBE abduction experiences.

I had been aware for some time that Betty and Bob's children had also experienced UFO and paranormal phenomena. However, I was unable to persuade them to publicize them. All were terribly frightened. They feared further ridicule for themselves and their children. Some had already experienced this because of my books about Betty and Bob.

Each member of Betty's family was urged once again to relate their experiences to me, and to undergo hypnotic regression. I believed that the recording of their experiences was essential to complete my overall assessment of the ongoing story of the Andreasson affair. All of them finally agreed to tell their stories, However, only Becky agreed to undergo a number of hypnosis sessions, which revealed that she, like Betty, had been abducted by aliens since childhood.

Significantly, some members of my own family decided to tell me more of their own experiences which were not recorded in THE WATCHERS. My father had recorded many of his experiences and placed them in a box which was not to be opened until after his death. Just prior to his death, the box and its incredible contents were turned over to me for publication. My family's willingness to do this influenced my decision to follow them in placing my own continuing experiences on record.

This will be my last book about Betty Andreasson and her family. Nearly twenty years of research have produced a rich legacy for UFO buff and professional researcher alike. The overall Andreasson affair is a plethora of paranormal events-a metaphenomena in and of itself. My latest investigations, documented in this book, involve new physical evidence: a possible implant from Bob Luca's ear examined by an MIT physicist and the appearance of identical scoop marks on other members of my family. Theses are just a few examples of the evidence for UFO abductions that will be found within the pages of this book.

What do I hope that this final book on the Andreasson affair will accomplish? It will introduce the neophyte to both UFO and a host of other paranormal phenomena. Those who have read my previous books on the Andreasson and Fowler families will now be privy to the rest of the story. The newly published experiences will continue to demonstrate that UFO and paranormal events are often family affairs. It will further provide new experiential data relating to who the aliens are, where they come from, and what they are doing here.

This book will also provide strong circumstantial evidence to support a startling hypothesis advocated by some researchers of UFOs and paranormal phenomena. They suspect that all types of paranormal phenomena may in actuality be just expressions of one underlying source.

Finally, and most importantly, all direct communications between the aliens and the Andreasson family will be isolated, itemized, and analyzed to produce the core message of the aliens to human beings. Ultimately, this message is the greatest contribution willed to humankind by the Andreasson legacy.

The Currant Era: The Bender Episode

In 1952, a Bridgeport, Connecticut, man named Albert K. Benderh1, organized a UFO research group which he called the "International Flying Saucer Bureau." The IFSB was well received and in no time at all became a thriving organization with members in most states, and in various foreign countries.

Suddenly, one day, Bender announced that he was closing his group, upon orders of a *HIGHER AUTHORITY.* Bender insisted that he had been visited by three men, who although otherwise very normal in appearance, had worn black suits and hats. They revealed to the Connecticut group leader the secret of the saucers and then warned him not to discuss anything about their visit-or ELSE!

We shall probably never know the complete circumstances surrounding the visitation, but from the little Bender revealed at the time, we can state the following with reasonable amount of certainty: Bender had been thinking of a UFO theory, which he eventually sent to a certain other person. Shortly thereafter the three men came, and one of them was carrying in hand the same sheet of paper that Bender had mailed. The visitors were very threatening in their manner, hinting at dire consequences if Bender printed his theory, as he had originally intended to do. For several hours two of the men drilled the researcher on the explanation for the UFO mystery, while the third merely sat and carefully observed Bender. The story they gave was "fantastic" and extremely frightening, Bender later said, that it portended great changes in all fields of human endeavor, particularly in science. Before leaving, one of the MIB turned toward Bender and said, "If I hear another word from your office, you're in trouble."

Later Bender made a telephone call to a friend in which he casually mentioned his theory and subsequent visitation of the three men. Immediately after hanging up, the phone rang. A voice uttered that he knew of Bender's conversation and that he had made a "bad slip" and warned him to be more attentive in the future.

From this moment on Bender refused to discuss anything else concerning his visitation or theory.

In 1953 several other researchers had similar visits from enigmatic entities who bestowed the disks upon them after they had been very dose to printing the truth, unknowingly, in their publications. One of those visited was Edgar Jarroldh1, head of the Australian Flying Saucer Bureau, and a regular correspondent of Bender's. In fact, many researchers suspect that Jarrold is the one to whom Bender first imparted his "secret."

Jarrold seems to have undergone the eerie spectrum of visitations, weird phone calls and poltergeist activity. Jarrold was also puzzled by a mysterious black car which hung around his office at night. The auto contained two persons who evidently had him under surveillance.

Although no one knows what became of the Australian investigator, apparently the ultimate climax came when he was in a large department store in Sydney. Jarrold was at the top of a flight of stairs leading from the ground floor when he received a violent push from the back, which sent him flying downstairs. This took place in broad daylight and from all accounts nobody was standing near him. Whatever pushed him was invisible, yet retained its physical bulk, in order to carry out the attack. (POST NOTE FROM LOUISE> with this latter statement think about The Philadelphia Experiment in `43 and the on going experiments with invisibility and teleportation.)

This ties in with poltergeist activity reported in connection with UFO sightings in many areas including Point Pleasant, West Virginia, home of the "Mothman." In Canada, recently, an entire household was besieged by invisible entities soon after the occupants had close UFO sightings. At about the same time, in Toledo, Oregon, the residents of this small community were puzzled with the frequent visitations made by strange crawling lights which seemed to move up the very walls of their homes. A UFO flap was in the process during this period and sightings included reports of stump-like creatures and pulsating UFOs which brightened up the neighborhood at night.

Kenneth Arnold himself seems to have been visited by these invisible entities: "At my home I have been visited by unseen entities whom I believe to be pilots of these weird disks. They were invisible to me and made no attempt to communicate. I could see my rugs and furniture sink down under their weight as they walked about the room or sat on various objects..."

In many cases, these poltergeists are the forerunners of the Men in Black who frequently turn up anywhere from 24 to 48 hours after these invisible pranksters first show themselves. In some cases the silencers seem to bring about these occurrences which follow shortly after their visits.

Since the beginning in 1967 the activities of these MIB have been on the rise. Important investigators across the country have reported a weird series of events which include strange phone calls, visits by invisible beings and harassment by various persons claiming to be from the government. They have continually photographed the homes of persons having close encounters with UFOs and have disguised themselves as government officials, salesmen, poll takers and termite exterminators, in order to gain access to saucer information.

Because the Air Force has been accused of sending these individuals, on March 1, 1967, a memo entitled "Impersonations of Air Force Officers" signed Lieutenant General Hewitt Wheless, Air Force Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, was sent to all commands. It read: "Information, not verifiable, has reached Hq USAF that persons claiming to represent the Air Force or other Defense establishments have contacted citizens who have sighted unidentified flying objects. In one reported case an individual in civilian clothes, who represented himself as a member of NORAD, demanded and received photos belonging to a private citizen. In another, a person in an Air Force uniform approached local police and other citizens who had sighted a UFO, assembled them in a school room and told them that they did not see what they thought they saw and that they should not talk to anyone about the sighting. All military and civilian personnel and particularly Information Officers and UFO Investigating Officers who hear of such reports should immediately notify their local OSI officers."

True Tales of the MIB

by Timothy Green Beckley

Article taken from "Unsolved UFO Sightings" Fall 1997 Issue

Excerpts from the book by T.G. Beckley cThe UFO Silencers

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The MIB-short for Men in Black, used to be UFOlogy's dirty little secret. But now with the release of the Hollywood-made block buster starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones the cat is out of the bag and the MIB have come out of the closet into the light of day. And while the tinsel town version of the MIB may not be one hundred percent according to legend, it does give millions of movie goers a look at how these strange individuals go about silencing those who have found out way too much about extraterrestrials and UFOs.

In hundreds of well documented cases sincere eyewitnesses have been warned in no uncertain terms to keep their mouth's shut-or else! In the Tristar Pictures release the MIB are actually aliens on a mission to keep the truth that "they are here" from becoming widespread. Smith and Jones come complete with black suits, dark sun glasses and a hot rod version of the MIB's favorite vehicle, a black car (with blacked out windows, of course).

As the MIB become better known to the general public there will no doubt be more cases to confront UFOlogists. Recently the nightly TV tabloid show Strange Universe aired a lengthy segment concerning the slain rapper known as Biggie Smalls. The program's segment centered around the fact that Smalls was being followed by strange shadowy figures and some in the music business declared that the notorious Men in Black were out to get the recording artist whose posthumous album Life Beyond Death had just hit the charts. They point out the uncanny FACT that Smalls last video shows him being tailed by none other than a fleet of unmarked black helicopters whose reputation for following U.S. citizens has grown lately with the popular notion that certain individuals are coming under the watchful eyes of a secret government best known as the New World Order.