UFO Men In Black: Their Bizarre Origin Story

When and where did the famous Men In Black associated with UFOs get started? Who was the first to report them? This article will provide surprising answers.

The mysterious phenomenon of the Men In Black (MIBs) has been a key motif of UFO lore since the inception of the Modern UFO Era. Most will agree that the latter kicked off in the year 1947.

It was in 1947 that three key events occurred:

· June 21: The Maury Island Incident.

· June 24: Pilot Kenneth Arnold’s sightings of nine “disk-like” objects in the airspace over Mt. Rainier in Washington.

· July: The crash of a UFO in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico.

It is interesting to note that — technically — the Men In Black phenomenon emerged into the “UFO milieu” even before the concept of “flying saucers” became a well-identified “thing” after the Kenneth Arnold sightings.

Three days before Arnold reported his encounter, salvage boat captain Harold Dahl claimed a sensational sighting of six gigantic “doughnut-shaped” UFOs over the bay waters of Maury Island in Washington state. One of the objects appeared to be having trouble and “wobbled” as it began to drop…