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A native of Riffle, Braxton County, West Virginia, Barker graduated from Glenville State College in 1947. In 1952, he was working as a theater booker in Clarksburg, West Virginia when he began collecting stories about the Flatwoods Monster, an alleged extraterrestrial reported by residents of nearby Braxton County. Barker submitted an article about the creature to FATE Magazine, and shortly afterwards began writing regular pieces about UFOs for Space Review, a magazine published by Albert K. Bender's International Flying Saucer Bureau.[1]
In 1953, Albert K. Bender abruptly dissolved his organization, claiming that he could not continue writing about UFOs because of orders from a higher source . After pressing Bender for more details, Barker wrote his first book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, which was published by University Books in 1956.[2] The book was the first[1] to describe the Men in Black, a group of mysterious figures who, according to UFO conspiracy theorists, intimidate individuals into keeping silent about UFOs. Barker recounted Bender's own alleged encounters with the Men in Black, who were said to travel in groups of three, wear black suits, and drive large black automobiles. In 1962, Barker and Bender collaborated on a second book on the topic, called Flying Saucers and the Three Men. Published under Barker's own imprint, Saucerian Books, this book proposed that the Men in Black were, themselves, extraterrestrials.[2]
Associate of Gray Barker, whom he asked to be IFSBN’s West Virginia chapter head and chief researcher. ”It is suspected that Gray Barker pranked Albert Bender, dressing up with two friends in all black, warning Bender to stay away from UFOs. Barker persuaded Bender to go public with his story, resulting in the book Flying Saucers and the Three Men (1962).
Son esquivos, expeditivos e implacables. Hay quien mantiene que trabajan para agencias gubernamentales; otros aseguran que forman parte de una avanzadilla extraterrestre; y algunos sospechan que son el brazo ejecutor de un gobierno en la sombra que rige los destinos de la humanidad desde un pasado remoto. Pero nadie lo sabe a ciencia cierta: todo son especulaciones. Los hombres de negro est
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