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UFO Hunters: Terrifying Encounters with Mysterious Beings (S3, E12) | Full Episode | History
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Full auto-transcript: what happens when you get too close to the truth about ufos some say you get visited by the silencers my son was shot to head a point blank range they often arrive as men in black they know where you live and they know where you're going to be at any given time he said mr rhodes and of course i don't know him but obviously he knew me who's behind the supposed covert program some say it's a secret government agency there are at least 20 levels of security clearances above the president he has no need to know about these programs during our investigation we actually captured what might be a real life silencer the guy all in black right there holy [ __ ] there's a guy on back right there this is case number 64206 the silencers the one thing we have not investigated thus far is the story of the men in black that's kind of the most menacing and threatening part of this field who are the people who silence the people who talk about ufos men in black are real reports of men in black go all the way back to the 1940s when folks first started reporting sightings of flying saucers and that's no coincidence well i always thought it was just a myth i mean what do you have about men in black and if they are real then they're more mysterious than ufos there's tons of video footage of ufos you hear about them on the news and the same thing just doesn't happen with the men in black all you have about the men in black at least that the general public knows about is purely fiction the challenge that i'm going to have with this investigation is separating science fiction from science fact if men in black are real then why aren't they mentioned in the vast majority of ufo sightings we have eyewitness testimony from people who have been visited by the men in black we're actually going to be talking with people who were who were threatened so we know that men in black are a reality we just don't know exactly what or who they are on the surface the mere mention of men in black sounds so unreal and so unbelievable but there are just too many witnesses and too many cases of men in black encounters to ignore men in black appear to be agents of some kind who mysteriously show up after certain ufo sightings and attempt to silence the witnesses they reportedly use fear intimidation and outright threats to keep people quiet we have reports of men in black being army or government officials hybrids part alien part human we even have reports of men in black being outright alien in the beginning they showed up just to retrieve evidence but it progressed to outright silence it was a little before christmas in 1987 when i shot four objects flying across the shopping center next thing i know i'm getting visits from people danny gordon is a radio broadcaster from wytheville virginia after talking publicly on his radio show about the strange ufos he witnessed back in 1987 the men in black stepped into his life and changed it forever we pulled into a parking lot of a department store in whitfield and we noticed some kids in the school bus were pointing up there were four objects flying over the shopping center so i got my 35 millimeter out and shot the four objects and actually had some people that know a little bit more about physics and myself that measured the the globes and they said they had to be for definitive objects because you could see the curvature too well to be one object with the four lights on danny's photo shows possibly four separate objects together in the night sky he saw it as did a handful of other people who happened to be in the parking lot that night i was the only one standing on the top step and yelling about it sending news reports associated press united press so it was going out from me and i really never gave it much thought that it would come back to me as well of all the other ufo witnesses who saw the object that night gordon was the only one who was a broadcaster millions of people were hearing about gordon's ufo sighting and not long after strange things started happening in the life of danny gordon and i was invited to virginia beach to speak to united press international i took the photos to show them but i left the negatives of home i was supposed to meet with the folks at oceana naval base and cia headquarters and when i called them they said this the generals not here was going to meet with you by the way did you bring the negatives i'm being old dumb country boy i said no i left him at home when i got home from virginia beach i found that my negatives only those negatives had been taken if the negatives just disappeared that'd be one thing but for danny to tell the cia that he left the negatives at home and then to find the negatives missing that just seems more than a coincidence it doesn't sound like you were actually threatened at all did that ever happen in any way shape or form i used to get telephone calls saying you know this is time you leave alone it's a defense matter there were a government issue black cars following me to home the gentleman called me saying that if you talk to these reporters you're going to put yourself or your family in very jeopardy and and i did in 1991 the ongoing intimidation of danny gordon became more than just threats it became actual physical violence my son was uh at a party and we shot the head he went blank range right here in the temple 32 magnum he passed out on the table at 9 30 and woke up 21 days later and the rehab center blind and running we still don't know who shot him because the other guys at the party first said he with some guys dressed in black and they changed the story and said it was him in 1991 to now we don't know who shot him do you suspect that the men in black came to these witnesses and persuaded them not to continue with their testimony i would hope not i would hope not so i said if there's just a iota of a chance that it might have been connected to the ufos i told my wife i cannot continue to do this and take a chance whether or not the men in black shot danny gordon's son remains to be seen the incident frightened him so much though that he stopped talking about ufos period now talking to us 18 years later he's finally breaking his silence do you believe that the men in black are real they actually exist and what do you think their purpose is there's no doubt because i've talked to too many witnesses who've had ufo visitations sightings and then had the men in black come and try to to look at their pictures take their pictures some people actually hadn't had them seized now whether or not they dress in black i don't know but i know that someone came to my home broken my home and who knows may have been involved with the shooting of my son if the men in black did indeed shoot danny gordon's son they left no incriminating evidence to get closer to the answer we need to find a case where some tangible evidence was left behind i am timothy beckley i took one of the only photographs of an authentic man in black timothy beckley is a ufo author who had his own mysterious encounter with a man in black only beckley was lucky enough to have a camera with him in 1968 a rash of ufo sightings envelops the skies over northern new jersey and in particular jersey city there were a number in cases where ufos had come down fairly low and landed in a nearby park and several teenagers had been very upset and they ran and told their parents one of the individuals that i was in touch with was a fellow by the name of jack robinson who was the investigator on the case and he actually claims while they were interviewing these teenage witnesses that they could see the black catalog parked down the street with the tinted windows and every once in a while the window would roll down and somebody would would peer out while he would go to he worked in a bank in new york he would take the path train over every day and his wife would go out and do the normal errand shopping and everything like that you know and she reported while she would leave the building there would be a mysterious person standing in the doorway across the street dressed in black black hat over its face so we decided well we're going to take a drive over to jersey city one morning kind of to see if anything was really going on well sure enough we get there and here is this individual standing stone face in the in the doorway with the hat pulled down over its eyes dressed in the black uh kind of looking like it didn't didn't belong in the neighborhood so uh jim hands me his camera i go and i lean out the window and i take a photograph of this individual standing in the doorway what makes you think that this is a man in black as opposed to just a man in a black suit that happens to hang out in the street every day you know it's a residential area where they would know everybody who lives in the neighborhood i mean especially in this time period everybody knew their neighbors you know who lives next door you know who lives upstairs and this person doesn't fit we figure we would take the car drive it around the corner and get out and confront this individual and find out what was his reason for standing in that corner of that building we circled the block we stopped the car he was gone and the black automobile he might have arrived in was also gone he just disappeared almost into thin air somehow beckley was able to catch the alleged man in black off guard this is historic for the first time ever an actual man in black is caught in a photograph yes tim beckley snapped a picture of a man in black but what if that's just it a photograph of a man who just happened to be wearing black you're confident that men in black are real this is real this is not mythology this is not something that somebody made up no no it is not this is really happening this photograph proves it after looking at tim beckley's photo there are no signs of digital or photographic manipulation and the artifacts present in the photo are more than likely a byproduct of the film's emulsion tim shot this photo in jersey city in 1965. the truck shown in the foreground is a first generation chevrolet c10 pickup and this is probably a 1962 c10 you can tell by the rounded single headlight the inverted windshield wiper on the passenger side and the large rectangular side view mirrors if this were a real man in black he more than likely would have been aware of tim's presence and simply wouldn't have allowed this photograph to be taken or because this is an urban commercial neighborhood with street parking and traffic he might have just not noticed tim's presence or simply just wanted to hide in plain sight at this point we have danny gordon's encounter with men in black who may be responsible for allegedly shooting his son and we have tim beckley who actually took a photograph of a man in black so far the men in black have been threatening from a distance what we need now is to dig deeper and find someone who's been threatened face to face by men in black the two men approached uh dressed in black they looked at me and says we'll see you again soon i'm johnny sands and for 34 years i've been intimidated by the men in black we're meeting with johnny sands a country singer who in 1976 while driving outside of las vegas had one of the strangest men in black experiences we've uncovered thus far i could see a light beam in the sky directly to the right of me it was a cigar shaped looking object johnny sand's car then shuts off while he's working under his hood trying to get his car restarted two of what he refers to as aliens walk up to him and as they come close to me i started to run but i realized i couldn't move they had very very glaring eyes their mouse was small and wrinkly looking like a man with no teeth but they have a large wide nose and it looked like something protruding out on each side of their face the one began to talk but he wasn't talking through his mouth so i asked him where y'all from and he said up there they asked me all these questions and he says we'll be going but we'll see you again real soon uh they turned and walked away and a flash of light went and they were gone johnny sands alien encounter grabbed a lot of headlines he was a celebrity for it a few days later the sahara hotel invites johnny to do a public demonstration of sorts in their lobby they hire an artist to draw one of the aliens that johnny saw when he got to the gills and the nose the artist says why do you why do they have a nose and yields and i said i really can't answer that question that's when the two men walked up and was standing there dressed in black i did notice the one he was a little clumsy and moving he was kind of on the stiff side uh he would lean in toward me and then he said let me answer that question for you if i can there is an area in the sky that's eight and a half light years from here it's called sirius he said there is a planet that is known to be in the aquarium it's tight planet half water half land and so this would explain the gills and the nose he says but we got to go now but we'll see you again real soon well that's the same thing that the aliens had just told me in the desert uh three or four days ago as they went out the door of the hallway the security guard was no farther away from behind him than you are from me but when he got to the door he turned around and he come walking back and he says them guys just totally disappeared in thin air maybe in this case the men in black are playing mind games with him not to dissuade him from talking but to make his story seem so weird so incredulous but when he does talk nobody believes him johnny this is mike brazel hey man how are you good to meet you we've drafted mike brazo a forensic sketch artist so we can wrap our minds around what these men in black might actually look like he had real squinty eyes broad but stubby looking nose his hair is gonna go straight back now what would you say his head shape was like kind of boxy looking with a heavy duty raw chin the mouth was not too big what do you see there oh put the black suit on him that's it 34 years you hold this picture in your mind this is him the sketch of johnny sands man in black is apparently spot on i get a sense that johnny's actually disturbed by looking at it what do you think of johnny sand's story he was very specific about what happened just seemed like because of the detail i think something real happened to johnny sands and i don't think we can ignore that testimony johnny sands not only passed a lie detector test but he also passed a voice stress test according to the authorities he's apparently telling the truth and as far-fetched as it sounds i'm inclined to believe him we're hearing a lot of different things we're hearing that some of them are intimidating others are acting very weird like possibly their alien as you might suggest and so far the only pattern that i have is that these people are seeing men dressed in black clothing i mean it's not just seeing men in black clothing they're seeing men who surveil things like the photograph that timothy beckley showed us or people who give warnings and then follow through in the warning whether these men in black are humans trying to protect the secrecy of the presence of ufos or whether they're actual aliens observing what we're doing one thing is crystal clear there is a direct connection between men and black and ufos we pulled off to the side of the road next the grand canyon caverns there were two men parked in a black car right where we were ready to pull off my name is john rhodes i've been confronted by the men in black we met john rhodes in a previous investigation when we were looking for an underground alien base in dulce new mexico in 1996 when he went looking for an underground base near the grand canyon caverns in arizona he must have gotten too close to something important because a couple of bizarre characters crossed this path i was coming here from las vegas to investigate the grand canyon caverns we're pulling into this uh pull off outside a road here is a nice shiny new black car and two guys there in suits waiting for me one was leaning against the car the other one proceeded to walk up directly to me as i was parking i got out of the car the gentleman came over to my vehicle and eye to eye he turned around he said mr rhodes and of course i don't know him but obviously he knew me so these guys knew your name yes wow they knew my name more importantly they knew i was going to be right there i find it odd that in the middle of nowhere two men suddenly appear and know john rose's name i don't think this was a random meeting he turned to me and he said well you know mr rhodes you can fall down out there and get hurt you could fall down in some hole out there and nobody would ever find you again and i knew this was a threat and then what happened they got back in their vehicle and i didn't even see them leave because i didn't want them to think that they had intimidated me did they have any kind of identification either on their jacket or in their wallet as a matter of fact when i looked at their vehicle it just didn't have any dirt on it it's not like somebody else drove by and some of the dirt kicked up from the road and covered their car their shoes were absolutely shiny you could see a reflection off them black it didn't look like they had been there at all as a matter of fact it looked like they just stepped out of their car for the first time a brand new car brand new clothing brand new shoes everything right down to the tee it strikes me as more than odd that in the middle of the desert they had no dust on their car no dust on their clothing how do you explain that you can't why would they warn you about this area what were you looking for what's here you have to remember that only 3.3 percent of the entire grand canyon has ever been surveyed which means that 96 of that almost 1900 square miles out there have never had human feet set down in it i think some of these ancient cavern systems that in this limestone for hundreds of square miles is perfect territory to build underground military installations you don't have to take any dirt out you just occupy an already hollowed out space and if they're connected through cavern passages or natural tunnels it would be perfect to be actually in this limestone area so the geology of the grand canyon caverns area is conducive to underground caverns underground tunnels and john rhodes thinks a network of underground bases perhaps connecting the grand canyon with dulce and area 51 all of which are reported hubs of reverse engineering and alien technology this is incredible if rhodes theory is correct that there are tunnels connecting all these underground alien bases could this be why men in black are showing themselves am i intimidated i would say that i would be more intimidated for you we're meeting with michael schratt a military aerospace historian who in his research has figured out how the us government might be behind the men in black so mike let's get right down to it who are the men in black and who pays their paychecks it's rumored bill that the men in black are a covert government operation or organization funded perhaps by the black budget somewhat embedded within the air force budget how exactly are they getting their funding is this money coming from taxpayers they would probably get their funding just like many of these other programs get their funding from phony front organizations the so-called black budget is an allocation of money towards the military and intelligence agencies there is no accountability how can we prove this we have the actual detroit free press article this is dated february 8 1987 and here it says secret ledger hides military projects pentagon black budget has tripled under the reagan administration you know what's going on when it comes to the money in the black budgets today well if we extrapolate the data kevin it's clear that this black budget has blown to over perhaps 300 billion dollars per year what are they using this for and why that's the real question here we have the actual security clearance organizational chart and if you start here at the bottom it starts at restricted then we move to confidential then we go to secret top secret sci usap above that there are 28 levels of top secret crypto the president is at level 17 he's cleared for the go codes or the nuclear launch codes but then you'll see in point of fact there are at least 20 levels of security clearances above the president he has no need to know about these programs this is all just a theory that there are 20 secret levels of black projects above the president of the united states it's certainly plausible though and if men in black are really tied into the u.s government then it's quite possible that the president would have no idea it's plausible deniability now if these programs are that secret and they're so important to our national security what kind of measures would be taken by some kind of agency if some of that information was to get out if you can take a craft that can be to mars and back by lunchtime are you going to let that technology out to your competitors your adversaries or people within the government no they're going to keep it completely black completely unacknowledged they've got to control the high ground at any cost would they go as far as to use deadly force without a doubt the investigators who've gotten the closest to the truth about the men in black who died under mysterious circumstances t alan greenfield is a ufo researcher and author who's been investigating the men in black phenomenon for decades and he knows just how far they'll go to silence people who know too much there is a tendency to believe that the best cases about the men in black are old cases a lot of the later cases don't get the same kind of publicity for one simple reason most of the people who specialized in investigating men in black died off mysteriously and none of them were older than their 40s or 50s the people who got the closest to the truth died one famous ufologist is a legendary author morris k jess a pioneer he wrote numerous books and some researchers believed that when he got too close to the truth the men in black silenced them once and for all jasop wrote a book called the case for the ufos supposedly this perfectly well-balanced man who had no reason to commit suicide was suicided he supposedly had asphyxiated himself in a car apparently with such an elaborate way of doing it it was obviously done by a third party or parties who had reason for mr joseph to appear to have committed suicide police investigating on the scene said that it appeared to be a murder faked as a suicide i believe that he was murdered because he had stumbled upon something in his book he was a victim of what we can call the men in black another case of ufo researcher dying and untimely death allegedly at the hands of the men in black is frank edwards edwards was at one time a very famous mutual radio network broadcaster who was indeed talking a lot about ufos his life was threatened he ignored it he continued to broadcast and then he wrote flying saucers serious business it's the only one that made the new york times bestseller list sold over a million copies not too long after that he turned to his wife and said mary i have the strangest feeling and dropped cole dead was the cause of death ever determined they said heart failure but he didn't have any of the usual symptoms one would associate with a heart attack i think it was some sort of poisoning of sorts and it was a warning to all of us who were serious about ufology officials ruled the cause of frank edwards death an apparent heart attack however medically an apparent heart attack and an actual heart attack are two different things entirely and shortly after that strike three hit jim keith wrote a book called case book of the men in black and he died of a wrenched ankle nothing else wrong with it young man in great health strained his ankle and was dead according to recent studies simple injuries like ankle sprains can increase the risk of blood clots simply because blood tends to stagnate in the injured area so dying from an ankle sprain although rare is possible maybe he had a blood clot maybe he didn't the probability is he died because he talked too much about the men in black always good to see you and just be careful thanks alan thank you very much well gentlemen i think you've finally found the stories of people who were hurt by mibs what are your thoughts on what we've learned from alan greenfield some of these ufologists if not all of them could have died from the causes that were reported natural deaths falling liver disease what not people die at inopportune times and when they die there's always something they were working on and if the work has something to do with ufos i think it's too easy to make the assumption that that had something to do with the death there aren't that many ufologists in the world right why is it that they didn't die natural peaceful deaths i mean these were very strange mysterious deaths there's no doubt in my mind that there's a trend here when all was said and done greenfield told us of seven ufologists who met untimely deaths at the heights of their careers seven ufologists who were also outspoken in the media just like danny gordon this is not a coincidence there is a connection here one thing we should do find some more witnesses who will take us to a place where they encountered a man in black find a place where there were men in black find a place where men in black are guarding something and see if we can bring men in black to us we're here in utah investigating the men in black about 85 miles southwest of salt lake city is a military facility called the dugway proving grounds it was constructed in 1942 to test and develop chemical and biological weapons for world war ii it has been in continuous operation since then what's actually going on there now is top secret and nobody knows for sure a lot of ufos have been seen in this area and some researchers are referring to dugway as the new area 51. perhaps this is one of the places where the men in black are coming from hello kevin hi hi good to meet you dave rosenfeld is a utah ufo researcher who's been investigating the dugway proving ground for a long time he's taken some amazing pictures of ufos and other things in the skies over dugway and he's uncovered some inside information i got the information from a particular individual that works at dugway and this information was dates times locations of testing lasers ring lasers invisible camouflage aerial vehicles testing there was a big list you know when they do these kind of tests it does attract ufos dave posted this information on his public website and then something happened about eight o'clock at night got a knock on the door two individuals one's at the door one's at the car dressed in dark uniforms could you describe the car that they arrived in it was a black car four-door any insignia on the car numbers government plates the guy that came to the door has got a crew cut it's blonde very intimidating it's got the cop glasses on he asked me first are you dave rosenfeld and i said yes he says well you've got some particular information on your website then we need to get off immediately he more or less asked me if my computer was in the house i said yes he said well can i come in and watch you take it off the website right now and i said yeah i'd be off in 10 minutes he came in watched me do it it ended with them saying we don't want to see anything like this again on your website if we see it again we'll be back and you don't want us to come back there are a lot of holes in rosenfeld's story if the government wanted to shut down his website they could have done it from anywhere but i have to admit that paying him a visit is in keeping with the whole men in black intimidation factor how long was this information on your website before these guys came to visit you about four days do you feel that the information that you had on the internet was worthy of this type of treatment is it that important it was forensic sketch artist mike brazel was able to draw composites of johnny sandsman in black real squinty eyes stubby looking nose john rhodes men in black eyes that were rather almond shaped the hair was almost like a military cut and dave rosenfeld's man in black he had a crew cut kind of a flat top narrow nose more tall than muscular three separate sketches yet there's an eerie similarity about all of them perhaps they're the same man in black that was captured in tim beckley's photo clearly there is a ufo men in black connection at dugway it really is starting to sound like the new area 51. perhaps there's a contingent of men in black originating out of dugway there's only one way to find out we have to go there we're meeting with ken storch and bob x who are instrumental in our investigation of underground bases both near here and in dulce new mexico ken and bob have been investigating dugway for years and they too had a run-in with men in black we had intel that this area was the new area 51 and so we came out here to gather intel and to verify if indeed that was the case we had stopped in at willow springs lodge and a gentleman up there that owned it said are you boys going out into the desert and we said yeah he said there's been some strange things happening out in the desert he said well are you are you guys carrying do you have guns and we said well yeah and he said well good he said just be alert so we drove out to this location it was about nine o'clock in the morning and as i pulled out of a little turnout i looked in the mirror and i could see a dust cloud coming real fast this vehicle came right up on our and i kept slowing down hoping that he'd go around and pass well he did he kept slowing down finally bob said hey pull over i've had enough of this we pulled over bob bailed out of the car i stayed in the car and i adjusted the mirror now there were two individuals in the car no insignia on the vehicle no light bar no nothing the driver got out bob got out i walked in between the vehicles he had blouse pants on right had a vest i couldn't see a badge but i knew this guy was dressed in black he says what are you doing out here i said just taking some pictures he said i need to see some identification i said i need to see who you are and this man goes this is all you need to see and he points to the g14 tag a g14 tag or license plate is a government plate the general service administration or gsa maintains vehicles in a motor pool across the country for official use by government agencies and departments they're numbered g11 through g91 g14 is issued for an interagency motor pool system for large cars you can see this place is very remote there was the two of them and the two of us and nothing else around and it could have gone south so i i had my weapon down between my legs i had the driver's mirror focused on him and the rear view mirror focused on the passenger they were expecting to intimidate us into giving up what we were doing and and you know pretty much dropped to our knees and and you know the holy grail type of thing well it didn't happen that way after that got back in the vehicle we took off he followed us all the way to where the road turns and we went to vernon and he went straight but he was still on our butt maybe just like john rhodes ken and bob were getting too close to something the government didn't want them to see i i took the tag number down and what'd you find out well it was very interesting when i got back to my jurisdiction because i was active law enforcement at that time and i ran the tag and it came back to a white jeep for a bureau of land management out of park county colorado this wasn't a jeep and this wasn't a jeep so i called the park county bureau of land management supervisor and i said do you have a vehicle with this tag number and the supervisor goes sure do i'm looking at it right out my office window and park county colorado is 450-500 miles away that tag number did not belong on that vehicle that i mean that raised all kinds of red flags with me it's all adding up men in black have a long history of impersonating people and now these two men in black are apparently caught in a lie perhaps those g14 plates were actually taken from another vehicle well let me ask you a question we're standing here right now yep do you think there's an eye on you absolutely you better believe it and they monitor the communicator we've been told that number of times if you're on the radio or if you're on your cell phone this whole area is being monitored but we're on public land now why are we being monitored well base is right there no sooner do we start talking about being monitored by men in black when two helicopters appear overhead you see that kevin yep here they come they're gonna come right over the top boys but how ironic that they picked this spot to fly over would you say they're black any insignia on them i don't see that i don't know that's not all of draft no it's not and there's no insignia do you see a tail number no i would say those were black they were black helicopters they were yeah that's really weird i've worked with a lot of chinooks man they're all of drab what do you think is going on who are these guys and what you know what are they about i my take on it is that they are a private entity working in conjunction with someone that's involved in flying saucers or ufos whatever you want to call them it gives government plausible den