65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_403
- Date
- Date unknown
- Place
- Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
A publisher's dust-jacket text (University Books, Inc.) for Gray Barker's 1956 book 'They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers,' retained in the FBI file rather than any FBI-generated report. The jacket copy describes Barker's central claim: that leading civilian saucer researchers were visited by 'three men in dark suits' and subsequently fell silent about their findings, and that Barker investigated a 1952 landing case near his West Virginia home that first drew him into the subject. This book is the commonly cited origin of the 'Men in Black' legend in American UFO folklore.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- No: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- Yes: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- No: Other
- No: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- No: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating This is promotional copy for a book, not an incident report or investigative record; it contains no observational data to rate.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- Unnamed civilian saucer researchers described by Barker as silenced
Pentagon files
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_403
Open the original on war.gov
What the file claims
- Unverified
Barker claimed leading civilian saucer researchers were visited by three men in dark suits and afterward refused to discuss saucers.
On the map
39.28° N, 80.34° W, plotted at the town or city
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