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UFO Hunters has been an excellent series - updating many of the established UFO cases or contributing new ideas for the modern era. The fact that a major cable broadcaster considers continued funding of such an issue shows a profound shift has taken place. Prior to this we just had the siple on off shows which were usually framed with the pointless debunker viewpoint at the conclusion.
Those of us in the UK and Europe can see the episodes only on certain cable and satellite channels. However - a recent UK edition of UFOHunters as well as their special featuring Lloyd Pye's star child skull research are available to watch online on this site.
Watch UFOhunters: Grey's Agenda | UK UFO Special
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Thursday, October 29 8 pm UFO Hunters: The Silencers
TVPG | cc Friday, October 30 12 am UFO Hunters: The Silencers
TVPG | cc Thursday, October 29 9 pm UFO Hunters: Area 52
TVPG | cc Friday, October 30 1 am UFO Hunters: Area 52
TVPG | cc Thursday, October 29 11 pm UFO Hunters: Dark Presence
TVPG | cc Friday, October 30 3 am UFO Hunters: Dark Presence
"The Silencers" with Allen Greenfield & Timothy Green Beckley on the REAL Men in Black
UFOs are the biggest mystery of our time and somebody--or
something--seems determined to keep it that way. Hundreds of UFO
researchers and witnesses have told of terrifying encounters with
mysterious men, usually dressed completely in black, who threaten
terrible consequences if they don't keep silent. The Men in Black seem
to appear out of nowhere, know facts the witnesses haven't divulged to
anybody, and frequently display bizarre behavior, leading some to
question whether they are in fact, human. The team interviews men who
are only now willing to come forward to tell their stories. A sketch
artist will create portraits of the MIB to see if the sightings match.
The team will also analyze the only known photograph of a MIB and talk
to the photographer. Finally, the team travels to "the new Area 51" in
the Utah desert, to a site rumored to be the place where the MIB
originate.
Rating: TVPG
Running Time: 60 minutes
Genre:Mysteries of History
"Area 52" Area 51 is considered the ultimate top secret facility, one
that UFO investigators believe houses an extraterrestrial secret. But
is there an even more secretive facility? In Dugway, UT, there is a
remote testing facility sometimes referred to as Area 52. UFO watchers
in this part of Utah have witnessed strange phenomena at this military
site for over 10 years, leading to speculation that much of Area 51's
secretive work is now conducted at Area 52. The team examines video of
bizarre beams of light seen shooting up from the area, meets with an
astrophysicist who has charted mysterious cosmic rays operating out of
Dugway, and analyzes photos that suggest something very strange is
taking place.
Rating: TVPG
Running Time: 60 minutes
Genre:Mysteries of History
"Dark Presence" There's a growing phenomenon of alleged UFO sightings
known as Orbs. Witnesses who see the Orbs also report having dreams,
premonitions, and a deep fear. Some believe that the Orbs coincide with
earthquakes, while others claim that the sightings are clustered around
sacred sites and petroglyphs that depict the Orbs in ancient artwork.
The team will take their investigation to three of the most active Orbs
locations in America--Arizona, Indiana and Missouri--to examine video
and talk to eyewitnesses, to unravel the mystery of why Orbs are
appearing with alarming regularity, perhaps directed by an otherworldly
intelligence.
Rating: TVPG
Running Time: 60 minutes
Genre:Mysteries of History
BACKGROUND
The Men In Black is now a motion picture
experience, but eyewitness accounts of these shadowy figures have been
documented for 50 years, and they have become as integral to UFO lore
as the Philadelphia Experiment, Roswell, Area 51 and crop circles.
Aptly described as "sartorial agents of silence", they are believed to
move in groups of two or three. They wear black suits and ties, travel
in similarly coloured Cadillac's and turn up at the houses of those who
claim to have seen UFOs. They will warn these witnesses not to pursue
their. investigations.
They may confiscate any "evidence" that the "contacted might have
collected. They seem to have telepathic powers, they are uncannily well
informed, and give the impression that they work for the government -
although US intelligence agencies have denied all knowledge of them.
They are born of the same kind of paranoia that underpins sightings of
flying saucers and claims of extraterrestrial abduction. The most
common post Roswell stories are victims losing several hours of their
lives, oftcll after witnessing a blinding light, and for years
afterwards suffering recurring nightmares about being experimented on
by aliens.
Just as the stories of abductions and close encounters are remarkably
alike, so the stories arriving from different corners of the world
about The Men In Black are uniform in content. And they go back almost
as far as the first recorded UFO sighting, in 1947, when a pilot named
Kenneth Arnold spotted a group of shimmering discs hovering over Mount
Rainier in Washington. Almost immediately afterwards came the "Maury
Island Incident" in which a man named Harold Dahl claimed he had seen
some flying doughnut-shaped objects, one of which had dropped a lump of
metal on his dog's head. Dahl said he had then had breakfast with a
stranger wearing a black suit who drove a 1947 Buick Sedan and warned
him to keep silent. The Maury Island Incident was later reported to be
a hoax. Genuine or otherwise, this didn't deter The Men In Black, who
pursued a tight schedule for the next 50 years. Albert K Bender, for
instance, director of a research group entitled the International
Flying Saucer Bureau, abruptly announced his retirement following a
visit by three men with eyes that shone like flashbulbs. "If we hear
another word from your of fine, you're in trouble," they warned him.
Several years later, in 1968, Bender published a book in which he
explained The Men In Black in more detail: they were, he claimed, from
somewhere called Kazik; he had visited their spaceship in Antarctica;
they had told him that their agents had infiltrated the Pentagon.
In 1971, UFO author Timothy Green Beckley published a pamphlet entitled
MIB - Aliens Among us, in which he revealed a US Air Force memorandum
apparently written by one Lt Gen Wheless. It warned military personnel
to be on the alert for people impersonating air force of fixers,
describing a person in a USAF uniform who "approached local police and
other citizens who had sighted a UFO". Apparently, this shadowy figure
assembled them and told them that they had not seen what they thought
they had seen. Nor should they talk to anyone about their imagined
sighting. As would be expected, sightings of The Men In Black were
documented throughout the Sixties and Seventies when the fashionable
nihilism spawned by the Vietnam war, nuclear threat and the arms race
gradually mutated into academic orthodoxy. In an atmosphere dominated
by Cold War paranoia, assassinations and Watergate, every conspiracy
theory gained validity. One of the most interesting and most detailed
descriptions of a Man In Black was given in 1976. Dr Herbert Hopkins, a
psychiatrist based in Maine, had no previous link with this field,
except that he had been treating a youth who claimed to have been
abducted by aliens. Here is an abbreviated account of the whole
episode, as Hopkins told it to UFO Review:
"I was alone in the house. The telephone rang and the voice on the
other end identified itself as a member of a New Jersey UFO research
organization. I agreed that he could talk with me about the abduction
case. He said that he would be right over. I walked from the telephone
in the hallway to turn on a light and the man was already coming up the
stairs. If he was as close as across the street, or even next door, he
couldn't have possibly gotten here so soon. "His attire struck me as a
little odd. He wore a neatly tailored black suit, black shoes, black
socks, and a black tie. He also wore a black Derby. I thought, 'God,
this man looks like an undertaker.' "We sat down and I said to myself,
'This character is as bald as an egg.' He didn't have any eyebrows or
eyelashes and his skin was a dead white colour. His nose was very small
and it came down to just above the upper lip. His lips were ruby red.
"He had the appearance of a clothing store dummy. His sump looked as if
it had never been worn before. He spoke flawlessly English with no
accent, completely neuter, like you would get from a machine that could
talk."He was wearing gloves. They looked like grey suede. He 5 brushed
his lips with the glove, and when he put his hand downy the back of his
glove was bright red. I said to myself; 'This guy is wearing lipstick.'
Then I could see that his mouth was perfectly straight. He did not have
what we call lips, so the lipstick was there as some sort of decoy. "He
could apparently read my mind. He told me I had two coins in my left
pocket, which I happened to know for a fact. "He asked me to hold a
bright new copper penny up in my fingers, and he made it disappear in a
bright blue light. I didn't smell or feel anything. I was just
fascinated at that point. "I got a little uneasy when he ordered me to
destroy the tapes and any other correspondence and anything to do with
UFOs. He said that if I didn't do so I would suffer the same fate as
Barney Hill" [a renowned 'contactee who had died under mysterious
circumstances]. "I truly believe that this individual was from another
planet. He is not an invader. I don't think so anyway. But I do feel
he, and others like him, are around, nosing about..."
The nature of these visitations has changed little in the past ten
years, and stories still abound about peculiar interrogations conducted
by men who, rather scarily, look like Bryan Ferry. In 1985, a report
emerged from Venezuela in which two doctors claimed that they had seen
two men wearing black suits and shades emerge from a magenta Ford
Mustang and then climb up a ladder into a UFO. Nine years later, Mike
Lonzo, a researcher n Pennsylvania, visited an old woman who told him
that she had been approached by two individuals wearing black dinner
jackets. They demanded she give them a black stone that was in her back
Fyard because it had the power to destroy the world. She complied. Then
they asked her out to dinner in a restaurant in Pittsburgh. Testis
urzu, testis rullis. Everyone from Hawking to Asimov has had their say.
We have been offered humanoids and reptoids, angel hair and hoaxes,
interdimensional gateways and autopsies. The result is a virtual truth,
so out there no one knows what is real. Eyewitness accounts of
abductions and interplanetary travel have been indistinguishable from
the parallel universe presented by screen writers from The Day The
Earth Stood Still in 1950. In 2001A Spare Odyssey, an astronaut is
transformed into a hybrid that is half man, half alien - a fantastic
idea you may think, and one that could only exist in science fiction.
But in America, Jenny Randles has published Star Children - "the
stories of people who believe they are the offspring of aliens and
humans". The Men in Black, chic and scary, are still an unexplained
phenomenon. Psychiatrists may throw out phrases such as "fantasy prone
personalities", "disassociative states", and "constructive perception";
debunkers will do their work and describe rational causes; but no one
has pinned down The Men In Black and, consequently, disparate
suppositions have been spawned in this arena of strange perceptions.
Theorists who affiliate UFOs not so much with outer space as with the
paranormal suggest that The MIB are a form of demonic psychic energy
similar to the poltergeist. Some have said that The Men in Black were
linked to a branch of the US Air Force Special Activities Centre known
as the 1127th Field Activities Group, which was said to comprise a
group of underworld figures who were specialists in lock-picking and
intimidation. Others argue that The Men in Black were Tibetan monks who
followed the Dalai Lama and the Khamba riders into exile, and placed
their yogic powers at the service of the CIA. This could help to
explain why many reports of MIB describe their features as Asian. John
Keel, a leading UFO investigator, has pointed out that, "a large
proportion of the available UFO literature is based on hearsay and
speculation. Many of the real and important problems have been
suppressed at the source by the witnesses themselves or have been
ignored by superficial investigations which concentrate on obtaining
descriptions of the objects rather than studying all the events and
factors surrounding the sightings.
"Many of the aspects which have preoccupied UFOlogists for years have
proved to be misleading or have failed to contribute to a better
understanding of the whole. The UFOs represent only a small part of a
much larger phenomenon which is now occurring on a worldwide scale. By
being more thorough and objective in our investigations we can - and
will - learn more about the main phenomenon itself." But objectivity
holds little sway in a land where meta-logic makes faith and
pseudo-science gives rise to all manner of extraterrestrial hypotheses.
You could put it all down to protean psychoid phenomena. Or you could
simply agree that everyone loves a good story.
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