Bender, Albert K
Bender, Albert K.
Organizer of an American flying saucer bureau who claimed to have discovered important data on the origin of UFO s but is supposed to have been silenced in September 1953 by the visit of three mysterious men dressed in black. Three years later this story was released by publisher/writer Gray Barker in They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers. The book firmly established the MIB (Men in Black) in UFO mythology. In 1962 Bender published his own book, Flying Saucers and the Three Men, notwithstanding the alleged sinister silencers, in which the somewhat anticlimactic secret was supposed to be an Agharta- type underground UFO base in Antarctica, discovered during an astral projection. Barker, always aware of the public appetite for paranoia, used the Bender story as the basis for writing two further books, Bender Mystery Confirmed (1962) and MIB: The Secret Terror among Us (1983).
Sources:
Barker, Gray, ed. Bender Mystery Confirmed. Clarksburg, W.V.: Saucerian Books, 1962.
——. MIB: The Secret Terror Among Us. Jane Lew, W.V.: New Age Press, 1983.
——. They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers. Clarksburg, W.V.: Saucerian Press, 1962. Reprint, New York: Tower, 1967.
Clark, Jerome. The Emergence of a Phenomenon: UFOs from the Beginning through 1959; The UFO Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1992.