What sort of man was Albert K. Bender--he who supposedly discovered the secret of the UFOs, for which he was "silenced" in 1953 by the Three Men in Black? Gray Barker, whose They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers (1956) gives the classic account of his silencing, describes him in the most … [Read more...]
Gray Barker, Albert Bender – “Men in Black” and the Summer of 1954
"And the summer wore on into August, a summer that was not quite right. There were more freak weather conditions and earthquakes, and in the air were threats of something unknown that was to come. Windshields broke mysteriously from coast to coast. There were hints that astronomers had focused … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – Carlos Allende, Happy at Last
Review of Hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment Unraveled, by P.J. Dowers. Pandora's Press, 2012. Available from TheBookPatch.com, $15.95. Hoax is an odd title for a book so committed to the reality of the Philadelphia Experiment--invisibility, teleportation, and all. This is a rather odd book in … [Read more...]
Donald Menzel, Phil Klass – the Men We Loved to Hate
Always there’s been somebody the UFOlogists have loved to hate. When I was a teen-age UFO investigator, this was Harvard astrophysicist Donald H. Menzel, arch-skeptic of the 1950s and 60s. Menzel died in 1976; his spot was taken by science writer Philip Klass. Like Menzel, Klass produced multiple … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – Reflections
I drove up to Clarksburg, West Virginia, on Monday, September 6, 2004. I spent Tuesday through Saturday morning immersed in the decades-old files of Gray Barker, impresario of the Three Men in Black, the Philadelphia Experiment, and other myths and legends almost too numerous to list. “Gray Barker … [Read more...]
