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They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers

Gray Barker · author

Gray Barker’s 1956 monograph detailing the silencing of Albert K. Bender by three men in black suits and Barker’s first-hand investigation of the September 1952 Flatwoods, West Virginia encounter.

DOCUMENTED EDITIONS
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PUBLISHED CLAIMS
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ARCHIVE TARGETS
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PRIMARY CLAIM LINKS
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INGESTION BATCHES
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// EDITIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHY
SRC-002058Tier 3

1956 First Edition Published by University Books (New York)

Publication: 1956-04-01
Language: en
Edition verification: reported
// CLAIM PROVENANCE
5 CITATION LINK(S)
CLM-004528 · Men in Black: Attire and Demeanor
“Three men in black suits with threatening expressions on their faces, Three men who walk in on you and make certain demands. Three men who know that you know what the saucers really are!”
SUPPORTS
SRC-002058 · They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, Chapter V: Points North, South and West, p. 92.CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “Three men in black suits with threatening expressions on their faces, Three men who walk in on you and make certain demands.”
CLM-004529 · Men in Black: Coercive Silence Directive
“When the three men came into your house one of them had that very same piece of paper in his hand. They said that you, among the thousands working on the same thing, had hit pay dirt. You had the answer! Then they filled you in with the details. After they got through with you, you wished you’d have never heard of the word, ‘saucer.’”
SUPPORTS
SRC-002058 · They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, Chapter V: Points North, South and West, pp. 92–93.CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “When the three men came into your house one of them had that very same piece of paper in his hand. They said that you, among the thousands working on the same thing, had hit pay dirt.”
CLM-004530 · IFSB Shutdown: Higher Source Order
“STATEMENT OF IMPORTANCE. The mystery of the flying saucers is no longer a mystery. The source is already known, but any information about this is being withheld by orders from a higher source. We would like to print the full story in Space Review, but because of the nature of the information we are very sorry that we have been advised in the negative.”
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SRC-002058 · They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, Chapter VIII: Maury Island / Space Review Reprint, p. 138.CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “The mystery of the flying saucers is no longer a mystery. The source is already known, but any information about this is being withheld by orders from a higher source.”
CLM-004531 · Flatwoods Entity: Morphology & Cowl
“She said they found a ‘fire-breathing monster, 10 feet tall with a bright green body and a blood-red face,’ that waddled toward them with ‘a bouncing, floating’ motion and sent them scurrying down the hillside... She said the monster exuded an overpowering odor, ‘like metal,’ that so sickened them they vomited for hours afterward.”
SUPPORTS
SRC-002058 · They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, Chapter I: A Hilltop, West Virginia, p. 16.CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “She said they found a ‘fire-breathing monster, 10 feet tall with a bright green body and a blood-red face,’ that waddled toward them with ‘a bouncing, floating’ motion...”
CLM-004532 · Flatwoods Craft: Visual Descent & Odor
“It was an elongated object, he said, The top of it was a light shade of a red, and the bottom bright red. From the rear shot red balls of fire. At the time he thought it was a jet plane, though he saw no wings... It proceeded across the sky, halted suddenly, then seemed to fall rapidly toward the hilltop.”
SUPPORTS
SRC-002058 · They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, Chapter I: A Hilltop, West Virginia, p. 19.CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “It was an elongated object, he said, The top of it was a light shade of a red, and the bottom bright red. From the rear shot red balls of fire.”
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