While I am absolutely convinced that many – indeed the vast majority – of all Men in Black incidents have a basis in reality (although what kind of reality is most certainly very much open to question!), certainly not all MIB can be considered to have bizarre, mysterious, conspiratorial, alien or even government origins. Evidence available suggests that the overall phenomenon may have multiple, and wildly varying, origins. With that said, let us turn our attentions to one of the most obvious angles; namely, that at least some cases may be borne out of nothing stranger than good old misidentification.
I do not personally believe that this particular aspect of the subject can satisfactorily explain all the MIB cases presently on record – or even a large number of them. However, it may very well offer answers to at least a few incidents that have certainly gained at least a degree of legendary status. On this particular aspect of the MIB puzzle, Saucer Smear editor Jim Moseley says that: “One thing you need to know about is NICAP.”
NICAP, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, was the brainchild of a somewhat maverick physicist named Thomas Townsend Brown, and was established in 1956, the very same year that saw the publication of Gray Barker’s MIB-themed book, They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers. For the most part, the members of the group were staunch advocates of the theory that UFOs have alien origins.
