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<P><B>They are out there.
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<P>They are, you know. I'm not talking about aliens, I'm talking about MIBs or "Men In Black". And no, not the movie. In the much more interesting real-world myth, the MIB usually ARE the scum of the universe. That is, they're the bad guys, menacing heavies from another world of shifty fixers dispatched by the cover-up-obsessed government.
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<P>It's interesting - and a bit unsettling - that in Hollywood's riff on the myth, the MIB become "good guys" even though they're members of an elite and xenophobic secret police organization not unlike the Nazi SS. Apparently in the Hollywood of the nineties, it's politically correct to round up degenerate foreigners as long as they drool copious amounts of outer-space endoplasm.
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<P>Witnesses who report MIB sightings often describe "foreign looking" men with exotic features; it's as if they're "from elsewhere." They look "Oriental" or "Indian" and have "deeply tanned" skin, although sometimes their complexions are extremely pale. The eyes of the MIB are usually described as slanted or "bulging," as if from a thyroid condition. Their noses and chins are often "point," and their cheekbones are set high on their faces. Though some are tall and thin, with naturally long fingers, others are short or stout. They may or may not have fingernails.
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<P>A researcher in New Zealand, who was doing research on a UFO landing, says that he was once called out in the middle of the morning and told by a tall man in a dark suit with a machine-like voice, "I warn you to stop interfering in matters that do not concern you," and the researcher, who will not be named for privacy reasons, says that the MIB ended the conversation by saying "I... am from another planet." The MIB then got into a Chervolet automobile and drove off.
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<P>Unfortunately, that's all I could collate for this month, but be sure to be here next month readers, where I investigate even deeper into the myth of the MIB.
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<P>Bennett