Black government wagons

MATT SALUSBURY asks if proto-Men in Black were driving steam wagons in HG Wells’s War of the Worlds…

Ever since Albert K Bender first described his own and other ufologists’ encounters with “Men In Black” (MIBs) from 1952 onwards (first documented in Gray Barker’s 1956 They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers) the MIBs have reportedly driven around in shiny, new black cars – often Cadillacs – in their efforts to intimidate and silence UFO witnesses. The cars the Men In Black arrive in are even said to smell new. Investigators report their attempts to trace such vehicles from their licence plates reveal no such registration exists. These strange black vehicles were there in MIB mythology from the beginning. Much has been written about how sci-fi imagery prefigures tropes within ufology, while Jenny Randles (FT447:29) has noted that secret experimental military tech and Cold War anxieties affected the…

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