List of Men in Black encounters

The list of Men in Black encounters catalogues alleged post-experience encounters with Men in Black (MIB) — dark-suited figures who reportedly call on witnesses, contactees, and researchers shortly after a UFO sighting, abduction, or public disclosure to demand silence, confiscate or demand the return of evidence, and exhibit strange behavior. Each entry is an alleged Men in Black encounter; see that article and Men in black for background. This list is preliminary and seeded from the most frequently cited cases.

Date	Visitee(s)	Location	Account
22 June 1947	Harold Dahl	Tacoma, Washington	A dark-suited man in a 1947 Buick warned Dahl not to discuss his Maury Island sighting — often cited as the first MIB visit.[1]
September 1953	Albert K. Bender	Bridgeport, Connecticut	Three men with glowing eyes told the International Flying Saucer Bureau founder to stop investigating; he shut the bureau down and coined the term.[2][3]
1966–1967	Mary Hyre	Point Pleasant, West Virginia	A strangely-mannered small "man" visited the journalist during the Mothman events.[citation needed]
1967	Robert Richardson	Whitehouse, Ohio	Two men called days after his car allegedly struck a UFO fragment, demanding the recovered metal.[4]
1967	witnesses reported by John Keel	various, United States	Keel documented "Air Force impersonators" — near-identical olive-skinned men in uniform — visiting witnesses in flap areas.[5]
September 1976	Dr. Herbert Hopkins	Old Orchard Beach, Maine	A pale, lipstick-wearing visitor made a coin vanish from his palm, invoked Barney Hill's death as a warning, and had him destroy the tapes from the abduction case he was investigating.[6][7]
1996	"Mr. Greenwood" (science teacher)	Varginha, Brazil	Men in suits "threatened him big time" after he came forward as a Varginha witness.[8]
1996	families of the Varginha girls	Varginha, Brazil	Intimidating men in suits offered money to make the girls recant their contact account.[9]
1997	Vietnam-veteran witness	Phoenix, Arizona	Two men in dark suits arrived the morning after he was contacted about his Phoenix Lights footage and took it.[10]
December 1999	Jonathan Reed and Robert Raith	Washington state	After they went public on Art Bell, their home was ransacked and the alleged alien body and freezer were taken.[11]
c. 2001	Steven Greer	United States	Per Richard Doty, Greer was surveilled and threatened on three occasions before the Disclosure Project conference.[12]
3 November 2022	DreamlandResort.com webmaster	Rachel, Nevada	The FBI raid on the Area 51-watcher's webmaster has been cited as a modern MIB-style suppression visit.[13]

List of Men in Black encounters

See also