Men in Black: The Secret Terror Among Us

Gray Barker operated his publishing and UFO investigations out of West Virginia. So this was a great read for me because I lived in the Ohio Valley at the time of the Silver Bridge tragedy and I remember the sightings and "high weirdness" that occurred along Ohio's boundary with Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. Point being that this account is not the invention of the author. Barker addresses a time when most people were not mocked and humiliated into silence if they spoke out about an experience that was out of synch with day-to-day life. Most trusted that officials and scientists would investigate these events and explain them. Nearly 50 years later, we are still waiting. This book is a classic and a great read. It treats MIB reports seriously and recognizes that experiences with "the black men" may go back thousands of years. This is worth your money if you believe that MIBs are something completely other than comedians on the silver screen.

I really enjoyed this book. There were a lot of first hand testimonies, not to mention Gray Barker's. And what he had to say was similar in many aspects as to what I've already read. It's less of a leap now than before, after reading this book,to consider that the MIBs are mostly likely ETs in many circumstances. I found this book believable AND enjoyable, well-written and well-researched. I highly recommend it in the MIB genre!

This is outstanding book to engage with. It is so illogical and makes one think a little more about life and everything I think anyhow. Enjoy!

Book is ok but redundant. Same stuff different locations. Hoping for more Mothman, Sliver Bridge. etc. type stories. Got it on a Kindle and it was removed as soon as I finished it. Afraid I may have been targeted by a man in black for reading it.

This is the kind of book that is like a rollercoaster pretending to be a trolley car. The forward & after words are important because they tie the creep main section up into something you wouldn't expect

The front matter and back matter shed a lot of light on who Gray Barker was--not necessarily an objective observer--as well as who other key UFO researchers at the time were; the book is quite useful to gain an overall view of the field. Barker and the other writers don't present heavy-handed explanations of the phenomenon of the men in black, but reading about their experiences illuminates the extreme strangeness associated with the field. I would say this book isn't definitive, but it's important as a piece of the overall field.

Interesting read. Gives historical context to an eerie and ongoing phenomenon.

Barker was one of the first authors to speculate about the strange people associated with the fringe subject of the suppression of UFO witnesses. This volume has material from cases in the early days, as well as some more recent (often conspiratorial) theories.

I enjoyed this book on MIB's but I had already read other books with more material.But this seems to be one of the first books on MIB'S. So it's still interesting!

simply brilliant stuff. I guess no one will ever know how much of what he wrote Barker made up, believed in, or wasn't sure about - but he was one of the best in this genre.