AlbertKBender

Back in the early 50's(about 1953) a man named Albert K. Bender ran a small organization called the International Flying Saucer Burea(IFSB), along with editing a small publication called "Space Review" which dedicated itself to reporting flying saucer sightings. The review didn't get much more than a few hundred members, but the members it had were loyal and felt they had a special importance(being they were in possesion of the great truth while the rest of us remained in darkness and ignorance.) This led to great surprise when they opened the October, 1953 issue of the review(which held two very unexpected announcements.):

"LATE BULLETIN. A source which the IFSB considers very reliable has informed us that the solution is approaching it's final stages"
"This same source whom we had referred data, which had come into our posession, suggested that it was not the proper method and time to publish the data in "Space Review."

The second announcement:

"STATEMENT OF IMPORTANCE: The myster of the flying saucers is no longer a mystery. The source is already known, but any information about this is being withheld by order of a higher source. We would like to print the whole story in "Space Review", but because of the nature of the information we are very sorry that we have been advised in the nagative."

The statmen ended with this sentence: "We advise those engaged in saucer work to please be very cautious." The publication of "Space Review" was then suspended and the organization was shut down.

Shortly after the closing of the magazine and organization, Bender attended an interview for a local newspaper, which he asserted that he had been visited by "three men wearing dark suits" who had ordered hs to "emphatically" to "stop publishing material about flying saucers." Bender also reported that be had been "scared to death"

Many people were openly skeptical about the story, claiming that the the publication and organization were losing money and the three men "demanding he stop publishing" was just a face-saving gesture.

MIB began to sound more believable later in the future, and started taking a life of their own. Some first thought that visitors were from the government or CIA, which in Bender's first statement had government sounded qualities. But after a while the MIB adopted the more extraterrestrial reported qualities

Finally, in 1963 a decade later, Bender reported more in his in a book called "Flying Saucers and the Three Men in Black." the book was confusing and virtually unreadable that revealed very little hard facts or evidence. One contribution to the book though was that it significantly enhanced the reputation of the MIB being extraterrestrial, not governmental.

Before the publication of the book an outpour of MIB experiences had been reported make the MIB's a large part of UFO history.