Yeah, the way the guy spoke with the interviewer sounded just like some of the talks I’ve had with government intel people. This is not to say that this couldn’t easily be faked in person or on the page!

Also disarming was the way the interview started — the chuckling and good naturedness of their introduction did seem to ring true.

At the same time, I take everyhting I read now with a pinch of salt. If it’s true: amazing. If it’s not, then at least it’s a good example of how articles like this emerge which tie up lots of loose ends in the mythology of UFO/MiB reports.

See my other replies, and the “Mr. Q” name was made up by the interviewer, not the supposed MIB.

That suspicion was at the top of my list. See my reply to “disowned sky.”

Right now, I’m reading Graham Hancock’s Supernatural, Dean Radin’s Entangled Minds, The Trickster and the Paranormal by George Hansen, essays on writing by Jack London, a book on the history of the Western US, and old issues of the Desert Rat Scrapbook. I guess I’ll get to the Stargate Conspiracy soon enough.

Agree with you almost completely.

Saucers were reported before Kenneth Arnold, but as you say, it seems to have opened the floodgates. The error, as I remember, was that Arnold said that the chevron-shaped objects moved like “saucers when skipped over the water.”

UFOs seemed to come in a wide variety of shapes, though. This is still true, I think.

In an interview with Bill Moore in my original “Excluded Middle” magazine, he guessed (with some private talk with gov’t operative to back it up) that the MIB phenomenon was utilized by the government from time to time as an intelligence gathering tool, or used to be.

The reason I was interested is that the interviewee seems to know the history of the phenomenon and taps into the paranoia and known prejudices of UFO conspiroids. That raises my red flags and makes me wonder what is being accomplished, whether by the person who made it up, or the MIB, if he exists.

I can’t be the only person who noticed MR Q’s name fits the same naming convention as the MiB in the Will Smith film though, can I?