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dr_wu said:A very strange article that I recall reading a few years back that places the MIB in a occult context.
People like Keel, Harpur, Vallee, etc place the MIB and the ufo phenom in more of an EDH than ETH model.
http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_001/mib.htm
Similar ground covered in Peter M. Rojcewicz - The "Men in Black" Experience and Tradition: Analogues with the Traditional Devil Hypothesis [Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 100, No. 396. (Apr-Jun 1987), pp 148-160]
(available from jstor.org if you're a student - or lucky enough to continue to have access despite no longer being a student!)
It starts rationally and ends up at tulpas, via Old Nick himself. Depends on your point of view, as ever...
Not sure how to reconcile MIB reports with my agree-with-Randles view that 99% of UFOs can be resolved to IFOs, and the rest are some kind of UAPs. Certainly, I would suggest that MIB fit much better into the trickster/fairies/demons traditions than with the UFO phenomenon.
If you believe that 'flying saucers' are caused by unexplained earth-related phenomena, then it could easily tie in with the above (and could lead, in a roundabout way, to explanations of 'alien' entities as something much closer to home, the 'old ones'.)