5 Chilling Men in Black Encounters | Stories from UFO Reddit

Summary

Hosts Ryan Sprague and Suzanne Landers read five Reddit accounts from people who say they were visited by mysterious Men in Black after seeing or reporting UFOs. The stories include pale, robotic-sounding agents at Joshua Tree, alleged Raytheon representatives at a remote Afghanistan radar post, eerie phone calls replaying private conversations, and fake roofers who arrived just after a UFO documentary interview. The most unsettling case describes a man and woman who showed a witness photographs of his own UFO sighting, seemingly taken from his own point of view.

Key takeaways

• 1The Men in Black legend traces back to Harold Dahl's 1947 Maury Island incident and Albert K. Bender, who shut down his UFO group in 1953 after a visit from three men in black. Gray Barker popularized the story in his 1956 book 'They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.'
• 2A US Army air traffic controller in Afghanistan says two pale men in sunglasses claiming to be from Raytheon dismissed his radar contact, which included a scream over the radio, as a system glitch. The Reddit post was later deleted.
• 3A San Diego witness to a 2003 UFO says he later received calls with robotic voices repeating the sighting date, plus a recording of his own private conversation.
• 4A former Eglin Air Force Base security policeman says two men in black posing as roofers came to his home days after a November 2023 documentary interview, and his front security camera failed during the visit.
• 5A Birmingham, UK investigator says a man and woman in black showed him three photographs of his UFO sighting from 12 years earlier, taken from his own point of view.
• 6Ryan Sprague says a voice repeated his license plate over his car radio near the back gates of Area 51. He also recounts Lue Elizondo telling him the government gets UFO information from podcasters, and promotes Roy Tigg's book 'Close Encounters of the Police Kind' and Nick Redfern's work on the Women in Black.

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Transcript excerpt

Reports of flying saucers are nothing new. From the beginning of recorded time, men have been seeing unexplainable things in the sky. And there's no reason to doubt they saw something. The question is, was what they saw really there? And what was it they really saw? There's nothing to hide. There's nothing to hide at all. And one girl. Get the defenders! And one girl. What's up, guys? Welcome to Somewhere in the Sky's Life. I am one of your mysterious hosts tonight, Ryan Sprague. And with me, as always, is... Suzanne Landers. You didn't know it was me, did you? Can't you tell it was us, guys? Well, you're going to forget by the end of tonight's show. That's for damn sure. Can you see anything? I can't see anything. I can't see a damn thing. Okay. Let's take it. Okay. All right. You guys, you get the shtick, right? Yeah, yeah. We're doing Men in Black today. It's another volume, Suzanne. Yeah, and Jay Allen, too. He's wearing his Ray-Bans. What's the shoe called? Oh, he's got his two. Dude, these are from the biologist. The biologist got these for me. Oh, my gosh. These sweet Ray-Bans. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're with you, Jay Allen. We're with you, buddy. Yes, this is another episode of Stories from UFO Reddit. And we're covering the Men in Black tonight, not in the Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones way, but we're actually going to cover what people claim to have been encounters with the real Men in Black that we found on Reddit. Can you believe that? Exactly. And you know what happened to me? So Ryan researches these. This is one thing I sort of stay out of, and he just sends them to me. ...

Excerpt from Somewhere in the Skies, Sep 18, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.