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the object nor the pilot left any marks in the fresh snow. Local UFO investigatorsregarded this as proof that Mr Baldwin bad fabricated his story and was merely seeking notorii ety, i An Iowa college professor who writes popular books under the pseudonym of Brad Steiger has been investigating Men in Black cases in the Midwest for several years. In his book, Flying Saucer Invasion, he disclosed another common MIB tactic which ij being widely employed these days to discredit investigators. Steiger wrote: *In the summer of 1968 Brad Steiger received a long distance telephone call from a journalist friend who was covering a UFO flap for his local newspaper* [Steiger wrote in the third person.] "Blast Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour [a Florida researcher who collaborated with Steiger] and down with John Keell" he thundered. '"T'm trying to cover this flap over here - my lord! Everyone has seen these UFOs! - but everytime I try to dig deep, the eyewitness clams up and says. 'I won't say more. Brad Steiger says awful things will happen to me if I tell too much!' One lady said that John Keel had told her that she would be carried off by the saucer people if she talked to anyone about her sighting." ‘Steiger knew that neither he nor Keel were in that particular area at that time and that neither he nor Keel would say such things in even a jesting manner if they had been in the locale, so he pressed his friend for details. ‘Well, damn near everywhere I go the witness has been given a copy of one of the Steiger- Whritenour books or a magazine with an article in it by you or Keell" " ' "Not until this afternoon," the newsman answered, "I guess I arrived at this farmhouse just a few minutes after they did. Damn unfriendly little monkeys . *. I was trying to talk to the farmer's wife, while they were chattering at the fanner and waving a copy of this magazine in their hands and telling the man how Brad Steiger was.warning all UFO sighters not to talk." '"They were short men in dark suits. All three of them had deep suntans... I can't recall even seeing their eyes. Come to think of it, they all wore dark glasses."" Mr Baldwin found a crack in the muzzle of Ms shotgun after the man had examined it. Neither We ee a ee TTA teat ne da ‘Steiger, recognizing his friend's voice, asked him what the trouble was. "And the books and articles are supposed to frighten them?** Steiger questioned. "Whoever is delivering these things must be adding their own interpretation. * > Who are the deEvery boys? Have you seen themf" * "Could you describe them? "