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TESTIMONY FROM A "MAN IN BLACK" circumstances unless it was real. “Man in Black" was not a term that was ever used for my work. It was invented, I believe, by the ufologist crowd or quite possibly by one of he magazines related to such study. My actual position was "Assistant, Field, Technical Support", and my place of contact was at Tech Area 55 above Los Alamos proper. Later | eard that the actual project was called The Legacy Project, but | had no contact with the real work going on there. My duties were actually airly simple and oft times boring. Long drives down to the southern part of the state were time- consuming and monotonous. When arrived at a predesignated place, | was there to interview a subject or merely to take a photograph. Prior to leaving Los Alamos, | was shown a package with instructions (by Captain Kirk, who waited while | absorbed the material, then took the package back). The instructions were memorised, just as the answers I would receive from subjects would be memorised when I got them and then transcribed onto a report which would be hand- delivered back to Captain Kirk. | possessed no clearance that | was ever aware of at that time, although I was allowed direct and immediate access (on sight!) through the high security gate which guarded the area. My general instructions were specific only in that I was to work the required questions into as normal and friendly a conversation as | could create with the subject. During my years performing these services, | interviewed more than 200 subjects, most of whom had purportedly seen some UFO-related event and a few of whom purported o be contactees and abductees. They were not termed as such by he DOE, but were all merely described as "Subjects of Interest”. The most notable people | interviewed during this time were he Chief of Police of Socorro, the Mayor of Roswell and also the head of the School of Mining and Technology in Socorro. They had all supposedly witnessed UFO events. [The questions I was given to ask were most times pretty similar, We received this letter several years ago and thought it was time to publish it, although in edited form. This story portrays just one aspect of the Men in Black phenomenon. Tita — Editor uring the mid-late 1980s, I Dyer as a "Man in Black" (MIB) for [details deleted], at Los Alamos, New Mexico. | was a part-time employee and performed only two functions on a semi-regular basis: subject interviews and on-site photography. I worked different locations in the USA. My contact at Los Alamos was named James Kirk, a Captain in the Air Force, which was the subject of much stifled humour behind the man's back. As he wore a uniform with that name tag much of the time, | was led to believe that it was his actual name, and it seemed just too ridiculous to have used that particular one under the one NEXUS ¢ 65 DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com