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although I do not remember the exact wording after all these years: "What did you see?" (getting as much detail here as | could); "Where did you see it?"; "When did you see it?"; "How do you feel about what you have seen?"; "Have you seen anything like this before?"; "Have you contacted the media about this event?"; "Do you feel you might benefit from talking to someone professionally about what you saw?"; "Did you make any notes, drawings or take any photographs or film of the event?" (acquiring as much of this as was possible, but in my time of service | never was able o get any). The photography I performed was all of specific locations and never of e subjects | interviewed. I was specifically warned not to take photos of them, just as | was specifically instructed to retreat at e slightest suspicion by a subject or any resistance whatsoever. | was o apologise and retreat in a tiendly manner and then get out of e area immediately. This appened several times, and each ime I was able to back away by saying that | was just an amateur UFO student poking around. I was also required to memorise a phone number in Los Alamos in case | was ever encountered by any authoritative body, but this never happened. The only hard-copy paperwork | was ever allowed to carry were satellite photographs (very, very detailed) of the exact areas I was to photograph. No subject interview job was ever combined with a photography job, and I had to check the satellite photographs in at Area 55 within 24 hours of finishing the job. Only in the last two years of my work in this area did I come to understand that I might indeed be one of the "Men in Black" that I was reading about in UFO magazines. Up until | began the interview work, I had no belief in UFOs whatsoever, but slowly, as the openly and naively offered information was so freely given to me, | came to develop first a distinct unease and then the feeling that it just might be possible that many of these stories were true. I began to consume what materials I could ———— find, and came across stories HELIUM: about people possibly doing sust work similar to European trim BMW M6, also black. Only the car colour was pre- determined, and there was no resistance at all that I was ordering two very expensive automobiles, both of which I was able to keep without questions. They were registered to me and nobody ever asked me to give them back, even after | moved on to different work. The Leica 35-mm reflex cameras and lenses which I ordered and received were treated the same way, and again the only requirement was that they be black. The Zeiss and Leica binoculars, the same. | possess all that equipment to this day. y clothing was directed to be dark blue or black, and I chose very dark blue pinstripe suits. Coat and tie was required (white shirt always, but I was allowed to choose my ties). All suits and ties | ordered were made by Brioni and the shirts by Sea Island, all purchased from Harrods in London. The shoes were brown or black shoes from a place called Allen Edmonds in Wisconsin. I also wore flight sunglasses but seldom really wore them for anything but driving. They were provided, but I was not told | had to wear them. | pretty much stuck to he "uniform" as designed, unless | ad to hike into a rough area to take some photographs. I did once inquire about the rather set colour scheme and was told by irk that the colours allowed people not to focus attention until later. | could never quite understand how people (especially men) might not ocus attention on something as exotic as a BMW M6. | ordered the cars because | really wanted them and could never have afforded them without that kind of support. I never expected to be able to have the orders approved, much less be allowed to keep them, but nobody ever denied me anything or asked for anything back. HELIUM: | sust mine. Tools of the trade The pay | received was okay, but the = s omervi/e 66 * NEXUS DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com