Men in Black

Pale, precise, slightly wrong. They arrive after the sighting and before the retraction.

The archetype enters the literature through Albert Bender, who closed his UFO organization in 1953 saying three dark-suited men had told him the answer and terrified him. Keel's Point Pleasant files added the stable details: not-quite-right faces, antique cars in new condition, knowledge of unpublished events. The prosaic explanation is real — Air Force and FBI personnel did visit witnesses (a 1967 memo from the USAF orders investigation of impersonators, which is itself an official document about Men in Black). The folklore's version connects Mothman, Roswell, and the recurring theme of the phenomenon investigating its investigators.