DISCLOSURE / FILE
FBI 62-HQ-83894, Serial 403
FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 Serial 403 is a 1956 dust-jacket from Gray Barker's book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," filed into the bureau's central UFO investigative case file.
DISCLOSURE / FILE
FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 Serial 403 is a 1956 dust-jacket from Gray Barker's book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," filed into the bureau's central UFO investigative case file.
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FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 Serial 403 is a 1956 dust-jacket from Gray Barker's book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," filed into the bureau's central UFO investigative case file.
Serial 403 of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 preserves the front and back dust-jacket flaps of Gray Barker's University Books volume "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," priced at $3.50 and jacketed by Gropper Associates. The jacket promotes Barker's account of civilian saucer researchers visited by "three men in dark suits" and silenced, an origin text for the men-in-black motif in UFO lore. The bureau cover sheet marks the item as Serial 403, DIPA #1142292, with declassification authority drawn from the FBI Automatic Declassification Guide issued May 24, 2007. Barker is identified as a Clarksburg, West Virginia film-booking businessman who publishes the periodical The Saucerian.
Three men in dark suits have visited these saucer researchers. Nobody knows what they said, but it was enough to reduce their hearers to silence.p.2
One by one, the leading figures among flying saucer researchers, who have challenged the government denial that saucers come from outer space, have been silenced.p.2
They might be government agents, they might even be men from outer space, or they might have muscled into a situation fraught with many possibilities.p.2
Mr. Barker never was interested in flying saucers until 1952 when one of the most astonishing ones reportedly landed near his home in West Virginia and he investigated the story and found the shaken and fearful eye witnesses convincing enough to go on with further investigations.p.2
Finding time for his literary career between details of operating his business, he publishes The Saucerian, a flying saucer periodical, and contributes to educational journals and motion picture technical magazines.p.3
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62- HQ-83894
Serial 403
EBF
[BARCODE]
92-HQ-83894-E403
FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER
HQ - HEADQUARTERS DO NOT
DESTROY
Class / Case # Sub Vol. Serial # DIPA # 1142292
0062 83894 1 403 ONLY
9/18/226771
[BARCODE]
RRP00A/1WL
62-83894-403
Declassification authority derived
from FBI Automatic Declassification
Guide, issued May 24, 2007.Page 2 · vision OCR
$3.50 They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers by GRAY BARKER One by one, the leading figures among flying saucer researchers, who have challenged the government denial that saucers come from outer space, have been silenced. Outwardly, nothing seems to have happened to these men. They are still alive, still living where they used to. But they no longer publish saucer research material and they will not talk about saucers or why they no longer will speak of them. Three men in dark suits have visited these saucer researchers. Nobody knows what they said, but it was enough to reduce their hearers to silence. Perhaps the silenced men know who the three dark-clad visitors are, but they won't talk about this either. And nobody else seems to know who these men are. They might be government agents, they might even be men from outer space, or they might have muscled into a situation fraught with many possibilities. This is part of the true story told by an otherwise prosaic and successful Clarksburg, West Virginia, business man, Gray Barker, whose busy film booking and buying agency in Clarksburg News Building scarcely seems to be the place to give forth this story stranger than that of any of the pictures that Mr. Barker is booking. Mr. Barker never was interested in flying saucers until 1952 when one of the most astonishing ones allegedly landed near his home in West Virginia and he investigated the story and found the shaken and fearful eye witnesses convincing enough to go on with further investigations. Then, after several years of close contact with the leading men in the field, he found them suddenly silenced, one by one. Who they are, what they were doing when they were silenced, Mr. Barker's astonishing theories of what they had discovered that impelled others to silence them, is told in his book. H. G. Rhawn, publisher and owner of the daily Clarksburg News, the author's home town paper, has authorized University Books to publish a letter from him which, while carefully disclaiming any credence in flying saucers, concludes that when so sober and successful a business man as Mr. Barker finds the field important enough, flying saucers deserve serious investigation. They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers is a (continued on back flap) JACKET BY GROPPER ASSOCIATES, INC. [LEFT SIDE - Book cover image] They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers GRAY BARKER THE TRUE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO CERTAIN RESEARCHERS AND INVESTIGATORS WHO FOUND OUT WHERE THE SAUCERS COME FROM
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GRAY BARKER Buffington Studios (continued from front flap) behind-the-scenes chronicle of civilian saucer research. It is an immensely readable book. We suggest you do not pick it up if you have work to do, for you will be unable to put it down until you reach the amazing climax. Mr. Barker tells the story in such a straightforward and documentary manner that the reader's first moment of incredulity will give way to conviction as he is acquainted, page-by-page, with the terrifying inside facts. A six-footer, handsome, and with a warm, infectious laugh, Mr. Barker retains in his voice just a trace of the accent of the West Virginia farming country where he grew up, somewhat belying the rich and varied career he has crammed into his thirty years. He has been head of an English department in a Maryland school system, an audio-visual education consultant for a large school supplier, theatre manager and motion picture projection technician. Begun as a hobby, saucer research has taken more and more of his time as he has realized the stark reality behind the mystery. Finding time for his literary career between details of operating his business, he publishes The Saucerian, a flying saucer periodical, and contributes to educational journals and motion picture technical magazines. UNIVERSITY BOOKS, INC. 404 Fourth Avenue • New York 16, N. Y. [RIGHT SIDE - Book spine and cover] Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers BARKER They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers GRAY BARKER THE TRUE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO CERTAIN RESEARCHERS AND INVESTIGATORS WHO FOUND OUT WHERE THE SAUCERS COME FROM UNIVERSITY BOOKS
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62- HQ-83894
Serial 403
EBF
[BARCODE]
92-HQ-83894-E403
FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER
HQ - HEADQUARTERS DO NOT
DESTROY
Class / Case # Sub Vol. Serial # DIPA # 1142292
0062 83894 1 403 ONLY
9/18/226771
[BARCODE]
RRP00A/1WL
62-83894-403
Declassification authority derived
from FBI Automatic Declassification
Guide, issued May 24, 2007.$3.50 They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers by GRAY BARKER One by one, the leading figures among flying saucer researchers, who have challenged the government denial that saucers come from outer space, have been silenced. Outwardly, nothing seems to have happened to these men. They are still alive, still living where they used to. But they no longer publish saucer research material and they will not talk about saucers or why they no longer will speak of them. Three men in dark suits have visited these saucer researchers. Nobody knows what they said, but it was enough to reduce their hearers to silence. Perhaps the silenced men know who the three dark-clad visitors are, but they won't talk about this either. And nobody else seems to know who these men are. They might be government agents, they might even be men from outer space, or they might have muscled into a situation fraught with many possibilities. This is part of the true story told by an otherwise prosaic and successful Clarksburg, West Virginia, business man, Gray Barker, whose busy film booking and buying agency in Clarksburg News Building scarcely seems to be the place to give forth this story stranger than that of any of the pictures that Mr. Barker is booking. Mr. Barker never was interested in flying saucers until 1952 when one of the most astonishing ones allegedly landed near his home in West Virginia and he investigated the story and found the shaken and fearful eye witnesses convincing enough to go on with further investigations. Then, after several years of close contact with the leading men in the field, he found them suddenly silenced, one by one. Who they are, what they were doing when they were silenced, Mr. Barker's astonishing theories of what they had discovered that impelled others to silence them, is told in his book. H. G. Rhawn, publisher and owner of the daily Clarksburg News, the author's home town paper, has authorized University Books to publish a letter from him which, while carefully disclaiming any credence in flying saucers, concludes that when so sober and successful a business man as Mr. Barker finds the field important enough, flying saucers deserve serious investigation. They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers is a (continued on back flap) JACKET BY GROPPER ASSOCIATES, INC. [LEFT SIDE - Book cover image] They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers GRAY BARKER THE TRUE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO CERTAIN RESEARCHERS AND INVESTIGATORS WHO FOUND OUT WHERE THE SAUCERS COME FROM
GRAY BARKER Buffington Studios (continued from front flap) behind-the-scenes chronicle of civilian saucer research. It is an immensely readable book. We suggest you do not pick it up if you have work to do, for you will be unable to put it down until you reach the amazing climax. Mr. Barker tells the story in such a straightforward and documentary manner that the reader's first moment of incredulity will give way to conviction as he is acquainted, page-by-page, with the terrifying inside facts. A six-footer, handsome, and with a warm, infectious laugh, Mr. Barker retains in his voice just a trace of the accent of the West Virginia farming country where he grew up, somewhat belying the rich and varied career he has crammed into his thirty years. He has been head of an English department in a Maryland school system, an audio-visual education consultant for a large school supplier, theatre manager and motion picture projection technician. Begun as a hobby, saucer research has taken more and more of his time as he has realized the stark reality behind the mystery. Finding time for his literary career between details of operating his business, he publishes The Saucerian, a flying saucer periodical, and contributes to educational journals and motion picture technical magazines. UNIVERSITY BOOKS, INC. 404 Fourth Avenue • New York 16, N. Y. [RIGHT SIDE - Book spine and cover] Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers BARKER They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers GRAY BARKER THE TRUE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO CERTAIN RESEARCHERS AND INVESTIGATORS WHO FOUND OUT WHERE THE SAUCERS COME FROM UNIVERSITY BOOKS