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<p>Another mainstream article that would not have been allowed to be
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printed ten years ago.</p>
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<p>ENCOUNTERS WITH MEN IN BLACK</p>
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<p>(Minneapolis Star Tribune) -- They sat quietly, leaning toward the lectern
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in a dark-paneled room near Lake Calhoun as a professor from <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span> told
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of his encounter with one of the mysterious Men in Black. In the audience
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were people like biophysicist Otto Schmitt, a retired professor of
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electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota, retired aircraft
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developer and physicist Cecil Behringer, physician Steven Zuckerman and
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polymer scientist Arthur Coury, Medtronic's director of venture
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technology.</p>
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<p>Peter Rojcewicz told them there have been hundreds - perhaps thousands -
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of such encounters over the centuries. "The Men in Black are part of the
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extraordinary encounter continuum - fairies, monsters, ETS, energy forms,
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flying saucers, flaming crosses," said Rojcewicz, a 37-year-old professor
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of humanities and folklore at <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span>'s Juilliard School. The modern era
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of Men in Black - visitations by mysterious, black-clad men who seem evil
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and threatening - goes back to at least the early 1950s when a man named
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Albert K. Bender allegedly saw a <span class="EVENT" title="EVENT">UFO</span> in Bridgeport, Conn., and was later
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frightened by a visitation from three Men in Black.</p>
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<p>Rojcewicz told the audience that his own MIB (Men in Black) experience
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occurred in 1980. "I have never gone public with this before," he said.
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Most of the modern era MIB encounters have followed sightings of <span class="EVENT" title="EVENT">UFO</span>s or
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strange lights. Rojcewicz's encounter involved no sightings. He was just
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sitting in the University of <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Pennsylvania</span> library, reading a <span class="EVENT" title="EVENT">UFO</span> book
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suggested by another professor who thought that Rojcewicz, as a
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folklorist, would be interested in such phenomena. "Then in the corner of
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my vision I noticed a black pants leg and a black shoe, scuffed,"
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Rojcewicz said. The folding chairs in the auditorium of the Bakken Library
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of Electricity in Medicine, 3537 Zenith Av. S., stopped creaking as
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Rojcewicz's audience listened intently. Standing in front of him,
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Rojcewicz said, was a very gaunt, very pale man. He was about 6-1,
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weighed about 140 pounds and wore a black suit, black shoes, black string
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tie and a bright white shirt. "His suit was loose and it looked as though
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he had slept in it for three days," Rojcewicz said.</p>
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<p>Rojcewicz didn't know what to make of the figure. At the time he wasn't
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aware of the Men in Black phenomena which, he subsequently learned, dates
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back to at least Biblical times. "He sat down, like he had dropped from
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the ceiling - all in one movement" - and folded his hands on top of a
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stack of books in front of him, Rojcewicz said. The Man in Black asked
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Rojcewicz what he was doing. Rojcewicz said he was reading about flying
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saucers. "Have you seen a flying saucer?" the Man in Black asked.
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Rojcewicz said he hadn't. "Do you believe in the reality of flying
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saucers?" Rojcewicz said he didn't know much about them and wasn't sure he
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was very interested in the phenomena. The man screamed: "Flying saucers
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are the most important fact of the century and you are not interested?" "I
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tried to calm him," Rojcewicz said. The man got up, once again all in a
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single awkward movement, put his hand on Rojcewicz's shoulder and said:
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"Go well on your purpose" and left.</p>
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<p>Rojcewicz looked out at his audience. "In 10 seconds I was overwhelmed by
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fear. . . . I had a sense that this man was out of the ordinary and that
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idea frightened me. . . . I got up and walked around the stacks toward
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where the reference librarians usually are. The librarians weren't there.
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There were no guards there - there was nobody else in the library. . . . I
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was terrified."</p>
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<p>He went back to the table where he had been reading "to get myself
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together. It took me about an hour. Then I got up and everything was back
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to normal, the people were all there." He didn't talk about his experience
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in public because he was concerned about how people might react to his
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story, he said.</p>
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<p>Was he dreaming? He doesn't think so. He said he suspects he was in an
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"altered state." Rojcewicz said he thinks his experience - and that of
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others who have been exposed to the Men in Black - are somewhere "in the
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crack" between real life and fantasy.</p>
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<p>He has been studying anomalous phenomena such as the Men in Black ever
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since his 1980 experience. He has interviewed many people who have
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reported <span class="EVENT" title="EVENT">UFO</span>s, flying saucers and Men in Black experiences. He said the
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Men in Black most frequently appear in threes, but sometimes in twos, ones
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and fours. Some of the MIBs carry brief cases and represent themselves as
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being Air Force <span class="EVENT" title="EVENT">UFO</span> investigators, he said. The MIBs warn <span class="EVENT" title="EVENT">UFO</span> spotters to
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tell no one of their experiences with aliens from outer space.</p>
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<p>When the MIBs leave, people are fearful, dizzy and, sometimes, nauseous,
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he said. Frequently their lives are changed by the experience. Some become
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more successful in their jobs and marriages and report a joie de vivre.
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Others lose their jobs and marriages. One of his friends quit a good
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academic position and went into hiding, he said. Some become addicted to
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drugs, and many feel they have been victimized, he said.</p>
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<p>He said the reaction varies with a person's culture, religion or openness
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to imaginative ideas. To illustrate the various reactions he cited a case
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of a psychiatrist and her husband, a professor of education, who saw a <span class="EVENT" title="EVENT">UFO</span>
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in Maine and subsequently had a MIB encounter. "She has been all right
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since then, but he has not." The professor was left lethargic and troubled
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by the encounter.</p>
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<p>Rojcewicz, who teaches at the C. J. Jung Foundation for Analytical
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Psychology as well as at Juilliard, said he suspects the psychiatrist was
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able to handle the experience better because she is more open to spiritual
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matters while her husband by training and experience is rooted in the
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acceptance of only what seems reasonable.</p>
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<p>In another case, Rojcewicz interviewed a woman named Deborah from
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Burlington, Va., who said she had been visited by a slender, 6-foot, 9-inch Man in Black who was wearing a bowler hat. She said her knees went
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weak when the man was close to her. She said of her experience: "There
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was something wrong - evil about this." When Rojcewicz telephoned Deborah
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to recheck his notes, there was a beeping on the line and they couldn't
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hear each other. He redialed and the line was all right.</p>
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<p>Rojcewicz said there are references to Men in Black going back to Abraham
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in Biblical times, and there have been many similar stories in folklore
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over the years. Often the Men in Black have been considered to be the
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devil or his representatives. Some of the Roman <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span> church's saints
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had Men in Black experiences. The church itself recognizes the
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possibility by endorsing exorcism, Rojcewicz said.</p>
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<p>What is a good defense against the Men in Black? "Laughter," Rojcewicz
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said. "If they ask you why you're laughing, tell them, 'Rojcewicz told me
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to do it.' " He added: "When you confront evil, don't feed them your fear.
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Say you are not worried - ha-ha."</p>
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<p>When his talk was over, several of those attending were asked if they took
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the Men in Black stories seriously. "Maybe there is something there," said
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Dennis Skillings, director of the Archaeus Project, which sponsored the
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meeting. But he said he doubts that there is any way of confirming that
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MIB encounters "really, truly happened."</p>
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<p>Zuckerman, a specialist in internal medicine, said he thought Rojcewicz
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was serious. "I have a friend who knows a fellow who is investigating
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reports that men from space are coming to Earth and taking biopsies of
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people's calf muscles," Zuckerman said. "He says the biopsy sites heal
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right away." Why would people from outer space take biopsies of people's
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calf muscles? "An interesting question," Zuckerman said with a smile.</p>
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<p>The Archaeus Project, which is subsidized by Medtronic founder Earl
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Bakken, regularly brings in researchers in the field of the paranormal and
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so-called alternative science for special lectures.</p>
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