Excerpt from branton's
CASUALTIES OF A COSMIC WAR:
The following account, taken from the May, 1946 issue of
AMAZING STORIES (pp. 171-173) seems to contain information which
would explain many of the 'missing pieces' of the overall 'Men In
Black' phenomena. At least some of the 'MIB' have been variously
described as 'androidal' like beings, although as John Keel has
stated some seem to portray reptilian aspects, and in a few cases
obviously human entities have been described. Christa Tilton
allegedly encountered some 'MIB' in a black auto near Boynton
Canyon, near Sedona, Arizona. She described them as follows:
"The men did not look right. Their faces had no expression on
them whatsoever. They looked like they were wearing chalky tan
makeup. Their movements were robot-like and unearthly." The
AMAZING STORIES letter, which was quite lengthy and excerpts of
which we quote below, was submitted by a Mr. Edward John of (at
the time) 475 Fell St., San Francisco, CA.:
"Sirs... I have enjoyed your stories for many years as I
have read AMAZING since the first issue back in 1928 if I
remember right.
"...I think I can show you an entrance to this subterranean
city that he (Shaver) has written about several issues back.
Here is what happened to me and you may judge for yourself. In
1931 my mother and I took up a section of land as a cattle
raising homestead from the U.S. Government and naturally it was
not a choice piece... a person who turned out to be our
nearest neighbor gave us some hints and as the place was only six
miles from his we stayed at his ranch until we built our house.
Then we moved into our own and all in all we stayed there about
two years before we quit; and now I will relate the things that
caused us to quit, which at the time I did not know much about,
but since Mr. Shaver wrote, now I know and marvel that we managed
to stand two years without getting killed by these things from
below.
"As a note of interest I have had to use 30,000 rounds of
ammunition in the period and perhaps that is why we are still
here. At night I would sit up fully dressed all night with a
rifle in my hands, ready, and an extra one by my side. In about
five hours after dark I would hear things moving outside the
house and after a while something would try to open the door
quietly and I would wait until I saw the knob turn, then let go a
clip right through the door and then pull it open and look around
outside and there was nothing to be seen. After a couple of
nights like that, that performance would stop and something new
would be tried.
"There are too many incidents to be told in one letter, the
best one was the two disappearing automobiles, which happened at
about ten at night over at the neighbor's place. It was as
follows: the neighbor and we were sitting on the porch after
supper when he saw headlights come over the hill to the fence
then along the fence for about half a mile, then go out and that
was all that night. So next morning we went to the trail along
the fence and there were tire tracks of seven inch width tires
and they went along the fence into the box canyon and right up
against a smooth boulder about 20 feet in diameter and ended
there. Now the car could not turn around anywhere in that place
because the road is a trail five feet wide and one side is
against our neighbor's fence, which was not damaged and the other
was a steep hill that no car could even make in compound low.
You know, we have a few mountains here, and as far as backing out
I tried that myself in the daytime with help and I could not
steer a straight enough path without crossing my other marks so
they did not back out or we would have trailed them as my
neighbor has lived around there since 1848 and he sure knew his
tracking. We never did get an answer to the question of where
did the cars go.
"The cars were very large and black and very heavy and now
that I compare them they were about twenty years ahead of
anything I have ever seen anywhere and I had worked in the auto
business for about five years before we took up the land. They
were silent, smooth, no wavering of the lights and the trail is
extremely rough; in places it has hollows a yard deep, but these
cars went through at about 25 mph, and it would even wreck a jeep
to do that, so you figure it out and let me know the answer if
you can. By wavering of lights, I mean that the beams were
steady and not flashing up and down as an ordinary car would do
when a rough road is traveled.
"I have been away from there since 1933, but just about
three months ago, I drove through with a friend for safety and my
place is razed to the ground and everything that was made by
human hands has been carried off even the old tin cans, and the
place would not be noticed unless you knew where is was. The
Coast and Geodetic survey had a marker near my house in the front
yard and even that is gone; who would want to take a concrete
marker and carry it away?
"...after two weeks, you can hear insects running on the
ground, (also) forest fires will not burn there. They burnt
250,000 acres, then burnt all around this area; and that stopped
the forest rangers. They never could understand because most of
it is on the slope of a mountain and it should have gone, but
they saw that the wind came down and blew from the top down and
blew North, South, East and West at once and that was the only
time that the wind ever blew there.
"Also you can detect an atmosphere of fear within 30 miles
of the area and you will not get a statement from anyone who
lives around there and the people in the valleys are afraid of
the people in the hills. One farmer erected 20 foot barbed wire
fences and a heavy gate across the road that leads to my old
place. The gate would take a tank to knock down, so maybe there
is something there, after all.
"It is located 110 miles north of San Francisco in Mendocino
county and is directly on the old Pieta toll road that ran
between Hopland and Lakeport in Lake county of which Clear Lake
is quite a summer resort. If you care to look it up on a map get
a good auto road map and look due south off the road midway
between towns and you will note an area with no roads bounded by
Sonoma Lake and lower Mendocino counties and there is it. If you
wish to go there, be sure that enough people know where you went.
Maybe they will be able to find you. There have been several
disappearances along that stretch of road, even trucks have
vanished. All the U.S. Government's.
"The U.S. Government has noted the area as rough,
unsurveyable and UNEXPLORED...
"Personally I do not care to go near the place, but if there
is some way of driving the things out I would help if I can so
that someone else could live there safely.
"...Also I forgot to mention there is a cave on the property
that has steps leading down and there is no sound when a rock is
thrown in. I have never seen it, but I understand that it is
there... Also, several people have died of heart failure and some
have gone insane, I found out later.
"I think the thing that saved us was the fact that I am not
surprised at anything and that I am quick to shoot and I can
shoot without sighting and by ear and not having the thought of
shooting fixed so that the things would be warned. After that
place, I was able to outshoot U.S. Marine sharpshooters. I tried
competing in a match and I just never missed any target at any
range. If I could see it, I could hit it, 5 out of 5. I have
tried practice machine guns at plane models and I hit 3 out of 5
at speeds up to 700 mph scale without using the sights. So the
old ranch gave me something worthwhile after all.
"Due to my physical condition, I cannot get into any armed
forces, so that talent is wasted, for you see I have a bad leg
and cannot walk more than a mile at a time. Since I left the
ranch I have been in the radio business and have not owned a gun
since '34, because as long as I stay away from there I don't need
one..."
