Bri Fidelity’s Reviews > Men in Black: Investigating the Truth Behind the Phenomenon > Status Update

A whole chapter on Men In Black that turn out to be members of the very UFO group they're scaring shitless, and on creepy right-wing UFO groups that engage in exactly that sort of behaviour to scare their rivals (and everyone else). I suppose UFOlogy is like night-shift: a good percentage of the people you work with are there because would nobody put up with them anywhere else.

The Solway Firth Spaceman! The only issue of 'Fortean Times' I ever bought (£3.50 a week pocket money didn't go very far even then; I decided I'd much rather have chocolate) had this story in it, and I've often wondered whether Templeton had admitted it was a hoax in the intervening years (he hasn't). In lots of ways I was very much a 90s child, ha.

'She allowed Dr. Dale to take [the skin flake] home with him and he used his contacts at a Manchester university to gain access to a scanning electron microscope. The study of the residue was strange. Nothing about it was obviously extraterrestrial - nor was it human. The chemist who carried out the examination said that it most closely resembled animal skin - possibly a pig - but could not positively identify it.'

After some generic intimidating phonecalls, UFO witness 'Shirley Greenfield' recieves 'another mystifying call. This was to invite her to a Manchester city centre hotel so that she could be vetted for a plush job. The job paid well, but would involve her moving immediately to Zimbabwe. According to the caller she had applied for the post. Shirley had done no such thing and so did not attend the interview.' Hee!