Showing posts with label Gray Barker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gray Barker. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Saucer People Trading Cards: Men in Black, #23



This is Men in Black, card #23, from the Saucer People boxed trading card set from Kitchen Sink Press, 1992. The set has thirty six cards, with comic book style illustration on front, and information about the UFO event or researcher on the back.

"Some believe them to be government agents, others think they are Saucer People."
I love the objectified female in distress; fearful of the Men in Black who are, apparently, being quite rude to her boyfriend. Tight red dress, frightened… who will rescue her? Or will the Men in Black get her?

The info on the back of the card has nothing to do with the image on the front; the story on the back tells us of George Cook, head of the Pennsylvania NICAP group, who had several run-ins with MIB in 1967. 



Sunday, August 10, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

On UFO Mystic: "Remembering Gray Barker"


Greg Bishop has a piece on Gray Barker,(They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers,1956 and The Silver Bridge,etc. )and a cynical mood swing in Barker's life on the UFO stuff; he wrote a poem about UFO being "shit." A "bucket of shit" ---- (there are some days I feel the same way.) Barker was a fascinating character in UFOlogy; worth learning about if you aren't familiar with him and his works.


It may strike some as strange that I consider Barker worth looking into to, or that I "defend" him. He was a hoaxer, and worse, many say. He made up stuff, he embellished, he was lax. But as always, there's more to this than just simplistic accusations of "charlatan!"

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Gray Barker's The Silver Bridge


I've been wanting to get this book for years. I had a bit of Mothman Synchronicity with this book; (I'm reading Andrew Colvin's Mothman II books right now) not seeing it on eBay or Amazon or ABEbooks for some time, I just found a few copies on eBay and Amazon last night! Problem is, the lowest the book is being sold for is $69.00, the highest price I've seen is $500.00.