M.I.B. EXPERIENCE - 1976 *

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In 1976 the journal "Flying Saucer Review"  published a series of
articles about a UFO case in Maine. A physician, Dr. Herbert
Hopkins, had been one of the primary investigators in the case.
Hopkins had accumulated tapes and other documentation on the case
and had performed extensive hypnotic regression on the witnesses.

On Saturday, September 11, 1976, at 8:00 p.m. Hopkins received a
telephone call from a man asking if he could come over and
discuss the UFO case with him.  The man said he was associated
with a UFO group in new jersey.  The man asked Hopkins if he was
home alone.  Hopkins responded he was.  Despite concerns about
drug-related robbery, Hopkins found himself agreeing to the
request.

Although Hopkins was a bit confused by his positive reply to the
man, he walked to the back door to turn on the porch light.  When
he got to the door, the man was coming up the steps.  This
concerned Dr. Hopkins, he could not figure out where the man
could have called from and arrive so quickly at his doorstep.
Still, Hopkins opened the door and let the man in without even
asking the man who he was or what he wanted.

The man's appearance was strange; he was about 5'8" tall, no hair
- completely bald, had no eyelashes, no eyebrows.  He was dressed
in a neatly pressed black suit with a black derby and black
shoes.  Hopkins noticed the man was extremely pale, but had ruby
red lips.  Hopkins noticed the man was wearing lipstick and grey
gloves.

The man asked a number of questions about the Maine UFO case,
speaking in a monotone voice and did not emphasize words in his
sentences.

Suddenly, the man told Hopkins that he had two coins in his
pocket and to take one out and put it in his hand.  Hopkins only
had two coins in his pocket and he pulled a penny out.

The man told Hopkins to stare at the penny.  As he watched the
penny became blurry and disappeared.  The man then asked Hopkins
what he knew of Barney Hill.  Hopkins said Barney died after a
long illness.  The man told him he died because he knew too much.

Hopkins was taken by fear at this point.  The man told Hopkins to
destroy all his notes, tapes messages he had concerning the
investigation immediately.  The man stood up, and began talking
much slower.  each word dragged as the man slowly walked to the
door.  Hopkins opened the door for the man, and he walked down
the steps very slowly.

Hopkins saw a light at the end of the driveway, and thought it
was from the man's car, but the man walked in the opposite
direction.  Hopkins ran to a window to see where the man was
going, but he was not there.  He ran to the door, looked out, but
the man and the light were gone.

When his family returned, he and his son looked in their
driveway, and they found a series of four-inch wide tracks about
eighteen inches long.  They were deep into the driveway and
resembled tracks from a tractor.  The marks disappeared the next
day. that evening, Hopkins destroyed his UFO records.

 [From "People of The Web", by Gregory L. Little, copyright 1990]