FOIA: Impersonations of Air Force Officers

MIBs.pdf
Impersonations of Air Force Officers
Men in Black sightings
Document date: 1967-03-01
Department: USAF
Author: Assistant Vice Chief of Staff Hewitt Wheless
Document type: Memo
pages: 1


Archivist's Notes: Gentlemen in plain clothes demanding and acquiring civilian photos of UFOs,Gentlemen in Air Force uniforms gathering civiians and law enforcment personal in school building instructing them not to discuss what they saw nor did they see what they saw.Also noted that these claims have been Unconfirmed.

memo dated march 1st, from dpt of the air force made out to following acronyms -
ADC AFSC HQCOMD USAF SAC AFCS ATC CAC TAC AFLC AU MAC USAFSS
regarding unverifiable report of persons unknown impersonating air force and norad officers as well as other unnamed defense officials after citizens had reported seeing ufo's.

they wore civilian clothing as well as official air force uniforms and demanded and then confiscated photographic evidence of the sightings from the civilians.

one enlisted the help of the local police to round up witnesses in a school hall and told them not to talk about their sightings to anybody and that they had not seen what they thought they had

concludes by asking all military, civilian and information/ufo investigating officers to report any similar incidents they hear about to their local OSI offices

This struck me as the right hand not knowing what the left hand was doing. Impersonating the military isn't as easy as it might appear. It takes more than a uniform and a short haircut. A lot of people then as now, had been in the military themselves, so they would smell out a fake.

It seems to me that a certain group within the military might want to silence witnesses, while the rest wonder what's going on.