AMERICA’S FIRST UFOS: From Puritan Sightings to Project Blue Book
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
When Puritan settlers first witnessed strange lights over Massachusetts in 1639, they couldn't have imagined it would spark a centuries-long mystery involving government cover-ups, Project Blue Book, and the terrifying Men in Black who silence anyone who gets too close to the truth.
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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IN THIS EPISODE: The Men in Black, the beginning of Project Blue Book, America’s first UFO sighting from 400 years ago… and a mysterious incident experienced by actor and comedian Dan Aykroyd. This and more from the world of space, extraterrestrials, and government secrecy.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In
00:03:26.615 = Show Open
00:04:36.586 = America’s First UFO Sighting
00:22:54.997 = The Men In Black, Part 1
00:35:19.592 = The Men In Black, Part 2
00:52:17.119 = Show Close
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“America’s First UFO Sighting” by Christopher Klein: https://tinyurl.com/y3ex36n4; Greg Daugherty: https://tinyurl.com/yyog7d5n
“Men In Black”: Lee Speigel for Huffpost: https://tinyurl.com/wps8b8e; Steve Rose for The Guardian: https://tinyurl.com/z8d5wqd; Jacob Geers for Thought Catalog: https://tinyurl.com/qldplkw
Dan Aykroyd interview: https://tinyurl.com/v4e8qhq
“Mirage Men” documentary: https://weirddarkness.com/archives/5894
“UFOs: Past, Present and Future” documentary: https://weirddarkness.com/archives/5898
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Originally aired: July 2018
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| 1:01.6 | Depending on whom you ask, the men in black, or M.I.B. are either another nutty UFO conspiracy, or they're part of a secret government agency designed to prevent the public |
| 1:06.9 | from learning more about UFOs. The men in black always appear unannounced, are usually clad in black business suits |
| 1:14.8 | and warn people to give up their research into UFOs or face dire consequences. |
| 1:21.5 | In many cases, the men in black have also seen aliens. |
| 1:25.8 | In some accounts they are aliens themselves, or some form of demonic |
| 1:30.0 | supernatuals. But why would the government want to suppress information about UFOs? |
| 1:36.2 | As the theory goes, it's because aliens are closer to us than you think. They might actually |
| 1:43.0 | be everywhere. And if ordinary citizens |
| 1:46.1 | realized just how real the threat was, there'd be a mass panic and a breakdown of the social |
| 1:52.3 | order. Some folklorists, however, claim that the whole idea of men in black is itself |
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