You might notice Operators & Things (1976) spoke of similar technology and was brought to prominence in the 1997 blockbuster movie Men in Black.
Mothman A manlike flying creature with glowing red hypnotic eyes, a wingspread of ten feet and a predilection for chasing automobiles at speeds approaching a hundred miles per hour, Mothman terrorized residents of the Point Pleasant, West Virginia, area during 1966-67. Several witnesses were interviewed by various UFO investigators, including John Keel and the writer, who wrote their findings in two different books. A television newsman gave the nickname ìMothmanî to the phenomenon, no doubt inspired by the TV program, ìBatman.î Like the term, ìflying saucer,î the satirical apellation became permanently attached, both to the Point Pleasant sightings and to such phenomena as a class. As with many other strange-creature reports, such as ìBigfoot,î and seemingly allied events such as visitations by ìmen in black,î many witnesses and investigators believed there was a connection between Mothman and the numerous UFO sightings in the area at the same time. Later, some witnesses, investigators, and area residents would believe the phenomena represented a portent of the tragic collapse of the Silver Bridge on December 16, 1967. These beliefs, blended with a tradition that Cornstalk, an Indian chief, had placed a curse on the town, tended to adapt Mothman to the folklore of the area.
Within
a framework of
UFOlogical theory
advanced by Keel, along with Jerome Clark, writing with Loren Coleman
in
The Unidentified and Creatures From the Outer Edge (1975 and 1978
respectively),
the Point Pleasant sightings take on a ìclassicî pattern.
Even the ìmen in blackî appeared shortly after the initial
Mothman and UFO sightings. Mary Hyre, a newspaper reporter, recounted
how
mysterious, oddly dressed visitors showed up at her office, inquiring
about
various investigators who had interviewed witnesses. Keel believes that
certain locations may represent ìwindowî areas, where, at
certain times, massive unexplained phenomena of various kinds may
occur.
This could include the experience of Woodrow Derenberger, who, driving
near Parkersburg about fifty miles north of Point Pleasant), claimed
his
van was forced off the road on the evening of November 2, that a UFO
landed,
and an OCCUPANT named ìIndrid Coldî emerged from it to
assure
him that ìWe mean you no harm.î