1997: Men in Black

They sat quietly, leaning toward the lectern in a dark-paneled room near Lake Calhoun as a professor from New York told of his encounter with one of the mysterious Men in Black. In the audience were people like biophysicist Otto Schmitt, a retired professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota, retired aircraft developer and physicist Cecil Behringer, physician Steven Zuckerman and polymer scientist Arthur Coury, Medtronic’s director of venture technology. Peter Rojcewicz told them there have been hundreds – perhaps thousands – of such encounters over the centuries. “The Men in Black are part of the extraordinary encounter continuum – fairies, monsters, ETS, energy forms, flying saucers, flaming crosses,” said Rojcewicz, a 37-year-old professor of humanities and folklore at New York’s Juilliard School. […] Read More