Bridgeport, Connecticut: Albert Bender closes his saucer bureau, later tells of three men
On October 4, 1953, Dominick Lucchesi and August Roberts questioned Albert K. Bender in Bridgeport, Connecticut, about his editorial; Bender closed the International Flying Saucer Bureau and later spoke of visits by three men in black suits.
Background
Dominick Lucchesi and August Roberts visited Albert K. Bender in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to find out what he meant in his October editorial about flying saucers no longer being a mystery, but his answers were evasive. Over the following months he confided to Gray Barker and a few others that three menacing men in black suits had called on him, told him the answer to the UFO mystery and warned that he would go to jail if he repeated it. The experience allegedly terrified him, and he gave it as the reason for closing the International Flying Saucer Bureau. Barker popularized the episode in his 1956 book They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers; in 1962 Bender claimed in Flying Saucers and the Three Men that the visitors were monsters from the planet Kazik, a tale even Barker privately doubted. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.