John Cole

John Cole was a local newsman in his 80s during a 1960s interview recounted in John A. Keel's 'The UFO Silencers.' Active in early 20th-century journalism, he participated in a search party investigating a mysterious airplane crash described as 'as big as a battleship' without wings. The group found the wreckage in woods, surrounded by six men. Years later, Cole was visited at night by a stranger demanding return of a small metal object he had picked up at the site, linking him to Men in Black (MIB) harassment lore in UFO research. Unfamiliar with flying saucers or MIB stories at the time, his sharp memory provided key testimony on early anomalous events and witness intimidation. No birth/death years or further publications known; nationality likely American. His account underscores MIB tactics in suppressing UFO-related evidence.