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R I P. Mister UFO by
Charles Lear This past Memorial Day, May

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thirty first, twenty twenty one,
ufo and paranormal researcher Timothy Green Beckley passed

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on. He was a colorful character
who stood out in a field full of

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colorful characters, and while he might
not have been the most serious of researchers,

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he was part of a circle of
legendary characters from the days of Flying

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Saucers that included James Moseley, Gray
Barker, and John Keel. Records of

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Beckley's age at the time of his
passing ranged from sixty five to sixty nine.

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According to the Internet Movie Database.
He was born on March fourth,

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nineteen fifty two as Jeremy Stone.
In addition to his interest in the paranormal,

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he was an actor in and producer
of softcore porn and slash horror movies,

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and was known to fans as mister
Creepo. He wrote and published many

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books on the paranormal with a definite
sensationalized bent, and was active in the

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community up until his death. According
to what is believed to be his self

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authored bio, Tim Beckley had so
many careers that even his own girlfriend didn't

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know what he did for a living. Timothy Green. Beckley has been described

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as the Hunter Thompson of ufology by
the editor of UFO magazine, Nancy Burns.

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His bio contains the claims that his
life was saved by an invisible force

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at the age of three. He
started having out of body experiences at the

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age of six. He had his
first UFO sighting at age ten and had

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two more after that. In the
course of his life. Beckley grew up

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listening to the long John Neville Show, which started in nineteen fifty six and

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evolved into the first late night talk
show devoted to the paranormal. In his

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later years, Beckley was a repeat
guest. He was also a guest on

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numerous other paranormal television and radio shows, including Coast to Coast AM, UFO

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Hunters, and Weird or What with
William Shatner. He had his own podcast,

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Unraveling the Secrets, and his own
YouTube channel, Mister UFO's Secret Files.

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Beckley also worked on a podcast with
Tim Schwartz called Exploring the Bazaar.

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Adding to Beckley's paranormal street cred is
the fact that he was on site with

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Gray Barker investigating the nineteen sixty six
nineteen sixty seven mothman sightings in West Virginia.

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In chapter sixteen Barker's nineteen seventy book
covering the events, The Silver Bridge,

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Barker describes Beckley coming down from New
York with Jim Moseley and two others

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for a mini monthman convention, some
relaxation, and investigation. Summing up their

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investigation, Beckley is quoted as saying, I really didn't expect to see the

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creature, but after all, we
talked with a lot of people who did

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see it. Those who are students
of the Men in Black phenomenon may be

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familiar with what has been described as
a photo of an MiB. What they

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may not know is the story behind
the photo and the fact that Beckley was

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the photographer. According to one version
of the story from bloggerd Justin Bamforth,

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which references Nick Redfern's two thousand and
eleven book The Real Men in Black,

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in nineteen sixty eight, Mosley and
Beckley started getting calls from Mary Robertson,

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the wife a prominent ufologist and secretary
of the National UFO Conference, John Jack

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Robertson, over four days, while
her husband was at work, Mary noticed

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a suspicious man keeping watch over their
apartment building in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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He was standing rigidly in the doorway
of the building next door. He

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wore a black coat, black suit, black hat, and had wrap around

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black sunglasses. In addition to the
mysterious man, the Robertsons heard strange clicks

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on their phone and suspected that someone
had gone through Jack's UFO files. After

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several calls from Mary, Mosley and
Beckley decided to come out and see for

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themselves. Mosley was driving and Beckley
was manning the camera. As they approached

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the spot, they saw the man
Mary had described, and Beckley took a

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picture of him, as well as
a picture of a black Cadillac nearby that

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fit in with the MiB mythos.
They drove around the corner to park,

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and when they walked back to the
spot, the man and the Cadillac were

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gone. In Redfern's book, Mosley
is quoted explaining his thoughts on what they

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had seen. The only thing that
kind of made sense to me was that

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he was a lookout for a bookie
joint or some illegal operation. But the

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point is to me anyway, not
to Tim. I know it had absolutely

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nothing to do with the Robertson's or
with flying saucers. He might have seen

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Tim taking his picture out of the
car, and if he was doing something

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illegal, that's why he left.
According to Bamforth, during a brief conversation

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regarding the Cadillac, Beckley agreed that
there was no proof that the car belonged

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to the man, but Bamforth notes
that it is a little strange, perhaps

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coincidental, that neither the man nor
the vehicle was there when he and Mosley

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returned to the scene moments later.
With Beckley's passing, uphology is lost.

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One of the last of those researchers
slashed enthusiasts, such as Barker and Mosley,

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who walked on both sides of the
line between researcher and sensationalist entertainer while

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maintaining a sense of humor. He
may not have been the most rigorous of

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investigators, but he was certainly one
of the most enthusiastic