Shady Characters

I may have mentioned that Forum Friend and diligent researcher Pladium recently located a packet of TTB source material in a West Virginia library a few months back. They were in a file in the Gray Barker archives at WV University, of all places.

Gray Barker is the (cough) "journalist" who brought us Adamski, MIB, Mothman and and the Flatwoods Monster story. He appears to have initiated a friendly exchange with Rose Hackett, Townsend's loyal secretary at NICAP and either she, or Townsend sent over a collection of documents for his background reading. That collection is an invaluable resources for gravitics researchers, including as they do, correspondence from Townsend to Ed Hull and a paper by an Army mathematician.

Barker himself is an interesting character, in a fantabulating sort of way. Film Makers and writers still find him to be a fascinating subject, as the latest biopic shows:

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