Albert K. Bender (June 16, 1921 – March 29, 2016), author of the 1962 nonfiction book Flying Saucers and the Three Men, was a ufologist.

He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.

He was drawn to the supernatural; he fashioned haunted house decorations and horror movie scenes on his walls.

[1] Bender enrolled in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II in 1942.

He was stationed at Fort George G. Meade as a dental technician and later transferred to Langley, Virginia.

[1] He founded the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB) (the first major civilian UFO club in the world) in 1952.

As a result of the visitation, Bender felt encouraged to share what he had seen with other UFO investigators, but was refused.

Bender suffered frequent headaches after the three men visited him and his co-workers reported that he seemed scared.

[12] His alleged experiences were recorded in They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers by Gray Barker, Bender's IFSB associate.

Late in the summer of 1953, Bender made a series of discoveries, which led him to believe that he had finally found the truth to the UFO cover-up.

The "silencers" as he called them, scared Bender to the point where he did not publish the report, but left a warning: "We advise those engaged in saucer work to please be very cautious."

[citation needed] Albert K. Bender founded the Max Steiner Music Society in 1965.