Majestic 12
If you've read up on UFO conspiracies then you've no doubt heard of The majestic12 at some point or another.
MJ 12 Also known as Majestic 12 is the code name for a secret group of military leaders, government officials and scientists.
It was created between 1952 and 1954 but it's origin is said to go back as far as 1947 created through an executive order by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to facilitate recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft, as well as research extraterrestrial, life forms that may be visiting Earth and reverse engineering of captured or downed UFO's..
In 1984 secret leaked government documents began circulating by ufologists..The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) later declared these documents to be nothing more the fake just another hoax...but honestly what else would you expect the government only recently acknowledged that a large percentage of Unidentified aerial phenomena is from an unknown origin..
so whether you believe these files are legit or as the government claims just fakes is entirely up to you...
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Many ufologists believe there had been a cover-up of the Roswell UFO crash (The Government literally claimed to have the wreckage of a downed UFO only to eminently retract that claim and say it was nothing more then a weather balloon ) which lead to the belief that there was in fact a cover up.
ufologists speculated that some secretive upper tier of the United States government was responsible for keeping this secret, Their suspicion was seemingly confirmed in 1984 when ufo researcher Jaime Shandera received an envelope containing film, that when developed, showed eight pages of documents and images of what appeared to be briefing papers describing "Operation Majestic 12".
The files revealed a secret committee of 12, individuals authorized by President Harry S. Truman in 1952, and explain how the crash of an alien spacecraft at Roswell in July 1947 had been concealed, how the recovered alien technology could be exploited, and how the United States should engage with extraterrestrial life in the future
Shandera and his fellow UFO researchers Stanton T. Friedman and Bill Moore claim to have later received a series of anonymous messages that led them to find what has been called the "Cutler/Twining memo" in 1985 while searching declassified files in the National Archives.
The memo was supposedly written by President Eisenhower's assistant Robert Cutler to General Nathan F. Twining and containing a reference to Majestic 12, the memo is regarded as a forgery by many.
Historian Robert Goldberg wrote that the ufologists came to believe the story despite the documents being "obviously planted to bolster the legitimacy of the briefing papers".
Later a man named Richard Doty, Claiming to be connected to the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations, told filmmaker Linda Moulton Howe that the MJ-12 story was true, and showed Howe unspecified documents to prove the existence of small, grey humanoid
aliens originating from the Zeta Reticuli star system.
Doty reportedly promised to supply Howe with film footage of UFOs and an interview with an alien being, although no footage ever came to light at the time.
However there was an alleged area 51 et interview shown in 1997
Eventually the ufology community begin to disagree on the authenticity of the MJ-12 documents, and Moore was even accused of taking part in an elaborate hoax, while other ufologists and de-bunkers like Philip J. Klass were accused of being "disinformation agents".
Klass's investigation of the MJ-12 documents found that Robert Cutler was actually out of the country on the date he supposedly wrote the "Cutler/Twining memo", and that the Truman signature was "a pasted-on photocopy of a genuine signature — including accidental scratch marks — from a memo that Truman wrote to Vannevar Bush on October 1, 1947". Klass dismissed theories that the documents were part of a disinformation campaign as "ridiculous", saying they contained numerous flaws that could never fool Soviet or Chinese intelligence.
Other discrepancies noted by Klass included the use of a distinctive date format that matched one used in Moore's personal letters, and a conversation reported by Brad Sparks in which Moore confided that he was contemplating creating and releasing some hoax Top Secret documents in hopes that such documents would encourage former military and intelligence officials who knew about the government's UFO coverup to break their oaths of secrecy.
The FBI began its own investigation of the secret documents and quickly formed doubts as to their authenticity.
The United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations stated that no such committee had ever been authorized or formed, and that the documents were "bogus".
The FBI subsequently declared the MJ-12 documents to be "completely bogus".
Later in 1996, a document called the MJ-12 "Special Operations Manual" circulated among ufologists.
It is also widely considered to be a fake and "a continuation of the MJ-12 hoax".
Ufologists Linda Moulton Howe and Stanton T. Friedman believe the MJ-12 documents are authentic.
Friedman examined the documents and has argued that the United States government has conspired to cover up knowledge of a crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Scientific skeptic author Brian Dunning investigated the history of the subject, and reported his findings in the 2016 Skeptoid podcast episode "The Secret History of Majestic 12". He cited ufologist Bill Moore’s suspicion that, rather than a hoax perpetrated by the UFO community, the papers were actually part of a disinformation campaign of the US government meant to deflect attention from secret Air Force projects.
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**MJ 12 Members**
The following individuals were described in the Majestic 12 documents as "designated members" of Majestic 12.
Lloyd Berkner
Detlev Bronk
Vannevar Bush
James Forrestal
Gordon Gray
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker
Donald H. Menzel
Robert M. Montague
Sidney Souers
Nathan F. Twining
Hoyt Vandenberg
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