In the UFO conspiracy theory, Majestic 12 (or MJ-12 ) is the code name of the alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by a an executive order by US President Harry S. Truman to facilitate the recovery and investigation of foreign spacecraft. This concept came from a series of secret government documents that should have been leaked first circulated by ufologists in 1984. After being examined, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) declared them "completely false", and many ufologists regarded it as a complicated trick.. Majestic 12 remains popular among some UFO conspiracy theorists and the concept has emerged in popular culture including television, film and literature.
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History and analysis
The concept of "Majestic Twelve" emerged during the period in the 1980s when ufologists believed that there was a concealment of the Roswell UFO incident and speculated on some secretive level of the government of the United States responsible. Their presumption seemed to be confirmed in 1984 when ufologist Jaime Shandera received an envelope containing the film which, when developed, shows an eight-page picture of a document that appears to be a brief paper describing "Operation Majestic Twelve". Documents purportedly to reveal a secret committee of twelve, supposedly endorsed by US President Harry S. Truman in 1952, and explains how the fall of the alien spacecraft at Roswell in 1947 has been hidden, how the acquired alien technology can be exploited, and how the United States should be involved with the space life in the future.
Shandera and his fellow ufolog, Stanton T. Friedman and Bill Moore said that they then received a series of anonymous messages that led them to find what was called a "Cutler/Twining memo" in 1985 while searching for files that were not classified in the National Archives. Claimed to be written by Eisenhower's assistant Robert Cutler to General Nathan F. Twining and contains references to Majestic 12, the memo is widely considered to be a forgery, possibly planted as part of a hoax. Historian Robert Goldberg writes that the ufologists believe the story even though the documents were "clearly planted to strengthen the legitimacy of briefing papers".
Claiming to be associated with the United States Air Force Special Inquiry Office, a man named Richard Doty told filmmaker Linda Moulton Howe that the MJ-12 story was true, and showed non-specific documents intended to prove the existence of a gray humanoid alien small. derived from the Zeta Reticuli star system. Doty reportedly promised to supply Howe with UFO film footage and interviews with aliens, although no record ever materialized.
Immediately, suspicion and suspicion caused a dispute in the ufologic community over the authenticity of MJ-12 documents, and Moore was accused of taking part in elaborate tricks, while ufologists and other debunkers such as Philip J. Klass were accused of being "agents of disinformation".
Klass's investigation of the MJ-12 document found that Robert Cutler was actually abroad on the date he should have written as a "Cutler/Twining memo", and that Truman's signature was "a copy of the original embedded signature - including an accidental stroke - from the memo Truman wrote to Vannevar Bush on October 1, 1947 ". Klass dismissed the theory that the document was part of a disinformation campaign as "ridiculous", saying that they contained many shortcomings that could never deceive Soviet or Chinese intelligence. Other non-compliances recorded by Klass include the use of different date formats that match those used in Moore's personal letter, and the conversations reported by Brad Sparks in which Moore confessed that he was thinking of making and releasing some top Secret document tricks in the hope that such lies the documents will encourage former military and intelligence officials who know about UFO (alleged) government shutdowns to violate their oath of secrecy.
The FBI began its own investigation into documents deemed "secret" and quickly formed doubts about their authenticity. The US Air Force's Office of Special Investigations states that no committee has ever been authorized or established, and that the documents are "fake." The FBI then declared the MJ-12 document to be "completely false."
Then in 1996, a document called MJ-12 "Special Operations Manual" circulated among ufologists. It is also widely considered a fake and "continuation of the MJ-12 myth".
Astronomer Linda Moulton Howe and Stanton T. Friedman believe the MJ12 Document is genuine. Friedman examines the documents and argues that the US government has conspired to cover up the knowledge of spaceships that fall in space.
According to journalist Howard Blum, the name "Majestic 12" took precedence in the UFO community when Bill Moore requested Bob Pratt's National Enquirer reporter in 1982 to collaborate in a novel titled MAJIK-12
Scientific skeptical writer Brian Dunning investigates the history of the subject, and reports his findings in the 2016 Skiptoid podcast episode "The Secret History of Majestic 12". He concluded that, rather than the hoax committed by the UFO community, it is likely that the paper was actually part of a US government's disinformation campaign intended to divert attention from secret Air Force projects. Referring to the MJ-12 document, Dunning states:
They are a classic disinformation, a false document created to play a role in real national security. They are designed and written for a special sign that does with them what they should do. They take advantage of well-intentioned patriots who want to improve national security, and who, easily fooled, end up giving it away.
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