Majestic 12 & The Men in Black

On December 11, 1984, a UFO researcher named Jamie Shandera claimed to have received an anonymous roll of unprocessed film.[1]  He then contacted William Moore, who co-authored the book: The Roswell Incident.  They developed the film.  On the film were alleged top-secret government documents which said that crashed saucers were recovered by the government at Roswell and other locations. 

Sometime later, Moore and Shandera said they recovered more documents of the same nature, which had been stored away in government archives.  In 1994, another roll of film came into the possession of another author of a Roswell conspiracy book.  On the film there was information on the procedures on how to handle UFO events.  The documents claimed to prove that the government knew about UFOs, and that it was deliberately covering up the truth about them.  The documents also indicated that President Truman authorized an operation called “Majestic 12” or MJ-12.   Majestic 12 is the supposed code name of an official group of twelve secret experts.  This group was supposedly created to investigate and cover up UFO events, witnesses, and investigations following the Roswell incident.[2]  This supposedly secret military group would operate above the law in order to destroy evidence, intimidate witnesses, and hide the truth about UFOs.  But when the Truman “1947 Executive Order” MJ-12 document was examined, it was shown to be a forgery.  Close examination shows clearly that characters, typed words, and numbers do not line up correctly on the page the way they would have if they had been typed on a single typewriter.  Among the documents was a UFO briefing document prepared for President Eisenhower.  This has also been proven to be a forgery.[3]

MJ-12 is believed by many to be connected to the so-called “men in black.”  The “men in black” is an alleged secret government agency whose job is to keep the “reality” of ETs from the rest of the earth. It’s claimed that the men in black will use money, threats, and other means of coercion to keep information on ET activity hidden from the rest of the public.[4]

On April 16, 1983, William Moore had a very interesting conversation with his friend Brad Sparks, a respected UFO researcher.  (This was less than two years before William Moore claimed he received the MJ-12 documents.)  Moore told Sparks that he was considering creating counterfeit government documents on UFOs.  Moore said his reason was that his efforts to find people involved with crashed saucer recovery operations had run into a dead end.[5]  Sparks strongly recommended against it, warning Moore that forging documents could lead to the ruin of his reputation.[6]

Since the first MJ-12 documents came out, thousands of pages of other claimed leaked government documents have appeared.  These alleged documents, which some refer to as the “Majestic Documents,” concern UFOs and a supposed government cover-up of UFOs.[7]  Some of the documents have already been proven to be unquestionably fraudulent, usually re-typed rewrites of unrelated government documents.[8]

One of the claims of believers in the authenticity of Majestic 12 is that the bodies of the “aliens” who crashed near Roswell were taken to a storage facility, known as Hanger 18, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.  Many UFO books identify Hanger 18 as the place where the government is hiding crashed UFOs or their occupants.[9]  Many believe crashed UFOs and aliens are also being hidden at Area 51 in Nevada.[10]

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.philipcoppens.com/majestic12.html, p. 1.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_12, p. 1. Also see Karl Pflock, Roswell, p. 193.

[3] http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-05/majestic-12.html

[4] Ron Rhodes, Alien Obsession, Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, OR, pp. 60-61.

[5] http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-05/majestic-12.html

[6] http://www.csicop.org/klassfiles/SUN-44.html

[7] http://www.majesticdocuments.com/

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_12, p. 2.

[9] Dr. Jacques Vallee, Revelations, p. 26.

[10] See Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest, pp. 151, 190.