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Project Majestic-12

A Hollywood movie producer, Jaime Shandera, received a strange package in the post, in December, 1984. There was no indication of where it came from, apart from the postmark: "Albuquerque, New Mexico". It contained a roll of undeveloped black and white 35mm film, which, after being processed, was found to contain negatives of an eight-page briefing paper. It was prepared for President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower. On the first page there was a warning saying, "This is a TOP SECRET - EYES ONLY document containing compartmentalised information essential to the national security of the United States". On the second page, there was a list of 12 important US scientists, military personnel, and intelligence advisors. On page three, it becomes clear that the document is about the recovery of alien craft and bodies at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. The last page is an instruction from President Harry Truman to his Secretary of Defence, James Forrestal, telling him to proceed with 'Operation Majestic-12', but doesn't say what it is.

After the 'Roswell Incident', President Truman authorises Defence Secretary Forrestal to set up a committee to handle the situation. In 1952, President-elect Eisenhower is given a list of the 12-man committee, and details of the flying-saucer crash. The final paragraph stressed the need to "avoid a public panic at all costs". This proves that the US government is hiding the truth about UFOs - but are the documents authentic?

In 1994, a new MJ-12 document was posted to UFO investigator, Don Berliner. The roll of film contained 23 pages of a 'Majestic-12 Group Special Operations Manual', dated April, 1954. It was entitled 'Extra-terrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal'.

Who's in Majestic-12?

	Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, first Director of Central Intelligence (1947-50). In 1960, he acknowledged there was a UFO cover-up.
	Dr Vannever Bush, Chairman of the Joint Research and Development Board (1945-49). Advisor to the President, and key player in atomic bomb development.
	James Forrestal, first US Secretary of Defence. In 1949, he had a mental breakdown and committed suicide. Replaced by General Walter Bedell Smith.
	Nathan Twining, Commander of Air Matériel Command at Wright Field and, later, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US's highest military position.
	General Hoyt Vandenberg, Chief of Military Intelligence during World War 2 and second Director of Central Intelligence (1946-47).
	Dr Detlev Bronk, biophysicist. Head of the National Academy of Science, and Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Atomic Energy Committee.
	Dr Jerome Hunsaker, renowned aircraft Designer and Chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics.
	Rear Admiral Sidney Souers, first Director of Central Intelligence (1946). Appointed first Executive Secretary of National Security Council in 1947.
	Gordon Gray, Assistant Secretary of the Army. Became the National Security advisor and Director of CIA's Psychological Strategy Board.
	Dr Donald Menzel, Harvard professor of astrophysics, and debunker of UFOs. Held a Top Secret Ultra clearance and was adviser to several presidents.
	Major General Robert Montague, head of the Special Weapons Project at the Atomic Energy Commission at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	Dr Lloyd Berkener, Executive Secretary of the Joint Research and development Board. Member of CIA-funded UFO committee in 1950s.

The only person who seems out-of-place in MJ-12 was Dr Donald Menzel: he had written three anti-UFO books, and many papers debunking flying saucers. Everyone else had high-level security clearances.

In 1980, Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist, found that Menzel had a 30-year association with the NSA (National Security Agency). He also discovered that he had a 'Top Secret Ultra' clearance with the CIA, did highly classified consulting work for many people, had close connections with the other MJ-12 scientists, and had advised the government on many classified projects.

A linguistics expert from New Jersey, Dr Roger Wescott, examined several genuine documents written by Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter with the MJ-12 paper. He said, "In my opinion, there is no compelling reason to regard any of these communications as fraudulent or to believe that any of them were written by anyone other than Hillenkoetter. This statement holds for the controversial presidential briefing memorandum of 18th November 1952, as well as for the letters both personal and official".