Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
The Majestic-12 documents
Papers received by UFO researchers from 1984 that describe a secret committee formed by President Truman to handle crashed alien spacecraft.
1984 CE · 34.18, -118.31 · status: hoax
The account
For: the documents name real officials and some details fit the period, and researchers such as Stanton Friedman defended them for years.
The sceptical view
Against: the documents were largely shown to be forgeries, with anachronisms, wrong formatting and a copied Truman signature; the FBI called them bogus. MJ-12 first appeared as part of disinformation aimed at researchers.
Connections in the atlas
- Kirtland / Bennewitz affair
- The Majestic-12 documents
- Roswell incident