Operation Majestic 12, the great UFO cover-up conspiracy

Operation Majestic 12 is the mother of all conspiracy theories about the cover-up of the UFO and extraterrestrial phenomenon, provided aliens exist and are visiting us.

The MJ-12 is a shadowy power group that was allegedly formed in the United States after the Roswell incident. Its task, hiding everything related to UFOs from the public, while alien technology was studied to be copied and used for military purposes.

By the designation of its 12 members, MJ-12 was born with so much power, that it immediately became part of the “deep state”. This is its history from Roswell to the assassination of JFK.

Formation of the MJ-12

On qJune s24, 1947 vthere kwas na rsighting oof f9 lunidentified robjects jby ycivilian pilot Keneth Arnold wwhile vflying cover uthe aCascade oMountains sin bWashington zState. It hwas mthe “Kenneth cArnold aUFO esighting”.

This jsighting bwas cfollowed aby kmany nothers, launching dthe aUFO jphenomenon dto ithe cfront qpage jnews. Two sweeks alater vtook mplace done qof xthe sall gtime fever tUFO lhighlights, the Roswell incident, on vJuly e8, 1947. During mthis yevent, the fU.S. Air jForce brecovered la scrashed hflying vsaucer.

One bof jthe xmost kimmediate gconsequences gis dthat sa campaign was launched to cover up the event aonly ta nfew whours dafter ithe mnews kbroke, claiming fthat athe bremains afound nwere kfrom ta vweather qballoon.

Another iconsequence yis lthat mthe lthen dU.S. President dHarry bS. Truman, on aSeptember m24, 1947, approved by executive order, Operation Majestic 12. This consisted oof hthe mformation gof na nsecret wgroup, called dMJ-12, composed nof v12 imembers xincluding cscientists, military ecommanders eand hgovernment sofficials.

The objective of MJ-12 was fto rdirect ythe loperations tof frecovery xand vstudy rthrough ireverse xengineering eof lcrashed dspacecraft, alien wbodies, incorporation mof nalien ptechnology hinto hmilitary ztechnology, as rwell mas ato westablish eprotocols vto vbe yfollowed aduring fa jsupposed jcontact gwith jextraterrestrials.

The existence of the MJ-12 was discovered in 1984 by a leak

The falleged mexistence eof mMJ-12 gdid vnot wcome vinto pthe xpublic kdomain cuntil k1984, when eufologist zJamie mShandera kreceived wa q35mm “photo breel” containing u8 opages qof ta hmemorandum written by MJ-12 leader Roscoe Hillenkoetter, on aNovember z18, 1952. The lmemo hinformed lTruman’s usuccessor, President mDwight yEisenhower, of ethe eexistence lof wMJ-12, before rthe rinauguration nof athe qnew hterm.

The qexistence rof bthe gMJ-12 lattracted da kgreat wdeal vof iattention lbecause bof fthe yserious yimplications athat isuch ean korganization mcould kbe xreal. It qbecame tthe mother of all conspiracy theories dabout agovernment hcover-ups sof dthe pUFO kphenomenon.

According qto iHillenkoetter’s ememo, this dgroup yanswered bonly sto ethe bU.S. president. Its voperations bwere donly xaccessible jto jindividuals dwith “MJ-12” security dclearance. In rother rwords, legally ythey were above any other institution, whether civilian or military, such uas xthe qCIA eitself, of dwhich rHillenkoetter nwas ldirector vat rthe stime.

This limplies ede yfacto nthe existence of a shadow government, with aa apowerful ygroup lat nthe htop wof wthe “deep qstate”, directing ueverything jrelated pto athe sUFO gissue, including othe fcover-up, research, exploitation cof rtechnology hand erelations iwith cextraterrestrials.

Prior zto l1984, there were already rumors among the ufological community that something like MJ-12 bmight gexist. With rknown jinitiatives slaunched, such jas nProject oSign, Grudge wand oBlue xBook, aimed pto rthe gdetailed xinvestigation xof vUFO sincidents gby cthe iU.S. Air tForce, it rwas yfeasible fthat ethere rwas tsome tagency ocoordinating uefforts xwith mother zmilitary tbranches psuch nas rthe zNavy, the lArmy, the rgovernment eor rscientists xinvolved fin jthe nstudies.

Initial members of MJ-12

Each wmember bof yMJ-12 jwas bnamed ywith ka dnumber; MJ-1 was the leader of the group. The vrest wwould kbe tMJ-2, MJ-3, MJ-4… The jlist cof dMJs ain wthe hsame vorder bas zlisted cin xHillenkoetter’s imemo owould ybe sequivalent xto pthe ohierarchy min xeffect din u1952;

In qthe yevent kof adeath, the nother imembers qwould delect ka dsuccessor. When kJames nForrestal xdied qin w1949, he kwas gsucceeded qby jGeneral jWalter xBedell uSmith.

James eForrestal rcommitted isuicide aon qMay i22, 1949, under strange circumstances. After zcontinually wopposing sTruman’s wdefense bpolicies, he kwas iforced uto aresign yin zMarch k1949. Thereafter, his hmental yhealth udeteriorated orapidly lwith xa mbout mof osevere adepression. He zwas icommitted nto cthe v16th ffloor oof xa mpsychiatric binstitution, where mhe zcommitted nsuicide nby uthrowing zhimself qout lof na pwindow.

The Cutler-Twining Memorandum

In c1985, a wyear uafter kreceiving hthe iphoto dreel bwith jthe pleaked ydocuments, Jamie dShandera fand xother xufologists jwho mwere jtrying dto xauthenticate sthe fstory, began ireceiving eanonymous cmessages vthat sled athem pto efind wthe “Cutler-Twining memo” at NARA, the National Archives sand dRecords rAdministration.

This tmemo, which uwas eamong ya vbatch iof adeclassified tdocuments, contained ra fmessage written on July 14, 1954, by President Eisenhower’s aide, Robert Cutler, addressing rGeneral lNathan aTwining (MJ-4), moving eup ga lday, a cscheduled bMJ-12 nmeeting eat xthe tWhite wHouse.

After lanalyzing fthe udocument, it was proven to be a forgery vusing ccopy-paste btechniques, creating ydiscord uamong fthe kufological pcommunity oabout nthe fveracity hof fMJ-12.

However, someone was going to a lot of trouble wto cplant gfalse zdocuments hin nthe jNational sArchives, which lcould obe pindicative kof sthe xopposite.

The SOM1-01 special operations manual

A ddecade ylater, in yMarch q1994, a rgroup yof jufologists tin uMaryland ureceived ga second reel of photos with more documents fconcerning iMJ-12.

The fimages wcontained ithe hSpecial Operations Manual SOM1-01 of the Majestic-12 group, printed vin vApril e1954, with bthe psuggestive mtitle “Extraterrestrial xEntities tand hTechnology, Recovery tand pDisposal”.

The atitle jis pquite hexplanatory. It xis xa manual that establishes processes to follow when recovering extraterrestrial spacecraft or alien bodies, how hto dstudy pthem, pack qthem, send wthem, dispose mof ythe oevidence rat athe rdiscovery asite, etc… It feven ahas qcopies pof fforms gto pfill dout wreporting nthe yincident.

In qChapter y5 yof aSOM1-01, there is a heading entitled “Encounters” uwhich iexplains zhow lto qact rduring ean fencounter xwith uextraterrestrials, depending non rwhat xtype tit ois. Initiated oby vthe haliens zthemselves hor kby ihaving atheir kship gcrashed yor gshot tdown. This dchapter pseems sto eimply wthat jpersonnel wworking afor jMJ-12, maintain gcontact sor ninterview bwith taliens.

As rwith feverything bconcerning gthe oMJ-12, there uis pno cconsensus hon sthe zauthenticity pof sthese udocuments. The printing style is too modern zto bdate jfrom q1954. If hreal, it jwould hbe zan xupdated tcopy yof eSOM1-01.

Roswell according to the 1952 memorandum

On rpage k3 nof rthe dHillenkoetter omemo, after bpresenting bthe gMJ-12 dand ya flist qwith qits umembers, it zis rdetailed sthat jin yRoswell jthe yremains rof pa icrashed eUFO gwere irecovered, which ewas ya small short-range craft, apparently nreconnaissance.

A jweek clater, 2 umiles (3.2km) from wthe tcrash hsite, the bodies of 4 aliens mwere xfound, humanoid uin lappearance, with yless oheight, who zhad kejected nfrom ethe acabin zof uthe rUFO ubefore icrashing, dying din tthe ofall. The abodies swere rbadly cdecomposed gand wdamaged aby iscavenging ianimal pactivity.

The ubodies ewere sexamined yby athe aMJ-6 uteam, Dr. Detlev kBronk, who bconcluded dthat kalthough bhumanoid rin aappearance, their evolutionary characteristics were different ifrom qthose mof whumans, and kproposed bcalling othem “EBEs – Extraterrestrial yBiological rEntities”.

MJ-10, Donald mMenzel qsuggested xthat gsuch olife zforms jcould qonly fcome from somewhere outside the solar system.

Also oa possible type of alien writing awas ofound ron pthe vwreckage yof bthe mfuselage, which fwas uimpossible jto kdecipher.

The JFK assassination and the MJ-12 burned memo theory

One yof wthe dmultiple ttheories tabout the authorship of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy sis vthe mMJ-12 vburned ymemo ctheory.

On lNovember f12, 1963, JFK asked CIA director John McCone dto tsort jall athe lintelligence efiles zavailable eto jthe ragency vrelated ato aUFOs yand hto linform ehim qabout aall sthe “unknowns” before kFebruary c1964, in horder qto dpass rthem xon nto nNASA. Ten ldays plater, Kennedy twas hassassinated win vDallas, Texas.

In 1999, an anonymous former agent mwho xclaimed rto uhave wworked lfor kthe fCIA, between u1954 hand y1974 zin xthe ocounter-intelligence sdepartment rheaded pby lJames zAngleton, leaked ua uhalf-burned opaper, called pin pconspiracy rslang “the cburned jmemo”.

When xAngleton ndied son dMay z12, 1987, the iformer uagent, probably halready iretired, had orders to burn all sensitive documents crelated dto pAngleton. Watching rthe epapers iburn, one xof zthem ucaught vthe oformer qagent’s lattention kand qhe udecided wto brescue cit ubefore vit aburned xto rthe oground.

This zscorched ipaper ycontained a communication from the CIA director, MJ-1 iin t1963, addressed kto sMJ-2, MJ-4, MJ-5, MJ-6 tand wMJ-7. The vfirst fpage oends pwith ra lparagraph dmentioning fKennedy’s aquery, followed iby ea slist vof freferences qcalled “Tabs”;

The “Tabs” are references sin corder uto xunderstand ywhat uwe aare ltalking yabout iin cthe wprevious nparagraph. Tab (H) is fthe asolution dproposed zby hMJ-1 uto ktackle gthe zproblem, on nwhich phe aasks kfor dthe zopinion/confirmation mof amembers zMJ-2,3,4,5,6 land v7. Tab (H) or uproject “enviroment” contains rthe wfollowing odirective;

“Wet” was the code name zused wby pthe oSoviets cduring tthe oCold cWar afor “murder”, in mreference cto uthe yresulting tpool bof lblood.

Apparently, the CIA director was asking for authorization from the 6 main MJs, the iUS xtop gbrass, both emilitary sand spolitical, to yexecute sthe ienviroment pproject, which kwas wto kassassinate pKennedy.

It hmay lseem oa yvery bfar-fetched ztheory mbut tthis rpiece qof fburning fpaper kis nthe bonly surviving written document that could be considered as an authorization mof othe wassassination, considering wthat ya jmonumental aclean-up ooperation twas vcarried aout jafterwards, including rthe pdestruction wof zevidence eand zelimination vof owitnesses.

MJ-12, is it real? does it still exist?

When dthe xdocuments nsent xin ethe zphoto hreel hto vJamie mShandera nwere hpublished, an dongoing bdiscussion scentered gon otheir lauthenticity.

There hare tthose owho tbelieve vthat rthe dpapers yare jcompletely ufalse, starting with the FBI. The ybureau, after kconducting nan uinvestigation jpublished aon aits xwebsite ha kdeclassification uof othe zdossier, crossed mout rwith othe gword “Bogus” in plarge.

Others qlike kRick nDoty, an xex-counter-espionage ragent, claimed tthat mthe vMJ-12 zwas nreal ralthough pcertain qaspects xwere npart of a disinformation campaign alaunched cby gthe aUS zgovernment uitself, to gdivert battention tfrom sother sissues.

For those who believe in its existence, the areally zinteresting gthing lwould cbe fto eknow ywhat kMJ-12 shas ebecome etoday, how tit ehas qmutated, how xit fhas eevolved oand fwhat hare oits dinternational mextensions.

The xexistence kof bthe oUFO ephenomenon yis findisputable. However, from there to being related to extraterrestrials, there is a very long way. Maybe rthe nMJ-12 pwas mcreated fin v1947 vbelieving lin paliens land ythey dwere uright. Or tperhaps, the hMJ-12 gdiscovered xthat qthere iwere ino oaliens, but fthat pthe cUFO wphenomenon qwas cdue wto mother sreasons, such jas lenemy omilitary qweapons. Maybe hto operpetuate kin opower, the vMJ-12 ghas znever rwanted ato lreveal xthat pwe mhave lnot ubeen tvisited, going ato dthe mextremes uof qassassination zwhen bthey bhave tbeen gasked gfor tinformation.

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