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SUBJECT: MJ12, MYTH OR REALITY ? FILE: UFO2020
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PART 1
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>>The following article is the first of two parts excerpted from "Just Cause",
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the quarterly newsletter of CAUS, Citizens Against UFO Secrecy. Run by Barry
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Greenwood and Lawrence Fawcett, this organization attempts to gain access to
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government documents on UFOs through the Freedom of Information Act.
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MJ12: MYTH OR REALITY?
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Did a secret government panel once intensively study a crashed-UFO case with
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compelling physical evidence at its disposal? Did this panel set the UFO
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debunking policy for the government which persists to this day? These are
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certainly questions which h ave echoed throughout UFOlogy for decades,
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generating scores of wild rumors. Many of the rumors died a quick death
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while others lingered, helped along mainly by a cadre of conspiracy
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theorists/supporters. One such story was Frank Scully's Artec, New Mexic o
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UFO crash, which formed the basis for the 1950 book "BEHIND THE FLYING
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SAUCERS". In virtually all of theses cases, the substance necessary to the
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credibility of the story was sorely lacking.
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Recent revelations have shown that at least a small number of the surviving
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rumors deserve a day in court, most notably the Roswell, NM incident of 1947,
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involving the alleged crash of a UFO and the recovery and study of the debris
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(and bodies) at Wri ght Field (now Wright-Patterson AFB, OH).
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A relatively new rumor has surfaced which we would like to discuss in some
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detail because it is new and it bears some interesting connections to old
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stories. CAUS does not yet endorse this as fact. Our long-standing policy
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of requiring conclusive gove rnment documentation still stands and will
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always stand. We have yet to see such documentation in this instance.
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Nevertheless, it is hoped that open discussion will elicit practical response
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toward proving or burying this latest tale.
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During the final stages of "CLEAR INTENT" [Greenwood and Fawcett, 1984], I had
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collected documents related to multiple sightings of UFOs over Kirtland AFB,
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NM in August, 1980. The story of this series of reports is in the Epilog of
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CLEAR INTENT. What wasn't inserted in the book was a document, allegedly a
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government document, which had made the rounds in the so-called UFO
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grapevine. It told of an analysis performed of the "Dr. Bennewitz"
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photographic data which had been part of the subject matter in t he confirmed
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AFOSI [Air Force Office of Special Investigations] file release on Kirtland.
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It concluded that some of the photos were "legitimate negatives of
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unidentified aerial objects." The document went on to discuss, very briefly,
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a top-secret "Project Aquarius" and something called "MJ 12". These terms
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meant little to us at the time so inquiries were launched to determine the
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origin of the terms and the document.
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No government agency had any knowledge of the matter, and the alleged
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originator, AFOSI, said that the document was a "fabrication". Since we had
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no evidence to prove otherwise and since the document came from a source
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other than the FOIA [Freedom Of Information Act], I chose not to use it in
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CI. My copy of the Aquarius document contained several misspellings and
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irregularities in format, further adding to my suspicions but I did not rule
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out the possibility of this perhaps being a retyped version of an original,
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legitimate document by a "mole" in the military. The piece was filed and
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remained in limbo for a time.
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This past summer the mysterious "MJ 12" portion of the Aquarius document
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surfaced again when CAUS was advised by several members that California UFO
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researcher Lee Graham was conducting inquiries into MJ 12, apparently based
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on specific information fr om an unknown individual in the government. The
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specifics were rather intriguing.
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MJ 12, or Majestic 12, was a panel formed to investigate and report its
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findings to the President of the United States on the matter of Unidentified
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Flying Objects. It addressed in particular the Roswell, NM incident of July
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2, 1947. The panel consist
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