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SUBJECT: MAJESTIC MYSTERY FILE: UFO2430
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In December 1984 a package with no return address and an Albuquerque postmark
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arrived in Jaime Shandera's mail in North Hollywood, California. Inside was a
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roll of 35mm film. When developed, it turned out to contain eight pages of an
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alleged briefing paper, dated November 18, 1952, in which Vice Adm. Roscoe
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Hillenkoetter told President-elct Dwight Eisenhower of the recovery of the
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remains of two crashed spaceships. In the first of these crashes, in early
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July 1947, authorities recovered the bodies of four humanoid beings. According
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to the document, which appended a copy of what was supposed to be the actual
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executive order. President Harry Truman authorized the creation of the
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supersecret group called. "Majestic 12" (MJ-12 for short) to study the
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remains.
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Acting on a tip from sources who claimed to represent Air Force intelligence,
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Shandera and his associate William Moore (coauthor of The Roswell Incident)
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flew to Washington, D.C. They searched the National Archives looking for
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references in official documents to MJ-12. They found a July 1954 memo from
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Gen. Robert Cutler, and Eisenhower assistant, referring to an "MJ-12 SSP
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[Special Studies Project]" to be held at the White House on the 16th of that
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month.
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In the spring of 1987 an unknown individual, allegedly associated with an
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intelligence agency, gave British writer Timoth Good a copy of the MJ-12
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document. Upon learning Good was going to disclose its existence to the press,
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Moore and Shandera released their copy, along with the Cutler memo. The result
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was massive uproar, including coverage in the New York Times and Nightline,
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and FBI investigation, and furious controversy that continues to this day.
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For various technical reasons most investigators agree that the MJ-12 document
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is a forgery, but the identity of the forger remains a deep mystery that even
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the FBI cannot crack. The forger apparently had access to obscure official
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information, much of it not even in the public record, leading to suspicions
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that an intelligence agency created the document for disinformation purposes.
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Whatever the answer, the MJ-12 document is surely the most puzzling hoax in
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UFO history.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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