Majestic 12 (or MJ-12) is the supposed code name of an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. The purpose of the committee would be to investigate the recovery of a UFO north of Roswell, New Mexico during July 1947.
Initial indications of such a group's existence appeared in 1978 in declassified Canadian documents. Another reference to a classified group called "MJ-12" was discovered in 1980, but was later claimed to be a hoax. In 1984 a set of documents were discovered in United States archives, which closely resemble real declassified documents, but which the FBI have declared to be "completely bogus".
UFO conspiracy theories sometimes incorporate Majestic 12.
Read more about Majestic 12: Initial Discoveries, Moore's Fictional MJ-12 in 1982-3, Moore and Shandera's 1984-5 Discoveries, Connection To The Secret Pratt Documents, Membership, 1988 FBI Investigation
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