Majestic 12 — Directive to General Twining by Eisenhower

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Directive to General Twining by Eisenhower is a document pertaining to Majestic 12 (Operation Majestic-12, MJ-12, or Majic-12), a purported secret U.S. government program alleged to have investigated recovered unidentified flying objects and their occupants beginning in 1947.

Document Details

Field Information
Title Directive to General Twining by Eisenhower
Date 8 July 1947
Era Pre-1948
Document Type Military Directive
Claimed Classification TOP SECRET
Authenticity Rating Medium
Related Program Operation Majestic-12 (MJ-12 / MAJIC)

Description

Signed authorization from General Eisenhower directing General Nathan F. Twining, head of Air Materiel Command, to travel to White Sands Proving Ground with a team of experts, technicians, and scientists to appraise the reported unidentified objects being held there, and to address military, political, and psychological implications surrounding the objects' existence in New Mexico.

Authenticity Assessment

Researchers consider this document to have a medium authenticity rating; some details are verifiable but significant questions remain.

The United States government has officially denied the existence of any organization called Majestic 12, MJ-12, or Majic-12. The FBI declared the core MJ-12 documents "completely bogus" on November 30, 1988, after receiving information from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) that no such committee had ever been authorized or formed. Despite this, researchers including Stanton T. Friedman and Dr. Robert M. Wood have argued that individual documents within the Majestic corpus show evidence of authenticity through forensic analysis of paper, ink, typeface, format conventions, and verifiable historical references.

Historical Context

Majestic 12 is claimed to have been established by special classified executive order of President Harry S. Truman on September 24, 1947, upon recommendation by Secretary of Defense James Forrestal and Dr. Vannevar Bush. The core documents were first publicly circulated in 1984–1987 by ufologists Jaime Shandera, William L. Moore, and Stanton T. Friedman. The Eisenhower Briefing Document — the central MJ-12 document — was found on undeveloped 35mm film delivered anonymously to Shandera's mailbox in December 1984.

Sources and Archival Information

See Also

References

  • Wood, Robert M. & Wood, Ryan S. Majic Eyes Only. Wood Enterprises, 2005.
  • Friedman, Stanton T. TOP SECRET/MAJIC. Marlowe & Company, 1996.
  • FBI Vault: Majestic 12, Part 1 of 1. [1]
  • Klass, Philip J. "The MJ-12 Crashed-Saucer Documents." Skeptical Inquirer, Winter 1987–1988.
  • Goldberg, Robert Alan. Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America. Yale University Press, 2008.
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