Majestic 12 — Eisenhower Executive Order — Founding of Operation Majestic-12

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Eisenhower Executive Order — Founding of Operation Majestic-12 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 Eisenhower Executive Order — Founding of Operation Majestic-12
Date 24 September 1947
Era Pre-1948
Document Type Presidential Executive Order
Claimed Classification TOP SECRET / EYES ONLY
Authenticity Rating Medium-High
Related Program Operation Majestic-12 (MJ-12 / MAJIC)

Description

The classified executive order allegedly signed by President Truman on September 24, 1947, formally establishing Operation Majestic-12 upon the recommendation of Secretary of Defense James Forrestal and Dr. Vannevar Bush. Referenced in the Eisenhower Briefing Document as Appendix A. The order established the Majestic-12 Group as 'a TOP SECRET Research and Development / Intelligence operation responsible directly and only to the President of the United States,' with 12 designated members drawn from the military, intelligence community, and scientific establishment.

Authenticity Assessment

Researchers consider this document to have a medium-high authenticity rating; multiple corroborating details have been verified, though definitive proof remains elusive.

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show evidence of authenticity through forensic analysis of paper, ink, typeface, format conventions, and verifiable historical references.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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