Majestic 12 — S-Aircraft Drawing and Memo — by Thomas Cantwheel

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S-Aircraft Drawing and Memo — by Thomas Cantwheel 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 S-Aircraft Drawing and Memo — by Thomas Cantwheel
Date 30 January 1996
Era 1970–Present
Document Type Witness Memorandum
Claimed Classification UNCLASSIFIED
Authenticity Rating Medium
Related Program Operation Majestic-12 (MJ-12 / MAJIC)

Description

A two-page memo from alleged source Thomas Cantwheel (believed pseudonym) including a drawing of an unidentified aerodyne found on July 5, 1947, south of Socorro, New Mexico. States: 'The loaned aircraft was acquired in 1945 from ATSC… designed from an aerodyne recovered in 1941 that crashed in southeastern Missouri and one captured in 1942 in Louisiana. Reconstruction commenced in 1945 with the assistance of German scientists at Wright Field.' Describes Project Blue Book as a cover intelligence project and states Project UFO and Moon Dust were activated in 1958 when the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit ceased operations.

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show evidence of authenticity through forensic analysis of paper, ink, typeface, format conventions, and verifiable historical references.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