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Majestic 12 (MJ-12)

1947-09-24what this date marks is not recorded

ends 1947-09-24what this end marks is not recorded

Alleged secret committee purportedly formed by President Truman in 1947 to manage recovered UFO material and oversee Roswell-related secrecy. The documents describing it surfaced in 1984 and are considered probable forgeries by most researchers on both sides of the UFO debate, though the name remains a fixture of UAP conspiracy lore.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "uap", "ufo", "roswell". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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Records Related to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) at the National Archives: Presidential Library Holdings 2026-01-30

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← Dwight Eisenhower a reference; no pages of it are held

alleged in disputed documents to have been briefed on it

Records Related to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) at the National Archives: Presidential Library Holdings

Caveat Claim: Eisenhower is ALLEGED IN DISPUTED DOCUMENTS to have been briefed. The document is a NARA statement that no MJ-12 material is in the holdings, and the caution correctly says absence does not authenticate the documents. That is the claim being used properly as a negative finding, which the charter treats as first-class.scope: scoped · reviewed 2026-08-21
→ Roswell Incident names a source we do not hold

disputed 1984 documents link it to this event

MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis
→ William Moore names a source we do not hold

one of three researchers who released its documents

MJ-12 document release, 1987
→ Stanton Friedman names a source we do not hold

extensively investigated and popularized the documents

MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis
← Harry Truman names a source we do not hold

alleged in disputed documents to have created it

MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis
← Oppenheimer-Einstein Report names a source we do not hold

both circulate in the same genre of unverified 1940s UFO documents

MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis
← Philip J. Klass names a source we do not hold

found the Cutler-Twining memo used a pasted-on Truman signature

MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis
← Allen Dulles names a source we do not hold

named as an alleged member in the disputed documents

MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis
← Nathan Twining names a source we do not hold

named as an alleged member ("MJ-4") in the disputed documents

alleged MJ-12 documents (authenticity widely disputed)
← James Forrestal names a source we do not hold

named as the group's alleged co-founder

MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis
← Donald Menzel names a source we do not hold

named as an alleged member ("MJ-10")

MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis