Majestic 12 | Secret Documents Expose UFO Cover-Up Vol. 1

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weren't human. Truman formed a committee of 12 men. Their job create a government within the. government and use that government to. guard the most important discovery in. human history. And for almost 40 years. they did until the last one died. That's. when the world would finally learn about. Majestic 12. [Music]. We are the knights who say no.

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On December 11th, 1984, a package. arrived at Jamie Chandere's Hollywood. office. No return address, no note, just. a role of 35mm film. Chandere was a film producer working on. a UFO documentary with researcher Bill. Moore. Moore had written the Roswell. incident in 1980. Before his book,

nobody knew the real story of Roswell. He had sources, military contacts, people who leaked information, but. nothing like this. Chandere called more. Within an hour, they were in Chandere's. bathroom. >> Uh, this story took a weird turn. >> He used his bathroom as a dark room. >> uh for developing photographs. >> Ah, okay. Okay. Well, we're back on. track. >> Under the eerie red light, the first. image appeared. They didn't know what to. expect. They certainly didn't expect to.

see the presidential seal. Magic fetal. fetus. >> Wrong episode. >> Link down in Nel's hole. >> There were a total of eight photos, all. documents. The first page was labeled. top secret magic eyes only. This was a. security classification they'd never. seen before. Supposedly two levels above. top secret. The formatting was perfect. The type. face matched 1950s government standards. The terminology was right. The dates. were right. And the names, those were.

definitely right. 12 names. A committee. tasked with managing the most sensitive. secret in American history. Operation. Majestic 12. Moore recognized every name on the list. Military leaders, intelligence officers, scientists. But the last name was most. interesting. Dr. Jerome Huner. Huner had. died 2 months ago. He was the last. survivor of the original Majestic 12. The timing wasn't a coincidence. Someone. waited until the last man was dead.

After almost 40 years of secrecy, somebody wanted this exposed. Moore had. literally written the book on Roswell, but his information was secondhand. accounts and local legends. He had no. hard evidence until now. The eight pages told an explosive story, a UFO crash in Roswell, recovery. operations, advanced technology, and. alien bodies. The documents proved that. the US government covered it up and they. proved Roswell was only at the.

beginning. Jamie Chandere and Bill Moore held proof. of the biggest cover up in history. The. documents detailed a secret committee. called Majestic 12. But the real shock. was why the committee was formed. The main document was a briefing for. President-elect Eisenhower, November.

18th, 1952. The subject line, briefing. document, Operation Majestic 12, prepared for President-elect Eisenhower, eyes only. On September 24th, 1947, Truman signed. Executive Order 092447. It created a special committee to handle. all aspects of extraterrestrial. interaction. 12 members, scientists, military. leaders, intelligence officers, all with. the highest security clearances, all.

sworn to absolute secrecy. The committee had three purposes. Study. recover technology, develop strategies. for future contact, and most. importantly, keep the entire operation. hidden from the public. The committee. was a response to events that began in. June 1947. >> On 24th June 1947, a civilian pilot. flying over the Cascade Mountains in the. state of Washington observed nine flying. discshaped aircraft traveling in.

formation at a high rate of speed. Although this was not the first known. sighting of such objects, it was the. first to gain widespread attention in. the public media. Though they denied it at the time, the. military had been seeing a lot of these. objects. >> Hundreds of reports of sightings of. similar objects followed. Many of these. came from highly credible military and. civilian sources. These reports resulted. in independent efforts by several. different elements of the military to. ascertain the nature and purpose of.

these objects in the interest of. national defense. >> Witness statements were confusing. Nobody knew what these things were. Then. on July 7th, 1947, an object crashed in. the New Mexico desert. The official. story, it was a weather balloon. That. was a lie. The briefing described a. craft of unknown origin. Metallic. discshaped about 30 ft wide. No visible. seams or rivets. No visible propulsion. system made from a metal alloy they.

couldn't recognize. The report confirmed. this was engineering beyond any country. on Earth. But the craft was empty. But. that changed a week later when they. found four bodies. >> Aerial reconnaissance discovered that. four small human-like beings had. apparently ejected from the craft at. some point before it exploded. These had. fallen to Earth about 2 mi east of the. wreckage site. >> Four bodies about 4 ft tall, humanoid, but definitely not human. Large heads, no hair, gray skin. Three died on.

impact. The fourth survived the crash, but died shortly after. The military. moved fast and created the infamous. cover story. >> A special scientific team took charge of. removing these bodies for study. See. attachment C. The wreckage of the craft. was also removed to several different. locations. See attachment B. Civilian. and military witnesses in the area were. debriefed and news reporters were given. the effective cover story that the. object had been a misguided weather.

research balloon. >> The scientific team led by Dr. of Detaf. Franc called the beings extraterrestrial. biological entities ebees and Roswell. wasn't an isolated incident. The. briefing detailed a second crash. >> On 06 December 1950, a second object, probably of similar origin, impacted the. Earth at high speed in the Elindio. Guerrero area of the Texas Mexican. border after following a long trajectory. through the atmosphere.

The object was almost completely. destroyed on impact. What remained went. to the Atomic Energy Commission facility. at Sandia, New Mexico. The briefing. included the names of all living MJ12. members, powerful figures in the. military, scientific, and intelligence. communities. But one name seemed out of. place. Dr. Donald Menzel, America's most. famous UFO skeptic. A man who spent his. career explaining away every sighting as. weather balloons, swamp gas, or natural. phenomena.

Having the country's biggest UFO. debunker on the original committee. proved that Operation Majestic 12 wasn't. about discovery. It was about deception. [Music]. The MJ12 documents described a crashed. UFO and four alien bodies. But the most. shocking part wasn't the crash. It was. the cover up. One name on the committee.

proved the operation was designed to. deceive the public from the very. beginning. The roster of Majestic 12. reads like a who's who of the American. deep state. Let's go through the names. Admiral Rosco Hilloder, Naval. Intelligence First Director of the CIA, designated MJ1, reported directly to the. president. Admiral Sydney Sourers, Naval. Intelligence, First Director of Central. Intelligence, later executive secretary. of the National Security Council. General Huy Vandenberg, chief of staff.

of the Air Force, oversaw air force. intelligence, became the second director. of Central Intelligence. General Nathan. Twining, chief of staff of the Air. Force, commander of the Roswell. operation. He wrote a famous memo in. 1947 saying UFOs were real. From his. reports came Project Sign, Project. Grudge, and Project Blue Book. Secretary. James Forestto, first Secretary of. Defense, former Secretary of the Navy. General Robert Montigue, Commander of. Sandia Base in Albuquerque, which.

created nuclear weapons. Captain Gordon. Gray, National Security Adviser under. Eisenhower, Secretary of the Army, helped manage nuclear weapons policy. Then the scientists, Dr. Vanavar Bush, head of the Office of Scientific. Research and Development during World. War II, architect of the Manhattan. Project. Dr. Detlev Bronc, biophysicist, future president of the National Academy. of Sciences, specialized in aviation. medicine in charge of non-human. biological entities. Dr. Dr. Lloyd.

Burkner, physicist and engineer. specializing in radio atmospheric. studies and space science. Dr. Jerome. Huner, aeronautical engineer, chairman. of the National Advisory Committee for. Aeronautics, which became NASA. These. were the men who built America's nuclear. secrets. But among them was one name. that didn't fit, Dr. Donald Menzel. Menzel was a respected Harvard. astronomer. He was also America's most. famous, most vocal UFO debunker. He. wrote books explaining away every.

sighting as weather balloons, swamp gas, miragages, all kinds of natural. phenomena. Having such a well-known. skeptic on a UFO committee made no sense. unless his public role was a cover. story. Dig a little deeper and you. realize Menzel was living a double life. He had a 30-year association with the. NSA. He had top secret ultra clearance. with the CIA. >> Top secret ultra clearance. Uh what's. next? super duper premium platinum pinky. square clearance. >> Between 1947 and 1948, right after the.

crash, Menzel made several trips to New. Mexico, all paid for by the US. government. In public, Menzel was a. skeptic. In private, he was an asset. Harvard University has been taking. photographs of the sky since 1882. The. images are stored on photographic. plates. By 1952, Harvard had 500,000. plates. Many contained images that would. be inconvenient for the government. So. they had to be destroyed.

>> Onethird of the plate collection. destroyed by the new incoming director. of the Harvard Observatory. And that man. was do you give his name or shall I? >> I think you should do it. >> That man was is Dr. Donald Menzel. Dr. Menzel destroyed 150,000 priceless. photographic plates, images of Mars, the. moon, the entire sky. Not only that, he. prevented Harvard from taking any. additional photographs during his. tenure, 15 years. Seemensel comes in in.

September October 1952. but began destroying. uh a certain amount of this priceless. collection of astronomical data. and and also he prevented Harvard from. collecting new astronomical data for a. certain number of years and this is. known among your colleagues as the menel. gap. Is that correct? Uh yes, the survey.

that was there like the old sky survey. was halted for 15 years. >> Ah, so following the science means. destroying evidence. Uh there's a lot of. that going around these days. >> But Menzel wasn't the only member with a. complicated story. James Foresttol was. openly critical of government corruption. and lack of transparency. A man with a. conscience isn't suited for a seat at. the most secret table in the world. For. MJ12, Foresttoall was a problem. To. solve it, all they needed was a little.

gravity. >> Oh no. James Vincent Forestto didn't come from. old money or privilege. He clawed his. way up from newspaper reporter to Wall. Street millionaire. By age 40, he was. president of the powerhouse investment. firm Dylan Reed & Company. When World. War II broke out, he walked away from.

finance to serve his country. Roosevelt. made him under secretary of the navy, then secretary of the navy, and finally. first secretary of defense. Forestall. oversaw the transition from wartime. America into the cold war superpower. His rags to rich's story was the. American dream, but he was a nightmare. for the Washington establishment. Forestall was openly critical of. Truman's policies, nuclear disarmament, joining NATO. Foresttol argued that. recognizing the new state of Israel too.

soon would inflame the Arab world, threatening US oil security. Critics accused Foresttol of being. anti-Semitic, but the record shows his. arguments were strategic, not religious. or ethnic. He wanted Israel to be under. UN control until tempers in the region. cooled down. He also believed America. was being hollowed out from within. He. warned that communists had infiltrated. the government, the media, and the. military. While the US was disarming, Moscow was embedding agents at the. highest levels of American life.

>> Uh, he was right about that. >> He was. Congressional hearings would. later prove that Soviet spy rings really. had penetrated Washington. But when. Forestall said it, he was branded. paranoid. It was a media smear campaign. Journalists who once praised him painted. him as unstable. Communists accused him. of imagining reds under every bed. Cartoonists mocked him as a wildeyed. conspiracy theorist. Inside the White. House, Truman's circle spread the idea. that Foresttol was cracking under. pressure.

They circulated rumors about his. drinking, about his memory. But. Foresttol wasn't drunk or scenile. He. was filling thousands of pages in his. diaries, working 15-our days. He was. independent, wealthy, and wasn't afraid. to speak truth to power. Foresttol. couldn't be controlled. That made him. dangerous. By March 1949, the pressure campaign. worked. Foresttol was forced to resign. as secretary of defense. Within days, he. was checked into Bethesda Naval Hospital. for rest. But that rest looked more like.

confinement. Visitors were restricted. His priest tried seven times to see him, blocked every time. His brother Henry. begged to bring him home. Even Foresttol. wrote letters saying he was fine and. wanted to leave. The Navy kept him. inside. 7 weeks later, he was dead. At 1:50 a.m. on May 22nd, 1949, a nurse. heard a crash outside. Forestall's body. was found on a thirdf flooror ledge 13. stories below his window. The belt of.

his bathrobe was tied around his neck. The hospital declared it a suicide. within hours. No autopsy, no. investigation. The coroner rubber. stamped the report without inspecting. the body. Reporters were told Forestall. had been copying lines from a tragic. play as a suicide note, but the lines. were unfinished mid-sentence, as if he. was interrupted. >> Now, let me guess, the video wasn't. working that night. >> Uh, they didn't have video back then. >> Yeah, likely story.

>> Forestall's brother, Henry, called it. murder. Navy officials ordered personnel. to stay silent. They even classified the. number of windows in his room as top. secret. Forestall's diaries were seized. immediately. Thousands of pages of. meetings, conversations, personal. reflections. When they were finally. released two years later, entire. sections were missing. His family. believed the censored passages contain. secrets that powerful people wanted. buried. Instead, Forestall was buried. >> History seems to repeat itself, don't.

it? >> It does. Some believe Forestall was. going to go public about UFOs. He felt. Americans deserve to know the truth. about extraterrestrial contact. But the. message was clear. Silence wasn't. optional. For years, the trail stayed. cold. Then, a postcard arrived from New. Zealand with a return address in. Ethiopia. [Music]. With James Forest all dead, the MJ12.

secret was safe for years. But in early. 1985, a mysterious postcard arrived at. Bill Moore's home, about to blow the. case wide open. The postmark was from New Zealand. The. return address was from a post office. box in Adisababa, Ethiopia. Moore didn't. know anyone in New Zealand or Ethiopia. >> When doors won't open, search for. Windows. Add some zest to your trip to. Washington. Try Reese's Pieces. For a. stylish look, shop Suit Land.

>> Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I hope. they paid for all those product. placements in this video. >> The message on the card was a riddle. >> Yeah, that makes more sense. Someone was following the investigation. and knew it had stalled. Moore called. Jamie Chandere and their new teammate, nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman. Freriedman had worked on classified. nuclear aircraft programs for companies. like General Electric. He approached the. documents like a scientist and helped. them crack the code. They worked. backwards. For a stylish look, shop. Suitland. Suitand wasn't a clothing.

store. It was Sutland, Maryland, home of. the National Archives that unlocked the. other clue, Reese's Pieces. At first, they thought it had something. to do with extraterrestrials. After all, they were ET's favorite candy. But. Freeman Bonu and Ed Ree, who worked at. the National Archives in the military. records branch. Reese's pieces weren't. candy. They were documents. The postcard. was telling them exactly where to go and. who to see. 3 days later, Moore and Chandere were in.

the massive archives building in. Sutland. They were still facing millions. of documents with no idea where to. start. Then Moore looked at the postcard. again. The return address, PO Box 189, box 189. Chandere approached the reference desk. They were looking for box 189, record. group 341, Air Force Records. The. archist checked the computer. The box. had last been accessed in September. 1984, just 2 weeks after Jerome Huner's. death, about the same time Chandere.

received the Majestic 12 documents. >> Yeah, see, this is like some UFO. scavenger hunt. I like midnight madness, fagger beefy. >> I know the movie. Do you want to know. what they found in the box? >> What's in the box? Okay, I'm done. I'm done. Really? Really? Seriously. Uh, what's in the. box? >> Inside, >> bag of beefy. >> Inside were dozens of folders filled. with routine Air Force business from the. 1950s. Then Chandere found it. A single.

sheet of paper tucked between budget. reports. The header read, "Top secret. restricted information." A memorandum. from General Twining signed by Robert. Cutler, President Eisenhower's special. assistant. The president has decided that the MJ12. SSP briefing should take place during. the already scheduled White House. meeting of July 16th. >> This was it. The smoking gun, an. official government document referencing.

MJ12 filed in the National Archives. It. was the final piece they needed to solve. the Majestic 12 puzzle. But more. Chandere Freriedman weren't exposing a. secret government program. They were. being manipulated by one. Moore, Chandere, and Freriedman thought. they had found their smoking gun. The. Cutler Twining memo seemed to be the. proof they needed, but they didn't. realize they were pawns in a much larger.

game. The clue was on that first. envelope that contained the film. It was. postmarked Albuquerque, New Mexico. Kirtland Air Force Base is in. Albuquerque. That's where the game was. being played. And the man in charge was. Richard Dodie. Dodie was a special agent. for AFOSI, the Air Force Office of. Special Investigations. His job was to. spread disinformation in the UFO. community. And he was very good at it. >> I was always connected to UFOs and to.

disinformation. Although. um in actuality in within the. government, we don't call it. disinformation. We call it deception. operations. Dod's most notorious target was. physicist Paul Benowitz. Benowitz. believed he was intercepting alien. communications near Kirtland. Instead of. dismissing him, Dodie fed him false. documents and encouraged his theories. Eventually, Paul Benowitz had a complete. mental breakdown. We did a whole episode. on this a couple years ago. >> Link down in your Venus fly trip.

We don't want him to go out to the. public and go on camera and say, "Hey, I. just tapped into a secret laser on. Kirtland Air Force Base." Obviously, we. can't have that happen. So, all I had to. do was say, "Well, you know what, P? Maybe what you did see was UFOs.". Dodie wasn't just targeting civilians. He also manipulated Emmy-winning. documentary filmmaker Linda Molton How. She was working on a UFO special for. HBO. Dodie promised her footage of.

crashed UFOs and alien bodies. >> She also had contacts within the. government. >> Mhm. >> We wanted to know who those contacts. were. So we set up an operation. We. didn't. I didn't. >> The government did. Where I would bring, she was coming to Albuquerque, New. Mexico. So everything was set up for me. to contact her, bring her in to the OSI. office. Mhm. >> I show her a document that came from. headquarters.

and try to convince her to work for us. >> This was a specific government operation. designed to prevent free speech. The. goal was to stop the HBO documentary. And if they destroyed Linda's reputation. in the process, even better. >> I'm going to do this HBO documentary. I. just She was trying to confirm all the. information is what it sounded like. So, you were tasked with basically putting a. kibos on that documentary. Yeah, that. was Operation Kenaw. Uh, I interviewed. her and, you know, showed her the.

documents and so forth, providing her. with something that was detrimental to. uh, HBO, other OSI agent provided her. with small film clips. >> Was it real or fake? >> It was it was fake. It discredited her. and therefore they she lost that. contract. >> The project was cancelled and Linda's. reputation as a mainstream filmmaker was. damaged. This was how the game was. played. Promise evidence, build trust, then pull the rug out.

>> They're working for my government. They're working for in agencies. of the government that is supposed to be. protecting of the people, by the people, for the people. How did it all turn upside down? >> HBO cancelled a show because of Dodie? >> Yep. I wish Dodie was around for the. last season of Game of Thrones. >> In June 1989, the UFO community gathered. in Las Vegas for the annual MUN.

conference. Bill Moore was scheduled to. speak. Moore was now a hero for his work. on the MJ12 documents. The room was. packed. The last thing anyone expected. to hear was a confession. Bill Moore may. be the most trusted UFO researcher in. the world was a government asset. His. handler was Richard Dodie. They had an. arrangement. Dodie would provide more. with confidential information about. UFOs. Moore would report on the. activities of people like Paul Benowitz. and others in the UFO community.

>> And it was Richard Dodie, then with. AFOSI at Kirtland Air Force Base, who. soon came into play as the middleman in. that process. Shortly thereafter, it became apparent to me that my. supplying information to the government. through Dodie on the activities of Paul. Benowitz. Appro and to a lesser extent several. other individuals was to be a part of. this equation. >> Not only did Moore spread government.

disinformation, but he would also report. back on how well the lies performed. the entire story of a secret treaty. between the US government and the. aliens, of exchanges of technology. between us and the aliens, of battles. between aliens and American armed. forces, and of aliens allegedly having. implanted hundreds of thousands if not. millions of human beings for that for. the purpose of taking over the world and. using us as cattle or slaves came about.

as a result of the disinformation. process. I know because I was in a position to. observe much of this process as it. unfolded and I was providing regular. regular reports on its effectiveness to. some of the very people who were doing. it to Paul. I recruited Bill Moore. I recruited him. to be a spy within the UFO community.

>> The room erupted. Researchers who. trusted him felt betrayed. The man who. brought the MJ12 documents to the world. had just admitted he was a government. operative. His career was over. He was. booed off the stage. Moore's confession. cast a shadow over everything. Were the. MJ documents just another part of the. game? A sophisticated piece of. disinformation. regarding the MJ12 documents that were. released to Jamie Shinder or Bill Moore. I had absolutely nothing to do with. that. We coordinated had liaison with.

him. >> but all these other copies spread out. around of course the internet wasn't in. existence back then but u and that's how. the MJ2 documents I would say that some. of the information was factual and a lot. of it wasn't. There were some. investigations conducted by FBI u OSI um. regarding the MJ12 documents, extensive. investigation just to determine whether. these things were legitimate, whether.

they contained classified information. and then who released them. So the names. of the members of the MJ12 group were. not officially known to us. A lot of the. information, not all the particular. details, but the lot of the information. is factual. >> Who's controlling the release of. information. There's a group out there. that that that is. I can guarantee you. that there is. >> Now, the NJ12 documents entirely. different.

>> Those things surfaced. um through a guy by the name of Jamie. Shander. Uh, he got them. Um, I'm sure and almost. convinced. that that was part of another operation. The MJ12, are they are they MJ12? Where. where did they come from? Who who makes. up the MJ12? What's their names today? as it the Zodiac or Zenith group or. >> in 1987.

Uh I was investigated by the FBI for the. MJ12 documents. Uh they claimed the UFO. researchers claimed I released them, I. created them. And we also wanted to form. an alliance. with the MJ12 group. Uh working either alongside him or. working with him. I have no connections, official connections with the United. States government or intelligence. community.

>> Those documents were were created based. on actual documents. So, you have to. give them a little bit of real. information before you throw in the uh. the uh disinformation. and then you add more and more and more. and that person opens their mind up and. says, "You know what? I think this is. all real. Everything about MJ12 was now thrown. into doubt. The documents were. scrutinized. Believers became skeptics.

The story was pushed to the fringe. But. in 1994, another Majestic 12 document. was found. And this was so detailed it. was almost impossible to deny. William Moore's confession had shattered. the UFO community. The MJ12 documents, once seen as the Holy Grail, were now. tainted by disinformation. And Richard. Dod's fingerprints were all over it. >> These fingerprints were all the taint.

>> Stop that. >> Yeah. >> Researchers were divided. Then in 1994, 10 years after the first package. arrived, another roll of film was sent. This time, the recipient was Don. Berliner, a respected aviation. journalist. The film wasn't a memo or a. briefing. It was a field guide. The. cover read Majestic 12 Group Special. Operations Manual with a subtitle. Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology. Recovery and Disposal. It was dated. April 1954 and marked top secret magic.

eyes only. For researchers, this was the Rosetta. Stone, a step-by-step guide for managing. an alien presence on Earth. The level of. detail was staggering. It provided. instructions for establishing a secure. perimeter around a crash site. It. outlined protocols for handling various. types of alien technology. >> Craft are to be approached with extreme. caution if they appear functional as. serious injury may result from exposure. to radiation and electrical discharges.

If the craft is functioning but appears. to be abandoned, it may be approached. only by specially trained MJ12 red team. personnel wearing protective clothing. Complete craft and parts of crafts too. large to be transported by covered. transport will be disassembled. If they. must be transported whole or on open. flatbed trailers, they will be covered. in such a manner as to camouflage their. shape. The guide specified packaging and. shipping procedures, press blackouts,

how to issue deceptive statements to the. media, how to discredit witnesses, and. communication protocols to follow if. live contact was established. In dealing with any living. extraterrestrial biological entity, security is of paramount importance. All. other considerations are secondary. Although it is preferable to maintain. the physical well-being of any entity, the loss of EBE life is considered. acceptable if conditions or delays to. preserve that life in any way.

compromises the security of the. operations. Remains will be preserved. against further decomposition as. equipment and conditions permit. Cadaavvers and remains will be bagged or. securely wrapped in waterproof. coverings. Remains will be refrigerated. or packed with ice if available. >> The manual described four types of alien. craft in precise detail. Discs between. 50 and 300 ft wide, cigar- shaped. vessels over 2,000 ft long, cone and. triangle-shaped craft. It also.

categorized two different types of EBEs. Type 1 entities were humanoid, about 5t. tall with pale yellow skin. Type two. were 3 to four feet tall with large. elongated heads with big slanted eyes. that were pure black, pale skin, three. long fingers, and a thumb. We know them. as the grays. >> It is not definitely known where either. type of creature originates, but it. seems certain that they did not evolve. on Earth. It is further evident,

although not certain, that they may have. originated on two different planets. >> The manual was clinical and. professional, exactly what you'd expect. from a military field guide. It answered. every question critics raised about. earlier MJ12 documents, almost as if. someone was paying attention and. responding to skeptics. And maybe. somebody was. Page two identified the. source of the document. Kirtland Air. Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Headquarters of OSI agent Richard Dodie.

[Music]. Researchers found what looked like top. secret documents proving a UFO coverup. They followed a paper trail to a smoking. gun in the National Archives. But the. investigation collapsed when one of. their own confessed to being a. government disinformation agent. But are. the Majestic 12 documents real? Well, let's break it down. The case for a hoax.

is overwhelming. William Moore, the man. at the center of the discovery, publicly. admitted to working with Air Force. intelligence to spread this information. The documents were mailed to him and. Jamie Chandere with no chain of custody. Later, they found the Cutler Twining. memo in the National Archives. Skeptics. say they planted it there, which I. believe they did. The documents. themselves are full of problems. The. Cutler Twining memo was signed by Robert. Cutler on a date he wasn't in the. country. Other documents use a strange. date format that isn't used by the. military or civilians, like putting 06.

instead of just six for the day of the. month. The type faces are a little wrong. for the early 1950s. There are. formatting errors, misspellings, and. terminology problems like using the word. media instead of the press, which was. much more common. There are references. to buildings that didn't exist yet. The. documents were missing proper top secret. control numbers. President Truman's. signature was obviously copied from. another document. So, is it a hoax? Well, not so fast. The film containing. the special operations manual was.

authenticated as 1950s era Trix stock. Forensic analysis of the typography. showed a raised letter Z. This was an. artifact of a 1954 hot lead printing. press. That's a nice detail. The. language is correct. terms like craft. tape instead of duct tape and the. official 1950s postal abbreviation for. New Mexico NMEX. It was perfect almost. The font and use of bold section headers.

are inconsistent with DoD field manuals. It refers to Area 51. Area 51 wasn't. publicly acknowledged until 2013. Besides, the military didn't call it. Area 51. That was a CIA designation. The. manual outlines procedures for satellite. recovery, but this is supposed to be. from 1954. Sputnik wasn't launched until. 1957, and it caught America by surprise. Still, there are coincidences that are. hard to dismiss. President Truman really. did meet with Bush and Forestall on the.

exact day the MJ12 order was supposedly. signed. General Twining's flight logs. really do place him in New Mexico right. after the crash, and Dr. Menzel really. did have top secret ultra clearance with. the CIA. So what's going on? Are the. documents fake or real? Well, the answer. is yes. All roads lead back to Kirtland Air. Force Base, the Office of Special. Investigations, and Richard Dodie. This. wasn't a random hoax. It was a. coordinated psychological operation. The.

goal was to fool the public and control. the researchers. By feeding them a mix. of fake and real information, they waste. time following false leads. They waste. time studying fictional details, and. they waste time arguing with each other. about who was or wasn't an intelligence. asset. If anyone got too close to an. actual secret, the intelligence. community would steer the narrative and. discredit them. Smear campaigns were. effective. >> Pushing people out of windows works, too. >> It sure does. I think the truth about. Majestic 12 is more mundane. The.

documents were designed to confuse. researchers while the military tested. special equipment and operated black. projects in the desert. Are they testing. reverse engineered alien craft? Probably, though it's probably not what. we think. Do I believe an organization. operating outside the government is. controlling the UFO narrative? Absolutely I do. This rabbit hole goes. even deeper, which is why this is only. volume one of the series of Majestic 12. episodes. The documents are forgeries, but they're really good forgeries. Dod's.

become the face of UFO disinformation, but he was just one small piece of a. very large, very wellfunded machine. Dod. himself said the documents weren't real, but a lot of the information in them is. He's careful about how he words that. The real conspiracy is that the. techniques perfected on UFO researchers. in the 1980s are now being used on all. of us every single day. Are the current whistleblowers telling. the truth? I doubt it. I don't trust. people from Air Force intelligence with.

active security clearances giving. statements approved by the Pentagon, all. while getting paid by the US government. And I become really skeptical when you. release a book. >> There's always a book. >> But I could be wrong. When I publicly. denounce the whistleblowers, half my. audience cheers and the other half boos. We're divided. As I'm writing this, people are debating whether the Tic Tac. UFO is a Lockheed project. They're. divided and distracted. And that's the. point. The weaponization of truth didn't. end with Majestic 12. That's when it.

began. It was a field test. In an age of. social media and information warfare, we. are all Paul Benowitz now. We're. constantly targeted, manipulated, and. fed a version of reality designed to. keep us confused and divided. But don't. let them win. We'll only learn the truth. when we're focused and united. We have. to apply pressure on our elected. officials. We need them to be afraid. We. need them to know that if you lie to us, you're fired. Also, if you do nothing, you're fired. Every election cycle, we.

need to hold them accountable. If they. fail, we go to the ballot box and drop a. hammer on them. Then we bring in. somebody else to get the job done. If. they fail, drop the hammer again and. again and again. We need to be as. relentless as they are. We're outgunned. They have all the tools of the state at. their disposal. All we have is a hammer. But you know what they say when all you. have is a hammer. Well, when I look at. Capitol Hill, I see a whole bunch of. nails. [Music].

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the Bible said I would. I love my UFOs and paranormal fun as. well as music. So singing like I should. then another conspiracy theory becomes. the truth my friends. and it never ends. No it never ends. [Music].

I feel the crap. I got stuck inside. Mel's hole with MK outra being only. true. Did Stanley Cubrick fake the moon. landing alone on a film set? I would. shadow people there. The Roswell just bought the smiling man. I'm told. and his name was cold. And I can't.

agree. I'm dancing with the fish and. your fish on Thursday night. and. all through the night. All I ever wanted was to hear the truth. The world. through the night. [Music].

The Men sightings and the solar storm. still come to a god. The secret city. underground. Mysterious number stations. Planet. Circle to Project Stargate. And where. the dark watchers found. in a simulation. Don't you worry though.

The black night satellite. It's over. Oh, I can't believe I'm dancing with the. fish. on Thursday night. and my family all through the night. All I ever wanted was to hear the truth. My all through the night.

when they change you. all through the night. All I ever wanted was to be the truth. The world beauty. [Music]. loves to dance.

Girl loves to dance on the dance floor. because she is a camel. Can't love the. dance when the feeling is right on. wasting time. [Music]. [Music].