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Synopsis: Area 51 Secrets: Suppressed and classified Area 51 Secrets were revealed with the leaking of a Majestic 12 or MJ-12 document exposing the reality of UFOs.
 In 1980 Hollywood TV producer Jamie Shandera was
undertaking research for a film on UFOs.
Four years later he received a package through the post; a roll of
undeveloped 35mm black and white film possibly from one of the contacts he
had made within the US military establishment while working on the film.
Intrigued, Shandera had the film processed. It appeared to
reveal an eight-page briefing paper prepared on 18th November 1952
for the then President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower by Rear Admiral Roscoe
Hillenkoetter (a believer in UFOs) and a 24th September 1947 memo
from President Truman to Secretary of Defense James Forestall (who was later to
commit suicide, some claiming as a result of the horror of the ‘alien problem’)
supposedly authorising the setting up of a group to be known as MAJESTIC-12.
This committee, according to the documents, was set up by
Truman to deal with the aftermath of Roswell and the recovery from that site of
an Extraterrestrial Biological Entity (EBE). If the documents were genuine, then
the lid had been blown off the secrecy and cover-up that had been in place since
the end of the Second World War.
Majestic 12 or MJ-12 was allegedly comprised of some by
now familiar names:
Dr. Vannevar Bush: identified by Walter Smith as leading US
enquiries into the flying disk phenomenon and Joint Research and Development
Board Chairman.
James Forrestal: Secretary of Defense who met with Byrd on
his return from Operation Highjump, and who was later to commit suicide.
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Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter:
Third Director of the
CIA which was established the same month as Majestic-12 (MJ-12).
General Nathan Twinning: Twinning had already put in
writing in 1947 that in his opinion "the phenomenon reported is something real."
Interestingly, on 8th July 1947, the day of the
first press release announcing the recovery of a crashed disk at Roswell,
Twinning cancelled a planned trip to the west coast citing a "very important and
sudden matter." Researcher William Moore established that Twinning spent the
next few days in New Mexico (1).
General Hoyt Vandenberg: The second director of the CIA who
had ordered a report by the Air Technical Intelligence Centre that concluded
UFOs were interplanetary in origin be destroyed.
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Dr Jerome Hunsaker:
An aircraft designer He headed the Departments of Mechanical
and Aeronautical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
was also Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
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Dr Donald Menzel:
Director of the Harvard College Observatory who had a long
association with the National Security Agency and who was a Naval Intelligence
cryptography expert. Menzel had been a consultant to several US Presidents on
national security affairs (2)
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General Robert Montague:
Base commander at the Atomic Energy Commission installation
at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico between July 1947 to February 1951.
Montague had also been General Twinning’s classmate at West Point, and
Commandant of Fort Bliss with Operational Control over the command at
White Sands. There he was head of the Special Weapons Project. (It is
interesting to note that on 27th July 1948 at 8:35am a UFO was seen
by a scientist whilst driving through the streets of Albuquerque. He reported
seeing for ten minutes a flat, circular object that seemed to be a metallic disk
motionless in the sky. The witness, in addition to his scientific training, also
had more than two thousand hours of flight as a navy pilot under his belt and
was familiar with standard aircraft (3).
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Rear Admiral Sidney Souers:
The first Director of Central Intelligence (January-June 1946)
who in September 1947 became Executive Secretary of the National Security
Council. Souers resigned from the group in 1959 however was retained as a
special consultant to the Executive on security matters.
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Gordon Gray:
Assistant Secretary of the Army at the time MJ-12 was allegedly
established and chairman of the CIA’s Psychological Strategy Board. Later
specialising in security matters, he became chairman of a highly secret ‘54/12
Group’ or ‘Special Group’ formed during the early days of the Eisenhower
administration (4).
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Dr Lloyd Berkner:
A geophysicist who was the Executive Secretary of the Joint
Research and Development Board in 1946 under Vannevar Bush. He was later to
become a member of the Robertson Panel and headed a special committee to direct
a study that led to the establishment of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group.
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Dr Detlev Bronk:
A physiologist and biophysicist, Bronk was head of the
National Academy of Science and Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the
Atomic Energy Commission. Together with Edward Condon, Bronk became a member of the
Scientific Advisory Committee of the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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.Understandably the MJ-12 documents were subjected to intense
scrutiny both by those who believed them to be authentic, and by others who were
more sceptical. And as this scrutiny gathered pace, doubts about the documents’
veracity began to emerge.
 The first and most
significant clue that they could be forgeries lay in the signature of President
Truman. No two signatures are ever exactly the same, and yet the signature on
the MJ-12 Document (top right) is almost identical to the one on an
authenticated memo dated 1st October 1947 (bottom right).
Joe Nickell, a document analyst and writer for Skeptical
Enquirer magazine is convinced the documents are faked, not only citing the
signature, but also the date formats, the typefaces, the style of language used
– all of which he claims differ from authenticated documents. Others disagree.
Stanton Friedman who has spent over ten years researching the documents
dismisses those who cry ‘fake’, "I have yet to hear a convincing argument
against MJ-12," he retorts.
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Friedman’s views are supported by others. Dr. Roger Wescott, a
linguistics expert from Drew University in New Jersey, reviewed more than twenty
genuine documents written by Hillenkoetter from the Truman library. He compared
them with the MJ-12 paper purportedly written by Hillenkoetter and after this
analysis stated: "In my opinion, there is no compelling reason to regard any of
these communications as fraudulent or not to believe that any of them were
written by anyone other than Hillenkoetter. This statement holds for the
controversial presidential briefing memorandum of 18 November 1952, as well as
for the letters both personal and official." (5)
In all likelihood the documents are clever forgeries of
original documents, but that the group existed (regardless of its name) appears
to be beyond doubt. It also seems probable, for if there really was a crashed
flying disk with alien occupants, it would be reasonable to assume that a top
secret and senior group of officials would be convened to address the ensuing
issues.
Amongst others, General George C. Marshall,
US Army Chief of Staff in the Second World War and Secretary of State from 1947
to 1949 confirmed that the authorities had recovered alien craft and their
occupants.
In 1951 he spoke with Dr. Rolf Alexander, a
postgraduate in medicine from Prague University who went on to other European
universities where he undertook post graduate studies in psychology, neurology
and biochemistry.
He told Alexander that UFOs were indeed from
another planet and that they were believed to be friendly; their hovering over
defence establishments and airports was taken to mean that they were letting us
know that they could harm us if they had any evil intent.
Marshall advised that the US authorities
were convinced that Earth had nothing to fear from the UFOs. Marshall stated that they were not making direct contact as yet
as they had not worked out how to survive in our atmosphere, although there had
been landings. Alexander asked Marshall why the government was carrying out a
programme of debunking and censoring reports.
Marshall replied that the US government wanted people to focus
on the real enemy the communists, and they should not be distracted by "visitors
from space". The government was also aware of the impact of Orson Welles’ 1938
broadcast of ‘War of the Worlds’ and believed that the Kremlin could exploit any
suggestion of alien contact (6).
Many years later it appears that this position changed. In the
‘Introductory Space Science’ course of the United States Air Force
Academy, Volume II, Chapter 33 (page 462) it states that among the possible
reasons why the aliens have not attempted to contact us officially is that "3) …
such contact may already have taken place." On pages 461-2, four groups of alien
are mentioned. The last one "a rare group reported to us as about four feet
tall, weight of around 35 pounds, and covered with thick hair or fur
(clothing?). Members of this group are described as being extremely strong."
(7)
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 There are other sources confirming such incidents have taken place.
Wilbert Smith (left), a former senior radio engineer who worked on secret
defence projects for the Canadian Government’s Department of Transport. He held
a master’s degree in electrical engineering and several patents.
On 21st November 1950 Smith wrote a memo to the
Controller of Communications in the Canadian Government (Appendix 1) and
recommended that a research project be set up to study the subject of UFOs.
In the memo he claimed "I have made
discreet enquiries through the Canadian Embassy staff in Washington who were
able to obtain for me the following information. The matter is the most highly classified
subject in the United States Government, rating higher even than the
H-bomb. Flying saucers exist. Their modus operandi is unknown but
concentrated effort is being made by a small group headed by Doctor Vannevar
Bush. The entire matter is considered by the
United States authorities to be of tremendous significance." Smith’s recommendation was accepted and on 2nd
December 1950 Project Magnet was established under Commander C.P.
Edwards, then Deputy Minister of Transport for Air Services (8).
The information supplied to Smith is now known to have come from Dr. Robert
Sarbacher, at that time a consultant to the Research and Development Board and
President and Chairman of the Board of the Washington Institute of Technology.
Smith, who later suffered from stomach cancer, made sure that
his files were hidden from the US government after his death, however when they
were uncovered a hand-written note that detailed a conversation between Smith
and Sarbacher was found dated 15th September 1950:
Smith: … I
have read Scully’s book on the saucers and would like to know how much of it is
true. [Scully authored a book entitled ‘Behind the Flying Saucers’
(right) which was published in 1950 and first drew attention to stories of
recovered crashed UFOs and aliens.
Captain Edward Ruppelt, who in 1953 had
recently retired as head of Project Blue Book, told Scully and his wife
"Confidentially … of all the books that have been published about flying
saucers, your book was the one that gave us the most headaches because it was
the closest to the truth (9)].
Sarbacher:
The facts reported in the book are
substantially correct.
Smith: Then the saucers do exist?
Sarbacher:
Yes: they exist.
Smith: Do they operate as Scully suggests on magnetic
principles?
Sarbacher:
We have not been able to duplicate their
performance.
Smith: Do they come from another planet?
Sarbacher:
All we know is, we didn’t make them, and it’s
pretty certain they didn’t originate on earth.
Smith: I understand the whole subject is classified.
Sarbacher:
Yes, it is classified two points higher even than
the H-bomb. In fact it is the most highly classified
subject in the US Government at the present time.
Smith: May I ask the reason for classification?
Sarbacher: You may ask, but I can’t tell you.
(10)
TAGS: Area 51 Secrets, Suppressed Area 51 Secrets, Classified Area 51 Secrets, Majestic 12, MJ-12, Reality of UFOs 
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