Category: Secret Government

• The Majestic 12 (MJ-12)

  The Majestic 12 theory holds that President Harry S. Truman secretly created a small committee of scientists, intelligence figures, and military leaders to manage the recovery of alien craft, study extraterrestrial technology, and control all official knowledge of nonhuman contact. In popular form, MJ-12 became the command center behind Roswell, crash retrievals, body studies, and long-term secrecy. The belief emerged publicly not in 1947 but in the 1980s, when supposed briefing papers and related documents began circulating among ufologists. The theory gained enormous power because it appeared to supply what earlier UFO lore had lacked: a named management structure, a presidential chain of authority, and a roster of elite insiders.