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r formed, and that the documents were bogus. The FBI subsequently declared the MJ12 documents to be "completely bogus. [2]
Later in 1996, a document called the MJ-12 "Special Operations Manual" circulate
d among ufologists. It is also widely considered to be a fake and "a continuatio
n of the MJ-12 myth".[6]
Ufologists Linda Moulton Howe and Stanton T. Friedman believe the MJ12 Documents
are authentic. Friedman examined the documents and has argued that the United S
tates government has conspired to cover up knowledge of a crashed extraterrestri
al spacecraft.[3]
According
n the UFO
n 1982 to
Pratt had
to journalist Howard Blum the name "Majestic 12" had been prefigured i
community when Bill Moore asked National Enquirer reporter Bob Pratt i
collaborate on a novel called MAJIK-12. Because of this, Blum writes,
always been inclined to think the Majestic 12 documents a hoax.[7]
Alleged members[edit]
The following individuals were described in the Majestic 12 documents as "design
ated members" of Majestic 12.[5]
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
Vannevar Bush
James Forrestal
Nathan F. Twining
Hoyt Vandenberg
Detlev Bronk
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker
Sidney Souers
Gordon Gray
Donald H. Menzel
Robert M. Montague
Lloyd Berkner
Popular culture[edit]
The Majestic 12 stories inspired the television series Dark Skies[8] and have ap
peared as a plot element in The X-Files,[9] as well as in the Electronic Arts AR
G 'Majestic'.
The 2005 video game Destroy All Humans! has the protagonist, an alien landed in
1950s rural America, fighting agents of "Majestic".
Alien abduction claimant Whitley Strieber wrote a novel called Majestic in 1989
that focused on the origins of MJ-12.[10]
MJ-12 is featured heavily in the Eidos Interactive game Deus Ex, released on PC
and Macintosh in 2000. The game was later released on the PlayStation 2, and aga
in on the PlayStation 3.
In the comic book series Atomic Robo, Majestic 12 is a top secret government age
ncy tasked with weaponizing so-called "Tesla-tech" uncovered by the FBI in the w
ake of Nikola Tesla's mysterious death. Founded by President Truman, under the a
dvice of Secretary of Defense Forrestal in 1947, Majestic 12 becomes Task Force
ULTRA after the events of Atomic Robo and the Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur.