Majestic 12

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Majestic 12, also known as Majic-12, and MJ-12 for short, is a purported organization that appeared in fake documents first circulated by ufologists in 1984, and that some UFO conspiracy theories still claim to have existed. The organization is claimed to be the code name of an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to facilitate recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft. "MJ-12" first entered UFO culture in the early 1980s as part of a deception campaign against amateur researchers who linked unexplained livestock deaths to UFO reports. By the mid-80s, manufactured papers called the "MJ-12 documents" were anonymously and mysteriously provided to UFO researchers. The documents were largely revealed to be forgeries, sometimes drawn from actual 1940s-era historical documents unrelated to UFOs. Starting in 1989, elements in the deception campaign confessed to fabricating...

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