Government program
Majestic 12 (MJ-12)
An alleged ultra-secret committee of twelve scientists, military leaders, and government officials supposedly formed in 1947 to manage UFO recovery and concealment.
Documents purporting to describe MJ-12 surfaced in the mid-1980s via Jaime Shandera and were promoted by researcher Stanton Friedman. The FBI and other agencies labeled the documents 'completely bogus'; nonetheless, MJ-12 became the central icon of the crash-retrieval/cover-up narrative in modern ufology.