Majestic 12
Every record that shares this tag.
25 records tagged program
Incidents
1 incident
Personalities
24 people
Philip J. KlassEvidence rated DocumentedAviation journalist and electrical engineer who spent four decades as America's foremost UFO skeptic, systematically investigating hundreds of cases and founding CSICOP's UFO subcommittee.Arthur E. ExonEvidence rated ContestedBrigadier General who claimed knowledge of extraterrestrial Roswell debris recovered at Wright-Patterson AFB.Ryan S. WoodEvidence rated ContestedLeading researcher and authenticator of Majestic-12 documents; organizer of seminal UFO crash retrieval symposia.Robert M. WoodEvidence rated DocumentedAerospace engineer and UFO researcher who led classified propulsion research and authenticated Majestic-12 documents.William Leonard MooreEvidence rated ContestedInfluential UFO author who popularized Roswell and circulated the MJ-12 documents, despite later admissions of disinformation activities.Admiral Bobby Ray InmanEvidence rated DocumentedFormer NSA and CIA director who allegedly confirmed US government possession of recovered non-human technology.Vannevar BushEvidence rated ContestedMIT electrical engineer and science administrator linked to Majestic 12 and alleged Pentagon UFO research oversight.Roscoe H. HillenkoetterEvidence rated DocumentedFirst CIA Director who broke ranks to publicly warn Congress that the Air Force was concealing the truth about UFOs through official secrecy and deliberate ridicule.James Vincent ForrestalEvidence rated ContestedFirst U.S. Secretary of Defense (1947–1949) and alleged member of Majestic 12, whose death in 1949 sparked decades of speculation about government UFO cover-ups.Jaimie ShanderaEvidence rated ContestedLos Angeles TV producer who received the controversial Majestic 12 documents on film in 1984.William Milton CooperEvidence rated DebunkedNavy veteran turned shortwave broadcaster who claimed to have seen classified documents on a government-alien conspiracy, then reversed course to argue the UFO story itself was a hoax designed to usher in a New World Order — becoming, through *Behold a Pale Horse*, one of the most influential conspiracy figures of the late twentieth century.General Walter Bedell SmithEvidence rated DocumentedEisenhower's Chief of Staff and CIA Director who oversaw early U.S. response to classified UFO phenomena during the Cold War.Barry GreenwoodEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering UFO archivist and FOIA specialist who spent five decades extracting, verifying, and preserving the U.S. government's own paper trail on UFOs — and helped expose the MJ-12 documents as a hoax.Scotty Newton MilerEvidence rated ContestedCIA counterintelligence officer and Church Committee witness who in 2026 claimed personal responsibility for leaking the MJ-12 documents.Timothy S. CooperEvidence rated ContestedUFO document researcher and MJ-12 collector who distributed alleged classified documents before recanting their authenticityJimmy GuieuEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering French ufologist, author, and founder of Commission Ouranos; published first French documentary UFO books and evolved into conspiracy-theory interpreter.Robert M. CollinsEvidence rated ContestedRetired Air Force Captain and intelligence officer who publicly disclosed classified UFO knowledge through the 1988 'UFO Cover-Up Live' broadcast and multiple publications.Lloyd Viel BerknerEvidence rated DocumentedPhysicist and classified military advisor who chaired the CIA Robertson Panel on UFOs and is allegedly named in Majestic 12 documents.Kevin RandleEvidence rated DocumentedRetired Army/Air Force intelligence officer and the most prolific investigator of the Roswell incident, whose decades of fieldwork produced both the case's defining texts and, later, his own public skepticism about it.Robert G. ToddEvidence rated DocumentedFOIA researcher whose obsessive document hunting traced the Roswell debris to Project Mogul and helped unmask the MJ-12 papers as a hoax.Bill MooreEvidence rated ContestedUfology author who co-wrote the 1980 book that made Roswell a crashed-saucer story, later co-circulated the MJ-12 papers, and in 1989 publicly admitted running disinformation against a fellow researcher for Air Force intelligence.Milton William "Bill" CooperEvidence rated FringeAmerican conspiracy theorist, radio host and author of Behold a Pale Horse (1991), whose Majestic 12 and alien cover-up claims shaped militia and UFO-fringe circles until his fatal 2001 standoff with Arizona deputies.Richard C. DotyEvidence rated ContestedFormer Air Force OSI special agent who later admitted running disinformation operations against UFO researchers, including Paul Bennewitz, Bill Moore and Linda Moulton Howe, and who was central to the 1983 MJ-12 claims.Eric Arthur WalkerEvidence rated ContestedEnglish-born engineer and Penn State president alleged by UFO researchers to have attended secret crash-retrieval briefings and confirmed knowledge of MJ-12