In
the interest of fairness, and remember this is my blog so that I get to decide
what is fair and what is not, I mention that I have been in communication with
Ryan Wood, which is to say, he emailed me. He pointed out that the documents
under discussion have been on his website www.majesticdocuments.com and
that these specific documents can be found at:
In the email he argues, “I don’t think a it has any
bearing (positive or negative) on “Operation Majestic-12”; the right hand was
not talking to the left hand (which was classified in a different vault).
Majestic Joint Logistics plan replaced Masthead the previous plan.”
I would, of course, disagree simply because, as I
have mentioned, the code names from projects, whatever the nature of that
project, are picked from a list so there should be no duplication. That would
suggest that “Majestic” as the code name for a specific war plan shouldn’t also
be the code name for the oversight committee and its creations. That would
cause confusion and would probably lead to compromise. That would be someone
whose orders noted that he was cleared for “Majestic” meaning the war plan and
those at the other end thought it was “Majestic” meaning the alien recovery
operation.
But this is just one of those little things that
you probably can find an exception to, meaning, we might find a duplication of
code names if we looked long enough and far enough. Majestic was apparently
also the code name for part of the invasion of Japan just prior to the end of
World War II and yet here it surfaces as the code name for a war plan to deal
with a possible Soviet invasion into Europe (and for those who don’t know, war
plans are created with certain scenarios in mind so that if the war happens,
there is some sort of guide… history shows that for years, many war games
started with a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese… you have to wonder
how it was that our top officers in the Pacific were so ill prepared, but I
digress).
The next question is really how many of these
little deviations must we tolerate in an attempt to validate MJ-12? One or two
might be acceptable in the EBD but there are so many that it seems to me that
it weighs heavily against authenticity.
Ryan also mentioned, “Now right above that majestic
documents website entry to is the Blount to Evans Memo from NARA…now that’s an
interesting memo…mentions “Unidentified Aerial Objects; Aero Medical Laboratory
(links to other leaked Majestic documents); saucers crashed in Mexico.’”
That is a single, short paragraph reference in the
letter dated March 10, 1950, that says, “It has recently been rumored that one
of these so-called flying saucers crashed in Mexico; however, details are
somewhat bizarre at the moment.”
This too is interesting. Oh, it doesn’t validate
the El Indio – Guerrero crashed saucer of the EBD, because, as you can see, it
is dated many months before that event is alleged to have happened. And there
isn’t much in the literature about crash. The only thing I can find is reference
to the Ray Dimmick who claimed to have a strip of metal which he, Dimmick, was
told came from the spacecraft. Dimmick himself hadn’t seen the craft or the
body of the 23” tall alien creature. He heard the tale from two Mexican
businessmen and an American, whom he declined to identify. The Project Blue
Book files contain newspaper clippings about the case, but made no effort to
investigate it (which is probably the right thing to have done, given the
facts, or the lack thereof.)
In the clipping I have, there is an interesting
note that is not at all relevant to this discussion or MJ-12. It said,
“Reminded that the Air Force announced last December it was dropping its
investigation of flying saucers because of preponderance of evidence that they
do not exist, Dimmick said, ‘I’m big enough to take the consequences of what
I’ve said and stand my ground.’”
I probably should note that this paragraph is in a
letter about other things, and there is no mention of MJ-12 or anything related
to it… unless you count the sentence about a crashed saucer. But there is no
mention of Majestic or MJ-12.
When I mentioned this to Ryan, he said, “Blount may
have been sloppy, certainly could have meant New Mexico. It may be ‘recent’ to
Blount’s understanding and actually happened years before.”
Well, I had thought of the same thing, but I’m just
not sure that it holds up. Dimmick is a better fit because it was just days
before the Blount letter and it was in Mexico as opposed to New Mexico… but
anyone who had read the Dimmick tale and who had any reading comprehension at
all must have realized that it was not grounded in reality.
The point here, however, was to note that Ryan Wood
had found the Majestic war plan documents before Tony found them and had posted
them to his Majestic web site. I am a little surprised that they didn’t trouble
him a little more than they have, but then, I might be a tad bit more cynical
than Ryan… too many people have lied to me about too much.
3 comments:
I agree that there is no way a 3-year old saucer tale could be described as "recent". Even more so when you consider that the topic of flying saucers was 3 years old in March 1950 and a 1947 crash would by then be regarded as a bit ancient!
Yes it undoubtedly refers to the reported Mexico 'crash' of March 1950. I don't think much of Ryan Wood as a UFO analyst or researcher.
Really this whole 'Majestic-12' affair is food for regurgitating literally forever. Rather like the Bible in a way. People take sides and argue what this or that means, what it 'could' mean, what are the possible consequences, etc, etc.
As I remarked elsewhere, 'majestic 12' is, or was, the name of a font of size 12 used by typewriters and word processors. But that is rather less interesting a topic than the arrival of ETs on earth and the alleged cover-up.
Kevin,
You mention some kind of list with the secret codes. Do you have a copy of such a list from that era (1952)?
Gale Research’s Code Name Dictionary, 1963,
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