A
document labeled with the Majestic tag has been found. It has a proper
provenance, which means the origin of the document can be traced by anyone who
wishes to do so and there is no doubt it is authentic.
The
first page, which was classified as Top Secret is entitled, “Report by the
Joint Logistic Plans Committee the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Joint Logistic Plan
for ‘Majestic.’”
There
are some interesting things on that page. It identifies the problem, saying, “1.
Pursuant to the decision by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on J.C.S. 1844/126, to
prepare the Joint Logistic Plan in support of MAJESTIC*.”
The
asterisk references the same document mentioned in the body of the text. It provides
no more information about it, but it is interesting because it is a reference
to another document which could be traced to provide additional authentication.
It also suggests something about how these highly classified documents are
created and how many of them are inter-related.
The
rest of the document is merely other paragraphs that tell us very little about
what Majestic is and everything that it does say could, in fact, be considered
as evidence of MJ-12. This is a document that deals with logistics, which can
be simply defined as the support needed for military operations. It could be
said that this is a document that relates to the movement of an alien craft,
the wreckage or debris, and the bodies of the alien flight crew from one
location to another. This would be the plan to explain the mode of
transportation, how many soldiers would be needed, how they would be fed and
housed, the fuel supplies, weapons and ammunition, route information and bases
where additional support could be found and anything else rated to all of this.
The
second page is a list of those who will receive the information which is quite
long. It is labeled, “Top Secret Security Information,” and is stamped, “Special
Handling Required, Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals,” and for those keeping
score at home is dated 25 September 1952. Please notice the dating format that
is not 25 September, 1952.
But
here is where we run into the first problem with all of this. At the bottom it
is noted, “Forward herewith is a copy of the Joint Outline Emergency War Plan
for a War Beginning 1 July 1952 MAJESTIC. This plan supersedes Joint Outline
Emergency War Plan MASTHEAD, which was forwarded by SM-1197-51, dated 14 May
1951, copies of it will be either returned or destroyed by burning.”
This
suggests that it has nothing to do with UFOs or the Majestic-12, but the
argument could be made that this is “typical boilerplate,” meaning that the
paragraph is sort of standard without a specific meaning other than
instructions of removing the obsolete plan and replacing it with the new one.
In today’s world it would be a “cut and paste” error. In 1952, such a thing is
more difficult to explain.
The
third page makes it clear what is being discussed and what Majestic really is
and ends all our speculation. Stamped with a date of 2 OCT 1952 (as opposed to
02 OCT, 1952) and with “Top Secret Security Information, the letter, in
paragraph one said, “Enclosure (1), with attached copies of Joint Outline
Emergency War Plan “MAJESTIC’, is forwarded.” This is a war plan and has
nothing to do with UFOs. The markings on it, made in 1952, show what they
should have been as opposed to what they are on the MJ-12 documents and the
EBD. Yes, there might be variations depending on military service branch and
the level of classification, but here is something that shows what was being
used at the time, how it was used and what the specific wording was and should
have been. This does not bode well for MJ-12, not to mention the duplication of
code words.
By
duplication of code words, I mean that all code words for classified projects
come from a master list so that there is no accidental duplication (Yes, the
military sometimes uses civilian code words for projects, such as Project
Saucer, but the real name was Project Sign). To use the same or similar code
words would lead to compromise. Someone cleared to deal with the War Plan –
Majestic - wouldn’t be cleared for the MJ-12 material, but the duplication of
code words wouldn’t make that clear.
This
is the same argument made for Majic. During WW II there was a highly classified
project known as Magic. This similarity could lead to compromise, if you had
two projects with such similar names.
The
last page of the documents that I have makes it clear that there is no reason
to assume this has anything to do with the investigation of alien craft, alien bodies
or the recovery of an alien spacecraft. Paragraph 4 says, “The estimate of the
Soviet Union’s capability to execute campaigns and her probable courses of
action contained in the Enclosure does not take into consideration the effect of
opposition by any forces now in position or operational, or of unfavorable
weather or climate conditions.”
This
is also classified as “Top Secret Security Information,” and is dated 12
September 1952 (again is relevant because it puts it into the time frame of the
EBD and it shows the dating format as it should have been written), is signed
by W. G. Lalor, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.), and is also noted as “Reproduced
at the National Archives.”
This
then, should be the absolute, final blow to the MJ-12 nonsense. There simply
wouldn’t be two highly classified projects with the same code name operating at
the same time and we have the documentation here to prove that Majestic existed
but it wasn’t what we have been told.
It
should be noted that I was alerted to this by my colleague Tony Bragalia. He
suggested that this might have inspired the name Majestic-12 because here was a
real project with that name. If the documents were still classified, meaning
they couldn’t be released into the public arena, and in the 1980s, the
classification might have held it would have been an interesting bit of
corroboration. Someone could have stumbled over the top secret project with the
name being found but nothing to identify exactly what it was. This would have
hinted at a provenance and a high classification. Without some of the follow up
documents, there could be speculation about what it meant, but no one would
know. It would have provided an interesting time… until all the documents were
found. Too bad that those proponents of MJ-12 couldn’t have found some of this
twenty years ago. Oh, we’d know now what it was all about, but it sure would
have given them a fine run.
And
I have to wonder if Bill Cooper, in his claim to have seen documents labeled as
Majestic might not have seen these documents. Given his claimed position in the
Navy, he might have seen the cover sheets for this but had no chance to read
the document to see what it was all about.
Tony
added a note about all this, and how he came to find the documents. He provided
the link so that those who wished to see the provenance would know where to
look. He wrote that, “The reference linked below is what got me going down this research
avenue. The Emergency War Plan -codenamed MAJESTIC - is highlighted in yellow
in the military history book seen here:
Added
to the failure of the El Indio - Guerrero UFO crash that is part of the EBD and
for which there is no evidence of it other than Robert Willingham’s obviously
bogus tale, this should end, for all time any doubt about the fraudulent nature
of the original MJ-12 documents. And for those who would now retreat to the
argument that “Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence,” I would say,
until you find something tangible, “Absence of evidence is, in fact, evidence
of absence.” I have looked, others have looked everywhere that something like
this would be noted, and nothing has been found.
This
seems to be “Game Over.”
