Speaker 1: The MJ twelve documents, Who Why, What, Where When? By
Charles Lear. In the midst of the excitement created by
the publication in nineteen eighty of the Roswell Incident by
Charles Burlitz and William Moore, a set of documents reportedly
came into Moore's possession that seemed to support the story
of a flying saucer recovery near Roswell and a secret
government body, Majestic twelve, that handled such things. These became
known to UFO researchers and later the general public. They
consist of eight pages, seven of which are seemingly a
briefing document for President Eisenhower, and an additional page, which
is a letter dated September twenty fourth, nineteen forty seven,
from President Harry Trupemen to Secretary of Defense James Forrestall,
authorizing the creation of Majestic twelve. The subject of the
briefing document is Operation Majestic twelve, and the collection of
pages is often referred to as the MJ twelve documents. Naturally,
UFO researchers considered the possibility that the documents had been forged.
Barry Greenwood and Brad Sparks came to the conclusion that
they had, as did the FBI, which has made copies
available on their website with bogus written across every page.
The questions we'll look at in this blog are who
might have forged them and why. Supporting the idea that
the documents were forged is the fact that Moore had
become involved with self proclaimed CIA Trade Air Force Office
of Special Investigations disinformation agent Richard Dody. According to Moore,
he was recruited to keep tabs on UFO researchers and
aid in an a foesy disinformation operation primarily directed against
Paul Benowitz, who was convinced he was seeing flying saucers
over Kirtland Air Force Base and had visual and radio
surveillance equipment trained on the base, and Doughty was his
main contact. In exchange, he said he was promised inside
information on what the government knew about UFOs. Brad Sparks
and Barry Greenwood wrote a paper titled the Secret Pratt
Tapes and the Origins of m J twelve that they
presented at the two thousand seven Muffonse impose him in Denver, Colorado.
The title of the paper refers to secret Tapes Robert
Pratt made of phone conversations with Moore while they were
working on a book telling a fictionalized version of the
story of morse contact with Doughty and secret UFO information
he thought he was getting from the U. S. Military
and intelligence community. In the paper, they tell the story
of a feedback loop between Moore, Stanton Friedman, and Dody,
where they would give Doughty all the information they were
getting on their investigation of Roswell, and he would give
them documents that supported their conclusions. This seems to have
come to a head when, according to Sparks in Greenwood,
an associate of More's, Jamie Chanderrey, received an envelope in
the mail on December eleventh, nineteen eighty four, with an
Albuquerque postmark. In it was a roll of exposed thirty
five millimeter film that contained pictures of the m J
twelve documents. Once researchers became aware of the documents in
late nineteen eighty five, there were some who immediately looked
into the document's authenticity and tried to determine their origin
and source. According to Sparks and Greenwood in their paper,
Sparks compared what m J twelve documents he had access
to with the Aquarius document, a document linked to Dody
and known to be fake, another suspect document concerning frequency
jamming at Kirtland, and a Foyer released UFO report by
Richard Doty from a Foesy and concluded they all came
from the same typewriter, which implicates Dody. Another argument by
the authors against the authenticity of the documents is that
the Roswell UFO crash site is wrongly described therein as
being seventy five miles from Roswell, when it is actually
sixty two miles from Roswell. Perhaps the most damning evidence
that the documents were faked was discovered by Philip Klass
Class reported he found a letter in the Bush collection
in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, dated
October first, nineteen forty seven, from Truman to Vanovar Bush
that has a signature identical in every way to the
signature on the letter to Forrestall, indicating that the signature
on the Forestall letter was photocopied. Going with the arguments
that the documents are faked and that Doty was the creator,
was their creation and dissemination sanctioned by a foesy and
if it was why. To explore these questions, it helps
to know who was where and when. Greg Bishop was
a friend of Moore's and interviewed both him and de
Odie for his two thousand and five book Project Beta.
According to him, Benowitz had been filming lights he was
seeing over the Manzano weapons storage area at Kirtland starting
in late nineteen seventy nine and beginning in early nineteen eighty,
wrote hundreds of letters to Jim Lorenzen of the Aerial
Phenomena Research organization of which Benowitz was a member, describing
his research, and also described the lights to acquaintances to Kirtland.
Benowitz had a company, Thunder Scientific, and worked on military contracts.
According to Bishop, Moore, who was on apro's board of
directors at the time, was approached in September nineteen eighty
by a man identifying himself as a colonel, who promised
him UFO information in exchange for his help in keeping
tabs on UFO researchers. Dody, he was reportedly told, was
to be his contact. According to an A Fosie Multi
Purpose internal OSI form dated October twenty eighth, nineteen eighty
Benowitz contacted Kirtlin to warn them of the threat of
aerial phenomena against Manzano that he had evidence of. Doty
visited Benowitz at his house on October twenty sixth, and
Benowitz's surveillance equipment is described on the form. A meeting
was set up at Kirtland that is described on a
form dated November twenty sixth, where Benowitz presented its evidence
before high ranking officials that there was an alien threat
and said that he was in contact with the aliens.
After this, the story told by Bishop and others who
have written about this is that Moore was enlisted by
Dody to assist in a disinformation campaign against Benowitz where
his fears about an alien invasion would be confirmed in
order to destroy his credibility. Benowitz ended up in a
mental health facility in August nineteen eighty eight. As to
whether there really was and a Foesy sanctioned campaign targeting Benowitz,
a form dated July thirtieth, nineteen eighty one describes a
meeting Doughty had with an aid to U S Senate
or Peter Domenici of New Mexico, mister Tirios Tierrios, described
that Domenici's sole interest in coming there he had left
prior to the meeting was to know if a FOSI
had conducted a formal investigation of Benowitz. According to the form,
mister Tirios was informed that no formal investigation of Benowitz
was conducted by a FOESI, which is not quite saying
there was no campaign targeting him at this point. Looking
at Doty's service records as helpful. According to them, he
left Kirtland Air Force Base and was stationed at Lindsay
Air Station in Germany on January twelfth, nineteen eighty five.
This is just one month after Chanderrey received the documents
in the mail. Given the resulting fure created by the documents,
this could have been a grand parting gesture by Dody
or an effort by a Foesy to keep more in
his associates, chasing their tales in Doty's absence. What's noteworthy
is that just under two years later, Doty is back
at Kirtland. His duty is listed as food services specialist.
According to Philip Class in the January nineteen ninety one
Skeptic's UFO newsletter, Doty was transferred to Germany to work
in counter intelligence and his superiors there came to suspect
that he was concocting tales about contacts with Communist agents.
He is said to have failed to lie detector test,
been dropped from a foesy, and spent his last year
in the Air Force in charge of the mess Hall.
According to his service records, Doughty retired in October nineteen
eighty eight. Doty joined the new Mexico State Police in
December nineteen eighty eight and retired as a sergeant in
February twenty fifteen. There is evidence that he continued to
fabricate UFO hoaxes during this time, a major one being
Project Sirpo, which was supposedly an exchange program between Earth
and a planet called Serpo in the Zeta Reticulized star system.
The existence of the project was revealed in a series
of emails to different researchers, starting with Victor Martinez in
November two thousand five. An investigation by Ryan Dube and
Stephen Broadmin, who founded the Reality Uncovered forum, revealed that
the IP addresses of the e mails were the same
as Doughties, so the question remains were the MJ twelve
papers part of an a PHOSY sanctioned disinformation program. If
they were, why was Doughty sent to Germany in the
midst of an active operation. In any case, it seems
that a Fosy was well aware that the documents were
faked and wanted to keep that knowledge between friends. In
a communication stated to be classified secret in its entirety,
dated December twelfth, nineteen eighty eight, included with the FBI
copies of the documents. There is this The Office of
Special Investigations US Air Force advised on November thirtieth, nineteen
eighty eight, that the document was fabricated. Copies of that
document had been distributed to various parts of the United States.
The document is completely bogus. The documents have been released
to the press by more In his associates on May
twenty eighth, nineteen eighty seven. As of this writing, no
one has been arrested for leaking or being in possession
of the MJ twelve documents stamped top secret, and a
Foesy has made no statement on the Benewitz affair. Charles
Lear is the author of Crashed Saucers and Malevolent Aliens,
available at Amazon dot com.