1 00:00:16,559 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: The MJ twelve documents, Who Why, What, Where When? By 2 00:00:20,719 --> 00:00:24,079 Charles Lear. In the midst of the excitement created by 3 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:27,839 the publication in nineteen eighty of the Roswell Incident by 4 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,480 Charles Burlitz and William Moore, a set of documents reportedly 5 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,000 came into Moore's possession that seemed to support the story 6 00:00:35,039 --> 00:00:38,280 of a flying saucer recovery near Roswell and a secret 7 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:43,079 government body, Majestic twelve, that handled such things. These became 8 00:00:43,119 --> 00:00:46,880 known to UFO researchers and later the general public. They 9 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,079 consist of eight pages, seven of which are seemingly a 10 00:00:50,079 --> 00:00:54,799 briefing document for President Eisenhower, and an additional page, which 11 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,439 is a letter dated September twenty fourth, nineteen forty seven, 12 00:00:58,759 --> 00:01:02,840 from President Harry Trupemen to Secretary of Defense James Forrestall, 13 00:01:03,159 --> 00:01:06,760 authorizing the creation of Majestic twelve. The subject of the 14 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:11,000 briefing document is Operation Majestic twelve, and the collection of 15 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,719 pages is often referred to as the MJ twelve documents. Naturally, 16 00:01:15,879 --> 00:01:20,439 UFO researchers considered the possibility that the documents had been forged. 17 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,120 Barry Greenwood and Brad Sparks came to the conclusion that 18 00:01:24,159 --> 00:01:27,719 they had, as did the FBI, which has made copies 19 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:32,079 available on their website with bogus written across every page. 20 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,040 The questions we'll look at in this blog are who 21 00:01:35,159 --> 00:01:38,439 might have forged them and why. Supporting the idea that 22 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,599 the documents were forged is the fact that Moore had 23 00:01:41,599 --> 00:01:45,799 become involved with self proclaimed CIA Trade Air Force Office 24 00:01:45,799 --> 00:01:50,640 of Special Investigations disinformation agent Richard Dody. According to Moore, 25 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,280 he was recruited to keep tabs on UFO researchers and 26 00:01:54,439 --> 00:01:59,159 aid in an a foesy disinformation operation primarily directed against 27 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:02,480 Paul Benowitz, who was convinced he was seeing flying saucers 28 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,480 over Kirtland Air Force Base and had visual and radio 29 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,840 surveillance equipment trained on the base, and Doughty was his 30 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:12,800 main contact. In exchange, he said he was promised inside 31 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:17,560 information on what the government knew about UFOs. Brad Sparks 32 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,080 and Barry Greenwood wrote a paper titled the Secret Pratt 33 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,240 Tapes and the Origins of m J twelve that they 34 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,319 presented at the two thousand seven Muffonse impose him in Denver, Colorado. 35 00:02:28,759 --> 00:02:31,800 The title of the paper refers to secret Tapes Robert 36 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,520 Pratt made of phone conversations with Moore while they were 37 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,919 working on a book telling a fictionalized version of the 38 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:42,919 story of morse contact with Doughty and secret UFO information 39 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,879 he thought he was getting from the U. S. Military 40 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,520 and intelligence community. In the paper, they tell the story 41 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,319 of a feedback loop between Moore, Stanton Friedman, and Dody, 42 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,919 where they would give Doughty all the information they were 43 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,360 getting on their investigation of Roswell, and he would give 44 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,199 them documents that supported their conclusions. This seems to have 45 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,479 come to a head when, according to Sparks in Greenwood, 46 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:10,680 an associate of More's, Jamie Chanderrey, received an envelope in 47 00:03:10,719 --> 00:03:14,120 the mail on December eleventh, nineteen eighty four, with an 48 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,759 Albuquerque postmark. In it was a roll of exposed thirty 49 00:03:17,759 --> 00:03:20,719 five millimeter film that contained pictures of the m J 50 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:24,719 twelve documents. Once researchers became aware of the documents in 51 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,719 late nineteen eighty five, there were some who immediately looked 52 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,639 into the document's authenticity and tried to determine their origin 53 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:36,120 and source. According to Sparks and Greenwood in their paper, 54 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,759 Sparks compared what m J twelve documents he had access 55 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,840 to with the Aquarius document, a document linked to Dody 56 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,520 and known to be fake, another suspect document concerning frequency 57 00:03:48,599 --> 00:03:52,879 jamming at Kirtland, and a Foyer released UFO report by 58 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,680 Richard Doty from a Foesy and concluded they all came 59 00:03:56,759 --> 00:04:01,000 from the same typewriter, which implicates Dody. Another argument by 60 00:04:01,039 --> 00:04:04,560 the authors against the authenticity of the documents is that 61 00:04:04,639 --> 00:04:09,240 the Roswell UFO crash site is wrongly described therein as 62 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,719 being seventy five miles from Roswell, when it is actually 63 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,560 sixty two miles from Roswell. Perhaps the most damning evidence 64 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,319 that the documents were faked was discovered by Philip Klass 65 00:04:20,639 --> 00:04:23,600 Class reported he found a letter in the Bush collection 66 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,240 in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, dated 67 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,680 October first, nineteen forty seven, from Truman to Vanovar Bush 68 00:04:31,959 --> 00:04:35,240 that has a signature identical in every way to the 69 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,000 signature on the letter to Forrestall, indicating that the signature 70 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,639 on the Forestall letter was photocopied. Going with the arguments 71 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,959 that the documents are faked and that Doty was the creator, 72 00:04:46,439 --> 00:04:50,000 was their creation and dissemination sanctioned by a foesy and 73 00:04:50,079 --> 00:04:54,079 if it was why. To explore these questions, it helps 74 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,279 to know who was where and when. Greg Bishop was 75 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:59,839 a friend of Moore's and interviewed both him and de 76 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,959 Odie for his two thousand and five book Project Beta. 77 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,160 According to him, Benowitz had been filming lights he was 78 00:05:06,199 --> 00:05:09,920 seeing over the Manzano weapons storage area at Kirtland starting 79 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,839 in late nineteen seventy nine and beginning in early nineteen eighty, 80 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,720 wrote hundreds of letters to Jim Lorenzen of the Aerial 81 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:22,600 Phenomena Research organization of which Benowitz was a member, describing 82 00:05:22,639 --> 00:05:27,639 his research, and also described the lights to acquaintances to Kirtland. 83 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:32,720 Benowitz had a company, Thunder Scientific, and worked on military contracts. 84 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,199 According to Bishop, Moore, who was on apro's board of 85 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,839 directors at the time, was approached in September nineteen eighty 86 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,240 by a man identifying himself as a colonel, who promised 87 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,560 him UFO information in exchange for his help in keeping 88 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,959 tabs on UFO researchers. Dody, he was reportedly told, was 89 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,120 to be his contact. According to an A Fosie Multi 90 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,519 Purpose internal OSI form dated October twenty eighth, nineteen eighty 91 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,199 Benowitz contacted Kirtlin to warn them of the threat of 92 00:06:02,519 --> 00:06:06,879 aerial phenomena against Manzano that he had evidence of. Doty 93 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,439 visited Benowitz at his house on October twenty sixth, and 94 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,759 Benowitz's surveillance equipment is described on the form. A meeting 95 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,279 was set up at Kirtland that is described on a 96 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,240 form dated November twenty sixth, where Benowitz presented its evidence 97 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,959 before high ranking officials that there was an alien threat 98 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,720 and said that he was in contact with the aliens. 99 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,160 After this, the story told by Bishop and others who 100 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,079 have written about this is that Moore was enlisted by 101 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:38,480 Dody to assist in a disinformation campaign against Benowitz where 102 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,759 his fears about an alien invasion would be confirmed in 103 00:06:41,879 --> 00:06:45,279 order to destroy his credibility. Benowitz ended up in a 104 00:06:45,319 --> 00:06:49,000 mental health facility in August nineteen eighty eight. As to 105 00:06:49,079 --> 00:06:53,519 whether there really was and a Foesy sanctioned campaign targeting Benowitz, 106 00:06:53,759 --> 00:06:57,360 a form dated July thirtieth, nineteen eighty one describes a 107 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,959 meeting Doughty had with an aid to U S Senate 108 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:05,519 or Peter Domenici of New Mexico, mister Tirios Tierrios, described 109 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,759 that Domenici's sole interest in coming there he had left 110 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,240 prior to the meeting was to know if a FOSI 111 00:07:11,279 --> 00:07:16,000 had conducted a formal investigation of Benowitz. According to the form, 112 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:20,639 mister Tirios was informed that no formal investigation of Benowitz 113 00:07:20,959 --> 00:07:23,839 was conducted by a FOESI, which is not quite saying 114 00:07:23,879 --> 00:07:27,360 there was no campaign targeting him at this point. Looking 115 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,759 at Doty's service records as helpful. According to them, he 116 00:07:30,879 --> 00:07:34,120 left Kirtland Air Force Base and was stationed at Lindsay 117 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,079 Air Station in Germany on January twelfth, nineteen eighty five. 118 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,120 This is just one month after Chanderrey received the documents 119 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,920 in the mail. Given the resulting fure created by the documents, 120 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,600 this could have been a grand parting gesture by Dody 121 00:07:48,959 --> 00:07:51,319 or an effort by a Foesy to keep more in 122 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,600 his associates, chasing their tales in Doty's absence. What's noteworthy 123 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,839 is that just under two years later, Doty is back 124 00:07:58,879 --> 00:08:03,120 at Kirtland. His duty is listed as food services specialist. 125 00:08:03,519 --> 00:08:07,000 According to Philip Class in the January nineteen ninety one 126 00:08:07,319 --> 00:08:11,480 Skeptic's UFO newsletter, Doty was transferred to Germany to work 127 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:15,560 in counter intelligence and his superiors there came to suspect 128 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,000 that he was concocting tales about contacts with Communist agents. 129 00:08:20,279 --> 00:08:22,399 He is said to have failed to lie detector test, 130 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,360 been dropped from a foesy, and spent his last year 131 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,639 in the Air Force in charge of the mess Hall. 132 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,560 According to his service records, Doughty retired in October nineteen 133 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,759 eighty eight. Doty joined the new Mexico State Police in 134 00:08:34,759 --> 00:08:38,360 December nineteen eighty eight and retired as a sergeant in 135 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,679 February twenty fifteen. There is evidence that he continued to 136 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:46,679 fabricate UFO hoaxes during this time, a major one being 137 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,679 Project Sirpo, which was supposedly an exchange program between Earth 138 00:08:51,919 --> 00:08:55,639 and a planet called Serpo in the Zeta Reticulized star system. 139 00:08:56,039 --> 00:08:59,519 The existence of the project was revealed in a series 140 00:08:59,519 --> 00:09:03,480 of emails to different researchers, starting with Victor Martinez in 141 00:09:03,519 --> 00:09:07,799 November two thousand five. An investigation by Ryan Dube and 142 00:09:07,879 --> 00:09:12,840 Stephen Broadmin, who founded the Reality Uncovered forum, revealed that 143 00:09:12,919 --> 00:09:15,679 the IP addresses of the e mails were the same 144 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:19,879 as Doughties, so the question remains were the MJ twelve 145 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:24,279 papers part of an a PHOSY sanctioned disinformation program. If 146 00:09:24,279 --> 00:09:27,360 they were, why was Doughty sent to Germany in the 147 00:09:27,399 --> 00:09:30,919 midst of an active operation. In any case, it seems 148 00:09:30,919 --> 00:09:33,360 that a Fosy was well aware that the documents were 149 00:09:33,399 --> 00:09:36,799 faked and wanted to keep that knowledge between friends. In 150 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:41,399 a communication stated to be classified secret in its entirety, 151 00:09:41,759 --> 00:09:45,279 dated December twelfth, nineteen eighty eight, included with the FBI 152 00:09:45,399 --> 00:09:48,759 copies of the documents. There is this The Office of 153 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:53,799 Special Investigations US Air Force advised on November thirtieth, nineteen 154 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,399 eighty eight, that the document was fabricated. Copies of that 155 00:09:57,519 --> 00:10:01,240 document had been distributed to various parts of the United States. 156 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,559 The document is completely bogus. The documents have been released 157 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,159 to the press by more In his associates on May 158 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,600 twenty eighth, nineteen eighty seven. As of this writing, no 159 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,840 one has been arrested for leaking or being in possession 160 00:10:14,879 --> 00:10:18,720 of the MJ twelve documents stamped top secret, and a 161 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:23,000 Foesy has made no statement on the Benewitz affair. Charles 162 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:27,360 Lear is the author of Crashed Saucers and Malevolent Aliens, 163 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:43,519 available at Amazon dot com.