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C. The Majic-12 Documents: The ET Myth vs the Nazi Legend
The Majic-12 documents are well-known in UFOlogy circles,
and a controversy has ensued over their genuineness and
authenticy, or lack thereof. The documents themselves purport to
be highly classified top secret memoranda, studies, and so on,
concerning the Roswell crash and its aftermath: the establishment of
a deep cover, highly classified UFO retrieval, back-engineering, and
study group composed of top civilian and military leaders with a
large black projects budget. The documents, complete with many
blacked out areas - represented by strings of question marks
"" in the quotations which follow - were leaked to the public
in two different sets.
As well known and respected UFOlogist Stanton Friedman put
it, the first set of documents arrived in December of 1984, quite
literally "on Jaimie Shandera's doorstep." 10 Shandera, a film
director, had contacted Friedman about the possibility of doing a
fictional movie concerning UFOs, wanting Friedman to be a
consultant for the movie.
Then, in December 1984, the Majestic-12 documents showed up on
Jaimie Shandera'a doorstep.
To be more exact, a roll of undeveloped black-and-white 35mm
film came in the mail to Shandera's home in Burbank in a doublewrapped
plain brown envelope with no return address and an
Albuquerque, New Mexico postmark. Why was it sent to Jaimie One
possibility is that it was well-known that Shandera had been working
closely with Bill Moore and myself on the Roswell crash story, and
that together with Bill, had had many contacts with insiders, some of
whom were connected with OSI in Albuquerque.
Bill and Jaime's meetings with Agent Doty and others had left
them with the impression that these insiders were interested in having
the facts about flying saucers released to the public, in a manner that
would protect their identity and their status. But we may never know.
After Bill and Jaime developed the film, they called me. What
they found on the film were duplicate sets of eight pages of documents
that were classified TOP SECRET/MAJ1C, with a title page declaring
10
Stanton Friedman, Top Secret/Majic (New York: Marlowe and
Company, 1996), p. 20.
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