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The files also show that it took the FBI and the Air Force four years to become interested in the case. Despite the FBI saying they looked into this case because of “a potential violation of federal law under our jurisdiction that we did investigate,“ the Bureau neither investigated the espionage angle they opened the file for, nor any of the potential violations of federal law involved in forging government documents. Despite having at least four different statutes that they could have used to prosecute the forger depending on the circumstances of the case, the declassified FBI file shows that once they announced the files had been forged, the case was closed. Whether or not this would have included the government fabricating and releasing documents to encourage the conspiracy theories which distracted from the truth is an open question, but it seems likely that the government was willing to tolerate it. There’s no reason to believe that this “white lie” approach, as the New York Times called it, would be abandoned in the ensuing decades. While perhaps justified, this deception added fuel to the later conspiracy theories and the cover-up controversy of the 1970s.” Perhaps the most infamous example of one of these misleading statements comes from the patently false explanation that the Roswell crash was an ordinary weather balloon instead of a specialized balloon for Project MOGUL.
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This “led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project. According to one CIA study, over half the UFOs spotted in the 1950s and 1960s were U.S. government activities, such as the use of spy planes, by encouraging the public to believe that the Unidentified Flying Objects they saw were extraterrestrial. Since then, some have speculated that the documents had been forged by the government to supplement ongoing disinformation programs designed to distract from actual U.S. Despite seeming to use real signatures and being found in the National Archives, the documents were determined to be part of a hoax for a number of technical reasons, not the least of which include the real signatures having been copied from other documents. From 1984 through 1988, a number of documents turned up in the mailboxes of researchers and, in one instance, at the National Archives. The Bureau, however, was essentially disinterested in the case, did no actual investigating, and barely pursued the very real crime that had been committed by forging government documents, only adding fuel to the suspicion that the papers were government sponsored, or at least tolerated, disinformation.Īccording to the stories, Majestic-12 was a secret group of high level government employees working to deal with UFOs and recovered alien craft.
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The FBI file on Majestic-12 may be the Bureau’s most X-Filesy file of all - full of hoaxes, planted documents, and allegations of aliens.