Majestic 12 (MJ-12) is an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials supposedly formed in 1947 by President Truman to facilitate the recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft.
Disinformation Campaign
In the 1980s, AFOSI used falsified MJ-12 documents as part of a disinformation campaign to manipulate beliefs in extraterrestrial visitors and deter UFO researchers considered threats to U.S. national security (Pilkington 2010, Bishop 2005). richard-doty was involved in disseminating these forgeries as part of the broader Bennewitz Affair.
According to src-uap-reddit-disclosure-conspiracy-2026-05, while the robertson-panel’s 1953 goal was to deter public discussion of UFOs, the Majestic 12 disinformation campaign specifically targeted individual researchers. Both are cited by Bastos & Duarte (2026) as examples of confirmed conspiracy theories — once-speculative claims later substantiated by documentary evidence.
Ongoing Debate
The existence of an actual MJ-12 committee remains unverified. The confirmed element is the disinformation campaign that used fabricated MJ-12 documents, not the committee itself.
Elizondo “MJ-27” remark (June 2026)
In a June 3, 2026 Liberation Times interview (src-elizondo-no-going-back-disclosure-2026-06), lue-elizondo suggested the underlying structure may persist under a changed name: “We can honestly say it doesn’t exist because the name has changed… Why hasn’t anybody asked about MJ-27?” He explained how an official denial of “MJ-12” could be technically true yet concealing — “maybe it’s not MJ-12 anymore. Maybe the boats got a little bigger” — before adding “I cannot confirm or deny.” This is presented as Elizondo’s claim, distinct from the established AFOSI-disinformation framing above, and ties MJ-12 to the alleged Legacy Program.