1 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,540 to sightings. I'm Tim White. The alleged crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft near 2 00:00:35,540 --> 00:00:41,580 Roswell, New Mexico has become the touchstone of modern ufology. Hard evidence remains elusive 3 00:00:41,580 --> 00:00:47,480 as years of speculation and theory have all come up just a little bit short. Now, a chief 4 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:51,760 of documents that surfaced more than a decade ago is leading some experts to believe that 5 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:56,180 not only have extraterrestrials visited our planet, but also that the U.S. government has 6 00:00:56,180 --> 00:01:07,340 known about it from day one. If one accepts for even a moment the premise that we've been 7 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:15,100 visited, that an alien is here, that bodies have been found, there would have to be a 8 00:01:15,100 --> 00:01:21,740 control group established to examine, understand, and determine what the makeup of it is and 9 00:01:21,740 --> 00:01:28,220 what motivations are and what our vulnerability is. UFO investigator Jamie Chandra Ray believes 10 00:01:28,220 --> 00:01:33,420 that proof of just such a group does exist in the form of authentic looking documents sent to 11 00:01:33,420 --> 00:01:40,100 him on film in December 1984. The film, whose sender is unknown to this day, contained astounding 12 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:46,300 images, pages from a 1952 briefing document meant for President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower. The memo 13 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:51,460 describes a secret government UFO team working on the Roswell crash, a shadow cabinet codenamed 14 00:01:51,460 --> 00:01:59,380 Majestic or MJ-12. This document also informs Eisenhower about the discovery of wreckage and 15 00:01:59,380 --> 00:02:04,860 alien bodies near Roswell. Explosive revelations delivered to Chandra Ray by an anonymous source. 16 00:02:04,860 --> 00:02:09,860 It was very interesting to me because it was analogous to Watergate in the sense that there was a 17 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:17,260 deep throat who wanted to share information and ultimately that process led to the arrival of the 18 00:02:17,260 --> 00:02:24,260 MJ-12 documents. More documents were to follow and Chandra Ray suspects he was chosen to receive them 19 00:02:24,260 --> 00:02:29,380 because he was known within the intelligence community as a fair and impartial investigator of 20 00:02:29,380 --> 00:02:36,500 UFO phenomena. I'm a skeptic. You have to be a skeptic. You can't simply buy out. This isn't the 21 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:39,940 belief system. It has nothing to do with the belief system. It isn't a religion. That's not what 22 00:02:39,940 --> 00:02:45,300 we're dealing with. If it exists, then there's a way to prove it and that's what the game is all about. 23 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:51,180 Physicist Bruce McAbee believes the MJ-12 documents are significant but he's holding out for hard 24 00:02:51,180 --> 00:02:56,100 evidence. You can have sightings up the wazoo. You can always get an expert to explain it even if he 25 00:02:56,100 --> 00:03:01,700 has to hook up an explanation. Now if MJ-12 is real, their main problem was keeping track of the 26 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:06,660 hardware so that we could study it, learn it without letting the absolute proof get out. Remember 27 00:03:06,660 --> 00:03:11,980 the absolute proof is the bodies and hardware that cannot be duplicated here on earth which 28 00:03:11,980 --> 00:03:16,940 conclusively proves this stuff is real. The government's a multi-headed dragon and sections of 29 00:03:16,940 --> 00:03:22,860 that change every four years. So you have this constant change going on in musical chairs. So if 30 00:03:22,860 --> 00:03:28,300 a group is going to indeed control this information in some fashion, it has to be a group that is in 31 00:03:28,380 --> 00:03:34,380 place continuously. With that kind of control comes the danger always. Well who watches the 32 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:39,020 watchers? Forget the motivations of the aliens for a moment. What's the motivations of those that 33 00:03:39,020 --> 00:03:45,500 control the information? I did veteran UFO researcher Stanton Friedman believes that MJ-12 would have 34 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:51,020 been motivated to keep quiet about advanced alien technology in order to protect national security 35 00:03:51,180 --> 00:03:58,540 in a tense cold war standoff following World War II. There was a real belief in Washington that when 36 00:03:58,540 --> 00:04:04,780 Stalin got ready he would attack. That was a general consensus that we were going to be in a battle 37 00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:10,620 to the end with the Soviet Union and therefore any kind of technological advantage we could get 38 00:04:11,260 --> 00:04:15,340 would be well worth having and you couldn't possibly release that information to anybody. 39 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:22,060 In researching his book on the majestic 12 documents, Friedman meticulously verified every 40 00:04:22,060 --> 00:04:27,660 detail in the Eisenhower document. He investigated each supposed member of the group and found that 41 00:04:27,660 --> 00:04:32,300 they were the best and brightest military minds of the day including Secretary of Defense James 42 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:38,220 Forstall, high-ranking Army, Navy and Air Force officers and the first four directors of Central 43 00:04:38,220 --> 00:04:45,020 Intelligence. Only one name on the list didn't seem to fit. Publicly, MJ-12 member Dr. Donald 44 00:04:45,180 --> 00:04:51,900 Menzel was an astronomer at Harvard and a rabid UFO debunker. Menzel in his position at Harvard was 45 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:56,780 in a perfect position to act as the astronomer telling the world this is all nonsense. Nothing 46 00:04:56,780 --> 00:05:00,700 to do with anything, this isn't real, we've got explanations for everything which is what he did 47 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:06,140 say. And I have found that his explanations are just plain wrong when you analyze them carefully. 48 00:05:06,140 --> 00:05:11,820 As a matter of fact, you get the impression that here was a top-notch scientist treating this subject 49 00:05:11,820 --> 00:05:17,020 totally unscientifically trying to think up anything that he could do to snow the public, 50 00:05:17,020 --> 00:05:21,500 as it were, with an explanation even if it made no sense. Now he might seem more why would he be 51 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:25,260 lying, why would he do this and others who defend him say oh he wouldn't do this and he wouldn't do 52 00:05:25,260 --> 00:05:29,820 that. Well of course he would. He absolutely would as would every single one of those individuals 53 00:05:29,820 --> 00:05:35,340 and they wouldn't tell their wives or anything else because that was what was important for their 54 00:05:35,340 --> 00:05:41,260 country. Along with the Eisenhower briefing document, both Chandelier and Friedman have found 55 00:05:41,260 --> 00:05:46,780 cryptic references to MJ-12 in declassified government documents but nothing has bolstered 56 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:53,100 the authenticity of MJ-12 more than this. More anonymous films sent to ufologist Don Berliner 57 00:05:53,100 --> 00:06:00,940 in 1994 on it a supposed military field manual dated 1954. This was a set of instructions really 58 00:06:00,940 --> 00:06:06,700 to retrieval teams who would be at the scene soon after an event took place in which a saucer had 59 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:12,620 crashed and in which there were bodies and wreckage. How to wrap them, what kind of boxes to use, 60 00:06:12,620 --> 00:06:17,100 where to send the pieces, what the cover stories were and one of the things that comes through 61 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:20,460 loud and clear is they wouldn't have put such a manual together unless this had happened more than 62 00:06:20,460 --> 00:06:26,140 once which makes you wonder so how many of the crashes were there, how many bodies were retrieved. 63 00:06:26,940 --> 00:06:31,820 For verification of the new manual, Friedman turned to a former colleague, 64 00:06:31,820 --> 00:06:37,980 retired McDonnell Douglas scientist Dr. Robert Wood. If Wood, an expert in the detection of 65 00:06:37,980 --> 00:06:43,820 forged documents, could authenticate the manual, Friedman felt he would have proof of a government 66 00:06:43,820 --> 00:06:50,460 alien conspiracy. My initial reaction when I first saw them was if this is genuine, why it's 67 00:06:50,460 --> 00:06:56,460 dynamite like the smoking gun. Dr. Wood was painstaking in his examination of the document pages 68 00:06:56,460 --> 00:07:01,420 comparing it to an authentic Army field manual from the same period. The size of both manuals 69 00:07:01,420 --> 00:07:06,860 was identical conforming to the standard six by nine ratio for government field manuals of the era 70 00:07:06,860 --> 00:07:12,540 and Dr. Wood examined this seal which other experts and sisters proved that this manual is a fake. 71 00:07:13,260 --> 00:07:18,620 If you look at the front of this document at the bottom there's a logo that says war department 72 00:07:19,580 --> 00:07:24,540 and the war department was actually eliminated at the end of World War II so you'd expect they would 73 00:07:24,540 --> 00:07:30,060 have stopped using the logo but in fact the Army in its field manuals continued to use the war 74 00:07:30,060 --> 00:07:35,980 department logo up until as late as 1960 and we have exact copies of such manuals. These documents 75 00:07:35,980 --> 00:07:41,260 are genuine they prove the case you don't need anything more and Friedman says we are not the 76 00:07:41,260 --> 00:07:45,660 only ones who will suffer from continued secrecy. I think one of the reasons they're coming here is 77 00:07:45,660 --> 00:07:52,300 to make sure we don't go out to take our brand of friendship namely hostility other places. This is 78 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:57,820 truly a primitive society whose major activity is tribal warfare so I don't think we can expect 79 00:07:57,820 --> 00:08:06,220 aliens to deal with us as equals. We're not. We haven't earned our place at the Galactic Federation roundtable. 80 00:08:09,180 --> 00:08:15,420 Both Staten Friedman and Jamie Chandra believe the clandestine majestic 12 still exists today. 81 00:08:15,420 --> 00:08:20,780 Chandra also told sightings that he believes the U.S. Air Force will soon release MJ-12 82 00:08:20,780 --> 00:08:26,540 documents of its own which will profoundly change the way the world views the UFO phenomenon.