A "Majestic 12" for the 2020s
A "Majestic 12" for the 2020s
UFOlogists are now claiming the existence of a 20-page document detailing the Pentagon's actual secret UFO program... just like they did back in 1984
On Monday I talked about the newest claims being made by the alien visitation advocates, and that is the existence of a secret Pentagon program to study UFOs called Immaculate Constellation, described in a 20-page document “leaked” to journalist Michael Shellenberger. The genesis of this story is eerily reminiscent of that of Majestic 12, a different hoax from back in 1984.
To illustrate the similarities, allow me to give a timeline of the Majestic 12 story:
In 1984, a 12-page document of anonymous authorship appeared. Each page was a slide of 35mm film. It detailed the existence of a classified government program called Majestic 12 which dealt with aliens.
The papers purported to have been written years before, in 1947.
It was dropped through the mail slot of a journalist known to be credulous toward UFO stories.
Soon it was in the hands of all the leaders of the UFO community.
Years later, one probable explanation for these papers is that they were forged by the US Air Force as a gift to UFOlogists in exchange for information about their group activities — as the USAF rightly assumed Soviet spies may have infiltrated American UFO groups. Or they were written by any random UFO crackpot.
The Majestic 12 papers are now widely available on the Internet. Here’s the Skeptoid episode on them if you want the full story.
Now let’s compare this to the timeline so far for the Immaculate Constellation story:
This year (2024), a 20-page document of anonymous authorship appeared. It details the existence of a classified government program called Immaculate Constellation which deals with aliens.
The papers purport to have been written years before, in 2017.
The papers were given anonymously to a journalist known to be credulous toward UFO stories. (As his Xitter stream and this YouTube video make clear, Shellenberger is very much a believer in the “disclosure” narrative.)
Soon it was in the hands of all the leaders of the UFO community.
Years later — well, that hasn’t come up yet — it will no doubt be proven to be a hoax. It could have been written by someone inside the Pentagon as a canary trap to see who’s illegally spreading classified information, or it could be written by some UFOlogist somewhere desperate to see his alien visitation beliefs given more credibility by the general public.
So you will pardon me if I roll my eyes in fatigue rather than spring out of my chair in excitement over this new revelation. I do expect that, eventually, Michael Shellenberger will rue the day he was duped by this.