I know it's already widely known that the original MJ-12 documents were part of a hoax, but considering they still get thrown around on News Nation and in supposedly legitimate document releases to this day, I thought it worthwhile to do a deep dive. Going through the archives of Bill Moore (co-author of The Roswell Incident and original source of the first MJ-12 documents) alongside other sources shows it is highly likely the documents were produced through a collaboration between Moore and Richard Doty, a known and confessed UFO hoaxer who at one time worked for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. A timeline of events drawn from multiple sources verifies that Moore talked openly about his idea to produce fake government documents to draw eyewitnesses and sources out of hiding, that he hid details that would count against the authenticity of the documents, and that he impersonated a government official to spread the documents in the UFO community without his name attached to them. Forensic analysis of the documents by the UFO community in the 80s and 90s when the MJ-12 documents were first circulating shows Bill Moore owned a stamp kit that matches the "MAJIC" classification stamps, that his idiosyncratic style of writing dates and errors in measurements he made about Roswell are carried over to the documents, and that the documents are extremely similar to others that he himself confirmed were counterfeit produced by Moore and Doty before the release of the MJ-12 papers. There were actually fifteen documents produced by Moore and/or Doty starting in 1977, eight of which are confirmed counterfeit, and the others, including the MJ-12 docs, highly suspect. In sum, it seems overwhelmingly likely that Moore and Doty collaborated in some way to produce the Majestic 12 documents, and that the organisation, at least as it was described in those documents, never existed. submitted by /u/tsuyurikun [link] [comments]