Jehovah teletype (Cooper documents)
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| Date | November 1998 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic), Bases & Area 51 (topic) |
| People | Tim Cooper, Ryan Wood |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 136 |
| Year | 1998 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1998 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 8 |
The "Jehovah" teletype is a document presented as a top-secret intelligence message dated 14 November 1998, part of the large set of papers California researcher Tim Cooper said he received from anonymous sources in the 1990s. It was published on the Majestic Documents website run by Robert and Ryan Wood.[1][2]
The document
The page is marked "TOP SECRET" with a partly obscured codeword, carries the routing "MAJESTIC-12/33" and is addressed to "MAJSEC". It presents itself as an evaluated report from a "controlled clandestine intercept", saying a Russian government scientist in charge of a project equivalent to the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative had been assassinated after an unauthorised disclosure. It then reports a conversation in Moscow between a contact code-named "MAJ" at Moscow State University and a U.S. counterpart code-named "JOSHUA" about results of attempts at contact, mentioning "Dreamland", leaks about "Area 54 and 17", Carl Sagan, Boris Yeltsin and funding from investors. The page bears handwritten annotations, including "Ward Desk" and "A51".[1]
The Cooper documents
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Cooper said that throughout the 1990s he received many such documents describing MJ-12 and related programmes. The Woods analysed and published them, arguing some were genuine. Most researchers regard the Cooper documents as unverified and probably forged: their sources have never been identified, and analysts have found anachronisms and errors in many of them. The original MJ-12 papers that preceded them were called "completely bogus" by the FBI in 1988.[2][3]
Context
The testimony notes that claims of a secret UAP "control group" have circulated under names such as MJ, Majestic, Majority and PI-40, none of which has been verified, and suggests that some such documents may have been created deliberately to confuse researchers.[2][3]
People and topics
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Tim Cooper — California researcher who said he received many MJ-12-style documents from anonymous sources in the 1990s.
- MJ-12 — Disputed documents describing a secret committee managing crashed saucers.
- Ryan Wood — Researcher who published the Majestic documents with his father Robert Wood.
- Cooper documents — MJ-12-style documents that Tim Cooper said he received in the 1990s.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
On the Timeline
- Area 2 encounters at Nellis (October 1998) — A security airman at a Nevada nuclear depot describes a UAP encounter.
- Jim Westwood's MJ-12 disinformation theory (1 January 1999) — A former CIA consultant suggests the MJ-12 briefing document was a fake to fool the KGB.
See every 1998 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Jehovah" teletype (Nov 1998), Majestic Documents (PDF) · majesticdocuments.com · archived copy
- Majestic 12 — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "The FBI debunked these UFO documents in the most childish way possible", Atlas Obscura · atlasobscura.com · archived copy
- On the Tim Cooper MJ-12 documents (1990s archive) · geocities.ws · archived copy
- Review of Kevin Randle's 'Case MJ-12' — Stanton Friedman · medium.com · archived copy
- Cooper/Woods 'Majestic' leak grows into paper flood (archive) · oocities.org · archived copy
- Critique of the Cooper MJ-12 documents — Kennedys and King · kennedysandking.com · archived copy
- majesticdocuments.com · majesticdocuments.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Area 51 — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
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