Richard Weaver on MJ-12 (1993)
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| Date | 12 October 1993 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Disinformation & hoaxes (topic) |
| People | Richard Weaver, Nick Redfern |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 117 |
| Year | 1993 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1993 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 8 |
Col. Richard L. Weaver, the Air Force officer who led the service's 1994 Roswell inquiry, was quoted as dismissing the Majestic 12 (MJ-12) documents as bogus while being unable to point to records showing how that conclusion had been reached. The testimony dates his remarks to British author Nick Redfern to 1993.[1][2]
Weaver
Weaver, assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations' security and special programs oversight, wrote the Air Force report released in September 1994, which concluded that the Roswell debris came from Project Mogul, a classified program of balloon trains carrying acoustic sensors. It was expanded in 1995 into The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert, produced with 1st Lt. James McAndrew.[2][3]
The MJ-12 remark
According to Redfern, Weaver said the Air Force considered MJ-12 and its documents bogus but could not explain exactly how that determination had been made. Physicist Stanton Friedman later wrote that Weaver had told a researcher the MJ-12 documents were "known by everybody to be BOGUS", and that when he filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records supporting that statement he was told there were none — an example, Friedman said, of "research by proclamation".[1][2]
Official findings
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The FBI had called the MJ-12 papers "completely bogus" in 1988 after the Air Force found no record of such a committee. In July 1995 the General Accounting Office, in a review requested by Rep. Steven Schiff, reported that the agencies it consulted knew of MJ-12 only through material submitted by private individuals, that it found no evidence the papers were genuine executive-branch documents, and that the Air Force had determined a 1980 message mentioning "MJ Twelve" was a forgery. Researchers have since identified a photocopied Truman signature and other signs of forgery.[4][5]
People and topics
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- MJ-12 — Disputed documents describing a secret committee managing crashed saucers.
- Richard Weaver — Air Force officer who wrote the 1994 Roswell report.
- Roswell — The New Mexico town at the center of the 1947 crash story.
- Project Mogul — A secret Army Air Forces program using balloon trains to detect Soviet nuclear tests, blamed by the Air Force for the Roswell debris.
- Nick Redfern — British author of books on government UFO secrecy including Final Events.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation — The U.S. federal police agency, which helped check flying disc reports from 1947 to 1950.
On the Timeline
- MARAUDER (1 August 1993) — The Air Force tests its MARAUDER plasma railgun in public.
- Earl Zimmerman affidavit (2 November 1993) — A radio operator's affidavit describes 1947 flying saucer rumors at his base.
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References
- Nick Redfern, *Flying Saucers from the Kremlin* (2017), Amazon · amazon.com · archived copy
- "Stanton Friedman challenges Air Force officers", The Black Vault case file · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- "The Roswell Report: fact versus fiction in the New Mexico desert", Patrick Gross · ufologie.patrickgross.org · archived copy
- Majestic 12 — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- GAO, "[Comments on Majestic 12 material]" (Jul 1995) · gao.gov · archived copy
- How the FBI debunked the MJ-12 papers — Atlas Obscura · atlasobscura.com · archived copy
- Nick Redfern — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- amazon.com · amazon.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Majestic 12 file — FBI Vault · vault.fbi.gov · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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