A researcher claims that the controversial Majestic-12 (MJ-12) documents, long dismissed as fake by the FBI, contain official intelligence filing numbers that match real CIA records from the same era. The anonymous investigator said the breakthrough came after comparing administrative stamps and file numbers on the MJ-12 papers with those found on publicly released CIA documents from the 1940s and 1950s.
The documents allege that a group of 12 high-ranking military and scientific officials secretly spent more than two decades investigating crashed alien craft, studying non-human technology and attempting to communicate with extraterrestrials. The researcher examined MJ-12 files shared by Ryan Wood, a UFO investigator and author, who possesses physical copies of documents that first leaked to the public in the 1980s.
According to the analysis, several administrative stamps and filing numbers appearing on the controversial UFO papers matched markings used in authentic intelligence records from the same era. The investigation uncovered identical codes on documents connected to Operation Paperclip, a secret post-World War II program to recruit German scientists. The same stamp, '834021-', appears on both the MJ-12 papers and 345 pages of Operation Paperclip documents, which were not declassified until June 22, 2022.
The researcher argued that these matching administrative codes would have been nearly impossible for a hoaxer to reproduce accurately in the 1980s, when many of the authentic CIA records had not yet been released to the public. Wood praised the analysis, saying: 'He's doing a great job. He's digging in the right spots and doing a good job of the historical research. It's definitely on point and logical, fair and highly credible.'
Despite the FBI previously stamping several of the MJ-12 files as 'bogus,' the new findings suggest the documents may be authentic. The researcher posted on Substack: 'It's virtually impossible to logically reconcile this supporting evidence with the idea that "Majestic-12" was just some paperwork invented during the 1980s.'
