---
alias:
- Majestic-12
- Majestic 12
- MJ-12
- MJ12
- MJ Twelve
- Majic-12
- Operation Majestic-12
- Operation Majestic 12
- Majestic Twelve
- Eisenhower Briefing Document
- Cutler-Twining memo
category: Historical Phenomenon
created: 2026-10-01
location: North Hollywood, California
relations:
- fn: 3
  role: Dallas inquiry into a copy of the Eisenhower briefing document, closed December
    2, 1988; Salt Lake City field office copy sent to headquarters October 31, 1991
  start: 1988-09-15
  type: subject_of
  with: '[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]'
- fn: 19
  role: FBI Intelligence Division asked the Commander, Office of Special Investigations,
    to ascertain the originator and classification of a copy
  start: 1991-11-15
  type: subject_of
  with: '[[Air Force Office of Special Investigations]]'
start: 1984-12-11
summary: Documents describing a 1947 presidential committee on flying discs, received
  by Jaime Shandera in 1984 and reported found at the National Archives in 1985; the
  FBI wrote in 1988 that the briefing document was bogus.
tags:
- UAP
- UFO
- MajesticDocuments
- Disinformation
- Counterintelligence
- FBI
- NARA
- Roswell
updated: 2026-10-01
---

Majestic-12, written in the documents as MJ-12 or "Majic," is the name of a committee of twelve officials and scientists that the Eisenhower briefing document, dated November 18, 1952, says was established by a classified executive order of President [Harry S. Truman](/people/harry-s-truman/) on September 24, 1947 to run a research, development and intelligence operation on recovered craft.[^1] The papers reached the public through William L. Moore, Jaime Shandera and Stanton Friedman in May 1987 and were the subject of [Federal Bureau of Investigation](/organizations/federal-bureau-of-investigation/) inquiries in 1988 and 1991 and of a reference report of the National Archives and Records Administration.[^2][^3][^4]

### The Eisenhower briefing document

The document is headed "Top Secret / Majic, Eyes Only" and "Copy one of one," and is titled "Operation Majestic-12 Preliminary Briefing for President-Elect Eisenhower," with Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter as briefing officer, "MJ-1." It names as members of the group Hillenkoetter, Vannevar Bush, Secretary James V. Forrestal, General Nathan F. Twining, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Detlev Bronk, Jerome Hunsaker, Sidney W. Souers, Gordon Gray, Donald Menzel, General Robert M. Montague and Lloyd V. Berkner, and records that Forrestal's death on May 22, 1949 left a vacancy filled on August 1, 1950 by General Walter Bedell Smith. Its narrative begins with the sighting by a civilian pilot over the Cascade Mountains on June 24, 1947, describes a crash about seventy-five miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base, a secret recovery begun on July 7, 1947, the discovery of four small humanlike beings, and a weather balloon cover story.[^1]

The briefing document continues that an analytical effort organized by Twining and Bush reached a preliminary consensus on September 19, 1947 that the disc was most likely a short range reconnaissance craft; that Bronk's group proposed the term "Extra-terrestrial Biological Entities" or "EBEs"; and that "some scientists, most notably Dr. Menzel, consider it more likely that we are dealing with beings from another solar system entirely." It states that the Air Force's Project SIGN, begun in December 1947, kept liaison with Majestic-12 limited to two individuals in the Intelligence Division of Air Materiel Command; that SIGN evolved into Project GRUDGE in December 1948 and was then being conducted under the code name BLUE BOOK; that on December 6, 1950 a second object impacted in the El Indio-Guerrero area of the Texas-Mexican border and the recovered remains were taken to the [Atomic Energy Commission](/organizations/atomic-energy-commission/) facility at Sandia, [New Mexico](/places/new-mexico/); and that a contingency plan, MJ-1949-04P/78, should be held ready for a public announcement.[^1]

The FBI's "Majestic 12" file reproduces the document, the Truman memorandum of September 24, 1947 to the Secretary of Defense, and a copy of the Cutler-Twining memorandum bearing a National Archives copy stamp for Record Group 341, each with the word "BOGUS" hand-lettered across it. The Truman memorandum, bearing a signature reading "Harry Truman," is addressed "Dear Secretary Forrestal" and states that the matter shall hereafter be referred to only as "Operation Majestic Twelve." The Cutler memorandum copy reads that "the President has decided that the MJ-12 SSP briefing should take place during the already scheduled White House meeting of July 16, rather than following it as previously intended."[^1] Friedman wrote in 2004 that if the Eisenhower briefing document, the Truman-Forrestal memorandum of September 24, 1947 and the Cutler-Twining memorandum were genuine, the government had recovered at least one crashed saucer and several bodies and kept it secret since 1947; he wrote that Menzel's presence on the list had bothered him, Moore and Shandera from the start, since Menzel, a Harvard astronomer, had written books and papers attacking UFO claims.[^5]

### Hillenkoetter, Berkner and the Robertson Panel

The CIA historian Gerald K. Haines wrote in 1997 that the [Robertson Panel](/events/robertson-panel/), which met from January 14 to 17, 1953 and recommended that the National Security Council debunk UFO reports, included Lloyd Berkner, then a director of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Haines also wrote that in 1958 CIA officials, discussing how to answer the requests of Donald Keyhoe and Leon Davidson for the panel's full report, "worried that Keyhoe had the ear of former DCI VAdm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, who served on the board of governors of NICAP" (the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena); the officials discussed having the CIA general counsel show Hillenkoetter the report, and Hillenkoetter resigned from NICAP in 1962.[^6]

### Receipt of the film, December 1984

In their 1990 report Moore and Shandera wrote that on December 11, 1984 a brown manila envelope arrived at Shandera's residence in North Hollywood, taped across all seams, with no return address and postmarked Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 8, 1984. Inside were nested envelopes, the innermost a white envelope bearing a Marriott Hotel logo, containing a black plastic canister with a roll of undeveloped 35mm Tri-X film. Developed, it yielded eight good negatives of what appeared to be a 1952 briefing document for President-elect [Dwight D. Eisenhower](/people/dwight-d-eisenhower/), two blank frames, the same sequence of eight frames a second time, and a blank remainder. Moore and Shandera had the negatives printed in a photo laboratory owned by an associate, and wrote that they obtained assistance from the FBI and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in locating questioned-document examiners; four examiners were approached and none allowed his name to be used.[^7] Klass wrote that on March 14, 1994 the writer Don Berliner received in the mail from an anonymous source an undeveloped roll of 35mm film, which yielded photographs of pages of a "Top Secret/MAJIC/Eyes Only" special operations manual, SOM 1-01; Friedman wrote that this roll was mailed from Wisconsin rather than Albuquerque.[^5][^8]

### The Cutler-Twining memorandum, July 1985

Moore and Shandera wrote that a typewritten postcard, which its stamp indicated was mailed from [New Zealand](/places/new-zealand/) and whose fine print said it came from the "Ethiopian Tourism Commission, Box 189, Addis Ababa," was among the mail forwarded in March 1985 from Moore's post office box 189 in Dewey, Arizona, a box he had kept from about August 1979 to mid-1987. It read in part: "When doors won't open, search for windows. Add some zest to your trip to Washington; Try Reece's pieces. For a stylish look, shop Suit Land." Friedman, already in Washington, told them the reference probably meant Ed Reese of the Modern Military Branch of the National Archives, and Suitland, Maryland, the location of a federal records center. Reese told Friedman that the Air Force was declassifying a large block of Intelligence Directorate files from 1946 to 1955, many originally top secret, and that declassification officers had been sent from the Pentagon to handle the task.[^9] Shandera found the memorandum on July 18, 1985, after searching nearly 100 boxes; in the authors' words it was in box number 189 of Record Group 341, "immediately adjacent to file folder 4-1846." They described it as an unsigned faded-blue carbon copy on onionskin paper bearing the watermarks "Dictation Onionskin" and what appeared to be "Fox."[^9] The National Archives describes it as filed in folder T4-1846.[^4]

The memorandum, dated July 14, 1954, is addressed by Robert Cutler, special assistant to the President, to General Twining and refers to an "NSC/MJ-12 Special Studies Project" and a briefing on July 16. The National Archives published a reference report listing the problems it poses. The series in which it was filed is arranged by top secret register number and the memorandum has none; no other document in the folder concerns "NSC/MJ-12"; the marking "Top Secret Restricted Information" was not used by the [National Security Council](/organizations/national-security-council/) until the [Richard Nixon](/people/richard-nixon/) administration; the paper is "diction onionskin" without letterhead or watermark, while Cutler's other carbons in the Eisenhower Library sample carry an eagle watermark or none; the National Security Council minutes record no meeting on July 16, 1954, and a folder titled "Special Meeting July 16, 1956" held a memo calling NSC members to a civil defense exercise on that date; the Eisenhower Library wrote on July 16, 1987 that the President's appointment books show no entry for such a meeting; the NSC declassification office had no record of declassifying it; and Cutler was visiting military installations in Europe and North Africa from July 3 to 15, 1954, having left written instructions on July 3 for his subordinates James S. Lay and J. Patrick Cone on handling NSC business during his absence. The National Archives searched the indexes of the NSC files under MJ-12, majestic, unidentified flying objects, UFO, flying saucers, extraterrestrial biological entities and Aquarius, and found nothing except this memorandum. It states that it certifies reproductions as true copies and does not authenticate documents.[^4]

### The Doty teletype and the earlier use of the term

Philip J. Klass wrote in 1997 that the term "MJ Twelve" first appeared in a one-page secret teletype dated November 17, 1980 concerning UFO photographs, which [Richard Doty](/people/richard-doty/) of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations gave Moore in early 1981 and which Moore showed to Brad Sparks and Kal Korff on January 17, 1982.[^2] The text printed by Moore and Shandera as the Aquarius message names "Project Aquarius," "MJ Twelve" and the Albuquerque instrument maker [Paul Bennewitz](/people/paul-bennewitz/); the Air Force Intelligence Service wrote on December 5, 1983 that AFOSI had reviewed a message of that description, circulated in at least three cities, and confirmed it was a hoax. The printed text is, by the authors' account, a late-1988 reconstruction by Moore with changes supplied by Doty.[^10][^11][^12] Moore wrote in 1989 that the version he was given was a retyped copy with spurious additions that he understood was meant to reach Bennewitz.[^12] Moore and Shandera wrote that in early March 1983 a telephone caller sent Moore on a cross-country trip to a motel in upstate New York, where a courier gave him nineteen minutes with eleven pages of a "Project Aquarius" briefing dated June 14, 1977, which he photographed and read into a tape recorder.[^13] Klass wrote that Linda Moulton Howe saw some of the same Aquarius papers on April 9, 1983 during a visit to Doty in Albuquerque; Hastings wrote that Howe placed the meeting in Doty's office at Kirtland Air Force Base and described the document as a "Briefing Paper for the President" that listed crashed UFO cases including one near Aztec, New Mexico; Doty denied in writing in 1988 that he knew of MJ-12.[^2][^14]

Hastings wrote in 1989 that the intelligence sources Moore called "Falcon" and "Condor" had been identified to him as Doty and the recently retired Air Force captain Robert Collins; Doty and Collins denied it, and Moore denied that Doty was Falcon.[^2][^14] Doty told Art Bell in 2005 that Moore was "recruited as an asset" by a person in the [Defense Intelligence Agency](/organizations/defense-intelligence-agency/) to provide disinformation.[^15] In a letter to the newsletter Saucer Smear in 2000 Doty wrote that Moore "was a coded source for OSI," that if Moore was the original author of the MJ-12 documents "he did it without my assistance or my knowledge," and that he "went through two Government investigations regarding the MJ-12 documents," both of which, he wrote, cleared him.[^16]

### The Schulgen memorandum

Klass wrote in 1997 that the researcher Robert Todd had compared Moore's version of a draft Air Force collection memorandum of October 1947 from the office of Brigadier General George F. Schulgen, which Moore published in the July and August 1986 issue of International UFO Reporter, with an authentic copy that Todd obtained from the National Archives early in 1997. According to Klass, the version Moore published added words implying that some officials regarded the objects as interplanetary and deleted words treating them as a possible Soviet aircraft; Klass wrote that the text of the transmittal letter had also been altered, and that Friedman, Good and a report by Bruce Maccabee for the Fund for UFO Research had cited the altered version.[^2]

### Later documents

Klass wrote in 2000 that SOM 1-01, purportedly printed in April 1954, directed that crashed craft be sent to "Area 51 S-4" in Nevada, a name that he wrote the Nellis range portion had not been given until several years after the manual's purported date, and that a statement denouncing SOM 1-01 as counterfeit was released on March 14, 1999, signed by Berliner and several other prominent proponents of UFO reality. The CIA's history of the U-2 program places the addition of the [Groom Lake](/places/area-51/) strip, known by its map designation as Area 51, to the Nevada Test Site after April 12, 1955.[^8][^17] Klass also wrote that more than a dozen further "Majestic" documents obtained by the researcher Tim Cooper were made public by Robert Wood and his son Ryan at a conference in Connecticut, that Wood endorsed them while admitting flaws, and that the Eisenhower briefing document uses a hybrid civil and military date format, "18 November, 1952," which Klass wrote Moore used repeatedly in personal letters, and a Truman signature that Klass wrote was a pasted-on photocopy of a genuine signature from a memorandum to Vannevar Bush of October 1, 1947.[^8]

### Moore's statements

Klass wrote that on April 16, 1983, twenty months before the film arrived, Moore told Sparks in Berkeley that counterfeit government documents about crashed saucers could induce former military personnel to speak, that Sparks urged him not to, and that Friedman defended the idea; Klass wrote that Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt reported in their 1994 book that Friedman, among others, said Moore had suggested creating Roswell documents as early as 1982.[^2] Klass also wrote that Lee Graham, to whom Moore showed the papers in May 1985, filed a [Freedom of Information Act](/events/freedom-of-information-act/) request with the Department of Energy on June 17, 1985 that listed the twelve names; that the December 1985 issue of Barry Greenwood's newsletter Just Cause was the first UFO publication to discuss the group; and that Moore released the papers to the press on May 28, 1987, a day before the British writer Timothy Good, who said they came from "a reliable American source who has close connections with the intelligence community," presented them at a London press conference. Moore and Good later denied that Moore was that source. The papers were covered by [The New York Times](/organizations/new-york-times/) and [The Washington Post](/organizations/washington-post/) and featured on ABC's Nightline, where [Ted Koppel](/people/ted-koppel/) interviewed Friedman and Klass.[^2]

On July 1, 1989 Moore told the MUFON symposium in [Las Vegas](/places/las-vegas/) that he would "play the disinformation game, get my hands dirty just often enough" to learn who was directing it and why, and, as he restated in FOCUS that September, that the Aquarius document was a retyped version of a real AFOSI message that was apparently created by AFOSI and handed to him in 1981 with the intention that he pass it to Bennewitz.[^12][^18] The 1990 report of Moore and Shandera describes the 1984 film as arriving in an envelope with no return address.[^7]

### The FBI file, 1988 to 1991

The FBI's "Majestic 12" file, number 65-81170, opens with a Dallas airtel to the Director dated October 25, 1988. On September 15, 1988 a special agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, name redacted, contacted the Dallas office with a possible classified document concerning Operation Majestic-12, received from a person whose name is redacted who said that an individual "at the school," whom he would not name, gave it to him as something received in the mail. Dallas wrote that in the previous six weeks there had been local publicity about Operation Majestic-12, with at least two appearances on a local radio talk show, and that "it is unknown if this is all part of a publicity campaign." OSI, in a passage with its source redacted, advised that "Operation Blue Book," mentioned on page 4 of the document, did exist. Dallas wrote that the purported document was over 35 years old but that it did not know whether it had been properly declassified, asked the Bureau to discern whether it was still classified, and held its investigation in abeyance.[^3]

On December 2, 1988 the Director sent Dallas a teletype stating that OSI had advised on November 30, 1988 that the document was fabricated, that "copies of that document have been distributed to various parts of the [United States](/places/united-states/)," that "the document is completely bogus," and that Dallas was to close the investigation. A note adds: "This advises Dallas that the document was bogus and the case should be closed."[^3]

On October 18, 1991 an employee of a Utah entity, name redacted, found a nine-page document dated November 18, 1952 lying on the lobby floor of his workplace and delivered it that afternoon to the receptionist of the FBI's Salt Lake City field office. Salt Lake City initially dismissed the document and its markings as a hoax. On October 25, 1991 a supervisory special agent there telephoned a contact at the [Department of Defense](/organizations/department-of-defense/), asking about "Operation Majestic-12," the Air Force's "Project Sign" and "Project Grudge." The airtel of October 31, 1991 to the Director, classified confidential, states: "Based upon DOD representations made to SSA [redacted] which, incredibly, tended to buttress a portion of the document, he discussed this matter with DAD Brandon on 10/30/91." It asks the Intelligence Division, section CI-2, to determine any Defense Department interest and carries an editorial comment that the airtel is dated on Halloween and that it "could have been worse, and dated on the first of April."[^19] On November 15, 1991 Harry B. Brandon III, acting assistant director of the Intelligence Division, wrote to the commander of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Bolling Air Force Base that the FBI had recovered what might be a classified document dated November 18, 1952 relating to "Operation Majestic 12," which "indicates that this project related to sightings/recovery of extra-terrestrial aircraft"; that "although this document may represent some type of hoax, it is our responsibility to insure that all incidents involving the mishandling of classified data receive adequate investigative attention"; and asked OSI to ascertain the originator or the current classification. The letter is marked "By Liaison" and carries a handwritten delivery endorsement.[^19] The file, which the FBI posted as a single part of 24 pages, contains no OSI reply to the 1991 request.[^19]

Doty said in 2005 that the FBI had investigated him in 1988 or 1989 because it thought he had disclosed the documents, that Klass had raised the matter, and that he offered to take the FBI to the Pentagon, where he said the documents and information on extraterrestrial visitation were kept.[^15] The FBI file as posted does not name him.[^3]

### National Archives, Air Force and General Accounting Office searches

The National Archives wrote that it had searched the records of the [U.S. Air Force](/organizations/us-air-force/) and the [Joint Chiefs of Staff](/organizations/joint-chiefs-of-staff/), that the Truman and Eisenhower libraries had searched for references, and that its search of the National Security Council indexes was negative except for the Cutler memorandum.[^4] At the request of Representative Steven Schiff, Republican of New Mexico, the General Accounting Office examined government records on the 1947 crash near Roswell and reported on July 28, 1995 that it had found only a July 1947 history of the 509th Bomb Group and Roswell Army Air Field and an FBI teletype of July 8, 1947, that Roswell Army Air Field administrative records from March 1945 through December 1949 and outgoing messages from October 1946 through December 1949 had been destroyed without any indication on the disposition form of who destroyed them or under what authority, and that responses from the FBI, the Department of Defense, the [Central Intelligence Agency](/organizations/central-intelligence-agency/) and the National Security Council produced no other records on the crash. The report describes a July 1994 Air Force report concluding that the most likely source of the wreckage was a balloon-launched classified project to determine the state of Soviet nuclear weapons research.[^20] The report does not mention MJ-12.[^20]

[^1]: FBI, "Majestic 12," file 65-81170, Part 01, 24 pages, pages reproducing the document "Briefing Document: Operation Majestic 12 Prepared for President-Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower (Eyes Only) 18 November, 1952," with "BOGUS" written across (PDF pp. 4 to 7, 15 to 21), the Truman memorandum (PDF p. 22) and the Cutler-Twining memorandum copy (PDF p. 23), https://vault.fbi.gov/Majestic%2012/Majestic%2012%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29/at_download/file
[^2]: Philip J. Klass, Skeptics UFO Newsletter no. 44, March 1997, pp. 1 to 5, https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/docs/SUN/SUN44.pdf
[^3]: FBI, "Majestic 12," file 65-81170, Part 01: SAC Dallas airtel to Director, "Unsub(s); Possible Disclosure of Classified Information Regarding Operation Majestic-12; ESP-X," October 25, 1988 (PDF pp. 2 to 3); Director to FBI Dallas teletype, December 2, 1988 (PDF pp. 8 and 10), same URL.
[^4]: National Archives and Records Administration, "Project BLUE BOOK - Unidentified Flying Objects," including "Majestic 12 or 'MJ-12' Reference Report," https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos (printout of June 13, 2013).
[^5]: Stanton T. Friedman, "Update on Operation Majestic 12 Documents," April 2004, posted by The Black Vault on January 17, 2024, https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/update-on-operation-majestic-12-documents/
[^6]: Gerald K. Haines, "CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90: A Die-Hard Issue," Studies in Intelligence (1997), sections on the Robertson Panel and on 1958 requests by Keyhoe and Davidson, https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/cia-role-study-UFOs.pdf
[^7]: William L. Moore and Jaime H. Shandera, The MJ-12 Documents: An Analytical Report (Fund for UFO Research, 1990), "The MJ-12 Documents (Dec. 1984)," pp. 3 and 29, excerpt at http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/The-MJ-12-Documents-An-Analytical-Report-Excerpts.pdf
[^8]: Philip J. Klass, "The New Bogus Majestic-12 Documents," Skeptical Inquirer, May/June 2000, pp. 44 to 46, https://centerforinquiry.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2000/05/22164853/p44.pdf
[^9]: Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, "The Cutler-Twining Memorandum (Jul. 1985)," pp. 61 to 62, same excerpt.
[^10]: Message R 171130Z NOV 80, FM HQ AFOSI Bolling AFB DC/IVOE to AFOSI Dist 17 Kirtland AFB NM/BID, Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, Appendix C, p. 83, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S18-Aquarius-Document.pdf
[^11]: Susan Cooksey, Freedom of Information Manager, Air Force Intelligence Service, letter to Peter L. Clarke, KOB Television, December 5, 1983, printout of a reproduction at http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/KOB-TV-Bennewitz-FOIA.pdf
[^12]: Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, "The Aquarius Document (Feb. 1981)," pp. 7 to 9, quoting Moore in FOCUS, June 30, 1989, p. 13, and September 30, 1989, p. 8.
[^13]: Moore and Shandera, MJ-12 Documents, "The Carter Briefing Notes (Mar. '83)," p. 21, quoted in Klass, Skeptics UFO Newsletter no. 44, March 1997, p. 2.
[^14]: Robert Hastings, "The MJ-12 Affair: Facts, Questions, Comments," March 1, 1989, https://sacred-texts.com/ufo/hastings.htm
[^15]: "Greg Bishop and Richard Doty, Coast to Coast AM with host Art Bell," transcript of the broadcast of February 27, 2005, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S5-Greg-Bishop-and-Richard-Doty-Coast-to-Coast-AM-with-host-Art-Bell-Interview-Transcript.pdf (transcript; audio not reviewed).
[^16]: James W. Moseley, ed., Saucer Smear, vol. 47, July 15, 2000, "Missives from the Masses" (letter of Richard Doty), http://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/v47/ss000715.htm (printout of June 14, 2013), pp. 6 to 7.
[^17]: Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974 (CIA History Staff, 1992; released June 25, 2013), chapter 2, p. 56, https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB434/docs/U2%20-%20Chapter%202.pdf
[^18]: Curt Collins, "Bill Moore and UFO Disinformation Accusations," Blue Blurry Lines, April 29, 2022, https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2019/12/bill-moore-on-hynek-and-vallee.html , quoting Moore's speech at the MUFON Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989 (MUFON UFO Journal, November and December 1989). The speech text was not obtained.
[^19]: FBI, "Majestic 12," file 65-81170, Part 01: SAC Salt Lake City airtel to Director, "Majestic-12; ESP-X," October 31, 1991 (PDF pp. 11 to 13); Harry B. Brandon III, Acting Assistant Director, Intelligence Division, FBI, letter to Commander, Office of Special Investigations, Department of the Air Force, Bolling AFB, November 15, 1991 (PDF p. 14), same URL.
[^20]: General Accounting Office, Government Records: Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico, GAO/NSIAD-95-187, July 28, 1995, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-187/pdf/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-187.pdf