In 1984,
Jaime Shandera allegedly received a
brown envelope with an
Albuquerque,
New Mexico postmark containing a canister of exposed but undeveloped black & white
35mm film. Along with friends, he spent two years trying to
authenticate the photographs. The documents became known as the
Majestic-12 documents, or
MJ-12.
The MJ-12 papers were an 8-page briefing to President Eisenhower discussing a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, another crash site at El Indio, Texas, in 1950, and listing the government members of the special MJ-12 research group. The 8-page document was dated 18 November, 1952, and named Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter as the briefing officer. Additionally, a memo from President Harry S Truman to Secretary of Defense Forrestal authorized the creation of the MJ-12 group.