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by Michael E. Salla, PhD
Revised Version of
Presentation at the 4th Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference
November 10, 2006 Las Vegas, Nevada1
Exopolitics Journal 2:2 (July 2007)
from
ExopoliticsJournal Website
Introduction
The evidence concerning UFO crashes that are extraterrestrial in
origin, and their covert retrieval by highly specialized teams
involving joint military and government personnel, is extensive and
persuasive.
Evidence has been accumulated by
pioneers of UFO crash research such as Leonard Stringfield, and more
recently by Dr Robert Wood and Ryan Wood.2 Understanding the highly
classified procedures established to manage the retrieval of crashed
UFOs received a significant boost with the public emergence of the
Special Operations Manual – SOM1-01 in 1994.3 SOM1-01 provides an
important analytical framework for understanding, and answering
questions about, classified procedures used for locating, isolating
and recovering crashed UFOs that are extraterrestrial in origin.
Significantly, SOM1-01 described the
classified government entity created for the managing crash
retrieval operations. Known as
the Majestic-12 Group, it evolved out
of the “Majestic 12 Operation” created by President Truman on
September 24, 1947.4
In addition to SOM-01 providing such information, there are the
testimonies of a number of whistleblowers who claim to have
participated in UFO crash retrieval operations or participated in a
number of highly classified extraterrestrial related projects. I
will concentrate on two whistleblowers, Clifford Stone and Dan
Sherman, whose respective testimonies provide important insights
into the nature of ‘black projects’ designed to facilitate UFO crash
retrievals, and the procedures used for managing personnel recruited
into extraterrestrial related projects.
In this paper, I use both SOM1-01 and whistleblower testimonies of
Stone and Sherman to outline the main procedures used in UFO crash
retrievals; and to identify key elements of how personnel are
covertly managed when recruited into extraterrestrial related
projects. I contrast the testimony of Stone with key elements in
SOM1-01, in order to better understand how SOM1-01 is applied in
practice, and to help substantiate Stone’s testimony of being
covertly employed as a telepathic interface in UFO crash retrieval
operations.
I will also use Sherman’s testimony
concerning his employment as an “intuitive communicator” in another
extraterrestrial related project, as a means of corroborating
Stone’s claims with regard to his covert training and UFO crash
retrieval duties. Finally, I provide ten key principles from Stone’s
and Sherman’s testimonies for understanding how personnel are
recruited, trained and managed by the Majestic-12 Group for
extraterrestrial related projects in general, and crash retrieval
operations in particular.
Authenticity
of SOM1-01 as a 1954 document
There continues to be debate over the genuineness of SOM1-01. One
approach is to analyze it as a historic document that can be
authenticated by comparing its chief elements to similar documents
produced in the 1950’s, and to identify possible anachronisms. The
idea is that if it is shown that SOM1-01 was created in 1954 without
any modern anachronisms, then it is extremely unlikely that its
public emergence forty years later would be the product of a modern
hoaxer.
The more likely possibility is that it is a genuine document
that was leaked for reasons related to government or military
personnel dissatisfied with the pace of official disclosure of an
extraterrestrial presence.
Both Dr Robert Wood and Ryan Wood take
this approach. They have provided a number of persuasive arguments
for the authenticity of SOM1-01 as a document produced in 1954
replicating the standards used in that era for similar government
issued documents. 5 Significantly, they find it devoid of modern
anachronisms, and have yet to find any evidence for it being a hoax.
In his latest edition of Top Secret/Majic, Stanton Friedman is in
agreement with the Woods’ analysis suggesting the authenticity of
SOM1-01 as a document produced in 1954. Friedman believes that the
stage has been set to analyze it in comparison to other leaked
“Majestic documents” to conclusively determine its genuineness.6
A contrasting approach is taken by UFO researchers such as
Jan
Aldrich, a former Assistant Adjutant for the U.S. Army. Aldrich
points to significant departures from standard military manuals that
are developed in a meticulous fashion to eliminate discrepancies. In
1996, Aldrich identified 50 discrepancies in SOM1-01 that in his
view indicate the kind of ‘sloppiness’ found in a fraudulent
document.7 He dismissively speculates that SOM1-01 was produced by
an “Air Force buck Sgt., with some training in military
intelligence,” together with some friends cutting and pasting from
Army manuals.8
He therefore concludes that it is highly
unlikely that SOM1-01 is genuine. Aldrich overlooks that such
discrepancies may not be evidence of a fraudulent document, but
evidence of a significant departure from the normal military
procedure for creating such manuals. Such a departure might result
in the kind of “sloppy” formatting and discrepancies that would
stand out for (former) military professionals skilled in the
preparation of similar manuals.
The discrepancies in SOM1-01 from standard military manuals can be
explained by the highly classified security procedures created not
only for managing UFO crash retrievals, but for creating manuals
such as SOM-01 itself. Indeed, I will argue the existence of a
parallel organization to the conventional military that borrows
military personnel for a variety of ad hoc duties that are overseen
by a covert management group mentioned in SOM1-01 –
Majestic-12
Group.
SOM1-01 describes the history of this
group as follows:4.
Operation Majestic 12 was
established by special classified presidential order on 24
September 1947 at the recommendation of Secretary of Defense
James V. Forrestal and Dr. Vannevar Bush, Chairman of the Joint
Research and Development Board. Operations are carried out under
a Top Secret Research and Development – Intelligence Group
[Majestic-12 Group] directly responsible only to the President
of the United States.
Documents such as the
Eisenhower
Briefing Document, the
Truman Memo, and the
Cutler Twining Memo
confirm that the Majestic-12 [or MJ-12] Group was created by
Presidential Executive Order as highly classified part of the
executive branch of government that recruits extensively from the
military, but is not itself a military department.9
The Majestict-12 Group sits at the apex of an extensive network of
government-military-corporate organizations and joint projects
engaged in classified activities concerning extraterrestrial
technologies and extraterrestrial life forms. Chief among these
classified activities is overseeing the location, retrieval and
reverse engineering of crashed UFOs that are extraterrestrial in
origin. This extensive network of classified organizations and
projects can be described as a second Manhattan Project. Manhattan
II is funded by a set of covert mechanisms that are
extra-constitutional in nature, and estimated to be over one
trillion dollars annually.10
The development of manuals such as SOM1-01 may not be a product of
military professionals in the normal course of their duties. Instead
such manuals are likely produced by military personnel co-opted into
MJ-12 classified projects on an ad hoc basis due to their skills,
who then revert back to their normal military duties. A more
informed speculation to Aldrich’s about the production of SOM1-01
may therefore be offered. SOM1-01 likely emerged from a ‘master
sergeant’ and other individuals with the necessary security
clearance and experience in UFO crash recoveries, being asked by
their superiors in the Majestic-12 Group to prepare a crash
retrieval manual using existing army manuals as templates.
This explanation accounts for the number of discrepancies found in
SOM1-01 when compared with the normal standard for a military
manual, but does not dismiss the authenticity of SOM1-01 as a
government issued manual produced in 1954. If this is the case, then
the discrepancies found in SOM1-01 can be explained as a function of
the peculiar system used to create it.
This explanation provides an answer to
the apparent genuineness of SOM1-01 as implied by its authenticity
as a 1954 document (confirmed by the Wood team and Friedman); while
containing numerous discrepancies as identified by Aldrich and
others. In short, discrepancies in SOM1-01 as a 1954 document
suggest its genuineness as a product of the covert system that
created it, rather than evidence of it being a modern fraud.
Consequently, I will use SOM-01 as a reference tool for helping
corroborate the testimony of a whistleblower, Clifford Stone, who
claims to have directly participated in UFO crash retrieval
operations and
Project Moon Dust.
Clifford
Stone’s Claims Regarding UFO Crash Retrieval Operations
Staff Sergeant Clifford Stone served in the U.S. Army for a 22 year
period from 1969 to 1990. He claims that he was recruited into an
elite UFO retrieval team due to his natural ability to
telepathically communicate with extraterrestrial biological entities
(EBEs).11 He claims that he was picked out during his childhood by
the
 U.S. military and had an Air Force Captain regularly visit him
on a weekly basis who encouraged Stone to pursue his interest in
UFOs, and eventually influenced his decision to join the military.
Upon joining the Army Stone found
himself starting a very untypical military career in a highly
classified project he subsequently learned was called Project Moon
Dust.12 Stone says he was initially given training in Nuclear,
Biological and Chemical Warfare at Fort MacCallum, Alabama; and then
given regular army assignments until called away to perform his UFO
crash retrieval duties when required. A mysterious ‘Colonel’ was the
individual who supervised Stone while performing his covert duties.
Stone claims that when required for UFO
retrievals he was typically called out for temporary duty (TDY) to
serve between three days to a week, but in some international cases
these could take longer with one month being the longest. His army
service record refers to him only performing clerical duties as a
typist; and has no reference to his alleged training for, or
assignments with, UFO crash retrieval teams. Finally, Stone
described how his effort to retire from the Army in 1989 (after
twenty years of service) was opposed by the ‘Colonel’ who said his
crash retrieval services were still required.
Some support for Stone’s claims of having worked in covert UFO
retrieval projects is extensive documentation Stone uncovered to
support the existence of classified UFO crash retrieval teams
associated with Project Moon Dust, and of crash retrieval operations
in various countries.13 Stone began, in the late 1970’s to use
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to uncover information
disclosing the existence of project Moon Dust that was created to
recover debris of UFOs. In addition, Stone’s military service was
characterized by his dogged determination to disclose UFO
information even though this was highly unusual for someone engaged
in full time military service. His efforts were not viewed favorably
and even opposed by his Army superiors.
His FOIA activities led to punishments
such as censure, being confined to base, relocation to foreign US
bases, and the failure to progress in rank beyond Staff Sergeant.
Stone’s conflict with Army authorities over his FOIA requests, and
the actual documentation on Project Moon Dust are circumstantial
evidence for his claim that he was secretly recruited into covert
UFO retrieval teams without the knowledge of his military superiors.
Stone’s use of FOIA was particularly important since this would be a
logical legal instrument used by an individual who desired to
disclose the nature of his activities without making unauthorized
disclosures of classified information. Stone’s FOIA research led to
him being acknowledged by UFO researchers such Major Kevin Randle
who described his “pioneering research;”14 and Stanton Friedman who
described him as a “dedicated researcher” who brought into the
public arena “a multitude of government documents, many never before
published.”15
Both Randle and Friedman subsequently
distanced themselves from Stone when he publicly announced that he
worked with UFO crash retrieval teams, and did not have the
documentation to verify this. To help substantiate Stone’s claims, I
will now examine them in relation to SOM1-01 to find parallels and
consistencies in terms of procedures and policies. If Stone’s claims
are consistent with SOM1-01, then this helps confirm his testimony.
Also, such consistency would help identify the security procedures
used to manage personnel recruited into covert UFO crash retrieval
projects.
Contrasting
Clifford Stone’s UFO Crash Retrieval Claims with SOM1-01
Stone claimed that he was part of a highly classified advance team
for crash retrievals that would check for biological or radioactive
contamination. This was combined with his most important duty which
was to be the telepathic interface in case communication was
required with any EBE found at the crash scene.
Stone claimed that these operations were
led by an individual who wore civilian clothes whose rank he was
never told but whom he called 'Colonel' due to his behavior in terms
of taking charge of retrieval operations, and leading the debriefing
sessions. This appears to be very odd given the propensity for
operations involving military personnel to be led by military
officers where rank dictates authority.
 However, the ‘Colonel’ and the covert
team Stone was recruited into appeared to be one of the “Special
Teams” described in SOM1-01 as follows:
4.a. The recovery for scientific
study of all materials and devices of a foreign or
extraterrestrial manufacture that may become available….
4.b. The recovery for scientific study of all entities and
remains of entities not of terrestrial origin which may become
available…
4.c. The establishment of Special Teams to accomplish the above
operations.
These special teams would not require
any distinguishing uniforms specifying rank since they were given
“Top priority” at UFO crash retrieval locations:
4.d. OPNAC Team personnel will be
given TOP Priority at all times regardless of their apparent
rank or status. No person has the authority to interfere with
the OPNAC Team in the performance of its duties by special
direction of the President of the United States.
In addition, Stone claimed that he
sometimes traveled internationally to perform crash retrievals that
were led by the ‘Colonel’. This is consistent Stone’s overseas
assignments and with the following SOM1-01 passage:
4.e. Establishment and
administration of covert operations to be carried out in concert
with Central Intelligence to effect the recovery for the United
States of extraterrestrial technology and entities which may
come down inside the territory of or fall into the possession of
foreign powers.
Stone’s testimony of his ‘special team’
being led by a civilian who took charge of the crash retrieval
operations despite the possibility of high ranking military
personnel at the scene, is consistent with SOM1-01.
Stone further claimed that the ‘Colonel’ allowed him to read a three
inch thick booklet that contained information on 57 known types of
extraterrestrial biological entities (EBEs):
That information was from a little
publication that they had that the person I called the Colonel
always carried [with] him. … It was a little booklet that he
carried, actually a little thick booklet, a loose leaf notebook
type situation. But the intent of cataloguing the different
species was so that they could render the best first aid they
could in identifying which species they had at any given
location.16
 Stone claims he first saw the Heinz 57,
"EBE Guidebook" in 1979 and said that it contained much information
on each of group of EBEs in terms of their physiology, food
requirements and medical information. He claims he could read the
Guidebook when he was serving on the retrieval teams up until 1989.
Stone says that the Guidebook was to be used in case First Aid had
to be administered to any EBEs found at crash sites.
We can now compare his claims with a
passage from SOM1-01:
24.b. Injured or wounded entities
will be treated by medical personnel assigned to the OPNAC Team.
If the team medical personnel are not immediately available.
First Aid will be administered by Medical Corps personnel at the
initial site. Since little is known about EBE biological
functions, aid will be confined to the stopping of bleeding,
bandaging of wounds and splinting of broken limbs. No
medications of any kind are to be administered as the effect of
terrestrial medications on non-human biological systems are
impossible to predict.
Stone’s testimony is consistent with the
first aid assistance described in SOM1-01. As part of the advance
team attending crash retrieval sites, Stone would have a “need to
know” when it came to administrating first aid to injured EBEs.
Stone’s testimony however indicates that knowledge of EBE physiology
had considerably advanced since 1954 when no substances were
prescribed for dealing with EBE injuries by SOM1-01 since the
effects were “impossible to predict”.
By 1979, however, a medical manual was
made available to detail what substances could or couldn’t be
administered. This indicates that in the 25 years since SOM1-01 was
crafted, a great deal of information had been acquired on EBE
physiology. This is consistent with the number of crash retrieval
operations that have been estimated to have occurred over these
years, and the knowledge gained through them.
In a July 2005 interview I conducted with Stone, he describes the
codeword he would receive for leaving his normal duties to go on TDY
assignment with the
Project Moon Dust crash retrieval team:
The code word that was used with me
was “the general sends his regards”. I didn’t know if there was
a general involved or not since I never saw the general. I was
told “bags to go”, so you grab your DA-50 bag, all your
equipment will be packed and you kiss your wife and your
children good bye and you left. You never knew if you were going
to see them again. There were accidents where people didn’t
return.17
This reveals how his crash retrieval
duties would be conducted without knowledge of his immediate army
superiors. As far as they were concerned, Stone would be called away
to perform TDY duties or training, and would then have to return to
complete his normal military duties. The following quote describes
the nature of the security clearance required by Stone when called
away from his normal Army duties to participate in crash retrieval
operations.
Well any time I needed a security clearance, I had whatever security
clearance to do whatever it was they wanted me to do. You were
debriefed afterwards and you sign the non-disclosure agreement, but
it’s not supposed to work that way. It’s supposed to be that they
give you that on a one time basis, on a “need to know” and that’s
where it stops short of getting the actual clearance and being fully
briefed into the job.18
We can evaluate Stone’s statements concerning being called away
through the use of secret codes and the issuance of temporary
security clearances in terms of SOM1-01:
“Contact with EBEs by military
personnel not having MJ-12 or OPNAC clearance is to be strictly
limited to action necessary to ensure the availability of the
EBEs for study by the OPNAC Team.”19
This supports Stone’s claim of being
clearances on a one time “need to know” basis, where he was not
given the higher security clearance of MJ-12 personnel. The use of
codes to summon Stone to his covert duties would be a means of
maintaining “absolute top secrecy” as required by section 4.f in
SOM1-01:
“The establishment and maintenance
of absolute top secrecy concerning all the above operations.”
 Stone’s reference to getting the “actual
clearance and being fully briefed into the job” involved completing
training at what he described as “the school:”
I was not aware of where it was located, what was taught. I got to
meet some people who went there and to me they were scary. It was
like, you know, even enlisted people were above reproach. I mean, it
was like “your station in life is less than mine because I know
secrets that no one else knows.” It’s hard to explain but there’s
something sinister about the people when they came back from the
school. 20
The “school” was something for those interested in making more of a
commitment to working with MJ-12 and experiencing the career
advancement such covert work would bring.
Finally, Stone claims that during his first recovery operation for
Project Moon Dust in 1969 he was assigned to guarding a captured EBE.
The EBE revealed to Stone during their telepathic communication that
it intended to escape. Stone claims that the EBE would have been
terminated by security in making such an attempt. In order to ensure
the EBE’s safety, Stone decided to help the EBE escape.
This extraordinary claim that
extraterrestrials can be terminated out of security concerns is
corroborated in the following section of SOM1-01:
24.c. In dealing with any living
Extraterrestrial Biological Entity, security is of paramount
importance. All other considerations are secondary. Although it
is preferable to maintain the physical well-being of any entity,
the loss of EBE life is considered acceptable if conditions or
delays to preserve that life in any way compromise the security
of the operation.
Like many whistleblowers revealing
classified information concerning UFOs, there is controversy over
inconsistencies between Stone’s testimony, and lack of documentary
evidence to verify his alleged training and service in covert
projects. Stone claims that all his covert training for, and duties
with crash retrieval operations, were not recorded in his military
records.
The exclusion from military records of
all reference to training and deployment for crash retrieval
operations is consistent with a policy of maintaining “absolute top
secrecy” as detailed in section 4.f of SOM1-01. Sanitizing the
training and service records of personnel associated with crash
retrieval teams would be a means of maintaining the ‘absolute
secrecy’ required for these operations.
The absence in Stone’s military records
of any reference to covert projects related to EBEs replicates what
occurred for Dan Sherman. Sherman claims that his covert training
for telepathic communication with EBEs, and his actual service in
that capacity was not recorded on his military service record. I
will now examine Sherman’s background to provide a means of
contrasting and corroborating Stone’s crash retrieval testimony
given the lack of documentation to confirm the latter’s claims.
Dan Sherman
and Project Preserve Destiny
Dan Sherman served with the US Air Force for twelve years
(1982-1994) and received a number of awards including the
Commendation Medal and the
 Achievement Medal. He was recruited into
a classified program, "Project Preserve Destiny" (PPD), that was
conducted under the auspices of the National Security Agency (NSA).21
The training was for Sherman to become an “intuitive communicator”
with EBEs.
Essentially, Sherman would learn to
telepathically interface with EBEs and pass on this information
through a secure computer system to his handlers within the NSA.
Sherman’s training for PPD was conducted at the same time while
training for a conventional military career in electronic
intelligence (ELINT), which itself was classified.
Significantly,
Sherman was told that he suited to the task since he was identified
early in his childhood by the military as someone that was capable
of communicating with EBEs. He claims that his desire to join the
Air Force was stimulated by a Major Roberts stationed at nearby
Beale Air Force base who regularly visited Sherman’s home when he
was between 10-11 and talked to Sherman about how great life was in
the Air Force.
Sherman described that his ELINT training acted as a cover for his
participation in PPD. In his book,
Above Black, Sherman revealed how
he was recruited and trained in a way unknown to his normal ELINT
military trainers. The training occurred over the same period as his
normal training in ELINT.
He describes his contrasting training
experiences as follows:
I remember my day of ELINT school
being fun because I had a lot of people to interact with…. The
first day of PPD school could not, in any way, be described as
fun. By my second day of attending PPD school I was sick and
tired of it and I didn’t want to go anymore. The novelty of
being an “intuitive communicator” had worn off. 22
When he was subsequently assigned to the
NSA, Sherman worked on a specially designed computer where he could
perform both his normal ELINT work, and also work as an intuitive
communicator when required with EBEs. The individuals responsible
for Sherman’s training and subsequent covert work within the NSA
were officers with the rank of Captain who would not operate through
the normal chain of military command either within the USAF or
within the NSA. The responsible organization appeared to be a
parallel system that operated through but was not part of the NSA.
He worked on PPD for almost three years.
He says that when he asked to leave PPD he was denied, and told that
he would be forcibly re-enlisted regardless of his wishes. Sherman
claims he was so angry and determined to leave, that he came up with
a strategy that would lead to his departure:
“Anyone who has a dire need to rid
themselves of the military can use this method, but I don’t
advise it… However, I knew this was the only method I could use
that would completely shut out the authority of my PPD chain of
command.”23
Significantly, Sherman’s military record
does not reflect his training as an intuitive communicator, or his
subsequent work as a telepathic interface with EBEs. Nor is there
any record of who the officers were that he reported to in
performing his intuitive communicator work. Sherman’s experience
offers an independent means of corroborating the testimony of
Clifford Stone.
The seven elements in Table 1 (below) appear in both
the testimonies of Sherman and Stone, and suggest that they were
recruited into projects overseen by the Majestic-12 Group. MJ-12 had
created a system for recruiting personnel that would be a very
effective means of maintaining secrecy.
Sherman’s whistleblower testimony offers important corroborating
support for Stone’s claims for having worked on UFO crash retrieval
teams. Combined with a number of consistencies with SOM1-01, Stone’s
highly specific FOIA requests on Project Moon Dust, his long
military service, it can be concluded that Stone’s testimony is very
likely an accurate reflection of his experiences while working on
UFO crash retrieval teams.
Table 1.
Comparative Experiences between Clifford
Stone and Dan Sherman
Table 2.
MJ-12 Group Personnel Security
Procedures for Black Operations
The above security procedures reveals
the effectiveness of the system developed by the MJ-12 Group in
recruiting, training and employing individuals on covert projects
such as UFO crash retrievals involving extraterrestrial technologies
and/or EBE communications.
The “MJ-12 Group Personnel Security
Procedures for Black Operations” leaves no paper trail, minimizes
the number of individuals aware of MJ-12 projects, and provides no
means for personnel to substantiate their claims regarding training
and employment in MJ-12 Group projects. Also great pressure is
exerted on recruited individuals to remain loyal to their covert
program supervisors. Finally, great effort is made to keep MJ-12
Group projects separate to regular military activities.
It is highly likely that something similar to the above set of ten
principles was used in the development of SOM1-01. This would
account for the number of alleged discrepancies in SOM1-01 when
compared to standard Army manuals. The discrepancies of SOM1-01 were
likely a result of the ad hoc manner that those familiar with crash
retrieval operations, were coordinated by the MJ-12 Group in
producing SOM1-01. Its creators, out of security concerns, were not
able to share the manual with other military professionals to
exclude possible discrepancies, which is a normal part of the
drafting process for new Army manuals.
The ten security procedures above appear to be outside the
guidelines used for the most classified programs in U.S. military.
Unacknowledged Waived Special Access Programs (SAPs) [or
Controlled
Access Programs in the case of the intelligence community] are
reported only to the heads of Defense or Intelligence committees of
the U.S. Congress in verbal reports.24
No documents or written records are
supplied to Congress since waived SAPs officially do not exist. Nor
would personnel participating in such programs be permitted to keep
records of their participation in waived SAPs in terms of their
military or agency records.
However, the key difference between waived SAP’s and the MJ-12 Group
projects is that the latter occur outside of the normal chain of
command within the U.S. military and/or intelligence community. This
suggests that a parallel system exists that siphons off military
personnel for MJ-12 Group projects when needed, without the
awareness of regular military commanders.
Evidence for the existence of a parallel system of classified
projects outside of the regular chain of military command is
illustrated in the case of Vice Admiral Tom Wilson who was J-2, head
of Intelligence for the Joint Chief of Staff. In 1997, Dr
Steven
Greer and former Astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell had a private meeting
with Admiral Wilson about classified extraterrestrial related
projects. Greer claimed that he had been given a “secret document
that had a list of the code names and projects names dealing with
the extraterrestrial connected projects.”25
When Wilson checked to
determine if the projects existed, he was denied access. According
to Greer:
Once Admiral Wilson identified this
group, he told the contact person in this super-secret cell: “I
want to know about this project.” And he was told, “Sir, you
don’t have a need to know. We can’t tell you.” Now, can you
imagine being an admiral, J-2, the head of intelligence for the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Pentagon, and being told, “We not
going to tell you”? Well, he was shocked and angry.26
The existence of a parallel governmental
system using military personnel for its own purposes has been
suspected for some time as illustrated in comments by Senator Daniel
Inouye at the 1987 Iran-Contra Senate hearings:
“There
exists a shadowy Government
with its own Air Force, its own Navy, it’s own fundraising
mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the
national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free
from the law itself.”
Given the evidence provided by Stone and
Sherman, and corroborating evidence such as Admiral Wilson’s
experience, it can be concluded that MJ-12 Special Group projects
are outside the control of the regular chain of command within the
U.S. military.
Overall, MJ-12 Group may be considered to be a parallel branch of
executive government that runs an extensive network of projects
involving personnel recruited from the military sector while
maintaining extraordinarily high levels of security. When combined
with contents outlined by the SOM1-01 manual, the testimonies of
Clifford Stone and Dan Sherman provide an overview of the procedures
used to manage personnel involved in UFO crash retrievals and other
MJ-12 Group projects.
SOM1-01 and the Stone and Sherman
testimonies provide clear insight into how UFO crash retrieval
operations have been conducted for over five decades and
successfully kept out of the public arena.
Endnotes
1 An earlier version of this paper
was published in 4th Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference
Proceedings (Wood & Wood Enterprises, 2007) 11-21
2 See Ryan Wood, Majic Eyes Only (Wood & Wood Enterprises,
2006); and Leonid Stringfield, Status Reports 1-VII. Information
available at:
http://www.www.nicap.org/bios/stringfield.htm
3 Reprinted in The Majestic Documents (Wood & Wood Enterprises,
1998) 133-86;
Special Operations Manual – SOM1-01
4 See
The Truman memo. An official
1954 document, the
Cutler Twining Memo, refers to
a scheduled meeting for the MJ-12 Special Studies Project
5 See Robert Wood, “The Authenticity of the Special Operations
Manual,” in
Majic Eyes Only, 264-67.
6 Stanton Friedman, Top Secret/MAJIC (Marlowe and Company, 2005)
161-66.
7
Jan Aldrich, “Special Operations Manuel 1-01,” Parts 2 & 3
8
Jan Aldrich, “Special Operations Manuel
1-01,” Part 4
9 For discussion of the authenticity of these documents and
their proving the existence of a Majestic-12 Group, see Stanton
Friedman, Top Secret/MAJIC, 56-102
10 See Michael Salla, “The
Black Budget Report”
11 Clifford Stone’s views are summarized from
an extensive
interview I conducted with him in July 2005 that was published
in successive editions of the Exopolitics Journal.
12 He provides documentary evidence for the existence of Project
Moondust in his book, Clifford Stone, UFOs Are Real:
Extraterrestrial Encounters Documented by the U.S. Government (SPI
Books, 1997).
13 This documentation is available in his two books, UFOs are
Real and UFO's: Let the Evidence Speak for Itself (C. Stone,
1991).
14 Kevin Randle, Project Moondust: Beyond Roswell- Exposing the
Government’s Continuing Covert UFO Investigations and Cover-Ups
(Avon Books, 1998) 151.
15 Friedman’s quote is extracted from the preface to Stone’s,
UFO’s Are Real, xii.
16
Part two of July 2005 interview with
Clifford Stone
17
Part one of July 2005 interview with
Clifford Stone
18
Part one of July 2005 interview with
Clifford Stone
19 Section 23.b. SOM1-01 .
20
Part two of July 2005 interview with
Clifford Stone
21 Sherman describes his experiences and provides parts of his
service record in
Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny –
Insider Account of Alien Contact and Government Cover-Up (1998).
22 Sherman, Above Black, 49.
23 Sherman, Above Black, 140.
24 For an overview of the classification system, see
Report of
the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy:
1997
25 Steven Greer, Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge (Crossing
Point Inc., 2006) 158.
26 Steven Greer, Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge, 158.
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