Kuthiwa ngo-1947, uMongameli uHarry Truman wakhipha umyalo wekomiti eliyimfihlo elizophenya ngesigameko saseRoswell. Leli komiti lalihlanganisa abantu abangu-12, kuhlanganise nososayensi abadumile emhlabeni wonke, ojenene nosopolitiki. Iqembu lafinyelela esiphethweni sokuthi Isigameko ngempela sihilele umkhumbi-mkhathi ongaphandle komhlaba owaphahlazeka wabulala bonke ababephakathi kwawo, ngokuvamile ababephakathi kwabathathu nabane.
I-Majestic 12, noma i-MJ-12 ngamafuphi, iphakamise umyalo wesigungu sokusungula indawo yezempi ngenjongo yokuqukatha nokufunda izinto ezingaphandle komhlaba kanye nomkhumbi-mkhathi wazo, ngaleyo ndlela kube nomphumela weNdawo engu-51.
Inqwaba yezithombe zezincwadi zikahulumeni ezihlobene ngqo nale nhlangano zisakazwa ku-inthanethi, okuhlanganisa nencwadi edumile yango-1947 evela kuMongameli Truman, egunyaza i-CIA ukuthi yakhe i-M-12. Incwadi, ngokusho kwabangabazayo, yakhiwe ngokuphelele.
Le thiyori isekelwa kakhulu yimibhalo enjalo, yonke, eqala ngo-1978, mhlawumbe eqanjiwe noma okungenzeka ingekho nhlobo. Ingcaphuno eyodwa:
“Inqubomgomo esemthethweni kahulumeni wase-US kanye nemiphumela ye-Project Aquarius [sic] isafakwa kusigaba se-TOP SECRET ngaphandle kokusatshalaliswa kwamashaneli angaphandle futhi inokufinyelela ku-'MJ TWELVE' kuphela.”
Ubufakazi obuqinisekisayo kunabo bonke, nokho, okukholelwa ngisho nangabangabazi abaningi ukuthi buyiqiniso, idokhumenti okwamanje egcinwe ku-National Archives eWashington, DC Lo mbhalo wawuyimemo yangoJulayi 14, 1954, evela kuRobert Cutler, umsizi okhethekile kaMongameli Eisenhower, eyakhulunywa. kuGen. Nathan Twining. Yayifundeka kanje:
“Imemorandamu kaGeneral Twining. Isihloko: I-NSC/MJ-12 Special Studies Project. UMongameli uthathe isinqumo sokuthi i-MJ-12 SSP”
I-MJ-12 ikwenze kwaba isiko elidumile le-sci-fi, okuhlanganisa "Ama-X-Files," futhi ngokuvamile kucatshangwa njengengxoxo yetafula eliyindilinga yochwepheshe abayishumi nambili kokuthi yini okufanele yenziwe mayelana nobufakazi bokuba khona kwezilwane zangaphandle, ikakhulukazi indlela yokugcina umphakathi ebumnyameni.
Abantu abasolwa ngokuba ngamalungu e-MJ-12, ngesinye isikhathi, bahlanganisa u-Albert Einstein, uRobert Oppenheimer, uRobert Cutler, u-Omond Solandt, uRobert Sarbacher, uJohn von Neumann (ohileleke ngokuqondile ne-Philadelphia Experiment), uKarl Compton, uGeneral Nathan Twining. , kanye no-Eric Walker.