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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
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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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