Jul 25 2007
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MJ12: Wood Vs Heiser
Well, the news that researcher Mike Heiser has reached the conclusion that the so-called MJ12 documents are bogus, has created a storm of controversy within Ufology.
Ryan Wood, a supporter of the documents and the author of the book Majic Eyes Only, has just prepared a response to Mike Heiser’s statement. Doubtless, this battle has just begun.
Here’s Ryan Wood’s statement:
No Proof of Fakery in Leaked Top Secret Majestic Documents
A determined effort to muddy the waters with claims of “fraud” concerning the extensive Top Secret Majestic, or MJ-12, documents that have leaked from multiple sources in recent years has failed several tests of credibility.
Recently minted Bible professor Michael S. Heiser has issued press notices about his claims in association with a report he is selling on the Internet with promotion for sales of his novel concluding that UFOs are a plot by Satan to take over the earth in the “the façade” of an Air Force colonel running Area 51.
Heiser recently paid thousands of dollars to a document examiner, Dr. Carol Chaski to look at only 11 pages (about 5,000 words) of the 3,500 pages of MJ-12 documents leaked to researchers since 1984. Despite the examiner’s conclusion that at least one of the 11 pages was in fact written by the author claimed, Heiser has issued sweeping conclusions that all the MJ-12 documents are fraudulent.
Heiser’s allegations have drawn attention to the Internet marketing campaign for his novel, published to little response in 2004 but now advertised again on the Internet next to his claims of MJ-12 fraud.
The novel’s hero is a Bible student (as was Heiser) who claims the Bible describes a “Divine Council” of gods responsible for creation (as Heiser’s own dissertation alleges). A secret-agent Vatican priest pretends to be part of the plot until Satan crushes him, and in the end, of course, the Bible student gets the beautiful young woman scientist.
“The real façade may be that any responsible scholar would make such sweeping claims on the basis of such limited and conflicting evidence,” said businessman and prominent UFO researcher Ryan Wood. “The least that any intellectually honest person can do is to look at the weight of extensive research that Heiser neglects to mention and keep an open mind.”
Ryan Wood along with distinguished aerospace physicist Dr. Robert Wood and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman have published in-depth research on the so-called MJ-12, or Majestic, documents, some of which have been found in the archives of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Heiser, who claims to be among the “top 100 UFO experts,” recently hired Dr. Carol Chaski, a forensic linguistic researcher, who ran the pages through a computer program to see if their language is like that of other documents purportedly from the same or similar authors. She concluded that 10 of the 11 pages were questionable.
“A logical flaw is obvious to anyone who has worked in government or the military,” said Wood. “General officers and senior public officials do not write 90 percent of the official documents they sign. Government documents are frequently written by subordinates for commanders, or by committees and secretaries. Expecting linguistic authorship to match across such documents is unlikely from the start.”
“The notion that forensic linguistics, a very new science is the silver bullet that dethrones the validity of the entire majestic document collection, or the Roswell Crash reality is a gross misstatement.” said Ryan S. Wood document researcher.
The field of document authentication is very old and focuses on many vectors of authenticity, namely forensics (ink, paper), chronology (out of time/place), chirography (handwriting), typography, provenance, content and anachronisms. The results advertised by Heiser stem from what document examiners consider among the least accurate of their analysis techniques. “The notion that forensic linguistics, a very new science with just one peer reviewed journal and a handful of experts is the silver bullet that dethrones the validity of the entire majestic document collection is a gross misstatement.” said Ryan Wood, document researcher.
Complicating the matter, Heiser has released only his brief summary of Dr. Chaski’s research. While making scientific claims, he has not revealed the alleged scientific details of what was examined, including the “control documents” she may have used for comparison. So as the saying goes “garbage in garbage out” applies. The bottom line is the tool of forensic linguistics is just one of several state-of-the-art question document examination techniques.
“Far beyond Heiser’s approach, we have originals of some of the MJ-12 documents,” said Wood. “And careful forensic examination of these rare documents has stood the test of authenticity. At a minimum, there is no complete consensus yet from the so-called experts, and it is disingenuous for Heiser, whose previous UFO publishing is confined to his novel, to claim otherwise.”
On the other hand, of the nearly 3,500 pages of other leaked Majestic documents that Heiser ignores — meticulous research for the past decade has cross-verified content with known military activities at a level of detail that is hard to write off as fakery. Corroborating such documents are the direct testimony by astronauts like Gordon Cooper, retired Air Force generals like Arthur Exon and others who have put their direct testimony in the record concerning the reality of non-human craft observed near Earth.
“One problem is that the campaign of ridicule, plus imaginative novels combining UFOs with personal theology, is that it keeps sensible people from exploring the real weight of evidence for themselves. We have gone to considerable effort to put most of the important leaked documents at www.majesticdocuments.com,” said Wood.
“To date,” Wood emphasized, “no credible evidence has tarnished the authenticity of the ‘Special Operations Manual: Extraterrestrial Entities Technology Recovery and Disposal’ of April 1954; the ‘Eisenhower Briefing Document’ of November 1952; the ‘White Hot Report’ of September 1947; or the ‘Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit’ Counter Intelligence Report of July 22, 1947.
In a rare failure of security, the U.S. Army revealed in reply to a Freedom of Information Act request that the Counter Intelligence Corps did indeed have an “Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit” during the period of the now-leaked Majestic documents. Without explaining why “interplanetary phenomena” would be of interest to the Army’s security branch, the Army simply said the files had been passed to the Air Force’s own Office of Special Investigations who have likewise never explained their counter-intelligence interest.
The questioned documents are extensively discussed in Stanton Friedman’s landmark book “TOP SECRET/MAJIC” and in Ryan Wood’s recent book “MAJIC EYES ONLY,” which has received endorsements from astronauts, scientists, retired Air Force officers and others.
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July 25th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Wood makes some good arguments there.
I too saw yesterdays announcement as nothing more than a PR stunt. It’s sad that so many people just accept it without asking to actually see the data.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Bible Professor! Hey so my reading today of Bishop Lightfoot’s attack on W.R. Cassel’s book “Supernatural Religion” was apropos. Seriously this debate strongly parallels the origins of the Canon Gospels in the midst of “spurious” writings. Just who were these Ancient Ones anyway? haha
July 25th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
My old saw, and yet I must…
Here’s what I wrote to Ryan Wood about this:
Ryan,
I read about this at Nick Redfern’s blog, and dismissed it right away at the claim that Heiser was one of the “top 100” UFO researchers. That’s really a silly claim for a serious researcher.
Still, I wondered if the one provable document was the Cutler-Twining memo. I have long championed this one as the proof of MJ-12, not based on debatable forensics, but on triangulation of research. It’s something that should be more widely known in the UFO community.
I have twenty years as a university archivist and document historian as my appeal to authority. It’s better than the Bible guy’s Hot 100, but it’s also unnecessary to the argument. The existence of MJ12 is just about as certain as anything in the historic record.
kt
July 25th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Here’s a bog-sized summary of the Cutler-Twining business:
The National Archives in Washington, DC, holds the Cutler-Twining memo, an onion-skinned carbon of a memo
calling for the postponement of a Special Studies Section of the
group MJ-12. Skeptics claim that the
document—dated July 14, 1954, five months after Eisenhower’s supposed meeting with the aliens—is fake and was smuggled into the archives.
Whether unwilling or unable to verify the authenticity of this document (by paper-lot and typewriter style dating), the National Archives has nevertheless retained it for a half-century. The author of the memo, Robert Cutler, served in the CIA under Eisenhower in its Division of Psychological Operations. Cutler wrote Eisenhower’s famous “Atoms for Peace” speech, which took as its title a phrase used by Wilhelm Reich to describe his orgone work.
The recipient of the memo, Nathan Twining, is well-known to students of UFOlogy as the general to whom Air Force investigators reported UFO sightings and retrievals. One such retrieval, involving flying saucers in the Maury Island area in the Pacific northwest, also involved the kind of black substance that Reich had described at his lab in Maine.
The second curious document in the research was recovered only recently by author Jim Martin, as part of his comprehensive look at Wilhelm Reich’s life in the 1950s, entitled Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War. Martin discovered what has become known as the Moise-Douglas memo in the archives of Lew Douglas, a member of Eisenhower’s “kitchen cabinet” who was assigned to a
presidential committee on weather control. In his book Contact With Space, Reich claimed that he had corresponded with Douglas; Martin asserted that this discovered memo was the proof.
The memo was sent by Douglas and describes several recent failed attempts by Reich’s assistant, William Moise, to make contact. Although the memo itself is not dated, a handwritten note at the bottom indicates a change of heart by Douglas, who ultimately did telegraph Moise on July 27, 1954.
This timeline is perhaps the best indication in the records that MJ-12 existed and, by inference, that Eisenhower met with aliens. Douglas’s about-face with regard to Reich, coming at any point in July 1954, indicates that he had been briefed at the MJ-12 meeting described in the Cutler-Twining memo. The object of the Special Studies Project was Reich’s counterattack on UFOs, and Douglas was directed to take a greater interest in it. In the end, Douglas wound up bankrolling, in part, some of Reich’s environmental work in Tucson.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Kenn — what’s your take on Professor Laurence Rickels’ recent 3 volume Nazi psychology work. Basically the Nazis used Freudian psychology to ensure that Germans did not question the war, even though Freud was, ironically a Jew. Rickel’s final volume focuses on the techno-fetish of Nazi psychology whereby airforce pilots would become cyborgs.
Considering that 1200 Nazi scientists moved to the U.S. focusing on mind control and aerospace and the CIA was formed out of the Nazis it seems logical to consider that Reich was similarly used by the CIA.
July 26th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Drew,
That doesn’t make any sense at all. Reich fled the Nazis in 1934 and came to the US five years later. No way he would have had anything to do with the Paperclip Nazis. He color coded fascism red and black and tracked it in intense detail, labeling CIA types as “Higs”, hoods in government. If you know anything about Reich’s life, you know he was never “used” by anyone.