Majestic 12 - a hush-hush panel of scientists and military men supposedly organized by President Truman in 1947 to study UFOs.   Diehard techgnostic conspiracy theorists should note that this panel included Dr. Vannevar Bush, the cybernetics honcho who invented the first electronic analog computer and wrote a famously visionary essay on the future of computing for the Atlantic Monthly in 1945
- Erik Davis - _Techgnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism In The Age Of Information_ p.230

• instrumental lo fi indie pop track _Majestic_ MP3 by Clinic off of _The Return Of Evil Bill_ 7" on Domino (2000)
• drum & bass track _Majestic 12_ MP3 by Jacob's Optical Stairway off of s/t on R&S (1995)
• ambient house track _Majestic_ MP3 (192k) by The Orb off of _U.F.Orb_ CDx2 on Big Life (1992)
  • written by Martin Glover, Weston, Alex Paterson; produced by The Orb & Youth; programmed at Butterfly Studios

Members:

* Dr. Vannevar Bush, who was chairman of the World War II National Defense Research Commission and Office of Scientific Research and Development.
* Rear Admiral-Roscoe Hillenkoetter, director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1947 to 1950.
* Air Force General Nathan F. Twining.
* Air Force General Hoyt Vandenburg, who was director of the CIA shortly before the group's "official" formation.
* Navy Rear Admiral Sidney Souers, former director of Naval Intelligence and the first director of Central Intelligence.
* Scientists Lloyd Berkner, Jerome Hunsaker and Detlev Bronk.
* Assistant Assistant Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray (who would later become CIA psy-ops chief).
* Major General Robert M. Montague, who commanded atomic weapons research at a classified base in Albequerque, NM (and whose primary claim to fame otherwise is the appearance of his name on the Majestic documents).
* Donald Menzel, a prominent Harvard astrophysics professor, most famous for his strident attacks on the intelligence of UFO believers.

first mention of Majestic 12 in Usenet:

From: Dr. Nethack (todd@uop.edu)
Subject: Re: ufology not a "pseudoscience" -- wake up folks
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Date: 1988-03-12 19:05:05 PST

There is a big difference between ufo remnants, and such. And the psuedo-science/half-baked religion of worshiping aliens.

The evidence is one thing, interpretation of it's meaning is another.

DON'T CONFUSE THE TWO!!

             Yes I have read the Majestic 12 documents
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