Is it true that the US government has a crashed flying saucer (MJ-12)?
The MJ-12 documents purportedly established that the U.S. government had established a secret organization of 12 people called MJ-12 or Majestic-12 to deal with UFOs. These 12 people were all conveniently dead at the time the documents were discovered. Klass proved that the documents are fakes. The “Roswell Incident” refers to an alleged UFO crash in Roswell, NM. Philip Klass has also investigated this one and shown the reports to be bogus. One of the more notable items of “evidence” was a document “signed by the president”. Klass showed that this signature was a photocopy of an existing presidential signature. See SI 14:2 (Winter 1990) pp 135-140. All such allegations involve a conspiracy theory. Sometimes these conspiracy theories get very big indeed. One common one involves a treaty between the government and the saucer people whereby the government stays in power and the saucer people get to abduct humans for various gruesome purposes.