Long thought to be the "smoking gun" of UFO and conspiracy theorists -- top secret documents alleged to have been written by high ranking government and military officials, including three U.S. presidents, and leaked to the public in the early 1980s, have now been proven fraudulent by forensic linguistic testing.

Bellingham, WA (PRWEB) July 24, 2007 -- Top secret documents alleged to have been written by high ranking government and military officials, including three U.S. presidents, leaked to the public in the early 1980s, have been proven fraudulent by recent forensic linguistic testing. These documents, collectively named "The Majestic Documents" by researchers, contained references to the alleged crash of a flying saucer near Roswell, NM, in July of 1947. References to extraterrestrial technology and alien bodies appear in several of the documents. Dates of the documents themselves range from 1942 to the early 1990s.

The Majestic Documents were allegedly authored by members of an above top secret task force (MJ-12) begun under the auspices of then President Truman to deal with the crash of an extraterrestrial space craft near Roswell. The cache of documents included memos written by President Truman; Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, who would become the first Director of the CIA; Dr. Vannevar Bush, who chaired the Office of Scientific Research and Development; and General Nathan Twining, who headed the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where the wreckage was taken, and who served as Air Force Chief of Staff (1953-1957) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1957-1961). Aside from President Truman, memos allegedly written by presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy are also among the Majestic Documents.

The documents were tested by Dr. Carol Chaski of Georgetown, DE, who was hired by Dr. Michael Heiser, a biblical scholar with an interest in the UFO phenomenon. Dr. Chaski is a leading expert in the linguistic science of authorship attribution, a discipline that uses computers to extract and define stylistic patterns in a given author's writings -- a "linguistic fingerprint". Dr. Chaski pioneered her own computational document authentication software program, ALIAS, for such testing, and is currently the president of ALIAS Technology, LLC. Among the stylistic patterns detected by Dr. Chaski's specially-developed computer program are patterns in sentence structure, word order in parts of speech and use of punctuation.

A total of 17 documents were tested, allegedly written by nine different authors. Dr. Heiser typed the prose text of the disputed Majestic Documents and a set of undisputed control documents for each author for Dr. Chaski's testing. Of the 17 documents tested, only one can be scientifically validated as having been written by the author who is named. Dr. Heiser's assessment: "Anyone basing any claims of alien existence or an alien crash at Roswell on these documents would be foolish to do so; they just don't stand up to cutting edge scientific analysis."

A complete copy of the report on the testing procedures and results can be obtained here.

Recently named one of the 100 most influential people in ufology by FATE Magazine, Michael S. Heiser, Ph.D. earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Heiser has taught at the college level for more than 12 years, and has had a lifelong interest in UFO, occult and paranormal phenomena. He is the author of The Fa?ade -- available in a limited edition pre-release at http://www.FacadeTheBook.com

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Stanton Friedman's Response

Here are some facts:

1. The technique she used was the least expensive and time consuming and least accurate of the 3 she has available to her.
2. Only 17 documents were examined. Her whole quite interesting technique is based on computer crunching of typed text... not on internal facts, handwriting etc.
3. The 4 Documents I say are genuine in the 2nd edition of TOP SECRET/MAJIC(2005) are the Eisenhower Briefing Document, The Cutler Twining Memo, the SOM.101, and the Truman Forrestal Memo. The first three were not even tested (no author signature). I have said that the TFM was almost certainly prepared by Van Bush or Forrestal based on such things as the 2 typewriters used, the period after the date, and my conversations with someone who worked for Truman the entire time he was in the White House. So I would have expected that it would not show up as having been written by Truman. I believe that the rest of the so called MJ-12 documents are phony as I noted in my book..except for the Bowen memo which is historical.

I have never said that because the documents are genuine, Roswell was real. I started the work on Roswell in the 1970s. EBD was received in December 1984.Roswell being real meant that there was a chance that the EBD was real, despite UFO-Debunker Menzel being listed as an MJ-12 member. My shocking discovery of all his very high security intelligence activities opened the door.

Dr. Heisler has been grinding a strong anti-alien axe for religious reasons. He mentions my work, but not the 2nd edition of TSM and omits reference to more of my papers as well. He makes no direct mention of the EBD,CT,SOM 1.01 NOT having been tested despiue their being the crux of the matter. As Dr. Chasti is well aware, putting out disinformation to try to negate the effects of real information is a standard technique.

In short his PR effort is massively deceptive, a very biased and self serving fund raising effort for his anti-alien agenda. Pity.

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