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Majestic agents

Majestic agents in Tennessee, 1959

Majestic was, according to ufologists, a secretive international agency established by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 with the objective of protecting the public from alien threats. Truman created the federal agency by executive order, with the purpose of facilitating the recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft. The purported leaders of Majestic 12 were Lloyd Berkner, Detlev Bronk, Vannevar Bush, James Forrestal, Gordon Gray, Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, Donald H. Menzel, Robert M. Montague, Sidney Souers, Nathan F. Twining, and Hoyt Vandenberg, and, by the 1950s, the mysterious "Silhouette" was in charge of Majestic. The group oversaw the cover-up of the Roswell UFO incident in 1947, and Majestic researched extraterrestrial life (such as the Furons) while establishing an international presence in countries as far afield as Britain, Argentina, France, and Mongolia. In 1959, the American branch of Majestic was nearly destroyed by a Furon invader, Crypto 137, who shut down its operations in Nebraska, California, Nevada, Virginia, and Washington DC and killed Silhouette at the Pentagon in Arlington. By 1969, the resurgence of Blisk aliens in the Soviet Union resulted in the elimination of Majestic's branches in every country apart from Britain, where Crypto 138 met Majestic Sector 16 (M-16)'s chief Reginald Ponsonby-Smythe while battling the Soviet KGB and its plot to spread Blisk spores in London. After Ponsonby-Smythe attempted to betray Crypto to avenge Silhouette, with whom he was enamored, Crypto killed him and most of his agents, but M-16 continued to maintain a limited presence in London, folding into MI6. In 1987, the surfacing of UFO documents purporting to reveal the existence of Majestic 12 caused great interest in the organization among ufologists, but the FBI and many ufologists claimed that Majestic's existence was an elaborate hoax, as the documents were said to have been forged with photocopies of Truman's signatures.

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