Journalists & Investigators

Philip J. Klass

1985–2005

Aviation journalist and prominent UFO skeptic; his investigation found the "Cutler-Twining memo" used a pasted-on photocopy of Truman's signature and that Robert Cutler was out of the country on the date he supposedly wrote it, undermining the MJ-12 documents' authenticity.

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Connections (3)

disputedMajestic 12 (MJ-12)

found the Cutler-Twining memo used a pasted-on Truman signature

Source: MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis

disputedWilliam Moore

accused him of perpetrating the MJ-12 hoax

Source: MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis

disputedStanton Friedman

publicly debated him about MJ-12 on Nightline, 1987

Source: MJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis

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