The year was 1947. America had the bomb. The Soviets didn't. But that was about to change.

The next war would be nuclear. Protecting state secrets was more important than ever.

But President Harry S. Truman was hiding something bigger than the atomic bomb.

In July, a craft crashed in the New Mexico desert.

The wreckage wasn't Russian, and the bodies weren't human.

Truman formed a committee of 12 men.

Their job, create a government within the government,

and use that government to guard the most important discovery in human history.

And for almost 40 years, they did, until the last one died.

That's when the world would finally learn about Majestic 12.

On December 11th, 1984, a package arrived at Jamie Chanderay's Hollywood office.

No return address, no note, just a role of 35-millimeter film.

Shanderay was a film producer working on a UFO documentary with researcher Bill Moore. Moore had written The Roswell Incident in 1980. Before his book, nobody knew the real story of

Roswell. He had sources, military contacts, people who leaked information, but nothing like this.

Shanderay called Moore. Within an hour, they were in Shanderay's bathroom.

Ah, this story took a weird turn.

He used his bathroom as a dark room.

Uh.

For developing photographs?

Ah, okay, okay.

We're back on track.

Under the eerie red light, the first image appeared.

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