1. WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT'S ALIEN STUDIES PROJECT CALLED?

Recently, or at least since the episode PAPERCLIP when The Well Manicured Man refered to the conspiracy as "a consortium representing certain global interests," fans have refered to the government or quasi-government group which runs the alien studies project as "The Consortium." However my guess is that the government's alien studies project is called: THE MAJESTIC PROJECT.

Why? Well, the name "Majestic Project" can be seen on some documents in the episode E.B.E.. In that episode Deep Throat gives Mulder a top secret transcript of an intercepted transmission between an Iraqi fighter pilot (who shoots down a UFO) and his ground control officer. The transcript is labeled:

To: Commanding Officer, Majestic Project

Considering that the transcript came from Deep Throat and was concerned with an alien encounter, I'd say it's a safe bet that the Majestic Project is the government's alien studies project.

Later, in ANASAZI, we hear about the "MJ Documents" and something called "MJ-12." The Thinker, a cyber-anarchist who hacks into the Department of Defense's computer and steals the MJ Documents, described them as "the original Department of Defense UFO Intelligence files. Containing "Everything. Roswell, MJ-12 and beyond.

According to UFO-Conspiracy literature (like Stanton Friedman's "Crash at Corona" and Howard Blum's "Out There") MJ-12 is shorthand for "Majestic 12." Majestic 12 was the name of the alleged "special studies project" set up by President Truman to study the wreckage and dead aliens recovered from the 1947 UFO crash near Roswell New Mexico. It was called Majestic-12 because its board of directors originally had twelve members.

So "The Consortium," MJ-12 and the Majestic Project may be one and the same thing. Throughout these essays I refer to the X-Files central conspiracy as THE MAJESTIC CONSORTIUM.

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