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Majestic 12 Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg Director of Central Intelligence and Air Force Chief of Staff. Vandenberg held a unique position that made him a perfect fit for a secret committee: •CIA Director: He was the second Director of Central Intelligence (succeeding Hillenkoetter). •Air Force Chief of Staff: He led the Air Force during its transition into the jet age. Because he sat at the top of both the intelligence and military worlds, he had the power to move information between agencies without anyone asking questions. In 1948, a real group of Air Force investigators (Project Sign) wrote a top-secret report called the "Estimate of the Situation." Their conclusion was startling: they believed UFOs were likely extraterrestrial. Vandenberg rejected the report and ordered it burned. •The Skeptic View: He didn't think there was enough proof and didn't want the Air Force to look foolish. •The MJ-12 View: He destroyed the report because it got too close to the truth, and he needed to keep the "extraterrestrial" reality restricted to the Majestic 12 group only. As the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, he was the primary "rival" to the Navy during those meetings. He was fighting to ensure the Air Force—not the Navy—remained the dominant force in the new era of nuclear warfare. If you were in Newport Rhode Island in August 1948, you might have seen his motorcade heading toward the War College. Vandenberg’s life was cut short. He died of prostate cancer on April 2, 1954, at the age of 55. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery

Majestic 12 Gen. Nathan F. Twining Chief of Staff of the Air Force (later Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) Before the MJ-12 documents ever surfaced, there was the Twining Memo of September 21, 1947. This is a real, declassified document that Twining sent to the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces. In it, he stated: "The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious... There are objects of approximate shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft." For UFO researchers, this memo is the "smoking gun" because it proves that the high-ranking military was taking "flying saucers" seriously as physical craft—not weather balloons—just months after the Roswell incident. According to the MJ-12 papers, Twining was a key military coordinator. In July 1947 (the month of Roswell), Twining’s flight logs showed a sudden, unexplained trip to New Mexico. •The Official Story: He was there for a routine inspection. •The MJ-12 Story: He was there to inspect the debris and bodies recovered from the crash site. •He served as the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. •He later became the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Eisenhower (1957–1960). •This meant he was the senior-most uniformed officer in the entire U.S. Armed Forces during the height of the Cold War. Twining was a frequent visitor to the Naval War College in Newport. During his time as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he would have been the one overseeing the "Newport Agreement" legacy that James Forrestal started. General Twining died on September 25, 1982 (just a few months after Admiral Hillenkoetter), at the age of 84. He passed away from heart failure at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery

Majestic 12 Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter The first Director of Central Intelligence (CIA). First Director of the CIA (1947–1950), he later became one of the highest-ranking military officers to publicly speak out about UFOs. In the Majestic-12 documents, Hillenkoetter is listed as the "designated briefcase officer." According to the legend, he was the man responsible for briefing President Eisenhower on the recovery of extraterrestrial technology. What makes Hillenkoetter different from the other alleged MJ-12 members is what he did after he left the government. In the late 1950s, he joined NICAP (the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena), which was a civilian UFO research group. In 1960, he famously wrote a letter to Congress and told the New York Times: "Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense." Despite his bold public statements, Hillenkoetter suddenly resigned from the NICAP board in 1962 and went quiet on the subject for the rest of his life. Admiral of Hillenkoetter’s generation attended or lectured at the Naval War College in Newport Rhode Island. While his biography emphasizes his time as the first CIA Director and his sea commands, his role as a top intelligence officer for Admiral Nimitz would have made him a frequent visitor to Newport for high-level strategy sessions and briefings. Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter passed away on June 18, 1982, at the age of 85. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

@TheWarMonitor I flunked this silly test due to (ADD)

This is a real-life session of the cognitive test Trump said was “very hard” and that he “aced.” Note that even though it’s already in the public domain, most of the patient’s answers have been clipped out.

For the mob, it meant eight miles out and six feet deep. Since most mobsters owned restaurants, or met at different dining venues, using the word 86’ed didn’t send alerts to the feds, if they had been tapped. The FBI caught onto the code between the 1970’s and 80’s during the wiretap of the 5 families in NYC But the mobster term had been used in hospitality environments since the 1930’s 86’ means murder.

@AnchorLightPub Interesting history lesson. However, the most common place to use it is in restaurants to signify an item is being removed from the menu. In restaurants it's referred to killing a menu item. Chefs say stuff like "kill the tuna appetizer", then write "86 tuna app" on a board.

Joanna Johnson, the World's Greatest Teacher, 86's the controversy over the whole 86 controversy thing. "They know Google is free, right?"

@AnchorLightPub When a mobster was "86'ed," it meant they were marked for execution. It was often used as a euphemism to avoid using incriminating words like "kill" or "murder" in case law enforcement was listening or using wiretaps. Code meaning: Eight Miles Out and Six Feet Deep.

@janninereid1 Yes, it was definitely a real thing. In high school, we weren’t allowed to wear jeans.

Was this REALLY a thing? 👇😱 Girls really couldn't wear pants to school? That's crazy! 🫪

@DailyLoud No worries, the pilot just did the same thing.

Woman Downs Half A Big Bottle Of Don Julio Because TSA Won’t Let Her Have It On The Plane

@chiIIum Superlatives lost class, somewhere along the way.

HOW?! 😭

@TaraBull 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Wait just a minute

@michellech91678 @AzPetrich President Trump is finishing what JFK started.

@RhodeIslandBuzz @AzPetrich I'd rather they had decent president

This iconic photo was taken at the White House in 1985 of Princess Diana and John Travolta. LOOK! Do you see it? We already "HAD" a ballroom. That is until Trump decided to demolish it last October.

Michigan State University Forced to Close Academic Building After Discovery of a METH LAB thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/michig…

NYC is sooooooo screwed !!

Kirk Bangstad, the owner of the Wisconsin brewery who offered free beer for President Trump’s assassination, has doxxed the phone numbers of agents who visited him over his threat and told his followers to harass the agents.

@MysticMall0w @grok It doesn’t look real.

Hi @Grok explain this how did ancient Egyptians know about UFOs?

@GeneralMCNews Schools and Colleges They get them while they are young.

BREAKING: The CIA is in panic mode over secrets related to MK-Ultra that will be exposed in upcoming declassifications.

@PatriotMandee @AzPetrich It’s been years since I’ve been inside the Whitehouse, we used to take field trips there back in the 80’s. ❤️🇺🇸

@RhodeIslandBuzz @AzPetrich That’s actually the vestibule and corridor outside the blue room. Beautiful area but not that big. I’m also happy about the ballroom. I think it’s long overdue.

@Suzierizzo1 Michael Flynn is a patriot 🇺🇸

This man saw Michael Flynn at the airport on Miami & when Flynn saw him looking at him he wanted to talk to him & tell how he’s the victim of what happened on January 6th & acted like he knew nothing about the Capitol Police being injured or killed by the J6ers he calls Patriots.