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The FBI began its own investigation of the supposed "secret" documents and quickly formed doubts as to their authenticity. The [[United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations]] stated that no such committee had ever been authorized or formed, and that the documents were "bogus". The FBI subsequently declared the MJ-12 documents to be "completely bogus".<ref name=FBI_bogus>{{cite web |url=http://vault.fbi.gov/Majestic%2012/Majestic%2012%20Part%201%20of%201/at_download/file |title= FBI – Majestic 12 Part 1 of 1 |work=An FBI archive containing details of "Majestic 12" |access-date=April 10, 2011}}</ref>
In addition to the [[Roswell incident]], the memo also mentioned a second UFO crash on December 6th, 1950 in the vicinity of the towns of [[El Indio, Texas|El Indio]] and [[Guerrero, Coahuila|Guerrero]] along the [[Mexico–United States border|Mexico–US border]]. In an effort to determine the veracity of this claim (and in turn, the memo), UFO investigator Dennis Stacy and others made several trips to area in the early 1990s to seek evidence of whether such a crash had occurred. While he was able to find one local resident in Guerrero, Mexico who claimed to have witnessed the crash of a fireball followed several days later by the arrival of a military contingent in the area, Stacy was unable to find any additional witnesses or conclusive evidence of a crash site.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stacy |first=Dennis |date=March 1995
Later in 1996, a document called the MJ-12 "Special Operations Manual" circulated among ufologists. It is also widely considered to be a fake and "a continuation of the MJ-12 myth".<ref name="Denzler2001">{{citation |author=Brenda Denzler |title=The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnQU2Q65lWsC&pg=PA190 |year=2001 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-93027-8 |pages=190–}}</ref>
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