John Lear

Lear argues that "Germany may have recovered a flying saucer in 1939" and discusses the 1946 American military investigation into the Ghost rockets reported over Sweden.

The Statement argues that many in the "original group" of insiders committed suicide, most notably James Forrestal.

According to the narrative, Truman formed a group of twelve insiders, known as Majestic 12, to investigate the matter.

The Statement lists three saucer crashes: one near Roswell.

another near Aztec, New Mexico and a third near Laredo, Texas.

According to the Statement, the US government covered a "total, thorough and sweeping cover-up to include the use of 'deadly force'."

John Olsen Lear (December 3, 1942 – March 29, 2022), son of Learjet magnate Bill Lear, was an aviator who set multiple records, later flying cargo planes for the CIA during the Vietnam era.

John Olsen Lear was born on December 3, 1942, to industrialist and future Learjet founder Bill Lear and his wife Moya Marie Olsen Lear.

He was named after his maternal grandfather, famous comedian John Olsen.

His second and third birthday parties were covered in the "Society" page of an Ohio paper.

Lear graduated from the Institut Le Rosey boarding school in Switzerland and attended Wichita State University.

Since the 1947 flying disc craze, Americans had reported seeing unidentified objects in the skies, and by 1955, UFO researchers were accusing the US Government of a cover-up.

In the 1950s and 60s, many UFO and contactee groups professed belief in Space Brothers, benevolent aliens eager to improve life on Earth.

In 1956, Lear flew his first flight at age 14.

His first solo flight was at 16, and in 1960, Lear was hired as a pilot and public relationship representative by his father's company.

In 1962, Lear crashed a biplane during stunt flying at his boarding school; He underwent an emergency tracheotomy, a five hour surgery, and a long convalescence.

That year, Lear agreed to attend a Pasadena, California Art College, but lost the $5,000 he had been given for tuition in the stock market.

During a 1964 hypnotic regression, Barney Hill became the first person to report recollections of Gray Aliens and Alien Abductions.

In 1965, Lear was employed by the Paul Kelly Flying Service when its founder was killed while piloting a LearJet.

Lear testified at the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation into the crash.

Between May 23 and 26, 1966, Lear and a crewmate flew a record-breaking flight around the world in a LearJet that covered 22,000 miles in 50 hours and 39 minutes.

In August 1966, Lear was featured in the Wichita Press after he piloted a LearJet carrying the rock band The Byrds and the trip inspired them to write a song about the plane.

The track, titled "2-4-2 Foxtrot (The Lear Jet Song)", samples Lear's voice as he speaks over the radio.

Lear flew planes for the CIA between 1967 and 1983.

In 1968, Air Force personnel from Hamilton Air Force Base launched a rescue effort to help Lear land after heavy San Francisco fog interfered with landing.

Traffic was cleared from the Golden Gate Bridge in anticipation of a forced landing.

After a helicopter pilot established visual contact, Lear was able to successfully land at the base.

By 1973, UFO mythology told of a UFO landing at Holloman Air Force Base; By 1978, UFO mythology included a crashed flying saucer near Roswell.

Lear and his father remain estranged -- when his father died in 1979, John Lear was excluded from the will, which was generous to John's children.

In the 1980s, Lear began speaking of alien collusion with secret governmental forces.

In the second half of the 1980s, Lear was "probably the most influential source" of UFO conspiracy theories.

In 1980, Lear was covered in local press when he lost a billing dispute with his natural gas provider.

That November, Lear ran for Nevada State Senate, earning the endorsement of a "Coalition for Affordable Energy".

Lear has been described as "a divisive figure whose claims often crumbled under scrutiny."

In 1980, cattle mutilations near Dulce, New Mexico were linked to UFOs in popular media.

In 1984, Bill Moore's partner Jaime Shandera received an envelope containing film which, when developed, showed images of eight pages of documents that appeared to be briefing papers describing "Operation Majestic 12", a top-level UFO group with the US Government.

On December 29, 1987, Lear posted a Statement to ParaNet, an early bulletin board system dedicated to the paranormal, claiming that the US government has close contacts with extraterrestrials and were secretly "promoting" films like E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to influence the public to see extraterrestrials as "space brothers".

The document was revised on January 14, again in March, with a final revision dated August 25, 1988.

The document describing a secret government committee, Majestic 12, making a treaty with Gray aliens, only to later realize they've been deceived by the aliens.

The Statement claims a UFO coverup has been underway for 40 years.