JFK Asked for UFO Files 10 Days Before His Assasination

On November 22nd, 1963, President John F Kennedy was fatally shot in the head by… [fill in the blank].

10 days prior, the president was pestering the CIA to give him access to NASA’s UFO files.

They didn’t teach you that part in school, did they? JFK wasn’t the only president to catch the UFO bug, but he may have been the only president to pay for it with his life.

Years ago, reporter Jim Marrs unearthed a hoard of classified documents which – altogether – tell the story of a top secret group of scientists, businessmen and CIA operatives, deemed the Majestic or Majority 12, appointed by President Truman to investigate the UFO phenomenon and misinform the American public about it. Some documents – including an infamously burned memo – even detail plans to get rid of “Lancer” (JFK’s nickname) due to his prying.

Although these documents have escaped debunking, it was years before another investigator hot on the trail (author William Lester) would get the CIA to release two of them under the Freedom of Information Act.

Here’s the first of these declassified letters, this one from JFK to the CIA: