Ryan S Wood
Ryan S. Wood is an American author and UAP researcher who has worked extensively on Majestic 12 document authentication and UFO crash retrieval case documentation alongside his father Robert Wood, a former McDonnell Douglas aerospace engineer. He is the author of Magic Eyes Only, a comprehensive catalog of alleged UFO crash retrieval incidents documenting cases from 1933 forward, and has spent decades conducting forensic analysis of approximately 3,500 pages of alleged Majestic 12 documents leaked between 1984-1999 from seven different sources.
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MJ-12 Document Authentication Work
Wood has developed a weighted authenticity rating system for Majestic documents based on multiple evidentiary factors including typography and printing analysis, period-accurate terminology, personnel verification, witness testimony, cross-document corroboration, and forensic ink/paper testing. He rates documents including the Special Operations Manual (SOM 1-01), Eisenhower Briefing Document, and Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit reports as having the highest authenticity confidence based on forensic evidence.
Document Provenance Investigation
Wood traced the document control initials "EWL" (MJ-01) and "JRT" (MJ-04) appearing in SOM 1-01's control pages by consulting Albuquerque phone books for 1954-1957 and cross-referencing with National Personnel Record Center files. He identified Captain Lewis (EWL) and individuals matching "JRT" as residing on Perimeter Road inside Kirtland Air Force Base during the relevant timeframe. After hiring private investigators, Wood personally visited one individual matching "JRT" who agreed to meet but denied being the person named in the document despite matching the location and timeline.
Sources and Leakers
Wood identified the primary source of leaked documents as "Thomas Cantwheel" (pseudonym), who wrote to researcher Timothy Cooper near death from cancer describing a career as a Counter Intelligence Corps officer in the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit from 1942-1958. Wood's investigation alongside Reddit researcher "Harry is White Hot" identified likely candidate Boris Dimitri Tasarov, a CIC officer (1942-1945) stationed at Camp Ritchie MD who later worked for the CIA (1956-1968), served at the Mexico City CIA station in 1963 transcribing surveillance of Soviet compounds including Lee Harvey Oswald traffic, and lived in San Leandro CA when Cooper conducted his investigation.
Response to Alexander Disinformation Theory
Wood strongly disputes Colonel John B. Alexander's claim that SOM 1-01 was created in 1954 as Soviet disinformation, arguing it makes no psychological warfare sense to expose detailed crash retrieval infrastructure, facility locations, entity descriptions, and protocols merely to deceive the Soviets. Wood argues that if SOM 1-01 were Soviet-targeted disinformation, it would not be part of a 19-year leak campaign with 3,500 pages from seven different sources using multiple delivery methods. He notes the Soviets already knew UAPs were real from their own recovery operations and had penetrated the Manhattan Project within a year, so would certainly have intelligence on U.S. UAP activities.
Wood states: "I have no credible evidence that any document listed on Majesticdocuments.com is fake" and has found "no credible objections" that withstand forensic scrutiny. He maintains some documents remain in his "neutral basket" requiring further evidence but believes the core documents exhibit overwhelming authenticity indicators.
UFO DX Research Tool
Wood created UFO DX (UFO-dx.com), a ChatGPT tool trained on 500-800 UFO books, for researchers to query the accumulated ufology knowledge base. The tool allows natural language questions on any Topic in ufology and generates responses based on Wood's curated library of research materials.
Coyame Case Assessment
In Magic Eyes Only, Wood rates the 1974 Coyame, Mexico UFO Crash Retrieval case as medium to high authenticity based on the quality of the Deneb Report, its use of correct military terminology, operational detail consistent with known crash retrieval protocols, and the distinction between hard evidence and speculation.
Sources
- Video - The 1974 Coyame, Mexico UFO Crash
- Video - Alien Reproduction Vehicle - TR-3B and the Flying Triangles
- Video - The Majestic-12 Documents With Ryan S. Wood
- Video - UFO Whistleblowers Vol.2 (recommended by UAP Gerb for crash retrieval research)