MJ-12 follows a defunct, overlooked, and largely ineffective branch of the Secret Service investigating paranormal phenomena, tasked with protecting the United States from alien threats

SYNOPSIS:

OVERVIEW

Formed by a top-secret executive order in 1947 issued by Harry S. Truman, the original Majestic 12 consisted of scientists, military leaders, and government officials. As a result of government oversight, this branch has been Federally funded for seventy-five years but is often overlooked by sub-committees. It has become a sort of dumping ground for washed-up political has-beens.

Headquartered near Roswell, MJ-12 is undermined by alien hunters, local police, rival organizations (ala, The Entity), and even the general public. To maintain anonymity, they hide in plain view as the New Mexico Office of Desert Preservation and occasionally stave off walk-ins.

Format: ½ hour single-cam deadpan documentary style; presented as recordings of their 'missions' for posterity, training videos, and highly classified found footage.

Nutshell: Parks & Rec. meets X-Files

PILOT SUMMARY - "CHILDREN OF THE SOY"

Drone surveillance has detected Crop signs in the soybean fields of a Kansas farmer, EVERETT GILL. Satellite imagery also noted a large metal object located on the property. MJ-12 is tasked with the investigation and recovery of an alien spacecraft, if any, that touched down. Lyla and Jensen are assigned to investigate, with Gavyn accompanying them to document the mission. Due to global warming and poor crop yield, Mr. Gill also runs a B&B on the farm, and the investigators will pose as a married couple on their honeymoon, with Gavyn making a 'wedding video.' Our team arrives at the farm and begins their investigation.

Meanwhile back at the home office, Judith tasks Theo with organizing the records room, which is a disaster zone. Mollie offers to help Theo by giving him a 'limitless-like' pill that makes him the world's greatest multi-tasker and ambidextrous. But when he can't shut his brain off, his idle left hand goes rogue, causing havoc at work. (we cut back to this storyline over the pilot)

After the field operatives uncover what appears to be the crashed remains of an alien ship in the barn, Everett claims it's a weather satellite that crashed on his farm when he was just a young boy. The investigators meet HEZEKIAH, Everett's creepy son. Hezekiah always seems to be around, no matter where the investigators go. When they aren't looking, Hezekiah does amazing things like picking up a tractor or jumping over the barn like Superman.

The investigators finally catch Hezekiah in the act and when they confront Everett he leads them into a soybean maze, where they are surrounded by dozens of Hezekiah's. Running for their lives whilst fending off the Hezekiah Supermen they head for a storm shelter. There they find a secret grow lab full of bean pods, each containing a gestating Hezekiah at various stages of development, some rather grey and smaller than the others. Everett is running an illegal cloning operation - these Hezekiahs are all copies of the original Everett, there to help run the farm, over many iterations becoming superhumans (ala supermen) to maximize productivity.

Cornered, they convince Everett that MJ-12 could give the clones a better life away from the farm in a sort of X-men style Orphanage for special super-powered children. The clones are relocated, and the case is seemingly closed. On a barn rafter, Jensen discovers an alien symbol carved into the wood, which he quickly covers so Lyla can't see it. Then they return to base.

SEASON ARC - In the first season MJ12 investigates a cult of alien-worshippers preparing for the return of their Chthonian Star God.

MAJESTIC 12