Ryan S. Wood is an American UFO researcher and author known for archiving and defending the Majestic documents, a body of purported top-secret papers describing a government group that managed crashed UFOs. With his father, Robert M. Wood, a retired McDonnell Douglas scientist, he runs the Majestic Documents website, which publishes the papers, accounts of their claimed sources and the Woods' arguments for authenticity. He is also the author of Majic Eyes Only: Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrial Technology, published by Wood Enterprises in 2005.

The Woods became central to the Majestic-12 debate in the late 1990s, when they endorsed a large batch of documents supplied by researcher Tim Cooper, who said he had begun receiving them from covert sources in 1992. According to the skeptic Philip Klass, writing in Skeptical Inquirer in 2000, the Woods released more than a dozen of the Cooper documents at a UFO conference in Connecticut, and Robert Wood argued that their flaws tended to indicate authenticity because hoaxers try to make forgeries perfect. Klass called the documents riddled with flaws, and Stanton Friedman, the best-known defender of the original MJ-12 papers, later argued that the Cooper material was fiction.

The official record runs against the MJ-12 papers generally. After the Air Force Office of Special Investigations told the FBI in 1988 that no such committee had ever been authorized or formed, the FBI declared an MJ-12 document it had received "completely bogus," and the National Archives has detailed problems with the Cutler–Twining memo found in its holdings. In Majic Eyes Only, Wood also worked from released files, identifying the redacted Eighth Air Force officer in the FBI's July 8, 1947, teletype about the Roswell debris as Edwin M. Kirton; the Air Force later concluded the debris most likely came from a Project Mogul balloon train. Researchers still cite his work on an alleged 1941 crash near Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Wood remained active in 2026. In March he joined Grant Cameron, Michael Schratt and others in an online debate over MJ-12. Accounts drawn from barrister Jonathan Caplan's book Not For Disclosure say Wood examined Cooper's papers in 2025 with the permission of Cooper's son after Cooper's death, and found a document dated June 24, 1953, presented as a CIA memo about an "Advanced Contact Group" meeting at Holloman Air Force Base. In July, posts circulated further documents from Wood referring to Nazi scientists, Project BLUEBIRD, "hostile enemy planets" and a Project DRAGON RETURN; none has been authenticated by the agencies to which they are attributed.

Wood has spent more than 25 years arguing that at least some Majestic documents may be genuine records, and his website remains the main public archive of the papers and their claimed chain of custody. Each new release of Majestic material has kept him at the center of a dispute that has outlasted the FBI's dismissal and decades of forgery findings by skeptics and fellow ufologists alike.