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Project Moon Dust

Recovery

Cold War USAF effort to recover foreign space debris and evaluate UFO sightings from the 1950s onward

  Retrievals of Unidentified Objects

The Air Force organized Project Moon Dust to secure and analyze objects returning from space that might reveal adversary technology.1 Teams collected satellite fragments and sometimes investigated UFO reports through cooperating embassies.23 The program reportedly persisted into the 1990s before being replaced.45

  References

  1. cia.gov

  2. documents.theblackvault.com

  3. af.mil

  4. wired.com

  5. en.wikipedia.org

Published on July 1, 1953

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