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UFO Fragment Exploitation (Moon Dust)

1966-05-04what this date marks is not recorded

A genre of declassified Foreign Technology Division records - e.g., "Exploitation of Metallic Fragment from Unidentified Flying Object" (1966) - documenting lab analysis of recovered material internally titled as being of unidentified-flying-object origin, including fragments reported from the Congo and Nepal under the Moon Dust umbrella. A rare instance of a government office labeling recovered material "UFO" in its own internal, non-public paperwork, though conventional (satellite/missile) origins were not ruled out.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "unidentified flying object", "ufo". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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2 connections

← Project Moon Dust names a source we do not hold

the recovery-and-exploitation genre it was tasked with

FTD exploitation documents (1966); Moon Dust FOIA
→ Wright-Patterson AFB names a source we do not hold

analyzed at its Foreign Technology Division

FTD 'Exploitation of Metallic Fragment from UFO' (1966)

Notes on this record

The category

Recategorised from "incident" to "gov" on 26 August 2026. It is a document, not an incident: cat "incident" had become the destination for anything with no affiliation, and 18 of the 29 nodes in it were documents, programmes, concepts or patterns whose own `form` field already said so. The destination is read from this node's own role text, which says "Foreign Technology Division records".

How this is drawn

A family of records, not one record. The role text says so in its first six words. Typing it `document` would promise a single record with a single date and a single locator; the node names one example (FTD, "Exploitation of Metallic Fragment from Unidentified Flying Object", 1966) and gestures at others from the Congo and Nepal. THE DATE 1966-05-04 IS THE EXAMPLE'S, NOT THE CLASS'S - a class does not have one date, and the front door should not plot it as though it did. If the individual FTD reports are obtained, this node becomes their parent, the same relationship the war.gov release container now has to the five documents taken from it.