Government / Military

Project Moon Dust

1957-12-23what this date marks is not recorded

U.S. Air Force intelligence designation (from 1957, post-Sputnik) for locating, recovering, and delivering "descended foreign space vehicles" - officially Soviet/foreign space debris. Colonel Betz's 1961 memo formalized it and named it in the same tasking as Operation Blue Fly and the Air Force's UFO-investigations program under the Chief of Intelligence. Its existence was later officially acknowledged (and said to be discontinued); skeptics such as Brad Sparks argue it was an intelligence-alert label rather than a covert retrieval project, and most recovered debris was identified as terrestrial. Whether it ever handled genuinely anomalous material is disputed.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "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.

None of this entity's 4 connections has a source you can open.

Documents1 that names it

Also named in documents we hold

This entity's name appears in the 1 document below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.

FOIA Case Log, Calendar Year 2001-2003

named on a page we have read · p. 3

F-2001-00124 TEHRAN UFO INCIDENT, 20 SEPTEMBER 1976, PROJECT MOON DUST Granted in Full

4 connections

→ Operation Blue Fly names a source we do not hold

companion programs named together in the 1961 AFCIN tasking document

Col. Betz memo (1961); USAF/GAO acknowledgments
→ 1127th USAF Field Activities Group names a source we do not hold

field recoveries executed by it

1961 AFCIN tasking; Moon Dust FOIA documents
→ UFO Fragment Exploitation (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
→ Project Blue Book names a source we do not hold

listed alongside the Air Force UFO-investigations program in the 1961 AFCIN tasking

1961 AFCIN tasking document