From Stringfield's Blue Berets to JSOC and privatised teams that shoot at each other: who goes out to get the craft.
Our reading across the sources1953 to now2 min read
In 60 seconds
Someone has to go and get the craft. In the 1950s and 1960s it was the Air Force: Stringfield's "Blue Berets", Moon Dust and Blue Fly. Army and Marine units were pressed in when a crash fell near them, then sworn to silence. From 2003 the CIA's Office of Global Access works with JSOC. And from 2004 company teams with their own guns appear, until the government's teams and the companies' teams are firing on each other.
19 events: 4 on the record8 named witness7 unnamed insider0 UAP Gerb’s reasoning
The claim, in our words · Gerb's reading, across 19 of our records
“The recovery mission moved from Air Force intelligence to JSOC and the CIA, and then split: private teams now work beside, and sometimes against, the government's own.”
How it branched
Each line is a branch, named at its end. Dots are the key moments below.
Thin sourcingKey moment
Blue BeretsBorrowedJSOC
Air Force teams
Army and Marine ground teams
Undersea recovery
JSOC and the CIA
Private teams
1960197019801990200020102020Ground troops pressed inRecovery at seaCIA and JSOC take overCompany teams go their own way
Turning points:1968 Ground troops pressed in · 1991 Recovery at sea · 2003 CIA and JSOC take over · 2004 Company teams go their own way
Chapter 1 · 1953 to 1977
Blue Berets
Air Force intelligence teams and the Moon Dust mission.
“The OGA coordinates with Joint Special Operations Command, JSOC, amongst others to collect craft.”
1956Stringfield's "Blue Berets"CStringfield's sources describe an Air Force crash-recovery intelligence team in blue fatigues and blue berets.Unnamed insider
1961Moon Dust and Blue FlyThe Air Force names the collection mission: fallen space objects, flown in by the 1127th Field Activities Group.On the record
1968A Vietnam LRRP team pressed into the programGerb's witness: a long-range patrol team ordered to secure a crash, sworn to silence under threat of hard labour.Unnamed insider
2004Blue on blue: a Lockheed team kills JSOC menDAn in-house Lockheed recovery team, active since the 1970s, is said to have fired on JSOC in 2004. Coulthart: "not the only incident".Unnamed insider
2009Sumatra: privatised ex-special forcesCHerrera: American voices, better kit, no insignia; his insiders call them privatised ex-JSOC and SOCOM contractors.Named witness
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The squeezeshares 6 records: The 2004 'blue on blue', Sumatra, 2009, Livestream and Q&A with Michael Herrera 10/6/24, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and more
The nuclear connectionshares 2 records: The White Sands lure and the shoot-down…, Kingman, Arizona, 1953 crash retrieval
Ordered to fireshares 2 records: The El Paso airspace closures, The White Sands lure and the shoot-down…
