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Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly

Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly
  • A documented Air Force recovery program with authority to retrieve fallen foreign space vehicles.
  • Its cables touch UFO reports in Pakistan, Nepal, Canada, New Zealand and Bolivia.
  • Denied to two senators in 1992, admitted, then said in 1994 to be destroyed.
  • Gerb's crash-retrieval reading is his own reasoning.

Project Moon Dust was the Air Force's program to locate, recover and deliver fallen foreign space vehicles, run by the 1127th USAF Field Activities Group with Operation Blue Fly to rush finds to the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson. Its released cables and memos show it handling dozens of fallen Soviet and US objects a year and also touching UFO reports: three cigars over Karachi in 1961, a crashed metal disc in Nepal in 1968, metal fragments in Canada and New Zealand, and a cylinder that fell in Bolivia in 1978. In 1992 the Air Force told two senators Moon Dust had never existed, admitted it when shown documents, and in 1994 said the files were destroyed. UAP Gerb reads the program as one documented channel of crash retrieval.

On the record

  • The 1961 AFCIN-1E draft naming Moon Dust and the 1127th's collection duties for UFO reports.
  • The 1967 review: 49 Soviet and 17 US objects, then a redacted portion.
  • Cables and memos on Karachi (1961), Nepal (1968), Canada (1976), New Zealand (1978) and Bolivia (1978).
  • The 1992 denial and admission to Senators Bingaman and Domenici, and the 1994 statement that the records were destroyed.

Open questions

  • What is under the redaction in the 1967 review?
  • What happened to the Nepal disc and the Bolivian cylinder? Both trails stop at the cables.
  • Why did the Air Force first deny that Moon Dust had existed?

Claims (13)

A 1961 Air Force draft policy (AFCIN-1E) gives the 1127th USAF Field Activities Group collection duties for UFO reports and names Project Moon Dust, whose authority is to 'locate, recover and deliver descended foreign space vehicles'.MOON DUST - The Pentagon's Secret UFO ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordUSAF AFCIN-1E draft policy (1961), shown by UAP Gerb
Operation Blue Fly existed to speed delivery of Moon Dust finds and other items of high technical-intelligence interest to the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson.firsthandSourced, unconfirmed1961 AFCIN-1E draft, as widely quoted
In 1967 Moon Dust handled 49 fallen Soviet and 17 US space objects; the review continues with a redacted portion.MOON DUST - The Pentagon's Secret UFO ProgramsfirsthandOn the record1967 review of the 1127th's functions for ACS/Intelligence
A Moon Dust message records three cigar-shaped objects in close delta formation over Karachi on 25 April 1961.MOON DUST - The Pentagon's Secret UFO ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordMoon Dust message (1961)
State Department 'Moon Dust' cables of 1968 to DIA, the 1127th and Wright-Patterson concern a crashed circular metal disc in Nepal, a Kathmandu visit described as a 'fishing expedition', and Royal Nepal Army photos.MOON DUST - The Pentagon's Secret UFO ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordState Department cables (1968), shown by UAP Gerb
In 1976 Moon Dust asked Canadian officials for photos of non-US 'satellite' metal of interest to FTD and the CIA's Office of Weapons Intelligence.MOON DUST - The Pentagon's Secret UFO ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordMoon Dust memo (1976), FOIA
In 1978 Moon Dust investigated spherical 'pressure vessel' fragments found in New Zealand.MOON DUST - The Pentagon's Secret UFO ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordMoon Dust message (1978)
After the 6 May 1978 Bolivian cylinder crash, a State Department cable said 'appropriate government agencies' had been contacted, and Moon Dust received a film of the object from the Bolivian military.Bolivia 1978 crashMOON DUST - The Pentagon's Secret UFO ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordState Department cable (May 1978), shown by UAP Gerb
The August 1979 Bolivian spheres reached Moon Dust in telexes from the La Paz attaché; satobs.org ties them to the second stage of Delta 149.Bolivia 1978 crashMOON DUST - The Pentagon's Secret UFO ProgramsanalysisSourced, unconfirmedsatobs.org (research note 27)
In 1992 the Air Force told Senators Jeff Bingaman and Pete Domenici that Moon Dust had never existed, then admitted it after they produced documents. In 1994 Domenici asked for 11 documents and was told the records had been destroyed.MOON DUST - The Pentagon's Secret UFO ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordAir Force correspondence with Sens. Bingaman and Domenici (via Clifford Stone)
Moon Dust was at least at one point a UFO crash-retrieval channel, and its records were destroyed to hide that; the 1992-94 denial fits the 1994 SAP reorganisation in the Wilson-Davis notes.MOON DUST - The Pentagon's Secret UFO ProgramsspeculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
Between Blue Book's end in 1969 and AAWSAP in 2008 there was no official US UFO study, so programs such as Moon Dust carried the subject unseen.MOON DUST - The Pentagon's Secret UFO ProgramsspeculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
Moon Dust retrieved space debris near Kabul in about 1966, and in Nepal.David Grusch on JRE, Herrington Denial, RFK Shoot Down Briefing & QnA - UAP Gerb LiveanalysisSourced, unconfirmedUAP Gerb (Sam)

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