Case evidence · CE-V86-04
Air Force and State Department documents defining Moon Dust and Blue Fly recovery of foreign space objects and "objects of unknown origin"
Claim unverifiedThe statement or record is documented; the underlying claim is not. 1961–1973 · Declassified program documents
Why this grade
Claim unverified From Case Evidence's Verification status ("Program documented; scope of "unknown origin" recoveries unverified"). Grade rules.
Record
- Date / period
- 1961–1973
- Reported event / document
- Air Force and State Department documents defining Moon Dust and Blue Fly recovery of foreign space objects and "objects of unknown origin"
- Evidence type
- Declassified program documents
- Original data accessible?
- Partially
- Verification status
- Program documented; scope of "unknown origin" recoveries unverified
- Competing explanations / missing data
- Air Force says records destroyed
- Next step
- Assemble primary documents from FOIA releases State Department MOONDUST cables 1967-1972 (SRC-V99-131, hosted). Blue Fly and the 1961 AFCIN memo that defines both projects were not found as scans. (chunk F, 2026-11-12)
- Source ID
- SRC-V86-28; SRC-V99-131
From the workbook: the Case Evidence sheet.