In the 1970s, the existence of a once-secret program called "Project Moon Dust" first came to the attention of UFO researchers employing the Freedom of Information Act to obtain U.S. government documents about unidentified aerial phenomena. Although the U.S. Air Force initially denied its existence, it was later confirmed that Project Moon Dust, along with the similar Project Blue Fly, had been tasked with the acquisition of any fallen space objects believed to have originated within the Soviet Union... but is that all the program collected? 

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at the strange saga of Project Moon Dust, what is known about the Cold War-era program from official documents, and how claims about its alleged involvement with the recovery of crashed UFOs were amplified by a once-prominent UFO whistleblower. Could Project Moon Dust have actually had any relationship to the collection of objects of unknown origin?  

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Show Notes

Below are links to stories and other content featured in this episode:

• NEWS: NASA Collects First Surface Science in Decades via Commercial Moon Mission 
• An Ocean Moon Thought to Be Habitable May Be Oxygen-Starved 
• The April total solar eclipse could snarl traffic for hours across thousands of miles 
• UFO News: National Archives launches UAP records collection
• Records Related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) at the National Archives  
• UAP SIGHTINGS UPDATE: Texas, 2013-2 014: UAPSRS Case No. 131 
• SCU Announces 2024 AAPC Conference in Huntsville, Alabama 
• PROJECT MOON DUST: Just Cause, June 1986 (via Sacred Texts)
• Project Moondust - Chapter 8, by Kevin Randle (via NICAP)
• UFO Crash Recovery - Sgt. Clifford Stone Testifies
• Project Moon Dust Official Documents (via Archive.org)

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