Thread by @mrjeffknox

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Today In UFO History - Betz Memo / Moon Dust
November 13, 1961
1/The AFCIN-1E-0 Draft Policy letter (Betz Memo) is prepared by Lt. Col. Norman M. Rosner for Col. Ward Reid Betz. Among other things, it specifies three peacetime functions of

2/the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center], Colorado Springs, Colorado: UFO investigations, Project Moon Dust (an exploitation program to locate, recover, and deliver descended foreign space vehicles), and Operation Blue Fly

3/(to facilitate delivery to the Foreign Technological Division of Moon Dust and other items of great technical intelligence interest). These three functions involve “employment of qualified field intelligence personnel on a quick reaction basis to recover or perform field

4/exploitation of unidentified flying objects, or known Soviet/Bloc aerospace vehicles, weapons systems, and/or residual components of such equipment.” [Eberhart]

@PaulJamesDean article on the Betz memo (includes the same more readable copy of the memo from Barry Greenwood) :

…documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-re…

Discussion on Kevin Randle's blog about 'Project' Moon Dust, and how it likely never was an actual project but a classifier / code word.

kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/04/coast-…

Rosners obit:

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…

Colonel Ward Reid Betz obit:

deseret.com/1997/3/30/1930…