The next major search for extraterrestrial intelligence might involve putting Moon dust under a microscope rather than pointing a radio telescope toward the stars. A new study led by SETI Institute Affiliate Scientist Lewis Pinault proposes searching lunar regolith for microscopic particles that could represent the surviving debris of extraterrestrial technology. Such material might have drifted between stars for millions or billions of years before eventually reaching the Moon. submitted by...

Official Study: Micron-Scale Technosignatures: How a Cubic Metre of Lunar Regolith May Begin to Constrain the Number of Past Technological Civilisations in the Galaxy “The Moon has been quietly accumulating material from space for billions of years, much of it likely billions of years older than the Moon itself,” Dr. Pinault said. “We’re asking whether that ancient collection might contain microscopic traces of technologies that existed long before humans ever looked up at the sky.” “Unlike E...

Cold War Crash Retrievals: Uncovering Projects Moon Dust, Blue Fly, and Round Robin - the work of Dr. Randle

The most intriguing possibility raised by recent interviews with physicist Eric Davis is not simply that the United States possesses anomalous hardware. It is that a mature acquisition system may exist around it: military collection networks recover the objects, specialized teams make them safe, intelligence agencies control access, and aerospace contractors attempt the reverse engineering. That model connects several otherwise disjointed bodies of evidence. But an important warning belongs a...

I went into this story thinking Project Moon Dust was a classified Cold War program for recovering Soviet satellites that occasionally brushed up against UFO cases. After going through the Air Force records, Project Blue Book files, State Department cables, FOIA correspondence and decades of work by researchers including Kevin Randle, Clifford Stone, Robert Todd and Barry Greenwood, I don’t think that description goes far enough. Moon Dust and Blue Fly were a documented crash-retrieval archit...