Washington, D.C.: State Department airgram assigns MOONDUST to objects of unknown origin
On 26 July 1973 a secret US State Department airgram, “Guidance for Dealing with Space Objects Which Have Returned to Earth,” stated that the designator MOONDUST was used for non-US space objects or objects of unknown origin.
Background
A secret US State Department airgram titled “Guidance for Dealing with Space Objects Which Have Returned to Earth” referred to Project Moon Dust. It stated that “the designator MOONDUST is used in cases of non-US space objects or objects of unknown origin.” Eberhart cites Christopher D. Allen in the International UFO Reporter 19/3 (1994). The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.