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Sky Hunters: Inside Project Moon Dust and the Covert War for Cosmic Intelligence

THE COSMIC COVER-UP EXPOSEDThey said the sky was falling—turns out, it really was.When a flaming satellite slammed into an Iowa cornfield in 1960, the U.S. Air Force activated a code-name so secret even generals whispered it only in vaults:Project Moon Dust. For the next thirty years—through the Berlin Crisis, Vietnam, and the Reagan-eraStar Warsprogram—a hand-picked band of “sky-hunters” leap-frogged commercial jets and KGB patrols to snatch every shard of scorched spacecraft, mystery metal, and allegedother-worldly debristhat tore through Earth’s atmosphere—often while the wreckage was still glowing.Officials denied the unit existed. Reporters chasing the rumor ran into disappearing files, stone-walled witnesses, and black vans idling outside their homes.Until now.A THRILLER—ONLY WORSE, BECAUSE IT’S TRUEDrawing on2,700 pages of newly declassified cables, eyewitness interviews, and never-before-seen photographs, Air Force veteran and historianGary Covella, Ph.D.rips the lid off the covert war for cosmic intelligence.Sky-Hunterstakes you inside:The midnight airlift that spirited radioactive fragments past state troopers and farm kids with Geiger countersA “lost” titanium sphere that triggered a three-county evacuation—and an FBI turf warA secret Panama warehouse stuffed with relics that still tick and humThe paper trail that ties Moon Dust sorties to JFK’s final months—and a classified crash in Peru nicknamed “Roswell’s Cousin.”SHOCKING REVELATIONS INSIDEAlien Alloys?Lab reports reveal metals no Soviet smelter could have forged.Biological Fallout.Why CDC doctors quietly screened Kansas farmers for radiation burns.Space Espionage 101.How Moon Dust fed both NASA engineersandCIA assassins.The Missing Bomb Core.Newly released files confirm a plutonium “secondary” still buried under Greenland’s ice.WHY THIS BOOK MATTERS NOWCongressional hearings on “unidentified aerospace threats” have thrust Moon Dust back into the headlines. Politicians brandish whistle-blower testimony; defense contractors smell trillion-dollar bud

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