NRO KH-9 Keyhole image of an unidentified object

National Reconnaissance Office · 1970s (declassified)

Declassified imagery

Request

Publicly released KH-9 frame; Hume compared it with a 1949 USAF recon photograph.

Outcome

Hume: likely the 1970s imagery Moon Dust at Wright-Patterson was interested in, but the timeframe better fits Zodiac. Both images 'very underwhelming' in his view.

Satellite-era Moon Dust / Zodiac candidate, downrated by Hume on quality.

Names on this file

RG Hume

Independent FOIA researcher

UK researcher who files FOI/FOIA against MOD, DSTL, AARO, NNSA, DOE, FBI, CIA-adjacent holdings, EPA, CBP and police. Publishes as @rgh_ufos. Has said his name is on requests, has appeared in BBC and Mail Online, and was cited by Jesse Michels for the NNSA Starfish Prime response.

Cases

1949–1970s

Moon Dust, KH-9 and Wright-Patterson

1970s satellite imagery Hume finds underwhelming

Moon DustNROKH-9Zodiac

1970s

Zodiac, TRW and California USOs

Rosenberger, Mary Elliot, and Navy underwater sensors

ZodiacTRWUSOVallée

Source posts

Public posts by @rgh_ufos. Open may be blocked inside this preview — copy the URL and paste it in a new tab.

2026-09-01
Declassified NRO keyhole-9 satellite image of object. I guess this is the 1970s images that "Moon dust" at WPAFB were interested in.
2026-09-01