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Jeremy Scheerer served as a program manager for foreign military sales at the U.S. Air Force.
SEQCURE is sponsored by the Secretary of the Air Force’s Concepts, Development, and Management Office.
WB-57F 63-13295 was removed from AMARG storage, trucked to Colorado, refurbished by Sierra Nevada Corporation, and flown to Ellington Air Force Base on August 9, 2013 where it was turned over to NASA as NASA 927.
Zhang Lu served in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force and held the rank of Senior Colonel before becoming a taikonaut.
The Air Force loaned a WB-57F to NASA in 1968 that was given the NASA tail number 925 and known as the Earth Survey Aircraft.
The Air Force permanently transferred one WB-57F on loan to NASA in 1972 and also transferred two additional WB-57Fs that became NASA 926 and NASA 928.
The USAF pursued military space projects such as the MTSS and the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar despite restrictions on competing with NASA.
The US Air Force’s 9th Weather Reconnaissance Wing, Air Weather Service, Military Air Transport Service (MATS) headquartered at McClellan Air Force Base operated RB-57F aircraft with four squadrons deployed to California, Japan, Australia, and New Mexico.
The United States Air Force studied a space station named the Military Test Space Station (MTSS) between 1959 and 1962.
In 1972 the Air Force decommissioned its weather reconnaissance squadron and sent most WB-57Fs to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
The Index gave the U.S. Space Force a marginal score on capability and found it unprepared to take over missions shifting to orbit that were historically conducted by the U.S. Air Force.
Matthew Anderson is an Air Force veteran who works for the Space Force Association.
In 1995 the Air Force published The Roswell Report – Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert documenting the Project Mogul explanation for Roswell.
On June 24, 1997 the Air Force published The Roswell Report: Case Closed, which addressed claims that bodies had been recovered and documented desert tests using instrumented dummies and NASA drop tests of reentry vehicles.
Political pressure in the mid-1990s resulted in the release of information and the production of two Air Force reports on the 1947 Roswell incident.
In 1947 the Air Force initially stated that it had captured a "flying saucer" before stating within a day or so that the debris was from a weather balloon.
A retired Air Force colonel admitted that in the 1980s he had taken doctored photos of flying saucers to a Nevada bar to help obscure nearby Air Force stealth aircraft tests.
In 1994 the Air Force identified the Roswell crash debris as wreckage from Project Mogul, a top secret balloon program.
Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Susan J. Helms is the chair of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Troy E. Meink unveiled the Ringleader technical initiative on February 23, 2026 during his keynote at the Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium.