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Document 1 Cover page from an August 1986 government report on the Methuselah Project, the Santa Rosa Institute's proposal to study vampire DNA in pursuit of human immortality. The document contained an assessment of the costs, risks and benefits associated with researching vampire and zombie DNA. The document endorses the research and went a long way toward convincing President Reagan to sign off on the project.

Document 2 Cover page from a June 1941 preliminary report on the Zozobra Project, the secret U.S. drive to find a vampire vaccine. The report concluded that a concerted American effort could create a vaccine in five to 10 years. However, work on the vaccine did not begin in earnest until 1944, when reports reached President Roosevelt's office of a Nazi plan to unleash hordes of vampiric POWs on advancing Allied forces. The first successful test of the vaccine took place in 1950.