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Final Product (FOIA 23-F-0010)

Office of the Secretary of Defense · 2023 · 28 pages · text from the file's own layer

This 2023 Office of the Secretary of Defense FOIA release (case 23-F-0010) contains 2022 email exchanges between Sean M. Kirkpatrick, director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, and Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. The emails arrange a meeting at Loeb's home on October 3, 2022. They also include Loeb's Medium essays on interstellar meteors IM1 and IM2 and on the Ukrainian UAP report. In that essay Loeb argues the "Phantom" objects were probably artillery shells and the luminous object a satellite.

Avi
Abraham (Avt) Loeb
Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor ofScience
Directo0 Institute for Theory & Computation
Harvard University
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From: "Avi Loeb" >
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 5:31 :26 PM
To: "Kirk atrick S an M H E OSD OUSD INTEL
Interstellar Objects Are Much Tougher than ...
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estimate? 10%?
In your analysis, you assume a Gaussian distribution of the interstellar population for the naturally occurring
events. Is there a situation in which a non-Gaussian distribution would come into play? Specifically an
exploding supernova's geometric cross-section overlapping with the Solar System's orientation and distance?
Are we certain the explosion is spherically symmetric?
With regard' s to artificial spacecraft, am I correct in concluding that the release of probes, microsats etc, is
based on the assumption that it is earth's atmosphere that triggers it? Have you thought about other planets
near our Habitable zone?
In any event that's exciting to find two objects. I suspect there's more.
Sean
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