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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.

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ago. One can also imagine a mother craft canying CubeSats > or micro-devices in its belly, which like Dandelion seeds automatically get
released through friction with the atmosphere of a habitable planet.
The inferred abundance of interstellar objects could be smaller by 16 orders of magnitude > for functional devices that are
designed to visit the habitable regions of stars. This large factor is the ratio between the interstellar
volume associated with the Sun (half-way to the nearest stars)-which would be uniformly populated
by random trajectories, and the volume of the Sun's habitable zone-which would be favored by
targeted devices.
Altogether, interstellar meteors are anomalous relative to Solar system meteors. To gain a better
understanding of the origins of IM1 and IM2, it is essential to retrieve their materials and analyze the
composition and structure oftheir relics through expeditions to their landing sites. Plans > for the first
expedition > to retrieve the
fragments of IM1 near Papua New Guinea are underway. A second expedition for IM2 near Portugal
will follow.
It is also important to keep in mind that a third interstellar object, 'Oumuamua > , which was discovered almost
four years after IM1 and half a year after IM2, appeared anomalous. The effort to gather more data on
interstellar objects based on their anomalies, received pushback from self-proclaimed experts and
bloggers on social media.
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