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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.
From: Avi Loeb Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 6:27 PM To: Kirkpatrick, Sean M HQE OSD OUSD INTEL & SEC (USA) Subject: Re: [URL Verdict: Neutral](Non- DoD Source] Discovery of a Second Interstellar Meteor: Meter-Size Interstellar Objects Are Much Tougher than ... All active links contained in this email were disabled. Please verify the identity of the sender, and confirm the authenticity of all links contained within the message prior to copying and pasting the address to a Web browser. For !Ml, the error on the air density is negligible and the enor on the velocity measurement is smaller than a few percent. Here is the complete information: Original discovery paper: Caution-https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.07224.pdf Government confirmation Letter: Caution-https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Opinion.htmJ Material strength paper: Caution-https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.08482 The fi.rebalJ lightcurve: Caution-https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/lightcurve.pdf NBC video: Caution-https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/NBCPNG.mov NPR audio: Caution-https://www.npr.org/2022/08/ l6/l l l 77622 l l/an-astronomers-plan-to-trawl-the-ocean floor-for-signs-of-extraterrestrial-life Overview: Caution-https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-first-interstellar-meteor-7d97bcb970cd What we know: The meteor had a geocentric velocity vector: (vx, vy, vz) = (- 3.4, - 43.5, - 10.3) km s- 1, located at 1.3° S 147.6° E, at an altitude of 18.7 km, at the time of impact, 2014-01-08 17:05:34 UTC, as reported in the CNEOS catalog. The above localization is within 10 kilometers; we need another significant digit. If you can find it for us, it would save us a lot of time in the expedition search area. There are a million objects like IMl at any given time within the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. But a thousand times more Solar system rocks. 9
FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.