Government2023

AARO director Kirkpatrick and Avi Loeb release draft paper on UAP physics

When: 7 Mar 2023
Sources: 2 public sources

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, co-author with AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick of the 2023 draft paper Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pentagon UAP office director Sean Kirkpatrick and Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb released a draft, 'Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena'. It was not peer-reviewed or an official Pentagon document; a speculative passage on a mothership releasing small probes drew wide headlines.

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FirsthandPhysical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (draft) (opens in a new tab)Avi Loeb, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (author-hosted) / 2023-03-07
PressAlien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests (opens in a new tab)Live Science (Hannah Osborne) / 2023-03-22

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