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RAND's James Lipp letter on the spaceship hypothesis

When: 13 Dec 1948
Where: Santa Monica, CA
Sources: 1 public source

The RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, where James Lipp wrote his 1948 letter Cbl62, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

RAND scientist James Lipp answered Brig. Gen. Donald Putt's request with a letter weighing whether flying objects could be spaceships. He judged such visits possible but very improbable, and the letter was printed as Appendix D of the February 1949 Project Sign report.

Sources

OfficialProject SIGN report (February 1949), Appendix D: letter to Brig. Gen. Putt, 13 December 1948 (opens in a new tab)U.S. Air Force, Air Materiel Command (copy hosted by the Internet Archive) / 1949-02

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Earlier in GovernmentAir Intelligence Report 100-203-79 on flying object incidents10 Dec 1948 Later in GovernmentFBI San Antonio memo on unexplained phenomena near Los Alamos31 Jan 1949

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