Federally funded R&D center

RAND Corporation

1948-10-12what this date marks is not recorded

Nonprofit policy think tank, originating as Project RAND, a Douglas Aircraft/U.S. Army Air Force research effort formalized in 1948. A declassified Air Force memo that year requested RAND study UFO sightings for technical clues; a 1968 internal RAND report by George Kocher, "UFOs: What to Do?", leaked and argued for taking the extraterrestrial hypothesis seriously. RAND researchers published 2023 analysis finding clusters of UFO reports across most U.S. states, while cautioning against antigovernment conspiracy narratives around the topic. Separate claims tracing RAND's origins to a covert 1942 UFO-retrieval program are sourced only to a single unverified witness account.

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Correspondence, E. Finley Carter (President, Stanford Research Institute) and DCI Allen W. Dulles, on the Asilomar National Strategy Seminar

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…Bernard Brodie, Herman Kahn, and Albert Wohlstetter of The RAND Corporation; Henry A. Kissinger of Harvard; Robert Strausz-Hupe and Wil…

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served as a trustee for 36 years

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key Air Force champion of its founding as Project RAND

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an early RAND consultant on game theory and nuclear strategy

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Federally Funded Research and Development Center. ADMINISTERS FFRDCs, and is not itself the centre: Arroyo Center, National Defense Research Institute, Project Air Force Source: NSF/NCSES Master Government List of FFRDCs, February 2026 list, read 2026-08-21 by web fetch (third provenance grade - not rendered and read by eye).