Organization
RAND Corporation
The Santa Monica think tank set up for the Air Force in 1946, the model for MITRE and the other FFRDCs. Its public record matters here for underground construction: deep-basing studies from 1957 and a 1972 tube-train study for speeds up to 14,000 mph. Andrew Kissner's 1994 statement lists RAND among the groups that studied 1947 crash material, and UAP Gerb places it with MITRE and Aerospace on the exploitation side of the legacy program.
Claims (5)
RAND studied 'super-hard deep underground centers' from 1957, held a 1959 symposium on Deep Underground Construction and in 1960 reviewed 12 candidate sites more than 1,000 ft deep for the Air Force.Deep Underground Military Bases (D.U.M.Bs.) - UFO Legacy ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordRAND reports (via Richard Sauder, cited by UAP Gerb)
RAND's 1972 Very High Speed Transit study (Robert Salter) proposed tube trains at 'speeds as high as 14,000 mph', Los Angeles to New York in 21 minutes.Deep Underground Military Bases (D.U.M.Bs.) - UFO Legacy ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordRAND P-4874 (cited by UAP Gerb)
Discs recovered in 1947 went to the AEC and were studied by Los Alamos, Sandia, RAND and MITRE.J. Andrew Kissner's statement on the 1947 recoveries (1994)US Navy UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering ProgramssecondhandLeadJ. Andrew Kissner
William Webster, of the AEC Military Liaison Committee (1948-49), was later a trustee of RAND and Woods Hole.US Navy UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordpublic bios (cited by UAP Gerb)
RAND is one of the FFRDCs holding exploitation R&D, and its VHST route map matches Bill Hamilton's map of linked underground bases.Deep Underground Military Bases (D.U.M.Bs.) - UFO Legacy ProgramsspeculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
Connected
The Aerospace Corporation orgThe MITRE Corporation orgWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution orgJ. Andrew Kissner personUAP Gerb (Sam) personJ. Andrew Kissner's statement on the 1947 recoveries (1994) document
Sources
- UAP Gerb: the MITRE Corporation
- UAP Gerb: Deep Underground Military Bases (DUMBs)
- UAP Gerb: US Navy UFO crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs
Mentioned on (4)
- Area52: New UFO Witnesses Break Silence to Investigator - UAP Gerb - DEBRIEFED ep. 49
- Keeping It Real with Jillian Michaels: Luis Elizondo on MILABs, the missing scientists and Stargate
- UAP Gerb: Deep Underground Military Bases (D.U.M.Bs.) - UFO Legacy Programs
- UAP Gerb: The Majestic-12 Documents [With Ryan S. Wood]