Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Distinct from mit-lincoln-laboratory (the FFRDC). In 1947, MIT dean Dr. John W. Bunker led spectrograph analysis of burned iron fragments from the west-rindge-new-hampshire incident for the FBI’s Boston field office; Prof. J. Francis Reintjes offered a (contested) V-2-debris comparison. In 2026, MIT planetary scientist richard-binzel assessed the same historical fragments as inconsistent with a meteorite origin.