Summary Report on BAASS UAP Analysis Capabilities: TicTac and Sphere Assessments
Leak (The Black Vault, Mai 2025)
Also in the archive: another version of this work
WAR.gov / Department of War PURSUE Release 07 · 2026-10-23 · 141 pages
Both versions have 141 pages and are dated November 23, 2010. The 2026 release redacts names or replaces them with placeholders (“AAP Person …”) that are readable in the older version from The Black Vault.
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These highlights were written for another version of the same work: DOW-UAP-D175, BAASS Self-Assessment of UAP Analysis Capabilities, November 2010. The quotes were verified against that version’s text; page numbers and redactions may differ here.
Short overview
A “Summary Report on BAASS UAP Analysis Capabilities” dated November 23, 2010, in which Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) describes to the Defense Intelligence Agency the personnel, field equipment, databases and computing tools it built between 2008 and 2010 under DIA contract HHM402-08-C-0072. It demonstrates these capabilities with model calculations for a few selected UAP and underwater-object cases.
Why this is interesting
The report lists BAASS’s twelve technology focus areas, its cameras, night-vision, radiation and spectrum-analysis equipment, and a “Data Warehouse” called “Project CAPELLA” with eleven databases, among them Sign/Grudge/Blue Book, MUFON and “Utah Ranch” data, structured by a “Six Layer Model” that includes a “Psychic Layer.” Its central example is the November 2004 “Tic Tac” encounter of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, excerpted from a report by DIA personnel; assuming the object fell from about 60,000 feet to sea level in 0.5 to 10 seconds, BAASS calculates for five seconds an average speed of Mach 10.7 and a deceleration of 75 g. Further simulations with the ANSYS Multiphysics software model airflow around a “Tic Tac” shape and a cylinder, a disc entering water, the sound field of a spherical underwater object and the radar cross section of a sphere – the report presents some of them as “illustrative samples” of what the software can produce. BAASS concedes that possibly a majority of UAP reports can be explained by misidentified current advanced technology platforms, yet the conclusion presents the company as one of the few able to do such work and links UAP performance analysis to future propulsion, stealth and weapons technology.
Selected passages
- “These are extraordinarily high values and would require some form of acceleration manipulation to limit what a human pilot would experience and be able to survive.”
- “As an important component of these studies, BAASS understands a considerable number, possibly a majority, of UAP reports can be explained by simple misidentification of current advanced technology platforms.”
- “A greater understanding of these objects will allow for an accurate threat assessment, as well as provide the physics behind the incredible performance attributes that some have displayed.”