DOW-UAP-D174, Utah Ranch Investigation Report, April 2010
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A field report by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), a contractor of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s AAWSAP program, on two deployments of a four-person team to a property it calls the “Utah Ranch” near Fort Duchesne, Utah, on March 22–26 and April 19–23, 2010.
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Short overview
A field report by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), a contractor of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s AAWSAP program, on two deployments of a four-person team to a property it calls the “Utah Ranch” near Fort Duchesne, Utah, on March 22–26 and April 19–23, 2010. It summarizes witness interviews about reported creatures and lights, sensor measurements and planned biological experiments.
Why this is interesting
According to the report, BAASS had interviewed more than 25 people by May 7, 2010, among them four local police officers, eleven Native Americans including a Shaman, twelve ranchers and the director of the local Fish and Wildlife office; eleven of them described a bipedal “dog-like” creature and/or orbs of light, alongside accounts of “little people,” a pterodactyl-like bird and a “portal.” The team installed seven digital game cameras, plotted the reported creatures’ directions of travel on a map – while conceding the intersection points “could be construed as arbitrary” – and recorded two unexplained signals around 1210–1216 and 1232.5–1238.5 MHz on the ranch mesa, which it said would require research into satellite frequencies. Tobacco and spiderwort plants were set up as biosensors for DNA-damaging radiation, and a seed germination experiment was set up; for the biosensors, the report says it was too early for results. The appended DNA analysis found that three hair samples shared a canine sequence frequently found in domestic dogs, and a hair embedded in a red-stained rock came from a raccoon. The report also states BAASS’s aim to use games and puzzles to establish communication with the presumed source of the anomalies.
Selected passages
- “To initiate a variety of games, puzzles, and other strategies in order to establish communication with the source/origin of reported anomalies on the ranch property.”
- “In a sense, these intersection points could be construed as arbitrary, particularly since it is recognized that the creatures may have changed their direction of travel once out of sight of the eyewitnesses.”
- “Further measurements and research, particularly into satellite transmitting frequencies and times will be required to identify the origin of these signals.”
Background
This document is an administrative, programmatic, or contractor-produced record related to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)-administered program active from 2008 to 2012. AAWSAP’s official scope of work identified 12 technical research areas relating to potential aerospace threats over a time horizon of more than 40 years. As part of the broader program record, the file documents how AAWSAP was scoped, organized, tasked, funded, executed, or described at a particular point in time. This April 2010 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) investigation report documents field deployments to a Utah property and surrounding communities during March and April 2010. The report states that BAASS personnel interviewed local residents, law enforcement officers, ranchers, business owners, and tribal community members about reported anomalous events; used handheld sensors to collect environmental measurements; planned plant-based biosensor experiments; and sought photographic, acoustic, and chemical evidence of purported anomalous phenomena. It also records extensive reported accounts involving “dog-like bipedal creatures,” orbs of light, “little people,” “prehistoric-looking” birds, among other phenomena, and states that BAASS intended to use interactive methods to attempt communication with the presumed source of reported anomalous activity.