DOW-UAP-D169, BAASS Monthly Report, March 2009
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The monthly progress report of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) for March 1–31, 2009, with a cover dated April 10, 2009.
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Short overview
The monthly progress report of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) for March 1–31, 2009, with a cover dated April 10, 2009. It covers staffing and clearances, the Earthtech position papers, the CAPELLA data warehouse, the purchase of reports from MUFON, the FAA reporting channel, an executive summary on Brazil and the review of foreign government files.
Why this is interesting
According to the report, BAASS had 33 full-time and seven part-time staff by March 31, 2009, and Earthtech’s 24–30 position papers – on topics from antigravity and warp drives to metamaterials and invisibility cloaks – were due by July 2009. The data warehouse held 234,364 reports from 593 B.C. to the present, broken down by the codes FB, CE, MA and AN; BAASS itself cautions that the 31% close encounters reflect reporting behaviour rather than actual frequency. A February 2009 purchase order gave BAASS rapid notification of significant MUFON cases and access to physical evidence, and on March 4, 2009 the FAA agreed to coordinate changes naming BAASS instead of NIDS as reporting point in three FAA publications. The report also describes a research programme with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) on the societal effects of hypothetical UAP scenarios, and the review of files released by the British, Canadian and Danish governments. Its longest part is a March 30, 2009 executive summary, “The UFO Assault on Brazil”, which tallies more than 370 on-site investigations involving 514 people described as victims, with 10 deaths reported after prolonged illness.
Selected passages
- “The data warehouse currently includes 234,364 unusual aerial phenomena reports of sightings occurring from 593 B.C. to present time.”
- “BAASS has already hired a small team of ten high quality top investigators with extensive intelligence and law enforcement investigative experience.”
- “The documentation shows that northeastern Brazil was a UFO hot spot for at least two decades.”
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 March 2009 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) progress report summarizes contractor activities for the period March 1–31, 2009. The report addresses staffing and clearance processing, progress on contracted technical papers, development of advanced aerial phenomena databases, BAASS’s purchase of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) information from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), efforts to become the Federal Aviation Administration’s official reporting point for unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), and review of UAP-related materials released by foreign governments. It also documents BAASS’s broader effort to establish centralized UAP collection and analysis capabilities, including database development, and external reporting pipelines. Overall, the file reflects ongoing program activity, particularly its emphasis on UAP reporting intake, reporting infrastructure, and archival or case-based analysis.