DOW-UAP-D170, BAASS Monthly Report, April 2009
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Monthly progress report from Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), the AAWSAP contractor, to the Defense Intelligence Agency for April 1–30, 2009.
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Short overview
Monthly progress report from Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), the AAWSAP contractor, to the Defense Intelligence Agency for April 1–30, 2009. It covers staffing and clearances, contracted technical papers, the purchase of UAP case information from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), “Project Northern Tier” and the review of foreign government UFO releases.
Why this is interesting
According to the report, BAASS had 35 full-time and six part-time employees by April 30, 2009, including a team of ten investigators trained to deploy anywhere in the United States, while EarthTech International was producing 24–30 position papers on topics such as warp drives, wormholes and metamaterials. MUFON’s own summaries, included in the report, list 319 U.S. cases for April, of which nine were rated category two; field investigators deployed on cases in Scammon, Kansas, Pasadena, Maryland, and Dardanelle, Arkansas, and the preliminary narratives describe witness interviews, checks with sheriff’s offices and a power plant, and a compass test on a witness’s car. BAASS states concern about MUFON’s falling case numbers. The “Northern Tier” section analyses 1975–76 reports of hovering objects near Malmstrom, Wurtsmith and Loring Air Force Bases and Canadian Forces Base Falconbridge, and sets out an interview and FOIA plan. The report also tracks the analysis of files released by the British, Canadian, Danish and French authorities.
Selected passages
- “BAASS has already hired a small team of ten high quality top investigators with extensive intelligence and law enforcement investigative experience.”
- “While the sighting would be questionable had it only been seen by personnel on the ground, the fact three separate ground personnel made the same basic observation would tend to enhance the credibility.”
- “The BAASS MUFON relationship is maturing, but the case numbers are still considerably lower than expected.”
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 2009 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) progress report summarizes contractor activities for the period April 1–30, 2009. The report addresses staffing and clearance processing, progress on contracted technical papers, BAASS’s purchase of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) information from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), work on “Project Northern Tier,” and review of UAP-related materials released by several foreign governments. It also describes BAASS’s development of investigative and laboratory support capabilities, including a small deployable field investigation team and arrangements for potential future forensic and scientific analyses of materials obtained through MUFON reporting. Overall, the file documents ongoing program activity, particularly in UAP case acquisition, field investigation, and archival research.