DOW-UAP-D175, BAASS Self-Assessment of UAP Analysis Capabilities, November 2010
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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.
Also in the archive: another version of this work
Leak (The Black Vault, Mai 2025) · 2010-11-23
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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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.”
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 November 2010 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) contractor-authored capability statement presents BAASS’s analysis as technically rigorous and strategically valuable. The document appears intended not only to describe BAASS’s analytical capabilities but also to reinforce the case for the organization’s continued relevance and for the continuation of AAWSAP. The document summarizes the company’s self-assessment of the suitability of its personnel, software, equipment, field sensor, and data warehousing capabilities for analyzing unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and unidentified submerged objects (USOs). It includes excerpted case findings and uses selected case studies and modeling exercises as demonstrations of BAASS’s analytical capabilities. The report describes BAASS as combining field collection resources, historical databases, and computational tools such as ANSYS Multiphysics to model UAP incidents through engineering and physics analysis, including work on radar cross section, fluid behavior, acoustics, and aerodynamic performance. It also presents BAASS’s in-house capabilities as supporting both threat assessment and the study of advanced aerospace technologies, while asserting that analysis of UAP performance characteristics could inform future developments in propulsion, stealth, detection, and weapons systems.