DOW-UAP-D169, BAASS Monthly Report, March 2009
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.
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Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (aka) BAASS This inforn;ation is proprietary afld confideAtial afld caAAot be dissemiAated or Used without prior written consent from the Operating Manager of BAAss•.
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This Progress report summarizes BAASS activities and progress for the TABLE OF CONTENTS Topics covered in this report are the following: Progress on Recruiting Staff. ................................................................................ Page 2 Progress on Obtaining Clearances for Existing Staff.......................................... Page 4 Progress on Earthtech Contract to Deliver 24-30 papers .................................Page 5 Progress on Development of Advanced Aerial Phenomena Databases ..........Page 6 BAASS has Contracted to Purchase Information on UAPs from MUFON....... Page 17 BAASS is Becoming the Official UAP Reporting Center for the FAA................ Page 21 Executive Summary Report on: "The UFO Assault on Brazil" bYl._______,········ ..····•······.......................... Page 22 BAAS$ Continues Study of the Information on UAP Activity Released by the British, Canadian and Danish Governments. ..........................................Page 39 Conclusion.............................................................................................................. Page 40 This information is proprietary and confidential and cannot be dissen,inated or used without prior wiitten consent frorn the Operating Manager or 8AASS•.
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Progress on Staff Recruitment • Between March 1-31, 2009 in response to job advertisements in multiple on-line locations, BAASS received a total of 526 resumes. • The first level of screening (removal of applications on the basis of too frequent job changes, those obviously inexperienced to work at BAASS, non-US citizens etc) was conducted on all resumes. • More than four dozen phone and face-to-face interviews were conducted during the month of February. • As a result of intensive interviewing and the transfer of some engineers from Bigelow Aerospace to BAASS, as of March 31, 2009 BAASS has thirty three full time employees and sev,en part time employees in addition to the administrator and deputy administrator (see table on page 4 below). Fulltime BAASS employees now indude senior investigative personnel (backgrounds in law enforcement and AFOSI), engineers (specializing in electrical, software and astronautics), scientists (with expertise in physics and biology) as well as support personnel and security guards. This information is propri@tal)' and confidential and cannot be disseminated or used without prior written consent from the Operating Manager of BAASS•.
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Employee List Deputy Administrator Significant Part-time Fulltime BAASS Employees BAASS Employees Senior Analyst level V Principal Engineer Lead Program Manager Senior Engineer level Ill A.AP Person 11 Senior Project Manager A.AP Person 54 Corporate Attorney A.AP Person 12 Senior Project Manager A.AP Person 55 Accountant A.AP Person 13 Senior Project Manager A.AP Person 56 Subject Matter Expert IV Mission Analyst A.AP Person 95 Mission Analyst Mission Analyst A.AP Person 96 Mission Analyst AAP t-'erson 1ti The yellow legend : temporarily transferred from Bigelow Lead Scientist level V Aerospace Lead Scientist level V EnRineer Specialist Lead Engineer EnRlneer Specialist A.AP Person 23 Lead Engineer A.AP Person 24 Lead Scientist level IV A.AP Person 30 Mission Analyst Mission Analyst A.AP Person 42 Executive Secretary A.AP Person 46 Security Officer A.AP Person 47 Security Officer A.AP Person 48 Security Officer A.AP Person 49 Security Officer Utah Ranch Security Officers This iAformatioA is 13ro13rietary aAel ceAfieleAtial aAel cannot be elissemlAated or used wittmut prior written consent from the Operating Ma11age1of BAASS•.
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We are optimistic that in the next 4-5 months we can hire the full complement of staff (possibly 50-60 personnel to begin the 2 year) that will make BAASS the necessary vibrant organization to make progress in this field. This will give BAASS a solid foundational base. With increased funding for next year we hope to dramatically the number of employees. Progress on Obtaining Clearance for Existing Staff IAAP Person 4 Ithe BAASS administrator,IAAP Person 7 IBAASS deputy secretary to AAP Person 4 j;:PPerson IBAASS Senior Program Manager Security, Earthtech and BAASS contractors) all have travelled to Washington DC to complete the security clearance process. Other BAASS employees are in multiple stages of investigation. or used without prior 'NritteR coRseRt from the OperatiRg MaRager of BAASS•.
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Progress by Earthtech on Production of 24-30 Position Papers on Physics of Advanced Aerospace Vehicles AAP Person IMP Person 57 Ito deliver 24-30 position papers that will be based on expanding~ focusing on strategically important sub-projects from the 12 position papers previously delivered by the subcontractor on twelve (12) technical areas: 1.) Lift, (optical, infrared, radiofrequency, acoustic), 9.) Human Interface, 10.) Human Effects, 11.) Armament (RF and DEW), 12.) Other peripheral areas in support of AAP Person According to an update fromlAAP Person 57 I progress is being made. Delivery of _/, all 24-30 papers is scheduled for July 2009. The following is an update from ~P P:~~?~l on the individual contributors and the titles of their reports as of the end of March 2009. This information is 19reprietary Bild ccmfidential and cannot be disse11,i11ated or used without p, io, written consent from the Operating Manager of BAASS•.
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Contributor Organization Topic Due Date IAAP Person 58 EarthTech lntern'I Antigravity Studies 5/1/20CY:J IAAP Person 69 Positronics Research Matter-antimatterenergy source 5/1S/20CY:J AAP Person IAAF> Person 74 Icons. Warp drives 5/1S/20CY:J IAAP Person 73 Wayne State Univ. Brain-machine Interfaces S/1S/20CY:J IAAP Person 65 Univ. of Arizona Novel MEMS-based biosensors 5/l/20CY:J IAAP Person 70 Univ. of Illinois IEC fusionas acompact energy source 6/15/2009t IAAP Person 58 EarthTech lntern'I Vacuum energy applications 5/1/20CY:J IAAP Person 57 EarthTech lntern'I Spacetime modification 5/1/20CY:J IAAP Person 58 EarthTech lntern'I Wormholes in spacetime 5/1/20CY:J IAAP Person 66 Ohio State Univ. Advanced metallic alloys 5/1S/20CY:J IAAP Person 63 Johns Hopkins Univ. Metallicglass materials 6/10/20CY:J IAAP Person 90 Programmable Matter Corp. Programmable matter 6/10/20CY:J IAAP Person 65 Univ. ofArizona Novel biomaterlals 5/1/20CY:J IAAP Person 71 Univ. ofTexas/Austin Metallic spintronics 6/10/20CY:J This mformat,on 1s proprietary and conf1dent1al and cannot be disseminated or used without priu1 wI itte11 co11sent from the Operating Manager of BAAss•.
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IAAP Person 67 HyperTech Concepts Advanced aerospace technologies S/15/20C'f:J IAAP Person 68 Univ. ofSt. Andrews Metamaterials/invisibility cloaks 5/1/2@ IAAP Person 78 IAAP Person 80 lntem'I Acad. Astronautics Statistical Drake equation 5/1/20C'f:J IAAP Person 81 Wayne State Univ. Field effects/biological tissues 5/15/2@ IAAP Person 79 DoD consultant Laser weapons 5/31/2@1 - IAAP Person 64
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of DoD's 282 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the DoD agency block it ranks #273 of 282 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 478-file archive it ranks #448 of 478.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (448 of 478 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
Anomalousness Index: 53/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
Reported by a witness with no instrumented record. The lowest tier in the rubric's sensor axis. Eyewitness perception in field conditions, even when the witness is highly credentialed, scores below capture by any instrumented modality. This report reached the federal record through the Department of War.
Trained U.S. military personnel reporting from an operational mission context. A high witness-credibility tier, ranked in the rubric below astronaut, trained-aviator, and federal-agent testimony. This is the witness profile shared by the entire AARO-submitted infrared-capture cluster that anchors the 66-point score band.
Single-witness or single-instrument capture. This is the corroboration tier for the overwhelming majority of the PURSUE archive on the released metadata - the rubric records the honest limit of the underlying record rather than inferring multi-witness corroboration that the released summaries do not establish. A small number of files with an independent second witness or instrument score on the multi-witness/multi-instrument tier above this one.
No kinematic measurements - speed, acceleration, vector - are published in the released file with sufficient precision to score on the kinematic axis. The rubric does not infer kinematic anomaly from narrative observer estimates. Every file in the archive carries this value, which is itself an observation about the disclosure: kinematic-grade telemetry was not part of what was released.
A conventional candidate explanation has been considered but is not dispositive. Every file in the archive scores this way - reflecting that the underlying release metadata systematically caveats strong determinations in either direction. The released summaries warn against reading them as conclusive analytical judgments, and the rubric respects that.
Catalogued as unresolved with no formal review process having concluded. This is the disposition for a large share of the archive's military infrared captures - the reports are logged into the system as unresolved, but no formal review has finalized. The rubric distinguishes this from 'open after review' because the absence of review is itself a status signal.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 53/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
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