DOW-UAP-D170, BAASS Monthly Report, April 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 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.
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Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies This iofocmatioo is proprietary aod confidential and cannot be di55eminated 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 BAASS has Contracted to Purchase Information on UAPs from MUFON.......Page 8 BAASS progress on Project Northern Tier..........................................................Page 32 BAASS Continues Study of the Information on UAP Activity Released by the British, Canadian French and Danish Governments............................. Page 46 I his information 1s proprietary and confidential and ca1111ot be disse111h,eted or used without prior written consent from Hie Operating Manager of BAASS".
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Progress on Staff Recruitment • Between April 1-30, 2009 in response to job advertisements in multiple on line locations, BAASS received a total of 281 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 three 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 April 30, 2009 BAASS has thirty five full time employees and six part time employees in addition to the administrator (see table on page 4 below). Fulltime BAASS employees now include 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 proprietary and confidential and cannot be disseminated or used without prior written consent from the Operating Manager of BAASS®.
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BAASS Employees AAP Person 4 Deputy Administrator Fulltime BAASS Employees Significant Part-time BAASS Employees AAP Person 8 AAP Person 98 Senior Analyst level V Principal Engineer AAP Person 9 Lead Program Manager AAP Person 52 Senior Engineer level Ill AAP Person 10 Lead Program ManaR:er AAP Person 53 Executive Assistant RTB AAP Person 11 Senior Project Manager AAP Person 54 Corporate Attorney AAP Person 55 AAP Person 12 Senior Project Manager Accountant AAP Person 13 Senior Project Manager AAP Person 56 Subject Matter Expert IV AAP Person 14 Mission Analyst AAP Person 95 Mission Analyst AAP Person 16 Mission Analyst AAP Person 17 Mission Analyst AAP Person 18 Lead Scientist level V AAP Person 19 Lead Scientist level V AAP Person 20 Engineer Specialist AAP Person 21 I Lead Engineer AAP Person 22 Engineer Specialist AAP Person 23 Lead Engineer AAP Person 24 Lead Scientist level IV AAP Person 25 Subject Matter Expert I AAP Person 26 Subject Matter Expert I AAP Person 27 Subject Matter Expert I AAP Person 30 Mission Analyst AAP Person 31 Mission Analyst AAP Person 32 Mission Analyst AAP Person 39 Mission Analyst AAP Person 40 Mission Analyst AAP Person 41 Mission Analyst AAP Person 42 Executive Secretary AAP Person 97 AAP Person 44 AAP Person 46 Security Officer AAP Person 47 Security Officer AAP Person 48 Security Officer AAP Person 49 Security Officer Utah Ranch Security Officers This 1nformat1on is proprietary and confidential a11d ca1111ot be di:s:semiflated or us@d without prior written consent from the Operating Manager of BMss• .
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We are optimistic that in the next 2-3 months we can hire the first year's full complement of staff (approximately 50-60 personnel to begin the 2 year) that will make BAASS the most maximally productive organization in this field. However, this will give BAASS a base that will only partially cover the investigative and analytical needs within the United States. It is essential to increase our funding for next year if we hope to expand to fully cover the United States, not to mention beyond the borders of the United States. Thl5 information is proprietary and confidential and cannot be di55eminated 01 used without prior written consent from ttle Operating Manager of BAASS•.
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Progress on Obtaining Clearance for Existing Staff t_he_ BAASS administrator, BAASS deputy BAASSsenior analyst, erson executive ~P Person secretar to MP Person . 4 BAASS Senior Program Manager Security, MP Person 9 BAASS lead program manager MP Person 56 BAASS senior IT Earthtech and BAASS contractors) all have travelled to Washington DC to complete the security clearance process. Two other BAASS employees are submitting their details and are in the first stages of investigation. TIiis i11for111atio11 is proprietary and confidential and cannot ee disseminated or used without prior written consent from the Operating Manager of BAASS•.
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Progress by Earthtech on Production of 24-30 Position Papers on Physics of Advanced Aerospace Vehicles On December 31, 2008 BAASS awarded a contract to Earthtech International IAAP Person 57 Ito deliver 24-30 position papers that will be based on expanding and focusing on strategically important sub-projects from the 12 position papers previously delivered by the subcontractor on twelve (12) technical Signature Reduction (optical, infrared, radiofrequency, acoustic), 9.) Human Interface, 10.) Human Effects, 11.) Armament (RF and DEW), 12.) Other peripheral areas in support of (1-11). According to an update fro AAP Person 57 excellent progress is being made. Delivery of all 24-30 papers Is sc e u e or uly 2009. Several drafts and even final papers have been already received by and are in various~~ ~erson stages of being scrutinized. The following is an update from I ····· ...l.on the individual contributors and the titles of their reports as of the end of April 2009. •••••• ~P P..~rson I his information Is prop, ietar y a1 ,d confidential and cannot ee disseminated- or 11sed without prior written cooseot from the Operating Manager of BAASS5
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Contributor Organization Topic Due Date !AAP Person 58 EarthTech lntern'I Antigravity Studies 5/1/20C!:J IAAP Person 69 Posltronlcs Research Matter-antimatter energy source 5/15/20C!:J IAAP Person 73 Wayne State Univ. Brain-machine interfaces S/15/20091
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 #274 of 282 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 478-file archive it ranks #449 of 478.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (449 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.
No sensor, camera, or instrument backs this observation - it is testimony, relayed through the Department of War, and scored on the rubric's lowest sensor-quality tier for that reason. That doesn't bear on the witness's credibility (a separate axis); it reflects only that nothing beyond human perception recorded the event.
Reported by trained U.S. military personnel during an operational mission (4/1/2009) - a high witness-credibility tier, ranked in the rubric below astronaut, trained-aviator, and federal-agent testimony. This profile is shared across the AARO-submitted infrared-capture cluster that anchors the archive's densest scoring band, at 66.
On corroboration, this file from the Department of War - like every single-tier file in the PURSUE archive - is a single-witness or single-instrument capture per the released metadata. The rubric doesn't infer multi-witness confirmation the summaries don't actually establish; this score reflects the honest limit of what was released, not a judgment about the underlying event.
The released file contains no speed, acceleration, or vector data precise enough to score on the kinematic axis - and that's true archive-wide, not specific to this file. The rubric declines to infer kinematic anomaly from a witness's narrative estimate of how fast something moved; that itself says something about what PURSUE actually released: descriptive accounts, not flight-path telemetry.
Every file in the archive, including this one, scores this tier: a conventional explanation was considered in the released record but isn't treated as dispositive. That's a pattern in how war.gov's own summaries are written - they consistently hedge against strong conclusions either way - and the rubric takes that hedging at face value rather than resolving it for them.
This file from the Department of War is catalogued as unresolved, with no formal review process having concluded - logged into the system, but not yet finalized by any review. The rubric treats that differently from 'open after review,' because the absence of a completed review is itself part of the file's status, not a placeholder for one.
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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