DOW-UAP-D171, BAASS Monthly Report, June 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 June 2009 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) progress report summarizes contractor activities for the period June 1–30, 2009. The report addresses staffing growth, expansion into new facilities, progress on contracted technical papers, investigative activity based on information received via the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a BAASS deployment to Brazil, an update on “Project Northern Tier,” and continued review of UAP-related materials released by foreign governments. It also documents BAASS’s continued investment in field investigation capacity, foreign liaison-building, and UAP case acquisition, while recording BAASS’s proposal to reduce MUFON’s monthly stipend pending further performance review. Overall, the file reflects program activity, particularly in UAP reporting intake, foreign case investigation, and organizational expansion in support of those functions.
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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 3 Progress on New BAASS Facilities........................................................................ Page 6 Progress on EarthTech Contract to Deliver 24-30 papers ................................ Page 8 Summary of MUFON Investigative Activity for June 2009 ...............................Page 11 BAASS Deployment to Brazil................................................................................Page 97 Project Northern Tier Update...........................................................................Page 116 BAASS Continues Study of the Information on UAP Activity Released by the British, Canadian, French and Danish Governments. ..........................Page 129
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Progress on Staff Recruitment • Between June 1-30, 2009 in response to job advertisements in multiple on line locations, BAASS received a total of 461 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. • Between three and four dozen phone and face-to-face interviews were conducted during the month ofJune. • As a result of intensive interviewing and the transfer of some engineers from Bigelow Aerospace to BAASS, as of June 30, 2009 BAASS has forty five full time employees and six part time employees in addition to the administrator (see table on page 3 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.
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BAASS Employees AAP Person 4 AAP Person 7 Deputy Administrator Significant Part-time Fulltime BAASS Employees BAASS Employees Senior Analyst level V Senior Engineer level Ill AAP Person 9 Lead Program Manager AAP Person 53 Executive Assistant RTB AAP Person 10 Lead Program Manager AAP Person 54 Corporate Attorney AAP Person 11 Senior Project Manager AAP Person 55 Accountant AAP Person 12 Senior Project Manager AAP Person 56 Subject Matter Expert IV AAP Person 13 Senior Project Manager AAP Person 14 Mission Analyst AAP Person 15 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 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 29 Subject Matter Expert I AAP Person 30 Mission Analyst AAP Person 31 Mission Analyst AAP Person 32 Mission Analyst AAP Person 33 Subject Matter Expert I AAP Person 34 Mission Analyst AAP Person 35 Mission Analyst AAP Person 36 Mission Analyst AAP Person 110 Mission Analyst AAP Person 38 Mission Analyst AAP Person 39 Mission Analyst AAP Person 40 Mission Analyst AAP Person 41 Mission Analyst
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AAP Person 42 Executive Secretary AAP Person 43 Receptionist AAP Person 44 Director of security IAAP Person 45 Security Officer AAP Person 46 Security Officer AAP Person 47 Security Officer AAP Person 48 !Security Officer AAP Person 49 Security Officer AAP Person 50 Security Officer AAP Person 51 Security Officer Utah Ranch Security Officers We are optimistic that in the next month we can hire the first year's full complement of staff (approximately 50-60 personnel to begin the 2 year) that will make BAAS$ the most maximally productive organization in this field. However, this will give BAAS$ a foundational base that will partially cover the investigative and analytical needs within the United States.
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Progress on New BAASS Facilities During the month of Jun~AAP Person jthe BAASS administrator, made substantial progress on two major real estate projects in line with anticipated future BAASS needs. (1) Underground Vault: The need for a highly secure underground vault operated by BAASS became apparent in line with a BAASS priority to pursue and acquire recovered hardware and biological samples from the corporate world and/or from private individuals and groups located elsewhere, including in Brazil. It was recognized by the BAASS administrator that there was no highly secure facility at BAASS to store exotic material or tissue that the organization could obtain. Accordingly, the BAASS administrator designed an underground facility to be located in North Las Vegas at the Bigelow Aerospace facility. The chosen location is exceptionally well protected by perimeter fencing and razor wire, surveillance cameras and 24 hour armed guards who are retired or current military. Further, the BAASS administrator during the month of June designed and created architectural plans for a 5000 sq.ft underground vault with 3 foot thick walls, ceiling and floor with a concrete access tunnel leading to multiple security doors, at least one of which comprises a thick vault steel door. The entire facility will be located underground at the Bigelow Aerospace facility with over 15-20 feet of earth above the structure. Any surface structures protruding from the ground will be extensively camouflaged. It is anticipated that subject to building permits, the new underground facility will be capable of being occupied by late 2009 or early 2010. More details on this project will be reported in the June 2009 BAASS monthly report. (2) New Buildings Purchased for BAASS: Because of the extremely rapid pace of BAASS personnel expansion (see previous section), the
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organization is close to outgrowing the current BAASS facility. Accordingly, the BAASS administrator began planning for this eventuality late last year (2008) and in the past several months has personally visited and inspected close to fifty separate buildings for sale located in different areas of the Las Vegas Valley with a view to purchasing a new facility for the rapidly expanding organization. This lengthy, time consuming process culminated in the purchase of five new office buildings which will be customized for BAASS personnel use. As of June 31, 2009 these five buildings are now in escrow. It is intended that the buildings will include a 5000 sq ft laboratory and secure physical evidence storage facility and a second building will contain a secure
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 #275 of 282 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 478-file archive it ranks #450 of 478.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (450 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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