DOW-UAP-D167, Project Capella, December 2008

Official Description

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 December 2008 report developed for Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) outlines Project Capella, a proposed data warehouse framework for the capture, processing, classification, and retrieval of information relating to “unusual” aerial phenomena and related anomalies. The report describes a methodology for integrating existing catalogues, standardizing classification and reliability measures, reviewing foreign and private databases, and building personnel and software capacity to support analysis, literature review, and potential future field investigations. It presents the project as a means of consolidating disparate historical and contemporary case materials into a structured research system capable of supporting multiple BAASS initiatives. By proposing a data architecture centered on unusual aerial phenomena and related anomalies, the document helped lay the groundwork for later BAASS efforts, seeking to formalize UAP-oriented data collection and analysis within BAASS’s execution of AAWSAP.

Key Findings

• →Proposes a data warehouse (using Microsoft Excel) layered over existing UAP catalogues rather than merging them, with a standard structure and coding system to minimize bias.
• →Recommends a team of five roles (database administrator, two data analysts, quality control coordinator, statistician) with estimated budgets of $610,000 for year one and $830,000 for year two (±30%).
• →Appendix A defines a behavior-based classification (CE1-CE5, AN1-AN5, MA1-MA5, FB1-FB5) and a three-digit SVP credibility code rating source reliability, site visit, and probability of natural explanation.
• →Appendix B proposes a six-layer model (physical, anti-physical, psychological, physiological, psychic, cultural) and speculates that UAP may involve technology integrating physical and psychic phenomena, including wormhole/extra-dimensional hypotheses.
• →Appendix C specifies a ten-screen data structure and includes an exhibit of NIDS catalogue entries (1946-1967 cases such as Aurora/Dulce/Gulf of Tonkin/Kincheloe AFB) with classification, shape, and duration fields, but with witnesses and sources largely redacted.

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