DOW-UAP-D168, BAASS Project Management Plan, December 2008

Official Conclusion

No formal conclusion; contractor plan asserts that advanced craft of unknown origin exist and may pose a national security threat, and that further study and acquisition of government-held materials is needed.

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 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) Project Management Plan is an overview paper setting out the contractor’s proposed strategy, priorities, and milestones for executing contract HHM402-08-C-0072 (AAWSAP). The plan states that BAASS would address the program’s 12 technical areas through a smaller number of selected projects, including initiatives focused on physics research, project cooperation with government-held information, academic engagement, database development, oral-history interviewing, and collection or review of materials described as excluded from Project Blue Book. The plan argues that the most productive approach would be to study “craft” or events already believed by BAASS to demonstrate novel behavior across the 12 technical areas, rather than concentrating primarily on then-current academic or industrial state-of-the-art research.

Key Findings

• →BAASS proposes nine projects (Physics, Engagement, Cooperation, Campus, Database, Oral History, Blue Book Materials, Northern Tier, Colares) covering the 12 AAWSAP technical areas, with the 12th area defined as 'other' support areas.
• →The plan asks DIA to obtain clearances for BAASS staff and to help acquire gun-camera/satellite film, files allegedly excluded from Project Blue Book and held at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and NORAD uncorrelated-target data.
• →Project Northern Tier seeks SAC and other records on alleged incursions over nuclear-armed bases (Malmstrom, Loring, Wurtsmith, Minot, Kirtland) in the 1960s-70s and the December 1980 RAF Bentwaters incident.
• →Project Colares seeks Brazilian Air Force files on the 1977 Colares Island events, citing alleged injuries and deaths and ~200 pages of files posted online whose provenance BAASS would still need to validate.
• →The plan asserts, without supporting evidence in the document, that crashes of novel craft and recovery of biological material have occurred, and recommends back-engineering; these are claims by the contractor, not verified findings.

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