DOW-UAP-D171, BAASS Monthly Report, June 2009

Official Conclusion

Individual MUFON case conclusions vary: Kansas case 'UAV unknown'; Arkansas case 'real event... definitely unknown and does not appear to be a military craft'; no overall official conclusion stated.

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 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.

Key Findings

• →BAASS grew to 45 full-time and 6 part-time staff, including investigators with law enforcement/AFOSI backgrounds, and began planning a 5,000 sq ft underground vault and a lab/SCIF buildings to store recovered hardware and biological samples.
• →BAASS holds a purchase agreement with MUFON for rapid UAP case notification and physical evidence, but cut MUFON's stipend (to $25,500/month) because MUFON spent only about half its allocation and delivered fewer cases than expected.
• →The report compiles MUFON STAR team CAT 2/3 field investigations from April-June 2009 (Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Nevada, Wisconsin, Arizona, Maryland, Oregon, Kentucky), all based on civilian witness testimony with limited physical evidence, e.g., a blown battery fuse (Arkansas) and soil/vegetation/horse-hair samples (Oklahoma).
• →The Fallon, NV case reports witnesses' claim that Fallon NAS security cited 'three C-130s in formation' and an 'unspecified aircraft incident,' later confirmed by a Public Affairs duty officer, though timing conflicted (between midnight and 1 AM versus 9:30 PM report).
• →A BAASS team collected ~70 GB+ of case files from Brazilian groups (CPU, CSPU) in Fortaleza, Sobral and Cachoeira, while criticizing CSPU as too commercial; Project Northern Tier is re-investigating 1966-1975 UAP events at Minot, Wurtsmith, Loring and Malmstrom AFBs through witness tracing and FOIA requests.

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