DOW-UAP-D169, BAASS Monthly Report, March 2009

Official Conclusion

No formal conclusion on any case; Colares summary recommends a follow-up investigation of northeastern Brazil and renewed on-site examination with remote sensing equipment.

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 March 2009 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) progress report summarizes contractor activities for the period March 1–31, 2009. The report addresses staffing and clearance processing, progress on contracted technical papers, development of advanced aerial phenomena databases, BAASS’s purchase of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) information from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), efforts to become the Federal Aviation Administration’s official reporting point for unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), and review of UAP-related materials released by foreign governments. It also documents BAASS’s broader effort to establish centralized UAP collection and analysis capabilities, including database development, and external reporting pipelines. Overall, the file reflects ongoing program activity, particularly its emphasis on UAP reporting intake, reporting infrastructure, and archival or case-based analysis.

Key Findings

• →BAASS reports 33 full-time and 7 part-time employees as of March 31, 2009, including investigators with law enforcement and AFOSI backgrounds, and key staff traveled to Washington DC for security clearance processing.
• →The BAASS Data Warehouse (Project Capella) holds 234,364 UAP reports from 593 B.C. to present across six databases (NIDS, a redacted pilot database, Sign/Grudge/Blue Book, UFOCAT, MUFON, and an empty BAASS database), with about 0.6% reporting correlated radar data.
• →BAASS executed a February 2009 purchase order with MUFON for notification of significant UAP reports, investigator reports, and physical evidence, and had a ten-person rapid-reaction investigative team in Las Vegas.
• →BAASS initiated changes to three FAA publications to replace NIDS with BAASS as the UAP reporting agency; the FAA Procedures Development Group agreed on March 4, 2009 to coordinate.
• →The Brazil/Colares executive summary compiles 370+ investigations and 514 victims from 1977-2003, citing burns, paralysis, puncture wounds, 10 deaths and claimed abductions, and a Brazilian Air Force team (FAB) investigation reporting about 300 photographs; it is a secondhand summary of private investigator work.

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