AAWSAP DIRD release
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| Date | 25 March 2022 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic), Propulsion & physics (topic) |
| People | John Greenewald |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 205 |
| Year | 2022 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2022 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
On 25 March 2022 the Defense Intelligence Agency released 37 of the 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs) produced under the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) in 2009–2010, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2018 by John Greenewald of The Black Vault.[1][2]
Background
The existence of the reports emerged after AAWSAP became public in December 2017. In January 2018 physicist Eric Davis said on radio that he had produced the 38 reports while at Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), the program's contractor, and Greenewald filed his request that month. In January 2019 the DIA released a list of the titles; physicist Hal Puthoff had chosen the topics, and his company EarthTech International was a subcontractor.[1][3]
The reports
The reports, written by scientists and engineers under contract, covered speculative subjects including warp drives, wormholes, invisibility cloaking, negative-mass propulsion, high-frequency gravitational wave communications, metamaterials and the biological effects of encounters with anomalous phenomena. One report, a secret study titled "State of the Art and Evolution of High-Energy Laser Weapons", was withheld.[1][2]
Reception
The DIRDs became a major resource for researchers, as they showed the kind of physics AAWSAP was interested in. Critics said many were speculative reviews with little practical value for a defence intelligence program; supporters saw them as a serious attempt to understand how UAP might work. The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office later concluded that AAWSAP had found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology.[2][4]
People and topics
- Defense Intelligence Agency — The Pentagon's military intelligence agency, which ran AAWSAP.
- AAWSAP — The Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
- Freedom of Information Act — The 1966 U.S. law that lets the public request government records.
- John Greenewald — Founder of The Black Vault FOIA archive.
- The Black Vault — John Greenewald's online archive of government documents.
- BAASS — The Bigelow Aerospace division that carried out the AAWSAP contract.
- High-frequency gravitational waves — Proposed gravitational waves at high frequencies, studied by JASON in 2008.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
On the Timeline
- Nuclear lure plan claim (18 March 2022) — A reporter says a plan exists to draw UAP out using nuclear materials.
- Coulthart on contractor scientists (2022) (May/June 2022) — Coulthart describes scientists said to work on secret UAP research.
See every 2022 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) documentation", The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- DIA release of AAWSAP DIRDs, FOIA 00159-2018 (PDF), The Black Vault · documents2.theblackvault.com · archived copy
- "Dr. Hal Puthoff determines what topics 38 contracts / reports should address", The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- "Pentagon UFO office finds 'no empirical evidence' for alien technology in new report", Space.com (Mar 2024) · space.com · archived copy
- Documents on the vetting of 'Skinwalkers at the Pentagon' — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: book review — Bad UFOs (Robert Sheaffer) · badufos.blogspot.com · archived copy
- AARO Report on the Historical Record, Volume I — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Robert Bigelow — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Harold E. Puthoff — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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