Advanced Deep Space Transport group
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Contents 7
| Date | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Propulsion & physics (topic) |
| People | Eric W. Davis |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 143 |
| Year | 2001 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2001 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
The Advanced Deep Space Transport (ADST) group was a technology assessment group that heard briefings on propulsion and power for future deep-space travel around 2001. Physicist Eric Davis has been associated with it, and his 2004 Advanced Propulsion Study for the Air Force cites a 2001 briefing to its propulsion and power subgroup.[1]
The study
Davis wrote the Advanced Propulsion Study (report AFRL-PR-ED-TR-2004-0024, September 2004) for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base, under the name of his company, Warp Drive Metrics, in Las Vegas. Its references include a 2001 briefing by P. March of Lockheed Martin in Houston to the "Advanced Deep Space Transport Group-Propulsion and Power Subgroup" on a nuclear-thermal heavy-lift launch vehicle. The report's distribution list included NASA Johnson Space Center staff.[1]
Davis's other work
Davis had earlier worked for Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, and later, as a consultant with Hal Puthoff's EarthTech International, worked on the Pentagon-funded study run by Bigelow's company from 2008.[2]
Assessment
Few public records of the ADST group exist, and its exact membership, sponsorship and output have not been documented beyond such references.[1]
People and topics
- Eric W. Davis — Physicist who worked on AAWSAP and has said the U.S. holds recovered craft.
- NASA — The U.S. civilian space agency, created in 1958.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Bigelow Aerospace — Robert Bigelow's space habitat company.
- AAWSAP — The Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- The New York Times — The newspaper that revealed AATIP in December 2017.
On the Timeline
- Paul Czysz and the zero-point energy claim (November 2000) — A former McDonnell Douglas employee says a friend found a way to tap zero-point energy.
- Army helicopters and cattle mutilations (2001) (24 February 2001) — Vallée hears of cattle mutilations linked to Army helicopters.
See every 2001 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Eric W. Davis, Advanced Propulsion Study, AFRL-PR-ED-TR-2004-0024 (Sept 2004), via The Black Vault (PDF) · documents.theblackvault.com · archived copy
- Eric Davis on Coast to Coast AM, 24 June 2018 (transcript) — UFO Scans · ufoscans.com · archived copy
- Dr. Eric W. Davis biography — Lifeboat Foundation · lifeboat.com · archived copy
- Advanced Propulsion Study (AFRL, 2004, Eric Davis) — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- humansbefree.com · humansbefree.com · archived copy
- documents.theblackvault.com · documents.theblackvault.com · archived copy
- archive.org · archive.org · archived copy
Further reading
- Harold E. Puthoff — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Skunk Works — 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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