BAASS investigations
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Contents 8
| Date | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Nuclear & missile sites (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 171 |
| Year | 2010 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2010 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 14 |
Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) carried out investigations for the Defense Intelligence Agency's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) from 2008 to 2010, building a large database of UFO reports and sending investigators to study individual cases.[1][2]
Staff
BAASS was registered as a Nevada company in January 2008 and won the AAWSAP contract that September. Over the program's 27 months it employed about 75 people, including some 50 full-time investigators, scientists and analysts, among them former staff of Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science; Colm Kelleher was deputy administrator and retired Air Force Colonel Douglas Kurth joined in December 2008.[2][3][4]
Investigations
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BAASS gathered reports from around the world into what insiders called the largest UFO data warehouse ever assembled. Through a contract with the Mutual UFO Network, it paid for rapid-response field investigations by MUFON's STAR teams from April 2009 to January 2010. One of its investigators, Jonathan Axelrod, filed a report in June 2009 on the 2004 USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" encounter. BAASS also studied Skinwalker Ranch and people reportedly injured near UFOs.[2][3][4]
Legacy interviews
According to Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021) and other accounts, BAASS staff also interviewed former Air Force intelligence officers about legacy UFO cases, trying to learn what earlier investigations had found. The details of those interviews come from participants' accounts.[5]
Reports
BAASS produced a 494-page "Ten Month Report" in July 2009 and, according to insiders, more than 100 scientific reports, as well as overseeing 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents on advanced physics. The DIA released 37 of the 38 reference documents in March 2022 and some contract records through Freedom of Information requests, but the full results of BAASS's investigations have not been released. The contract expired in December 2010.[1][3][4]
People and topics
- BAASS — The Bigelow Aerospace division that carried out the AAWSAP contract.
- Defense Intelligence Agency — The Pentagon's military intelligence agency, which ran AAWSAP.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- AAWSAP — The Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
- Skinwalkers at the Pentagon — A 2021 book about AAWSAP by Lacatski, Kelleher and Knapp.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Freedom of Information Act — The 1966 U.S. law that lets the public request government records.
On the Timeline
- Hill AFB glowing disc (2010) (15 December 2010) — Two alleged Hill AFB workers report a glowing disc above the flight line.
- Kit Green's autopsy tissue package (2011) — Kit Green says he received an anonymous package of supposed alien autopsy tissue.
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References
- "The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) documentation", The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- "New book uncovers secrets of government-funded UFO investigation program", KLAS 8 News Now / Mystery Wire · 8newsnow.com · archived copy
- "The AAWSAP–BAASS–MUFON connection", Blue Blurry Lines (Mar 2020) · blueblurrylines.com · archived copy
- Justin Snead, "Timeline of modern UFO investigations: AAWSAP to AARO" · justinsnead.substack.com · archived copy
- Robert Sheaffer, "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon — book review", Bad UFOs (Jun 2022) · badufos.blogspot.com · archived copy
- Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP/AAWSAP) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Glowing auras and 'black money': the Pentagon's mysterious UFO program — New York Times (2017) · nytimes.com · archived copy
- The origins of AAWSAP — Metabunk · metabunk.org · archived copy
- DIA FOIA reading room (AAWSAP technical reports) · dia.mil · archived copy
- Documents on the vetting of 'Skinwalkers at the Pentagon' — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- AARO historical report finds no evidence of alien technology (2024) — Space.com · space.com · archived copy
- AARO Report on the Historical Record, Volume I — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- amazon.com · amazon.com · archived copy
- pearl-hifi.com · pearl-hifi.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Robert Bigelow — 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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