DOW-UAP-D132, AAWSAP DIRD, Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering, March 2010

Department of War · 3/29/10 · Las Vegas, Nevada · Document

DOW-UAP-D132, AAWSAP DIRD, Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering, March 2010 is indexed as a Department of War record with incident date 3/29/10 and location Las Vegas, Nevada. This document is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD), a technical reference format used by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to capture baseline knowledge on a specific topic for later analytic use. DIRDs are best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than as original research. It is one of 38 DIRDs produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) between 2009 and 2011. Because AAWSAP s scope permitted a broad range of supporting topics, not every DIRD in the series directly concerns aerospace systems or future threat assessment. The following summary reflects the DIRD s scope and framing at the time of writing and should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed. This DIRD examines the idea of vacuum or spacetime-metric engineering: the possibility that an unspecified future technology might alter the structure of spacetime in ways useful for propulsion, power generation, or extremely rapid long-distance travel. Using general relativity as a model-independent framework, it explores the physical effects that would theoretically follow if such metric changes could be artificially induced, including altered time rates, changes in effective mass, modified light propagation, gravity-like effects, and warp-drive propulsion. The document does not propose any mechanism for generating these effects and treats these physical consequences as an assumed result of spacetime manipulation rather than as the outcome of a practical engineering pathway. It also emphasizes that the energy requirements predicted by current theory to create such effects are far beyond existing technological capability. Redactions have been made to protect the identity of eyewitnesses, the location of government facilities, or potentially sensitive information about military sites not related to UAP. No redactions have been made to any files released under President Trump's directive concerning information about the nature or existence of any encounter reported as a UAP or related phenomena.

Notable / anomalous element

• Expected effects would mimic known refractive index effects in general and can therefore be determined from known phenomena. (native PDF text, page 14)
• In other words, effective transport at speeds exceeding the conventional speed of light could occur in principle, and therefore the possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel is not fundamentally ruled out by physical principles. (native PDF text, page 13)
• Signatures of the predicted contractions and expansions of space, slowdown and speedup of time, alteration of effective mass, speed of light and associated consequences, both as occur in natural phenomena in nature and with regard to spacetimes specifically engineered for advanced aerospace applications, are. (native PDF text, page 16)
• EFFECTIVE MASS IN SPACETIMEALTERED REGIONS As noted in the preceding sections, spacetime alteration of energy and light-speed measures leads to an associated alteration in the effective mass of an object in a spacetime-altered region as viewed from an external (unaltered) region. (native PDF text, page 14)

Details

• UNCLASSIFIED/ /F8fl 8FFIOIAL SE er LY Advanced Space Propulsion based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering Prepared by: Acquisition Support Division (DW0-3) Defense Warning Office Directorate for Analysis Defense Intelligence Agency Author: AAP Person 57 Administrative Note COPYRI GHT WARNING: Further. (native PDF text, page 2)
• Th is product is one in a series of advanced t echnology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Defense Intell igence Agency, Defense Warning Office's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. (native PDF text, page 2)
• Comments or questions pertaining to!, this document should be addressed to lAAP Person 1 AAWSA Program Manager, Defense Intell igence Agency, ATTN: CLAR/ DWO-3, Bldg 6000, Washington, DC 20340-5100. (native PDF text, page 2)
• Spacetime Modification Metric Tensor Approach. (native PDF text, page 3)
• Physical Effects as a Function of Metric Tensor Coefficients. (native PDF text, page 3)
• 4 Velocity of Light in Spacetime-Altered Regions. (native PDF text, page 3)
• 5 Effective Mass in Spacetime-Altered Regions. (native PDF text, page 3)
• Significance of Physical Effects Applicable to Advanced Aerospace Craft Technologies as a Function of Metric Tensor Coefficients. (native PDF text, page 3)

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