DOW-UAP-D167, Project Capella, December 2008
Department of War · 12/10/08 · San Fransisco, California · Document
DOW-UAP-D167, Project Capella, December 2008 is indexed as a Department of War record with incident date 12/10/08 and location San Fransisco, California. 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 December 2008 report developed for Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) outlines Project Capella, a proposed data warehouse framework for the capture, processing, classification, and retrieval of information relating to unusual aerial phenomena and related anomalies. The report describes a methodology for integrating existing catalogues, standardizing classification and reliability measures, reviewing foreign and private databases, and building personnel and software capacity to support analysis, literature review, and potential future field investigations. It presents the project as a means of consolidating disparate historical and contemporary case materials into a structured research system capable of supporting multiple BAASS initiatives. By proposing a data architecture centered on unusual aerial phenomena and related anomalies, the document helped lay the groundwork for later BAASS efforts, seeking to formalize UAP-oriented data collection and analysis within BAASS s execution of AAWSAP. 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
- Together, these four documents describe a consistent methodology for the capture, processing and retrieval of parameters characterizing unusual aerial phenomena and related anomalies. (native PDF text, page 3)
- The lncommensurability Problem even applies to the problem of understanding UAP manifestations within the framework of the ETH. (native PDF text, page 28)
- We hope that it will prove stimulating as a unified approach to a puzzling phenomenon that presents both undeniable physical effects suggesting a technological device or craft and psychic effects reminiscent of the literature on poltergeists and psychokinetic phenomena. (native PDF text, page 24)
- The appendices address three specific implementation areas, describing the technical choices we have made in each area and the reasons for these choices: A Classification methodology and reliability measures for reported sightings B. (native PDF text, page 3)
Details
- O Project CAPELLA: Towards the development ofa data warehouse in support of research on.unusual aerial phenomena and related anomalies IAAP Person 5 Documatica Research, LLC How this report is organized This report consists of the present overview proposal and three appendices (two of which summarize. (native PDF text, page 3)
- Together, these four documents describe a consistent methodology for the capture, processing and retrieval of parameters characterizing unusual aerial phenomena and related anomalies. (native PDF text, page 3)
- The appendices address three specific implementation areas, describing the technical choices we have made in each area and the reasons for these choices: A Classification methodology and reliability measures for reported sightings B. (native PDF text, page 3)
- Modeling of infonnation categories, including high-strangeness data elements C. (native PDF text, page 3)
- Data Structures and Software Platforms in support of Aerial Phenomena Research Given the tools described hereafter, some of which have already been implemented and tested in prototype form in the course of prior research, we examine several scenarios for the long term acquisition, exploitation and maintenance of a. (native PDF text, page 3)
- diverse research community with a wide variety ofinformation needs. (native PDF text, page 3)
- Historical Background As we undertake this work we are building on a series of projects developed by many groups around the world, whose experiences contain important lessons. (native PDF text, page 3)
- Over the last half century many researchers, both professional and amateurs, have undertaken to build catalogues (either on paper or in computer readable form) or data bases about the range of phenomena that interest us. (native PDF text, page 3)
Tags: War Department, California, BAASS, Project Capella, AAWSAP, Air Force, Aerial phenomena, Weapons