DOW-UAP-D168, BAASS Project Management Plan, December 2008
Department of War · 12/2/08 · Las Vegas, Nevada · Document
DOW-UAP-D168, BAASS Project Management Plan, December 2008 is indexed as a Department of War record with incident date 12/2/08 and location Las Vegas, Nevada. 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 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) Project Management Plan is an overview paper setting out the contractor s proposed strategy, priorities, and milestones for executing contract HHM402-08-C-0072 (AAWSAP). The plan states that BAASS would address the program s 12 technical areas through a smaller number of selected projects, including initiatives focused on physics research, project cooperation with government-held information, academic engagement, database development, oral-history interviewing, and collection or review of materials described as excluded from Project Blue Book. The plan argues that the most productive approach would be to study craft or events already believed by BAASS to demonstrate novel behavior across the 12 technical areas, rather than concentrating primarily on then-current academic or industrial state-of-the-art research. 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
- recorded voluminous data on the nature of the objects that displayed advanced aerospace properties. (native PDF text, page 38)
- Objectives The first objective is to stimulate, motivate and encourage the senior levels of the academic community within the United States to involve themselves in study and research of very advanced aerial spacecraft that is presently considered phenomenological. (native PDF text, page 25)
- If we wish to have spacecraft that emulate the performance characteristics of these unknown spacecraft already moving freely in our public and secure airspace, then this program mu st necessarily acquire the ability to have a closer look. (native PDF text, page 40)
- Because these displays have not been taken seriously, few significant resources have been allocated to gathering the data into a single place from all of these sightings. (native PDF text, page 28)
Details
- BIGELOW AEROSPACE ADVANCED SPACE STUDIES Staff AAP Person 4 Administrato r AAP Person 7 Deput y Ad ministrat or Advisors L P Person 57 r p Person 8 Page i This information is proprietary and confidential and cannot be disseminated or used without prior written consent fr 0111 tire Operating Ma11ager of BMss. (native PDF text, page 3)
- PREFACE Importance of the Work There has been over six decades of intensive activity of advanced aerospace craft in t he skies over North America and around the world. (native PDF text, page 4)
- These have been w itnessed, photographed and chased by military pilots, witnessed by ground crews, by commercial airline pilots and by thou sands of military and civilian ground based personnel. (native PDF text, page 4)
- The importance of this study lies in the possibility that some of these advanced aerospace craft may represent a threat to the security of the United States including its airspace and nuclear facilities. (native PDF text, page 4)
- It is thus a very high priority to further our understanding of the physics and engineering feasibi lity of advanced aerospace weapon systems applications as they apply to the potential future capa bilities of foreign threat systems out to the fa r term, i.e. from now out through the year 2050. (native PDF text, page 4)
- Appreciation BAASS appreciates the high level of trust that has been bestowed on the organization by the sponsors/DIA in assigning us with th e responsibility of furthering our understanding of the physics and engineering feasibility of advanced aerospace weapons syst em applications. (native PDF text, page 4)
- and engineering feasibility of advanced aerospace weapons syst em applications. (native PDF text, page 4)
- BAASS understands the sobering importance and the long t erm implications of this project. (native PDF text, page 4)
Tags: War Department, Nevada, BAASS, MUFON, AAWSAP, Nuclear facility, Project Blue Book, Weapons, Aerial phenomena