DOW-UAP-D169, BAASS Monthly Report, March 2009

Department of War · 4/10/09 · Las Vegas, Nevada · Document

DOW-UAP-D169, BAASS Monthly Report, March 2009 is indexed as a Department of War record with incident date 4/10/09 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 March 2009 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) progress report summarizes contractor activities for the period March 1 31, 2009. The report addresses staffing and clearance processing, progress on contracted technical papers, development of advanced aerial phenomena databases, BAASS s purchase of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) information from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), efforts to become the Federal Aviation Administration s official reporting point for unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), and review of UAP-related materials released by foreign governments. It also documents BAASS s broader effort to establish centralized UAP collection and analysis capabilities, including database development, and external reporting pipelines. Overall, the file reflects ongoing program activity, particularly its emphasis on UAP reporting intake, reporting infrastructure, and archival or case-based analysis. 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

• Two additional women suffered from anemia following their I separate UFO encounters. (native PDF text, page 30)
• objects operate and perhaps lead to reverse engineering of the technology involved. (native PDF text, page 34)
• that the breakdown of reports in the data warehouse accurately reflects the percentage of actual sightings. (native PDF text, page 10)
• This unique program will examine the sociological, military and scientific consequences to the United States of a variety of scenarios involving UAP activity. (native PDF text, page 20)

Details

• PREFACE This Progress report summarizes BAASS activities and progress for the period March 1-March 31. (native PDF text, page 3)
• TABLE OF CONTENTS Topics covered in this report are the following: Progress on Recruiting Staff. (native PDF text, page 3)
• Page 2 Progress on Obtaining Clearances for Existing Staff. (native PDF text, page 3)
• Page 4 Progress on Earthtech Contract to Deliver 24-30 papers. (native PDF text, page 3)
• Page 5 Progress on Development of Advanced Aerial Phenomena Databases. (native PDF text, page 3)
• Progress on Staff Recruitment Between March 1-31, 2009 in response to job advertisements in multiple on-line locations, BAASS received a total of 526 resumes. (native PDF text, page 4)
• The first level of screening (remova l of applications on the basis of too frequent job changes, those obviously inexperienced to work at BAASS, non-US citizens etc) was conducted on all resumes. (native PDF text, page 4)
• More than four dozen phone and face-to-face interviews were conducted during the month of February. (native PDF text, page 4)

Tags: War Department, Nevada, BAASS, MUFON, AAWSAP, Anomalous object, Aerial phenomena, Weapons