DOW-UAP-D175, BAASS Self-Assessment of UAP Analysis Capabilities, November 2010
Department of War · 11/23/10 · Las Vegas, Nevada · Document
DOW-UAP-D175, BAASS Self-Assessment of UAP Analysis Capabilities, November 2010 is indexed as a Department of War record with incident date 11/23/10 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 November 2010 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) contractor-authored capability statement presents BAASS s analysis as technically rigorous and strategically valuable. The document appears intended not only to describe BAASS s analytical capabilities but also to reinforce the case for the organization s continued relevance and for the continuation of AAWSAP. The document summarizes the company s self-assessment of the suitability of its personnel, software, equipment, field sensor, and data warehousing capabilities for analyzing unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and unidentified submerged objects (USOs). It includes excerpted case findings and uses selected case studies and modeling exercises as demonstrations of BAASS s analytical capabilities. The report describes BAASS as combining field collection resources, historical databases, and computational tools such as ANSYS Multiphysics to model UAP incidents through engineering and physics analysis, including work on radar cross section, fluid behavior, acoustics, and aerodynamic performance. It also presents BAASS s in-house capabilities as supporting both threat assessment and the study of advanced aerospace technologies, while asserting that analysis of UAP performance characteristics could inform future developments in propulsion, stealth, detection, and weapons systems. 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
- Some USO and UAP reportedly exhibited superior performance capabilities in velocity and acceleration underwater in the absence of detectable turbulence or cavitation signatures. (native PDF text, page 11)
- agency documents have formally declared an unidentified flying object was involved. (native PDF text, page 59)
- Throughout the millennia individuals have observed and reported unexplained phenomena in the sky. (native PDF text, page 11)
- This report outlined software, equipment and database descriptions along with select theory, analytical and numerical solutions for UAP incidents through engineering and physics analyses. (native PDF text, page 100)
Details
- Summary Report on BAASS UAP Analysis Capabilities November 23. (native PDF text, page 1)
- 14 2.3 baass personnel, software, equipment and data warehouse. (native PDF text, page 3)
- 25 4.1.1 Analytical Solutions of Velocities and Accelerations Associated with "Tic Tac" Performance. (native PDF text, page 3)
- 32 4.1.2 Summary of Analytical Velocity and Acceleration Solutions. (native PDF text, page 3)
- 32 4.1.3 Numerical Analysis of Compressible Flow. (native PDF text, page 3)
- 39 4.1.4 Summary and Conclusions of Compressible Numerical Analyses. (native PDF text, page 3)
- 1 Acoustical Analysis of a Spherical USO. (native PDF text, page 3)
- 82 4.2.3 Radar Cross Section Analysis of a Spherical UFO. (native PDF text, page 3)
Tags: War Department, Nevada, BAASS, AAWSAP, Unidentified object, Weapons, Radar, Aerial phenomena