RELEASE 07 / DOW-UAP-D167
DOW-UAP-D167, Project Capella, December 2008
- File ID
- DOW-UAP-D167
- Agency
- Department of War
- Release
- Release 07, 23 Oct 2026
- Event date
- 12/10/2008 (read as 10 Dec 2008; precision: day)
- Location
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Redactions
- Yes, parts of the official copy are blacked out
The official record
Official copy at war.gov
Official summary, as published
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.
Named in this file
10 namesPeople, programs and institutions from The Legacy Program research board whose names appear in this file, found by exact spelling against a hand-checked list. A match says only that the file names them, not what part they play. People and programs lists every file that names each one.
- Tier A Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) program
Named in the official summary.
dia-program
- Tier A Project Blue Book program
Named in pages 3, 4, 5, 13.
Public-facing USAF UFO program (1952-1969)
- Tier A National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) program
Named in pages 8, 19, 25, 36, 40.
Privately funded research institute, Las Vegas, 1995-2004
- Tier A Bigelow Aerospace institution
Named in the official summary and page 2.
contractor
- Tier A Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), LLC institution
Named in the official summary and pages 2, 8, 9, 10, 11.
contractor
- Tier A Defense Intelligence Agency institution
Named in the official summary.
Combat support agency; AAWSAP/AATIP executive agent
- Tier A Battelle Memorial Institute institution
Named in page 3.
Private nonprofit applied science institute, Columbus, Ohio, est. 1929; operator or co-operator of PNNL, ORNL, INL, NREL, Brookhaven and NBACC
- Tier C Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) institution
Named in pages 4, 19.
French national space agency; host of GEPAN, SEPRA and GEIPAN since 1977
- Tier C J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) institution
Named in pages 4, 19, 36.
Civilian research body founded 1973 by J. Allen Hynek, Chicago
- Tier C Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) institution
Named in page 4.
US civilian UFO investigation network, founded 1969
Our reading
PROGRAM RECORDProject CAPELLA, a December 2008 proposal by Documatica Research to BAASS for a UAP data warehouse: plain spreadsheet catalogues, reliability and 'high-strangeness' coding, conversion of the NIDS catalogue first, and outreach to private and foreign databases in Europe and later Russia. It budgets $610,000 for year one and $830,000 for year two. The redacted author describes building Blue Book punched-card files and the 1968 Magonia catalogue.
Three separate measures, each with its reason. They are never added into a score.
E Evidence 0 of 3
A data-architecture proposal with no case observations
N Novelty 2 of 3
Judged from the file; no earlier publication checked
L Linkage 3 of 3
Report to BAASS proposing its AAWSAP-era data warehouse
Flags
- Redacted: parts of the official copy are blacked out.
People and programs
Reading published 31 Oct 2026.
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