RELEASE 07 / DOW-UAP-D168
DOW-UAP-D168, BAASS Project Management Plan, December 2008
- File ID
- DOW-UAP-D168
- Agency
- Department of War
- Release
- Release 07, 23 Oct 2026
- Event date
- 12/2/2008 (read as 2 Dec 2008; precision: day)
- Location
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- 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 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.
Named in this file
11 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 the official summary and pages 9, 10, 33, 35, 36.
Public-facing USAF UFO program (1952-1969)
- Tier A National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) program
Named in page 29.
Privately funded research institute, Las Vegas, 1995-2004
- Tier A Bigelow Aerospace institution
Named in the official summary and pages 2, 3, 21, 40.
contractor
- Tier A Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), LLC institution
Named in the title, the official summary and pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 26 more.
contractor
- Tier A Defense Intelligence Agency institution
Named in the official summary and pages 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 9 more.
Combat support agency; AAWSAP/AATIP executive agent
- Tier C Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) institution
Named in pages 5, 15, 29.
US civilian UFO investigation network, founded 1969
- Tier B Los Alamos National Laboratory institution
Named in pages 11, 33.
DOE FFRDC administered by Triad National Security, LLC since 9 June 2018; Los Alamos, NM
- Tier B Armed Forces Institute of Pathology institution
Named in page 13.
DoD pathology institute created by 10 U.S.C. 176 in 1976; disestablished in part by BRAC 2005, its Tissue Repository preserved by statute
- Tier A Central Intelligence Agency institution
Named in page 14.
Independent civilian foreign intelligence service; convener of the Robertson Panel
- Tier B Strategic Air Command (SAC) institution
Named in page 35.
The USAF major command that owned every installation in this cluster; the institutional spine of the nuclear-incursion record, 1946 to 1992
Our reading
READ FIRSTBAASS's December 2008 plan for the AAWSAP contract lays out nine projects and asks DIA to secure files and trace material at Los Alamos said to have been kept out of Blue Book, Brazil's 1977 Colares records, NORAD data, access to recovered biological samples, and interviews with about ten people tied to retrieval programs. Project Engagement seeks 'communication and or contact'. Exhibits: the 1947 AMC 'Flying Discs' memo and a 2002 Roswell affidavit, names redacted.
Three separate measures, each with its reason. They are never added into a score.
E Evidence 1 of 3
Plans and exhibits; observational content is secondhand (a Roswell affidavit, a pilot narrative)
N Novelty 2 of 3
Judged from the file; no earlier publication checked; the exhibits include previously published material
L Linkage 3 of 3
BAASS's management plan for DIA contract HHM402-08-C-0072
Flags
- Previously public.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Haut: The Roswell base's 1947 public information officer, Walter Haut, signed a sealed affidavit in 2002, published in 2007; the exhibit's name is redacted
- Redacted: parts of the official copy are blacked out.
People and programs
Reading published 31 Oct 2026.
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