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RELEASE 07 / DOW-UAP-D170

PROGRAM RECORD

DOW-UAP-D170, BAASS Monthly Report, April 2009

File ID
DOW-UAP-D170
Agency
Department of War
Release
Release 07, 23 Oct 2026
Event date
4/1/2009 (read as 1 Apr 2009; precision: day)
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada
Type
PDF
Redactions
Yes, parts of the official copy are blacked out

The official record

Official copy at war.gov
First page of the official copy

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 April 2009 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) progress report summarizes contractor activities for the period April 1–30, 2009. The report addresses staffing and clearance processing, progress on contracted technical papers, BAASS’s purchase of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) information from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), work on “Project Northern Tier,” and review of UAP-related materials released by several foreign governments. It also describes BAASS’s development of investigative and laboratory support capabilities, including a small deployable field investigation team and arrangements for potential future forensic and scientific analyses of materials obtained through MUFON reporting. Overall, the file documents ongoing program activity, particularly in UAP case acquisition, field investigation, and archival research.

Named in this file

8 names

People, 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.

Our reading

PROGRAM RECORD

BAASS's April 2009 report, with 35 full-time staff, documents MUFON's start-up of the BAASS-funded SIP dispatch and field deployment system and gives the first Project Northern Tier analysis. That analysis focuses on autumn 1975 'helicopter' incursions at Malmstrom, Wurtsmith and Loring and draws on a Cascade County deputy's log of more than 250 events around Malmstrom from 1975 to 1977, plus a KC-135 crew's pursuit near Wurtsmith.

Three separate measures, each with its reason. They are never added into a score.

E Evidence 1 of 3

Administrative report whose case content is reconstructed from secondary records

N Novelty 2 of 3

Judged from the file; no earlier publication checked

L Linkage 3 of 3

BAASS monthly report under the AAWSAP contract

Flags

  • Redacted: parts of the official copy are blacked out.

People and programs

Tier A Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), LLC institutionTier C BAASS–MUFON Star Team Impact Project (SIP) programTier B Malmstrom missile-field overflights, 7 to 19 November 1975 eventTier A 1975 SAC Nuclear-Base Overflights (Loring, Wurtsmith, Malmstrom, Minot) event

Reading published 31 Oct 2026.

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