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PROGRAM RECORD

DOW-UAP-D173, BAASS Monthly Report, November 2009

File ID
DOW-UAP-D173
Agency
Department of War
Release
Release 07, 23 Oct 2026
Event date
11/1/2009 (read as 1 Nov 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 November 2009 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) progress report summarizes contractor activities for the period November 1–30, 2009. The report focuses on AAWSAP investigative activity based on information received via the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), progress on investigations centering on a ranch in Utah, and a preliminary report on a “blue orb” incident. It also records BAASS’s continued emphasis on field investigation, case database expansion, and focused inquiry into events at the Utah ranch and surrounding area, including creation of a separate database for those incidents.

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 November 2009 report: MUFON case summaries (one flagged as likely model gliders), security officer logs from round-the-clock surveillance of the Utah ranch since 3 August 2009, including a stereo that switched itself on and marker pennies found moved, and a preliminary study of a 2007 case in which a woman said a blue orb passed through her body in a moving car, followed by two years of documented illness.

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

E Evidence 1 of 3

Security officer logs and witness interviews, mostly single-observer accounts

N Novelty 2 of 3

Judged from the file; no earlier publication checked

L Linkage 3 of 3

BAASS monthly report covering its Utah ranch work under AAWSAP

Flags

  • The file explains itself. Words in the file that bear on what it shows (recorded, not a verdict):
    • Maneuvers of objects in witness report suggested lights could be model planes. (page 9)
  • 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 A Skinwalker Ranch, Uintah Basin, Utah location

Reading published 31 Oct 2026.

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