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PROGRAM RECORD

DOW-UAP-D175, BAASS Self-Assessment of UAP Analysis Capabilities, November 2010

File ID
DOW-UAP-D175
Agency
Department of War
Release
Release 07, 23 Oct 2026
Event date
11/23/2010 (read as 23 Nov 2010; 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 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.

Named in this file

14 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 2010 summary of its UAP analysis capabilities for DIA's Defense Warning Office: field sensors, what it calls the largest UAP data warehouse in the world, and ANSYS modeling. Its showcase is the 2004 'Tic Tac' event, excerpted from a DIA investigation; at a 5-second event duration the parametric table gives about Mach 10.7 and a 75 g deceleration. It also models an object entering water, a USO's acoustics and a spherical UAP's radar cross section.

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

E Evidence 2 of 3

Includes an excerpt of DIA personnel's investigation of the 2004 Nimitz radar and FLIR event

N Novelty 2 of 3

Judged from the file; no earlier publication checked

L Linkage 3 of 3

BAASS capability statement under contract HHM402-08-C-0072

Flags

  • The file explains itself. Words in the file that bear on what it shows (recorded, not a verdict):
    • It should be stressed many, but not all, of these sightings may be explained by natural phenomena, or by unacknowledged aerospace technology. (page 11)
  • Redacted: parts of the official copy are blacked out.

People and programs

Tier A Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), LLC institutionTier A DIA Contract HHM402-08-C-0072 (BAASS) documentTier A USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group Encounters, 10-16 November 2004 event

Reading published 31 Oct 2026.

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