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AAWSAP

Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. DIA contract (2008–2010, about $22M) to study future aerospace threats. Bigelow's company BAASS ran it, and it commissioned 38 research papers (DIRDs). AATIP is the name often used for it or for its successor.

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ToRoleYearsVerdictSource
Harry Reidsecured the funding2007–2008Documented · occurreden.wikipedia.org
AATIPrelated program; the names are often used interchangeably2008–2012Documented · occurreden.wikipedia.org
Harold Puthoffwrote the DIRD 'Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering', DIA-08-1003-015, 29 Mar 20102010Documented · occurred
Plasma orbsDIRD on field effects on human tissue (D128)2010Documented · occurredwar.gov

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FromRoleYearsVerdictSource
Kona Blue was a proposed DHS special access program meant to receive AAWSAP-era materialnamedStructural
Pentagon fundamentalists who saw UAP as demonic reportedly helped end OSAP-AAWSAPnamedStructural
Publisher blurb- nuclear-site UAP incursions led Stratton to co-found AAWSAP, discovering an '80-year cover-up' of NHI hidden by 'powerful gatekeepers'namedStructural
Vallée learned the AAWSAP program's name from the Wall Street Journal (he knew it internally as BAASS)namedStructural
Skinwalker Ranchthe ranch → Lacatski → Reid/Stevens → the $22M program2007–2008Documented · occurreden.wikipedia.org
Harry Reidsecured the funding (with Sens. Inouye and Stevens)2007–2008Documented · occurreden.wikipedia.org
Report 01 - UAP program recordschapter 22007–2012Structural
AAWSAP-BAASS ran roughly 50 staff and produced about 100 technical products, of which only 35-38 have been publicly releasedstaffing/output2008-2010Unprovenmetabunk.org
OSAP-BAASS's data warehouse was designed with 10-12 databases; its refinement phases were interrupted before completionCapella data warehouse2008-2010Unprovenmetabunk.org
Ryder-Lockheed proposed transferring 1950s material to DIA via AAWSAP, and CIA DS&T refusedDavis: the $22M was originally meant to SCIF Bigelow facilities for the material2008Unproven
Stratton co-created AAWSAP with Jim Lacatski, created AATIP, and directed the UAP Task ForceStratton co-founded it with Lacatski (per his bio)2008Documented · occurredhollywoodreporter.com
The DIA's Defense Warning Office contracted BAASS for AAWSAP, 2008-2010contracting office and term2008-2010Documented · saidwar.gov
Reid reply and withheld DIRDprogram2008–2012Documented · occurred
Robert Bigelowcontractor through BAASS2008–2010Documented · occurreden.wikipedia.org
BAASS Project Management Plan (Dec 2008)contract HHM402-08-C-0072 plan2008—
Vallee on the Bigelow podcast (Sept 2026)subject; Capella data warehouse unfinished2008-2010—
AAWSAP-BAASS investigated the Nov 2004 USS Nimitz 'tic-tac' encounter beginning 2009, after it went public via NYT Dec 2017first investigated case2009Documented · occurredmetabunk.org
BAASS had 45 full-time and 6 part-time staff on 30 June 2009, with 50-60 still to be hiredBAASS staffing, June 20092009Documented · saidwar.gov
Zero-point energycommissioned the DIRDs, several on vacuum/metric engineering2009–2011Documented · occurred
AAWSAP DIRDsdeliverables2009–2011Documented · occurreddocuments2.theblackvault.com
Report 02 - Gravity and vacuum propulsion recordscommissioned reviews 2009–102009Documented · occurred
BAASS Monthly Report (Jun 2009)monthly contract report2009—
BAASS Monthly Report (Nov 2009)monthly contract report2009—
BAASS's 2010 self-assessment excerpts a report by 'personnel assigned to DIA' on the 2004 Nimitz encounterNimitz excerpt in the 2010 self-assessment2010Documented · saidwar.gov
UAP near-field injuries (DIRD D128)one of its commissioned reference papers (DIRDs)2010Documented · occurredwar.gov
Kit Greenprobable author of DIRD D128 (redacted)2010Unproven
BAASS Self-Assessment of UAP Analysis Capabilities (Nov 2010)contract HHM402-08-C-0072 self-assessment2010—
Kona Blueorigin2011Documented · occurredaaro.mil
PURSUE Release 06released the contract, 5 modifications and 37 research papers (D110–D153)2026Documented · occurredprobed.space

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