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OrgCompanyBAASS was Robert Bigelow’s research company and the contractor that performed DIA’s AAWSAP work on advanced aerospace concepts and anomalous phenomena.
BAASS was Robert Bigelow’s research company and the contractor that performed DIA’s AAWSAP work on advanced aerospace concepts and anomalous phenomena.
Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies was a private company created by Robert Bigelow and selected by the Defense Intelligence Agency for the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. BAASS was legally and operationally distinct from Bigelow Aerospace’s expandable-habitat business, despite shared ownership, facilities, and branding.
Under the AAWSAP contract, BAASS hired scientists, investigators, analysts, and former government personnel. It commissioned technical papers, built databases, collected reports, and investigated unusual events, including activity associated with Skinwalker Ranch. The program produced formal deliverables alongside work whose methods and conclusions remain disputed. The company operated from facilities in Nevada and drew on a network that included physicians, engineers, investigators, and former intelligence or military personnel. Its work was delivered to the government under a contract with schedules, statements of work, and reporting obligations. That administrative trail is crucial for separating what DIA purchased from activities funded privately by Bigelow or described later by individual participants. Personnel accounts also need dates because the company’s staffing, ranch activity, and government deliverables changed over the life of the contract.
BAASS is central to modern UAP history because it connected private anomalous research with a documented defense-intelligence contract. Participants later described investigations and alleged effects extending beyond conventional aerospace study. Contract existence verifies government funding and work, not every interpretation or extraordinary claim developed by contractor personnel.
The company’s institutional legacy requires careful boundaries: founder, contractor, ranch research, AAWSAP requirements, and later AATIP accounts are related but not identical. Evaluation depends on original records, deliverables, custody, and government acceptance. Treating all Bigelow entities as one organization obscures rather than clarifies the history.
Release 7 came out Oct 23 and most coverage I saw stopped at the triangle story. I read all 28 files, short version below. The recent stuff (only 2 files) - AARO memo on the June 2026 sighting by federal agents at a site in the western US. Matte black triangle, went straight up, hovered about 20 seconds, then banked and dropped into a canyon fast and silent. No wreckage, no EM or physiological effects noted. - FBI FD-302 for what looks like the same event. Two agents co-signed it, roughly a 3...
New [article](https://unapologetic.substack.com/p/pt-2-lockheed-martin-crashed-ufo) on substack today. It's an update to an [article](https://unapologetic.substack.com/p/scientists-claim-lockheed-martin) I wrote in January 2025 about the attempted transfer of UFO tech from Lockheed Martin to AAWSAP. Many have covered the story because the recent revelations from Stratton. There has been some great original reporting from Ben Schreckinger. Unfortunately what has been missing from a lot of cove...
Over 234,000 UFO sighting reports. Eleven databases. One framework built to compare encounters systematically. That was Project Capella, one of the most significant achievements of the BAASS program. One database was titled “Post Utah Ranch Effects.” To my knowledge, Capella has been kept classified, which is a shame, because it could be an extremely valuable research tool. I get into Capella, the Nimitz analysis, and more in this video. Watch on YouTube: https://t.co/2dVrIhywJN
[Retweeted] Two officially released AAWSAP reports vs. "AAWSAP reports" that appeared in the PURSUE 7 release. See the difference? It is clear to me there is a stark difference (classification markings, formatting, contract number references etc) between the two. Why is this important? It shows a clear difference between what AAWSAP was officially (with the exception of 1, no DIRD talks about UFOs) and what it was for BAASS... then later framed erroneously by those spreading stories and outla...
Two officially released AAWSAP reports vs. "AAWSAP reports" that appeared in the PURSUE 7 release. See the difference? It is clear to me there is a stark difference (classification markings, formatting, contract number references etc) between the two. Why is this important? It shows a clear difference between what AAWSAP was officially (with the exception of 1, no DIRD talks about UFOs) and what it was for BAASS... then later framed erroneously by those spreading stories and outlandish UNPROV...
The obsession within the peanut gallery never dies. I stand by what I've said. Recent document releases only support what I've said that AAWSAP veered off from its intended purpose. I will let the public judge whether taxpayer funds were appropriated properly when it came from the original AAWSAP mission statement vs. what the DIA got in return. I find it very telling that many of the BAASS reports have no government markings, proper formatting, classification markings, etc., while the DIRDS...
And Greenewald made the argument that AAWSAP wasn't a UFO program to start with, but folks like Lacatski went rogue and turned it into one. BS, and just piss- [Quoted] Remember when @MiddleOfMayhem reported that "AAWSAP was NEVER a UFO program" The 7th UAP files release (23 Oct 2026) includes nine BAASS contractor records from the AAWSAP era (D166 to D175). They describe AAWSAP as a DIA contract to study UAP: buying UFO reports from MUFON, building a UAP database, modelling the Tic Tac and so...
He’s a documented liar, so no surprise. https://t.co/yBibv2LJ4l [Quoted] Remember when @MiddleOfMayhem reported that "AAWSAP was NEVER a UFO program" The 7th UAP files release (23 Oct 2026) includes nine BAASS contractor records from the AAWSAP era (D166 to D175). They describe AAWSAP as a DIA contract to study UAP: buying UFO reports from MUFON, building a UAP database, modelling the Tic Tac and so on. Remember when he reported that UFOs were left out on purpose (NY Post YouTube, "Skinwalker...
Every week I go through the news on this topic and keep only what can be traced back to a primary or first-hand source. Here's what held up between October 24 and 30. Original sources first, my notes in between. 1. A 60-page 2010 report on a Utah ranch (DOW-UAP-D174) Release 07 includes an April 2010 report by BAASS, the contractor behind a Pentagon-funded research programme. It records two field trips around Fort Duchesne (March–April 2010) and more than 25 interviews. One witness described...
Part 17 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR Shipment witnesses describe different routes and have different degrees of direct knowledge. AAWSAP studies and BAASS documents establish interest in Roswell, without demonstrating access to recovered hardware. Elizondo and Stratton name sources, but several accounts connect through Puthoff and Davis. Battelle’s research and Art’s Parts testing are documented; their links to Roswell remain unverifi...
