DOW-UAP-D168: BAASS’s December 2008 management plan
BAASS’s December 2008 management plan outlines nine projects spanning technical studies, databases, oral histories, field engagement and historical cases. It seeks access to government records and alleged materials; its statements about advanced craft and biological recoveries are contractor premises, not demonstrated findings. Appendices reproduce a 1947 Air Materiel Command memo, a 2002 Roswell affidavit and a pilot’s retrospective account of a 1957 radar intercept.
- File
- Document · Release 07
- Date
- Dec 2, 2008
- Location
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Extent
- 49 pages
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Probed Assessment
A contractor’s research plan combines future objectives with older records and retrospective allegations; it does not establish recovered exotic technology.
Key takeaways
- Nine projects range from technical papers and databases to field engagement and historical case retrieval.
- Requests for clearances, records and samples should not be read as completed access or deliveries.
- The biological-material request is expressly premised on a hypothetical recovery.
- The AMC memo acknowledges missing physical exhibits and possible natural explanations.
Why it matters
The plan documents BAASS’s priorities, assumptions and proposed information channels early in the contract, while preserving the distinct evidentiary status of its historical appendices.
Corroboration
Reproduction in a government release establishes what the packet contains; it does not validate every contractor claim or retrospective witness interpretation.
Open questions
- • Which proposed records and samples were actually obtained?
- • What independently preserved data corroborate the retrospective accounts?
- • Which proposed projects reached their milestones?
Probed separates this editorial assessment from the source claims below. It summarizes what the released artifact supports; it is not independent verification.
Official Description from War.gov
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 December 2008 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) Project Management Plan is an overview paper setting out the contractor’s proposed strategy, priorities, and milestones for executing contract HHM402-08-C-0072 (AAWSAP). The plan states that BAASS would address the program’s 12 technical areas through a smaller number of selected projects, including initiatives focused on physics research, project cooperation with government-held information, academic engagement, database development, oral-history interviewing, and collection or review of materials described as excluded from Project Blue Book. The plan argues that the most productive approach would be to study “craft” or events already believed by BAASS to demonstrate novel behavior across the 12 technical areas, rather than concentrating primarily on then-current academic or industrial state-of-the-art research.
Preserved verbatim as source metadata. This wording is separate from Probed’s file-specific description and assessment.
File Context
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Tracker findings
Requested security clearances were not confirmed
The plan requests clearances for BAASS staff, including its administrator by the end of January; it does not establish that those clearances or requested records were provided.
Alleged recoveries were framed as an uncertain premise
The plan lists prospective oral-history sources and alleged foreign recoveries, while admitting it does not know the progress of any foreign reverse-engineering effort.
Biological research plan was conditional
The request for medical samples is expressly conditional on a premise of recovered potentially nonhuman biological material, rather than proof that such material existed.
EarthTech papers were scheduled research deliverables
Project Physics calls for Earthtech to deliver approximately 24 position papers by July 31, 2009; this is a deliverable schedule, not a report of completed demonstrations.
Contact work was proposed, not verified
Project Engagement proposes communication or contact and describes earlier purported experiences; these are BAASS’s claims and proposed methods, not independently verified contacts.
Brazilian material required chain-of-custody verification
For Colares, BAASS proposes checking the chain of custody and provenance of roughly 200 Internet-posted pages before translating validated records.
The 1947 memo acknowledged missing physical crash evidence
The AMC memo explicitly notes the lack of crash-recovered physical exhibits and considers domestic secret projects and foreign propulsion as possibilities.
Roswell appendix is a retrospective affidavit
The December 26, 2002 affidavit’s redacted author retrospectively alleges two debris locations near Roswell and a July 8, 1947 staff discussion.
Manston account lacked a visual sighting or radar lock
The pilot’s retrospective account describes a radar intercept, selection of rockets, loss of radar lock and no visual sighting; its estimated extraordinary speed is the narrator’s interpretation.
Release provenance
- Release
- Release 07
- Official ID
- release-07-file-020-dow-uap-d168-baass-project-management-plan-december-2008
- Cleared
- Oct 23, 2026
Referenced Timeline
AMC flying-disc opinion memo
A reproduced contemporary memo offers an opinion on reported phenomena and acknowledges missing physical exhibits.
LinkedAir Materiel CommandReported RAF Manston radar intercept
The pilot’s retrospective narrative assigns this date to the scramble; the account was forwarded in 1988.
LinkedRAF ManstonPilot narrative forwarded to the Ministry of Defence
A solicitor forwards a former American pilot’s account for consideration and comment.
LinkedUK Ministry of DefenceRoswell affidavit signed
A redacted affiant makes retrospective allegations about July 1947; the affidavit date is distinct from the claimed events.
LinkedRoswell Army Air FieldBAASS project management plan
The plan outlines nine proposed projects and future milestones under the advanced aerospace contract.
Source Claims
Claims are attributed to the released source and remain distinct from Probed’s assessment and tracker findings.
BAASS presents the work as a study of possible future foreign aerospace threats through 2050 and acknowledges DIA sponsorship.
potential future capabilities of foreign threat systems
The plan requests clearances for BAASS staff, including its administrator by the end of January; it does not establish that those clearances or requested records were provided.
clearances approved for the BAASS Administrator by the end of January
The plan lists prospective oral-history sources and alleged foreign recoveries, while admitting it does not know the progress of any foreign reverse-engineering effort.
we have no idea what progress has been accomplished to date.
The request for medical samples is expressly conditional on a premise of recovered potentially nonhuman biological material, rather than proof that such material existed.
Under the premise that biological material of potentially non-human origin
BAASS proposes obtaining NORAD trajectory and speed data through DIA by February 15, 2009 for evaluation against the contract’s technical areas.
Via DIA contact with NORAD by February 15, 2009
Project Physics calls for Earthtech to deliver approximately 24 position papers by July 31, 2009; this is a deliverable schedule, not a report of completed demonstrations.
Earthtech will deliver approximately 24 position papers to BAASS on or before July 31, 2009.
Project Database proposes acquiring or negotiating for catalogues by June 30, 2009, initially filtering for close encounters with multiple witnesses.
The objective is to use only the close encounter cases with multiple witnesses
The Blue Book Materials project alleges sensitive files and possible physical traces at Los Alamos and requests their acquisition; the plan itself does not supply that alleged collection.
there may be physical trace evidence associated with some of these incidents
Project Northern Tier seeks records of alleged incursions at named military bases and discusses the December 1980 RAF Bentwaters event.
PROJECT NORTHERN TIER
For Colares, BAASS proposes checking the chain of custody and provenance of roughly 200 Internet-posted pages before translating validated records.
chain of custody and provenance
The reproduced September 1947 AMC memo calls reported phenomena real while also allowing that some incidents may be natural phenomena such as meteors.
There is a possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors.
The AMC memo explicitly notes the lack of crash-recovered physical exhibits and considers domestic secret projects and foreign propulsion as possibilities.
The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits
The December 26, 2002 affidavit’s redacted author retrospectively alleges two debris locations near Roswell and a July 8, 1947 staff discussion.
an extensive debris field in Lincoln County approx. 75 miles NW of Roswell.
The affidavit alleges an egg-shaped object and covered bodies in a Roswell hangar, but says lighting was poor and bodily features were not discernible. These remain the affiant’s retrospective assertions.
Only the heads extended beyond the covering, and I was not able to make out any features.
A July 20, 1988 letter forwards a former American pilot’s account describing a May 20, 1957 scramble from RAF Manston.
The date was May 20, 1957
The pilot’s retrospective account describes a radar intercept, selection of rockets, loss of radar lock and no visual sighting; its estimated extraordinary speed is the narrator’s interpretation.
I replied that I was still in the soup and could see nothing.
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