DOW-UAP-D169: BAASS March 2009 progress report
BAASS’s March 2009 report describes staffing, Earthtech position papers, the Capella data warehouse, a MUFON purchase order, proposed UNLV studies and FAA reporting changes. It also summarizes historical Brazilian encounter and injury allegations. The warehouse includes duplicate and explained reports, while the Brazilian section presents attributed investigative summaries rather than independent medical or technological verification.
- File
- Document · Release 07
- Date
- Apr 10, 2009
- Location
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Extent
- 42 pages
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Probed Assessment
This progress report documents program growth and data acquisition; its catalogue totals and Brazilian allegations are not counts of verified anomalous craft.
Key takeaways
- Capella’s 234,364 reports include duplicates and explained cases.
- BAASS warns that reporting bias distorts the classification percentages.
- MUFON coordination is described as contracted; FAA publication changes remained in coordination.
- UNLV examples are hypothetical research scenarios, even when inspired by historical reports.
Why it matters
The report connects BAASS’s staffing and technical-paper program with large historical catalogues, real-time reporting arrangements and proposed social-impact research.
Corroboration
Statistical tables mix dates, classifications and source collections. Their categories should not be assumed exhaustive or independent; the Brazilian summary is not a set of original clinical records.
Open questions
- • Which scheduled papers and institutional changes were completed?
- • How were duplicates and explained cases handled in later analyses?
- • Can the cited interviews and medical records corroborate the Brazilian causal claims?
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 March 2009 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) progress report summarizes contractor activities for the period March 1–31, 2009. The report addresses staffing and clearance processing, progress on contracted technical papers, development of advanced aerial phenomena databases, BAASS’s purchase of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) information from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), efforts to become the Federal Aviation Administration’s official reporting point for unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), and review of UAP-related materials released by foreign governments. It also documents BAASS’s broader effort to establish centralized UAP collection and analysis capabilities, including database development, and external reporting pipelines. Overall, the file reflects ongoing program activity, particularly its emphasis on UAP reporting intake, reporting infrastructure, and archival or case-based analysis.
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File Context
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Tracker findings
BAASS reported 33 full-time and seven part-time staff
BAASS reports receiving 526 resumes during March and having 33 full-time and seven part-time employees, in addition to its administrator and deputy, at month’s end.
Database totals were not counts of unique verified events
The Capella warehouse is reported to contain 234,364 sighting reports, including duplicates and cases with conventional explanations.
Reported percentages reflected selection effects
BAASS cautions that its classification percentages do not represent the underlying frequency of actual sightings, because close encounters are more likely to be reported.
MUFON records and new BAASS cases were separate counts
The MUFON database count is 15,381 as of February 23, 2009 and excludes its 1969–mid-2003 reports; the new BAASS database is listed with zero reports.
UNLV work consisted of planned scenarios
BAASS describes funding proposed UNLV studies of social, military and scientific consequences under a range of UAP scenarios.
Crash-recovery statement was hypothetical
The UNLV scenario list includes a hypothetical Air Force statement about nonterrestrial crashes and hypothetical mass sightings; these are study prompts, not events established by this report.
Brazilian health reports did not establish causation
The Brazilian summary attributes ten deaths after prolonged illness, 54 burns and other symptoms to the investigated accounts; the table itself does not establish a causal mechanism.
Most subjects were not tested for anemia
The Brazilian summary says most reported victims were not tested for anemia, limiting interpretation of its health claims.
Renewed investigation was proposed
The Brazilian section recommends renewed on-site work using remote sensing; that recommendation is not a record of completed follow-up measurements.
Release provenance
- Release
- Release 07
- Official ID
- release-07-file-021-dow-uap-d169-baass-monthly-report-march-2009
- Cleared
- Oct 23, 2026
Referenced Timeline
MUFON purchase order reported
BAASS says it executed the purchase order in February 2009.
FAA coordination reported
BAASS records an FAA response agreeing to coordinate publication changes; completion is not demonstrated.
Brazil executive summary dated
The included summary addresses historical allegations beginning in the 1970s, rather than events on its preparation date.
March BAASS progress report dated
The cover date follows the March 1–31 reporting period.
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Source Claims
Claims are attributed to the released source and remain distinct from Probed’s assessment and tracker findings.
BAASS reports receiving 526 resumes during March and having 33 full-time and seven part-time employees, in addition to its administrator and deputy, at month’s end.
thirty three full time employees and seven part time employees
BAASS reports that several staff and Earthtech contractors traveled to Washington to complete clearance processing, while others remained under investigation.
Other BAASS employees are in multiple stages of investigation.
The Capella warehouse is reported to contain 234,364 sighting reports, including duplicates and cases with conventional explanations.
Some of the sightings in the data warehouse are duplicated reports
BAASS cautions that its classification percentages do not represent the underlying frequency of actual sightings, because close encounters are more likely to be reported.
BAASS does not believe that the breakdown of reports in the data warehouse accurately reflects
UFOCAT is listed with 203,805 reports and an explicit warning that many cases have duplicate source reporting.
Duplicate reporting from various sources occurs on numerous cases.
BAASS describes funding proposed UNLV studies of social, military and scientific consequences under a range of UAP scenarios.
BAASS is funding UNLV to undertake dozens of parallel studies
The UNLV scenario list includes a hypothetical Air Force statement about nonterrestrial crashes and hypothetical mass sightings; these are study prompts, not events established by this report.
The United States Air Force releases a statement
BAASS reports that FAA personnel agreed on March 4, 2009 to coordinate requested publication changes replacing NIDS with BAASS; the text describes coordination in progress.
co-ordinate the changes that BAASS had requested.
The Brazilian executive summary says it draws on more than 370 on-site investigations involving 514 reported victims through 2003; the underlying interview collection is not reproduced here.
more than 370 on-site investigations, involving 514 victims
The Brazilian summary attributes ten deaths after prolonged illness, 54 burns and other symptoms to the investigated accounts; the table itself does not establish a causal mechanism.
Deaths - 10 humans died
The Brazilian summary says most reported victims were not tested for anemia, limiting interpretation of its health claims.
most victims were not tested for anemia.
The Brazilian evidence inventory lists eleven available medical records, forty-eight held by doctors, and one radar-data entry; it is an inventory in a secondary summary.
Available - 11
BAASS reports organizing British, Canadian and Danish released records and commissioning Danish-to-English translation, while retaining a March 13 deadline in this later report.
The translation will be complete by March 13, 2009.
Source Material & Evidence
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