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Bigelow says the DIA plans to release records from its secret UFO program
Robert Bigelow says the Defense Intelligence Agency told him in a letter that it will compile records from AAWSAP, the program his company ran in Las Vegas. No date is set.
Las Vegas businessman Robert Bigelow says the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has told him in writing that it intends to compile records from the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) for public release. AAWSAP was a DIA-funded UAP research effort that Bigelow’s company carried out in Las Vegas starting in the late 2000s.
Bigelow described the letter on a two-hour episode of journalist George Knapp’s Mystery Wire podcast released on October 7. KLAS-TV in Las Vegas reported on October 9 that the DIA sent the letter of intent in early October. Above The Norm News, summarizing the podcast, reports that the letter is dated September 29 and says the agency located an inventory of the program’s records.
What happens next
No release date has been set, and KLAS says it “could take years.” One reason is privacy. People who reported encounters to the program’s investigators did so on the understanding that their identities would stay private, so many names will have to be redacted.
Colm Kelleher, who worked on AAWSAP with Bigelow, told KLAS the records need explanation as well as release. “One of the main criticisms of the pursue data dumps is that there’s no context,” he said, referring to the Pentagon’s 2026 PURSUE releases. “You’ve got these videos that have no metadata. Someone went to the trouble to take it out before they released.” He added: “Getting a whole bunch of raw data dumped into the population is not very useful as time goes on.”
What we don’t know yet
The DIA has not made a public statement that we could find, and the letter itself has not been published, so it can’t be independently checked. Even the date differs between reports. An inventory of records is also not the same as a complete set of files.
Some AAWSAP material is already public. The Pentagon’s sixth release on September 18 included 37 of the program’s research papers, on topics such as warp drives and wormholes. The Pentagon stressed that releasing them does not mean the ideas were validated. The program’s case files and investigation records would be a different matter, and many researchers have wanted to see them for years.
