MUFON Reports Prepared for BAASS, November 2008

This 26-page file is a bundle of five short papers, each stamped “BAASS CONFIDENTIAL” and dated November 2008, and each credited to a “MUFON Advanced Technology Establishment”: Lift and Power Generation from Newport Beach, California; Control from Fort Collins, Colorado; Human Interface from Delafield, Wisconsin; and Propulsion from Austin, Texas. The titles follow AAWSAP’s list of technical areas. BAASS’s December 2008 management plan (DOW-UAP-D168) thanks the Mutual UFO Network for a set of documents delivered under contract 081006-1 “under serious time constraints,” and this appears to be that set.

What the papers propose

Lift runs through balloons, wings, ducted fans and the atmosphere’s electric field, then favors a spinning superconducting ring that would push against the Earth’s magnetic field. It treats UFO reports of silent hovering, “falling leaf” motion and compass disturbances as hints, and offers a 26-week test plan whose week 17 reads “Results surprise everyone, require redesign.” Power Generation argues for buying an already-built high-pressure palladium–deuterium “scanning reactor” to pursue cold fusion, said to have cost about $10,000 in materials. Control sketches five control systems for the same superconducting ring craft.

Human Interface moves from brain–computer interfaces to alleged alien implants: it says MUFON holds x-rays of implants in two US citizens and proposes an 18–24-month program to remove and study them, with a surgeon, engineers and two mental health professionals. Propulsion lists nine traits attributed to UFO sightings and recommends a team to study anti-gravity alongside superconductor research.

What it shows and what it does not

The file shows that in AAWSAP’s first months the contractor asked a civilian UFO group for research directions, and that the group framed sighting reports as evidence of working technology. The papers contain no case investigations, no test results and almost no costing; the scientists and sources they cite are withheld, and claims about implants or cold fusion are the authors’ own. Nothing here shows that BAASS funded any of these plans; the management plan says it could not take up all of the recommendations from the three sets of papers it had received. For background on the program, see our coverage of the AAWSAP files.