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PENTAGON UFO FILE · DOCUMENT · DOW-UAP-D169BAASS Monthly Report, March 2009
Dated April 10, 2009, this 42-page report covers BAASS activity from March 1 to 31, 2009. Staff names are replaced with “AAP Person” numbers. It is the first of the monthly reports in this release and sets the template the later ones repeat.
Staff, papers and the database
BAASS says it received 526 résumés and had 33 full-time and seven part-time employees besides its two administrators, including investigators with police and AFOSI backgrounds and a group listed as “Utah Ranch Security Officers.” Several staff had traveled to Washington for security clearance processing. A table lists the Earthtech subcontract’s 24–30 papers due by July, from warp drives and antigravity to metallic glass (one is in this archive) and invisibility cloaks.
The Project Capella warehouse (DOW-UAP-D167) now held 234,364 reports dated from 593 B.C. onward, drawn from NIDS (1,570), a pilot catalog (485), Sign/Grudge/Blue Book (13,123), UFOCAT (203,805) and MUFON’s online system (15,381); BAASS’s own database still held none. BAASS itself warns that its 31% share of close encounters reflects what witnesses choose to report, not what happens.
Intake and outreach
A February 2009 purchase order gave BAASS rapid notice of MUFON reports, investigators’ findings and physical samples; ten BAASS investigators in Las Vegas were to act as rapid-reaction teams. A UNLV program would study the social effects of scenarios such as a government file release or a huge craft over a city. BAASS also asked the FAA to replace NIDS with BAASS as the reporting contact in three air traffic publications, and says the FAA agreed on March 4 to coordinate the change.
The longest section is a March 30 executive summary, “The UFO Assault on Brazil,” by a BAASS senior scientist, boiling several thousand pages of private investigations down to tallies: more than 370 on-site inquiries, 514 “victims,” ten deaths and dozens of burns. These are counts of witness claims gathered by private researchers, presented without the underlying medical records. The report closes with BAASS’s review of British, Canadian and Danish releases.
The official description
From war.gov/UFO, released October 23, 2026, quoted in full
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.