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PENTAGON UFO FILE · DOCUMENT · DOW-UAP-D170BAASS Monthly Report, April 2009
This 50-page report covers April 1–30, 2009. Its opening pages repeat the March format with new numbers: 281 résumés, 35 full-time and six part-time staff, and an Earthtech paper list that now adds a University of Nevada, Reno paper on nuclear space propulsion. New this month, BAASS flags “concerns” about MUFON’s output and a sharp fall in April cases.
How the MUFON pipeline worked
Two MUFON reports describe the “SIP” project set up after the contract was finalized on February 20, 2009. Dispatch operators worked four-hour shifts from home, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Pacific, using Shiftboard, Skype and Gmail; they phoned each new witness, graded the case, and passed recent category 2 or 3 cases to a coordinator who could send a “STAR team” and alert BAASS by duty phone. Investigators got reloadable Visa cards for per diem, and members were given approved talking points for the media. In April MUFON logged 319 US cases: nine category 2 (three of them historical), none category 3, and four deployments, one of them in May.
Three April cases
The report includes preliminary write-ups of three deployments. In Scammon, Kansas (April 4), a mother and teenage son described an orange light “as large as a small house”; the sheriff spoke of Chinese lanterns, but the investigator rejected that and wrote “UAV unknown.” Near Dardanelle, Arkansas (April 20), a nurse driving to work reported a triangle of lights, a flash and a dead phone; the team found a compass deflection on her SUV but the same on a new one at a dealer, which they said cast doubt on their finding, and still called it “a real event.” In Pasadena, Maryland (April 16), a couple described a dark boomerang-shaped craft humming overhead for 17 minutes.
Project Northern Tier
An initial analysis focuses on autumn 1975 reports at Malmstrom, Wurtsmith and Loring Air Force Bases and a Canadian base, drawing on a Montana deputy sheriff’s log of more than 250 events and on a Wurtsmith report involving a KC-135 crew and radar; a plan lists witness searches and FOIA requests. These are case summaries and to-do lists, not findings. See also Malmstrom 1967.
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 April 2009 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) progress report summarizes contractor activities for the period April 1–30, 2009. The report addresses staffing and clearance processing, progress on contracted technical papers, BAASS’s purchase of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) information from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), work on “Project Northern Tier,” and review of UAP-related materials released by several foreign governments. It also describes BAASS’s development of investigative and laboratory support capabilities, including a small deployable field investigation team and arrangements for potential future forensic and scientific analyses of materials obtained through MUFON reporting. Overall, the file documents ongoing program activity, particularly in UAP case acquisition, field investigation, and archival research.