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PENTAGON UFO FILE · DOCUMENT · DOW-UAP-D171BAASS Monthly Report, June 2009
Dated July 9, 2009, this report covers June 1–30, 2009. At 134 pages it is the longest of the monthly reports here, mostly because it reprints MUFON field reports; we read the report’s main sections and skimmed the individual case reports. Staff had grown to 45 full-time employees.
Buildings and money
The BAASS Administrator designed a 5,000-square-foot underground vault at the Bigelow Aerospace site in North Las Vegas, with three-foot concrete walls and camouflaged surface fittings, to store “exotic material or tissue” the company hoped to obtain, including from Brazil; occupancy was hoped for by late 2009 or early 2010, subject to permits. Five office buildings were in escrow, to include a laboratory, evidence storage and a SCIF.
An exchange of letters dated June 25 and 29 shows the money side of the MUFON deal. BAASS noted MUFON had spent $11,014.37 of $74,666.67 for February–March, $23,803.95 of $56,000 for April and $23,812.00 of $51,000 for May, and proposed $25,500 a month from July to October, topped up from roughly $120,000 unspent. MUFON accepted and asked for a review in October.
Cases, Brazil and Northern Tier
MUFON reports from May and June add cases in Marathon, Texas; Buffalo, Oklahoma; Fallon, Nevada; Grants Pass, Oregon (a reported humanoid figure); Bowling Green, Kentucky (marked incomplete); two in Wisconsin; and three in Arizona, along with April’s three again. In late May two BAASS teams went to Brazil, one meeting contacts in São Paulo and Brasília, the other investigating reports around Itatira in Ceará; a Fortaleza group let BAASS copy some 3,418 case files, “in total disarray,” and Colares military documents topped the translation list.
Northern Tier staff describe the grind of finding 1970s witnesses: for Loring, 71,428 name hits narrowed to 588 and two contacts; at Wurtsmith, two interviews, one recalling small planes often buzzing the base. The report shows a program now run as a case and records hunt; it does not show recovered material or analytic results.
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 June 2009 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) progress report summarizes contractor activities for the period June 1–30, 2009. The report addresses staffing growth, expansion into new facilities, progress on contracted technical papers, investigative activity based on information received via the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a BAASS deployment to Brazil, an update on “Project Northern Tier,” and continued review of UAP-related materials released by foreign governments. It also documents BAASS’s continued investment in field investigation capacity, foreign liaison-building, and UAP case acquisition, while recording BAASS’s proposal to reduce MUFON’s monthly stipend pending further performance review. Overall, the file reflects program activity, particularly in UAP reporting intake, foreign case investigation, and organizational expansion in support of those functions.