BAASS Monthly Report, November 2009

This 155-page progress report was written by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), the Las Vegas contractor behind the Defense Intelligence Agency’s AAWSAP study, and covers November 1–30, 2009. Its contents page lists four parts: MUFON investigations, the Utah ranch, a preliminary “blue orb” report, and a one-page conclusion. Investigators appear only as numbered “AAP Person” entries, and most witness names, addresses and coordinates are withheld. We read the contents, the start and end of each section and the conclusion, and skimmed every page’s headings; not every case page or log entry was read in full.

MUFON field cases

BAASS notes it had bought priority access to Mutual UFO Network reports in February 2009 and, unhappy that MUFON was banking unspent money, would cut its monthly payment by $10,000. Selected October–November deployments follow: Modesto, California, where a father and his young daughter said two blue lights closed in on their car; Versailles, Missouri, where a man described a triangular craft settling in woods behind his house, small spinning orange lights and a figure about five feet tall; light sightings around Stephenville, Hico and other central Texas towns on November 18; and Port Jervis, New York, where a driver said his engine, phone and window failed as a cigar-shaped lit object passed over, and investigators compared magnetic readings with a same-model car. These are MUFON investigators’ accounts and opinions, not BAASS or DIA findings.

The Utah ranch

The longest section reproduces security officers’ patrol logs (round-the-clock watch began August 3, 2009), mostly recording nothing, plus notes on coins that seemed to move. Two BAASS investigators spent November 16–19 near Vernal interviewing neighbors; they report five more witnesses to a UFO, a blue orb or a large dog-like creature on its hind legs, contact with a Ute tribal member about “Skinwalker Ridge,” and photographs of a ravine and of “UFO hill.” BAASS also describes seed-germination tests comparing the ranch with Las Vegas, and puzzles locked in briefcases, devised because the coin stories could be explained by fraud, trespassers or animals.

Blue orb and conclusion

The last part is a November 17 status report on a 2007 incident near Davis, California, in which a woman said blue orbs entered a moving rental car and one passed through her; its chronology, interviews and medical pages are largely withheld. The conclusion says projects such as “Northern Tier” and “Project Oral History” were stalled for lack of need-to-know and announces a separate Capella database for the ranch. Nothing here establishes an anomaly; it records what the contractor did that month. Compare the June 2009 report (DOW-UAP-D171) and the April 2010 ranch report (DOW-UAP-D174).