UNCLASSIFIED // PUBLIC RELEASERELEASE 07 · OCTOBER 23, 2026
PENTAGON UFO FILE · DOCUMENT · DOW-UAP-D175BAASS Self-Assessment of UAP Analysis Capabilities, November 2010
This is the “Summary Report on BAASS UAP Analysis Capabilities,” dated November 23, 2010, written by the contractor that ran the DIA’s AAWSAP study under contract HHM402-08-C-0072. Its stated aim is to show the field collection, databases and computing power built over two years, with most space given to computer modeling. About a hundred pages are text and figures; the rest are ANSYS input files and contour plots. We read the contents, executive summary, introduction, equipment and database sections, the Tic Tac section, each model’s summary and the conclusion, and skimmed the plot pages.
What BAASS says it has
The inventory lists Canon and Sony cameras, HD video cameras, PVS-7 night-vision devices and a USB microscope, plus the ANSYS Multiphysics software and its hardware. The “Data Warehouse” stores cases in a format called CAPELLA, built on a six-layer model running from physical and “anti-physical” to psychological, physiological, psychic and cultural. Statistical work on a pilot database, a Sign/Grudge/Blue Book database and the Utah ranch data is mentioned. The report concedes that many reports, possibly most, may be misidentified aircraft such as the SR-71, F-117, B-2 or X-45A.
The Tic Tac and other models
The centerpiece is the November 2004 Nimitz encounter, quoted from a report by DIA personnel (crew names withheld), including its “Key Assessments” that the object matched no known aircraft and “possibly” could cloak. BAASS then assumes a drop from 60,000 feet to sea level in 0.5 to 10 seconds; at five seconds this gives about 12,000 feet per second (Mach 10.7) and 75 g. Those figures follow from the assumption, and the report admits there was little hard data. Other runs compare airflow over a Tic Tac shape and a flat-faced cylinder (no large lift difference), drop a steel disc into water, simulate sound from a spherical underwater object (introduced with Shag Harbour), and compute the radar cross section of a 10-meter coated metal sphere.
How to read it
Each model applies standard physics to an assumed shape; none uses measured sensor data from a real event. The closing pages call BAASS one of few companies able to do such work, claim the world’s largest UAP data warehouse, and link the effort to weapons delivery and “quantum leaps” in technology. It reads as a capabilities pitch written as the contract was nearing its end.
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 November 2010 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) contractor-authored capability statement presents BAASS’s analysis as technically rigorous and strategically valuable. The document appears intended not only to describe BAASS’s analytical capabilities but also to reinforce the case for the organization’s continued relevance and for the continuation of AAWSAP. The document summarizes the company’s self-assessment of the suitability of its personnel, software, equipment, field sensor, and data warehousing capabilities for analyzing unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and unidentified submerged objects (USOs). It includes excerpted case findings and uses selected case studies and modeling exercises as demonstrations of BAASS’s analytical capabilities. The report describes BAASS as combining field collection resources, historical databases, and computational tools such as ANSYS Multiphysics to model UAP incidents through engineering and physics analysis, including work on radar cross section, fluid behavior, acoustics, and aerodynamic performance. It also presents BAASS’s in-house capabilities as supporting both threat assessment and the study of advanced aerospace technologies, while asserting that analysis of UAP performance characteristics could inform future developments in propulsion, stealth, detection, and weapons systems.