AAWSAP
A Defense Intelligence Agency programme, initiated by DIA scientist James Lacatski and performed under contract by Robert Bigelow's company BAASS, that is named under oath in two of the four congressional UAP hearings this project holds. Luis Elizondo testified in November 2024 that he joined it around 2009, that it "evolved into the program now called AATIP", and that the GOFAST, GIMBAL and FLIR videos came out of that effort; he testified separately that documentation cleared by DoD prepublication review states that one of the programme's purposes was to collect material of unknown origin, and that an attempted transfer of such material from an aerospace contractor was blocked. George Knapp testified in September 2025 that Lacatski initiated it, that it is "the largest acknowledged UFO program ever funded by the U.S. Government", that he handed his Soviet Ministry of Defence material to Bigelow and Lacatski under it, and that DIA has still not released 95 percent of what it produced. THIS NODE MATTERS TO THIS MAP FOR A REASON NO WITNESS STATES: BAASS, the company that performed this contract, retained Hal Puthoff as a contracted science advisor, and Puthoff ran SRI's remote-viewing programme from 1972. Both of those facts are held here on their own evidence. Nobody joins them in a hearing, and this project does not join them either - the connection a reader can follow runs through BAASS, one link at a time, which is what a map is for.
In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "aatip", "uap", "ufo". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.
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joined it around 2009 and testified under oath that it was his predecessor programmeUnidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truthprinted p. 21 · PDF p. 25
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→ AATIPthe witness who worked in both testified under oath that AAWSAP "evolved into the program now called AATIP"same document as the row aboveprinted p. 21 · PDF p. 25
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initiated it at the Defense Intelligence Agency, per sworn testimonyRestoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protectionprinted p. 10 · PDF p. 14
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← BAASSnamed in sworn testimony as the company of the DIA's contractor while the programme was activesame document as the row aboveprinted p. 11 · PDF p. 15
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the Defense Intelligence Agency programme under which the work was contracted; 95 percent of what it produced is testified to be unreleasedsame document as the row aboveprinted p. 10 · PDF p. 14
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gave his Soviet Ministry of Defence material to its principals and testified to what the programme was and what it withheldsame document as the row aboveprinted p. 34 · PDF p. 38
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named under oath at this hearing as the programme that became AATIPUnidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truthprinted p. 21 · PDF p. 25
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This map saysissued its Statement of ObjectivesThe document saysSTATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES FOR THE ADVANCED AEROSPACE WEAPON SYSTEM APPLICATIONS PROGRAM 18 July 2008 ... The Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3) of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has the responsibility to provide guidance and oversight to the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition processStatement of Objectives for the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, 2008
printed p. 1 · PDF p. 1 · VERIFIED - page rendered at 130-170 dpi and read visually, 2026-09-21. Not OCR.
read as an image — the grade this project quotes from: the page was rendered and the picture read
Notes on this record
THE RECORD SPELLS THE EXPANSION THREE DIFFERENT WAYS AND NONE OF THEM IS TAKEN FROM A WITNESS. At the 2025 hearing George Knapp gives "Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program"; at the 2024 hearing Michael Gold gives "Advanced Airspace Weapon Systems Applications Program", which is wrong in its second word. The alias carried here is the form used in the Defense Intelligence Agency's own solicitation and in the secondary literature, and it is recorded as an alias rather than as the name precisely because the held pages disagree with each other. The acronym is the only form every witness agrees on, so the acronym is the name.
CORRECTED 2026-09-21. The previous note said: "THE START DATE IS THE YEAR, NOT A DAY. Neither hearing dates the programme. 2008 is taken from the contract period already recorded on this map for BAASS". That was a circle - the BAASS dates were themselves placeholders. The date is now the earliest the program's own papers give: its Statement of Objectives is dated 18 July 2008 (dow-uap-d110, PDF p. 1, read as an image). The contract followed on 22 September 2008 (dow-uap-d111). NO END DATE IS ASSERTED, for the reason already given: Elizondo testified that AAWSAP "evolved into the program now called AATIP" and nobody on a held page says when, or whether, it stopped being one thing and became the other. The contract's last period of performance, 21 December 2010, is recorded on BAASS, not here.