Organisation

BAASS

2008-09-22 – 2010-12-21what this date marks, in the notes below

Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies - the contractor that carried out the Pentagon's AAWSAP/AATIP-era research.

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". 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.

4 of 10 connections resolve to a document you can open. 1 was tested against a document we hold and deliberately not bound.

2 notes on how this record was made

Documents2 behind these connections

Documents behind these connections

Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection 2025-09-09
No title recorded DOW-UAP-D111 2008-09-22

Also named in documents we hold

This entity's name appears in the 2 documents below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.

No title recorded DOW-UAP-D111already cited above

The release calls it “AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order, September 22, 2008”. The file name in the Release 06 bundle and the war.gov listing. The file itself is a Standard Form 1449 contract, HHM402-08-C-0072, with its schedule and clauses. It is not adopted as a title here.

named on a page we have read · p. 3

Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, Inc (BAASS) proposal dated 9/3/2008 is incorporated by reference. Cont…

Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protectionalready cited above

named on a page we have read · p. 11

…d Martin and hammered out a deal wherein Bigelow's company, BAASS, would receive a quantity of unusual material that had been…

10 connections

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← Robert Bigelow

its owner, described at the 2025 hearing as "the DIA's contractor"

Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection
printed p. 11 checked against the page

Caveat Knapp's testimony gives 'Bigelow's company, BAASS', establishing ownership; the NYT of 16 Dec 2017 is also cited. Founding is carried by ordinary usage for a wholly-owned entity. The caution limits only the founding DATE and the corporate filing, both modifiers. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.scope: scoped · reviewed 2026-08-21 · decided by the operator
← Defense Intelligence Agency

received George Knapp's Soviet UFO files through it, under the AAWSAP program

same document as the row above
printed p. 34 · PDF p. 38 checked against the page
→ AAWSAP

named in sworn testimony as the company of the DIA's contractor while the programme was active

same document as the row above
printed p. 11 · PDF p. 15
← Defense Intelligence Agency

No title recorded DOW-UAP-D111

This map says

awarded it the AAWSAP contract

The document says

CONTRACT NO. HHM402-08-C-0072. AWARD/EFFECTIVE DATE SEP 22, 2008 ... ISSUED BY Virginia Contracting Activity ... CONTRACTOR/OFFEROR BIGELOW AEROSPACE ADVANCED SPACE STUDIES, LLC

dow-uap-d111, 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

Caveat The page names the Virginia Contracting Activity at Bolling AFB as the issuing office, and payment is made by the NSA Finance and Accounting Office. That the Virginia Contracting Activity is DIA's rests on its address and codes and on the program's own statement of objectives (dow-uap-d110), which names DIA's Acquisition Support Division - not on a sentence on this page.
← AATIP not bound, on purpose

tested against Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I

The claim we tested

closely related DIA-era research effort

What the document actually says

The contract for this DIA-managed program was awarded to a private sector organization.

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 22 · read off the page footer

Why we refused it. AARO WILL NOT NAME THE CONTRACTOR. "A private sector organization" is as far as it goes, here and at printed 34 where it describes "a property owned by the private sector organization". Everyone involved knows which company is meant; this document does not say so, and supplying the name ourselves would be us writing the source rather than reading it. This is the anonymisation caution on this record doing its job.
← James Lacatski names a source we do not hold

designed the contract

Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
→ Christopher "Kit" Green names a source we do not hold

contracted advisor

Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
→ Hal Puthoff names a source we do not hold

contracted advisor

Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
← Eric Davis names a source we do not hold

authored six AAWSAP-era propulsion research documents

Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
→ Colm Kelleher names a source we do not hold

led its Skinwalker Ranch research

Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)

2 corrections to this record

Generated from the record, not written by hand. Every change keeps what the map used to say, because a correction nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having been wrong.

BAASS → Robert Bigelow

founded

its owner, described at the 2025 hearing as "the DIA's contractor"

"Founded" is not on the page. Printed 11 says "Bigelow's company, BAASS" and "the DIA's contractor, Robert Bigelow of Las Vegas" - possession and a contracting relationship, not a founding.

BAASS → Defense Intelligence Agency

awarded it the 2008 AAWSAP contract

received George Knapp's Soviet UFO files through it, under the AAWSAP program

The cited page does not say it. Printed 34 reads "Second, I gave all of that material to the DIA through BAASS, the AAWSAP program." - a witness saying where he sent his files, not a statement that DIA awarded BAASS anything, and it names no year. THE CAVEAT REMOVED HERE WAS WORSE THAN THE CLAIM: reviewed 2026-08-21, it read "The award is in the testimony; only the 2008 DATE is not. Date is a modifier." The award is not in the testimony either, so the caveat scoped away a smaller problem than the one present and read as diligence already done. The award and its 2008 date leave this project's voice until a document for them is held.

Notes on this record

The date

CORRECTED 2026-09-21. Was 2008-01-01 to 2010-01-01, both placeholders, recorded with no basis. The dates are now the contract's: award 22 September 2008 (dow-uap-d111, PDF p. 1, "AWARD/EFFECTIVE DATE SEP 22, 2008") and the last period of performance written against the money, 21 December 2010 (PDF p. 4). This node is on the map because of that contract, so its dates are the contract's dates. The company's own founding and dissolution are not recorded here.

The end date, and how it was established

dow-uap-d111, PDF p. 4, read as an image 2026-09-21: the option-year line items of contract HHM402-08-C-0072 carry "Period of Performance: 09/22/2009 to 12/21/2010". This is the end of the CONTRACT, not of the company.