Case file · Government program
AAWSAP: the DIA contract
The Defense Intelligence Agency's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, set up in 2008 at Senator Harry Reid's urging.
2008 CE · 38.84, -77.02 · status: official
The account
AAWSAP and its successor label AATIP received about $22 million between 2008 and 2012, most of it through a contract with Robert Bigelow's BAASS in Las Vegas. Its manager was DIA scientist James Lacatski. Beyond collecting UAP reports it studied paranormal effects on witnesses, including at Skinwalker Ranch, and commissioned 38 technical papers.
The sceptical view
Critics, including some at the Pentagon, saw it as an earmark for a donor's interests with little to show for the money.
Connections in the atlas
- Kona Blue
- AARO Historical Record Report, Volume 1
- ▶ From Skinwalker Ranch to the 2017 AATIP story
- The 38 DIRDs (AAWSAP technical papers)
- ▶ The government UFO files
- James Lacatski
- BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies)
- Harry Reid's 2009 letter on AATIP
- Harry Reid
- Colm Kelleher
- Robert Bigelow
- AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program)