AAWSAP (Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program) — the $22M DIA program from 2008-2012 is the most significant government UAP research program in documented history, and most of its findings remain classified. ARCHITECT: Dr. James Lacatski, DIA scientist. After his Skinwalker Ranch encounter, Lacatski designed AAWSAP as a cover — the public solicitation mentioned only “propulsion,” “lift,” “power generation,” and the odd phrase “human effects.” No mention of UAPs. Only one proposal was submitted: BAASS. OPERATIONS AT BAASS LAS VEGAS HEADQUARTERS + SKINWALKER RANCH: Fixed sensors installed across “hotspots” at the ranch. Multidisciplinary teams: physicists, biologists, psychologists, remote viewers. Investigated UAP cases globally. AAWSAP also investigated the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac incident — predating Elizondo’s involvement. 38 CLASSIFIED TECHNICAL PAPERS: Commissioned from top-tier experts. Topics included warp drives, dark energy, vacuum engineering, space propulsion, and “human effects” from UAP encounters. Puthoff authored the vacuum propulsion paper. THE CAPELLA DATABASE: Jacques Vallée designed AAWSAP’s data collection system — the Capella database. Contains 260,000+ unexplained incidents. Still classified. Vallée publicly questioned in 2024 why Congress has not declassified it. TRANSITION: AAWSAP was not renewed in 2012. AATIP (Luis Elizondo) operated as a smaller, less-funded successor focused specifically on aerospace threats. Whistleblowers including Grusch confirm: the most sensitive programs — craft retrieval, reverse engineering — were never under AATIP or AAWSAP. Both were one layer of a much larger classified structure. Senator Reid’s 2009 attempt to classify AAWSAP as a Restricted SAP was blocked by intelligence leadership memo.