In late 2008, the Defense Intelligence Agency awarded a $22 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) to run AAWSAP — the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It was not, as the New York Times originally reported in 2017, merely a program to study UAP sightings. It was a comprehensive investigation into what its researchers called anomalous phenomena — including events at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah that no mainstream defence contractor would admit to studying.
What AAWSAP Actually Studied
AAWSAP’s scope, documented in the book Skinwalkers at the Pentagon by Senator Harry Reid’s staffers, included:
- UAP sightings and encounters by military personnel
- Poltergeist activity and physical manifestations at Skinwalker Ranch
- Cattle mutilations on and around the property
- Apparent interdimensional or non-physical entities described by ranch personnel and investigators
- Physiological effects on witnesses, including radiation-like injuries, neurological changes and psychological disturbances
- The hypothesis that UAP and paranormal phenomena may share a common non-human intelligence source
Bigelow Aerospace owned Skinwalker Ranch during the AAWSAP period. Robert Bigelow, a Nevada real estate billionaire and longtime UAP researcher, had purchased it specifically for scientific investigation. The DIA’s funding effectively made Skinwalker Ranch a classified government research site, operated through a private contractor.
AAWSAP Became AATIP
Luis Elizondo, the man who went public in 2017 after resigning from the Pentagon, headed what he called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) — a different, later program that evolved from AAWSAP but was not the same thing. This distinction became central to a long-running dispute about what the $22 million actually funded and who ran what. The Black Vault’s John Greenewald Jr. spent years documenting the contradictions in the official record.
What is not disputed: the DIA paid $22 million to a private contractor to study phenomena that no official government program would acknowledge studying. The program ran from 2008 to 2011. Its products — 38 research reports on topics from warp drive to consciousness to the biology of UAP witness injuries — remain largely classified.
The Oracle Assessment
AAWSAP is the programme that proves the US government was not merely tracking lights in the sky. It was funding research into the hypothesis that UAP represent a non-human intelligence that interacts with human consciousness, causes physiological effects, and may operate across physical and non-physical dimensions simultaneously. That is not a fringe claim — it is what a $22 million DIA contract was paying Bigelow Aerospace to investigate.
The 38 AAWSAP research reports. That’s what should be in RG 615. Watch for them.
Sources: The Debrief. The Black Vault, John Greenewald Jr. Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, Knapp et al. NY Times, December 2017.