Examining the Mystery and Myths of Unidentified Flying Objects Curt Collins The Saucers That Time ForgotCash-Landrum UFO Case DocumentsC-L: Witness TestimonyC-L: Video Collection Tuesday, March 17, 2020 The Pentagon UFO Programs Secret Partner By Roger Glassel and Curt Collins, 2020 The Pentagons UFO program was exposed on December 16, 2017, but details of substance have been very slow in surfacing. The exposure of the project has been a tremendous boost for the UFO topic, putting it back in mainstream conversations as a serious subject, for the first time in years. However, the lack of transparency has been a concern, not only from the US government, but also from the contracting parties involved, the reporting of the story, and those exploiting it for commercial enterprises. With the disclosure of the MUFON Advanced Technology Establishment, details have emerged to show just what the Pentagon project was really about, and the role of the civilian UFO group that was secretly responsible for much of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programs content and operations. It also reveals a lot about how significant the project truly was. Well examine all that, and at the end of the article, present a collection of supporting documents. Aerospace developer and billionaire Robert Bigelow has an extensive history of interest in the UFO topic, but this story really begins with his creation of the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) i 1995 Lik Bi l ANIDS l t d i L V N d d Subscribe To BBL Blue Blurry Lines stories, photos, and blog posts may be shared by links, but BBL content is copyrighted, and reprints of articles or illustrations may not be published on other websites without permission. 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Like Bigelow Aerospace, NIDS was located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was described on their (now defunct) website as a privately funded science institute engaged in research of aerial phenomena, animal mutilations, and other related anomalous phenomena. Their all-star science advisory board included; Colm A. Kelleher, (Administrator), Harold E. Puthoff (Chairman of the Board), John B. Alexander, Jacques Vallee, and John F. Schuessler. In 1996 Robert Bigelow purchased the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah to have the organization study its alleged unearthly events. TV journalist George Knapp worked closely with Bigelows organization, and maintained a working relationship with NIDS since its inception and had earned the trust of principal figures in the organization. [Bigelow] shared, on a confidential basis, incident reports and a comprehensive chronology of [Skinwalker Ranch] incidents... In late 2002, Knapp received permission from NIDS to write an account of the ranch activities... Several of the NIDS studies of paranormal research were represented by papers on their site in categories: Anomalous Aerial Phenomena, Animal Pathology Research, Astrobiology/SETI, and Consciousness Studies. Despite the money and talent, NIDS was deactivated in October 2004, with Bigelow saying, It is unfortunate that there isn't more activity, as there was in the past, that warrants investigation. However, he went on to say, Should substantial activity occur with a need for investigation then NIDS will be reactivated with new personnel. After the closing of NIDS, there was a coda of sorts, a book published the next year, Hunt for the Skinwalker by Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp. AAWSAP and the Twelve Labors of BAASS The Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program? By now almost everyone has heard of AATIP - the Pentagons Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which is said to have been created at the request of Senator Harry Reid, a friend of Robert Bigelow. There's some pre-history that has yet to be documented, but Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) was in the works in 2007, and retired Marine Corps Commander, Douglas Kurth (a USS Nimitz UFO witness) was hired in December as the Program Manager ahead of the companys official formation. On Jan. 28, 2008, Bigelow made it legal by registering BAASS as an LLC in Nevada. The specialty company was created to secure the bid for the research for the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP), known better today by the nickname AATIP. Dr. James T. Lacatski directed AAWSAP, which was under the control of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Attached to the AAWSAP contractor bid form were the projects objectives: One aspect of the future threat environment involves advanced aerospace weapon system applications. The objective of this program is to understand the physics and engineering of these applications as they apply to the foreign threat out to the far-term, i.e., from now through the year 2050. Primary focus is on breakthrough technologies and applications that create discontinuities in currently evolving technology trends. The focus is not on extrapolations of current aerospace technology. The proposal shall describe a technical approach which discusses how the breakthrough technologies and applications listed below would be studied and include proposed key personnel that have experience in those areas. "REQUIREMENTS: The contractor shall complete advanced aerospace weapon system technical studies in the following areas: The AAWSAP contractor bid form September 2020 (1) Breaking the Silence: AATIP's Secret Partner The Pentagon UFO Programs Secret Partner Curt Collins View my complete profile Behind the Lines Dette website anvender cookies fra Google til at levere sine tjenester og analysere trafik. Din IP-adresse og brugeragent deles med Google sammen med effektivitets- og sikkerhedsmetrics. Dette sker for at sikre tjenestekvaliteten, generere brugsstatistik samt registrere og hndtere misbrug. FLERE OPLYSNINGEROK 2. propulsion 3. control 4. power generation 5. spatial/temporal translation 6. materials 7. configuration, structure 8. signature reduction (optical, infrared, radiofrequency, acoustic) 9. human interface 10. human effects 11. armament (RF and DEW) 12. other peripheral areas in support of (1-11) Robert Bigelow needed to shore up a few things in order to secure the contract. He began hiring a team of scientists and technicians for BAASS, and its since become known that several of Bigelows NIDS associates came back into play as the project developed. Colm Kelleher became Deputy Administrator and Hal Puthoff was engaged as a subcontractor. John Schuessler of MUFON played an important role as well. A Contract with MUFON The Scientific Study of UFOs for the Benefit of Humanity is the motto of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a civilian organization launched in 1969, founded on the premise that UFOs are real, in spite of the governments declarations that nothing was going on. In the late 2000s, the organization reportedly had 2,800 members. When the AAWSAP project was gelling in 2007, Robert Bigelow consulted ex-NIDS player John F. Schuessler, who gave him some direction on how to structure the project, and suggested that he employ some of MUFONs resources. Schuessler was a former aerospace engineer, and a co-founder of MUFON, and its former International Director. At the time, MUFON headquarters were in Bellvue, Colorado, with James Carrion serving as its International On Sept. 20, 2008, Robert Bigelow contacted John Schuessler, who in turn shared the word with colleagues about a contract for MUFON and some MUFON teammates. The work is proprietary... When pressed for more details, Schuessler said, Sorry to be so tight with the information... The name of the company is [BAASS] ...a new research arm of Bigelow Aerospace that focuses on the identification, evaluation, and acquisition of novel and emerging future technologies worldwide as they specifically relate to spacecraft. We will have a telecon tomorrow afternoon with... Robert Bigelow... he tried working with some of the UFO organizations several years ago... It was an embarrassing situation. I proposed this idea to him and he was willing to give it another try. You will note that UFOs are not a part of the above job description. Bigelow said he had backers, whose identity was kept secret, known only to John Schuessler. BAASSs backer (now known to be the DIA) was referred to as the sponsor. James Carrion has stated that Schuessler was offered a U.S. government security clearance allegedly related to his consulting work for Mr. Bigelow... He didnt know for certain the clearance was actually granted, but I was one of the people interviewed as part of his background investigation. MUFONs email contact with Bigelow was always through executive assistants, Janice Barragan and Donna Stauch. On Sept. 21, 2008, BAASS emailed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to be signed by Schuessler and other MUFON principals: James Carrion, Robert Powell, Chuck Modlin, Chuck Reever, and Robert Wood. Once the NDAs were signed, a series of conversations between BAASS and MUFON began. Meanwhile, George Knapp helped Robert Bigelow by interviewing him on the radio program Coast to Coast, Sept. 28, 2008. Bigelow used the show as some sort of substitute for a BAASS press release, laying it all out, just not the fact that the DIA was funding the operation: The mission for this company is to pursue exotic, novel technologies. We would like to come across something that levitates for example... We have sponsors. We have partners, in this effort... And these sponsors and partners do not need to be convinced, at all, that this topic is real. He described the initial stage, that he would be hiring a number of people with ...diverse backgrounds; that are all experts in a variety of fields. We have to organize offices and office facilities. ...were going to be initiating relationships and contracts with various organizations and people... MATE, the MUFON Advanced Technology Establishment Robert Bigelow wanted MUFON to produce a series of papers, and to do so, they formed a work team called MUFON Advanced Technology Establishment (MATE) to write them. On Oct. 1, 2008, Bigelows executive assistant sent a list of the items hed discussed in their teleconference, the topics for the 12 technical areas. On Oct. 2, 2008, a MUFON Board of Directors member summarized an organizational MATE meeting: We discussed the fact that Mr. Bigelow would like the papers to be no longer than 4-5 pages. He prefers that the papers are more generic in nature and are not limited to UFOs. They should relate to Aerospace and Aerospace products. In effect, it is as if BAASS will be using MUFON as a futuristic think tank. This is not in conflict with MUFON's mission. On Oct. 3, 2008, John Schuessler emailed the MATE team, explaining that due to his work with Bigelow that he should not participate. I spent a lot of time working on the startup plans for BAASS and in particular carving out a niche for MUFON Therefore it would not be ethical for me to write Dette website anvender cookies fra Google til at levere sine tjenester og analysere trafik. Din IP-adresse og brugeragent deles med Google sammen med effektivitets- og sikkerhedsmetrics. Dette sker for at sikre tjenestekvaliteten, generere brugsstatistik samt registrere og hndtere misbrug. FLERE OPLYSNINGEROK and in particular carving out a niche for MUFON... Therefore, it would not be ethical for me to write any of the papers on behalf of MUFON. Instead, Dr. Robert M. Wood took the lead. The MATE contract with BAASS signed Oct. 17, 2008, stated: Subcontractor agrees to provide the engineering, labor and materials required to prepare twelve (12) overview papers each focusing on the following twelve (12) technical areas: 1.) lift, 2.) propulsion, 3.) control, 4.) power generation, 5.) spatial/temporal translation, 6.) materials, 7.) configuration, structure, 8.) signature reduction (optical, infrared, radiofrequency, acoustic), 9.) human interface, 10.) Human effects, 11.) armament (RF and DEW), 12.) other peripheral areas in support of (1-11). Each paper shall address possible plans of action... describe technical approaches which discuss how breakthrough technologies applied in the twelve (12) technical areas mentioned above may produce advanced spacecraft concepts and technologies through the year 2050 and beyond. Those 12 technical areas were the same as in the DIAs contract proposal, probably a list created by Dr. James T. Lacatski. However, Bigelow directed them that the papers should be more generic in nature and are not limited to UFOs. The MATE team consisted primarily of Dr. Bob Wood, Charles W. Modlin, Robert Powell, and Chuck Reever, who would conduct the work under the condition of their NDAs. To guide MATE, MUFON board member Bob Wood (a retired aerospace engineer) wrote a piece with a few ideas to get them started on the 12 papers. In Woods memo we begin to see the obfuscation ordered by BAASS, where UFO-related topics were discussed, but with conventional aerospace principles and terminology. (Still, there were a few direct references to UFO events including a telepathic alien story and alien abductee implants.) Based on Woods direction, a handful of MATE papers were written by Lift discussed unconventional possibilities for generating flight and made numerous references to reported UFO performance. Power Generation contained no reference to UFOs, and was more technical than the other papers. It discussed cold fusion as a power source for aerospace vehicles. Human Interface discussed the possible methods of using technological or psychic means to connect the human brain to control aircraft. It did contain references to UFOs, including abductees and MUFONs study of alleged extraterrestrial implants. Propulsion for Interstellar Travel discussed the possibility of anti-gravity propulsion for interstellar vehicles, and compared it to the reported characteristics of unidentified aerial phenomena. Control discussed the possibility of modulating current in a superconductor to control lift/propulsion in an advanced aerospace vehicle. All the MATE studies were written as suggestions for further studies in their respective areas. For whatever reason, the authors names were not given on the papers themselves, each only identifying the team and where the document was written. On Nov. 9, 2008, the MATE papers were delivered to BAASS in Las Vegas, for which MUFON was subsequently paid about $10,000. With the first transaction satisfactorily completed, both parties began talks about possibilities for other projects, including field investigations and analysis of material related to sightings. A MUFON memo on their teleconference of Nov. 14, 2008, shows that they expected to conduct all the scientific studies themselves, and were discussing building facilities to house a laboratory, which would also serve as a base for investigations. Most of that never came to pass, since Bigelow wanted to conduct any scientific analysis at his own facilities. MATE papers and team: Bob Wood, Charles W. Modlin, Robert Powell, and Chuck Reever Dette website anvender cookies fra Google til at levere sine tjenester og analysere trafik. Din IP-adresse og brugeragent deles med Google sammen med effektivitets- og sikkerhedsmetrics. Dette sker for at sikre tjenestekvaliteten, generere brugsstatistik samt registrere og hndtere misbrug. FLERE OPLYSNINGEROK Leaked internal emails show discussions between Board members struggling with issues of transparency about the BAASS funding and whether to create a new business entity for the contract so as to not jeopardize MUFONs tax status as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. It was ultimately decided that since the money would be used for the organizations basic financial needs, it was legitimate. The Second Contract: Acquiring UFO Field Reports and Case Files The second project Bigelow had for MUFON was unambiguously related to UFOs. BAASS wanted to fund investigations of UFO sightings, and also to have access to MUFONs databases. MUFON had been developing a Strike Team Area Research (STAR) program to deploy members with special training and equipment. The STAR Team was sort of a SWAT team of UFO field investigators, and Bigelow wanted to fund them to be on call 24/7. There were again concerns by the MUFON Board of Directors, this time about the data shared with BAASS, but it was justified by saying that case information provided was (supposedly) no different than what they presented publicly on the CMS site or published in MUFON Journal. In December 2008, Bigelow was nervous about the sponsor continuing funding, and he was putting pressure on MUFON to get the field investigations up and running. This prompted a meeting in Las Vegas on January 23 and 24, 2009, to work out the details. Attending were MUFON players: James Carrion, Jan Harzan, John Schuessler, and Chuck Modlin Among those present for BAASS were: Robert Bigelow, Hal Puthoff, Jacques Vallee, and Colm Kelleher. At the meeting, James Carrion gave a detailed slide presentation of the proposed plan and financials to demonstrate how BAASS funds would be allocated for salaries of field investigators, travel expenses, and so on. A) Chuck Modlin, Jan Harzan, Hal Puthoff, Jacques Vallee and John F. Schuessler. B) Hal Puthoff, Jacques Vallee and John F. Schuessler. Only three of the participants pictured knew who they were really working for. The Las Vegas meeting would have been a perfect time for Robert Bigelow to show and tell the MUFON crew about the facilities and team he was building for BAASS, but according to Carrion, they scarcely left the confines of Bigelows office or conference room. As before, the second BAASS contract went through several versions to define the terms involved, and after weeks of negotiations, on Feb. 18, 2009 it was signed by MUFON and faxed to Bigelow. It was a purchase agreement for the acquisition of services and information from MUFON in three specific areas: MUFON Field investigation services (the STAR Teams work). MUFONs database of UFO sightings (called the Case Management System or CMS). All product from field investigations, all information and material derived from those services, which included everything from witness interview transcripts to physical evidence. Bigelows contract also made it coldly explicit that this was nothing more than an engagement of services between buyer and seller: This Agreement shall not