THE DOCUMENT
DOW-UAP-D171, “BAASS Monthly Report June 2009”, a Department of War record from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 07, published at war.gov/ufo on 23 October 2026. The title is the release’s, taken from the file name; the war.gov site title adds a comma after Report. The cover’s own title is June Report, under the BAASS logo with the words BIGELOW AEROSPACE ADVANCED SPACE STUDIES, dated July 9, 2009 (p. 1, read from the page image); the title page reads June 2009 Report (p. 2), and the Preface calls the document This Progress report, for the period June 1-June 30, 2009 (p. 3). The 134 pages hold the cover, title page, Preface and contents (pp. 1 to 3), staff recruitment (pp. 4 to 6), new facilities (pp. 7, 8), position papers (pp. 9 to 11), the MUFON purchase order (p. 12) and two letters about it (pp. 13 to 16), thirteen MUFON case write-ups (pp. 17 to 99), a page carrying one box (p. 100), the Brazil deployment (pp. 101 to 118), a Project Northern Tier summary (pp. 119 to 131), foreign governments’ file releases (pp. 132, 133) and a conclusion (p. 134). Pages 3 to 14 carry printed numbers one lower than the PDF page, pp. 15 and 16 none, and pp. 17 to 134 numbers three lower; this briefing uses PDF pages. The report as a whole has no signature block. The text layer carries no classification marking, and the title page’s proprietary footer is struck through (p. 2, read from the page image). Names lie under white outlined boxes labelled 1843(a)(2) or 1843(a)(3), or carrying substitution labels; in the MUFON write-ups the names of private people are replaced by typed asterisks, and the record does not say who made either substitution.
Why this one is worth your time
D171 is BAASS’s own account of one month’s work in mid-2009: how many people it employed, what it paid MUFON for and why it proposed to pay less, what MUFON’s investigators reported, what a BAASS team brought back from northern Brazil, and how many possible witnesses it traced to Air Force base incidents decades earlier.
What the document says
Staff and buildings. In June 2009 BAASS received 461 résumés; as of 30 June it had forty five full time and six part time employees in addition to the administrator (p. 4). The staff chart gives names only as substitution labels beside job titles (pp. 5, 6). The administrator designed a highly secure underground vault, needed because of a BAASS priority to pursue and acquire recovered hardware and biological samples, including in Brazil (p. 7). Five office buildings, intended to hold laboratory, evidence storage and secure meeting space, were in escrow As of June 31, 2009, as the page dates it across a line break (p. 8).
Position papers. On 31 December 2008 BAASS awarded a company a contract for 24 to 30 position papers expanding on the 12 position papers previously delivered by the subcontractor on twelve technical areas (p. 9). By the end of June the company had taken delivery of approximately 24 (p. 9). A table of 24 rows gives every contributor under a substitution label, with topics that include warp drives, wormholes in spacetime, antigravity studies and laser weapons (pp. 10, 11, read from the page image).
MUFON and the stipend. A purchase order of February 2009 entitles BAASS to notification within hours of significant UAP reports from anywhere in the United States, timely reports from MUFON investigators, and physical evidence for analysis (p. 12). From March through June MUFON provided fewer cases than first agreed and spent only about 50% of its stipend, so at the end of June the administrator, under a substitution label, proposed to cut the monthly stipend by 50%, with a further review by the end of October 2009 (p. 12). BAASS’s letter of 25 June 2009 sets out MUFON’s spending against its allocations (p. 15) and proposes a Phase II level of $25,500 a month from 1 July to 31 October 2009, with another examination of the award by 27 October 2009 (p. 16). MUFON’s reply of 29 June 2009 accepts the reduction for the next four months (pp. 13, 14).
The MUFON write-ups. Headed for May and June 2009 (p. 17), thirteen write-ups cover sixteen MUFON case numbers, with dated events in the case headers from 4 April to 18 June 2009, one case with various dates before 2 June (pp. 17, 43, 95). Scenes include Scammon, Kansas; Dardanelle, Arkansas, on 20 April 2009; Fallon, Nevada, on 7 May 2009; Grants Pass, Oregon; and places in Texas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Arizona. One write-up describes a woman driving at about 5:20 am who reported a triangular object with three lights on each side within 100 feet, a dead phone and a flash that lit the road (p. 23); the investigators found her phone battery’s fuse blown (p. 28) and wrote that a compass test on another car of the same model brought their vehicle findings into question (p. 27); the write-up concludes at that point that this was a real event (p. 28). Another describes two young witnesses who saw three boomerang shaped objects with five lights each (p. 55). A parent who called a naval air station’s security office was told of an “unspecified aircraft incident” (p. 59); the write-up suggests the phrase may be the new code words used by the military in place of UFO (p. 60).
The trip to Brazil. The section opens “Beginning at the end of June, and spanning early June”, and encloses only the northern team’s report, dated 25 May to 3 June 2009 (p. 101). That team went to a city in northern Brazil to investigate recent reports of UAP activity in a region the page names (p. 101). Two senior investigators and two translators, under labels, met the leaders of two ufologist groups and a public officer, and secured approximately 70+GB of video, investigative reports and photographs (p. 102). One group gave BAASS permission to access and copy some 3418 cases, whose files are in total disarray; of its items of evidence, the page says the group has, at this time, not authorised BAASS to analyse anything (p. 115). The public officer gave the team a DVD and said he believes there is an earthly explanation for all the sightings (p. 110).
For the Colares area the writer recommends surveillance, and the translation priority sheet lists first, as item 1 of its very high priorities, military documents on Colares and a military operation the page names (p. 116).
Project Northern Tier. Formed in late April 2009, the team covers Minot, Loring, Malmstrom and Wurtsmith Air Force Bases (p. 119; Wurtsmith read from the page image). Guidance of 11 June 2009 sets the end game as a comprehensive analysis for the sponsor, a “One Stop Shop” (pp. 120, 121). For Minot, where the writer takes the earliest report, dated 1956, for a misdated 1968 event, the writer traced 30 potential witnesses from an online roster of 94 personnel and obtained telephone interviews with 5 (pp. 123 to 125). For Loring, fifteen witnesses of sightings of 27 to 31 October 1975 yielded 7,428 possible individuals in online sources (read from the page image; the text layer renders 71 428), narrowed to 588 (p. 128). The breakdown that follows (57 deceased, 96, 192, 157, 86, and 2 contacted) adds up to 590, on this briefing’s arithmetic (pp. 128, 129).
Other governments’ files, and the conclusion. Beside British, Canadian and French releases (pp. 132, 133), the Danish Air Force released 329 pages on 29 January 2009, and the June report says their translation will be complete by March 13, 2009 (p. 132). The conclusion reports contact with Air Force personnel in Uruguay and MUFON case numbers still considerably lower than expected (p. 134).
What the document does not say
It names no sponsoring programme, agency or contract number: AAWSAP, Defense Intelligence and HHM402 return zero, and DIA occurs only inside other words. The customer is called only the sponsor (three hits, all on p. 121), and no hit for contract refers to a contract under which BAASS itself works.
No report from the southern Brazil team is in the record (p. 101). Supplemental and detailed reports are said to follow (pp. 104, 105, 118), and a printout said to be attached to the Minot account (p. 123) is not there. The Brazil report gives no account and no date of any event at Colares. The samples listed in an Oklahoma case carry no results (pp. 40 to 42).
The table of contents gives Page 97 for the Brazil section (p. 3). Printed page 97 is p. 100, which carries only the number and one box labelled 1843(a)(2) over its upper part (read from the page image).
The war.gov site gives the record the Incident Location Las Vegas, Nevada, tags it AAWSAP and opens its description with a paragraph on AAWSAP as a DIA-administered programme: that framing is the site’s. The pages place BAASS’s investigators in Las Vegas (p. 12), and none of the case write-ups is set there; they report plans for a vault and five buildings in escrow (pp. 7, 8).
From the record
the number of cases that MUFON was providing BAASS was significantly lower
DOW-UAP-D171, p. 12, the section on the MUFON purchase order, the sentence on the shortfall from March through June; the sentence continues: than first agreed at the beginning of the purchase agreement contract.
(1) We note that for the month of February/March, MUFON spent $11,014.37 out of
DOW-UAP-D171, p. 15, the first of the two concerns in BAASS’s letter of 25 June 2009; the sentence continues: $74,666.67 allocated; in April, MUFON spent $23,803.95 out of $56,000 allocated; and in
Duty officer confirmed that there was an “unspecified aircraft incident” that
DOW-UAP-D171, p. 60, MUFON cases 16818 and 16819, the investigator’s inquiry of 14 May 2009 to the naval air station about an incident at 9:30 pm on 7 May; the sentence continues: occurred between 12 Midnight and 1AM.
RELIABILITY INDEX => 63.5% = 0.635
DOW-UAP-D171, p. 74, the second of the four indices on the Ballester-Guasp results page that closes the write-up of MUFON case 17526, a whole printed line
way with specific instructions to maintain a very low profile and they were also
DOW-UAP-D171, p. 101, the opening paragraph of the Brazil section; the sentence begins: It should be emphasized that BAASS deployed in a very low key
is good, a team of BAASS investigators deploy to the area to set up surveillance in
DOW-UAP-D171, p. 116, the recommendation for the Colares area; the sentence begins: My recommendation would be that when the weather forecast
“Project Northern Tier is one of the sponsor’s top priorities, making it
DOW-UAP-D171, p. 121, the opening line of the guidance of 11 June 2009 that the Northern Tier summary quotes; the sentence continues: one of, a box carrying a substitution label, and hence one of ours.
cases is now larger than any other database owned by UAP organizations in North
DOW-UAP-D171, p. 134, the conclusion; the sentence begins: The BAASS database of
Where the case connects
DOW-UAP-D168, BAASS’s project management plan of December 2008 and a subject of Release 07 Briefing 5, lists Project Northern Tier, on cases over air force bases containing nuclear weapons in the 1960s and 1970s, and a project on incidents at Colares in northern Brazil in 1977 (p. 9); it says a company delivered 12 Technical Studies on the twelve areas in November 2008 (p. 16). DOW-UAP-D170, the April 2009 report and a subject of Release 07 Briefing 6, lists three April cases (pp. 18, 19) and gives preliminary summaries of them, which it says are not final case reports (pp. 20 to 33); D171 carries write-ups of the same three case numbers, 16421, 16644 and 16539 (pp. 17, 22, 63).
DOW-UAP-D173, the November 2009 report and the subject of Release 07 Briefing 8, reports that in October 2009 BAASS appraised MUFON’s performance and will cut the monthly stipend by $10,000 for the remainder of the contract (p. 4). It does not refer back to the June letters; that this is the review D171 sets for October is an inference from the dates. D170 (p. 50) and D173 (p. 155) carry the same database sentence in their conclusions. DOW-UAP-D175, the subject of Release 07 Briefing 10, lists a Project Colares Database among eleven databases (p. 20) and mentions Northern Tier incidents (p. 11).
Outside this record, Release 06 Briefing 10 describes a 2008 contract with BAASS whose deliverables include monthly status reports; D171 prints no contract number, and nothing on its pages ties it to that contract.
The release leaves unredacted, beside persons it or MUFON masks, an investigator’s MUFON ID number and a witness’s date of birth, and under a map a latitude and longitude readout of the kind it boxes elsewhere. These are release slips, and the values are not repeated here.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-D171, “BAASS Monthly Report June 2009”, is hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 07. The MUFON purchase order and the two letters are pages 12 to 16 of the PDF, the Brazil report pages 101 to 118, and the Northern Tier summary pages 119 to 131.
Read the file. Decide for yourself.
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References and further reading
- DOW-UAP-D171, “BAASS Monthly Report June 2009”, PURSUE Release 07, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- AARO UAP Records, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, aaro.mil/UAP-Records
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 07 Briefing 5, on DOW-UAP-D166, DOW-UAP-D167 and DOW-UAP-D168, the BAASS records of 2008
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 07 Briefing 6, on DOW-UAP-D169 and DOW-UAP-D170, the BAASS monthly reports for March and April 2009
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 07 Briefing 8, on DOW-UAP-D173, the BAASS monthly report for November 2009
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 07 Briefing 10, on DOW-UAP-D175, the BAASS capability report of November 2010
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefing 10, on DOW-UAP-D110 to DOW-UAP-D116, the AAWSAP contract file