THE DOCUMENT
DOW-UAP-D128, “AAWSAP DIRD Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues March 11 2010”, a Department of War record from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 06, published at war.gov/ufo on 18 September 2026. The release title comes from the file name. The document’s own title, printed on the cover, the title page and above the Preface, is Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues; the words AAWSAP DIRD and the date are the release’s. The cover is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document cover with the Defense Intelligence Agency seal and the series line Acquisition Threat Support, dated 11 March 2010 with ICOD: 1 December 2009 beneath, and it carries no control number. The paper runs to 38 pages: seven of front matter ending with the Preface and Summary, five chapters (pp. 8 to 26), a reference list of 49 numbered entries and three lettered sub-entries, and three appendices (pp. 30 to 38). Its own page numbers run ii to vii and 1 to 31; this briefing cites PDF pages. Page 2 names the preparing office, Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3), Defense Warning Office, Directorate for Analysis, Defense Intelligence Agency, and places the paper in a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Defense Warning Office’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. Every page is marked UNCLASSIFIED with FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY struck through. The only redactions are two labels on p. 2, neither a black bar and neither carrying an exemption code: AAP Person 81, overprinted in large type with no box below the printed word Author:, and AAP Person 1, in a thin-ruled white box in front of the words AAWSA Program Manager.
Why this one is worth your time
Of the 37 papers the release files as Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, DOW-UAP-D117 to D153, D128 is the only one whose text layer uses UFO as a word, and none uses UAP (case-insensitive whole-word search). Its Preface opens with the injuries of three antenna engineers (p. 5), and its Summary argues that clinical findings in people hurt near anomalous aerospace systems can inform what those systems are (pp. 5 to 6).
What the document says
What the paper sets out to do. The Summary says the paper relates, summarises and analyses evidence of unintended injury to human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems, and argues that the work can inform, through clinical diagnoses, physical characteristics of possible future advanced aerospace systems of unknown provenance that may threaten United States interests (p. 5). Its bullets say that, on historical cases, people have been found to have been injured by exposure to “anomalous vehicles, especially airborne”, at relatively close range; that the primary mechanisms are electromagnetic radiation field effects; that the injuries are well understood and the propulsion systems are not; and that enough incidents and accidents have been accurately reported, and medical data acquired, to support a hypothesis that some advanced systems are “already deployed, and opaque to full US understanding.” (p. 6).
The three antenna engineers. The Preface opens p. 5, and four of its five blocks concern three people. Several years ago, it says, three individuals, fit and active before it, experienced an anomalous aerospace-related event, and within 72 hours suffered medical signs and symptoms: almost immediate erythema, heat and redness, over exposed skin, and, in degrees varying with exposure time, a list running from fever, pain and headaches to diarrhoea, loss of hair, skin eruptions, palpitations, sleep disturbance and anxiety. Two of the three had eye findings. One of the three experienced moderate blood dyscrasia and signs of radiation illness, and over several years developed signs of malignant transformations. Investigations the paper calls extensive but controversial found an accidental exposure in the near field, at metres, to broad-band radiofrequency, non-ionising and microwave energy, with unmeasured induced ionising effects, centred at about 785 MHz. A bullet then calls the three antennae engineers, as the page spells it, subjected to an anomalous accident, with accident in quotation marks, and cites reference [1]: C.J. Shilling’s 1997 paper in Occup. Environ. Med on acute exposure to ultrahigh radiofrequency radiation in three antenna engineers (p. 26). The fifth block turns to 42 further published cases and 300 unpublished ones. The engineers come back at pp. 15 to 16, 19, 23 and 26.
From the engineers to anomalous craft. The paper links the two through a comparison at p. 19, where it sets the engineers’ reported symptoms and physician-observed signs beside the Cash-Landrum cases, a case its Vallee table lists as a fly-by with permanent injuries (p. 35), and finds no significant differences in the cases the reviewer has studied. It says it seems highly unlikely that imagination or delusion of laypersons could mimic the science of thermal injury patterns, electrophysiology, immunology and neurology in a non-linear dose-response manner (p. 19). Cash-Landrum is a case name the paper uses seven times (pp. 8, 15, 19, 23 twice, 26, 35); the clinical findings it attaches to the case at pp. 14 to 15 and 23 are not repeated here. For an exotic mechanism it gives, in its words, but one hypothesis, adapted, it says, from Technical Study 10.0 Human Effects: a craft’s blackbody spectrum blue-shifted under spacetime manipulation for lift and propulsion, and broadband radiation symptoms in a person close by (p. 14). Chapter Five gives the purpose as arguing that data exist to reverse engineer the propulsion systems of anomalous aerospace vehicles, “independent of origin”, from biology (pp. 24 to 25).
What it draws on. Beyond the Preface, the paper points to about 100 reported cases of accidental exposure in military aerospace and communications, and to several hundred near-field cases of anomalous and hostile events under analysis for a companion study (p. 17). Appendix A reproduces the frequency distribution of a catalogue of 356 selected cases, 1873 to 1994, compiled in 1996 by John F. Schuessler, described as MUFON’s past Director; its largest counts are apparent abductions, 129, and electromagnetic effects on vehicles, 77 (p. 30). Appendix B lists 96 cases by date and place only, 1952 to 1971, under a key saying red means pending ICD classification; twelve lines are printed in red (pp. 32 to 33), read from the page images. Appendix C, which its heading calls in draft progress, reproduces the Vallee rating scales and sets ICD-coded effects against environmental effects in a matrix (pp. 34 to 38). Chapter Two retells a court case, the names printed as XXXX and YYYY, in which a man who believed he was targeted by field-effect weapons obtained through FOIA a 1998 Army INSCOM report, Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons, classified until 2006 (pp. 10 to 11, 26). Among the points the paper draws from it are “There is no evidence that the systems described in the document have been fielded.” and “There is no doubt that they would work.” (p. 11). Footnote ii, referring to the paper’s author, says that the author once ran the INSCOM effort from which that document derived (p. 11). The effects lists taken from that report (pp. 11 to 12), the injury thresholds (p. 14) and the directed-energy comparisons (p. 20) carry frequencies, field strengths and exposure times that this briefing describes and does not reproduce.
What the document does not say
It does not say its author examined the three engineers. Its source for them is reference [1]. Where it speaks of its own work with cases, it says that the reviewer has studied cases (p. 19), that several hundred are being coded in a parallel study by the author (p. 15), and that two rat brain studies are typical of hundreds the author has reviewed (p. 25). It gives no date, place, employer or name for the three; the only year tied to them is 1997, the year of reference [1]. It does not say they were near a vehicle of any kind: the page calls their event anomalous and aerospace-related, then gives the finding of an accidental exposure. The radiation illness and malignant transformations are attributed to one of the three, the eye findings to two.
It never uses UAP. UFO appears 19 times as a substring and 14 as a whole word, on pp. 3, 17, 26, 27, 30 and 35 (case-insensitive, in the issued text layer, the paper’s only layer; the five non-word hits are MUFON, UFOs and a web address). The page images carry UFO once more on p. 35 and four times in the column headings of the p. 36 matrix, which the text layer does not read. Eighteen sit in reference titles, the catalogue’s title and text, a web address and the Vallee scales; the one in the paper’s own prose is footnote viii, on concern about reported UFO/Anomalous effects at the time of Cold War proton experiments (p. 17). Unidentified appears once, in footnote xi, where the energy source may be an antenna, a source of microwaves or an unidentified object (p. 19). Anomalous appears 28 times as a word. Extraterrestrial and alien return no hits; its words on origin are unknown provenance (pp. 5, 20), independent of origin (p. 24), on-world, in a footnote placing a theoretical examination outside the review’s scope (p. 20), and off-world, as a possible later interest (p. 26).
The front matter replaces the author’s name with the label AAP Person 81 (p. 2). The paper’s own text identifies its author (pp. 15, 34); this briefing does not print the name.
No Table Two is printed in the paper; p. 23 cites Table Two together with reference [1] at p. 281 for the SAR against frequency characteristics behind the engineers’, the Cash-Landrum and other injuries, and the tables list at p. 4 ends with the line “Error! Bookmark not defined.” No page gives a tasking number, a contract number, an approval or a signature.
From the record
Several years ago three previous fit and active individuals experienced an
DOW-UAP-D128, p. 5, the first line of the Preface; the sentence continues: anomalous [“irregular, incongruous and inconsistent with their domain”] aerospace-related event.
moderate blood dyscrasia and signs of radiation illness, and over several
DOW-UAP-D128, p. 5, the Preface’s sentence on one of the three, which opens One of the three experienced; the sentence continues: years developed signs of malignant transformations.
Extensive, but controversial investigations revealed the three had been
DOW-UAP-D128, p. 5, the Preface paragraph that goes on to centre the exposure at about 785 MHz; the sentence continues: subjected to an accidental exposure in the near-field [meters] to a broad-band ultrahigh radiofrequency mixed radiation
These three persons were antennae engineers subjected to an anomalous
DOW-UAP-D128, p. 5, the Preface’s second bullet, whose reference [1] is the 1997 paper on three antenna engineers listed at p. 26; the sentence continues: “accident” [1]
The energy related propulsion systems are not well understood.
DOW-UAP-D128, p. 6, a complete bullet of the Summary, directly after the bullet saying the biophysical characteristics of the injuries are well understood
(symptoms) or the physician-observed (signs) between the case of three antenna
DOW-UAP-D128, p. 19, the middle line of the comparison that opens There are no significant differences in either the reported acute effects; the sentence continues: engineers and the Cash-Landrum cases.
As the purpose of this paper is to argue that data exists to “reverse engineer”
DOW-UAP-D128, p. 24, Chapter Five restating the paper’s purpose, over the page break to p. 25; the sentence continues: propulsion systems of anomalous aerospace vehicles, independent of origin, based on biology
1996 by MUFON’s past Director, John F. Schuessler. Covering the time period 1873 - 1994, the catalog comprises a summary of 356 selected cases of UFO-induced
DOW-UAP-D128, p. 30, Appendix A; the line closes the sentence naming the catalogue’s compiler and opens the next, which continues: physiological effects on humans during close encounters.
Where the case connects
The release files this paper under the same AAWSAP prefix as the contract records DOW-UAP-D110 to D116, which Release 06 Briefing 10 covers; no page of the paper names a contract. The paper cites Technical Study 10.0 Human Effects (p. 14) and a 2009 Technical Study 10 (p. 22), and D110, the statement of objectives, lists human effects as the tenth of its twelve study areas and sets its objective through the year 2050, as Chapter One of the paper does (D110 p. 1; p. 8). That the paper’s Technical Study 10 is that study area is an inference from the number and the name; neither record says so.
Two other papers among the 37 touch the subject in passing, and neither uses UFO or UAP. DOW-UAP-D153 ends pp. 47 and 48 each with a sentence on assembling detectors into a sensor array for surveillance and detection of any anomalous aerospace platforms that might use engineered spacetime effects for propulsion; Release 06 Briefing 14 covers it. DOW-UAP-D132 lists, under REFRACTIVE INDEX EFFECTS, waviness, light bending, apparent changes in size or shape and sudden cloaking or blinking out as possible side effects of metric-engineered spacetime, not as reports of anything seen (p. 14); Release 06 Briefing 13 covers it. Release 06 Briefing 24 covers the release as a whole.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-D128, “AAWSAP DIRD Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues March 11 2010”, is hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 06. The Preface and Summary are pages 5 to 7 of the PDF and the appendices pages 30 to 38, with page 36 turned on its side.
Read the file. Decide for yourself.
Related wiki entries
The wiki entries below give background on the programme and publisher behind this briefing, and on the subjects it touches.
- PURSUE
- Department of War
- DIRDs
- Anomalous Field Effects on Human Tissue
- Cash-Landrum Incident 1980
- John Schuessler
- MUFON
References and further reading
- DOW-UAP-D128, “AAWSAP DIRD Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues March 11 2010”, PURSUE Release 06, 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 06 Briefing 10, on the contract file, DOW-UAP-D110 to D116
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefing 13, on DOW-UAP-D132 and the other gravity papers
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefing 14, on DOW-UAP-D153 and the other warp drive, wormhole and negative energy papers
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefing 24, on the release as a whole