THE DOCUMENTS
DOW-UAP-D138, “AAWSAP DIRD Warp Drive Dark Energy and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions April 2 2010”; DOW-UAP-D139, “AAWSAP DIRD Traversable Wormholes Stargates and Negative Energy April 6 2010”; and DOW-UAP-D153, “AAWSAP DIRD Quantum Tomography of Negative Energy States in the Vacuum January 11 2011”: three Department of War records from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 06, published at war.gov/ufo on 18 September 2026. The titles are the release’s, taken from the file names; the words AAWSAP DIRD and the dates are the release’s. The papers’ own titles, printed on the cover and on p. 2, are Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions; Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy; and Quantum Tomography of Negative Energy States in the Vacuum. Each cover is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document cover with the Defense Intelligence Agency seal, a date, an ICOD date and a control number: DOW-UAP-D138, 2 April 2010, ICOD 1 December 2009, DIA-08-1004-001; DOW-UAP-D139, 6 April 2010, ICOD 1 December 2009, DIA-08-1004-004; DOW-UAP-D153, 11 January 2011, ICOD 10 August 2010, DIA-08-1102-007. The first two carry the series line Acquisition Threat Support and name the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3) as preparing office; DOW-UAP-D153 carries Defense Futures and names the Technology Warning Division (DWO-4). The three run to 33, 42 and 51 pages, each with its own page numbers; this briefing cites PDF pages. Every page is marked UNCLASSIFIED with FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY struck through. The only redactions are on p. 2 of each, with no black bar and no exemption code: the author line carries a label overprinted in large type, AAP Person 74, AAP Person 58 on DOW-UAP-D138 and AAP Person 58 on the other two, and a thin-ruled box in the note below carries AAP Person 1 before the words AAWSA Program Manager. All three have an issued text layer.
Why this one is worth your time
The release titles name warp drives, wormholes, stargates and negative energy; each paper states in its own words what it proposes and what it cannot yet do. Between them they carry the only sentence in the three that proposes pointing an instrument at aerospace platforms, and it is a detection concept for a propulsion system the papers discuss, not a report of anything seen.
What the documents say
Where the papers place themselves. The note on p. 2 of D138 and D139 calls each “one in a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009” under the Defense Warning Office’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program; D153’s note says FY 2010 and spells the name Weapons, in the plural. No page of the three prints AAWSAP (whole-word and substring count zero in each).
D138, the warp drive paper. The Introduction says that physicists have found two loopholes to the speed limit, the wormhole and the warp drive, and that the warp drive is its main focus: a bubble of space contracting in front of a spacecraft and expanding behind it (p. 5). Section 2 reviews Alcubierre’s 1994 metric. On the paper’s Table 2, for a bubble of radius 50 m, a light-speed bubble needs about minus 3.03 x 10 to the 50 joules (pp. 9 to 10). With a spaceship of 10 to the 6 kg in the same example, the paper’s bound on the bubble speed comes out at about 5.16 x 10 to the minus 6 m/s; the next sentence reads: “Garden snails can crawl faster than this.” (p. 10).
The paper’s own proposal follows. It argues that dark energy may be a higher-dimensional Casimir energy whose density depends on the radius of an extra dimension raised to the fourth power, so that a technology able to change that radius near a craft could make space expand behind it and contract in front (pp. 19 to 27). It calls the mechanism a false vacuum minimum, a deSitter minimum at the rear of the craft and an anti-deSitter minimum at the front (p. 26). Its Table 3, for a bubble of 100 cubic metres, gives about minus 1.00 x 10 to the 42 joules for light speed, and the paper says its requirements are reduced by a factor of 10 to the 8, read from the page image where the text layer prints 108, against Table 2, calling its own figures a worst case (p. 29). It then turns to what it calls “pure speculation”: a proposed test along the path of a hypothetical dark energy laser, with petawatt lasers as its analogy (pp. 29 to 30).
D139, the wormhole and stargate paper. Its Summary credits the idea of traversable wormholes to Morris and Thorne in 1985, done as an academic exercise at the request of Carl Sagan (p. 5). It pictures explorers who “could spend all day investigating the remote spacetime location and then” return home in time for dinner (p. 7). The body lists seven design requirements for a traversable wormhole (pp. 9 to 10) and derives a stargate, which it defines as a traversable wormhole with a flat-faced throat, from the thin shell formalism: on the flat face the paper finds that a traveller would feel no tidal forces and see no exotic matter (pp. 12 to 15). Figure 8, captioned A Stargate in Times Square, is a photomontage of a rainbow-coloured arch in a street opening on to a desert, read from the page image (p. 17). Below it the paper says a small wormhole appearing in local space would be perceived as “an unusually” bright spot in the sky, with blue and red Doppler shifting as it grows or recedes (p. 17).
Its numbers are equivalent masses. Equation 9 and Table 2 give minus 0.71 Jupiter masses for a throat of 1 m and minus 709.9 for 1,000 m; the same page adds that this is not the total mass seen by remote observers, and that Visser and co-workers showed wormholes supported by arbitrarily small quantities of negative energy (p. 30), after which the paper treats Equation 9 as a gross upper limit (p. 31).
Its Conclusion compares the decades from the Curies to the first reactor and says a laboratory demonstration is possible given sustained support (p. 34). It then lists what a programme would need: squeezed light generators, further Casimir studies, Dirac field states, trapping and storing negative energy, and a way to detect negative energy in the laboratory, for which it names Marecki’s balanced homodyne detector as a first step (pp. 35 to 37). The only date in its forecasts is a laboratory demonstration of the dynamical Casimir effect “before 2012.” (p. 36).
D153, the detector paper. The Introduction opens with future aerospace vehicles that “could have an advanced propulsion system that uses” negative quantum vacuum energy, and says that before anyone produces negative energy in quantity it must first be measured and mapped (p. 5). It calls it curious that Davies and Ottewill did not consider quantum optical homodyne tomography, which it says is a mature discipline (p. 20). Most of pp. 20 to 36 is a tutorial on Wigner functions, beam splitters, photodiodes and balanced homodyne detection. Sixteen of its twenty figures carry a courtesy credit to one of two researchers, and the Acknowledgements thank two professors for lecture notes, references and experimental data (p. 49).
The Conclusion makes two recommendations. The first is to modify a time-domain detector reported in 2001 to measure the energy density of individual pulses, then build a portable version for a putative pulsed generator (p. 47); the second is to test Marecki’s modified detector in Casimir cavities, then build a portable version for a putative static generator (p. 48). Each recommendation ends with the same sentence: a number of such devices “could also be” assembled in a sensor array for surveillance and detection of “anomalous aerospace” platforms that might use “engineered spacetime effects for propulsion.” The two printings are identical word for word except the device named: modified time-domain BHD devices on p. 47, modified-Marecki BHD devices on p. 48, checked on the text layer and the page images.
What the documents do not say
None of the three uses UAP, UFO or unidentified, and extraterrestrial returns no hit (case-insensitive, substring and whole word, issued layer, the papers’ only layer). Anomalous appears twice in the three, both in the D153 sentence on pp. 47 and 48; surveillance appears only there, twice. The sentence does not say whose platforms, does not say any exists or has been seen, and names no country; foreign, military and adversary return no hit in any of the three. D139’s bright spot is offered as what a wormhole would look like, and no report, sighting or case is cited with it.
The papers state their limits themselves. D138 says a practical warp drive “could be many years away” (p. 30) and that its energies remain beyond the foreseeable future (p. 29). D139 asks whether a beam of negative energy would open a wormhole: “One doesn’t know.” (p. 37). D153 says the Quantum Inequalities theorem suggests large amounts over long periods may not be possible, a claim it says is untested by experiment and that several investigators argue is in error (p. 47). On Marecki it says two things: at p. 46 that he claims the Quantum Inequalities should also apply inside Casimir cavities, and at p. 48 that he discovered the negative energy regions there violate them.
No page of the three prints a cost, a budget, a contract or a task number; the few hits for cost and contract are about travel time, energy and space contracting. None names either of the others by title, although passages recur between them: the sentence that the energy conditions “are mere hypotheses” is on D138 p. 9, D139 p. 18 and D153 p. 7, and D153’s paragraph on Marecki’s detector (pp. 5 to 6) follows D139’s (p. 36) nearly word for word.
The front matter replaces the authors’ names with labels, and the same label, AAP Person 58, stands on all three author lines; this briefing names no one behind them.
From the record
at this early stage in the research it is one of the only viable mechanisms to generate a
DOW-UAP-D138, p. 22, section 7, directly after the claim that a technology able to influence the radius of an extra dimension would control dark energy; the sentence, which opens on the line before with As tremendous a feat as this may sound, continues: warp drive.
energies are still far in excess of those available in the foreseeable future.
DOW-UAP-D138, p. 29, under Table 3, the close of the paragraph the paper calls perhaps its most important numerical results; the sentence begins: Even though this energy requirement is a vast improvement on the calculations of Visser and Lobo
It is a straightforward exercise to design a real “stargate” from wormhole physics. A
DOW-UAP-D139, p. 12, the opening of section II.B; the line holds the first sentence whole and opens the next, which continues: stargate is essentially a traversable wormhole with a flat-face shape for the throat
the most viable form of FTL transport. However, one still does not know how to
DOW-UAP-D139, p. 32, section IV; the line closes the sentence that opens It is on the basis of the foregoing discussion and opens the next, which continues: construct a traversable wormhole because general relativity theory only provides a recipe for the essential geometric and material ingredients required to open and maintain one, but not the required assembly instructions.
demonstrated in the laboratory as long as there is a focused, sustained level of long-
DOW-UAP-D139, p. 34, section V, directly after the comparison with the years from the Curies to Fermi and Szilard; the sentence begins: On this basis, it is possible that a traversable wormhole can be
properly control it after producing it. This is the motivation for this report.
DOW-UAP-D153, p. 5, the close of the Introduction’s fourth paragraph; the line closes the sentence that opens This is a necessary first step to take before and holds the next whole
curved spacetimes may not be possible. This claim remains as yet untested by
DOW-UAP-D153, p. 47, the Conclusion; the line closes the sentence on the Quantum Inequalities theorem and opens the next, which continues: experiment while several investigators have strong arguments showing the theorem is in error in these particular cases.
assembled in a sensor array for surveillance and detection of any anomalous aerospace
DOW-UAP-D153, p. 47, the last sentence of the first recommendation, printed again with this line unchanged at the end of the second on p. 48; the sentence begins: A number of modified time-domain BHD devices could also be
Where the case connects
The release files these papers under the same AAWSAP prefix as the contract records DOW-UAP-D110 to D116, which Release 06 Briefing 10 covers; no page of the three names a contract. D153’s cover date, 11 January 2011, falls after 21 December 2010, the end of the period of performance as DOW-UAP-D116, the record the release titles as modification P00005, extends it (D116 p. 1); its ICOD, 10 August 2010, falls inside that period. That is an observation about printed dates, and no page of these records says whether or under what the paper was delivered. Release 06 Briefing 24 covers the release as a whole.
Release 06 Briefing 22, on DOW-UAP-D128, cites D153’s sensor array sentence as one of two passages in other papers of the release that touch that paper’s subject in passing. That D153 takes up the detector D139 named as a first step is an inference from the matching paragraph and the shared reference to Marecki’s 2008 paper (D139 p. 42, D153 p. 50); D153 does not cite D139.
Read it yourself
DOW-UAP-D138, “AAWSAP DIRD Warp Drive Dark Energy and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions April 2 2010”, DOW-UAP-D139, “AAWSAP DIRD Traversable Wormholes Stargates and Negative Energy April 6 2010”, and DOW-UAP-D153, “AAWSAP DIRD Quantum Tomography of Negative Energy States in the Vacuum January 11 2011”, are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 06. The energy tables of DOW-UAP-D138 are pages 10 and 29 of the PDF, the stargate of DOW-UAP-D139 pages 12 to 17, and the two recommendations of DOW-UAP-D153 pages 47 and 48.
Read the files. 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
- Alcubierre Warp Drive
- Morris-Thorne Wormhole
- Exotic Matter
- Casimir Effect
References and further reading
- DOW-UAP-D138, “AAWSAP DIRD Warp Drive Dark Energy and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions April 2 2010”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D139, “AAWSAP DIRD Traversable Wormholes Stargates and Negative Energy April 6 2010”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- DOW-UAP-D153, “AAWSAP DIRD Quantum Tomography of Negative Energy States in the Vacuum January 11 2011”, 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 22, on DOW-UAP-D128, the paper on field effects on human tissue
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefing 24, on the release as a whole