Soviet, and then Russian, Ministry of Defence study of Abnormal Aerospace Phenomena running from 1991 to 1995 under Military Unit 73790, decommissioned in 1997. It is the closest thing in the record to a foreign counterpart of AAWSAP.
How it reached the West
George Knapp obtained more than a hundred pages of Russian-language documentation on two trips to Moscow in 1993 and 1996. BAASS spent months in 2009 and 2010 translating and analysing them under AAWSAP, and the resulting report is published in Future Visions as one of the twelve previously unseen case studies.
What the comparison shows
The parallels the book draws are structural rather than evidential: both programmes set out to identify the objects, both ran biological threat assessments, both tried to extract non-traditional propulsion concepts, both worked on limited time horizons, and both were terminated by their host institutions. James Lacatski frames that as evidence of the concern Senator Harry Reid had about other countries gaining an advantage. The same data reads equally as two well-funded national-security programmes, twenty years apart, both producing inconclusive results.
Connections
AAWSAP · BAASS · George Knapp · Future Visions · James Lacatski · Senator Harry Reid · Colm Kelleher