The Parallax

“Tell him what he wants to hear.“ - Ex-BAASS employees have a different perspective on Skinwalker Ranch [Note : all pictures of Skinwalker Ranch are reproduced in this article with the kind permission of Christopher Bartel] Ten months ago I started some personal research on the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP). The program was run by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and was supposed to explore “the physics and engineering of advanced aerospace weapon systems as they apply to the foreign threat out to the far term, i.e., from now through the year 2050“. The contract for AAWSAP was awarded to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC (BAASS). Unfortunately, very few official documents about AAWSAP have surfaced so far. What others researchers and I discovered was that BAASS was primarily investigating the UFO phenomenon on US soil and abroad. Whether BAASS did so on behalf on the US Government, and whether the DIA was fully aware of the extent of BA...

(Thanks to Keith Basterfield for his background research on this topic.) In November 2018 Keith Basterfield posted an article titled « Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas » about a possible cooperation between BAASS and UNLV. Twitter user @Jay09784691 had previously located a 2010 newsletter from the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies at UNLV that referred to an agreement between the university and BAASS. "The Nuclear Materials Group (lead: Dr Thomas Hartmann) has established a formal collaboration with the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). The collaboration provides analytical assistance to BAASS for characterizing solid phases and precipitates." HRC eNews — 2010 Spring : News release about the BAASS/UNLV cooperation  (Available at :  https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=hrc_pubs ) Based in Las Vegas, BAASS was the sole contractor for the 22-million dollar Ad...

Here is a list of documented facts about AAWSAP and BAASS, based on available official documents. Unfortunately, very few official records about this program have been released yet, despite countless Freedom of Information requests submitted by numerous researchers. One central document is the AAWSAP solicitation , issued by the Defense Intelligence Agency under Solicitation #HHM402-08-R-0211. Once awarded to BAASS, the contract number was HHM402-08-C-0072. Understanding what was required of Bigelow's company and what was offered in exchange is critical to understanding what AAWSAP really was, and why it may have been a good deal for Bigelow. When was the AAWSAP contract awarded ? The solicitation was issued and published on August 18th 2008. The deadline for offers and proposals was on September 5th, 2008. We don't know when the AAWSAP contract was awarded to BAASS. When was Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC formally established ? BAASS was created on January 29, 2...

An investigation by Marc Cecotti and Keith Basterfield In our previous articles we reported that investigators and translators from Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) visited Fortaleza and Sobral in the State of Ceará, Brazil, at least on one occasion in May 2009. Thanks to additional witnesses and documents, we have learned that the history of UFO events in Brazil was deemed important enough to send BAASS upper management to Saõ Paulo to meet with several UFO researchers. The purpose of those meetings was to gain more information about the UFO phenomenon in Brazil, to create possible cooperation with research organization, but also, according to those witnesses, to try and discover any technology associated with UFOs for possible spin-offs used in Bigelow Aerospace projects. BAASS managers in Saõ Paulo Marc Cecotti reached out to Brazilian UFO researcher Edison Boaventura Jr. from Guarujá Ufological Group (GUG). He confirmed that he met two BAASS employees for a ...