Document · Government record · 23 November 2010

BAASS Summary Report on UAP Analysis Capabilities (23 November 2010)

A 141-page summary that BAASS wrote for the DIA Defense Warning Office in November 2010, describing what its AAWSAP team could do: field kits, an engineering simulation server and the Capella data warehouse of 11 databases. Its centrepiece is the 2004 Nimitz 'Tic Tac', quoted from a DIA-personnel investigation, including DIA's own Key Assessments that the object was no known US or foreign vehicle, was hard to see on radar across several bands, had no visible means of lift and may have been able to 'cloak'. BAASS adds its own kinematics: about Mach 10.7 and 75 g.

BAASS self-assessment of UAP analysis capabilities, November 2010 (DOW-UAP-D175). · US Department of War, PURSUE Release 07

Overview

Primary text: DIA's own Key Assessments on the Nimitz encounter are now in an official release.
Kinematics: a 60,000 ft descent in 5 s gives about Mach 10.7 and 75 g.
Warehouse: 11 databases, including a 'Post-Utah Ranch Effects Database' for the hitchhiker cases.

On the record

DOW-UAP-D175, 141 pages, 23 November 2010, contract HHM402-08-C-0072.
Field kit: Canon 5D, HD video, seven PVS-7 night-vision devices, thermal monocular, rangefinders, an XRF analyser, a dose-rate meter and counter-surveillance gear.
CFD studies of Tic Tac and cylinder shapes, acoustics of a spherical USO, radar cross-section of a coated sphere.
USS Louisville reported no sonar contacts; DIA called undersea operation 'highly unlikely' on that basis while listing it as possible.

Open questions

Is this the same capability analysis George Knapp describes as 143 pages, or a separate document?

Cases (5)

Connected

AMC Opinion Concerning 'Flying Discs' (Twining memo, 23 September 1947) document PURSUE Release 07 (war.gov, 23 October 2026) document Bigelow Aerospace / BAASS org Project Capella: the BAASS UAP data warehouse proposal (10 December 2008) document