Organization
Defense Intelligence Agency
Also known as DIA
The Defense Intelligence Agency is the U.S. military's main intelligence agency. It ran AAWSAP, the $22 million UAP study (2008–2012) contracted to Bigelow's BAASS, released its technical papers (the DIRDs) under FOIA, and circulated the U.S. defence attaché report on the 1976 Tehran incident. It also co-funded the Stargate remote-viewing research.
People linked to it here include AAWSAP's initiator James Lacatski, the former director Vice Adm. Thomas R. Wilson and the former UAP Task Force director Jay Stratton.
Sources: AARO Historical Record Report, Vol. 1 (2024) · DIA FOIA release (2018)
Facts and claims
- documented AARO's 2024 historical report says the Defense Appropriations Acts of FY2008 and FY2010 appropriated $22 million for the DIA, which established AAWSAP in 2009 and awarded the contract to a private-sector organization. Source: doc-aaro-historical-record-report-v1.pdf
Connected files
Documents
- DIA FOIA response FOIA-00159-2018: release of 37 AAWSAP DIRDs (March 25, 2022) (released)
- U.S. Defense Attaché / DIA report: UFO sighting in Iran, 19 September 1976 (NSA-released reproduction) (produced)
- DOPSR case 22-SB-0151: prepublication clearance of Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp's “Book 2” (April 24, 2023) (reviewed)
Organizations
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center (related to)
People
- James Clapper (led by)
- James Lacatski (staff)
- Jay Stratton (staff)
- Thomas R. Wilson (led by)
Programs
Videos
- UFO Cover-Up?: Live! (1988 television special) (discussed in)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: A Global Phenomenon, Part 2 (discussed in)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: Science & Technology (discussed in)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: Truth, Lies & the Cover-up, Part 1 (discussed in)
- Rick Doty with George Knapp, part 2: MJ-12, the FBI and UFO cover stories for secret aircraft (Mystery Wire, 2019 interview) (discussed in)
- Richard Doty on disinformation, Paul Bennewitz and Linda Moulton Howe (Rebelliously Curious with Chrissy Newton, The Debrief, February 2025) (discussed in)
- Jay Stratton on Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier (13 October 2026) (discussed in)
- Jay Stratton on Jesse Watters Primetime: "the Manhattan Project on steroids" (16 October 2026) (discussed in)
Mentioned in this file
- Robert Bigelow (Person)
- Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (Program)
- AARO Historical Record Report, Volume 1 (Document)
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (Program)
Mentioned in videos
- Citizen Hearing 2013: Opening statements (Mitchell, Hellyer)
- Richard Doty on disinformation, Paul Bennewitz and Linda Moulton Howe (Rebelliously Curious with Chrissy Newton, The Debrief, February 2025)
- Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection
- “He ran the Pentagon's secret UFO program, and says we've been played”: James Lacatski, part 1 (WEAPONIZED, November 2025)
- “The Government UFO Boss”: James Lacatski, part 2, on New Insights (WEAPONIZED, November 2025)
- Mystery Wire: the Bigelow–Lacatski connection, AAWSAP and New Insights (8 News Now, January 2026)
- Craft of unknown origin and the paranormal umbrella: Lacatski on Future Visions (8 News Now, April 2026)
- Jay Stratton's first on-camera interview, recorded 2022 (WEAPONIZED, released October 2026)
- Disclosure Project press conference, National Press Club (May 9, 2001), full event
- Hal Puthoff Presentation 06/08/2018
- Eric Davis: “A US President Was Briefed on UFOs!”
- Joe Rogan Experience #2065 - David Grusch
- Joe Rogan Experience #2314: Hal Puthoff
- Joe McMoneagle - CIA's Project Stargate | SRS #95
Mentioned in documents and records
- Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
- Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah
- Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability
- Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life
- Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program
- AATIP was an official Pentagon UAP program, and Luis Elizondo ran it
- Remote viewing & telepathy
- Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions
- Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs)
- Admiral Wilson memo (EWD notes)
- PURSUE Release 07: federal agents' triangle sighting and AAWSAP's working files
- Admiral Wilson memo begins circulating online
- Tajik Air 747SP sighting over Kazakhstan
- Tehran UFO incident
- Bigelow Aerospace
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of War (Department of Defense)
- Skinwalker Ranch
- Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
- KONA BLUE
- DOW-UAP-D110 — AAWSAP Statement of Objectives, July 2008
- DOW-UAP-D111 — AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order, September 2008
- DOW-UAP-D112 — AAWSAP Contract Modification P00001, September 2009
- DOW-UAP-D113 — AAWSAP Contract Modification P00002, February 2010
- DOW-UAP-D114 — AAWSAP Contract Modification P00003, May 2010
- DOW-UAP-D115 — AAWSAP Contract Modification P00004, May 2010
- DOW-UAP-D116 — AAWSAP Contract Modification P00005, September 2010
- DOW-UAP-D117 — AAWSAP DIRD, Metallic Glasses for Aerospace Applications, December 2009
- DOW-UAP-D118 — AAWSAP DIRD, Aerospace Applications of Programmable Matter, December 2009
- DOW-UAP-D119 — AAWSAP DIRD, Biomaterials, January 2010
- DOW-UAP-D120 — AAWSAP DIRD, Materials for Advanced Aerospace Platforms, January 2010
- DOW-UAP-D121 — AAWSAP DIRD, Pulsed High-Power Microwave Source Technology, January 2010
- DOW-UAP-D122 — AAWSAP DIRD, Invisibility Cloaking Theory and Experiments, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D123 — AAWSAP DIRD, Positron Aerospace Propulsion, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D124 — AAWSAP DIRD, Space Access: Where We’ve Been and Where We Could Go, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D125 — AAWSAP DIRD, Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D126 — AAWSAP DIRD, Advanced Nuclear Propulsion for Manned Deep Space Missions, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D127 — AAWSAP DIRD, An Introduction to the Statistical Drake Equation, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D128 — AAWSAP DIRD, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D129 — AAWSAP DIRD, Metallic Spintronics, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D130 — AAWSAP DIRD, Technological Approaches to Controlling External Devices, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D131 — AAWSAP DIRD, The Role of Superconductors in Gravity Research, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D132 — AAWSAP DIRD, Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D133 — AAWSAP DIRD, The Space Communication Implications of Quantum Entanglement and Nonlocality, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D134 — AAWSAP DIRD, Maverick Inventor Versus Corporate Inventor: Where Will the Next Major Innovations Arise, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D135 — AAWSAP DIRD, Antigravity for Aerospace Applications, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D136 — AAWSAP DIRD, Biosensors and BioMEMS: A Survey of the Present Field, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D137 — AAWSAP DIRD, State of the Art and Evolution of High-Energy Lasers, March 2010
- DOW-UAP-D138 — AAWSAP DIRD, Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions, April 2010
- DOW-UAP-D139 — AAWSAP DIRD, Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy, April 2010
- DOW-UAP-D140 — AAWSAP DIRD, High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications, April 2010
- DOW-UAP-D141 — AAWSAP DIRD, Metamaterials for Aerospace Applications, April 2010
- DOW-UAP-D142 — AAWSAP DIRD, Concepts for Extracting Energy from the Quantum Vacuum, April 2010
- DOW-UAP-D143 — AAWSAP DIRD, Laser Lightcraft Nanosatellites, November 2010
- DOW-UAP-D144 — AAWSAP DIRD, Cockpits in the Era of Breakthrough Flight, November 2010
- DOW-UAP-D145 — AAWSAP DIRD, Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion I, November 2010
- DOW-UAP-D146 — AAWSAP DIRD, Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion II, November 2010
- DOW-UAP-D147 — AAWSAP DIRD, Ultracapacitors as Energy and Power Storage Devices, November 2010
- DOW-UAP-D148 — AAWSAP DIRD, Detection and High-Resolution Tracking of Vehicles at Hypersonic Velocities, November 2010
- DOW-UAP-D149 — AAWSAP DIRD, MHD Air Breathing Propulsion and Power for Aerospace Applications, November 2010
- DOW-UAP-D150 — AAWSAP DIRD, Quantum Computing and Utilizing Organic Molecules in Automation Technology, December 2010
- DOW-UAP-D151 — AAWSAP DIRD, Cognitive Limits on Simultaneous Control of Multiple Unmanned Spacecraft, December 2010
- DOW-UAP-D152 — AAWSAP DIRD, Negative Mass Propulsion, January 2011
- DOW-UAP-D153 — AAWSAP DIRD, Quantum Tomography of Negative Energy States in the Vacuum, January 2011
- DOW-UAP-D166 — MUFON Reports Prepared for BAASS, November 2008
- DOW-UAP-D167 — Project Capella, December 2008
- DOW-UAP-D168 — BAASS Project Management Plan, December 2008
- DOW-UAP-D169 — BAASS Monthly Report, March 2009
- DOW-UAP-D170 — BAASS Monthly Report, April 2009
- DOW-UAP-D171 — BAASS Monthly Report, June 2009
- DOW-UAP-D173 — BAASS Monthly Report, November 2009
- DOW-UAP-D174 — Utah Ranch Investigation Report, April 2010
- DOW-UAP-D175 — BAASS Self-Assessment of UAP Analysis Capabilities, November 2010