Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Government's Secret UFO Program

CLAIM-200001 · Program History Assertion

“Lacatski, Kelleher, and Knapp describe AAWSAP as a Defense Intelligence Agency program funded at $22 million, with solicitation HHM402-08-R-0211 and contract HHM402-08-C-0072 awarded to BAASS in 2008 for an initial two-year period.”

CLAIM-200002 · Program History Assertion

“The authors distinguish AAWSAP from AATIP: they say AATIP began as an unclassified substitute name in Senator Harry Reid’s 2009 SAP request and was later used for a separate small, informal Pentagon UAP effort; the $22 million contract funding is attributed to AAWSAP, not that later AATIP effort.”

CLAIM-200003 · Reported Data Repository / Deliverables

“The book describes an AAWSAP BAASS Data Warehouse consisting of eleven databases, including NIDS, pilot, Sign/Grudge/Blue Book, UFOCAT, MUFON, Colares, Canadian and UK releases, BAASS cases, Skinwalker Ranch, and an eyes-only physiological-effects database.”

CLAIM-200004 · Reported Analytical Framework

“The source describes the Vallee-Davis Six-Layer Model as an analytical architecture spanning physical, anti-physical, psychological, physiological, psychic and cultural effects so that UAP reports were not reduced to sensor observations alone.”

CLAIM-200005 · Reported Data Repository / Deliverables

“Appendix I presents the authors’ list of AAWSAP/BAASS contract outputs delivered to DIA, including monthly reports, investigative addenda, DIRDs, database work, the Tic Tac investigation, Lagol investigation, human-effects work and the Russian Thread III Project; the book characterizes the total as 109 reports and databases.”

CLAIM-200006 · Reported Craft Appearance

“During the July 2009 ranch hike, the source says Costigan saw through a Generation III night-vision scope an oval area of darkness about eight feet tall roughly fifty yards ahead; Axelrod and Wilson did not obtain a definitive visual observation of it.”

CLAIM-200007 · Reported Encounter Observation

“The three men reportedly crossed a repeatable sharp boundary where the temperature fell about twenty degrees from the mid-70s Fahrenheit, then experienced escalating fear as they moved farther west before retreating.”

CLAIM-200008 · Reported Craft Appearance

“In the Ron Becker case the source reports three sharply defined bright blue spherical objects, roughly softball-sized; two were said to pass through the vehicle and one was said to pass through Becker’s upper body.”

CLAIM-200009 · Reported Health Effect / Medical Follow-up

“The book reports nausea, later rash and hair loss, persistent lymphocyte/neutrophil changes and a later diagnosis of rare male DCIS. It explicitly states that the carcinoma could not presently be ascribed directly to the incident, while describing the BAASS physicians’ concern about the temporal association.”

CLAIM-200010 · Reported Encounter Observation

“The source reports that a low-flying blue orb passed Jim and Laila Costigan in their Maryland neighborhood and briefly grazed Laila’s upper arm before disappearing into the neighborhood.”

CLAIM-200011 · Reported Health Effect / Medical Follow-up

“The book says Laila Costigan later developed lethargy, joint pain and other symptoms and was eventually diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. It attributes the causal interpretation to Jim Costigan and separately notes that the small number of autoimmune cases was insufficient to evaluate cause and effect.”

CLAIM-200012 · Reported Explanatory Framework

“The authors use the terms “hitchhiker,” Infectious Agent Model and Social Contagion Model to organize reports of anomalous experiences appearing in households and social networks after ranch visits. The book presents these as models for investigation rather than established biological transmission mechanisms.”

CLAIM-200013 · Reported Encounter Observation

“The book reports that members of the Axelrod household subsequently described upright wolf-like figures, colored orbs, shadow figures and unexplained footsteps. The source attributes the proposed ranch connection to the family and the authors’ hitchhiker model.”

CLAIM-200014 · Reported Encounter Observation

“The source reports a silent triangular object estimated by Jones at roughly 300 feet long and 60 to several hundred feet above him, with yellowish lights at its three points, a large bluish-white central light and four smaller accompanying objects.”

CLAIM-200015 · Reported Health Effect / Medical Follow-up

“The book describes post-event hair loss, abnormal blood-screen values, weakness and the later appearance of multiple painful nodules. It reports a preliminary non-malignant lymphoma diagnosis and concern about multicentric Castleman’s disease during BAASS medical follow-up.”

CLAIM-200016 · Reported Health Effect / Medical Follow-up

“The source states that in early June 2010 a BAASS contracted physician’s working hypothesis was that Jones’s lymphoma was consistent with biological effects from irradiation of about 300 Gy. The book does not establish that Jones actually received a measured 300 Gy dose.”

CLAIM-200017 · Reported Craft Appearance

“An investigator’s after-action account described a July 27 Lagol object as approximately 30 feet wide and 20 feet high, with curved top, inward-angled sides and flat bottom, appearing flat black through NVGs with no visible lights or markings and not seen with the naked eye.”

CLAIM-200018 · Investigative Follow-up

“The source reports repeated battery drainage and equipment failures at the Lagol property involving, among other equipment, a Thermo Fisher Niton XRF instrument and an Aaronia Spectran HF-60100 spectrum analyzer; the latter reportedly functioned normally when tested off property.”

CLAIM-200019 · Technology & Spacecraft

“The book says AAWSAP/BAASS conducted an intensive investigation of the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac case and submitted investigative reporting to DIA; Appendix I lists a “Tic Tac (Nimitz Carrier Strike Group) Investigation” covering January 7 through May 18, 2009.”

CLAIM-200020 · Reported Data Repository / Deliverables

“The authors report that AAWSAP delivered a 149-page “Russian Thread III Project” analysis to DIA in June 2010, based on Russian-language documents Knapp obtained in 1993 and 1996. They describe a Soviet research structure involving more than fifteen units/institutes and Military Unit 73790, while noting that the documents did not state what the Soviets ultimately obtained from the research.”