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This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident above Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan, potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in June 2002. This image is based upon a first-hand description provided by a former military service member, as described in FBI-UAP-D024. The Federal Bureau of Investigation prepared this digital rendering as a visual aid in 2026 in support of the PURSUE initiative.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-302 records an interview with a commercial airline pilot conducted in early 2024. The pilot said that since October 2023 they and other pilots had seen white lights at high altitude, usually between midnight and 3 AM, including on a Boston to Dublin flight and near North Dakota, where they filmed the lights in February 2024. The pilot also described a silent, unlit triangular object about 500 feet across passing over Bagram, Afghanistan, in June 2002.
This U.S. Department of State cable, sent by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico on September 16, 2023, is a weekly political blotter covering September 11 to 15. Most of it covers Mexican politics: Marcelo Ebrard's challenge to MORENA's candidate selection, INE commission appointments, Mexico City security leadership changes and killings of prosecutors in Guerrero. Its final item reports the September 12 congressional UAP hearing. Journalist Jaime Maussan presented two alleged alien corpses there, and former Navy pilot Ryan Graves called the display an "unsubstantiated stunt."
This U.S. Department of State cable from the American Embassy in Ashgabat, dated November 12, 2004, describes a November 5 meeting between embassy officials and the Union of Ufologists of Turkmenabat. The group started out studying life on other planets and became a trusted NGO partner. It helps businesses and NGOs register, has distributed humanitarian aid and is seeking USAID grants, including one for a newsletter. Its president said there had been no confirmed UFO sightings in Turkmenistan.
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, disseminated on 3 July 2008 and classified Secret NOFORN, relays heavily redacted reporting from Zimbabwe. It describes an unidentified object hovering at high altitude over Harare International Airport on the afternoon of 2 July 2008, possibly observed by radar and optical means. Observers described a disc-like object with a hollow center and rotating lights that shifted colors before it rapidly ascended out of view. The incident contributed to a decision to place a Zimbabwean entity on high alert.
This Statement of Objectives, dated 18 July 2008, is from the Defense Intelligence Agency's Acquisition Support Division. It sets out the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, which would study breakthrough aerospace technologies bearing on the foreign threat through 2050. The contractor was to study lift, propulsion, power generation, spatial/temporal translation, signature reduction and human effects. Other terms include TS/SCI security requirements, monthly and final threat assessment deliverables, and a five year firm fixed price contract.
This is Standard Form 1449, the solicitation and award for contract HHM402-08-C-0072, issued September 1, 2008 and awarded September 22, 2008, administered by the Virginia Contracting Activity in Washington, D.C. The contractor is Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC of Las Vegas, and the total award is $21,948,810. The firm fixed price contract covers a base year and an option year. Deliverables include monthly status reports, project management plans, research reports for Tasks 3.a.1 to 3.a.12, and a Comprehensive Integrated Threat Assessment.
This contract modification, P00001, was issued by the Virginia Contracting Activity at Bolling AFB in Washington, D.C. It was dated 2 September 2009 and distributed on 8 September 2009. It amends contract HHM402-08-C-0072 with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies of North Las Vegas. The modification extends the period of performance to 30 September 2009, sets option year dates of 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2010, and exercises option year 1 subject to the availability of funds. The option covers monthly status reports, research reports and a comprehensive integrated threat assessment.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-0911-016, is dated 14 December 2009. It was prepared by the Defense Warning Office's Acquisition Support Division at the Defense Intelligence Agency and is one of a series of FY 2009 advanced technology reports under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It is a primer on programmable matter and smart materials such as quantum dots, metamaterials and liquid crystals, and on how they could manage heat and energy and provide camouflage on spacecraft. It concludes that the possible gains would be significant and well worth pursuing.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 14 December 2009, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It is a technical review of metallic glasses that covers their structure, processing, mechanical behavior and possible aerospace uses. It concludes that composites with ductile dendrites in a glass matrix hold the most promise for structural use. It also finds that widespread aerospace adoption depends on developing new lightweight glass-forming alloys.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 7 January 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office. It is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. The report reviews biomaterials used in medicine, including silicones, Teflon, biodegradable polymers, hydrogels, titanium, ceramics and tissue constructs, and applications such as stents, joints, contact lenses, drug delivery and dialysis. It concludes that most innovation lies in new ways to apply existing materials.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-0912-008, is dated 12 January 2010. It was prepared by the Defense Warning Office's Acquisition Support Division at the Defense Intelligence Agency as one of a series of FY 2009 technology reports under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It reviews materials for launch vehicles, space vehicles and reusable rocket engines, including aluminum alloys, polymer and metal matrix composites, titanium and nickel alloys, and titanium aluminides. It concludes that newer materials and integrated design could improve on the space shuttle.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-0912-005) is dated 28 January 2010. The Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office prepared it under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It gives an overview of pulsed high-power microwave sources and the technologies needed to build them, including insulation, cathode materials, high-voltage switching, pulse generators and antennas. The paper concludes that progress requires better cathodes, switching and insulation, and that compact ultrawideband antennas will remain difficult to build.
This is Modification P00002 to contract HHM402-08-C-0072 with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC of Las Vegas. The Virginia Contracting Activity at Bolling AFB issued it with an effective date of February 2, 2010. It provides $11,948,810.00 to exercise Option Year 1, which runs from September 22, 2009 to September 21, 2010, and brings total obligated funding to $21,948,810.00. It also notes impacts to deliverables and technical risks from reduced funding, and it lists line items such as monthly status reports, research reports and a Comprehensive Integrated Threat Assessment.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 2 March 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It reviews invisibility through camouflage, transparency, and cloaking, covering metamaterials, transformation optics, and non-Euclidean broadband cloaking designs. It concludes that perfect cloaking is impossible, but imperfect devices could be made. Microwave cloaking is within reach of present technology, while visible-light invisibility remains uncertain and depends mainly on new theoretical research.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office and dated 2 March 2010. It is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It looks at using positrons as fuel for air-breathing turbojets, ramjet-assisted missiles, single-stage reusable vehicles and rockets for a manned Mars mission, and it also covers positron production, costs and storage. It concludes that a first positron-powered flight around the globe could be possible within 10 years.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 8 March 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It is one of a series of advanced technology reports. It surveys the history of space access concepts, covering hypersonic gliders, air-breathing and rocket propulsion, materials, launch options and operating costs. The report argues that reliable, schedulable access to low Earth orbit is mainly a hardware and organizational problem rather than a technology problem.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 10 March 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It surveys the basics, experimental status, theory and possible uses of inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion, with emphasis on work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It covers neutron sources, explosives detection and space propulsion. It ends by proposing a 12-gun hydrogen plasma experiment meant to show breakeven conditions for p-11B fuel.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document is dated 11 March 2010. It was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office as part of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It is a technical paper arguing that spacecraft driven by deuterium thermonuclear reactions could be built with current science and could reach the outer solar system. It covers magnetic insulation, ignition by proton beams, a Super Marx generator and conjectured chemical superexplosives. It does not discuss any UFO sightings.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 11 March 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It introduces the Statistical Drake Equation, which treats each Drake factor as a random variable with a mean value and a standard deviation. Using its example inputs, the paper estimates that the nearest extraterrestrial civilization lies between 1,361 and 3,979 light years away with 75% probability. The author's 2008 International Astronautical Congress paper is attached as an appendix.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 11 March 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It reviews reported injuries to people exposed at close range to anomalous aerospace vehicles and attributes them mainly to electromagnetic radiation field effects, including burns, neurological and auditory effects. It argues that clinical diagnoses can help infer the characteristics of advanced systems. The appendices hold a case catalog and ICD code tables.
The Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office issued this Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 23 March 2010, as one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. The report reviews metallic spintronics, including giant magnetoresistance, spin-transfer-torque and antiferromagnetic spintronics, along with their applications. It concludes that spintronic devices could offer radiation-resistant, low-power electronics suited to aerospace use and long space trips.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program and dated 23 March 2010. It surveys noninvasive and invasive brain-machine interface technologies, including EEG, MEG, fMRI, NIRS and implanted electrode arrays, that could control external devices without limb-operated interfaces. It concludes that noninvasive electrical monitoring is the most promising near-term approach. For the long term it favors invasive single-neuron cortical connections.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 23 March 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office. It is one of the advanced technology reports produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. The paper is a historical survey of claimed links between superconductors and gravity, covering Podkletnov's gravity shielding claims, the Li and Torr theories, and NASA and Tajmar experiments. It concludes that no replication exists and that research in this area is fraught with experimental difficulty.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 29 March 2010 and prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office, is one of a series of FY 2009 advanced technology reports under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It uses a metric tensor approach from general relativity to catalog the physical effects of engineering spacetime. It covers time alteration, light speed, effective mass, and warp drives. It concludes that these effects are consistent with physics, but that engineering them remains a daunting constraint.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 30 March 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It reviews theoretical approaches to antigravity for aerospace propulsion. These range from Newtonian mass arrangements and general relativistic gravitomagnetic effects to negative energy, dark energy and quantum vacuum forces. The report concludes that many of these concepts are nowhere near practical engineering implementation. It offers theoretical estimates to guide future work.
This Defense Intelligence Agency reference document is dated 30 March 2010. The Defense Warning Office prepared it under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It compares lone maverick inventors with corporate inventors who work in think tanks and other large organizations, focusing on unconventional energy and propulsion, including antigravity. It sorts inventors into five types. It concludes that formally trained mavericks (Types 3 and 4) are the most likely source of the next innovations. Untrained inventors are expected to contribute nothing substantial.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 30 March 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It reviews quantum entanglement, nonlocality and EPR experiments, and asks whether nonlocal quantum effects could carry observer-to-observer signals faster than light. The paper describes proposed experiments and an example of real-time Earth control of a Mars rover. It concludes that there is no compelling answer yet and that experimental tests are needed.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 31 March 2010 and numbered DIA-08-1003-020, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It surveys biosensors and biomedical microelectromechanical systems, covering brain-implanted micromachine neuroelectrodes, drug-delivery pumps, glucose sensors, neural interfaces, retinal prostheses, microfluidic lab chips, NASA cell-culture systems and microcantilever sensors. It concludes that the field is expanding rapidly, with nanomechanical systems expected to follow.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office and dated 31 March 2010. It was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It reviews chemical, solid-state, fiber, ultra-short pulse and free-electron lasers, as well as beam control, atmospheric propagation, DoD laser history and how spacecraft could be damaged by lasers. It projects that electrically powered lasers could enable MW-class weapons and spacecraft laser weapons within 20 years. It ends with shielding recommendations for spacecraft.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 2 April 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009. The paper reviews general relativistic warp drives and their enormous negative energy requirements. It then proposes a model in which dark energy arises from Casimir energy in extra dimensions, suggesting that control of higher dimensions could someday enable a warp drive.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1004-007, is dated 6 April 2010. The Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office prepared it under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It reviews concepts for extracting energy from the quantum vacuum zero-point field for space power and propulsion. It covers the Casimir effect, QED and stochastic electrodynamics theory, and selected experiments. It notes that no practicable extraction technique has yet been demonstrated in the laboratory.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1004-005, is dated 6 April 2010. The Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office prepared it under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It reviews proposed laboratory generators and detectors for high-frequency gravitational waves. It favors a piezoelectric approach for proof-of-concept tests, IR-excited molecules for an operational transmitter and the Li-Baker detector as the receiver. It estimates about 1.9 million bits per second over 7,000 km through the Earth and discusses timing standards and interplanetary navigation uses.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1004-006, is dated 6 April 2010 and was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office. It is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. The report reviews electromagnetic and optical metamaterials and their uses in sub-diffraction imaging, component miniaturization, energy harvesting, optical isolators and tunable devices. It concludes that metamaterials remain academic but have great potential for aerospace applications.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1004-004, is dated 6 April 2010. The Acquisition Support Division of the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office prepared it as one in a series of advanced technology reports from FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. It reviews the physics of traversable wormholes and flat-faced "stargate" solutions, and it covers how negative energy might be generated in the laboratory. It concludes that the key technical challenge is identifying and producing exotic matter.
This is Modification P00003 to contract HHM402-08-C-0072, dated 18 May 2010 and issued by the Virginia Contracting Activity at Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C., to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC of Las Vegas. The administrative modification changes the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) on the contract, which is dated September 22, 2008. The name of the new representative is redacted. The document states that COR guidance cannot assign new work, extend the period of performance or increase the contract value. The modification amount is $0.00.
This is a contract distribution list dated 18 May 2010 for modification P00004 to contract HHM402-08-C-0072. It was issued by the Virginia Contracting Activity at Bolling AFB in Washington, D.C., and describes the change as an administrative modification. It lists seven copies sent to recipients including the contractor, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies in Las Vegas, and the NSA Finance and Accounting Office. The text does not describe what the contract covers, and some names are redacted.
This is a contract modification form, P00005, issued by the Virginia Contracting Activity at Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C. and effective 28 September 2010. It amends contract HHM402-08-C-0072, dated 22 September 2008, with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC of Las Vegas. By mutual agreement, the period of performance is extended from 22 September 2010 to 21 December 2010 at no added cost. The line items listed include status reports, research reports and a Comprehensive Integrated Threat Assessment.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, prepared in fiscal year 2010 by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program, reviews aneutronic fusion as a way to propel spacecraft. It compares chemical, ion, fission, fusion and antimatter propulsion, and it also covers radiation shielding and relativistic rocket calculations. It looks at research needs over the next 30 years for missions from low Earth orbit to Mars, Jupiter and Alpha Centauri.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 1 November 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications program. It reviews fusion plasma physics, confinement methods and propulsion concepts that use aneutronic fusion fuels such as hydrogen and boron-11. It concludes that pulsed DPF or IEC thrusters may replace satellite ion thrusters in the near term. It also finds that aneutronic fusion propulsion will not be practical beyond the solar system without breakthrough propulsion physics.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 1 November 2010 and numbered DIA-08-1011-002, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office. It is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It draws mainly on the book Frontiers of Propulsion Science and speculates about breakthroughs such as control of gravity and inertia and faster-than-light travel. It then proposes a provisional cockpit design with six-degree-of-freedom controls, virtual displays and no windows.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1011-001), dated 1 November 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It covers nanosatellite technologies, laser Lightcraft propulsion, a weapon mission selection study and a multi-megawatt laser study. The author recommends that the Department of Defense, working with NASA, bring laser Lightcraft propulsion research back to the United States and restart the Air Force X-50LR test flight program.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office and dated 1 November 2010. It is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program. The report reviews how ultracapacitors work, how they compare with batteries, their history and materials, and their commercial, military and aerospace uses. It concludes that new materials and cell designs will raise energy density and that the U.S. government must understand the devices' spectral signatures.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office in fiscal year 2010 as part of the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications program. It reviews how air flows around objects at subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic speeds, covering shock waves, wakes and ionization. It then compares ways to detect and track hypersonic vehicles, including radar, optical, infrared, LIDAR, infrasound and seismic methods. The report makes four recommendations, among them building a database of aircraft wake signatures and developing novel detectors.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 21 November 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under its Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It reviews propulsion concepts that use weakly ionized plasmas and magnetohydrodynamics for hypersonic flight and spacecraft. It concludes that the Ajax MHD energy bypass concept is meaningless below Mach 12. A reverse energy bypass with a Virtual Cowl is judged potentially practical, and electric propulsion is expected to become standard for spacecraft.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 10 December 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It examines quantum computing and DNA-based molecular computing as options for onboard supercomputing in future spaceflight. It forecasts working ion trap quantum computers within 10 years, simple DNA tile computing within 20 years, and self-repairing DNA computers and hybrid quantum dot systems on a 40-year horizon.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1101-001, is dated 15 December 2010. The Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office produced it under the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications program. It asks how many unmanned spacecraft one pilot could control in a future deep-space fleet, drawing on air traffic control and multiple unmanned vehicle research. It concludes the limits are about 16 craft for simple tasks, 7 for moderately complex ones and 4 for complex heterogeneous craft. It adds that physiological measures can signal operator overload.
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in June or July of 2011. This image is based upon a first-hand description provided by two former U.S. military service members, as described in FBI-UAP-D028. The Federal Bureau of Investigation prepared this digital rendering in 2026 as a visual aid in support of the PURSUE initiative.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-302 interview record, drafted in April 2025, documents a UAP sighting from June or July 2011. Two witnesses whose names are redacted described seeing a massive black triangular object at about 8 or 9 PM while leaving a driveway. It had a car-sized white light in each corner, flew low and slowly north with a pulsing hum, and was visible for 10 to 15 seconds. One witness estimated it was 800 feet up and 200 feet long.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1101-023, is dated 3 January 2011. It was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office as one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2010 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It covers theories of negative mass, including Bondi's mass dipole, Zitterbewegung and a Planck aether hypothesis. It proposes tunneling through the Moon with thermonuclear shaped charges to search for trapped negative matter. It concludes that such propulsion may perhaps be possible through an ultra-light form of matter but remains speculative.