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The National Archives (UK) issued this highlights guide in March 2009 to help readers navigate a newly released batch of Ministry of Defence UFO files. It explains how to use the PDF bookmarks and lists key stories highlighted by Dr David Clarke in files DEFE 24/1938 and DEFE 31/176 to 31/181. These include the Calvine diamond-shaped UFO photographs, RAF Tornado crews overtaken over Germany in November 1990 by what was later found to be Soviet rocket debris, and a Heathrow boomerang sighting. It ends with an index of reports by region.
This one-page Central Intelligence Agency assignment file brief report, dated 2 June 2009, records the opening of Freedom of Information Act litigation file LD-2009-00096, Larry Bryant v. CIA. The plaintiff, identified as Director of the Washington, DC office of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, filed a complaint challenging the Agency's denial of his request for media status. The report lists the attorney and paralegal assigned on 2 June 2009, with their names withheld under FOIA exemptions (b)(3) and (b)(6).
This Central Intelligence Agency file summary covers the lawsuit Larry Bryant v. CIA, case 1:09-CV-00940, which the agency assigned on 2 June 2009 and closed in August 2012. The plaintiff, director of the Washington, DC office of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, challenged the CIA's denial of his request for media status in a FOIA/Privacy Act matter. The complaint was filed on 20 May 2009. Names, contacts and staff details are redacted.
This is a Freedom of Information Act request sent to the Central Intelligence Agency's Information and Privacy Coordinator. The letter is dated June 9, 2009, and the CIA approved it for release on May 12, 2010. The requester says they are a representative of the news media and asks for a full fee waiver, citing a radio network and articles in outlets including UFO Magazine and FATE Magazine. They ask for all publications and reports that the DNI's Open Source Center produced in January 2009.
This is a Freedom of Information Act request dated June 18, 2009, sent to the Central Intelligence Agency's Information and Privacy Coordinator. The CIA approved it for release on May 12, 2010, under case number F-2009-01274. The requester, who works in radio and has written for UFO Magazine and FATE Magazine, claimed news media status for a fee waiver. The request asks for all memoranda of understanding and comity agreements between the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
This Central Intelligence Agency release, dated 23 June 2009, is a FOIA response letter from Information and Privacy Coordinator Delores M. Nelson to Larry W. Bryant, reference F-2008-01781. It covers his August 2008 request for records of a 1987 special meeting at FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C., and for similar airborne UFO encounters reported since 17 November 1986. The CIA says it is reopening the request and will search for records through 15 June 2009. It places Bryant, a UFO Magazine columnist, in the news media fee category. Several preceding pages are fully redacted.
The National Archives issued this highlights guide in August 2009 to help readers navigate newly released Ministry of Defence UFO files. It explains how to use the PDF bookmarks and lists key stories highlighted by Dr David Clarke. These include the Rendlesham Forest incident, the 1989 to 1990 Belgian wave, the 1993 Cosford sightings (attributed to a re-entering Cosmos 2238 rocket), a Virgin airship over London, aircraft encounters and Bonnybridge. It also gives a regional index of file references to reports.
This is the script of an August 2009 podcast from The National Archives in which consultant David Clarke introduces the fourth release of Ministry of Defence UFO files. The release has 14 files, just over 4,000 pages, covering 1981 to 1996. The files include MoD correspondence on the Rendlesham Forest incident, the Belgian wave, the 1993 Cosford flap and London sightings of an advertising airship. The MoD judged Rendlesham of no defence significance and found most Cosford sightings were caused by a Russian rocket re-entry.
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 is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator, dated October 26, 2009. She filed it in support of the CIA's motion for summary judgment in Larry W. Bryant v. CIA, a FOIA suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Bryant had sought records of a 1987 FAA meeting about the November 17, 1986 Japanese flight 1628 encounter over Alaska. The declaration describes the agency's searches, which found no records of the meeting and three documents from other agencies about later airborne UFO encounters.
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 Central Intelligence Agency filing is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA's Information and Privacy Coordinator, in Bryant v. CIA, Civil Action No. 09-0940 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It supports the CIA's motion for summary judgment. It traces Larry W. Bryant's 2008 FOIA request for records of a 1987 FAA meeting on the November 17, 1986 Japanese 747 encounter over Alaska and records of similar airborne UFO encounters. It also describes the fee dispute and the searches the CIA ran. No records of the meeting were found, and three documents from other agencies were referred to them.
This is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA's Information and Privacy Coordinator, signed January 22, 2010. It was filed in support of the CIA's motion for summary judgment in Larry W. Bryant v. CIA, Civil Action No. 09-0940 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It covers Bryant's FOIA request about a 1987 FAA meeting on the November 17, 1986 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 encounter over Alaska. It also covers later airborne UFO cases, the dispute over his fee category, and the CIA's searches. The CIA found no records of the meeting and three records from other agencies, which it referred to the State Department and NSA.
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 Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed 5 March 1957 and approved for release in sanitized form on 1 July 2010, collects twelve attachments on the Soviet port of Kherson in the Ukrainian SSR. The attachments hold sketches, photographs and observations of cranes, wharf repairs, shipyards building tankers, fuel tanks, a radar station on Nikolayev Island and a nearby airfield. They also report Kherson-built fishing boats with HIGH SIEVE type radar seen at Djibouti on their way to Vladivostok. The report has nothing to do with UFOs.
This is a newspaper book review by Charles Foster Ransom, held in the Central Intelligence Agency's files with a release date of 2010-07-23. It reviews four books on flying saucers. J. Allen Hynek's "The UFO Experience" is judged able, Donald Keyhoe's "Aliens From Space" half-baked, and works by Erich von Daniken and R. L. Dione are labeled "ZOWIE!" The review also cites a Gallup Poll on belief in UFOs and criticizes the Condon report's conclusions.
This item, filed in the Central Intelligence Agency's records with a 2010 date, is a newspaper article by Victor Wilson of The Oregonian's Washington Bureau. It reviews Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe's book "Aliens from Space" and reports Keyhoe's claim that UFOs are real and that the Air Force and the CIA have kept this secret for more than 25 years. The article also covers the JANAP-146 reporting directive and Keyhoe's proposed "Operation Lure". It notes a Gallup Poll finding that 51 per cent of Americans believed in UFOs.
This undated wire news item, held in Central Intelligence Agency files, is headed Washington Aliens. It says Larry Bryant of Alexandria, Virginia, representing Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUSE), filed a habeas corpus petition in federal district court demanding that the Air Force release the remains of extraterrestrial beings it allegedly holds. The petition was served on Air Force Secretary Vernon Orr, who had 60 days to respond. An official said the Air Force stopped investigating UFOs in 1969.
This is a Washington Post article by Ward Sinclair from 3 November 1981, held in CIA files. It reports on a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Citizens Against UFO Secrecy to force release of 131 secret National Security Agency documents on UFOs. Judge Gerhard Gesell had withheld them on national security grounds, and the case went to the U.S. Court of Appeals. The article also recounts retired sergeant Stephen Eichner's account of a 1975 object seen over Loring Air Force Base.
This Radio TV Reports transcript, prepared for the CIA's Public Affairs Staff, records a CBS Radio Network broadcast of November 3, 1981, with Bob Schieffer filling in for Dan Rather. The segment reports on Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUSE), led by Bronx lawyer Peter Gersten. The group sued under the Freedom of Information Act, and the CIA released 900 pages of UFO documents in 1979. CAUSE is now suing for National Security Agency files and argues that UFOs are a real military threat.
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.