Newhouse Films Formation Over Tremonton, 1952

DOW-UAP-D102, Project Blue Book File on Tremonton Film, Utah, 1952

Project Blue Book's case file on the 2 July 1952 Tremonton, Utah color film shot by U.S. Navy Chief Photographer Delbert C. Newhouse, tracing the Air Force and Navy laboratory analyses, the balloon and seagull inquiries, the 1953 release debate, and the paper trail of a deteriorating original.

• Tremonton Utah
• 1952

DIA Orders Aerospace Threat Technology Study to 2050

DOW-UAP-D110, AAWSAP Statement of Objectives, July 2008

The Defense Intelligence Agency's July 18, 2008 Statement of Objectives that scoped the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) as a contractor study of breakthrough aerospace technologies in 12 technical areas, out to the year 2050.

• AAWSAP
• DIA

Bigelow Aerospace Awarded AAWSAP Contract, 2008

DOW-UAP-D111, AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order, September 2008

The September 22, 2008 Standard Form 1449 that awarded DIA contract HHM402-08-C-0072 to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, a $21,948,810 firm-fixed-price instrument that priced the AAWSAP work into line items for monthly status reports, project management plans, research reports, and a Comprehensive Integrated Threat Assessment.

• AAWSAP
• BAASS

DIA's December 2009 Aerospace Metallic Glass Review

DOW-UAP-D117, AAWSAP DIRD, Metallic Glasses for Aerospace Applications, December 2009

A 14 December 2009 DIA Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-0911-012), one of the AAWSAP DIRD series released by the Department of War on 18 September 2026, surveying metallic glasses for aerospace structures and concluding that dendritic metallic-glass-matrix composites, not single-phase glasses, could replace high-strength steel in space-limited components over a 20-50 year horizon.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• DIA-08-0911-012

AAWSAP Survey of Metallic Spintronics, 2010

DOW-UAP-D129, AAWSAP DIRD, Metallic Spintronics, March 2010

A 23 March 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1003-011, produced for the DIA Defense Warning Office's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program, that surveys metallic spintronics (using electron spin as well as electron charge to store and process information) and contains no UAP sighting, witness, or incident material.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• DIA-08-1003-011

Ruppelt's Eight Hundred Cases, Twenty Percent Unexplained

DOW-UAP-D154, Transcript of a Presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, 1952

A declassified transcript of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt's March 1952 briefing on the U.S. Air Force's reopened UFO investigation, the instruments it planned to field, and the roughly 20% of about 800 cases it could not explain.

• disc or spherical
• silent flight

Newhouse's Tremonton UFO Film, 1952

DOW-UAP-PR159, Historical Film of Reported UFOs, Utah, 1952

A digitized 16mm Kodachrome print of the film U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse shot of a group of bright airborne objects near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952, later reviewed by Project Blue Book without a conclusive resolution.

• Tremonton, Utah
• 1952

Ruppelt's 1952 UFO Briefing, On Tape

DOW-UAP-PR160, Presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, 1952

A declassified audio recording, transcribed here in numbered segments, of a March 1952 briefing in which the U.S. Air Force's newly appointed UFO project engineer, Edward J. Ruppelt, walks an audience through roughly 800 case files, the 20 percent he cannot explain, the Lubbock Lights, the green fireballs, and the camera and radar methods he plans to field.

• disc or spherical
• formation of lights

Silent Red-Blue-Green Lights, Colorado Officer, 2023

LLE-UAP-PR001, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, 2023

A 1-minute-19-second cell phone video of a silent light with red, blue, and green flashing lights, recorded by a local law enforcement officer in Colorado in October 2023, submitted to AARO, and released as an unresolved case.

• flashing lights
• red blue green lights

Fifteen Minutes of Silent Lights, Colorado 2023

LLE-UAP-PR002, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023

A 15-minute cell phone video, shot by a local law enforcement officer in Colorado in October 2023 and submitted to AARO, that holds on an apparent light source the officer described as silent with red, blue, and green flashing lights; AARO lists the case as unresolved.

• apparent light source
• red, blue, and green flashing lights

CPO Newhouse's Tremonton Film, Pillow-Balloon Analysis

DOW-UAP-D103, Project Blue Book Photo File Relating to Tremonton Film, Utah, 1952

A Project Blue Book photo file on the July 1952 Tremonton, Utah film, holding the case card for witness CPO Delbert C. Newhouse and General Mills pillow-balloon reference material used to test the balloon explanation.

• Tremonton, Utah
• 1952

Tremonton Photographer's Navy Career Record

DOW-UAP-D104, Final Personnel Record for Newhouse, Delbert C., U.S. Navy, 1957

The U.S. Navy's closed personnel jacket for Delbert C. Newhouse, the photographic warrant officer who shot the July 1952 Tremonton, Utah film, recording his appointments, orders, duty stations, leave, and dependents' data from 1942 to May 1957.

• Delbert C. Newhouse
• Tremonton Utah film 1952

Two UFO Films Sent to Naval Intelligence, 1952

DOW-UAP-D105, U.S. Air Force Flying Discs File, 1952

A 253-page U.S. Air Force Directorate of Intelligence correspondence file for September through December 1952 that shows how Project Blue Book paperwork, films, photographs and citizen mail moved between the Pentagon, ATIC, the Navy, the FBI and the public.

• disc-shaped objects
• formation of 12 to 14 objects

196th Squadron Tracks Meter-Sized Objects, Iraq 2022

DOW-UAP-D106, Mission Report, Iraq, 2022

A U.S. Air Force mission report (MISREP 7468013) from a 196th Attack Squadron reconnaissance sortie over Iraq on May 5, 2022, logging UAP the crew watched on full-motion video moving at 80 to 180 mph inside target area 92AS, sized about 1 to 2 meters, altitude undetermined.

• Iraq
• 2022

White Round Orbit, 500 MPH, Middle East

DOW-UAP-D107, Mission Report, Middle East, 2025

A U.S. Air Force Mission Report from an Operation Inherent Resolve sortie records a nine-minute sensor-feed observation of an object the operator called a "white round orbit" moving as fast as 500 mph over the Middle East on October 29, 2025.

• white round object
• orb

Six Spheres Over Operation Inherent Resolve

DOW-UAP-D108, Mission Report, Middle East, 2025

An Air Force Special Operations Command mission report (MISREP) from a 29 to 30 July 2025 Operation Inherent Resolve sortie, logging a crew's sighting of six small spherical objects grouped together at an estimated 22,000 feet and 480 mph, released as the paper companion to infrared video DOW-UAP-PR135.

• spherical objects
• cluster of six

Probable UAPs at 80 to 180 MPH, 2022

DOW-UAP-D109, Mission Report, Middle East, 2022

A U.S. Air Force Mission Report (MISREP 7467030) from a May 2022 Operation Inherent Resolve ISR flight, declassified by USCENTCOM in July 2026, recording full-motion-video observation of probable UAPs at an estimated 80 to 180 mph.

• UAP
• multiple objects

AAWSAP's $25 Million Option Year, September 2009

DOW-UAP-D112, AAWSAP Contract Modification P00001, September 2009

A zero-dollar September 2009 modification (P00001) to DIA contract HHM402-08-C-0072 that extends Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies' base period to 30 September 2009 and exercises a first option year whose six line items sum to $25,000,000, subject to the availability of appropriated funds.

• AAWSAP
• BAASS

DIA Funds AAWSAP Option Year at $11.9 Million

DOW-UAP-D113, AAWSAP Contract Modification P00002, February 2010

A February 2, 2010 contract modification (P00002) in which DIA's Virginia Contracting Activity obligated $11,948,810.00 to fund Option Year 1 of the AAWSAP contract HHM402-08-C-0072 with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC, at a reduced level that the modification says affected deliverables.

• AAWSAP
• DIA contract modification

AAWSAP Gets New Contracting Representative, Name Redacted

DOW-UAP-D114, AAWSAP Contract Modification P00003, May 2010

A May 18, 2010 Standard Form 30 modification (P00003) that changes the Contracting Officer's Representative on DIA contract HHM402-08-C-0072, the AAWSAP contract with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, at a modification value of $0.00.

• AAWSAP
• contract administration

AAWSAP Modification P00004 Distribution Sheet, May 2010

DOW-UAP-D115, AAWSAP Contract Modification P00004, May 2010

A one-page contract distribution list, dated 18 May 2010, in which DIA's Virginia Contracting Activity routed seven copies of administrative modification P00004 to AAWSAP contract HHM402-08-C-0072 with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.

• AAWSAP
• DIA contract modification

AAWSAP's No-Cost Extension to December 2010

DOW-UAP-D116, AAWSAP Contract Modification P00005, September 2010

A September 28, 2010 contract modification (P00005) that stretched the Defense Intelligence Agency's AAWSAP contract HHM402-08-C-0072 with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies from September 22 to December 21, 2010, at a modification amount of $0.00.

• AAWSAP
• contract modification P00005

Programmable Spacecraft Skins, AAWSAP 2009

DOW-UAP-D118, AAWSAP DIRD, Aerospace Applications of Programmable Matter, December 2009

A December 2009 Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-0911-016, one of the FY 2009 AAWSAP advanced technology reports, that surveys 'programmable matter' and sketches how spacecraft skins whose properties change on command might handle sensing, heat, power, and camouflage over the next 50 years.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

Silicone, Teflon, Titanium: Defense Intelligence Materials Survey

DOW-UAP-D119, AAWSAP DIRD, Biomaterials, January 2010

A 7 January 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-0912-006) from the DIA's AAWSAP series that surveys medical biomaterials (silicone, Teflon, biodegradable polymers, hydrogels, titanium, bioceramics, nitinol) and their uses in implants, stents, contact lenses, drug delivery, and dialysis, with no UAP or aerospace content.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

AAWSAP Structural Materials Assessment, 2010

DOW-UAP-D120, AAWSAP DIRD, Materials for Advanced Aerospace Platforms, January 2010

A January 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-0912-008), one of the 38 AAWSAP DIRDs, surveying structural materials for launch vehicles, reusable spacecraft, and rocket engines; it contains no UAP sighting or recovered-material content.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• DIA-08-0912-008

Defense Intelligence Microwave Weapons Technical Survey

DOW-UAP-D121, AAWSAP DIRD, Pulsed High-Power Microwave Source Technology, January 2010

A 28 January 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-0912-005), produced under the DIA's AAWSA program, surveying pulsed high-power microwave weapon technology: the insulation, cathodes, switches, pulse power, named sources, and antennas behind directed-energy electronic attack.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• DIA-08-0912-005

Microwave Cloaking Possible, Perfect Invisibility Not

DOW-UAP-D122, AAWSAP DIRD, Invisibility Cloaking Theory and Experiments, March 2010

A 2 March 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-001), produced under DIA's AAWSAP program, that surveys the physics and early experiments of invisibility cloaking and concludes that microwave cloaking is within reach of present technology while perfect cloaking is physically impossible.

• invisibility cloaking
• metamaterials

DIA Positron Propulsion Anthology, Production Limits Unmet

DOW-UAP-D123, AAWSAP DIRD, Positron Aerospace Propulsion, March 2010

A 2 March 2010 DIA Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-002), produced for the AAWSA Program by an author redacted to "AAP Person 69," that compiles Air Force- and NASA-funded concept studies of positron (antimatter) fuel for drones, missiles, a spaceplane, and crewed Mars rockets, and rests its 10-year flight forecast on production and storage advances that its own figures show had not yet been achieved.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• DIA-08-1003-002

Why Expendable Rockets Never Scaled to Routine Access

DOW-UAP-D124, AAWSAP DIRD, Space Access: Where We’ve Been and Where We Could Go, March 2010

A March 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document from DIA's Defense Warning Office, one of the AAWSAP series, that surveys fifty years of U.S. and Soviet space-access hardware and argues routine access to orbit has been blocked by missing operational infrastructure, not missing technology.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• DIA-08-1001-006

Miley's Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Thruster Concepts

DOW-UAP-D125, AAWSAP DIRD, Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, March 2010

A 10 March 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the AAWSAP series, built around George Miley's University of Illinois work, that surveys inertial electrostatic confinement fusion, its working neutron-source spin-offs, its thruster and spacecraft concepts, and a still-unfunded proposal for a p-11B breakeven experiment.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

Deuterium Fusion Pulse Engine for Deep Space

DOW-UAP-D126, AAWSAP DIRD, Advanced Nuclear Propulsion for Manned Deep Space Missions, March 2010

A March 2010 DIA reference document written for the AAWSAP program that argues crewed flight beyond the Moon requires nuclear pulse propulsion and proposes igniting small pure-deuterium fusion explosions with a gigavolt proton beam fired from a spacecraft charged to about a billion volts.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• nuclear pulse propulsion

Lognormal Drake Equation Analysis, DIA 2010

DOW-UAP-D127, AAWSAP DIRD, An Introduction to the Statistical Drake Equation, March 2010

An 11 March 2010 AAWSAP Defense Intelligence Reference Document that rewrites the 1961 Drake Equation as a product of seven random variables, shows through the Central Limit Theorem that the number of communicating civilizations N follows a lognormal distribution, and derives a probability distribution for the distance to the nearest one.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

Three Antenna Engineers Exposed at 785 MHz

DOW-UAP-D128, AAWSAP DIRD, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, March 2010

A March 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document, written for the DIA's AAWSAP program, that surveys reported burns, neurological and sensory injuries from close-range electromagnetic exposure and argues that clinical injury patterns could be used to infer the characteristics of unknown aerospace emitters.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• electromagnetic field effects

Muscle Signals Best Neural Implants, DIA 2010

DOW-UAP-D130, AAWSAP DIRD, Technological Approaches to Controlling External Devices, March 2010

A 36-page Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-012, dated 23 March 2010) written for DIA's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program that surveys brain-machine interfaces for controlling machines by thought and concludes that muscle-signal sensors win the next 5 years while single-neuron implants remain decades out.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• brain-machine interface

Podkletnov Superconductor Gravity Shielding Unreplicated

DOW-UAP-D131, AAWSAP DIRD, The Role of Superconductors in Gravity Research, March 2010

A 23 March 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1003-013, written under AAWSAP, surveys the 1991 to 2008 record of claims that spinning or energized superconductors shield or generate gravity, and reports that the headline Podkletnov results were never independently replicated.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• DIA-08-1003-013

DIA's Metric Tensor Spacetime Propulsion Study, 2010

DOW-UAP-D132, AAWSAP DIRD, Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering, March 2010

DIA-08-1003-015, a 29 March 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document written for the DIA's AAWSAP program, uses the metric tensor of general relativity to catalog what an engineered spacetime would do to time, light, mass, and gravity around a hypothetical craft, while conceding that no known technology can produce the required energy densities.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

DIA Studies Quantum Entanglement for FTL Spacecraft Signals

DOW-UAP-D133, AAWSAP DIRD, The Space Communication Implications of Quantum Entanglement and Nonlocality, March 2010

A 30 March 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-016), produced under AAWSAP, that asks whether quantum entanglement could carry faster-than-light or backward-in-time signals for real-time control of spacecraft, and concludes that the question is unresolved and belongs to experiment.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• DIA-08-1003-016

Maverick Inventors Versus Corporate Labs, DIA 2010

DOW-UAP-D134, AAWSAP DIRD, Maverick Inventor Versus Corporate Inventor: Where Will the Next Major Innovations Arise, March 2010

A March 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-017) from the AAWSAP series that sorts lone inventors into five types and concludes that technically trained, independent 'Type 3 and 4' mavericks are the likeliest source of breakthroughs in exotic energy and propulsion.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

DIA Antigravity Propulsion Concepts Survey, 2010

DOW-UAP-D135, AAWSAP DIRD, Antigravity for Aerospace Applications, March 2010

A 30 March 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-018) from DIA's AAWSA Program that surveys theoretical antigravity propulsion concepts, from Newtonian mass arrangements through general relativity, dark energy, and quantum vacuum effects, and finds each one blocked by astronomical energy, density, or scale requirements.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

Biosensors and BioMEMS Survey, DIA 2010

DOW-UAP-D136, AAWSAP DIRD, Biosensors and BioMEMS: A Survey of the Present Field, March 2010

A 45-page Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1003-020, dated 31 March 2010 and produced under DIA's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program, surveying biosensors and biomedical microelectromechanical systems (BioMEMS): brain-implanted micromotors, insulin micropumps, glucose sensors, cortical electrode arrays, retinal implants, an ultrasound-powered neurostimulator, lab-on-a-chip microfluidics, and microcantilever mass detectors.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

Spacecraft-Mounted Lasers Conceivable Within Twenty Years

DOW-UAP-D137, AAWSAP DIRD, State of the Art and Evolution of High-Energy Lasers, March 2010

A 31 March 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-019), produced under DIA's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, surveying high-energy laser weapon technology from chemical to free-electron lasers and projecting that spacecraft-mounted laser weapons are conceivable within 20 years.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• DIA-08-1003-019

Defense Intelligence Calculates Warp Drive Energy Requirements

DOW-UAP-D138, AAWSAP DIRD, Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions, April 2010

A 2 April 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1004-001) from the DIA Defense Warning Office proposing that a warp bubble could be generated by locally changing the radius of a compact extra dimension to control dark energy density, and pricing a light-speed bubble at about -1.00 x 10^42 joules of negative energy.

• warp drive
• dark energy

AAWSAP Stargate Feasibility: Jupiter-Mass Energy Problem

DOW-UAP-D139, AAWSAP DIRD, Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy, April 2010

A 6 April 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1004-004, produced for the DIA's AAWSAP series, that reviews the general-relativity case for traversable wormholes and flat-faced "stargates" and concludes that the negative energy needed to hold one open can be made in the lab only in small quantities, with no known route to more.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

DIA Gravitational Wave Communications Study

DOW-UAP-D140, AAWSAP DIRD, High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications, April 2010

A 6 April 2010 Defense Intelligence Agency reference document (DIA-08-1004-005), written under AAWSAP, that reviews proposed high-frequency gravitational wave transmitters and detectors and sketches a through-the-Earth communications system whose every component, by the report's own account, remained undemonstrated.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• high-frequency gravitational waves

DIA's April 2010 Metamaterials Aerospace Assessment

DOW-UAP-D141, AAWSAP DIRD, Metamaterials for Aerospace Applications, April 2010

A 6 April 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1004-006) from the AAWSAP series that surveys metamaterials, engineered media with properties such as negative refractive index, and argues their aerospace payoff is miniaturized optics, sub-diffraction imaging, infrared energy harvesting, one-way optical isolators, and tunable devices.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

AAWSAP Reviews Quantum Vacuum Energy Concepts

DOW-UAP-D142, AAWSAP DIRD, Concepts for Extracting Energy from the Quantum Vacuum, April 2010

A 6 April 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1004-007), produced under the DIA's AAWSA program, that surveys proposals for pulling usable energy out of the quantum vacuum and concludes that no practical method has been demonstrated and that standard QED does not support continuous extraction.

• quantum vacuum energy
• zero-point field

DIA's Laser Lightcraft Nanosatellite Propulsion Study

DOW-UAP-D143, AAWSAP DIRD, Laser Lightcraft Nanosatellites, November 2010

A November 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1011-001, produced under the DIA's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, assessing laser-propelled "Lightcraft" as a low-cost way to push nanosatellites and picosatellites into low Earth orbit.

• AAWSAP
• AAWSA Program

DIA's Hypothetical Cockpit for Breakthrough Flight

DOW-UAP-D144, AAWSAP DIRD, Cockpits in the Era of Breakthrough Flight, November 2010

A November 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1011-002), produced under AAWSAP, that sketches a provisional cockpit for a hypothetical vehicle with control over gravity and inertia and faster-than-light capability, while stating that the underlying physics does not yet exist.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

DIA's Aneutronic Fusion Ignition Assessment

DOW-UAP-D145, AAWSAP DIRD, Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion I, November 2010

A FY 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document from DIA's Defense Warning Office, produced under the AAWSAP contract, that surveys aneutronic fusion (chiefly proton-boron-11 and proton-lithium-6) as a deep-space propulsion concept and concludes that ignition, not rocket physics, is the unsolved problem.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• aneutronic fusion

Aneutronic Fusion for Satellite Thrusters, Not Aircraft

DOW-UAP-D146, AAWSAP DIRD, Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion II, November 2010

A November 2010 DIA Defense Warning Office reference document, written under AAWSAP, that reviews aneutronic fusion (proton-boron-11, deuterium-helium-3) as a space propulsion power source and concludes its nearest realistic use is replacing satellite ion thrusters, not powering aircraft or interstellar flight.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• DIA-08-1011-004

AAWSA Ultracapacitor Survey for Directed-Energy Weapons

DOW-UAP-D147, AAWSAP DIRD, Ultracapacitors as Energy and Power Storage Devices, November 2010

A Defense Intelligence Reference Document dated 01 November 2010, produced for the DIA's AAWSA Program, that surveys ultracapacitors as burst-power storage for commercial and military systems, including missiles, naval pulsed power, directed-energy weapons and the broadband RF signature the devices emit when discharged.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

DIA's Hypersonic Detection Methods, 2010

DOW-UAP-D148, AAWSAP DIRD, Detection and High-Resolution Tracking of Vehicles at Hypersonic Velocities, November 2010

A FY 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document from DIA's Defense Warning Office, produced under AAWSAP, surveying how hypersonic vehicles can be detected and tracked by the shock waves, ionized wakes, heat, and sound they leave in the atmosphere.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• hypersonic detection

Ajax-Style MHD Propulsion Not Viable Below Mach 12

DOW-UAP-D149, AAWSAP DIRD, MHD Air Breathing Propulsion and Power for Aerospace Applications, November 2010

A 21 November 2010 DIA Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1011-006), one of the 38 AAWSAP DIRDs, surveying plasma and magnetohydrodynamic concepts for hypersonic propulsion, onboard power, and reentry control, and concluding that Ajax-style MHD energy bypass is not a meaningful technology below Mach 12.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

DIA Forecasts Quantum and DNA Computing for Spaceflight

DOW-UAP-D150, AAWSAP DIRD, Quantum Computing and Utilizing Organic Molecules in Automation Technology, December 2010

A 10 December 2010 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1102-005), written under the DIA Defense Warning Office's AAWSAP program, that surveys quantum computing and DNA-based molecular computing as candidate onboard processors for long-duration spaceflight, with forecasts on 10-, 20-, and 40-year horizons and no UAP incident content.

• AAWSAP DIRD
• DIA-08-1102-005

Four to Sixteen: DIA's Spacecraft Pilot Limits

DOW-UAP-D151, AAWSAP DIRD, Cognitive Limits on Simultaneous Control of Multiple Unmanned Spacecraft, December 2010

A Defense Intelligence Reference Document dated 15 December 2010 (DIA-08-1101-001), one of the AAWSAP series, that draws on air traffic control and drone-operator research to estimate how many unmanned spacecraft one human pilot could supervise at once: 16, 7, or 4 depending on task complexity.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

Defense Intelligence's Fifty-Megaton Moon Tunnel

DOW-UAP-D152, AAWSAP DIRD, Negative Mass Propulsion, January 2011

A 3 January 2011 Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1101-023) from the AAWSAP series that asks whether negative mass exists and could cut the energy cost of spaceflight, and ends by costing out a thermonuclear-blasted tunnel through the Moon to look for it.

• negative mass propulsion
• AAWSAP DIRD

DIA's Negative Energy Measurement Protocol, 2011

DOW-UAP-D153, AAWSAP DIRD, Quantum Tomography of Negative Energy States in the Vacuum, January 2011

A January 2011 DIA Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1102-007), one of the AAWSAP series, that reviews the two laboratory sources of negative (sub-vacuum) energy, squeezed light and the Casimir effect, and proposes balanced homodyne detection with quantum optical homodyne tomography as the way to measure and spatially map it.

• AAWSAP
• DIRD

80-180 MPH Infrared Object Over Iraq, 2022

DOW-UAP-PR130, Unresolved UAP Report, Iraq, 2022

A one-page 2022 U.S. Central Command report to AARO, released by the Department of War on September 18, 2026, containing a single infrared still image of an unresolved UAP over Iraq that an accompanying mission report described as moving at 80 to 180 miles per hour.

• infrared still image
• Iraq

Dual Thermal Signatures, Iraq 2022

DOW-UAP-PR131, Unresolved UAP Report, Iraq, 2022

A single declassified infrared still frame, submitted by U.S. Central Command to AARO, showing an unidentified object recorded in Iraq in 2022 and still carried as unresolved.

• infrared still image
• Iraq

Auto-Tracker Fails to Lock, Middle East Infrared

DOW-UAP-PR133, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025

A 4-minute-58-second infrared video clip that U.S. Central Command submitted to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), tracking an unresolved object over the Middle East that a companion mission report (DOW-UAP-D107) described as "look[ing] like a white round orbit… moving as fast as 500 miles per hour."

• white round object
• infrared video

Six Spheres at 480 MPH Over Middle East

DOW-UAP-PR135, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025

One minute of 2025 infrared video from a U.S. military platform over the Middle East, submitted by U.S. Central Command to AARO and released by the Department of War as an unresolved UAP report showing six small spherical objects.

• spherical objects
• cluster of six

Thermal-Optical Contrast Over Middle East, 2022

DOW-UAP-PR140, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2022

A 1-minute-47-second electro-optical and infrared video of an unresolved 2022 UAP encounter in the Middle East, submitted by U.S. Central Command to AARO and released by the Department of War on September 18, 2026.

• UAP
• Middle East

CENTCOM Dual Sensor Object, Middle East

DOW-UAP-PR141, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2022

A 2 minute 36 second electro-optical and infrared video of an unresolved 2022 UAP encounter over the Middle East, reported by U.S. Central Command to AARO and released by the Department of War as DOW-UAP-PR141.

• UAP video
• electro-optical

Infrared Contrast Over Yellow Sea, 2023

DOW-UAP-PR143, Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023

A 19-second infrared video clip recorded from a U.S. military platform over the Yellow Sea in 2023, submitted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to AARO and released by the Department of War as an unresolved UAP report.

• infrared sensor
• area of contrast

Thermal Track Over Yellow Sea, 2023

DOW-UAP-PR144, Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023

A 27-second infrared video clip recorded in 2023 from a U.S. military platform over the Yellow Sea, submitted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to AARO and released by the Department of War on September 18, 2026 as an unresolved UAP report.

• infrared
• area of contrast

Thermal Contact Tracked Over East China Sea

DOW-UAP-PR148, Unresolved UAP Report, East China Sea, 2023

A 59-second infrared video clip recorded from a U.S. military platform in the East China Sea in 2023, submitted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to AARO and released by the Department of War on September 18, 2026 as an unresolved UAP report.

• East China Sea
• 2023

Infrared Contrast Tracked Over Yellow Sea

DOW-UAP-PR150, Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023

A 57-second infrared video clip recorded aboard a U.S. military platform in the Yellow Sea in 2023, submitted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to AARO and released by the Department of War on September 18, 2026 as unresolved UAP report DOW-UAP-PR150.

• infrared sensor
• area of contrast

Thermal Contact, Yellow Sea 2023

DOW-UAP-PR151, Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023

A 49-second infrared video clip recorded from a U.S. military platform in the Yellow Sea in 2023, submitted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to AARO and released by the Department of War as an unresolved UAP report.

• Yellow Sea
• 2023

Infrared Contrast Tracking, Yellow Sea 2023

DOW-UAP-PR152, Unresolved UAP Report, Yellow Sea, 2023

A 1-minute-38-second infrared video clip recorded from a U.S. military platform over the Yellow Sea in 2023, submitted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to AARO and released by the Department of War as an unresolved UAP report.

• Yellow Sea
• 2023

Tri-Color Silent Flash, Colorado Officer's Cell Phone

LLE-UAP-PR003, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023

A 27-second cell-phone video of a silent light with red, blue, and green flashes, filmed by a local law enforcement officer in Colorado in October 2023 and released by AARO as an unresolved UAP report.

• flashing lights
• red, blue, and green lights

Silent Red Blue Green Lights Over Colorado

LLE-UAP-PR004, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023

A 1 minute 42 second cellphone video of silent red, blue, and green flashing lights over Colorado in October 2023, submitted to AARO by a local law enforcement officer in January 2024 and released as an unresolved case.

• flashing lights
• red, blue, and green lights