The Utah ranch report: AAWSAP's contractor interviews a community, and plans to try to communicate

DOW-UAP-D174 is, in the Department's words, a contractor-produced record of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, the Defense Intelligence Agency-administered effort of 2008 to 2012. It reports BAASS field deployments 'to a Utah property and surrounding communities during March and April 2010.' According to the Department's summary, BAASS personnel 'interviewed local residents, law enforcement officers, ranchers, business owners, and tribal community members about reported anomalous events; used handheld sensors to collect environmental measurements; planned plant-based biosensor experiments; and sought photographic, acoustic, and chemical evidence of purported anomalous phenomena.'

What they were told is recorded at length: 'extensive reported accounts involving "dog-like bipedal creatures," orbs of light, "little people," "prehistoric-looking" birds, among other phenomena.' The report also 'states that BAASS intended to use interactive methods to attempt communication with the presumed source of reported anomalous activity.'

The property's name is redacted in the released report and the Department's summary does not identify it. BAASS's monthly report for November 2009 (DOW-UAP-D173), also in this release, describes 'investigations centering on a ranch in Utah' and a separate database created for incidents 'at the Utah ranch and surrounding area.' AAWSAP's Utah field work has long been publicly associated with Skinwalker Ranch, which was owned at the time by the contractor's founder; see the archive's entry on that arrangement. Read with Release 06's Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, these files show both halves of the program the DIA paid for: the physics papers and the field investigations.