DIA Finds the Lost UFO Files It Said It Could Not Locate
The Defense Intelligence Agency has found the missing case reports from AAWSAP, the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. For years the agency told FOIA requesters it could not locate them. According to journalist George Knapp on Mystery Wire, the DIA recently sent a letter to Robert Bigelow’s company confirming the reports had been located. The agency plans to redact them and then release them to the public.
AAWSAP was a $22M DIA program, run under contract by Bigelow’s company in Las Vegas known as NIDS. Knapp reported that just weeks earlier, the White House had asked the DIA where the reports were and was told they could not be found. Dr. Colm Kelleher, who managed the program’s investigators, read the letter on Bigelow’s podcast. He noted that the original contract gave the government unlimited rights to all program data, including the right to make it public. He described the letter as a courtesy notice.
The public has already seen part of the program. According to The Black Vault, the DIA released 37 of the 38 technical studies, known as DIRDs, in March 2022. Those studies covered topics such as warp drive and wormholes. The newly located files are different. They contain the case investigations themselves, with witness interviews, medical follow-ups, and analysis.
Kelleher described one witness who was hospitalized and had a tumor removed after a close encounter with blue orbs. In another case, a person was struck by a beam from a triangle-shaped craft. Investigators followed these witnesses for months, taking blood samples and ordering MRI scans. Knapp added that the first case the program investigated was the 2004 Tic Tac encounter, and that the DIA’s analysis of that object has never been released.
Not everyone accepts that the files were truly lost. Knapp believes they were hidden on purpose and that no one at the DIA today worked on the program. Ross Coulthart, speaking on NewsNation’s Reality Check, rejected that explanation. He argued that the Pentagon could have asked Bigelow for his copy at any time. AARO’s 2024 KONA BLUE release also stated that AAWSAP material remained in DIA archives.
Releasing the files will take time. Investigators promised witnesses anonymity. Some of those witnesses are medical patients protected under HIPAA, and others are active duty military and intelligence officers. Knapp hopes one or two reports will be released by the end of the year.
On the same program, Coulthart disputed NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman’s claim that NASA has met its disclosure requirements. Coulthart also raised the possibility that some UAP may be autonomous AI drone systems monitoring Earth. He was clear that this idea is speculation.
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Greenewald, J., Jr. (2022, March 31). The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) DIRD report research. The Black Vault. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-advanced-aviation-threat-identification-program-aatip-dird-report-research/
The Black Vault. (2022, March 25). The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) documentation. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-advanced-aerospace-weapon-system-applications-program-aawsap-documentation/
NewsNation. (2026, October 11). Why is NASA still withholding moon mission transcripts after 60 years? | Reality Check [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve3NNeVaY2k
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