4 And for folks who still insist AAWSAP wasn't a UFO/paranormal program from the beginning?
“This was a UFO program period. That was its perfect purpose from the start,” says Lacatski. “And furthermore, this was about how UFOs might fit into the realm of what we might consider
5 "the paranormal.” Lacatski believed then, as now, that a study focused solely on UFOs—on various unknown, nuts-and-bolts-type craft flitting around in the skies over military bases and facilities—would never get to the heart of a much larger
6 Lacatski: "and complicated mystery. “You’re going to be hunting for aliens cruising by from now until doomsday & you are never going to solve anything.”
Lacatski ; Kelleher; Knapp. Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program -Page 45
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
1 Dr. Colm Kelleher: (CK) "We actually data based several hundred cases where individuals, both here & beyond the United States had encountered #UFOs & had had physiological effects, pathological effects & medical effects, some of which, medical effects, were quite serious. And
2 CK: "to that end, in terms of real-time investigations in medical #UFO effects, we had two physician scientists, & I'm talking MD/PhDs that were consultants w/AAWSAP, and their task was basically to be as a part of a team that would go out & investigate UAP-related injuries.
3 CK: "We had a few that were real time. And normally during a #UFO investigation, investigators may spend a few days with the witnesses. In terms of these medical-type investigations, these investigations went on sometimes for months & sometimes for years. And a lot of
1 @alejandrotrojas: "So when you refer to abduction, do you believe that people actually are physically being taken by extraterrestrials?"
Dr. Eric Davis (ED): "I don’t think they’re being taken by extraterrestrials. We don’t have proof that they're extraterrestrials. We
2 ED: "know that whatever it is, is not human. Now there is a hypothesis that they've been abducted by a covert, clandestine, rogue, non-state operation that looks at people of specific backgrounds with specific predisposition, maybe it’s a genetic thing, too. And they
3 ED: "get abducted because they’re being tested or examined or there’s a purpose involved with that. That’s a hypothesis I’ve heard among the colleagues. And the standard hypothesis that comes from John Mack & David Jacobs, & Budd Hopkins' work has all been the extraterrestrial
1 FYI, these kind of poltergeist-like phenomena happen to people who've never stepped foot on SWR.
"Most people who spent more than a day on #Skinwalker Ranch brought 'something' home with them from the property. The effect was almost universal, and universally unpleasant.
2 "Even during the NIDS days when Kelleher and Eric Davis spent literally hundreds of days on night watches on Skinwalker Ranch (1996–1999), their wives would occasionally remark waking up at night and seeing 'people' in their bedrooms, or black shadows walking through the house.
3 "These post-ranch events were noticeable, but mild, during the NIDS years. But they escalated dramatically with the AAWSAP BAASS program at the ranch in 2009."
1 is @MiddleOfMayhem, if folks like had paid attention to what @g_knapp said in March of 2019, they wouldn't be so surprised at some of what was said today about AAWSAP.
Knapp: "The Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application program. So u didn’t see that term in the New York
2 Knapp: "Times story. But that’s what the program was called in the beginning: AAWSAP. And the twenty-two million dollars that was spent, that u saw, did not go to the AATIP…the study of flying saucers, the program in the Pentagon. It went to Bob Bigelow. It was put out in a
3 Knapp: "contract. It was advertised on the federal network. Bigelow was the only one who applied for the bid. That was in 2007, is when the groundwork was laid for it. 2008 is when the contract was awarded. And it made sense that he would get it. For one thing, he was willing
Hopefully, this is a wake up call 4 those folks who have ignored this story for far too long or the ones who told us AAWSAP & the follow-up effort, AATIP, were not about UFOs, or was a sweetheart deal for Mr. B. Search Twitter 4 some really bad takes & analysis. Meanwhile, enjoy.
"And we actually [had a?] database [of several hundred?] cases where individuals both here & beyond the US had encountered ufos & had had physiological effects, pathological effects & medical effects, some of which medical effects were quite serious.” C Kelleher
Lacatski: “'Now, if you want to look at the tail end of the project, you’ll find over 100 documents required to be reported to the Defense Intelligence Agency that were UFO related,' Lacatski said. 'In part, of course, they were large documents and you also have technical
1 Dr. Eric Davis: "The psychic component [of UFOs] is the one that disturbs ufologists, many of them, not all of them, and it also disturbs your typical academic STEM scientists because they consider psychic phenomenon to be fringe. And so it's a fringe topic and they won't
2 Davis: "consider any reality to it or consider evidence that's been investigated on it or that's been collected on it. So poltergeist phenomena is always, ALWAYS attached to #UFO encounters. It is something that's not very well understood or recognized by many in ufology & even
3 Davis: "the really good scientific UFO groups that have existed since the 70s and 80s, even ignored it. They just threw it out of any of their field investigations and case studies because it did not fit the model of what they believed UFOs or what they hypothesized UFOs to be.