Thread by @TheUfoJoe

1 #ufotwitter - Lots to say about this from @BrandiVincent_, featuring quotes from @LtTimMcMillan & @ChrisKMellon. Of course, neither of them could bring themselves to utter the acronym, AAWSAP, which was run by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.

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2 Dr. Colm Kelleher, a molecular biologist & former deputy administrator for BAASS, told me, "AAWSAP was probably the broadest scope, largest #UFO program ever conducted by the United States gov't. And certainly, if u compare it against Project Sign, Grudge & Blue Book, that’s

3 probably accurate."

Vincent writes, "In the 2000s, Congress approved millions in funding to back the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP. That effort encompassing UFO sighting-aligned research."

No, that was AAWSAP. And specifically, they

4 studied UFOs & related phenomena. Notably, AAWSAP investigated the now famous Tic Tac case. Much of their research focused on humans who had close encounters w/UAP, & who then suffered health-related effects. Many also experienced odd phenomena. In an interview w/@ufouapam,

5 Kelleher said all five military/intelligence folks from the DIA, who worked on AAWSAP, "experienced stuff on [Skinwalker] ranch. And secondly, all five of them brought a hitchhiker, or whatever that is, home. In that, three thousand miles away on the East Coast, their homes

6 CK: "became the equivalent of a paranormal Disneyland. And where dark shadows were sort of appearing in their bedroom, orbs of various colors would be floating around the house, black cubes would suddenly appear, heavy footsteps would be heard on the stairs. People would rush

7 "out to see what was going on, and nobody was there. That became commonplace in the homes of all five people. And notably, it was the families who experienced it."

McMillan commented on the inclusion of health-related effects.

“That was really intriguing bc that's definitely

8 TM: "something that I have heard had kept coming up inside from the people who have been working on it for the government formerly, or even some of the past programs, like AATIP. That was something that was definitely a part of it, but it was not something we'd heard discussed

9 TM: "recently at all. And I thought that was pretty significant because obviously, you know, a lot of this stuff, I think—arguments against this—is largely anecdotal. But if you've got people that are injured, that's a serious deal. Something caused that, so what's going on?”

10 That was AAWSAP and it's been discussed since 2019 when @g_knapp started lecturing about it. Obviously, folks in Gillibrand's office found out about it somehow. And it wasn't just anecdotal. Kelleher explained to @joedowntownlv about one close-encounter/injury case: "One of

11 "our MD, PhD physician scientists followed this person through multiple months & actually years, including serial blood samples, documenting change in the immune system, after the encounter."

Unfortunately, Mellon ended w/the C word:

“Obviously a lot of people would b upset

12 CM: "[if the NDAA passed without this provision]. There's a considerable number of people who are conspiracy-prone in the UFO community, who follow the topic. So, they're already inclined to believe in widespread conspiracies and government cover-ups—and that’s only going to

13 CM: "fuel that,” Mellon noted. “And it would be really disheartening, especially at a time when there is this kind of lack of trust and faith in government.”

The former head of AATIP & Mellon's colleague, @LueElizondo, told @RichDolan, "I will tell you that, in my experience,

14 Lue: "there were some elements that were interfering with our capabilities to collect and analyze data and information. This kind of goes to the whole, I guess, the speculation of some sort of secret government, society or Men in Black or whatnot. I haven’t had any encounters.

16 Lue: "Now, I will say without going into much detail, I did have a very, at one point, a very close colleague of mine, that told me emphatically that that body exists but I haven’t had any encounters and I suspect if it does exist…"

Dolan: "Wait, that there’s a mysterious

17 Dolan: "like, let’s say, quasi, Men In Black type organization that is out there that is acquiring UFO data?"

Lue: "You can call it whatever you want. Another organization that’s doing some type of similar work and maybe on the black side of the house, black operations.

18 Lue: "I don’t want to feed any more conspiracy theories because, frankly, I don’t really know. But I did have a colleague share with me that they were convinced that there was an element within the government that did do that type of stuff and would intimidate people."

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20 The value of having transcripts is evident in this thread.