Pentagon paranormal investigation: primary documents

Reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense and CLEARED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE May 11, 2021. Case 20-SB-0058.

Authors: James T. Lacatski (AAWSAP program director, DIA), Colm Kelleher (BAASS deputy administrator), George Knapp (investigative journalist).

This book describes the AAWSAP program, its use of Skinwalker Ranch as a research environment, the phenomena encountered by personnel, and the attachment phenomenon in which paranormal events followed military and intelligence personnel to their homes after visiting the ranch.

Cleared for public release by the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review. Case 22-SB-0151.

Authors: James T. Lacatski, Colm Kelleher, George Knapp, Eric W. Davis (physicist and program contractor).

This book provides additional detail on the program's research scope, the technical reports delivered to the DIA, and the broader context of government investigation into anomalous phenomena.

While the official purpose of AAWSAP/AATIP was to conduct research into 12 areas of cutting edge science, the contractor team, and at least one supportive government program manager, also conducted UAP and paranormal research at a property owned by the private sector organization. [AARO Historical Record Report, Volume I, March 2024.]

DIA cancelled the program in 2012 due to lack of merit and the utility of the deliverables. [...]

As discussed in Section IV of this report, while the official purpose of AAWSAP/AATIP was to conduct research into 12 areas of cutting edge science, the contractor team, and at least one supportive government program manager, also conducted UAP and paranormal research at a property owned by the private sector organization. [AARO Historical Record Report.]

KONA BLUE was brought to AARO's attention by interviewees who claimed that it was a sensitive DHS compartment to cover up the retrieval and exploitation of "non-human biologics." KONA BLUE traces its origins to the DIA-managed AAWSAP/AATIP program [...]. When DIA cancelled this program, its supporters proposed to DHS that they create and fund a new version of AAWSAP/AATIP under a SAP. [AARO Historical Record Report.]

Encountering anomalies on Skinwalker Ranch often led to the "attachment" of strange phenomena to military personnel who visited the Ranch and brought "something" home to their families, resulting in frightening eruptions of paranormal events in their households that terrorized and sometimes injured their children. [From "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon," DoD clearance Case 20-SB-0058.]

By the end of the two-year program [initially described period], more than 100 separate technical reports, some of which ran to hundreds of pages, were delivered to the Defense Intelligence Agency. Among them was a 149-page report on the Soviet (and now Russian) UAP investigation/analysis capability. Another details the design and build of a functional prototype for an autonomous Unidentified Aerial Phenomena surveillance platform. [From "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon."]

In the mid-1970s, reports of scattered animal mutilations in western and mid-western states concerned many people. The FBI was asked to investigate, but was unable to do so because of a lack of jurisdiction (except when such mutilations were found on Indian lands). These files consist mainly of press clippings and correspondence concerning the issues between 1974 and 1978. [FBI Vault, vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation.]

The material concerning the Animal Mutilation Project contains accounts of animal mutilations which were reported during the late 1970s. The FBI became involved when fifteen mutilations occurred in New Mexico. Various theories concerning the origins of the mutilations were explored by the FBI, including satanic cults, UFOs, pranksters, and natural predators. The investigation failed to identify any individuals responsible for the mutilations. [FBI Records: Animal Mutilation, via The Black Vault FOIA release.]

"A series of incidents stretching from Oklahoma to Nebraska in which cattle have been dismembered in some kind of witchcraft cult." , Carl Curtis, United States Senate, Washington D.C., September 4, 1974. [Congressional record, cited in FBI Animal Mutilation files.]

In 1979, New Mexico Senator Harrison Schmitt appealed to the Senate Appropriations Committee for federal funding to investigate mutilations in northern New Mexico. [Congressional record.]

A well-defined body of empirical evidence from this domain was reviewed using meta-analytic techniques to assess methodological quality and overall effect size. Results showed effects conforming to chance expectation in control conditions and unequivocal non-chance effects in experimental conditions. [CIA-RDP96-00789R002200520001-0.]

Jahn and Dunne summarize results of over 25 million binary trials collected during seven years of experimentation with random-event generators. These experiments, involving long-term data collection with 33 unselected individuals, provide persuasive, replicable evidence of an anomalous correlation between conscious intention and the output of random number generators. [CIA-RDP96-00789R002200520001-0.]

Reid's June 24, 2009 letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense Lynn recommended a Special Access Program status for AATIP [the program name used in the letter]. The request was motivated in part by the sensitivity of the materials and findings the program was producing, and by concerns that broader access to those findings would compromise the research. [Congressional record, confirmed by program participants in DoD-cleared accounts.]

The SAP request was not granted. The program continued without special access designation until DIA cancelled it in 2012. [...]