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AAWSAP's paperwork, officially restamped

The 2008–2010 advanced-aerospace studies show up again in PURSUE Release 06 — mostly old FOIA DIRDs, now with office names the earlier copies left out.

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AAWSAP commissioned literature-review studies of exotic aerospace ideas. Those DIRDs have been public for years through FOIA. Release 06 puts official copies on the PURSUE stack and, according to CBS quoting the Pentagon, restores some previously withheld office names. The Pentagon's own note says they are reference products, not current validation. The interesting change is the stamp, not a new warp-drive result.

Latest changeNew entryThe change is the official stack, not a new physics result

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  1. DocumentedLink to this entry: DIA writes the AAWSAP statement of objectives

    DIA writes the AAWSAP statement of objectives

    The Release 06 index records DOW-UAP-D110 as the July 2008 Statement of Objectives: a contract request to study advanced aerospace weapon-system applications and breakthrough technologies out through 2050. CBS quotes the goals language about foreign threat and discontinuities in evolving technology. This is a statement of what was sought, not a claim that any listed technology was recovered.

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    Document date given for D110 by the Release 06 index (July 18, 2008 on UFO Files Watch; July 2008 on UAP Ledger).

  2. DocumentedLink to this entry: The AAWSAP solicitation and original order are dated

    The AAWSAP solicitation and original order are dated

    DOW-UAP-D111 is indexed as the September 2008 solicitation and original order for AAWSAP. It is administrative paperwork for how the work was bought, not a technical finding.

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    Document date given for D111 by UFO Files Watch (September 22, 2008); UAP Ledger lists September 2008.

  3. DocumentedLink to this entry: A 2010 DIRD studies anomalous field effects on tissue

    A 2010 DIRD studies anomalous field effects on tissue

    CBS describes a 38-page 2010 study, indexed as DOW-UAP-D128, analyzing evidence of unintended injury to human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems. It recounts three antennae engineers and compares them to known radiofrequency injuries. The author supports a hypothesis that some advanced systems are already deployed and opaque to full U.S. understanding. That is the author's hypothesis in a literature-review DIRD, not a Pentagon finding that the systems are nonhuman.

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    UAP Ledger lists March 2010 for D128; day-of-month not used because the index does not print one.

  4. DocumentedLink to this entry: CBS restates that the initiative ended in 2012

    CBS restates that the initiative ended in 2012

    CBS reports that DIA established AAWSAP in 2008 to study aerospace threats decades forward and that the initiative ended in 2012. The end date is CBS's restatement, not a newly located 2012 closeout memo in this packet.

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    Year only; CBS says the initiative ended in 2012 without a day.

  5. DocumentedLink to this entry: Release 06 restamps the DIRDs and restores withheld office names

    Release 06 restamps the DIRDs and restores withheld office names

    CBS says all 37 DIRDs had been publicly available for years through DIA FOIA, and that Friday's versions include details previously withheld, such as the names of the agency offices that produced them. Pentagon notes, as quoted by CBS: the DIRDs are best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than original research, and should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed.

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  6. UAPverse readingLink to this entry: The change is the official stack, not a new physics result

    The change is the official stack, not a new physics result

    The DIRDs were already in circulation. What changed on September 18 is that PURSUE put official copies on the same shelf as the waiver and the file dumps, and CBS says some withheld office names came with them. That is useful for provenance. It is not a new demonstration that warp drives or cloaking exist.

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    CBS News: Pentagon sixth UAP file release (September 18, 2026)

    AAWSAP / DIRD section; Pentagon notes on reference-and-synthesis and 'should not be read as implying current validation'

    Source published public news page read 2026-09-21

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    UAP Ledger: DOW-UAP-D110 AAWSAP Statement of Objectives, July 2008

    File list entry DOW-UAP-D110; official copy linked from this index to war.gov

    Source published index of official file ID; SOO document date July 2008 per the index

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    UAP Ledger: DOW-UAP-D111 AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order, September 2008

    File list entry DOW-UAP-D111

    Source published index of official file ID

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    UAP Ledger: DOW-UAP-D128 Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects DIRD, March 2010

    File list entry DOW-UAP-D128; CBS separately describes this 38-page 2010 study

    Source published index of official file ID; body quotations taken from CBS, not from a re-hosted PDF

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    UAPverse Living Thread publication of this record

    interpretation event why-the-stamp-matters

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