Ep 225: Skinwalkers at the Pentagon
“AAWSAP was the largest, most ambitious UFO study ever funded by the US government.”
Description:
One of the most baffling, disturbing, and popular subjects we've ever covered on the show is the mystery of Skinwalker Ranch. The groundbreaking book Hunt for the Skinwalker was the source for most of our research. And this is why we're honored and excited to discuss the follow-up book Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program, with two of its authors, Colm A. Kelleher, Ph.D., and George Knapp. Colm Kelleher is a biochemist specializing in cell biology and, since the early 1990s, has focused his work initially in the fields of cancer research and immunology. George Knapp is an investigative journalist based in Las Vegas, Nevada, whose probing into the secrets of Area 51 and related paranormal phenomena have garnered him accolades and authority for his 30 years of reporting. It's also secured him a recurring role for the past 12 years as a guest host for the legendary Coast to Coast AM radio program. Both men were tapped early on by hotel magnate and aerospace industrialist Robert Bigelow to lend their talents to his National Institute for Discovery Sciences (NIDS). The goal was to apply bona fide scientific study to the High Strangeness experienced on the Sherman property in northeastern Utah, now known popularly as "Skinwalker Ranch." With their sequel Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, Kelleher, and Knapp, along with James T. Lacatski, D. Eng. have revealed the startling connection between the Defense Intelligence Agency's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) and its investigation into troubling interactions with military operations such as the infamous "Tic Tac video" and universal, trickster-like paranormal actors. Government investigators found that simply visiting the Ranch could spur UFO sightings, poltergeist activity, frightening visits from Shadow Beings and cryptids, and most chillingly, the encounters would follow them and spread like a contagion to family members and even their neighborhoods. From tonight's discussion, we can conclude that far from each phenomenon being unrelated, everything may very well be connected. And that implication is a profound shock to our complacent reality because there's nothing any of us can do about it.
Acronyms and Initialisms Key:
AATIP Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
AAP Abnormal Aerospace Phenomena
AAV Advanced Aerospace Vehicle or Anomalous Aerial Vehicle
AAWSAP Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program
AFB Air Force Base
AFOSI Air Force Office of Special Investigations
ATFLIR Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infra-Red
BAASS Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies
BEAM Bigelow Expandable Activity Module
BICS Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
COR Contracting Officer Representative
DCIS Ductal Carcinoma In Situ
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
DIRD Defense Intelligence Reference Document
DoD Department of Defense
DSS Defense Security Service
DWO Defense Warning Office
FBO Fed Biz Opps or Federal Business Opportunities
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
The HIPAA Privacy Rule
From HHS.gov – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes national standards to protect individuals' medical records and other individually identifiable health information (collectively defined as “protected health information”) and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions electronically. The Rule requires appropriate safeguards to protect the privacy of protected health information and sets limits and conditions on the uses and disclosures that may be made of such information without an individual’s authorization. The Rule also gives individuals rights over their protected health information, including rights to examine and obtain a copy of their health records, to direct a covered entity to transmit to a third party an electronic copy of their protected health information in an electronic health record, and to request corrections.
ISS International Space Station
JWICS Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System
LEO Low Earth Orbit
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
MDA Missile Defense Agency
MUFON Mutual UFO Network
NIDS National Institute for Discovery Science
NVG Night Vision Goggles
ODNI Office of the Director of National Intelligence
OpSec Operational Security
PE Program Element
PMR Project Management Report
RAF Royal Air Force
RF Radio Frequency
RFP Request for Proposals
RV Remote Viewing or Remote Viewer
S&T Science and Technology
SAB Science Advisory Board
SAP Special Access Program
SCI Sensitive Compartmented Information
SCIF Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
SME Subject Matter Expert
SVP Source Visit Probability-A numerical index of credibility for UAP cases designed by Dr. Jacques Vallee
TS Top Secret
TS-SCI Top Secret - Sensitive Compartmented Information
TTSA To the Stars Academy
UAP Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
UAPTF Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
UFO Unidentified Flying Object
USAF United States Air Force
USDI Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
USO Unidentified Submerged Object
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Location:
Approximate location of the Sherman family ranch, now know colloquially as “Skinwalker Ranch” in northeastern Utah in the Uintah Basin.
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Credits:
Episode 225: Skinwalkers at the Pentagon. Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Brandon Schnexnayder and Sarah Vorhees Wendel. Sound Design by Ryan McCullough; Tess Pfeifle, Producer, and Lead Researcher; Research Support from the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2022 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.