Historical perspective
In a blog article published in July 2024 I reviewed the interest of various individuals and organizations, in Brazilian UAP reports. One of these organizations was Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS.)
In trying to piece together just what BAASS' deployment to Brazil entailed, French researcher Marc Cecotti and myself contacted a number of individuals in Brazil, the USA, and other countries. Our findings were reported in a series of Blog articles:
* 7 April 2020 "BAASS team visited Brazil"
* 17 April 2020 "Further insights into BAASS in Brazil in 2009"
* 24 April 2020 "BAASS in Brazil: emails and more"
* 28 April 2020 "BAASS Program Managers held meetings in Brazil."
Overall, we were able to build up a fairly clear picture of just what occurred during the BAASS visit to Brazil, and the purpose of their deployment.
The "Ten Month Report"
Pages 393 and following of the report give a detailed view of the Colares UAP events from 1977-1978, and the BAASS visit of 2009:
"On May 25 2009 two teams, a north team and a south team, from BAASS deployed to Brazil. The purpose of the north team's trip was to meet with two Brazilian UFO organiszations and leaders, as well as follow upon recent UFO sightings reported by several news media outlets...The south team travelled to various locations in Brazil in order to establish professional relationships between BAASS and several prominent Brazilian UFO organizations and leaders. The trip involved two BAASS program managers and occurred during the period May 25, 2009 through June 3, 2009."
From the work of Marc Cecotti and myself we deduced that the south team was Douglas Kurth and James A. Johnson. The north team was Melissa Godoy, Tim Koonce, Loran Huffman and Lucas Gornichec.
An introductory section, of the report on "Brazilian Related UAP Material/Bob Pratt's Colares Files" summarizes what was known about the 1977-1978 events on and around the Brazilian island of Colares, previously publicly available on the Brazilian Air Forces' Operation Plate, relying heavily on the comprehensive work of US reporter Bob Pratt who conducted onsite investigations.
BAASS extracted data from this wealth of material, to prepare a CAPELLA database of the events at Colares. Page 415 of the report lists the "Brazil UAP Research Materials" which BAASS collected. BAASS teams in 2009 collected their own material supplied by individuals and organizations in Brazil.
What was BAASS doing with all this material? Page 422; "BAASS' interest is to examine the relationship between advanced space technology and physiological effects."
In the future
"In the future it would be beneficial for a BAASS team to take an investigative trip to Brazil to gather more information and materials from specific witnesses and victims associated with the Colares events."
"BAASS would like to acquire the entire portfolio of the Colares area investigation, including any official assessment made by the Brazilian Air Force, Brazilian government, or potential foreign military or government evaluation and assessments."
In a section headed "Progress on BAASS outreach to South America" details are given that "BAASS began a systematic program to research the number and quality of organizations in South America that were focused on UAPs,'" and gives a list of such organizations and their contact details.
Vallee
Given that Jacques Vallee made a number of visits to Brazil to gather data I note the following comment in Vallee's "Forbidden Science: Volume 6" in entries dated 2 and 4 July 2015.
"In the last few days my exchanges with the project have taken a new tone. In Brazil the BAASS team was composed of six investigators who travelled across the country, interviewed 17 officials, including General Uchoa, and came back with a report that led to a conference at the Brazilian embassy in DC, attended by Hal, Colm and Eric all under Air Force 'sponsorship.' A security officer determined that distribution of the report, after review by a military group, would be closed. Since I am the only one of the group who met with Colonel Hollanda Lima and was briefed afterwards by his top security staff inside the Air Force base where the project was managed, I stand confused by all the obvious discrepancies. Many unreported details were shared with us, and we saw the original, secret data. I could have flagged errors and misquotes in later years. Now, I can't even read 'our' full report, even though my friends confess 'it doesn't reflect reality.'''
"I confess lingering concern about the way the Brazil trip was handled, a missed opportunity. Apart from a partial listing of medical cases, what I've seen rehashes Bob Pratt's data, unaware of the details Bill Calvert and had been shown in 1988. Bureaucracy at work? Or something more nefarious that will demand that we forget what we'd uncovered about the beings? "
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