The BAASS "Project Campus"

What was Project Campus?

Of all the BAASS projects, the one which has received the least attention was Project Campus. According to the BAASS "Ten Month Report:"

"The overarching objective of Project Campus was to stimulate, motivate and encourage the senior levels of the academic community within the United States to involve themselves in study and research of very advanced aerial spacecraft that is presently considered phenomenological."

As a "test case" BAASS approached senior management of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The university responded positively. BAASS proposed ten scenarios to task the university with

"Studying consequences to the media, economy, department of defense, political groups, science, the general public, religion, public health and academia in the United States."

These scenarios ranged from multiple witness sightings, to announcements by the United States Air Force, or U.S. government officials, that UAP were real and extraterrestrial. The end result of the BAASS approach to the university 

"...was that Dr. Smith and four others have expressed strong interest in submitting a specific proposal to BAASS by August 2009."

Request for proposals

BAASS also sought other Request for Proposal (RFP) from:

* Battelle Memorial Institute

* Southwestern Research Institute

* Center for American Progress

* Sandia National Laboratories.

 The proposed budget for this research was $400,000.

The introduction of the RFP included "For the purpose of the proposed study we take the presence of such advanced exotic aerospace craft as a given."  The study would address three major issues:

1. "First, based on an-in-depth analysis of historical records, current data and political will, what is the likelihood that by 2050 there will be confirmation to the public by the U.S. government and its military authorities that aerospace craft whose technological capabilities are beyond those of our own most advanced military craft do indeed exist and traverse our air space at will? What are seen as the preconditions for such confirmation, and the probability that they would be made?"

2. "Second, under an assumption that such confirmation does occur by 2050, what would be a recommended course of action as to an optimal format for such confirmation? What realistically could be expected to be its effects, first on the military sector that is charged with defending our national airspace against intrusion by craft of unknown origin, and secondly on the U.S. body politic in the areas of commerce, religion, academia and so forth?"

3. "Third, if in the above analyses it becomes clear that, even in the timeframe approaching 2050 official (and especially military) considerations of a stance of publicly acknowledged material co-existence is almost certain to remain fraught with conflicting irresolvable viewpoints...what steps might be taken in the interim in the public sector by influential leaders and by organizations to ameliorate the potential deleterious effects of possibly unforeseen culture shock, to 'soften the societal blow' so to speak?"

As at the date of publication of the BAASS "Ten Month Report:"

"BAASS has not received a reply from CAP or SWRI regarding the RFP. Sandia National Laboratories volunteered that they did not have the expertise for the project and Battelle Memorial Institute declined the RFP."

National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS)

Questions such as the three above, were of interest to Robert Bigelow, long before BAASS was established in 2008. Prior to BAASS, Robert Bigelow had created the National Institute for Discovery Science (1996-2004.)

According to Jacques Vallee's book "Forbidden Science: Volume 4" page 324, in an entry dated 4 August 1996 making reference to a meeting of the NIDS Science Advisory Board:

"Another notion discussed at this meeting was that of 'The Day After: What would happen if the government was to announce Alien intrusions? Has there been a 50 year program of indoctrination of earthlings?"

Later from page 439 of the same book, in an entry dated 9 January 1999. "Bob Bigelow is still fascinated with 'Day After' scenarios."

Comment: A 'Day After' scenario poses the question , what would be the effect on human society the day following a major event, such as what happens if a large asteroid collides with the planet? or the U.S. government announces that UAP are real and are extraterrestrial spacecraft?

I wrote an article "NIDS and the 'Day after' scenarios" back in December 2019, which includes links to historical NIDS documents on such questions.