By Joe Murgia – @ufojoe11 on Twitter

Over the past few years, investigative reporter, George Knapp, and filmmaker/researcher, Jeremy Corbell, have given lectures, gone on various radio shows and podcasts and described how the Pentagon’s UFO program, AATIP and it’s relative, AAWSAP, came to be. AAWSAP was first mentioned publicly by researcher Paul Dean, who did some excellent work to come up with the name. The AAWSAP story features a DIA scientist who had an anomalous experience at Skinwalker Ranch. This guy had a hand in creating and then managing AAWSAP. More on that later. First, I want to take a few edited excerpts from Knapp’s lecture at UFO MegaCon on March 20, 2019.

(The name of this DIA scientist is online on various websites and social media. I’ve tweeted his name on a few occasions but was told he wants no part of this. So, when referring to him, I’ll just use his initials (JL).

Knapp at UFO MegaCon:

I made this trip to Washington, D.C. at the invitation of Senator Harry Reid. It was St. Patrick’s Day, 2018 and I already knew a little bit about AATIP and AAWSAP and what they’ve been studying and where the money came from and how the program was created.. I ended up having to meet with Senator Reid and some other people who were directly involved in these programs and they gave me a download. And I thought I knew a lot about these programs when I went there and realized that I only knew a little tiny bit. The purpose of this was to learn about these programs. We all know about AATIP, but in reality, there was something before that. I sat down for a couple of hours with Senator Reid and other people whose names, they don’t want to be known. They brought me up to speed on how AATIP was created. How its predecessor was under way for a number of years. It coexisted for a long time. But the story that it told was not the full story. AATIP, that we know about…the AATIP that studies nuts and bolts saucers, cases of UFOs that have encounters with military units such as the USS Nimitz, that is studied by a group of people. Lue Elizondo was the head of it. It’s not so much a program as it was a loose network of intelligence officials in different agencies, including the Air Force & the Navy, CIA, DIA, DARPA…there might be a couple of other agencies. But a case would come in from any one of their units and it would be shared with this group of people. Analysis would be done. Evidence would be looked at and then stashed in a drawer and nobody ever sees it. It’s not passed up the chain of command. In 2007, that changed. One of the guys I met with in this meeting in Washington is the one who changed it. He had been in the same position that Lue Elizondo had been in. And his name is just not out there. He grew frustrated with what was happening with the phenomenon and he suspected that UFOs flying around the sky, buzzing our military units every once in a while, is not the full story. Even if you could solve that part of the mystery, it wouldn’t solve the bigger part of the picture. So he grew interested in Skinwalker Ranch and he had read the (Knapp/Kelleher – “Hunt For The Skinwalker”) book. And after he read it, he called up Bob Bigelow and said…actually, he wrote him a letter and said, “Hey, can I go to the ranch…go look around? I’m with the DIA.” Bigelow says, “Come on out to Las Vegas and I’ll take you there.” And that’s what happened. He flew to Las Vegas. They flew on Bigelow’s jet. They went to the ranch. This guy’s not there fifteen minutes and he has an experience. And I’m not gonna go into detail. I’m hoping that he’s going to maybe come forward at some point and describe his experience. But it was just for him. Of all the people in this room, in the encounter, he was the only one who could see it. He’s the only one who had an angle on this thing that appeared. And he’s pretending that he’s not seeing it but it’s right out of the corner of his eye. And he doesn’t say anything until he leaves the ranch. And he gets off and he asks Bigelow if he had seen it. And he had not. The other people who had been in the room had not seen it. He flies back to Las Vegas, goes back to Washington, D.C. and looks up Harry Reid and tells him about it. Now Reid had some experience in these matters that I’ll get into in a little bit. But as a result of that conversation, Reid, who had an interest in UFOs and had maintained that interest over many years – and I can attest to that personally – called in a couple of his friends in the Senate – Daniel Inouye and Ted Stevens. They had a conversation in a secure room and they decided to provide some funding for a much broader study. Something that looked at…beyond flying saucers, that looked at other paranormal aspects…supernatural aspects that we would not normally associate with aliens or ETs. Assuming that that’s what this is, which I’m not sure anyone knows for sure. And that is how AAWSAP was born. The Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application program.

Knapp was on Phenomenon Radio on October 11th, 2018. On that show and another show (which I can’t recall), he included more details related to what this guy (JL) saw. I combined transcripts from the two shows for this excerpt:

It was something that appeared in the air, ten feet away from him, inside a house while he was having a conversation. And it was at such an angle that it was only viewable, of the group that was sitting there, within his line of sight. The thing appeared to him. He was trying to play it cool and not let everybody else know it was there. This guy. He’s a very serious, rock solid, brilliant guy, who had read the book and thought there might be something there of interest to the DIA and the Pentagon and national security. He’s in the main ranch house, hearing some stories from the caretakers who live there and this thing appeared inside the house, in broad daylight. And I’m not gonna get into details but it was pretty distinct and remarkable and it made a very big impression on this guy. AATIP was the study of occasional encounters that military personnel has with UFOs. And it was an informal organization that existed within the Pentagon. Different departments and different divisions of the military. And they would exchange information. Videos would come in. They’d do analysis and create files and try to figure this stuff out. AAWSAP was created to be something else entirely. It was to look at a much broader range of paranormal activity. The DIA guy and Bob Bigelow and Colm Kelleher and everyone associated with NIDS knew that UFOs do in fact occur in connection with other strange stuff. That as much as ufologists don’t like to admit it, there’s a Bigfoot connection and there is a crop circle connection and there’s a connection to animal mutilations. It’s not clear what the connections were, other than proximity in the same time and place of all those different phenomena. And here you had a ranch where all of this stuff was going on. And that ranch, whatever is there, had in essence given that guy from the DIA an engraved invitation to come back. And he did.

I wanted more details of what this DIA scientist saw as it seemed to play a large role in why AAWSAP came into existence. I listened to more podcasts and lectures and found this Knapp lecture from the May 2018 McMinnville UFO conference:

“He sees this weird ball of light, in the living room where he’s talking to the caretaker.”

A weird ball of light is interesting. But on the September 27th, 2018 episode of Phenomenon Radio, Jeremy Corbell went further:

You get these DIA guys being sent to the ranch. And sure enough, the Phenomenon makes sure that they have an experience. A hands on, direct, personal experience. Let me just give you one, which is the experience that initiated everything. There was an agent, in particular, who went there and as he’s interviewing the people that lived at the ranch, he looks over their shoulder and he sees what looks like a metal, Möbius loop, just presenting itself. Physically, right there. He can see it with his eyes. He doesn’t mention it to the current people who lived at the ranch. And he sees it and it presents itself, even with, I believe some hieroglyphics on them. That was one of the number of personal events by agents of the DIA, that did then say, ‘Something is going on there.’ And then they ended up talking with Robert Bigelow and realized that there is a huge opportunity.

These are all the details I had regarding JL and the mobius loop. That was until I started chatting with astrophysicist, Dr. Eric W. Davis. Davis is the Chief Science Officer at Earth Int’l, Inc. and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, which was a subcontractor to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), which was the contractor on AAWSAP and AATIP. One of his research specializations is breakthrough propulsion physics for interstellar flight. For a full bio of Davis, click here.

He shared details with me about the JL story that he had heard from one of his BAASS colleagues. He also gave me his thoughts on AATIP and AAWSAP.

JL was in the living room of the former NIDS double wide observation trailer/staff quarters. A 3D object appeared in mid-air in front of him and changed shape like a changing topological figure. It went from pretzel-shaped to Möbius strip shaped. It was 3D and multi-colored. Then it disappeared. AATIP was born out of the ONI’s investigations into the Nimitz encounters with the Tic-Tac UFOs. Synergy between AATIP and AAWSAP was discovered so the two programs began to coordinate on overlapping areas of interest. So we reported to Lue as far back as 2008 or 2009. The ranch was not really central to the AAWSAP because it was a more-than-peripheral side issue. JL thought it was important enough to include it as part of the UFO field investigations that the contract required BAASS to implement. The major component was to ascertain UFO threat, the weapons used by UFOs that cause medical injuries, develop a predictive pattern to UFO activities to get ahead of them when they appear, predict future advanced military tech that could defend us against UFO attacks (should that happen), find a way to attempt contact with UFOs and start a dialogue (USAF developed an ET contact protocol in the late 1940s), find out who/what UFOs are, etc., etc. The DIA is an Intelligence agency, so its mission is to discover the UAP’s plans and operations via intelligence collection and analysis to protect the national security. The AAWSAP was to provide data to assist the AATIP’s Nimitz and Roosevelt investigations.

Back to JL and his encounter at Skinwalker Ranch. A Möbius loop/strip, discovered in 1958 by August Möbius, a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer, was not something I was familiar with before Corbell mentioned it. If you want a look at what JL might have seen at the ranch, check this out:

And M.C. Escher is known for incorporating the Möbius strip idea of infinity into various pieces of his art. Here’s an animation of his woodcut, “Möbius Strip II.”

For more on the Möbius strip and how it brought about the branch of mathematics known as topology, check out this Smithsonian Magazine article: “The Mathematical Madness of Möbius Strips and Other One-Sided Objects.”

I believe that the Möbius strip would be a well known concept to somebody well versed in math. In this KLAS/Knapp article on AATIP/AAWSAP, Senator Harry Reid referred to JL:

I received communication from a man who worked for one of the defense agencies, a PHD in physics and math. He said ‘I know everything about rockets but I don’t know what these things are,’” said Sen. Harry Reid.

So, as Knapp and Corbell said, the phenomenon at Skinwalker Ranch presented itself at an angle that only JL could see. And as it turns out, it’s something a rocket scientist, well versed in mathematics, would recognize. If that’s what happened, the obvious question is: How did it know to choose something that was geared towards a scientist? And why? Did it know that this event would encourage JL to push for the formation of AAWSAP? Did it want to be studied? Did it want to be hunted? Lots of questions and no answers.

In the end, JL being involved with studying these subjects was detrimental to his career. Luis Elizondo wrote about it in his article on Medium last November.

UAP has even been associated with demons and anti-Judeo Christian beliefs. I experienced this first-hand during my time working at the U.S. Government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), where certain senior government officials thought our collection of facts on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) was dangerous to their philosophical beliefs. In fact, my AATIP predecessor’s career was ruined because of misplaced fear by an elite few. Rather than accept the data as provided by a top-rank rocket scientist, they decided the data was a threat to their belief system and instead, destroyed his career because of it.

I’ll understand if JL never comes forward and shares his story with the world. Seeing the endless conspiracy theories that Luis Elizondo has had to deal with, I can’t blame him for not subjecting himself to the same crap. But I’m still hopeful it may happen one day. His story is vital to understanding what happened.

Was there a deeper meaning for why JL was shown that shape? This may have nothing to with what he saw that day but I’ll leave this with you. It’s from a company that sells Möbius-related products.

On a personal level, the Möbius strip represents a willingness to move WITH the constantly changing cycles in our Life process, transforming our challenges into useful solutions. The Möbius Strip reveals planetary transformation, as well. Historically, there has always been Earth changes, i.e. natural re-structuring of land and ocean masses, tide changes, weather changes, seasonal changes, etc. The Möbius Strip shape is symbolic of eternal change within stillness itself. The Möbius Strip is an expression of non-duality. It reveals the Unity of all polarities, creating a state of Oneness, joining the whole and the part, the masculine and the feminine, expansion and contraction, spirit and matter, etc. Everything is One and nothing can be separated from anything else. All is completely intertwined, infinitely. The Möbius Strip is a spiritually significant symbol of balance and union. (Yoga=Union) The Buddhist philosophy of Tantrism also is expressed by the Mobius Strip shape. “Tantra” is continuity; the word derived from the root ‘tan’, meaning to extend… extend continuously, to flow, to weave. The continuum is descriptive of the Nature of Reality, by contemporary physicist David Bohm…”a single unbroken wholeness in flowing movement.”

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