The Black Vault: new documents reveal details on UAP/UFO briefing possibly by the WSO who encountered the “Gimbal.”

From ​The Black Vault
The Black Vault sought records over the course of three years, and followed a paper trail that led to the below release of formerly SECRET e-mails. Although redacted, there are some new details revealed, and the likelihood that the encounter, along with the WSO, were all connected to the 2015 “Gimbal” encounter.
​The documents are below.

In December of 2017, the "Gimbal" video was published by the NY Times. Since then, it has captivated believers and has become a target by the debunkers. Yet, despite the drastic difference in regards to interpretations by both sides, one fact remains: the video is intriguing. Now, new documents released to The Black Vault may reveal that the Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) who encounter the craft, and took the video, appeared before Senate staffers in 2019 to brief them on the event. 

The below records were released to numerous requesters, including being responsive to numerous cases filed by The Black Vault going back to the beginning of 2018.​

Document ArchiveAAWSAP Related Documents – Chronological OrderAugust 22, 2008
 SOW_Aerospace.pdf [7 Pages, 0.7MB] – Original Bid Solicitation Notice / Statement of Work — posted publicly and online seeking bidders from the private sector
December 16, 2008
 DI_Brief_2008.pdf [9 Pages, 0.6MB] – Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Contract Status
January 5, 2009
 DR_Reid_Mtg_Jan09.pdf [1 Page, 0.4MB] – Senator Harry Reid Visit to {REDACTED], Talking Paper to provide status of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications contract should Senator Reid raise the topic
May 4, 2009
 DR_Reid_Mtg_May09.pdf [2 Pages, 0.4MB] – Senator Harry Reid Visit to Director, DIA. Talking Paper to provide status of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications contract should Senator Reid raise the topic
May 8, 2009
 DI_Brief_2009.pdf [11 Pages, 0.6MB] – Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Contract Status
May 8, 2009
 DR_Reid_Brief_May09.pdf [13 Pages, 0.6MB] – Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Contract Status
June 24, 2009
 20090624_Reid_to_DEPSECDEF_ref_AAITP_in_SAP.pdf [3 Pages, 0.5MB] – Harry Reid SAP Request Letter for AAWSAP
August 24, 2009
 Contract_Status_24Aug09.pdf [6 Pages, 0.5MB] – Aerospace Contract Status
September 2, 2009
 Contract_FY10.pdf [7 Pages, 0.6MB] – Amendment of Solicitation / Modification of Contract
October 30, 2009
 U-429-09-DWO-IM.pdf [8 Pages, 1MB] – Review of Advanced Aerospace Contract Deliverables.
Assumed November 2009 (Exact Date Unknown – but fits chronologically
 OUSDI_IM_on_AATIP_Final.pdf [2 Pages, 0.3MB] – Review of Special Access Program Request, memorandum for Ms. Honi Smith, Director, Special Programs, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
November 13, 2009
 U-09-2660CE-IM-Review_of_Special_Access_Program_Request.pdf [3 Pages, 0.4MB] – Review of Special Access Program Request.
November 19, 2009
 DR_Reid_Mtg_Nov09.pdf [2 Pages, 0.4MB] – DIA visit with Senator Harry Reid. Meeting overview between Senator Harry Reid and DIA / DepSecDef. This appears to be when they denied Reid’s request for SAP status for AAWSAP
 09117-Final_Packet_Presented_to_DepSecDef.pdf [18 Pages, 1.3MB] – Packet of information given to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, likely at the above meeting. It consists of Senator Harry Reid’s Request to Put The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AAITP) under Special Access Protection Memorandum, DepSecDef Talking Points, Harry Reid SAP Request Letter, Review of Advanced Aerospace Contract Deliverables, List of Technical Reports (DIRDs), Reviews regarding DIRDs, and Review of Special Access Program Request.
Date Unknown – Circa Mid-Late 2009 (Not All DIRDs listed)
 U-10-2552CE-IM-ATL.pdf [2 Pages, 0.4MB] – Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program “Info Memo” – Exact Date unknown
 Contract_Status_Briefing.pdf [8 Pages, 0.7MB] – Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Contract – Update
Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs)According to Dr. Eric Davis, who was interviewed on the Coast to Coast AM radio show on January 28, 2018, he confirmed that while working for Bigelow Aerospace / BAASS, they created 38 of these “Defense Intelligence Reference Documents” or reports under AAWSAP. Also according to Dr. Davis, these papers that were submitted were about various topics, including (but not limited to) warp drives, propulsion systems, etc.
Within 48 hours of that interview, on January 31, 2018, The Black Vault had filed for ALL of those reports, as referenced by Dr. Davis. This was given FOIA case FOIA-0159-2018.
In January of 2019, The Black Vault received a listing breakdown of the reports (an slightly different version had already leaked) via FOIA request FOIA-0033-2019 with the DIA.
On March 25, 2022, the DIA finally completed FOIA request FOIA-0159-2018, and released 37 of the requested 38 DIRD reports. The Black Vault has appealed the one report seemingly ignored, which was the classified version of the “State of the Art and Evolution of High-Energy Laser Weapons” report, classified SECRET. This was not even referenced as being withheld in the release document, so the basis of the appeal is on the adequacy of their search.
Here is a listing of the 37 DIRD reports released. For another, more extensive breakdown, you can see the The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) DIRD Report Research page, as well.
Note: The following are in numerical order of the DIA release via this FOIA request, not the original list.
 Download a .ZIP file of ALL 37 DIRD reports below [87MB]

1.  Metallic Glasses – Status and Prospects for Aerospace Applications [30 Pages, 1.74MB]
2.  Aerospace Applications of Programmable Matter [20 Pages, 1.34MB]
3.  Pulsed High-Power Microwave Source Technology [37 Pages, 2.55MB]
4.  Biomaterials [32 Pages, 1.75MB]
5.  Materials for Advanced Aerospace Platforms [27 Pages, 1.96MB]
6.  Space Access – Where We’ve Been and Where We Could Go [57 Pages, 3.27MB]
7.  Invisibility Cloaking – Theory and Experiments [29 Pages, 1.62MB]
8.  Positron Aerospace Propulsion [35 Pages, 1.89MB]
9.  Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion [72 Pages, 4.35MB]
10.  Metallic Spintronics [27 Pages, 1.77MB]
11.  Advanced Nuclear Propulsion For Manned Deep Space Missions [37 Pages, 2.12MB]
12.  Technological Approaches to Controlling External Devices [36 Pages, 2.5MB]
13.  Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions [33 Pages, 2.13MB]
14.  The Role of Superconductors in Gravity Research [16 Pages, 1.33MB]
15.  Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineer [17 Pages, 1.2MB]
16.  The Space Communication Implications of Quantum Entanglement and Nonlocality [32 Pages, 2.03MB]
17.  Maverick Inventor Versus Corporate Inventor – Where Will the Next Major Innovations Arise? [19 Pages, 1.37MB]
18.  Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy [42 Pages, 2.66MB]
19.  Antigravity for Aerospace Applications [44 Pages, 2.78MB]
20.  Biosensors and BioMEMS – A Survey of the Present Field [45 Pages, 2.84MB]
21.  High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications [57 Pages, 4.38MB]
22.  Metamaterials for Aerospace Applications [27 Pages, 1.74MB]
23.  State of the Art and Evolution of High-Energy Laser Weapons [31 Pages, 1.77MB]
24.  Concepts for Extracting Energy From the Quantum Vacuum [57 Pages, 3.61MB]
25.  An Introduction to the Statistical Drake Equation [55 Pages, 2.83MB]
26.  Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues [38 Pages, 2.17MB]
27.  Laser Lightcraft Nanosatellites [77 Pages, 3.8MB]
28.  Cockpits in the Era of Breakthrough Flight [57 Pages, 3.26MB]
29.  Negative Mass Propulsion [43 Pages, 3.26MB]
30.  Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion [49 Pages, 2.35MB]
31.  Detection and High Resolution Tracking of Vehicles at Hypersonic Velocities [46 Pages, 2.19MB]
32.  Ultracapacitors as Energy and Power Storage Devices [34 Pages, 2.02MB]
33.  MHD Air Breathing Propulsion and Power for Aerospace Applications [32 Pages, 2.14MB]
34.  Cognitive Limits on Simultaneous Control of Multiple Unmanned Spacecraft [30 Pages, 1.92MB]
35.  Quantum Computing and Utilizing Organic Molecules in Automation Technology [54 Pages, 3.12MB]
36.  Quantum Tomography of Negative Energy States in the Vacuum [51 Pages, 2.12MB]
37.  Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion II [36 Pages, 1.88MB]