The proposal aimed to gather information from multiple sources and organize it for research.
A 2008 report proposed compiling and organizing reports of anomalous aerial phenomena for research. It is unknown if the database was ever built.
Reports and catalogs of anomalous aerial phenomena, along with information on related anomalies.
The report does not state whether the proposal became an active database.
In December 2008, a report was prepared for an American research company called Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, or BAASS. The company specialized in aerospace research. The report presented an idea: to collect reports of anomalous aerial phenomena and centralize them in one place.
Instead of examining each report individually, researchers could compare information from various sources. This would make it easier to search, sort, and analyze cases. The report also discussed other anomalies related to these phenomena but did not specify in the summary which cases were included.
The proposal sought to combine existing catalogs — organized lists of reports. Alongside the material already gathered, the report suggested examining databases from outside the United States and those held by private companies and entities.
The report proposed organizing all this material into a database: an orderly place for storing and searching information. The goal was to unify old and new reports, even if they came from different locations and were stored in various formats.
To allow for comparisons between sources, the report suggested using uniform methods. For example, dividing the information into groups based on characteristics and assessing the reliability of each report. This would enable researchers to find similar cases and examine them together.
The proposal also included training staff and developing software for using the database. The organized information was intended to assist in analyzing cases and searching through professional studies and publications. It could also help with future field investigations — that is, examining cases at the location where they occurred.
The report presented the database as a tool that could serve several of the company's research initiatives. It did not describe a specific discovery but rather a method for collecting and organizing material so that researchers could work with it.
The report does not state whether the database was built or if researchers found any patterns within it. Parts of the record were redacted, and it does not offer a conventional explanation for any specific phenomenon.
Reports collected in different places, organized together. What could have been seen in them if they were all in one place?