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Robert Bigelow
1995-01-01year known, day not recorded
Aerospace/hotel billionaire. Founded NIDS (1995); bought Skinwalker Ranch (1996); his company BAASS later won the sole-bid AAWSAP contract (2008).
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Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protectionalready cited above
named on a page we have read · p. 11
was active, the DIA's contractor, Robert Bigelow of Las Vegas, made a bold attempt to acquire physical proof…
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→ BAASSits owner, described at the 2025 hearing as "the DIA's contractor"Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protectionprinted p. 11 checked against the pageCaveat Knapp's testimony gives 'Bigelow's company, BAASS', establishing ownership; the NYT of 16 Dec 2017 is also cited. Founding is carried by ordinary usage for a wholly-owned entity. The caution limits only the founding DATE and the corporate filing, both modifiers. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.scope: scoped · reviewed 2026-08-21 · decided by the operator
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testified he negotiated with Lockheed Martin executives for retrieved materialsame document as the row aboveprinted p. 11 checked against the page
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→ NIDSfoundedGeorge Knapp / KLAS-TV Mystery Wire reporting
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recruited as advisorGeorge Knapp / KLAS-TV Mystery Wire reporting
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hired to lead researchLacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
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longtime friendNYT, Dec 16 2017
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sold ranch toGeorge Knapp / KLAS-TV Mystery Wire reporting
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founded it in 2020George Knapp / KLAS-TV Mystery Wire reporting
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his boss during NIDS/BAASS-era researchLacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
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1996 letters document his role on NIDS's advisory boardNIDS records; George Knapp, Statement to Congress, House Oversight (HHRG-118-GO06), Jul 26 2023
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worked for his NIDS; first to overnight at Skinwalker RanchNIDS / Skinwalker Ranch research history; Kelleher & Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker
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spent 13 years there and received a NASA award for the BEAM moduleThe Planetary Society - Mike Gold profile
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reported on his ranch research and co-wrote a book about it with Colm KelleherColm A. Kelleher and George Knapp, "Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah", ISBN 9781416505211. Bibliographic record only - the book is a commercial third-party work, is NOTCaveat The 2025 hearing names neither NIDS nor Skinwalker Ranch nor the book. It supports none of this claim. Bind withdrawn; the claim was corrected separately on the co-author.scope: unsupported · reviewed 2026-08-21 · decided by the operator
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is said in an anonymous secondhand account to have proposed transferring claimed UAP crash-retrieval material to his team (AAWSAP era, circa 2009); NO NAMED SOURCE, and this project holds nothing supporting itLacatski et al., Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021); Liberation TimesCaveat STRENGTHENED 30 August 2026, on the same reasoning as link 1216. "Allegedly" names no allegator; "is said in an anonymous secondhand account" says exactly what stands behind it, which is nothing a reader can check. The claim is kept because a labelled anonymous allegation about public figures in a matter of public concern is publishable and useful; an unlabelled one is not.
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Robert Bigelow → James T. Ryder
allegedly proposed transferring purported UAP crash-retrieval material to his team (AAWSAP era, ~2009); anonymous/secondhand
is said in an anonymous secondhand account to have proposed transferring claimed UAP crash-retrieval material to his team (AAWSAP era, circa 2009); NO NAMED SOURCE, and this project holds nothing supporting it