Organisation

NIDS

1995-01-01 – 2004-01-01year known, day not recorded

National Institute for Discovery Science - Bigelow's private paranormal/UFO research outfit, precursor to BAASS.

In the consciousness threadClassified 25 August 2026 from this entity's own role text, which reads: "al Institute for Discovery Science - Bigelow's private paranormal/UFO research outfit, precursor to BAASS.". An editorial classification, the same kind of field as cat - it rests on no page and does not claim to.

None of this entity's 7 connections has a source you can open.

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← Robert Bigelow names a source we do not hold

founded

George Knapp / KLAS-TV Mystery Wire reporting
→ Jacques Vallee names a source we do not hold

advisory board

NIDS / Skinwalker Ranch research history; Kelleher & Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker
→ John Alexander names a source we do not hold

advisory board

NIDS / Skinwalker Ranch research history; Kelleher & Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker
← Eric Davis names a source we do not hold

worked there for several years

Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
← Edgar Mitchell names a source we do not hold

served on its Science Advisory Board

1996 Bigelow-Mitchell correspondence
→ John Mack names a source we do not hold

scientific advisory board ("invisible college")

NIDS / Skinwalker Ranch research history; Kelleher & Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker
→ Hal Puthoff names a source we do not hold

scientific advisory board

Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)