While working at a small space news outlet and utilities provider (ISS + launch tracker, astronaut database), I had the opportunity through a DIA FOIA request to review a set of around 1500 pages of documents (mostly DIRDS, similar to those released to Black Vault, Vice, and others online) - research related to alternative energy, exotic propulsion, quantum physics, black holes, anti-gravity, Bigelow, dark-matter, etc.
This is in no way a formal analysis, just research I was collecting for a long article being worked on and quotes I deemed important. It is organized by folder name, document name, quotations, and short Italic annotations. The information is short and digestible, as they are just informal notes that were only to be reviewed by myself and editor in preparation for the article. As I'm no longer with the company, and am no longer working on said article, I figured I'd just leave them here for anyone that wants the skinny and doesn't feel like going through the hassle.
*Redacted name and case number from FOIA response for privacy
*As names are typically rare in these documents, whenever I was capable of uncovering one, I did, or pointed out how you could do so through very minimal surface level research
[Note/email to editor]:
"The first folder is pretty self-explanatory- contracts, SAP requests, etc. The DIRDs are where it starts to get interesting. A lot of them tend to focus on historical context and previous experiments, and then theorizing what'll be accomplished in the future. Unfortunately, it still barely scratches the surface. What would be really fascinating to see is the advancements made in each of these fields in the last 10 years- or lack thereof.
It seems as if the authors of these technical reports sometimes are/were the leading scientist in their field, usually having multiple papers published in the field already, and associated with national labs + college grants. Seems like a good idea to cross-reference the papers that are already published in these niche fields with the info in these reports leading up to the DIA contract to get a better idea of who they might've brought in. Or at the very least inquire into the new work related to these topics developed in the last 10 years. Are they familiar with anyone in the program?
For example, one author wrote the year in which he was born, the year he presented at a United Nations convention, and a new innovative unique approach that was specific to him. This made finding the papers he published fairly easy. One of which was published online in 2009 and almost identical to the one that was submitted to the DIA.
'nuclear propulsion.. manned deep space mission'
-Fridwart Winterberg
Dept. Physics. University of Nevada
775-784-6789
[Winterbe@physics.uni.edu](mailto:Winterbe@physics.uni.edu)"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ReLJBkePz48kXTDTTnLpEq-Q9_I_a27e/view?usp=sharing
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qXitvy_2v1XDuuzaEv3XRmMDehMaoRWx/view?usp=sharing
Submitted January 06, 2023 at 03:00AM by BelievedDaisy https://ift.tt/RUlYJnw
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