The Origins of AAWSAP

[boringrealit]

That would be Kellher contradicting himself. He is the lead author of Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, where the idea that AATIP was a cover name is confirmed. He wrote it along with Knapp, whom he had written Search for the Skinwalker previously, and Lacatski.

Lacatski would be in a better position to know, as he wrote and ran AAWSAP, while Kelleher ran BAASS out in Las Vegas, the prime contractor. He would know what BAASS was up to, but may not be as in the know about what Lacatski was doing back in Washington.

I thought about that, that it seemed odd to promote the book and contradict it, but I wasn't sure I remembered correctly.

My impression is that the AATIP that Kelleher is having in mind here is pretty much the AATIP Elizondo talked about in the beginning when he came out. Minus the Tictac. That is, space and UFOs in the sky. A program which fits very well with Stratton's background and not so well with Elizondo's.

Maybe AATIP was connected to AAWSAP, but involved USG secrets such as satellite data and so on, and therefor is classified. Dunno.

 

[boringrealit]

As @Mendel said, Kona Blue was a proposal for a SAP that was refused. It was never a federally (or state) funded program. If its proponents "continued" Kona Blue in their own time and with their own funds and resources, that was up to them. But if this is what happened, it's hard to distinguish it from a hobby or pastime that the participants called "Kona Blue".
I don't know how companies/ corporations, and not-for-profits/ NGOs are registered in the USA, but I'm not aware of a known private sector/ third sector/ academia-based UFO interest group called Kona Blue, and we know there wasn't a public sector/ USG Kona Blue.

I don't think they can just privatize a program easily, even if it didn't reach SAP status. Then I remembered that U.S. have something called FFRDCs. Maybe it was transferred into one of those. I'm not really familiar with what it is and how it works.

Btw, Lacatski makes an interesting name-drop in Skinwalkers at the Pentagon. After proposing private funding, he mentions, on page 198, Bigelow and Prince Hans Adam of Liechtenstein as exemplary funders. Possibly a breadcrumb, but I don't think the Prince would be able to fund a FFRDC, if that is the case.

Most likely, a private continuation of Kona Blue would be in spirit and personnel, not classified documentation and material from it and its precursors.

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When I think about it, maybe the whole chapter is a big bread crumb of what Kona Blue 2.0 could be. The book is written as a "what should we do in the future after AAWSAP/Kona Blue", but it is written like 10 years into that future.