On May 9, 2024, reporter George Napp, on KLAS-TV, revealed information about Kona Blue, an ambitious Las Vegas UFO technology program that would have exposed highly classified evidence.
Dr. James Lacatski, formerly a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst and missile expert, designed an extremely secretive program called the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program (AAWSAP). This acronym purposefully omits terms regarding UFOs.
His meeting with Nevada Senator Harry Reid and two Senate colleagues secured $22 million in funds for what was to be the most extensive acknowledged UFO investigation in history.
Located in Las Vegas, 50 full-time employees were hired, and businessman Robert Bigelow reportedly spent $ 1 million to upgrade the buildings, which had government clearance to handle top-secret materials in compliance with security requirements. The only hold-up was the official government order to proceed with the plan to initiate the world’s largest UFO investigation.
Their program was to establish a system to collect and analyze sightings and locations, interview and study “the psychological and physical effects of the encounters with advanced aerial vehicles on humans, including deaths and injuries,” identify potentially disruptive technologies, reverse engineer UFO technology, etc.
Although not explicitly stated, everyone understood what materials were implied. However, the materials needed to begin the investigations were only accessible through the Government’s special access programs.
Unfortunately, Lacatski, the project manager, and onsite manager Dr. Colm Kelleher co-authored two books about AAWASAP, in which Lacatski casually mentioned that in 2011, he shared with a high-ranking U.S. Senator that the U.S. had a craft of unknown origin. Although they didn’t specify that it was a flying saucer they had gained access to, they described the interior as having no intakes, exhaust, wings, control surfaces, engine, fuel tanks, or fuel.
In 2009, Senator Harry Reid wrote to the Department of Defense to ask for special classification for the DIA program. Officials in Washington were alerted, opposition mounted, and the program’s budget disappeared.
As a result, in 2011, Lacatski, Kelleher, and others attempted to find an alternative home for Kona Blue.
Dr. Tara O’Toole, a noted scientist and deputy secretary of science and technology, issued enough to sign off on Kona Blue. However, as with AAWSAP, when top officials began knocking on doors to request access to the special materials, opposition to Kona Blue quickly mobilized, and the proposed program was halted.
