To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA)

“Mr. Elizondo has now joined Mr. Puthoff and another former Defense Department official, Christopher K. Mellon, who was a deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, in a new commercial venture called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.”

“On 11 October 2017, Tom DeLonge took to a Seattle stage to officially announce, as president and CEO, the formation of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences (TTSA).”

“the launch was online only and had no invited audience and no pesky press present”

“The undeniably impressive line-up of former spooks and defence insiders included Jim Semivan, one of the two co-founders of TTSA.”

“There was also the third co-founder of TTSA, Dr Hal Puthoff, a theoretical physicist”

“TTSA’s Steve Justice, former Lockheed Martin Skunk Works executive”

“Another team member on stage, heading TTSA's aerospace division, was Steve Justice”

“Steve Justice, Chief Operating Officer of TTSA and former head of Advanced Systems at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works”

“one of the biggest aerospace engineers in the world, a senior intelligence officer from the CIA, two former senior Pentagon officials, and an experimental physicist from the DOD”

“the company Elizondo joined in October 2017, several days after he resigned from the Department of Defense.”

“he made me an offer to join TTSA as chief of security and special programs...The salary offered was much less than I was earning at the Pentagon...To do this, Tom insisted that I relocate to California.”

“DeLonge was a proud son of Poway, near San Diego. TTSA’s planned location was in Encinitas, about thirty minutes north of the city, along the coast.”

“In the days after the *Times* story on the AATIP program broke, Luis Elizondo became the public face of TTSA”

“TTSA is not just a lobby group; it is a public company soliciting money from potential investors as a public benefit corporation pursuant to strict US government Securities and Exchange Commission laws and regulation.”

“To the Stars, which raised more than $2 million from investors,”

“was originally hyped as a UFO research company that would explore the “outer edges of science,””

“its Security and Exchange Commission filing identifies it as a “Motion Picture & Video Tape Production” concern.”

“TTSA's stated mission was 'to be a vehicle for change by inspiring a newfound appreciation and understanding for the profound, yet unresolved, mysteries of the universe that can have a positive impact on humanity'.”

“They had aligned themselves with the organization that rock star Tom DeLonge and Jim Semivan had put together, called To The Stars Academy (TTSA), and they planned to pursue a triple directive for UAP disclosure: fresh approaches to UAP science and engineering, educating laymen and journalists, and generating film/TV/publishing content about the UAP phenomena, based on true stories, all to educate the public and put an end to the stigma.”

“TTSA's 2019 *Offering Circular* says, 'The company's Aerospace Division is dedicated to finding revolutionary breakthroughs in propulsion, energy and communications.'”

“The TTSA *Offering Circular* wisely warned potential investors that 'Aerospace and scientific research and development can be risky, and there are no guarantees that any of the projects we undertake will lead to a commercially viable product'.”

“To emphasise just how anomalous these unknown aerospace vehicles are, TTSA’s Luis Elizondo coined a phrase, ‘The Five Observables’, the characteristics most commonly seen in UAPs.”

“The History Channel wanted to do a show with the TTSA team that would put seasoned investigators in the field, interviewing ex-military personnel about their UAP encounters.”

“DeLonge's To The Stars organisation eventually posted three dramatic Defence Department videos of UAPs on its website.”

“The first two were posted in mid-December 2017, timed for impact when Politico, The Washington Post and The New York Times broke the story of the Defence Department's AATIP investigations into UAPs.”

“Three months later, in March 2018, TTSA posted another Defence Department video on its website, which it dubbed the Go-Fast video.”

“TTSA initially revealed very little about the Gimbal object other than that it was seen and videoed by US Navy fighter pilots at an unspecified location”

“The TTSA website said the Gimbal had 'low-observability' on both video and radar”

“it also had no distinguishable flight surfaces, no 'obvious propulsion system', 'never-before-seen flight capabilities'”

“no 'obvious propulsion system'”

“'never-before-seen flight capabilities'”

“because of a strange shimmer on its surface, they speculated that it had a 'possible energy or resonance field of unknown nature'”

“in October 2019, it was announced that To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences was partnering with the US Army to research alleged metamaterials that TTSA's sources claimed to have obtained from crashed craft.”

“This agreement between TTSA and the US Army was secured under the terms of what is called a CRADA, a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement.”

“'Our partnership with TTSA serves as an exciting, non-traditional source for novel materials and transformational technologies to enhance our military ground system capabilities,' Dr Cannon claimed in a press statement.”

“There was a disclosure notice by TTSA to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) revealing that in 2019 Tom DeLonge sold the same six 'Art's Parts' samples to his company for $35,000 and that Hal Puthoff would be analysing them for TTSA.”

“An earlier 2018 disclosure TTSA made to the US Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that TTSA has already retained Hal Puthoff's EarthTech International Inc. to prepare plans on materials analysis and beamed energy propulsion launch systems”

“Another hint came in a tweeted TTSA announcement in 2019, when it posted an image of the strange bent lump of layered metal from the Art's Parts samples saying: '"The structure & composition of these materials are not from any known existing military or commercial application," said [then] COO Steve Justice.”

“It was pointed out that the photograph used by TTSA to support its dramatic Twitter claims about these purported metamaterials was, in fact, a downloadable commercial stock image of a natural layered stone called malachite”

“Initially enthusiastic about To the Stars, Greenewald became increasingly skeptical when he was unable to verify many of Elizondo’s claims about the government’s UFO program through FOIA requests and conversations with Pentagon representatives.”

““Fox & Friends” neglected to mention this connection, along with the fact that the History Channel show was made by the company Elizondo and Mellon work for.”

“Knapp has been a vocal defender of Elizondo and DeLonge for the past two years, pushing back on critics who have raised thorny questions about To the Stars.”

“In an email to The Intercept, Knapp acknowledged buying 400 shares of the academy’s stock in 2018, “not as an investment, but as a way to support their fledgling company and their work.””

“He wrote that he had “made that information public” and “informed” his employer” at KLAS-TV in Las Vegas.”

“Knapp also said that he put the shares in a trust that “would be donated to a charity.” He believes that transaction has been completed and that he now owns “zero stock” in the company, he wrote.”

“at the time of writing, TTSA's future role in UAP disclosure activism looks uncertain, for, in late 2020, TTSA imploded.”

“Speculation had mounted for months that former Defence Department mandarin Christopher Mellon and key figures Luis Elizondo and Steve Justice were leaving TTSA.”

“it took Tom DeLonge several more months to formally admit to the Securities Exchange Commission not only their departure”

“but also, a week later, Dr Hal Puthoff's resignation as a director.”

“DeLonge announced he had 'recently taken steps to refocus [TTSA's] operations to scale back its initiatives in science and tech commercialization and to place a greater emphasis on the operations of its entertainment business.”

“As a result, Dr. Harold E. Puthoff, one of TTSA's board members, has transitioned from his role as a director to serve on the company's scientific advisory board'.”

“People who had invested on the promise of a major breakthrough in anti-gravitic propulsion would be sorely disappointed.”