To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science

“News Release, 'To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences Launches Today', Cision PR Newswire, 11 October 2017.”

“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 undeniably impressive line-up of former spooks and defence insiders included Jim Semivan, one of the two co-founders of TTSA. Semivan was only recently retired from the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations after 25 years as an operations officer working inside the US and internationally.”

“There was also the third co-founder of TTSA, Dr Hal Puthoff, a theoretical physicist who had led the previous controversial CIA and Defence Department research into 'psychic spies' or remote viewing.”

“Another team member on stage, heading TTSA's aerospace division, was Steve Justice, who just a month earlier had finished as director of advanced systems at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.”

“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.”

“They are speaking publicly about their efforts as their venture aims to raise money for research into U.F.O.s.”

“Luis Elizondo who was to join TTSA, revealed he had resigned from the Department of Defence just weeks before in protest at the excessive secrecy and internal opposition about the UAP issue inside the government.”

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

“DeLonge, a musician of Blink-182 fame and longtime UFO enthusiast, is the co-founder and interim CEO of To the Stars”

“Mellon, like Elizondo, works for To the Stars (his title, according to the company's website, is national security affairs adviser).”

“His organization would be a 'public benefit' corporation, structured exactly as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Investors would pony up money to fund the entertainment/publishing piece, which, if successful, would fund the research component.”

“Chris Mellon, Hal, and Semivan urged me to consider a different path... 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”

“'We think we have a 60 per cent chance within 36 months or so we will be able to demonstrate something pretty kickass. Within eight years we will be able to demonstrate something. One big name aerospace company is offering its material sciences division,' DeLonge claimed.”

“At TTSA's October 2017 launch, Steve Justice, the then Skunk Works Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems, stated that TTSA was working on a revolutionary Advanced Electromagnetic Vehicle that could 'dramatically reduce the current travel limits of distance and time. It mimics the capabilities observed in Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon by employing a drive system that alters the space-time metric'.”

“'Better yet the US government itself can verify the events involving the USS Nimitz on November 14th, 2004.'”

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

“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"”

“One of those videos was the 76-second so-called FLIR1 video, depicting the Tic Tac, the egg- or oblong-shaped UAP filmed by the USS Nimitz pilot in 2004. That FLIR1/Tic Tac film was posted on the TTSA site along with another undated 34-second video known as the 'Gimbal'.”

“worked with Leslie Keane, Ralph Blumenthal and Helene Cooper to publish the articles in the NYT in Dec 2017 admitting the USG was looking at UAPs and removed the Stigma of the UFO topic”

“Three months later, in March 2018, TTSA posted another Defence Department video on its website, which it dubbed the Go-Fast video. It also lacked any details on when or where it was shot, or who shot it, other than that it was captured by a US Navy FA-18 fighter using the jet's advanced targeting forward-looking infrared (ATFLIR) pod.”

“TTSA, 'TTSA Announces CRADA with The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command to Advance Materiel and Technology Innovations', 17 October 2019.”

“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.”

“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”

“it had acquired multiple pieces of metamaterials that 'are reported to have come from an advanced aerospace vehicle of unknown origin. We're enthusiastic about its potential use and how it can further our mission for discovery and innovation'”

“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”

“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... 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.'”

“Just a few days before Christmas, I got a call from Tom, who was friendly but blunt. Our business relationship was over. Despite all our successes, the business had not brought in the money he expected or needed.”

“Chris, Hal, and Steve Justice also soon moved on from TTSA.”