Steve Justice is an aerospace engineer who spent thirty-one years at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works,12 most recently as Director of Advanced Systems Development, before joining Tom DeLonge’s advisory board.3 He became head of the aerospace division at To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA),4 leaving Lockheed Martin the month before the organisation’s October 2017 launch,5 and served as its Chief Operating Officer.6 At the launch event he described the division’s purpose as harvesting technologies and understanding from TTSA’s science division to build prototypes and production systems.7
Steve Justice said that at the 2017 launch TTSA was working on a revolutionary “Advanced Electromagnetic Vehicle” intended to dramatically reduce current travel limits of distance and time.8 He said the vehicle would mimic capabilities observed in unidentified aerial phenomena by employing a drive system that alters the space-time metric, a concept related to vacuum spacetime metric engineering.9 Luis Elizondo told Justice, then director of the aerospace division, that the organisation held multiple metamaterials samples from numerous sources, including government sources.10 In a 2019 tweet, TTSA posted an image of a bent lump of layered metal from the Art’s Parts (alleged Roswell metal samples) with a quote from Justice, then COO, that the structure and composition of the materials were not from any known existing military or commercial application.11 Justice said in that tweet that TTSA was focusing on verifiable facts and working to develop independent scientific proof of the materials’ properties and attributes.12 He said the expectations placed on him regarding the metamaterials work were huge, and that performance had to follow such high expectations.13
Justice left TTSA,14 and journalist Ross Coulthart has said it is possible his departure meant the Advanced Electromagnetic Vehicle project was shut down.15 Speculation mounted for months that Christopher K. Mellon, Elizondo, and Justice were leaving TTSA,16 and it took DeLonge several months to formally confirm to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the three had departed.17 Elizondo has said that Mellon, Harold E. Puthoff, and Justice moved on from TTSA after he did.18
Justice’s involvement with TTSA placed him alongside a group that included Elizondo, Mellon, DeLonge, and Jim Semivan, among others, at the organisation also known as To The Stars Academy (TTSA).1920 He has been described as part of the wider group working with Elizondo on UAP disclosure efforts.21
Justice has said he fears that an adversary has already discovered the technology behind observed UAP and that the United States is far behind.22 He has also said he believes there is no such thing as impossible, describing “impossible” as simply something one has not yet seen.23 He has recounted reading a 1976 US Air Force magazine article on the U-2 (1976) about flying the U-2 aircraft.24