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Post by swamprat on Oct 18, 2019 1:24:38 GMT
The Army and a UFO Group Are Investigating...Something
What's going on here?
By Kyle Mizokami
Oct 17, 2019
Ullstein Bild Dtl.Getty Images
• The U.S. Army has joined To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, a UFO research group, to investigate UFO technology.
• To The Stars is the same group that released the UFO videos that the Navy confirmed were real.
• We have questions. Lots of 'em.
The U.S. Army and a prominent UFO research group are teaming up to investigate mysterious technology, but won’t come out and say where the tech comes from.
To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, the organization led by former Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge, will work with the Army to “characterize” technology under the organization’s control, and then use the tech to improve military vehicles. We have a lot of questions about this bizarre partnership, starting with the most important: Where did the technology come from?
To The Stars, which released the infamous Navy-confirmed UFO videos, made the announcement today on its website, saying it has entered into a “Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command to advance TTSA’s materiel and technology innovations in order to develop enhanced capabilities for Army ground vehicles.”
CRADAs are a form of joint research agreement between an agency of the federal government and research organizations, particularly academia, in which the feds provide “laboratories ... personnel, facilities, equipment or other resources with or without reimbursement.”
According to multiple definitions of CRADAs on federal websites, the transfer of federal funding is prohibited.
TTSA describes its contribution to the agreement as “technology solutions” that include “material science, space-time metric engineering, quantum physics, beamed energy propulsion, and active camouflage.”
The Army will provide “laboratories, expertise, support, and resources to help characterize the technologies and its applications.”
“Our partnership with TTSA serves as an exciting, non-traditional source for novel materials and transformational technologies to enhance our military ground system capabilities,” said Dr. Joseph Cannon of Army Futures Command in the press release.
“At the Army's Ground Vehicle Systems Center, we look forward to this partnership and the potential technical innovations forthcoming.”
Where did TTSA’s impressive list of technology come from? The implicit answer is: UFOs, also known as Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).
UFO/UAP traditionally means anything we spot in the sky that's unusual. But here's the thing: Swamp gas and Venus sightings don't leave behind technology that's so advanced, it needs to be "characterized" by the federal government.
Whatever this technology is, and even To The Stars apparently isn't quite sure, it comes from what we commonly call flying saucers.
According to The New York Times, the Pentagon spent $22 million between 2008 and 2011 on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), an organization tasked with looking into UFOs. The program reportedly stored “metal alloys and other materials" that Luis Elizondo, then the director of the AATIP and now the director of global security and special programs at To The Stars, said had been "recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena."
In July, we reported that TTSA acquired “several pieces of metamaterials” sourced from “an advanced aerospace vehicle of unknown origin.” The organization claims it can track ownership of the materials all the way back to the mid-1990s. Exactly where the materials came from is anyone's guess.
Lights in the morning sky over Coast Guard Air Station Salem, Salem, Massachusetts, July 16, 1952. The lights, speculated to be UFOs, were photographed by US Coast Guardsman Shell R. Alpert and witnessed by fellow Coast Guardsman Thomas E. Flaherty. TIME LIFE PICTURES GETTY IMAGES
It’s hard to know what to make of all this. The Army obviously thinks there's something worth sticking its reputation out for, but there isn't any evidence available to the public to justify its association with a UFO research group.
Funding research into UFOs is one thing, and the U.S. government has done it multiple times over the past 70 years. Expecting actual technology samples from UFOs is another thing. Agreeing to do research and development work on them is something else entirely.
If—and it’s a big if—this technology could be ported over to the military, could it give U.S. troops an advantage on the battlefield? Yes, although at best, that advantage might be no better than giving a caveman’s spear a titanium shaft.
At worst, the technology could prove unreplicable by our modern standards. If you went back in time and gave Benjamin Franklin an iPhone, he would certainly find it fascinating, but be completely unable to duplicate it—and that’s with a time difference of just over 200 years. UFOs, if they are indeed from another world, could be thousands of years ahead of us.
Could To The Stars technology list benefit the Army? Theoretically, yes. “Material science” could lead to tougher, lighter materials able to better resist enemy fire. “Beamed energy propulsion,” which sounds like the use of microwaves or lasers to transfer energy, could enable drones to fly longer. “Active camouflage” sounds like a mimetic camouflage system such as that used by squid or even the Predator.
But does TTAS actually have this technology? Well, we’re just going to have to wait and see.
www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a29504031/army-ufo-mysterious-technology/?fbclid=IwAR2R9-8hMBLulUF83xK0CwiB_F-PZhDu3HJZumn5Tm3CkyzLb0cyhxqCcjE
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Post by swamprat on Oct 18, 2019 1:27:28 GMT
And here is the TTAS announcement regarding the CRADA agreement:
 To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science Announces CRADA with
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command
to Advance Materiel and Technology Innovations
To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) announced today a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command to advance TTSA’s materiel and technology innovations in order to develop enhanced capabilities for Army ground vehicles.
TTSA’s technology solutions, which leverage developments in material science, space-time metric engineering, quantum physics, beamed energy propulsion, and active camouflage, have the potential to enhance survivability and effectiveness of multiple Army systems. TTSA will share its discoveries with Ground Vehicle System Center (GVSC) and Ground Vehicle Survivability and Protection (GVSP) and the U.S. Army shall provide laboratories, expertise, support, and resources to help characterize the technologies and its applications.
“Our partnership with TTSA serves as an exciting, non-traditional source for novel materials and transformational technologies to enhance our military ground system capabilities,” said Dr. Joseph Cannon of U.S. Army Futures Command. “At the Army's Ground Vehicle Systems Center, we look forward to this partnership and the potential technical innovations forthcoming.”
Steve Justice, TTSA’s COO and Aerospace Division Director added that, “This cooperative research agreement brings additional, critically important expertise that is necessary to advance the state-of-the-art in both our near and long-term technology areas of study. While the Army has specific military performance interests in the research, much of the work is expected to have dual-use application in support of TTSA’s path to commercialization and public benefit mission.”
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Post by nyx on Oct 18, 2019 2:00:16 GMT
I guess there is no way to check if this is a real story?
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Post by thelmadonna on Oct 18, 2019 11:01:57 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Oct 18, 2019 18:41:48 GMT
"I guess there is no way to check if this is a real story?"
Nyx, I don't think Popular Mechanics would have published it had they not been able to confirm the agreement. They are, after all, a long established publishing company.
The second post was a mailer directly from TTSA at
To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science
315 S Coast Hwy 101
Suite U38
Encinitas, CA 92024
info@tothestarsacademy.com
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Post by nyx on Oct 19, 2019 19:36:35 GMT
The National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada has for a long time invited people to see their metal from a UFO.
This sample has been tested and it does show very strange properties.
This metal shows anti gravitational, strange atomic arrangement, no radar can detect it, transformers to other metal, and the museum clearly states it is from a Russian crashed UFO.
The museum metal can not be marched to any other metal.
Delonge has not said how he obtain his UFO metal, and I personally feel like this is a defect in this story.
Go to the museum in Las Vegas!
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Post by nyx on Oct 22, 2019 19:51:50 GMT
According to internet articles, this metal was first found in 1940 near San Mateo Mountain at White Sands Test Area.
Then Dr.Hal Puthoff studied this metal for years in Austin, Texas.
Then the metal was mysteriously given to Art Bell, who gave it to Linda Moulton Howe, and somehow sold to Delonge’s TTSA.
Now the army is spending $750,000 to have this metal tested again.
In Las Vegas The National Atomic Testing Museum has had UFO metal on display for years.
Something is not right with all of this.
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Post by drwu on Oct 22, 2019 20:56:35 GMT
I find it a bit hard to believe that the Army would care to collaborate with Delonge's group...call me skeptical.
Why bother.....they could simply do their own research. And indeed DARPA already exists and has for many years...never heard of CRADA,.
One wonders what the 'govt' is up to.
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Post by swamprat on Oct 23, 2019 17:28:58 GMT
DeVoid
New century, same insecurities
By Billy Cox Monday, Oct 21, 2019
Its shores unscarred by six years of global war, the United States sat at the height of its power – military, economic, moral – on Sept. 2, 1945, in sole command of the most terrifying weapons ever conceived. In ushering the defeated to the surrender table, Gen. Douglas MacArthur assured Earthlings the former antagonists were not convening “in a spirit of distrust, malice, or hatred,” but were instead aiming for a new beginning that ran against the very grain of human history.
“It is my earnest hope,” he stated on the deck of the USS Missouri, for the creation of “a world founded upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance, and justice.”
And yet, a nation that enjoyed a monopoly of unprecedented strategic superiority proved incapable of shaking that spirit of distrust. It refused to renounce the atomic bomb and created instead a pathologically opaque security infrastructure charged with keeping its secrets under wraps, unaware that the entire operation had been compromised long before the project first shuddered into the history books. Far from fulfilling an exhausted planet’s wishes for freedom, tolerance, and justice, America’s refusal to relinquish its extinction-grade bombs contributed heavily to their proliferation. In some instances, only dumb luck, an occasional accident of wisdom, or even the intuition of a single person in the right place prevented civilization from pulling the trigger.
Two years ago, small but grateful circles of cognoscenti bid farewell to the late Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, who in 1983 refused to report what appeared at first glance to be the launch of five U.S. Minuteman missiles headed for Russian airspace. Correctly suspecting a computer glitch, the Air Defence Command officer broke protocol and declined to relay the anomalous satellite reading up the chain. The chain was jittery, and bracing for retaliation for its shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over Soviet territory weeks earlier. The superpowers commanded an absurd 40,000 nuclear warheads between them. For shrugging off the false alarm and doing absolutely nothing, Petrov was awarded the Dresden Peace Prize and became the subject of an award-winning doc, “The Man Who Saved the World.” We took the threat more seriously back then.
Fast forward 74 years out of Tokyo Bay, to a world transformed in every way but the most fundamental. Among the noteworthy changes: the U.S. is finally, grudgingly, in small increments, acknowledging it must confront and fully explore a technology that, like atomic energy, has the potential to reshape human destiny. Only, this time around, it appears the technology in question is independently owned and operated, beyond the control of friends and foes alike. It flourishes at the edges of detectability, glimpsed and recorded but beyond our capacity to mount meaningful responses. Denial has not made it go away. Demands for resolve grow.
“The national security implications of getting to the bottom of these incidents,” wrote Mark von Rennenkampff this month in The Hill, “are beyond obvious.” The former Defense Department analyst for the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation wondered if the physics of UFOs that “move effortlessly through water, air and space at extraordinary speeds” could also be used to bail us out of this pathetic environmental mess we’ve created. But what would be the consequences for the first to monopolize this energy? What would be the consequences for everyone else?
“Given the anti-democratic and authoritarian inclinations of some major world powers,” asserted von Rennenkampff, “it is imperative that such capabilities fall into the ‘right,’ (i.e.,democratic) hands.”
Just whose hands are right at this moment becomes less certain with each passing day; presumably, von Rennenkampff, an Obama appointee, was appealing to Capitol Hill. But not everyone is waiting for that deeply distracted and cartoonishly polarized puppet show to come around.
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division has quietly been filing patents for engineering designs that appear to mirror UFO capabilities. But To The Stars Academy, the private concern that singlehandedly reinvigorated the UFO debate in the NY Times nearly two years ago, isn’t bothering to tip-toe through the back door. On Thursday, TTSA announced it had hooked up with the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command and its Ground Vehicle System Center, and the result is a mouthful of acronyms that ends with a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement.
According to TTSA, its CRADA with CCDCGVSC will involve exchanges only of information, not cash. This information pertains to “technology solutions, which leverage developments in material science, space-time metric engineering, quantum physics, beamed energy propulsion, and active camouflage” aimed at enhancing the “survivability and effectiveness of multiple Army systems.” The CRADA also makes note of “advancements in metamaterials” that have been “designed, acquired and produced” by TTSA. And an Army project manager is evidently stoked, calling the joint effort “an exciting, non-traditional source for novel materials and transformational technologies to enhance our military ground system capabilities.”
Quick cut to Sabir Hussain. Hussain is the director of the Indian Society for UFOs (INSUFOS) and author of Accidental Apocalypse: UFOs and National Security. He knows the issues. If only he knew when to throttle back.
Last month, Hussain attributed the loss of India’s water-hunting Chandrayaan-2 lunar lander to UFOs. Extraterrestrials, he claimed, “have sent a message to the Indian government to ‘get rid of your nukes before you explore other worlds.” He submitted no evidence to support the assertion, and he insinuated the U.S. hasn’t returned to the moon since Apollo because it got the same message. And that had to make Luis Elizondo and Hal Puthoff, TTSA members who’ve worked diligently to avoid extravagant claims about The Great Taboo, cringe at least a little.
There is no more volatile border in the world than the 2,000 miles shared by India and Pakistan. They’ve been willing to duke it out three of four times since 1947, depending on who’s counting, and both have hundreds of nukes aimed at each other. Neither country has signed international non-proliferation treaties. And with climate-triggered population migrations already underway in portions of the Third World, the space both nations are paranoid about losing isn’t likely to become Switzerland anytime soon.
In 2016, Hussain petitioned India’s Supreme Court to authorize a study of The Great Taboo. Citing numerous instances of significant UFO interactions with nuclear weapons and platforms, he advocated for an educated security apparatus, so that early-warning sentinels might not be so quick to freak if some erratically-behaving over-the-horizon anomaly sent trigger fingers twitching.
In April, Army counterintelligence veteran Elizondo, now the principal investigator for the TTSA-CCDCGVSC CRADA, and physicist Puthoff, in his role as CEO of Pentagon contractor Earth Tech International, followed up on Hussain’s appeal. Each wrote separate letters to India’s highest legal body.
“We ignore the facts at our own peril,” stated Elizondo, urging the world’s largest democracy “to take necessary precautions to avoid an accidental India-Pakistan war due to misunderstood UAP activities.” Added Puthoff: “As someone who has spent more than 20 years studying the UAP/UFO phenomenon, I would humbly advise the Hon’ble Court to give due considerations to the petition of Mr. Sabir Hussain.”
A reasonable proposal. Then came last month’s Chandrayaan-2 failure, and Hussain’s charge that India’s lunar probes weren’t the only things ET wasn’t cool with: “Both India and Pakistan have been openly threatening each other with nuclear attacks. But what the leadership of both nations don’t realise is that they can use their nuclear weapons only if the UFOs decide to allow them.”
Guess that means the UFOs agreed with Uncle Sam that Japan had it coming to them. Twice.
Hussain’s unforced error tosses chunks of fresh red meat to debunkers whose leverage in this debate is slipping away, but it will likely be a brief distraction. As events unfold and military opportunities emerge, we are approaching a crossroads again, which begs familiar questions:
Do we continue to go it alone in pursuit of this technology, shouldering an unshared financial burden which may incur sacrifices that can’t yet be approximated? Do we hoard our discoveries in hopes that, by time adversaries catch up, we will have also developed countermeasures? If we get there first, should we exploit that advantage and use it to dominate our rivals, once and for all? Some corners said we blew it when we stayed our hand with The Bomb – were they right?
Last question: What would it take to get Pakistan and India to agree to collaborate on avoiding an existential accident, however theoretical or remote that scenario? It’s an important idea. Having a few more Stanislav Petrovs watching the monitors, trained observers familiar with UFO behaviors, would be a modest first step.
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/author/cox/
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Post by swamprat on Oct 23, 2019 20:31:30 GMT
Has Dr. Colm Kelleher Exited TTSA?
by Dale Longmore
October 23, 2019
Longtime Bigelow associate, NIDS member, BAASS member, co-author of Hunt for the Skinwalker and TTSA advisory board member, Dr. Colm Kelleher may no longer be associated with TTSA. At least, his photo and biography have been taken off the website.
Photo on the TTSA website from October 9th, 2019, which has now been taken down.
Dr. Kelleher was a member of Robert Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science. When he was with NIDS he studied Skinwalker Ranch, among other things, and went on to co-author Hunt for the Skinwalker with George Knapp. Dr. Kelleher was the Deputy Administrator for Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) under the DIA’s AAWSAP program from 2008-2012. Since the AAWSAP funding was cut, ending BAASS, he has continued to work with Bigelow Aerospace. While his recent interviews are rare (it’s hard to recall a time when Colm went on the record speaking about TTSA) he spoke to George Knapp and KLAS last August in relation to Bigelow Aerospace endeavors.
Dr. Kelleher likely has his hands full with Bigelow Aerospace, which may have played a factor in his alleged exit. If Colm has in fact left TTSA, the full set of reasons will not be known unless public statements are released.
Dr. Kelleher potentially joins another advisor who left TTSA last year, Dr. Garry P. Nolan who exited in 2018. Dr. Nolan, who at the time cited conflicts of interest with his academic work among other reasons, submitted an updated statement to SilvaRecord.com, speaking of his departure, written on 10-23-2019:
“As I previously stated I continue to support the general scientific goals of TTSA, and I am thrilled with the steps they have taken advancing inquiries into this complex arena. As many have already noted, there is a sea change that has lent a strong sense of legitimacy to the subject area. This will provide support for “mainstream” academic scientists who perhaps are on the periphery to openly discuss matters that were heretofore considered off limits.”
Restructuring has been on TTSA’s agenda for a while, at least since Tom DeLonge has been listed as Interim CEO. Rumors of DeLonge leaving the academy all together circulated recently. Those rumors were quickly dismissed by Alejandro Rojas. DeLonge then went on to comment directly about the rumors:
silvarecord.com/2019/10/23/has-dr-colm-kelleher-exited-ttsa/?fbclid=IwAR0wxcWRX6oY3YLQi-6F8pAnbZwKYIvqq_GvsRySSabYE1-lW-U2HJWNyrM
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Post by swamprat on Oct 27, 2019 0:03:46 GMT
Here is an article from an Army publication which gives their take on the agreement with TTSA:Army partners with former Blink-182 founder’s UFO research company to study alien technology
By: J.D. Simkins | October 25, 2019
Tom Delonge's To the Stars Academy announced a partnership with the Army to research advanced alien technology. (Katy Winn/AP)
Much like the universe, the military’s affiliation with alien-related subject matter appears to be ever-expanding.
In 2017, the Pentagon confirmed the existence of a program that existed from 2007 to 2012, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, that was dedicated solely to investigating reports of UFO sightings.
The Navy then verified the authenticity of a declassified 2015 video, released by former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy, featuring a bizarre encounter between Navy pilots and a high-speed, low-altitude unidentified flying object.
This April, the Navy confirmed it was drafting a fleet-wide message to establish guidelines for pilots and other military personnel to report UFO sightings, the culmination of a surge in what the Navy called a series of intrusions by advanced aircraft on Navy carrier strike groups.
Now, the Army has joined the extraterrestrial fray in a big way, inking a contract with DeLonge’s TTSA to collaborate in the study of “exotic” metals that both parties hope will lead to the development of advanced technologies.
As part of the agreement, the Army’s Ground Vehicle System Center and Ground Vehicle Survivability and Protection component will lend research resources, including laboratories, to TTSA, which in turn will leverage what the company asserts are alien metals capable of enhancing the effectiveness of Army vehicles.
To the Stars claims to have “acquired, designed, or produced” these materials, which can offer an array of futuristic modifications like active camouflage, beamed energy propulsion, inertial mass reduction, and quantum communication.
Details on how or where DeLonge’s company acquired these materials were not provided.
“TTSA has acquired material from various sources and does not comment on the specifics of each sample,” Kari DeLonge, TTSA chief content officer and Tom’s sister, told Vice’s Motherboard.
The Army will make a $750,000 commitment to TTSA research as part of the five-year collaboration.
“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. Joseph Cannon, deputy product manager of science and technology in the Vehicle Protection Systems Division of the GVSC, said in a TTSA press release announcing the contract.
"We look forward to this partnership and the potential technical innovations forthcoming.”
The Army’s contractual agreement comes in the wake of insistence by a number of former defense officials that the Pentagon take a more aggressive approach to analyzing data surrounding UFO encounters.
Former military intelligence official Luis Elizondo, who now works for DeLonge’s TTSA after reportedly spearheading the AATIP, told Politico in April that the military’s determination to keep such encounters quiet could be detrimental.
“If you are in a busy airport and see something you are supposed to say something,” he said.
“With our own military members it is kind of the opposite: ‘If you do see something, don’t say something. ... What happens in five years if it turns out these are extremely advanced Russian aircraft?”
Recent measures taken by the Army and Navy would suggest, at least on the surface, an acknowledgement of the concerns of those like Elizondo, who told Motherboard in September that he was "heartened by the Navy’s new position to address this issue in a serious manner and without the distraction of the social stigma that this phenomena seems to attract.”
And while these Pentagon-led endeavors come sans admission of the existence of alien life, new developments continue to signal a return to DoD acknowledgement that recently documented encounters at least warrant further investigation.
To the Stars officials are happy to accommodate the effort.
“This cooperative research agreement brings additional, critically important expertise that is necessary to advance the state-of-the-art in both our near and long-term technology areas of study," Steve Justice, TTSA’s COO and Aerospace Division director said in the release.
"While the Army has specific military performance interests in the research, much of the work is expected to have dual-use application in support of TTSA’s path to commercialization and public benefit mission.”
DeLonge’s team at TTSA is spearheaded by a number of noteworthy officials who have spent significant time in the DoD.
Dr. Hal Puthoff, a NASA quantum physicist and DoD adviser, Jim Semivan, a former senior intelligence member of the CIA, and Chris Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in both the Clinton and Bush administrations who was instrumental in creating Special Operations Command, all occupy leadership positions within TTSA.
DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy team was recently the subject of six-part documentary series on the History Channel called “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation™."
J.D. Simkins is a writer and editor for Military Times who was a Marine scout observer from 2004-2008.
www.armytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2019/10/25/army-partners-with-former-blink-182-founders-ufo-research-company-to-study-alien-technology/
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Post by swamprat on Oct 28, 2019 14:07:57 GMT
It is amazing how much attention this contract is getting. I guess the mainstream is actually getting interested. Here is a LiveScience article.....Rock Star's Company Seeks UFOs, Finds Military Contract
By Mindy Weisberger - Senior Writer | 27 October | Strange News
The arrangement with the U.S. Army will fund new technologies that could have military applications.
When not seeking UFOs, To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science will be partnering with the U.S. Army on projects involving energy propulsion, quantum physics and space-time engineering. (Image: © Shutterstock)
A private company that researches UFOs has a new contract with the U.S. government, for developing technologies that could enhance ground vehicles in the military.
To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA) was launched in 2017 by former Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge; in December of that year, TTSA became the first company to share videos that showed U.S. Navy pilots interacting with UFOs. It was able to obtain the footage "by leveraging its team's access" to the material, according to the company website. (The videos may not have been officially cleared for public viewing, Live Science reported in September.)
Other divisions at TTSA focus on new technology. On Oct. 17, TTSA representatives announced that the group had entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, according to a statement.
The five-year contract outlines a research collaboration, and the U.S. Army will provide at least $750,000 in support and resources for developing and testing TTSA technologies, Motherboard reported on Oct. 21.
Those technologies could include "inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion," according to the contract.
Alongside TTSA's technology production and theoretical research is an entertainment division that is "at the forefront of socializing the UFO conversation," the company says. TTSA maintains a film archive of UFO sightings, and key TTSA personnel — several of whom previously held U.S. government positions — were featured in the documentary series "Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation," which aired on the History Channel in May.
A U.S. Army representative hailed the new partnership in a statement as "an exciting, non-traditional source for novel materials and transformational technologies."
While the U.S. Army's interest in the project stems from its potential applications toward enhanced military performance, TTSA has other plans for the results of the collaboration, and expects to apply their findings toward "commercialization and public benefit," Steve Justice, TTSA's chief operations officer and Aerospace Division Director, said in the statement.
Whether that includes UFO-related applications, however, remains to be seen.
www.livescience.com/ufo-hunting-contract-us-army.html
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Post by swamprat on Nov 5, 2019 2:33:34 GMT
The Army Told Us Why It Partnered With Tom DeLonge's UFO Group
The Army is looking for "military utility" in mysterious metals obtained by DeLonge's To the Stars Academy.
By MJ Banias | Nov 4 2019
The US Army has explained more about why it partnered with former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge’s UFO research organization to study exotic materials. The Army described it as a “low risk” partnership that is of “significant interest” to the military.
Last month, DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy joined forces with the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command, a research and development body. According to the contract, the government is interested in studying some pretty exotic science such as active camouflage, inertial mass reduction, and quantum communication. Even stranger, it turns out that the US government approached To the Stars for this deal.
In particular, the government is interested in the group’s ADAM Project, which Doug Halleaux, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center described as “a global dragnet for the collection and evaluation of novel materials.” Last year, TTSA put out a call for individuals and organizations to submit materials from alleged exotic sources as part of the project.
“If materials represented in the TTSA ADAM project are scientifically evaluated and presented with supporting data as having military utility by the TTSA, it makes sense to look deeper here,” Halleaux said, adding that it’s also interested in a cooperative project between TTSA and a company called TruClear Global.
In August of 2019, To the Stars signed a “cooperative marketing agreement” with TruClear Global to “cooperate on joint development projects as well as to provide advanced technology solutions to United States Government clientele.” TruClear essentially creates custom video screens that can be put on the side of buildings for marketing and events purposes.
To the Stars has generally made news for its UFO research, but this partnership with the U.S. Army may mean that it fancies itself as a military contractor.
“None of us at TTSA consider ourselves ‘Ufologists’ or part of the ‘Ufology culture,’ in fact, most of us come from a U.S. Government background (both Defense and Intelligence) and consider it our patriotic duty to work alongside our friends in Government should they see an advantage to improving our national security and protecting our people,” Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon staffer and TTSA’s Director of Global Security and Special Programs, said in an interview.
While members of TTSA have spoken at UFO conferences and the recent Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena Conference, and DeLonge has co-authored two non-fiction books on extraterrestrial visitation and the UFO phenomenon, there seems to be a sort of ideological polarization within the organization which swings between being contenders for military contracts and a UFO research organization.
Now armed with a five year deal, TTSA and the government will work together on research and development for future military technology. Halleaux explained that the government believes the “key technologies or capabilities that [the Army] is investigating with TTSA are certainly on the leading edge of the realm of the possible” and comes at a low cost for the government.
To the Stars seems to be banking on the idea that the ‘exotic’ materials in their possession and outside-the-box science will lead to the development of some actual technology.
“If all goes as planned, the next year will lead to additional opportunities to cooperate with the government and conduct a more detailed analysis and product development,” Elizondo said.
The government has had a decades long sordid history with the UFO narrative, and UFO mogul Tom DeLonge’s latest deal with the US Army is definitely raising a few eyebrows. This agreement, as well as the recent announcements by the Navy that they will make it easier for personnel to report UFO sightings and the Navy’s confirmation that objects seen in recently released videos are unknown aerial phenomena, have become a hot topic of debate among UFO researchers. Some believe that something nefarious is afoot as branches of the military begin a contemporary campaign to become more friendly with the UFO topic.
Others remain optimistic. Author and popular UFO historian Richard Dolan told Motherboard that it is irresponsible to “throw cold water” on this before any results come in.
“True skepticism doesn’t equate into reflexive debunking, but an honest inquiry into the data,” Dolan stated. “What is obvious is that this announcement would have been considered astonishing as little as two years ago. The fact that the U.S. military is interested in this should cause us to become more attentive to what exactly is going on. Therefore, I'd say ‘close attention’ rather than caution is the order of the day.”
Halleaux could not comment on the specifics regarding the types of research and technology the Army is after in this deal, but he did express that camouflaging and keeping ground vehicles and personnel safe are always “a priority.”
“The USG sees an opportunity to improve the survivability of our brave men and women in uniform, and perhaps improve the chances of them returning home safely back to their loved ones,” stated Elizondo. “It seems to me to be an obvious and worthwhile pursuit.”
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Post by swamprat on Nov 10, 2019 17:21:23 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Nov 14, 2019 3:48:51 GMT
Potential Sources of Information Regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
November 12, 2019
In May 2019, a spokesman for the US Navy stated: "There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years…" While this historic admission is concerning, the US Navy’s public recognition of the problem is an excellent first step towards mobilizing the military and the Intelligence Community to find answers regarding the identify of these vehicles and determine whether they pose a threat to the United States.
Because this phenomenon has only recently been acknowledged, little if any effort has been made to use “national technical means” for purposes of identifying or tracking these objects. This is unfortunate since there are massive stores of intelligence data already collected by US intelligence systems that can be accessed and correlated with events such as the interaction of the USS Nimitz Carrier Battle Group with multiple UAPs in November 2004; or the ongoing events in restricted military airspace off the East Coast of the United States.
Regrettably, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Program (AATIP) was unable to obtain the cooperation required to access the systems and databases identified below due to bureaucratic intransigence. Therefore, to the best of my knowledge, these systems and databases represent potentially critical, unexamined sources of official information regarding the UAP phenomenon. Among other things, these vast repositories of data could yield crucial information on UAPs including: speed, acceleration, maneuverability, size, atmospheric effects, shape and possibly even their bases of origin.
Hopefully, the US officials charged with investigating the UAP phenomenon will receive the support needed to access and analyze data from these and other sources. Since billions have already been spent collecting the information, it seems wasteful and inappropriate not to allocate whatever modest sums may be required to help to resolve vital questions regarding the origin and capabilities of the unidentified vehicles that continue to violate US airspace with impunity.
A. Collection Systems
• The Global Infrasound Acoustic Monitoring Network
This system is comprised of 60 stations operating in 35 countries that monitor low-frequency pressure waves in the atmosphere. Although built for the purpose of detecting nuclear explosions in support of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, it reportedly also has the ability to detect and track bolides and other objects transiting the atmosphere. For example, US researchers have recently established that this system can monitor missile launches. There have long been rumors suggesting that environmental scientists participating in CIA’s experimental MEDEA program (an effort to determine if US intelligence systems could further the scientific understanding of climate change) detected anomalous objects entering earth’s atmosphere then maneuvering at high speeds. While this may be mere rumor, contact with the appropriate officials at LLNL who operate this system may help DoD determine whether this unique capability can contribute to the US government’s understanding of the UAP phenomenon.
• The U.S. Space Surveillance Network consists of at least 29 distinct world-wide space surveillance systems, including the world’s most powerful radars, among them site C-6 at Eglin Air Force base, which can reportedly detect a basketball- sized object 22,000 miles away. Other components of this integrated system include the DARPA Space Surveillance Telescope (SST), capable of rapidly scanning large regions of space and monitoring distant and fast-moving objects such as asteroids. The SST holds the world record for distinct observations in a single year, logging 6.97 million observations in 2015. Other notable systems on the network, some of which are known to have acquired UAP data, include the ground-based optical GEODSS space surveillance system (which detects “uncorrelated targets”); the space-based Geosynchronous Space-Based Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP); and the Navy’s stunning sea-based X-band radar system. The Combined Space Operations Center (formerly the Joint Space Operations Center) at Vandenburg AFB, and the Space Control Center at Cheyenne Mountain, are both repositories of data from the US Space Surveillance Network that have the potential to provide fresh insights into the UAP phenomenon.
• The Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) is a network of satellites in low-earth, highly-elliptical and geosynchronous orbits that together provide nearly continuous global coverage of infrared (heat) sources. Originally designed many decades ago to detect missile launches from the former Soviet Union and China, this highly sophisticated system continues to evolve and improve. Not only are the satellites improving in terms of reliability and resolution, but new algorithms and other techniques are improving the sophistication and ground-based exploitation of SBIR’s data. The USAF currently operates an “Overhead Persistent Infrared Battlespace Awareness Center” at Buckley AFB as well as a new “Data Utilization Lab.” Although UAPs generally seem to lack exhaust plumes or strong heat signatures, there are numerous reports in the open source literature claiming that the SBIRs system has recorded unidentified objects that entered earth's atmosphere but, unlike meteors, then maneuvered or changed direction. Regardless of the veracity of such reports, algorithmic searches of vast SBIR’s databases could provide new insights into the UAP phenomenon. To cite a simple example, no effort has been made to date even to see if there are correlations between launches at Chinese or Russian military facilities, or from Russian or Chinese ships, and the subsequent appearance of UAPs over US shores.
Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA radars) In addition to the Navy’s Aegis radar systems, all military platforms outfitted with AESA radars are potentially valuable sources of information because they too, much like the Aegis system, are able to track low radar-cross section UAPS over large areas. The Navy’s new policy guidance concerning UAP encounters will cause more pilots of AESA equipped aircraft to pursue these vehicles in an effort to acquire and submit useful information. Retroactive analysis of AESA data is also feasible, although we don’t know how long this information is stored or how well it is indexed. Regardless, kudos to the U.S. Navy for issuing new guidance that will generate more reports to include more AESA radar tracking information.
• Aegis We know from the Nimitz incident that the Navy’s Aegis radar systems are capable of tracking low radar cross-section UAPs that operate at extreme altitudes and velocities. Clearly, the power and precision of the Aegis system, now widely deployed in the fleet, makes it a potentially valuable source of information. For example, a review of the data from Aegis-equipped ships deployed off the East Coast during periods of frequent contact with UAPs could add important pieces to the analytical puzzle that needs to be assembled. Deploying Aegis-equipped ships to "hot spots" off the East could prove highly valuable.
However, some former USS Princeton crew members have openly stated that the Aegis radar data collected during the incidents in November 2004 was soon removed from the ship by individuals who arrived aboard the Princeton by helicopter shortly after the "Tic Tac" encounters occurred. That critical radar data still appears to be missing. Moreover, the deck logs of the USS Princeton for November 2004 are also strangely and inexplicably missing from the National Archives, raising the extraordinary possibility that some secretive USG component is working to conceal UAP incidents and information. The DoD and/or Intelligence oversight committees on Capitol Hill should seek an explanation for these strange occurrences, something easy for them to do. If there is an effort to suppress or conceal UAP data, then we have a situation in which, at a minimum, two USG entities are working at cross-purposes. Whether this is really occurring, and if so on whose authority, are issues that will need to be promptly resolved if DoD is to make serious progress in understanding the UAP phenomenon.
• The FAA’s long-range radar systems are tied into NORAD through the Joint Surveillance System. NORAD is privy to all of the data from the FAA sites and maintains that data for at least 10 years if not longer. This information was available from the 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron at Hill AFB in Utah until 2014. At that time the radar data storage and analysis activity was transferred to Langley AFB and the data was no longer available to the public. However that should pose no problem for USG officials.
B. Databases
1. NORAD maintains a database called the “Unknown Track Reporting Database” and/or “Unknown Track Reporting System” that is clearly pertinent to assessing the UAP phenomenon. To better understand the reporting process and the data it produces it is worth quoting from a NORAD reply to questions posed by the House Government Reform Committee in the wake of the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001:
“Unknowns that cannot be identified are classified as “NORAD Remaining Unknown.” Unknown track reports are forwarded to the NORAD-USNORTHCOM Center for Aerospace Analysis, and new information that is discovered during these reviews is forwarded to CMOC and the Center for Aerospace Analysis.”
Note: There is reason to believe that names of the organizations above may have changed due to reorganization, but the functions are still performed.
According to additional Congressional testimony provided by NORAD, Unknown Track data is collated at a regional or sector level and also at a consolidated (i.e. NORAD HQ) level. The NORAD reporting contains detailed information on the behavior of “Unknown Tracks” and “NORAD Remaining Unknowns” including: date and time; detection sites involved; and whether combat aircraft were scrambled to engage detected targets. We know from the data provided by NORAD to Congress that even after a very thorough vetting of each unknown track there were still 1,966 unknown tracks from January of 1992 through October 2003. Notably, most NORAD air defense radars are not of the quality of Aegis or AESA system radars and are therefore unlikely to detect low radar cross-section vehicles such as the now famous “Tic Tac” vehicles encountered by the Nimitz battle group. In the Nimitz case the Navy’s conventional airborne E2-C Hawkeye air defense radar struggled to detect the Tic Tacs even at relatively close range and only managed sporadic radar contact. To be fair, it is also important to note that there are millions of flights tracked by NORAD every year, so the percentage of unknown tracks is very small, on the order of one-half of one percent. Reports prepared by NORAD’s Center for Aerospace Analysis are not routinely published or distributed within the US government but reportedly are available upon request.
2. Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) who staff the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) airspace management sites (airports, alert centers, etc.) operate under a series of FAA Orders. These orders establish doctrine and the "Area Airspace Management System (AAMS)". On occasion, air traffic controllers at FAA sites coordinate with the USAF and NORAD when combat jets are scrambled to visually identify unknown objects causing NORAD alerts and “Unknown Tracks.” The FAA designates these object-generated radar hits as “Tracks of Interest”. The Aeronautical Data Team is responsible for the collection, validation and quality control of aeronautical information disseminated in support of National Airspace System (NAS) operations. Information provided includes a physical description; geographical position; and operational characteristics and status of all components of the NAS.
3. OPREP-3 Reports are an additional source of information distinct from NORAD aerospace defense reporting. This system is used by all branches of the military to report “urgent” and “ongoing” events to higher echelons. In the case of the USAF, OPREP-3 reports are sent to the Air Force Service Watch Cell (AFSWC) and the National Military Command Center (MNCC) among others. Two categories of OPREP-3 reports seem most likely to be pertinent to the UAP phenomenon, category 9B “Unauthorized Air Vehicle / Military Installation Airspace Violation/Intrusion” and 9F, “Vital Intelligence Sightings/ Intelligence Reports.”
There have been numerous instances over the years of UAP intrusions over military facilities, some which I can personally attest to or am aware of with one degree of separation. For example, in March of 1984, a close friend who was training to become a naval aviator called me excitedly from Pensacola NAS to relate an event involving a UAP flying circles around a USN aircraft in broad daylight over the base. Numerous incidents involving UAPs and military facilities have been reported by retired military personnel and validated via the FOIA process. These reports include verified UAP overflights of nuclear weapons and nuclear storage facilities. Consequently, a review of these cases might help shed important new light on the question of reported UAP interest in the US strategic triad and nuclear chain of command (Note: I have not listed undersea monitoring capabilities due to classification issues although they are obviously highly pertinent to this question).
Other Potential Opportunities
Allies: The UAP phenomenon off the East Coast of the US in recent years is unprecedented in terms of the number and appearance of the vehicles involved as well as their persistence in a specific geographic region. It suggests not only a new level of brazenness or contempt for US defense and intelligence capabilities, but also the possibility that operations have advanced to a new stage towards some as yet unknown objective. This brazenness, combined with the fact that these vehicles are being encountered in the CENTCOM AOR, adds further reason to query allied nations, especially those with similarly capable radar and sensor systems to determine the global scope and scale of this activity. Moreover, if we were able to determine, either unilaterally or through consultation, whether Russia or China are experiencing this uncanny phenomenon as well, it would go a long way toward winnowing the already narrow range of possibilities regarding their origin. DIA should be able to assist with this issue.
ELINT/COMINT: To the best of my knowledge there has been little if any fruitful collection in these domains against the UAP objects themselves, a fact which is not surprising. Whoever is designing and operating these craft has wildly surpassed the US in aerospace technology and their communications technologies are likely to be equally radical, unfamiliar and more highly evolved. I use the term “evolved” deliberately, because if Darwinian principles are as universal as gravity, and the intelligence designing these craft is the product of a far longer and more rigorous evolutionary history, then by necessity they would most likely have had to place a premium on concealment in order to survive. Much as Dr. Hal Putoff’s patented “quantum” communications signals cannot be detected by conventional EM systems, whatever technology they are using is likely to be impervious to our detection and intercept capabilities. This is also one likely reason that to date the SETI project has not borne fruit. A chilling corollary to this logic is that at this point in this universe’s evolution, civilizations that broadcast in the clear do not last long. Hence perhaps the long silence for SETI.
The one minor exception regarding UAP ELINT collection that might be exploited are those instances when the objects emit signals intended to interfere with or manipulate US electronic gear. For example, the Super Hornet that took the now famous FLIR video of the Tic Tac object in 2004 reportedly was jammed when it attempted to get a “lock” on the target. US aircraft therefore may be able to provoke emissions from these vehicles, although the value of collecting such transmissions is unclear.
Setting aside COMINT/ELINT against the UAPs themselves, the SIGINT system should be tasked for any information that would shed light on UAP production or detection by potential US adversaries.
HUMINT: There are conflicting accounts of the degree to which pertinent information is available but clearly worth pursuing.
Conclusion
Aggressive tactical collection to obtain better optical, MASINT and other intelligence is necessary, but older data that can provide a time-series perspective may help answer vital questions such as:
• Are different kinds or types of vehicles associated with different locations, time-frames or types of targets? If so, are we possibly dealing with multiple, potentially even competing actors?
• Is there a pattern that suggests an ongoing effort to monitor the US strategic triad or nuclear command and control?
• Is there a pattern that suggests an effort to monitor US weapons development and deployment?
• Is there a correlation between advances in US technology and the presence of UAPs?
This UAP issue is already uniquely challenging. It lacks recognition or understanding; it lacks acceptance; there is a serious stigma to overcome; and even more difficult is the deceptively serious challenge of helping government officials and the public process such incongruous, disorienting, disruptive and potentially disturbing information. Finally, if these are vehicles created by another species there is the wholly unprecedented challenge of seeking to study an intelligence greater than our own that apparently does not wish to communicate or be understood.
To even stand a chance of success in this scenario it seems trite to suggest that we need to draw on all pertinent information available and apply the best and brightest analytical minds available.
~Christopher Mellon
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