DeLonge's research groups (2016)
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| Date | 31 August 2016 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic) |
| People | Tom DeLonge, John Podesta, Luis Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Harold Puthoff, Jim Semivan |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 186 |
| Year | 2016 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2016 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
Tom DeLonge said in 2016 that he had become involved with groups studying recovered craft and related science, and that senior advisers were helping shape his Sekret Machines books and films to prepare the public.[1][2]
Sekret Machines
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The project's first novel, Chasing Shadows, co-written with A.J. Hartley, appeared in 2016, and a non-fiction volume, Gods, with Peter Levenda followed in 2017. DeLonge said he had used his celebrity to reach military and industrial figures who informed the work.[1][2]
To The Stars Academy
In 2017 DeLonge turned his entertainment company into To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, adding aerospace and science divisions. It was co-founded with physicist Hal Puthoff and former CIA officer Jim Semivan, and early associates included former Pentagon official Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo, former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. In a later TTSA-era video he spoke of different active U.S. UFO programs.[2][3][4]
Outcome
TTSA's release of three Navy UFO videos in December 2017, alongside The New York Times report on the Pentagon program, began the modern wave of official interest in UAP. A 2018 SEC filing showed the company had a large accumulated deficit, and in 2019 it produced the History Channel series Unidentified.[2][3]
People and topics
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- Tom DeLonge — Musician who founded To The Stars Academy.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- John Podesta — Clinton campaign chairman with a long interest in UFO disclosure.
- To The Stars Academy — The company founded by Tom DeLonge in 2017 that released the Navy UAP videos.
- Luis Elizondo — Former Army counterintelligence officer who says he ran AATIP.
- Christopher Mellon — Former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who helped release the Navy UAP videos.
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Jim Semivan — Former CIA officer who co-founded To The Stars Academy.
- U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
- The New York Times — The newspaper that revealed AATIP in December 2017.
- AATIP — The Pentagon UAP effort associated with Luis Elizondo, revealed in December 2017.
On the Timeline
- Death of Max Spiers (16 July 2016) — UFO researcher Max Spiers dies of an apparent overdose; authorities investigate.
- NASA–NNSA planetary defense partnership (22 March 2017) — The nuclear security agency discloses its planetary defense partnership with NASA.
See every 2016 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Coast to Coast AM, show of 27 March 2016 · coasttocoastam.com · archived copy
- Tom DeLonge — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- To The Stars Inc. — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Different Active U.S. UFO Programs – TTSA Tom DeLonge" (YouTube) · youtu.be · archived copy
- To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Tom DeLonge on the Podesta emails — Rolling Stone · rollingstone.com · archived copy
- Tom DeLonge emailed Clinton's adviser about aliens — BuzzFeed News · buzzfeednews.com · archived copy
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