To The Stars Academy
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| Type | Organization |
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| Also known as | To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, TTSA |
| On the Timeline | 22 events, 1972–2022 |
To The Stars, founded in 2017 as To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, is an American company based in San Diego, created by musician Tom DeLonge with former CIA officer Jim Semivan and physicist Harold Puthoff. It combines entertainment with UFO research, and played a central role in bringing the U.S. Navy's UAP videos and the Pentagon's AATIP program to public attention in 2017.[1][2]
Founding and finances
The company was set up as a public benefit corporation, with entertainment, aerospace and science divisions. Its entertainment arm grew out of DeLonge's earlier media company, which had released music and, from 2015, books such as the Sekret Machines series, many co-published with Simon & Schuster. In September 2017 it launched a $50 million crowdfunding share offering. By October 2018 its filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed only about $1 million in shares sold and a deficit of $37.4 million, largely from stock awards to staff, leading Vice and Ars Technica to question its finances. In 2022 it shortened its name to To The Stars.[1][2][3]
UAP videos and AATIP
Former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo, who said he had run AATIP, joined the company and promoted three Navy videos of unidentified objects, from the USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt encounters, which it published in its online database. In September 2019 the Navy confirmed that the videos showed unidentified aerial phenomena. The company also helped arrange classified briefings to Congress with the pilots involved, with help from former official Christopher Mellon. Elizondo left the company in late 2020.[1][4]
ADAM project and Army agreement
In July 2019 the company announced its ADAM research project to study metal samples it said might be of non-terrestrial origin; its filings showed it had paid $35,000 for items including bismuth and magnesium-zinc metal. Chemists consulted by Vice said there was no evidence of alien origin and that the samples could be industrial slag. In October 2019 it signed a five-year cooperative research agreement with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command; the Army said no public money would go to the company.[1][5]
Television
The company produced the History Channel series Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (2019).[1]
On the UAP Timeline
- Ingo Swann's magnetometer test (1972) (June 1972) — Ingo Swann's remote-viewing test with SRI leads to a CIA contract months later.
- Secret project asks about remote viewing (1973) (27 October 1973) — Puthoff tells Vallée a secret UAP project with an official charter asked about remote viewing.
- Puthoff leaves SRI (1985) (Summer 1985) — Hal Puthoff leaves SRI to explore alternative energy sources.
- Vallée meets D'Amato on secret programs (1992) (22 May 1992) — Vallée writes he met Senate counsel Dick D'Amato about secret programs.
- Las Vegas data-gathering meeting (1996) (28 January 1996) — Military, scientific and corporate figures meet in Las Vegas about gathering UAP data.
- Puthoff on black-budget physics (2002) (2002) — Puthoff tells author Nick Cook there is solid evidence of secret aerospace programs.
- Navy metamaterials research (2014) (March 2014) — A Navy budget document mentions research on metamaterials to control electromagnetic waves.
- DeLonge on pooled crash material (27 March 2016) — Tom DeLonge says his advisers told him crash material was pooled among government and industry.
- DeLonge on hidden crashes (April 2016) — DeLonge says advisers told him of multiple crashes hidden by counterintelligence.
- Sekret Machines (5 April 2016) — DeLonge publishes the novel Sekret Machines, which he says advisers helped shape.
- Christopher Mellon goes public (2016) (9 May 2016) — Former Pentagon intelligence official Christopher Mellon speaks publicly about UAP for the first time.
- DeLonge's research groups (2016) (31 August 2016) — Tom DeLonge says he became involved with groups studying crashed craft and biology.
- DeLonge's advisers on Joe Rogan (26 October 2017) — DeLonge suggests on a podcast that senior officials and executives advise him.
- A.D.A.M. project (July 2018) — To The Stars Academy launches the A.D.A.M. project to study claimed exotic materials.
- TTSA–EarthTech contracts (16 August 2018) — To The Stars hires Puthoff's EarthTech to study potentially exotic materials.
- Eric Davis on underfunded reverse-engineering (30 April 2019) — Eric Davis says crashes happened and reverse engineering is split into small, underfunded efforts.
- TTSA Senate briefings (12 July 2019) — DeLonge says To The Stars spent 18 months briefing the Senate and committees.
- TTSA technical collaborations (2019) (8 August 2019) — To The Stars announces technical collaborations with aerospace companies.
- Elizondo's secure-room meetings (2020) (19 July 2020) — Lue Elizondo says he met lawmakers in a secure room about UAP.
- Puthoff on withheld materials science (11 February 2022) — Puthoff says private companies withhold materials science information.
- Ultraterrestrial hypothesis paper (31 July 2022) — Puthoff releases a paper on the 'ultraterrestrial' hypothesis.
- Jim Semivan's DARPA lab sample (5 September 2022) — Former CIA officer Jim Semivan says material about his experience went to a DARPA lab.
References
- To the Stars (company) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Tom DeLonge Announces Stars Academy for Outer Edges of Science Research", Rolling Stone (12 Oct 2017) · rollingstone.com · archived copy
- Eric Berger, "All the dumb things Blink-182 front man's UFO project is spending money on", Ars Technica (15 Oct 2018) · arstechnica.com · archived copy
- "The Navy Says the UFOs in Tom DeLonge's Videos Are 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena'", Vice (17 Sep 2019) · vice.com · archived copy
- "UFO-hunting group signs contract with US Army", Live Science (29 Oct 2019) · livescience.com · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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