TTSA–EarthTech contracts
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Contents 6
| Date | 16 August 2018 |
|---|---|
| People | Harold Puthoff |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 191 |
| Year | 2018 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2018 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
In August 2018 To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA) issued two statements of work to EarthTech International, the Austin, Texas, research company founded by physicist Hal Puthoff, who was also a TTSA co-founder. The contracts were disclosed in the company's semi-annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission for the period ending 30 June 2018.[1][2]
The contracts
The first, "Material Study — Set A", dated 16 August 2018, ran for ten weeks to 25 October and was capped at $35,000. It covered the first step of a programme to analyse "potentially exotic materials", including internal and subcontracted testing, analysis, planning of next steps and a final report; a caption in the published material described Puthoff as heading the project. The second, dated 17 August 2018 and capped at $25,000, asked EarthTech to draw up a plan for a "Beamed Energy Launch System" for small cubesats, with targets of a technology demonstration within 18 months, a suborbital launch within four years and an orbital demonstration within eight. Both were to be paid half at award and half on completion.[1]
Context
As a public benefit corporation raising money from small investors under Regulation A, TTSA had to report its finances, giving a rare documented view of its operations; its filings showed large losses. The materials work fed into TTSA's later claims about a layered magnesium-bismuth-zinc sample, which it offered to the U.S. Army under a 2019 research agreement. The Army's close-out report found the sample had no exotic properties and no military application.[2][3]
People and topics
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- EarthTech International — Hal Puthoff's research company in Austin, Texas.
- To The Stars Academy — The company founded by Tom DeLonge in 2017 that released the Navy UAP videos.
On the Timeline
- A.D.A.M. project (July 2018) — To The Stars Academy launches the A.D.A.M. project to study claimed exotic materials.
- Eric Davis on the Del Rio crash (28 October 2018) — Eric Davis says the 1950s Del Rio, Texas crash was a real retrieval.
See every 2018 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Details of contracts between To The Stars and EarthTech", UFOs Scientific Research (Sep 2018) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- To the Stars (company) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "What the U.S. military now says about TTSA's anomalous artifact", The Black Vault (May 2025) · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- The Army teams up with Tom DeLonge's UFO company — The War Zone · twz.com · archived copy
- TTSA's metamaterials acquisition — UFOs Scientific Research · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Harold E. Puthoff — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- To the Stars Academy — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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