Posted on 10/25/2019 5:02:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The service has pledged to spend $750,000 to examine futuristic materials and technologies collected or studied by a group run by Blink-182's frontman.
UFO truthers don’t typically hold a lot of credibility within the research community, but today the Defense Department is acknowledging at least one such group could have some serious contributions to make.
The Army Combat Capabilities Development Command recently partnered with the To The Stars Academy to study a wide variety of different technologies and materials, most of which sound like they were pulled straight from a sci-fi movie. The cooperative research and development agreement is set to last five years and could ultimately help the Army develop new capabilities for its fleet of ground vehicles.
Within the UFO research community, the To The Stars Academy, or TTSA, carries some clout. While its chairman, former Blink-182 singer and lead guitarist Tom DeLonge, garners most of the public’s attention, the group counts former defense and intelligence officials and industry executives among its members. To date, most of TTSA’s work has focused on publicizing the Pentagon’s encounters with UFOs, but under the latest agreement, the group would take on a more technical role.
“To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science is a company with materiel and technology innovations that offer capability advancements for Army ground vehicles,” officials wrote in the agreement, a copy of which was provided to Nextgov. “The [Academy] will share their innovations with the government, who will use its laboratories and resources to characterize the technologies and determine if they have appropriate applications on ground vehicles.”
Specifically, the Army wants to explore a handful of futuristic materials and technologies the group has either studied or has in its possession, including inertial mass reduction, quantum communications, beamed energy propulsion, active camouflage and directed photon projection.
The Army, Blink 182, & UFO’s. Is this satire?
Makes one wonder if this isn't disinformation or if there isn't another, ulterior motive.
Bizarro, eh?
I suspect alien societies can teach us how to use our apostrophes correctly, for greater interplanetary harmony.
LOL. First cup of coffee...
Halleaux was quick to dismiss any claims that the Army was studying “alien technology.” TTSA may purport the metamaterials and other tech in their possession came from UFOs, but for the Army, those claims are irrelevant, he said.Baloney.“Speculation … as to the origin of materials really to our researchers isn’t what matters,” Halleaux said. “The reason TTSA was taken seriously is the credentials of the people on their team. These are folks that have backgrounds in industry and backgrounds in materials science and defense work. [They’re] serious professionals with respect to backgrounds.”
If these materials came from the Chinese or Russians, their origins matter incredibly.
DARPA’s spider silk armor was close to perfection, but instead of a $1,200. ESAPI plate for their ballistic vest, a t shirt would have been $2,000,000.00 each!
I’m still waiting for the report on what was found by the group, back in 2011, at the Roswell Crash site. They said, on a popular TV show, they would examine the results and release a report. Bill Richardson, governor of NM had a part in the show.
Still waiting!
Before visiting the UFO museum in Roswell, I held out there might be little green men out there. The museum was so hokey it tossed that idea out to the garbage.
*ping*
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