fied flying object. for DeLonge's TTSA after reportedly This April, the Navy confirmed it spearheading the AATIP, told Politico in was drafting a fleet-wide message to April that the military's determination establish guidelines for pilots and to keep such encounters quiet could be other military personnel to report detrimental. UFO sightings, the culmination of a "Ifyou are in a busy airport and see surge in what the Navy called a series something you are supposed to say of intrusions by advanced aircraft on something," he said. Navy carrier strike groups. "With our own military members it Now, the Army has joined the is kind of the opposite: 'If you do see extraterrestrial fray in a big way, inking something, don't say something.... What a contract with DeLonge's TTSA to col­ happens in five years if it turns out these laborate in the study of "exotic" metals are extremely advanced Russian aircraft?" that both parties hope will lead to the Recent measures taken by the Army development of advanced technologies. and Navy would suggest, at least on the As part of the agreement, the Ar- surface, an acknowledgement of the con­ my's Ground Vehicle System Center cerns of those like Elizondo, who told and Ground Vehicle Survivability and Motherboard in September that he was Protection component will lend research "heartened by the Navy's new position resources, including laboratories, to to address this issue in a serious manner TISA, which in turn will leverage what and without the distraction of the social the company asserts are alien metals stigma that this phenomena seems to By J.D. Simkins capable of enhancing the effectiveness of attract." [email protected] Army vehicles. And while these Pentagon-led endeav­ To the Stars claims to have "acquired, ors come sans admission of the existence In 2017, the Pentagon confirmed the The Navy then verified the authenticity designed, or produced" these materials, of alien life, new developments continue existence of a program that existed from of a declassified 2015 video, released by which can offer an array of futuristic to signal a return to DoD acknowledge­ 2007 to 2012, the Advanced Aerospace former Blink-182 frontman Tom De­ modifications like active camouflage, ment that recently documented encoun­ Threat Identification Program, that was Longe's To the Stars Academy, featuring beamed energy propulsion, inertial mass ters at least warrant further investigation. dedicated solely to investigating reports a bizarre encounter between Navy pilots reduction, and quantum communica- To the Stars officials are happy to of UFO sightings. and a high-speed, low-altitude unidenti- t1on.• accommodate the effort. Details on how or where DeLonge's "This cooperative research agreement company acquired these materials were brings additional, critically important not provided. expertise that is necessary to advance "TTSA has acquired material from the state-of-the-art in both our near various sources and does not comment and long-term technology areas of on the specifics of each sample," Kari study," Steve Justice, TTSA'.s COO and Delonge, TTSA chief content officer Aerospace Division director said in the and Tom's sister, told Vice's Mother­ release. board. "While the Army has specific military The Army Fisher House Program has been providing "A Home Away The Army will make a $750,000 com­ performance interests in the research, from Home" for our Military, Veterans and their Families in time of medical mitment to TTSA research as part of the much of the work is expected to have crisis since 1991. We were able to serve 2,473 families in fiscal year five-year collaboration. dual-use application in support of 2019, providing a total of 42,886 room nights at no cost to them, thanks "Our partnership with TTSA serves TTSA'.s path to commercialization and to your generous support. You can also make donations on-line at the as an exciting, non-traditional source public benefit mission." website noted below. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT ... Because a family's love is good medicine! for novel materials and transformational DeLonge's team at TTSA is spearhead­ technologies to enhance our military ed by a number of noteworthy officials Location CFC# Location CFC# ground system capabilities," Dr. Joseph who have spent significant time in the Cannon, deputy product manager of DoD. Fort Bliss 48325 Landstuhl RMC 64599 science and technology in the Vehicle Dr. Hal Puthoff, a NASA quantum JBLM MAMC 56608 Fort Bragg 65512 Protection Systems Division of the physicist and DoD adviser, Jim Semivan, Brook AMC 86204 GVSC, said in a TTSA press release a former senior intelligence member of Fort Belvoir 55007 announcing the contract. the CIA, and Chris Mellon, a former Forest Glen 51542 "We look forward to this partnership deputy assistant secretary of defense for Fort Campbell 55546 and the potential technical innovations intelligence in both the Clinton and Fort Gordon 82565 forthcoming." Bush administrations who was instru­ The Army's contractual agreement mental in creating Special Operations comes in the wake of insistence by a Command, all occupy leadership posi­ number of former defense officials that tions within TTSA. "Dedicated to our greatest national treasure ... Our military service men and the Pentagon take a more aggressive DeLonge's To the Stars Academy team women and their loved ones." - Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher approach to analyzing data surrounding was recently the subject of six-part doc­ c.. ::f UFO encounters. z umentary series on the History Channel -z ~ www.armyfisherhouses.org Former military intelligence offi­ called "Unidentified: Inside America's >- ~ cial Luis Elizondo, who now works UFO Investigation™." ~

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