To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science

The To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA; rendered in early SEC filings as To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science), incorporated in Delaware on February 13, 2017 as a public benefit corporation, is a San Diego County-based entertainment, aerospace, and science consortium founded by Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge that recruited former senior U.S. government and intelligence officials — including Luis Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Steve Justice, Hal Puthoff, and Jim Semivan — and became the primary vehicle for the December 2017 The New York Times UAP disclosure ("Glowing Auras and 'Black Money'") and the release of three declassified U.S. Navy UAP videos, triggering the modern post-2017 UAP disclosure push. Steven Greer holds this role to be that of "a thinly veiled front group for the Defense Intelligence Agency" staffed with intelligence operatives rather than a sincere disclosure vehicle, describing Elizondo specifically as "a famous disinformation operative in the Pentagon."

TTSA has no government parent body — it is an independently incorporated civilian company — but it sits within the same disclosure movement ecosystem as the civilian research organizations MUFON and the Paradigm Research Group and the academic Galileo Project, and it wholly owns the entertainment subsidiary To The Stars, Inc., which continued to create, produce, and distribute the company's music, books, and film properties as a going concern from before TTSA's own incorporation. TTSA's 2017 video releases and its founding personnel's subsequent advocacy are credited by researchers as catalysts for a chain of institutional action running through the 2020 establishment of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, its 2022 successor the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, and the 2023 congressional hearing at which David Grusch testified.

TTSA's own filings describe its purpose in unremarkable corporate terms — an "entertainment, aerospace and science consortium" pursuing legitimate commercial and research activity. Greer disputes this framing directly, characterizing the operation as deliberate counter-intelligence and psychological warfare intended to "acknowledge that these are real, but then change the narrative from the truth... to a diversion" while cleared officials "whisper into the ears" of members of Congress. Within that reading, Greer distinguishes DeLonge from the professional intelligence officers he recruited, describing DeLonge as having been "pulled into the disinformation nexus" and "run over by those guys" — an unwitting participant rather than a knowing operator. No named source has published a direct rebuttal of Greer's characterization, and TTSA's own public filings do not address it.

Founding

DeLonge, a founding member of the rock band Blink-182, had spent several years cultivating relationships with aerospace, intelligence, and military insiders and pitching the idea of a civilian entertainment-and-research vehicle that could gradually acclimate the public to UAP reality without triggering a security breach. Jim Semivan, a former CIA Senior Intelligence Service officer, was asked by colleagues to evaluate DeLonge after DeLonge's fiction work Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows raised concern that classified program details might be leaking; Semivan concluded they were not and joined the project. DeLonge and Semivan sketched out the plan for TTSA on a cocktail napkin and recruited additional founding advisers.

Corporate structure and offerings

TTSA is the Delaware parent of DeLonge's earlier entertainment venture To The Stars, Inc., headquartered in Encinitas, and from 2017 sold Class A common stock to the public under Regulation A+ at $5.00 a share on a "best efforts" basis. The officers around DeLonge were Luis Elizondo (global security and special programs), Christopher Mellon (government affairs), Steve Justice (aerospace division), Hal Puthoff (science and technology) and Jim Semivan (operations).

2017 disclosure and Navy video releases

TTSA coordinated the release of three declassified U.S. Navy UAP videos — FLIR1 (Tic-Tac, 2004), Gimbal (2015), and GoFast (2015) — through the New York Times on December 16, 2017. The FLIR1 video documented the 2004 Nimitz UFO incident; Gimbal and GoFast were associated with USS Theodore Roosevelt incidents. The Pentagon formally declassified the videos in April 2020. Mellon, who handled the company's government affairs, has said further videos exist that the Department of Defense has authenticated but not released.

Sekret Machines publishing imprint

TTSA's subsidiary To The Stars, Inc. operates a publishing imprint that produced the Sekret Machines series — a hybrid of fiction novels and non-fiction companion volumes co-authored by DeLonge with historian Peter Levenda. The non-fiction trilogy — Sekret Machines: Gods, Sekret Machines: Man, and Sekret Machines: War — covers the cultural, scientific, and national-security dimensions of the UAP phenomenon respectively, drawing on input from Garry Nolan, Semivan, Puthoff, and Mellon.

ADAM Research Project

The Acquisition and Data Analysis of Materials (ADAM) Research Project is TTSA's program for the scientific study of physical exotic materials alleged to be associated with UAP events, applying laboratory methods to anomalous samples including metamaterials.

Army CRADA (2019)

On October 10, 2019, the U.S. Army's Ground Vehicle Systems Center — part of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory — signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) titled "Novel & Emerging Technology Exploitation" with TTSA, under which material samples TTSA describes as possessing anomalous properties would be assessed, tested, and characterized for potential applications to ground-vehicle "security, force protection and weight reduction." The samples involved — a bismuth/magnesium-zinc alloy and an aluminum piece — were provided by TTSA from a chain of custody it traces back through the late radio host Art Bell to anonymous sources who alleged a connection to the Roswell incident.

Institutional and congressional impact

The post-2017 TTSA campaign — coordinated media appearances, congressional briefings by Mellon, and the video releases — has been credited as a driver of subsequent institutional UAP action: the 2019–2020 Senate Intelligence Committee engagement, the 2020 Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force mandate embedded in the National Defense Authorization Act, the 2022 establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and ultimately the 2023 UAP Congressional Hearing and introduction of the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023.

Corporate transition (2020–present)

By 2020–2021, several of TTSA's most publicly visible personnel had departed, including Elizondo and Mellon, who went on to engage directly with Congress independently of the company. Elizondo, who resigned from the Pentagon in October 2017 citing secrecy and internal opposition, has said that attorneys of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the body that replaced the program he ran, told scientists who had worked with him that he was unpatriotic and a traitor. TTSA's SEC-registered parent entity subsequently renamed itself To The Stars Inc.; EDGAR records the "To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science Inc." name as current only through filings made through September 28, 2021, with the same registrant appearing under the new name by 2022. The company shifted its public focus toward the entertainment properties long held by its subsidiary To The Stars, Inc., including DeLonge's planned Sekret Machines novel and film series.

Alleged role as an intelligence front

TTSA has been the subject of allegations that its public role functions as a limited hangout — an instance of controlled disclosure, selectively releasing genuine information to control a broader narrative while preserving more sensitive secrets. Greer has characterized TTSA as "a thinly veiled front group for the Defense Intelligence Agency, staffed with notorious spooks like Jim Semivan, the former head of Covert Operations Domestic for the CIA," and elsewhere describes the operation in the specific terms of counter-intelligence tradecraft: acknowledging the reality of UAP while redirecting Congress and the public away from the fuller truth, with figures including Mellon and Elizondo said to "whisper into the ears" of members of Congress on Capitol Hill. Under this reading, Semivan's career CIA background and Elizondo's Pentagon career are what make each a plausible knowing operator rather than a sincere advocate. DeLonge is cast differently — not as a co-conspirator but as an unwitting participant who was "pulled into the disinformation nexus" by Elizondo and later "run over by those guys," while Elizondo himself is described as "a famous disinformation operative in the Pentagon." No named analyst or official has published a direct response to Greer's characterization on the record, and TTSA's SEC filings — which state the company's purpose in ordinary commercial terms — do not address it.

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