To The Stars Academy: Investigating the Unexplained

wwkirk

Divine
Apologies if this has been posted, there's a download button on the link to read the full paper:

Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles

Abstract

Several Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) encountered by military, commercial, and civilian aircraft have been reported to be structured craft that exhibit `impossible’ flight characteristics. We consider a handful of well-documented encounters, including the 2004 encounters with the Nimitz Carrier Group off the coast of California, and estimate lower bounds on the accelerations exhibited by the craft during the observed maneuvers. Estimated accelerations range from almost 100g'>100g100g to 1000s of gs with no observed air disturbance, no sonic booms, and no evidence of excessive heat commensurate with even the minimal estimated energies.

In accordance with observations, the estimated parameters describing the behavior of these craft are both anomalous and surprising. The extreme estimated flight characteristics reveal that these observations are either fabricated or seriously in error, or that these craft exhibit technology far more advanced than any known craft on Earth. In many cases, the number and quality of witnesses, the variety of roles they played in the encounters, and the equipment used to track and record the craft favor the latter hypothesis that these are indeed technologically advanced craft.

The observed flight characteristics of these craft are consistent with the flight characteristics required for interstellar travel, i.e., if these observed accelerations were sustainable in space, then these craft could easily reach relativistic speeds within a matter of minutes to hours and cover interstellar distances in a matter of days to weeks, proper time.

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Scientific Article about UFOs - Knuth, Powell and Reali
 
That kind of travel would still be hampered by time dilation it seems. While it would take mere days or weeks to the pilots, it would take decades to the rest of the universe. By the time you get back to you home planets, centuries could have passed there. Everyone and everything you cared about is gone.

Unless theyve found ways to counter this like warping or are machines, this could really put stress on anyone willing to leave their solar systems to do exploring.
 
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That kind of travel would still be hampered by time dilation it seems. While it would take mere days or weeks to the pilots, it would take decades to the rest of the universe. By the time you get back to you home planets, centuries could have passed there. Everyone and everything you cared about is gone.

Unless theyve found ways to counter this like warping or are machines, this could really put stress on anyone willing to leave their solar systems to do exploring.
No - that's a really glaring oversight in their paper, which I was going to point out anyway: these devices are clearly not employing reaction propulsion (like rockets, etc,), so special relativistic effects like time dilation don't apply. These are clearly gravitational field propulsion devices, so there's no relativistic mass increase or subjective g-forces, and proper time and coordinate time are basically identical (with very minor corrections due to ambient gravitational fields). In fact, given the key performance signatures of these craft, we can confidently conclude that they're FTL capable. The type of propulsion they're using would permit a craft to leap from the Earth to a nearby star in a matter of weeks or days or less, with no significant time dilation effect - a gravitational field propulsion system permits a craft to traverse many light-years of distance in a number of days or weeks and everyone's clock agrees that it took days or weeks to make the trip.

It's disappointing that physics doctorates like Dr. Kevin Knuth are being so reluctant to acknowledge this - apparently the public and the scientific community is still married to the obsolete notion that nothing can travel faster than light, so they're picking their battles, because most folks aren't ready to accept FTL travel...even though the theoretical physics has been worked out for a quarter of a century now.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Okay this came out of nowhere...

 

nivek

As Above So Below
Has anyone read this?...

Dr Eric Davis and the Project MEDEA email
By Keith Basterfield

Background

Recently, on Twitter, there appeared a purported email from Dr Eric Davis to Dr Christopher "Kit" Green and Dr Hal Puthoff, which may be of interest to some readers. The release of the email was attributed to one "Ryan Skinner." The email was carbon copied to Colm Kelleher, and also to another email address, "documatica@aol.com."

Based on the fact that the header address on the email reads "Colm Kelleher," it suggests that this email is a copy from Colm Kelleher's email system. The email was dated 15 January 2010. Below is an image of that email.


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The text of the email

The email reads:

"Dear Fellow Sacerdotal [relating to priests or the priesthood -KB] Knights of National Security.

Over 10 years ago while at NIDS, I proposed and argued that we somehow work (via Kit) to get access to Project MEDEA's space surveillance assets and its database to hunt our favourite flying objects of interest, since it was revealed unto me that Art Lundahl was doing the same thing back in 1968 using CORONA photographs.

G.W. Bush cancelled MEDEA early in his first administration.

Over 10 years ago, I had discussed the nature of MEDEA's database and surveillance assets with an Air Force officer who was part of the program and also with Doug Revelle at LANL who worked on ground based infrasonic acoustic detectors used for hunting illicit underground nuclear bomb tests as well as for sensing and tracking superbolides and their explosions in the atmosphere. Doug also worked with the DSP bolometers and radiometers to track and measure the superbolides.

You guys should remember my SAB [Science Advisory Board for the National Institute for Discovery Science -KB] slide presentation on this. Scientific American published an article in the 1990's "Scientists in the black" that revealed MEDEA and its motivation.

CIA director Leon Panetta recently reactivated MEDEA and is using the same codeword. Now that we have the proper credentials, I argue that it is time to tackle getting access to MEDEA and expand the parameter space of our data collection efforts. The suite of available surveillance assets is remarkable, and we should consider getting a couple of BAASS program personnel specifically assigned to access, acquire and analyze data from the MEDEA database. Such data could be fused with the project Capella database.

See this story from the AFIO WIN, Jan. 12, 2010. [For the full, Association of Former Intelligence Officers Weekly Intelligence Notes click here. -KB]

C.I.A. is Sharing Data with Climate Scientists. The nation's top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government's intelligence assets - including spy satellites and other classified sensors - to assess the hidden complexities of environmental change. They seek insight from natural phenomena like clouds and glaciers, deserts and tropical forests.

The collaboration restarts an effort the Bush administration shut down and has the strong backing of the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In the last year, as part of the effort the collaborators have scrutinized images of Arctic sea ice from reconnaissance satellites in an effort to distinguish things like summer melts from climate trends and they have had images of the ice pack declassified to speed the scientific analysis.

The trove of images is "really useful" said Norbert Untersteiner,a professor at the University of Washington who specializes in polar ice and is a member of the team of spies and scientists behind the effort.

Scientists, Dr Untersteiner said, "have no way to send out 500 people" across the top of the world to match the intelligence gains, adding that the new understandings might one day result in ice forecasts. "That will be very important economically and logistically," Dr Untersteiner said, arguing that Arctic thaws will open new fisheries and sea lanes for shipping and spur the hunt for undersea oil and gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars."

The above page ends with a "1" in the bottom centre, indicating that there is a page 2, which we do not have.

My comments

1. The publication of this email follows anonymous release, early this year, of documents said to have come from the collection of the late Dr Edgar Mitchell. One of these documents purports to be notes of a meeting between Dr Davis and a former senior US intelligence officer. Here, we have another piece of Davis originated documentation.

2. The 15 January 2010 date on the email, and the mention of "...getting a couple of BAASS program personnel specifically...data from the MEDEA database..." places the email in the period during which BAASS - Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies - had a contract with the US government's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) concerning the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP.)

However, Davis' mention of BAASS personnel does not necessarily mean that this suggested attempt to gain MEDEA data, was part of the DIA AAWSAP contract. Although BAASS was the sole successful bidder for the AAWSAP work, perhaps BAASS conducted work of its own, not related to the contract?

Having said that, I note that Davis comments "Now that we have the proper credentials." This is highly suggestive of the fact that BAASS was an official US government DIA contractor, whereas NIDS was not, and thus BAASS might be able to access this data.

3. Do we have a record of Davis' earlier proposal to NIDS? The time frame referred to by Davis i.e. "Over 10 years ago" places it prior to the year 2000. Given that we have no access to internal paperwork for NIDS, one place I thought to look was Jacques Vallee's "Forbidden Science: Volume Four" which covers the decade 1990-1999 and thus several years of NIDS - the National Institute for Discovery Science. I used the book's index and keywords such as "Eric Davis," "Project MEDEA," "NIDS" etc, but failed to find any mention of Eric Davis's NIDS proposal.

I did locate the date of publication of the Scientific American" article referred to by Davis. The article titled "Scientists in the black" appeared in the 1 February 1998 issues of the journal, on pages 38-45, and was written by Jeffrey Richelson, an author who wrote extensively and authoritatively on the US intelligence community.

This suggests that it was probably in 1998 when Davis made his initial proposal to NIDS.

4. Do we have any further information on Project MEDEA which is short for Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analyses? Yes we do. The linked slide presentation provides an excellent overview of the Project. Essentially, MEDEA was launched in 1992 and first run until 2000; then was relaunched between 2010 and 2015.

5. Is there any independent confirmation re Davis' statement that Art Lundahl utilized CORONA satellite imagery to look for UAP back in 1968? Lundahl was certainly involved with the CORONA surveillance satellite program and higly skilled in photographic interpretation. It is also true that he examined a number of pieces of civilian obtained UAP imagery. As to whether or not, he used CORONA imagery, I have not been able to confirm.

I turned to my Melbourne colleague, Paul Dean, who has closely read Jeffrey Richelson's published works; and knows much about the history of US surveillance satellites. The following is Paul's comment about Davis' Lundahl comment.

"Unbelievable hype. As usual. The idea is idiotic. The CORONA and other satellites are travelling at 17,000 mph and are designed to capture non-moving objects (e.g. buildings, ships in port, runways etc,) and not the fast moving aircraft, missiles or UFOs, which would be blurred beyond recognition. How can a physicist not understand this simple does of technical history.

"Lundahl had three (partly filled) filing drawers at the NPIC of interesting anomalous stationary objects caught by reconnaissance satellites, but could not prove anything with them, or get any useful data, since there were no other collaborating date to be had, e.g. no radar tracking from ultra-long range, ground based radars, like the early Ballistic missile Early Warning System, or the old Naval Space Surveillance fence; no eyewitnesses etc.

"The photographs were blurry, second generation, black and white images. Some were just flashes of light; others dots fading away near the edge of the image.

"Nothing was 'revealed' to Davis. Everyone knew Lundahl was doing this. When will UFOlogy stop making the same mistakes, and generating bubble-like myth narratives, instead of going after hard NORAD data; hard AFSPC and 14th Air Force date; hard GEODSS data, etc?"

6. Who was Doug Revelle of LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory? Revelle was a scientist who worked for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division of the LANL. He passed away in 2010. Revelle worked extensively in the areas which Davis cites.

7. Can we say anything more about the "Capella database" mentioned by Davis? According to Jacques Vallee, the Capella database (2008-2011) was a data warehouse comprised of 11 databases linked to external resources. I wrote a blog post about this database back in November 2018. I note that the BAASS AAWSAP contract commenced in September 2008 and ran until 2011. In addition, comments by Vallee himself, suggest that the database was used by BAASS.

In conclusion
It is certainly of value to see this trickle of internal NIDS and BAASS documents emerging; and to be able to engage in some analysis and commentary on their contents. However, I would like to appeal to whoever is uploading these documents to, instead of trickling them out; to publish all their holdings in their entirety. This would allow those interested to better appreciate the work of both NIDS and BAASS.

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nivek

As Above So Below
An Instagram post from Delonge he later deleted...

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nivek

As Above So Below
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Another fine media report...

Alien hunters led by Blink 182 singer say they have found 'exotic material' that's debris from a spacecraft - a month after the group revealed a video featuring UFOs that the US Navy reluctantly confirmed was REAL
  • The To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences co-founded by Blink 182 lead singer Tom DeLonge claims it's found material from an alien spaceship
  • The group already has unearthed real UFO footage recorded by U.S. pilots whose authenticity was verified by military officials last week
  • They posted pictures of the stony substance on Twitter and DeLonge's Instagram
  • A To The Stars Academy leader says, 'The structure and composition of these materials are not from any known existing military or commercial application'
  • DeLonge says, 'We have been able to establish that the material shows highly advanced anomalous engineering capabilities'
  • NASA did not immediately respond to requests for comment
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nivek

As Above So Below
TTSA's metamaterials acquisition - some details revealed
By Keith Basterfield

Background

On 25 July 2019, the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA) website carried a post titled "To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science makes groundbreaking metamaterials acquisition." The text of the announcement was:

"San Diego, CA (July 25, 2019) - To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) has acquired multiple pieces of metamaterials and an archive of initial analysis and research for their controversial ADAM Research Project. ADAM an acronym for Acquisition and Data Analysis of Materials, is an academic research program focused on the exploitation of exotic materials for technological innovation.

The ownership of these assets, which were previously retained and studied by investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe and are reported to have come from an advanced aerospace vehicle of unknown origin, allows TTSA to conduct rigorous scientific evaluation to determine its function and possible applications.

'The structure and composition of these materials are not from any known existing military or commercial application,' says Steve Justice, current COO of To The Stars Academy and former head of Advanced Systems at Lockheed Martin's "Skunk Works."

'They've been collected from sources of varying levels of chain-of-custody documentation, so we are focusing on verifiable facts and working to develop independent scientific proof of the materials' properties and attributes. In some cases, the manufacturing technology required to fabricate the material is only now becoming available, but the material has been in documented possession since the mid-1990's. We currently have multiple material samples being analyzed by contracted laboratories and have plans to extend the scope of the study.' TTSA will also seek to engage the potential partners who have expressed interest in helping accelerate ADAM research and development.

'If the claims associated with these assets can be validated and substantiated, then we can initiate work to transition them from being a technology to commercial and military capabilities,' adds Justice. 'As noted in out October 2017 TTSA kickoff webcast, technologies that would allow us to engineer the spacetime metric would bring capabilities that would fundamentally alter civilization, with revolutionary changes to transportation, communication, and computation.'

A Public Benefit Corporation, To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science is a consortium of scientists, aerospace engineers, and creatives working collectively to empower gifted researchers the freedom to explore exotic science and technologies with the support to rapidly transition innovative ideas into world-changing products and services."

The image which was used in association with the above text is shown below:

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Further details available

On 29 September 2019, TTSA filed a number of documentswith the US government's Securities and Exchange Commission. One of these documents, was "Form 1-SA." Item 4 to this form is a list of "exhibits," one of which is labelled "6.22 Asset Purchase Agreement dated July 15, 2019." It is this one which was of particularly interest to me, in relation to the 25 July 2019 announcement by TTSA concerning the acquisition of metamaterials.

This "Confidential" Asset Purchase Agreement is an agreement between TTSA as the buyer and Thomas DeLonge as the seller. Section 1.03 tells us that the purchase price for the Assets was $35,000.

What was purchased?

Section 3.04 advises:

"The Purchased Assets are in good condition. The Metal Pieces included in the Purchased Assets are (i) one 1.75" x 1.25" x 0.25" piece of micron-layered Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc metal; (ii) six small pieces of Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc metal; (iii) one piece of Aluminum that TTSA physicist Hal Puthoff already has in his possession and currently on loan from Seller; and (iv) one round black and silver metal flake that physicist Puthoff already has in his possession and currently on loan from seller,; and (iv) one round black and silver metal flake. The Binder Archive and Documentation includes all records, documents, correspondence, analyses, tests and test results relating to or regarding the Metal Pieces."

[Note by KB - the repetition of (iv) is in the original document. Schedule A to the document has the same text except it does not repeat item (iv). This appears indicative that there was the initial listing of the assets was for four (i - iv) only.]

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nivek

As Above So Below
This guy has been raging today:

 
Careful what you ask for!

Here is a good place to start.
Kal Korff Exposed

The idjit is a lying scumbag. He likes to call the employers of his "enemies" (anyone who calls bullshit on his moronic crap) and cause them trouble. Pretended to be some kind of super secret service operative for some fictional Isreali outfit, with hilarious results. Kevin Randle, an actual military vet who takes a dim view of stolen valor, raked him over the coals for it, again with hilarious results. Long ago, Art Bell forced him to call in to his show and abjectly apologize for some slander. He's a sad little putz.
 
Careful what you ask for!

Here is a good place to start.
Kal Korff Exposed

The idjit is a lying scumbag. He likes to call the employers of his "enemies" (anyone who calls bullshit on his moronic crap) and cause them trouble. Pretended to be some kind of super secret service operative for some fictional Isreali outfit, with hilarious results. Kevin Randle, an actual military vet who takes a dim view of stolen valor, raked him over the coals for it, again with hilarious results. Long ago, Art Bell forced him to call in to his show and abjectly apologize for some slander. He's a sad little putz.
Careful what you ask for!

Here is a good place to start.
Kal Korff Exposed

The idjit is a lying scumbag. He likes to call the employers of his "enemies" (anyone who calls bullshit on his moronic crap) and cause them trouble. Pretended to be some kind of super secret service operative for some fictional Isreali outfit, with hilarious results. Kevin Randle, an actual military vet who takes a dim view of stolen valor, raked him over the coals for it, again with hilarious results. Long ago, Art Bell forced him to call in to his show and abjectly apologize for some slander. He's a sad little putz.
Wow, small world. He posted this rubbish on facebook last night, prompting my usual diplomatic style of response:

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Heh. I just went over to twitter and called him a moron. Again. He is impervious to reason or intelligent discussion, but others will see your message.

I see he referenced his imaginary gig as a "journalist" in India. Gene Steinberg is more of a journalist that that wanker. In fact, he makes Steinberg look like a responsible adult. Also, some of Steinberg's friend Don Ecker's most entertaining work concerned the puffball when he got one of those cease and desist letters from a fake attorney, delivered via email with all the usual Korff spelling errors. Ecker may have been the one to receive a fake letter supposedly from a real attorney in New Jersey or somewhere, delivered by email, after KKK got called out for his phony law firms. So someone, Ecker maybe, contacted the lawyer, who was not amused. The guy is just a barrel of laughs.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Never mind whatever may actually be occurring in our skies, UFOlogy is alive and well and doing what it’s been doing all these years. From the sounds of it FUOlogy might be more appropriate. Ray Palmer is probably laughing at all this from …. Wherever.

I just listened to this episode of The Black Vault:

Ep. #41 – Special Edition: U.S. Navy UFO Statements

Damn, that wasn’t easy. I might be skeptical but it doesn't mean I automatically embrace all skeptics. Consider this me taking one for the team. Probably would have turned it off but my hands were covered in paint at the time.

When JG is talking strictly about the inquiries he’s made and the responses I am interested. The Devil is always in the details and in this case the details are emerging from FOIA requests. Surprising ones I think we might all agree. When he’s not talking about that I hit the chrome handle on the rest.

One thing that surprised me – he mentioned that the tic-tac incident from Nimitz in 2004 had been public for some time. Since 2007, says he. I thought I had heard of it before but right now don’t know if I actually remember hearing it before or just thought I did. Fallible human memory for you …..

At about the 40 minute mark JG takes a phone call from Danny Silva. Listening to that flesh crawling conversation just reminded me that his crapola has been going on all along it’s just that now we have better, more immediate tools to snipe at one another with. Cooperative efforts in this arena a problematic to say the least. As for what those two had to say to each other, it sounded immature as hell to me and irrelevant to my interest.

I’m just pointing out that there has been an overabundance personality driven nonsense from all quarters and that’s just par for the UFOlogical course. Kal Korff sounds like a perfect example, whoever the hell he is. Most likely just another chicken in the coop.
 
Yes the short Nimitz video was leaked apparently and surfaced 10 years before it was shown in the media, I think the navy confirmed this as well. It had a thread on ATS forums at that time started by someone called thefinaltheory, and was debunked as a hoax, which it apparently wasnt. It somehow ended on some german video site too.

Kinda strange. Especially when you read the old posts, thefinaltheory is suspicious enough, first he claimed it happened in 2005 and the thing was disc shaped, not a tic tac. Then in the following post its 2004 now and its capsule shaped. The later post resembles the story weve heard so far.
 
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