Here's a write-up from Robert Sheaffer on this TTSA/Lazar debacle:
These "metamaterials" are of course also known as "Art's Parts," sent anonymously in 1996 to the late talk show maven, Art Bell of Coast to Coast AM. They have previously been examined, and appear to be a type of industrial waste from right here on earth. So, if you have "invested" in "To The Stars," and are wondering where your money went, a big chunk of it just went into the pocket of Tom DeLonge, for selling to his company supposed flying saucer pieces already in his possession. He sold them Art's Parts.
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I'm seeing a lot of descriptive reasons to conflate Art's Parts with the sample that TTSA has been promoting, but it's bewildering because the photographs of the samples they've been promoting look nothing like Art's Parts (except for the fact that they're both composed of layers). Look at the comparison:
I was an admirer of George Knapp as it was an article of his that I read at the start of this century that got me into the subject.
I was also cautiously optimistic about TTSA.
However due to Knapps continuing support of Lazar and TTSA promoting his book I find myself once again disillusioned by the whole thing.
I check out Alien Expanse most mornings but my interest is diminishing by the day.
The fact that TTSA is helping Lazar bilk gullible people out of their hard-earned money makes me bristle with outrage.
But TTSA has been a mixed bag from day one. At their public launch event we first encountered Lue Elizondo the former Director of the AATIP...and at the same event they used an image of a helium balloon as a UFO pic. Two months later they got a watershed article published in the NYT titled "Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program" that shocked the world with the dual revelations about the Pentagon's AATIP and probably the most important UFO incident in modern history, the USS Nimitz CSG case...but the "Glowing Auras" in that title turned out to be nothing more than ordinary IR glare. Now they're promoting a material which they assert has anomalous properties...at the same time they publish a fraudulent book by a proven fraud, Lazar. So the ambiguity here is nothing new.
I've been giving this Lazar book publication some thought, and my inclination is to put the blame squarely on Tom DeLonge's shoulders; in my view he's the credulous amateur in the company, and my gut tells me that he's the fool who thought that publishing some colorful lies (which he probably doesn't have the intellectual acuity to discern) would be a good idea.
And on the other hand we have Steve Justice, a former Lockheed Skunk Works advanced projects manager, leading the materials analysis. I've only encountered a few people in my life who project the kind of intellect that I see in that man, and they've never disappointed.
So while I'm pissed about this publishing atrocity, it doesn't change my gut instincts about the materials research - I think they've got something of interest there. I assume that we'll find out one way or the other, eventually.
But I think it's also important to distinguish the topic of AAVs in our airspace, from whatever the latest public theater is regarding the topic. Alien vehicles are navigating terrestrial airspace on occasion; that's monumental and a topic of enormous import for several reasons. If TTSA completely fails to move forward at this point, it won't change that fact. I was fascinated with this topic long before TTSA, and if they implode next week, I'll still be fascinated with this topic long after they're gone.