By then the existence of the AATIP/AAWSAP Pentagon program was disclosed thanks to the New York times article in December of 2017. DeLonge gave an atrocious interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast –how atrocious? Enough for him to be replaced by Luis Elizondo, who then became the new face for To the Stars, and the one who started to do the conference and radio show circuit expected of a new ‘celebrity’ in the UFO subculture, while Tom was sent to the showers (unofficially, of course). We never did, but nevertheless I kept checking on the company’s website regularly, to see if they would be able to reach their $50m goal –even despite the fact that many people were quick to point out how it was a bad financial idea, given how most of the initial money raised by TTS would be used to pay the loans made to Tom DeLonge himself, through one of his other companies (Our Two Dogs, Inc.) –never mind the fact that reverse-engineering (purported) alien technology is something that would likely take centuries, and involve *all* the best minds in the world. The fact that most of the board members of the brand new company came from the Intelligence world wasn’t exactly reassuring either –seasoned UFO buffs were quick to remember what happened to Paul Bennewitz when he was fed disinformation at the behest of the US Air Force…īack then I remember how a few friends of mine were joking about pooling the 200 bucks needed to invest on TTS, just so we could receive ‘inside’ reports from the company. how you influence the public opinion and expectations of what UFOs may or may not be. This approach seemed not only unlikely, but suspicious, because it was suggestive that one of the goals behind TTS-AAS was perception management –i.e. The Entertainment division would produce mass-media content (books, motion pictures, documentaries) that would educate the public about the reality of UFOs, while providing fundings for the Aerospace the division which would attempt to recreate (and profit from) UFO technologies, and vice versa. The apparent problem from the get-go is that To the Stars was born as a hybrid (pun intended) with an Entertainment division and a Science/Aerospace division. $50 million dollars? That could have been seen as either the biggest jackpot in the history of UFOlogy, or chump change when it comes to the aerospace industry (Elon Musk started SpaceX with $100 millions of his own money). It was going to be a “public benefit corporation,” which means it would not be solely driven by the pursuit of maximizing the profit of shareholders –a public benefit corporation is NOT a non-profit company, though, and its owners will still demand the company to make money eventually. TTS-AAS was not going to be a typical company, DeLonge explained. TTS-AAS’s plan: To issue 10 million stocks set at a speculative value of US$5.00 (we’ll get back to this) and offer them to the public, demanding a minimum investment of US$200.00. That emptiness made the promises uttered by DeLonge and his associates even more difficult to digest: they were talking about uncovering the decades-long secret on UFOs, and proving to the public once and for all we were not alone in this world they were also talking about developing brand new technologies in propulsion and aerospace that would revolutionize transportation in ways that would put Star Trek to shame –in essence, they were talking about building a freaking flying saucer.Īnd to bring that unimaginable dreamstuff to the world, they needed our money.
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