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Tom DeLonge's UFO Research Group Signs Contract With US Army To Develop Far-Future Tech (vice.com) 77

Posted by BeauHD from the joined-forces dept.
Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge's UFO research organization has signed an agreement with the U.S. Army in which it will help the military study and develop advanced materials for the purposes of develpoing "active camouflage, beamed energy propulsion, and quantum communication" for use on military vehicles. Motherboard reports: On October 17th, To the Stars joined forces with the Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command, a research and development body. While To the Stars has made recent headlines with its UFO themed content, such as its acquisition of "exotic" materials which it claims are not from Earth, and videos acquired from the Navy purporting to show unidentified anomalous phenomena, this recent deal with the military portrays a different side of To the Stars: as a potential technology company.

In recent months, DeLonge's organization has made a big deal out of obtaining those "exotic" metals that it believes may come from UFOs. Though the contract doesn't specifically mention the origin of any of those metals, it does say that To the Stars and the U.S. Army will use government labs to study "meta materials," which could refer to these alloys. "Government shall: Perform assessments, testing, and characterization of Collaborator-provided technologies. The Government is interested in a variety of the Collaborator's technologies, such as, but not limited to inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion," the contract states. The contract lasts for five years. The government isn't paying TTSA anything, rather, it is agreeing to collaborate with TTSA on researching new technologies and has committed to spend at least $750,000 on the research.
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  • Yeah, I suppose next thing is wormhole generators when you blast them with cosmic rays and a permanent portal to another universe opens and giant levitating worms with brain melting powers show up to turn us into a cash crop.

    • Quick, throw this man some money!

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Nidi62 ( 1525137 )

      Yeah, I suppose next thing is wormhole generators when you blast them with cosmic rays and a permanent portal to another universe opens and giant levitating worms with brain melting powers show up to turn us into a cash crop.

      So we should all invest in crowbars and shotguns?

  • bad movie plot (Score:5, Insightful)

    by sad_ ( 7868 ) on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @06:42AM (#59334348) Homepage

    straight out of a bad WOII movie plot, where the nazi's will investigate the occult and unnatural to gain the upper hand.
    who knew this is more reality than fiction?

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      • If this was a "talk and we kill you" contract do you suppose there'd be a press release and slashdot posting?
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        • Re: bad movie plot (Score:5, Funny)

          by spun ( 1352 ) <loverevolutionary&yahoo,com> on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:07AM (#59335004) Journal

          It's more a "tell the truth and we kill you" sort of thing. The aliens are just a cover story to hide the existence of multi-billion dollar secret contracts and the high tech they have developed. This was, in part, why the twin towers and the pentagon were destroyed: to hide the existence of this disruptive technology and its funding.

          Most of this technology, including new types of nuclear fission and fusion reactors, real quantum computing, and advanced matter-printing/nanotech, would radically change the current world power structure, so it is being kept under wraps, to be doled out as necessary (i.e. when someone not under government control develops it, or it fits the elite's time tables for new tech.) The powers that be would lose power in a post-scarcity world.

          (None of the above is true, of course, and I definitely don't have any secret evidence for any of it. And if I did, it would be tied to multiply redundant dead-man switches. Just sayin', it's probably best for all to consider the above as complete satire.)

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by neoRUR ( 674398 )

            I always find it fascinating how people always believe that humans are not capable of developing or doing any amazing thing, only the aliens can do it, but we are so good at keeping secrets.

            • Re: (Score:2)

              by spun ( 1352 )

              I think the assumption is that, given the age of the universe and how long galaxies like our own have been around, there simply must be intelligent life out there that attained space flight millions or billions of years before us. The idea isn't that aliens are necessarily smarter than us, just much, much older.

              Of course, given the available evidence, it is just as, if not far more likely that we are literally the first space faring species, at least in our own galaxy.

              As to the second part, we are terrible

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      • Do we have skulls on our helmets?

    • straight out of a bad WOII movie plot, where the nazi's will investigate the occult and unnatural to gain the upper hand.
      who knew this is more reality than fiction?

      Presumably it was only a matter of time, since we've got Nazis marching in the streets.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by MikeMo ( 521697 )
        I gotta tell you, we had Nazis marching in the streets in the 50’s and 60’s, too. Pissed me off no end. My parents explained freedom of speech to me and advised that we just ignore them.

        That’s what we should be doing now. Just ignore them and stop feeding the trolls.

        • As it turns out, we're going to have to deal with them.

        • I gotta tell you, we had Nazis marching in the streets in the 50’s and 60’s, too. Pissed me off no end. My parents explained freedom of speech to me and advised that we just ignore them. That’s what we should be doing now. Just ignore them and stop feeding the trolls.

          We had them in the 1930's as well. They held rallies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] They had lots of conspiracy theories.

          • Fucking hell, that was disturbing to watch.

            • Fucking hell, that was disturbing to watch.

              Yup - It can happen right here.

              • Sure. German-American citizens rallying to support the Third Reich. Just like Muslim Americans in modern America rallying to support the Caliphate. And we still haven't learned a damn thing apparently since pointing out that Islamic fundamentalists have a lot of commonality with the Nazis in that video is apparently "islamophobic" and criticizing uncontrolled immigration is "racist".

                Yup - It can happen right here.

                • Shit man, if there are Islamic folk holding rallies to support ISIS/L in the US, you should let us all know... The FBI too.
                  Or alternatively, quit talking out of your fucking ass.
                  Also, pointing out that islamofascists have a lot in common with fascists isn't islamophobic. Making shit up to slander all of Islam probably is though. Shithead.

                • Sure. German-American citizens rallying to support the Third Reich. Just like Muslim Americans in modern America rallying to support the Caliphate. And we still haven't learned a damn thing apparently since pointing out that Islamic fundamentalists have a lot of commonality with the Nazis in that video is apparently "islamophobic" and criticizing uncontrolled immigration is "racist".

                  Yup - It can happen right here.

                  While your strange reply almostt sounds like approving of American Nazis because Islamics somehow all support ISIS, I'll reply.

                  https://washingtonsblog.com/20... [washingtonsblog.com]

                  Lots of American citizens and companies were very approving of the National socialist party and even worked with them.

                  Which Islamic businesses and leaders in the USA are actively supporting and working directly with ISIS?

                  Have radical Islamists held rallies in Madison Square Garden? It isn't even remotely the same thing you are trying to sugg

        • It's more complicated than that, though, no?
          I mean sure, freedom of speech must allow for these shitheads to exist, and to demonstrate, and while I find them vile, I'm ok with that right existing for all of us.
          However... There's a point, probably when the first Nuremberg Rally is held... that people need to start wondering if they should have fought back while they still could, no?

          And no, I'm not saying we're there. But I do wonder if we'll get there.
    • No, this was the plot of Hellboy which was actually pretty awesome. But yeah, our tax dollars at "work" doing nothing productive.

    • straight out of a bad WOII movie plot, where the nazi's will investigate the occult and unnatural to gain the upper hand. who knew this is more reality than fiction?

      Gotta admit, those Vril chicks were pretty hot.

  • A sucker is born every minute and the government is the sucker

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by gtall ( 79522 )

      More to the point, the current administration is the sucker.

      • The administration is appointed by the government.

        eg. Trump has personally made several changes to the administration and none of them have added any fact-based policies (quite the opposite in fact...it's almost as if he doesn't want any pesky facts getting in the way)

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      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        As bad as Trump is he was still able to defeat his opponents. What does that say about the quality of those he defeated? And those who lost have not acknowledged or made any efforts to correct their policy platform. All they have did is focus all their efforts on running grandiose investigations in search of a crime. The tactics being used to destroy the President will be visited upon all Presidents going forward. The investigations are also another example of the legislative branch grabbing for more author

    • Re: our government is a sucker (Score:4, Funny)

      by Type44Q ( 1233630 ) on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:06AM (#59334600)
      This is almost certainly disinfo and definitely from the gov't. What you simpletons will never understand (and the smarter aspies usually fail to consider) is that there's nearly always a kernel of truth to this sort of bullshit (it might even be right in front of you but if it contradicts what you [assume] your subjective reality to be, you'll likely never be willing to see it.

      This business is still less silly than the script for Bin Laden's demise; if you can believe that, you can believed anything.

  • Tom DeLonge left Blink-182 in 2015 (Score:3, Informative)

    by UberLord ( 631313 ) on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @07:18AM (#59334412) Homepage

    From WikiPedia:

    Tom DeLonge (/dl/) (born December 13, 1975)[1] is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, record producer, actor and filmmaker. He is the lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Angels & Airwaves, which he formed in 2005, and was the co-lead vocalist, guitarist, and co-founder of the rock band Blink-182 from its formation in 1992 until his dismissal from the group in 2015.

    Matt Skiba has been the lead singer since.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

    • I really enjoyed his band Angels and Airwaves for some reason. Something about that kind of spacey new wave sound they had going.

  • Who signed such a contract? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by jellomizer ( 103300 ) on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @08:26AM (#59334526)

    I am all for research and development for new materials and technologies. But to buy it from a "Research Group" who says it is from a Crash Landed UFO would raise some red flags in their research methodology.

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by BrainJunkie ( 6219718 )
      They aren't "buying research and development" from them.

      The government isn't paying TTSA anything

      So it seems they are agreeing to spend $750k on research that presumably focuses on the materials these guys have and incorporate what they know. If anything it sounds like a JDA type arrangement where both sides do some R&D and agree to compare notes.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Tablizer ( 95088 )

        The government isn't paying TTSA anything...like a JDA type arrangement where both sides do some R&D and agree to compare notes.

        They found my missing sock pairs, so maybe there's something to 'em.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ceoyoyo ( 59147 )

      Meh. I'm really looking forward to the inertia reduction and directed energy propulsion technology.

    • The first iron industry emerging on this planet was based nearly purely on crash landed meteor iron ...

  • another company enters the ring.. (Score:4, Funny)

    by BlahSnarto ( 45250 ) on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:26AM (#59334818)

    Dave Grohl of the foo fighters and CEO of yoyodyne industries has expressed interest in licencing their everlong(tm) fabrics which provide superior camouflage and wicking abilities. We reached out to Dave and he was quoted in saying "If everything could ever feel this real forever... If anything could ever be this good again"

  • The American people have entrusted their defense to these buffoons?

  • Been waiting since Back to the Future II. If we get hoverboards the investment will be well worth it. Seth Sentry expresses my thoughts best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

  • No money changed hands - Interesting situation (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Ashthon ( 5513156 ) on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:55AM (#59335244)

    The War Room has good covering [thedrive.com] of this and has obtained a copy of the 26 page contract. No money has been paid to TTSA, and the army simply considers the materials sufficiently interesting that it's worth investigating.

    The contract contains some unusual statements including, "To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science is a company with materiel and technology innovations that offer capability advancements for Army ground vehicles." As The War Room points out, this statement stands out because it's completely unqualified. It doesn't say they "might have materiel and technology innovations," it says they they do have. It also says, "These technology innovations have been acquired, designed, and produced by the Collaborator [TTSA], leveraging advancements in metamaterials and quantum physics to push performance gains."

    What makes TTSA interesting is the high-calibre of personnel [tothestarsacademy.com] at the organisation (see The Team). It's not just some nut jobs, but highly educated people (e.g. Dr Hal Puthoff - PhD from Stanford, Dr Paul Rapp - PhD from Cambridge) and people with decades of experience in industry (Steve Justice - 31 years at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works). Tom DeLonge himself is undeniably a UFO nut job, but he seems to have said the right thing at the right time. He wanted to make a documentary about Skunk Works, and when visiting the site he was invited to an employee party, no doubt just because he's a celebrity. At the party he was asked to introduce the head of Skunk Works to the podium, again purely because he's a celebrity. He said he'd do it if he could talk to the head for five minutes alone. His pitch was that the military industrial establishment has developed a negative image, particularly amongst millennials, who hate the military. He said people are graduating from MIT and they don't want to work for Lockheed Martin, they want to work for Tesla or Google or whatever. DeLonge offered to help them improve the image of the defence companies and defence forces, which seems to be the aim of the TTSA. DeLonge's pitch appears to have struck a nerve, so he's ended up in a position with access to high-ranking personnel and information. One wonders if TTSA is a sort-of recruitment programme to get people interested in working in fields such as aerospace and defence. One thing that's certain is that you can't write off TTSA as the usual bunch of UFO crackpots, purely people of the people at the organisation. TTSA have also been buying a lot of supposed UFO materiel, much of which has been junk, but the materials acquired from journalist Linda Moulton Howe appear to be sufficiently interesting to attract the attention of the US Army.

    There are also some other unusual developments recently related to aerospace and UFO-like technology, particularly with the US Navy's Salvatore Cezar Pais patents. Slashdot covered the Navy's compact fusion reactor patent [slashdot.org], which was covered in more detail [thedrive.com] on The War Room and the patent can be seen here [google.com]. The Navy have filed [thedrive.com] four other Salvatore Pais patents for a room temperature super conductor [google.com], an electromagnetic field ge [google.com]

  • The reason they made DARPA was because many of the armed services had extensive, redundant research programs that never eneded and were going nowhere.

    DARPA addressed this by having very targeted goals with very fixed research project lifespans.

    I'm afraid sprawling research programs is happening again after people have forgotten how this failed the last time around.

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