Introduce Him to the General
Before turning to Puthoff and other members of the TTSA team, it’s important to know a bit about how TTSA began, or how DeLonge says it began. Or believes it began. Or was made to believe it began.
The easiest and fairest way to summarize that story, is simply to refer you to the best source I have found online about all of these affairs and that is The Warzone articles by Tyler Rogoway. Here is his article on how Tom DeLonge got started TTSA.
Don’t be thrown off by the title suggesting TTSA is a “government UFO info operation.” That is not bias creeping in. That is, in a nutshell, what DeLonge says TTSA is. The article prints a long extract of an interview of DeLonge by broadcast journalist George Knapp and if you read the whole thing, you will see that DeLonge positions TTSA as getting out the truth about UFOs in a way that not only gives the government plausible deniability but also:
“ …this project, I think if it’s done correctly, will reverse the cynicism that people have about government and what people have about the, frankly, the military industrial complex. ”
DeLonge makes this point several times, and goes out of his way to talk about how much respect he has of the military, even being sure to include “sir” repeatedly as he recounts his dialog with the military officers he talked to.
And he makes clear that he is not about to stray from the government line being fed to him by these military officials:
They did, they would dribble it out, and I would say… I would take it, I would incorporate it, I would make sure that I run everything by them, like I said that I would, I would tell them that when… I would say that, “We’re doing this piece of non-fiction. Here’s the first couple of chapters. Remember I told you I was doing that.” Or, “Here’s the novel, we talked about the novel, I want you to read the first part of the novel. Sir, is it okay if I do it this way, or this?”
Tommy Goes to Oz
But now a quick summary of the journey DeLonge took to land this job as town crier for the the Men in Black, though please read the Rogoway piece to get more detail.
During his Blink days, DeLonge had developed a little side gig trying to create a sort of sci-fi themed media company, with books, movies, etc. Somehow, he managed to get invited to a party at Lockheed Martin’s “Skunk Works” and got to talk to upper level official there. This conversation led to a series of very dramatic meetings all over the country with various top military officials (whom DeLonge can’t name, of course). Each meeting consisted of his having to win over a reluctant group of officials with his project pitch and deep UFO knowledge, before then being invited to yet another meeting in another agency in some other part of the country.
The dramatic pinnacle of this journey was at NASA. DeLonge is talking to yet another unnamed official and pitching his project, having demonstrated his mastery of secret UFO information that no one else in the civilian world could possibly know. No one without an internet connection, anyway.
DeLonge tells Knapp, “(H)e’s just staring at me, and then he takes a deep breath and says, ‘Introduce him to the general.’”
Oh you done leveled up big time now, Tommy boy.
Here’s the thing. As comically cloak and dagger as his account reads, some version of most of the meetings really happened. Rogoway was able to confirm some of them, (NASA denied DeLonge had been there at all, however) and people on his board and staff at TTSA are in large part, exactly the sorts of people he is talking about having met. There are some very high level people involved here, and we will have a look at some of them in coming articles.
Now I am not the first to say this, but DeLonge is getting played. To get some sense of that, you need look no further than his interview with Joe Rogan. From this interview, you can quickly see a couple of things. First, he is not so good with the whole science thing, botching a basic idea like red-shift and apparently confusing advanced space travel with Quicksilver of X-men fame.
The whole interview has a lot of “well, I can’t get into that here” kind of insider knowledge vibe. And he suggests he had such insider knowledge before meeting with all of these government and military officials. That’s what impressed these officials so much.
As he says to Rogan at 13:41: “I was fortunate enough to know the core story.”
And that short sentence pretty much gives away the game. The “core story” is what CIA analyst and UFO disinfoteer Kit Green, and a few others all agreed, apparently at a Denny’s, was what they knew to be true, or thought was most likely true, or…well, look, it’s the story they have been putting out for forty years and it changes and I have no idea what, if any of it, they actually believe. But they spend a lot of their time trying to spread the “core story” throughout the UFO believer community. And they are remarkably good at their work, though I do wish UFO “researchers” would stop making it so easy for them.
One technique that gets utilized with frequency by those seeking to manipulate an influencer in the UFO believer community is to offer access to “secret insider information.” The target is then flattered that they were trusted with this secret info and becomes compliant and eager to please in order to retain his new insider status.
DeLonge is tailormade for this kind of manipulation. From the Rogan interview, you can see he is not very scientifically savvy and also that he is “self taught” on the subject of UFOs. In the Knapp interview, he claims he even sent an academic thesis around that impressed these various insiders so much they cracked open their black vault of really secret stuff a bit so he could have a look. I think you will agree that there’s a bit of hubris there.
I don’t know at what point the military/intelligence community decided to utilize DeLonge for whatever this game turns out to be. From DeLonge’s interview, he definitely feels he approached “them” and yet describes a process of being told to meet this person here, call that person, fly out to this agency, etc. And, as we saw above, he checks with them for what he can and cannot say at every step.
Was it just luck that he happened to be sniffing around at the time some consensus was building that whatever TTSA is doing needed doing? Or did the idea develop as they were humoring a fairly well known celebrity and realized he might have a useful role?
I don’t know, but the difference with TTSA as opposed to similar operations in the past is that this time, these techniques have been employed on a rather epic scale. The team around DeLonge is impressive. Their rollout of the tic tac and other videos was masterful. The stories they wanted to propagate made national and international news, including front page stories in the New York Times.
If you read the Knapp interview excerpt though, you will notice something quite curious. TTSA has dual roles: to do some kind of entertainment/media projects propagating the “core story” but also to research materials that could lead to breakthroughs in propulsion and other technology. They claim to have some of these exotic materials already in their possession.
Yet DeLonge makes it clear that the government has been putting some of its finest people on these mysteries for over 70 years.
But they’re doing really good work and they could use the empowerment, they could use the citizens of the United States and the world understanding why it’s been kept secret, and that they’re not doing it out of malicious reasons. They’re doing it because it’s an ongoing task, it’s an ongoing issue, and they don’t fully understand it yet, but they’re trying their hardest and spending lots of money and have the brightest minds that they can find and they’re building things and they’re having breakthroughs that I think, frankly, we would all be incredibly proud of as a nation of what they’ve done.
That is our military and government he is talking about, with billions of dollars to play with. Yet here is TTSA that is going to research these materials with the few million dollars in investments they have managed to rustle up, and make the breakthroughs that have eluded our top scientists for decades? I mean, wouldn’t it be easier to use already established labs for that kind of thing?
In fact, in a story that only WarZone has covered in depth, the Navy already has patents on all of the tech that is weirdly similar to that being utilized by that high performance breath mint. I am not so sure about the science behind those patents, but it’s curious timing indeed.
I would suggest that their research arm is just part of the show. In fact, DeLonge has stated that any tech they create that has defense implications they will not release to the public and will sell to the military instead.
Hmmpph…some disclosure this is turning out to be.
Despite all of this, I still remain agnostic on exactly what the game is here. I agree with Rogoway, and indeed, DeLonge himself, that they basically are taking bits and pieces of info doled out to them and getting them into the public sphere in a way that both provides credibility, but also deniability. It is rather ingenious.
But even though I don’t know the full purpose of this program, I do know the patterns from the past, and for this reason, I will end with a warning to Mr. DeLonge, which I am sure he has heard before. Whether by design, or by developments that cause the government to need to pull the plug on this project, DeLonge could easily find himself discredited and discarded. The disinfoteers who play these games don’t much care who gets hurt in the process, and DeLonge, with his rock and roll background and rudimentary science knowledge, could end up the latest victim.
If you don’t believe me, just ask the family of Paul Bennewitz. Or for that matter, Tom, hop on a zoom call with Puthoff and ask him all about it. I’m sure he’ll be glad to fill you in.