To The Stars Academy
To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) is a private research, media, and entertainment company founded in October 2017 by musician Tom DeLonge. Its formally credited co-founders are DeLonge, physicist Hal Puthoff, and former CIA officer Jim Semivan; Luis Elizondo, former Minority Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee Chris Mellon, and former Lockheed Martin engineer Steve Justice joined the company's leadership team at its public launch. TTSA's stated mission combined UAP research and public engagement with entertainment media production, and the company was widely credited with helping catalyze renewed mainstream and congressional interest in UAP following its 2017 launch, which coincided with a New York Times article revealing the existence of the Pentagon's AATIP program.
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Alleged UAP Involvement
UAP Gerb's Special Access Required Vol.2 is highly critical of TTSA, characterizing it as a vehicle for a theorized partial-disclosure campaign the presenter connects to Luis Elizondo's prior role directing the National Program Special Management Staff (NPMS) under James Clapper's former office. The video connects TTSA to John Podesta (Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign chairman) and speculates the company's formation and messaging were oriented toward positioning Hillary Clinton as a "disclosure president" ahead of the 2016 election. The presenter also references Lockheed Martin Skunk Works executive Rob Weiss and retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland — who is documented, via leaked email correspondence, to have briefly and informally advised DeLonge shortly after his own 2013 Air Force retirement — as individuals connected to TTSA's formation, alongside Hal Puthoff and Elizondo. UAP Gerb argues TTSA's 2025 documentary Age of Disclosure continued this alleged pattern of managed, partial disclosure by presenting an organizational chart of the legacy program structure the video characterizes as both historically inaccurate and self-serving toward individuals connected to TTSA.