What Really Happened to To The Stars Academy? The UFO Company That Took Millions and Vanished

In 2017, when Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge announced he was launching To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) — a multi-pronged UFO research and media company — the internet exploded. Headlines declared him the new face of disclosure. Former Pentagon insiders joined his team. And the now-infamous Navy UFO videos suddenly hit the airwaves.

This wasn’t a Reddit theory or blurry backyard footage.

This was a publicly traded company claiming to have access to alien materials, propulsion breakthroughs, and government support.

But fast forward a few years and the silence is deafening.

Where’s the spacecraft? The data? The revolutionary discoveries?

Here’s the full breakdown of what TTSA promised, where the money went, and what no one’s talking about now.

🎬 The Origin: UFO Truth Goes Corporate

TTSA launched with three branches:

Science – to research exotic technologies and “meta-materials”

Aerospace – to develop advanced propulsion systems

Entertainment – to push disclosure through books, films, and shows like Unidentified

And it wasn't just Tom DeLonge behind the curtain. His board included:

Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon’s AATIP program

Steve Justice, ex-Lockheed Skunk Works director

Chris Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Jim Semivan, former CIA operations officer

This was no garage startup. This was a dream team of deep-state insiders promising to finally break the silence.

💰 The Investment Pitch: Disclosure For Sale?

TTSA wasn’t a non-profit. It was a public benefit corporation — and it opened its doors to crowdfunded investment from the public.

Using Regulation A+, they solicited millions in small-dollar investments from everyday believers — often UFO enthusiasts, experiencers, and hardcore fans of DeLonge.

Here’s what they claimed investors would be backing:

• A craft based on UFO propulsion
• A “Beamed Energy Propulsion System”
• Meta-material research from recovered craft
• Mainstream films and documentaries to shape public opinion
• Scientific breakthroughs in consciousness and telepathy

And people bought in.

TTSA raised over $2.5 million in a public campaign — with many expecting a tech-first future powered by recovered alien science.

📊 Where Did the Money Go?

According to SEC filings and public reports, most of TTSA’s revenue went toward:

• Salaries for staff and board members
• Marketing and promotion
• Media production and publishing costs
• “R&D” expenses with little public detail
• No confirmed breakthroughs.
• No tech demos.
• No meta-material evidence shared with the public.

And as of 2021, TTSA quietly withdrew its public offering, laid off staff, and transitioned from "aerospace and science"… to focusing entirely on entertainment.

So was it ever really about disclosure? Or just a stylish UFO content factory?

🧪 What About the Meta-Materials?

One of TTSA’s biggest claims was that it had acquired fragments of “off-world vehicles” — including materials allegedly studied at government labs and possessing strange electromagnetic properties.

They partnered with EarthTech International, headed by physicist Hal Puthoff (also a TTSA co-founder), to analyze the samples.

But years later:

• No peer-reviewed studies were published
• No samples were released publicly

And Puthoff later admitted in a talk that some materials turned out to be “terrestrial industrial byproducts.”

Translation?

What was hinted at as alien tech… might’ve been leftover metal slag.

📺 Entertainment Over Evidence?

With nothing revolutionary emerging from their science or aerospace branches, TTSA pivoted to what they could produce quickly: media content.

That included:

• Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation (History Channel)
• Tom DeLonge’s Sekret Machines book series
• A number of low-visibility digital films and documentaries

Was this a strategic shift? Or was media the plan all along?

Some critics now argue that TTSA used the guise of scientific research to boost credibility — while merely producing brandable, bingeable UFO content.

And if that’s true, investors may have funded a sci-fi film studio — not a tech company.

🧥 Are the “Insiders” Really Disclosing… or Controlling?

One of the most persistent criticisms is that TTSA's board was stacked with former intelligence and military personnel.

Why does that matter?

• They’re still bound by NDAs and secrecy laws
• Their roles may have involved disinformation in the past
• They never revealed anything truly classified on the show or in interviews

It raises a chilling question:

Was TTSA a brave push for truth?

Or was it a controlled disclosure operation, offering just enough to pacify the public… but never enough to challenge the system?

🔚 Where Are They Now?

As of 2023:

Elizondo and Mellon have distanced themselves from TTSA

The science and aerospace divisions are nonexistent

Tom DeLonge has returned to Blink-182 and focuses on media under “To The Stars Inc”

TTSA’s original website quietly removed its “investor relations” section

In other words…

The UFO revolution you funded? Never arrived.

🧠 Final Thoughts: UFO Disclosure… or the Ultimate Diversion?

TTSA promised truth.

They promised transparency.

They promised to take us to the stars.

Instead, they delivered a few TV episodes, recycled videos, and vague theories wrapped in heavy branding.

Maybe they believed in what they were doing.

Or maybe it was just the best-funded UFO marketing stunt in history.

But one thing’s for sure:

The people who wanted answers deserve them.

And the truth — whatever it is — still hasn’t landed.