diff --git a/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md b/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md index 4066225e..0a0c84b9 100644 --- a/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,100 +1,100 @@ -- 2026-10-03T2013 · [[_NEWS_W3]] -- 2026-10-03T2013 · [[Galileo Project]] -- 2026-10-03T2013 · [[Frank Laukien]] -- 2026-10-03T2013 · [[Ryan Graves]] -- 2026-10-03T2013 · [[Leslie Kean]] -- 2026-10-03T2008 · [[_manifest]] -- 2026-10-03T2008 · [[Wilson-Davis Memo]] -- 2026-10-03T2008 · [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[GoFast]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[GIMBAL]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[PROMIS]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[MKSEARCH]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Sol Foundation]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Sky Watcher]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Mellon Family]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Human Potential Foundation]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[BDM Corporation]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Americans for Safe Aerospace]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Office of Naval Research]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Army Chemical Corps]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Peter Skafish]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Jay Stratton]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Hal Puthoff]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Garry Reid]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Garry Nolan]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Claiborne Pell]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Andrija Puharich]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Eugene Jhong]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[Christopher Mellon]] -- 2026-10-03T2007 · [[C.B. 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Alexander]] +- 2026-10-03T2344 · [[Jake Barber]] +- 2026-10-03T2344 · [[Edward Brongersma]] +- 2026-10-03T2344 · [[Dyer Grossman]] +- 2026-10-03T2344 · [[Dick Cheney]] +- 2026-10-03T2344 · [[Bruce Eckerson]] +- 2026-10-03T2344 · [[Annie Bouty]] +- 2026-10-03T2343 · [[_CLEANUP_process_notes_2026-10-03]] +- 2026-10-03T2343 · [[_FINDINGS_IP1]] +- 2026-10-03T2343 · [[Alan Standorf]] +- 2026-10-03T2343 · [[Remote Viewing]] +- 2026-10-03T2343 · [[Executive Office for United States Attorneys]] +- 2026-10-03T2343 · [[No Lives Matter]] +- 2026-10-03T2343 · [[Allan R. Tessler]] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Annie Bouty.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Annie Bouty.md index 8626bd87..85660c6c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Annie Bouty.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Annie Bouty.md @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ In the [[X-Dossier]], compiled under [[Jean-Marc Connerotte]] and [[Michel Bourl ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its statements that Bouty was convicted in 2004 of kidnapping and manslaughter, sentenced to 30 years, admitted knowing of the captives in Dutroux's cellar and was released in 2012 are contradicted by the trial record, in which she was a witness, not a defendant; several of these details correspond to Michelle Martin. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its statements that Bouty was convicted in 2004 of kidnapping and manslaughter, sentenced to 30 years, admitted knowing of the captives in Dutroux's cellar and was released in 2012 are contradicted by the trial record, in which she was a witness, not a defendant; several of these details correspond to Michelle Martin. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport complémentaire, Doc. 713/8-96/97, February 16, 1998, chapter on Nihoul's networks; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/comm/dutroux/49K0713008.pdf [^3]: "Notorious child rapist-murderer convicted." NBC News and Associated Press, June 17, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5233011 ; "Nihoul acquitté pour les enlèvements." *La Dernière Heure,* June 17, 2004. https://www.dhnet.be/actu/faits/2004/06/17/nihoul-acquitte-pour-les-enlevements-MF73NPYQVBC25I2Y6P54BXIQDA/ [^4]: Hovine, Annick. "Annie Bouty, ex-compagne de Nihoul, sort ses griffes." *La Libre Belgique,* May 3, 2004; translated from the French. https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/2004/05/03/annie-bouty-ex-compagne-de-nihoul-sort-ses-griffes-VKDQW4MOE5DTLGWMVOWZKUWGYI/ diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bill Bailey.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bill Bailey.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..12586b5a --- /dev/null +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bill Bailey.md @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +--- +category: "People" +tags: + - Person + - DefenseContractor + - USAirForceVeteran + - HuntsvilleAlabama + - TechnicalIntelligence + - ForeignMaterielExploitation + - EmployeeOwned + - PoliticalDonor +alias: + - William C. Bailey Jr. + - William C. Bailey, Jr. + - William C. Bailey + - William Bailey + - Bill Bailey Jr. + - Bill Bailey, Jr. + - William "Bill" Bailey + - Bailey, William C. + - Bill Bailey (Radiance) +summary: "William C. Bailey Jr. is chief executive of Radiance Technologies, a former Air Force engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and lead defendant in the dismissed ESOP suit Berry v. Bailey." +location: "Huntsville, Alabama" +relations: + - type: member_of + with: "[[United States Air Force]]" + role: "B-52 aircraft maintenance technician, then research and development engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center and Phillips Laboratory (fourteen years of military service per the company biography)" + fn: 1 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Radiance Technologies]]" + start: "2001" + role: "joined 2001; senior vice president and manager of the Intelligence Systems Group; president from January 15, 2013; chief executive officer" + fn: 10 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Radiance Technologies]]" + start: "2014-05-19" + role: "director listed on the Alabama Secretary of State record (restated articles entered May 19, 2014); defendant as chief executive and board member in Berry v. Bailey (2024)" + fn: 2 + - type: member_of + with: "[[Business Council of Alabama]]" + start: "2026" + role: "listed member of the 2026 board of directors" + fn: 17 + - type: member_of + with: "[[Tuberville for Senate]]" + start: "2026-02-11" + role: "member of the campaign finance committee announced the week of February 12, 2026" + fn: 18 + - type: subject_of + with: "[[Berry v. Bailey]]" + start: "2024-04-25" + end: "2025-09-18" + role: "named defendant; all claims dismissed without prejudice September 18, 2025" + fn: 3 + - type: funded + with: "[[Grow the Majority]]" + start: "2024-05-03" + end: "2026-06-30" + role: "five itemized contributions totaling $270,000" + fn: 6 + - type: funded + with: "[[Scalise Leadership Fund]]" + start: "2021-05-04" + end: "2026-04-27" + role: "eight itemized contributions totaling $115,000" + fn: 6 +created: 2026-10-04 +updated: 2026-10-04 +--- + +### Identity + +William C. Bailey Jr. is the chief executive officer of [[Radiance Technologies]] of [[Huntsville, Alabama]]. The company's own biography names him "William C. Bailey, Jr.", states that he joined Radiance in 2001, and gives his background as fourteen years of military service as "a B-52 aircraft maintenance technician and as a Research and Development Engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center and the Phillips Laboratory, now the Air Force Research Laboratory." It lists a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from [[Louisiana Tech University]].[^1] The [[Alabama Secretary of State]] record for Radiance lists "William C Bailey" among the five directors entered with the corporation's restated articles on May 19, 2014.[^2] The defendant named "William C. Bailey" in the 2024 suit Berry v. Bailey is described in the pleadings as chief executive officer of Radiance and a member of its board; the identity of the defendant, the company officer and the October 2024 vice chairman of [[Radiance Ignite Technologies]] rests on the same name and office.[^3][^4] + +A William Bailey who directs the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (a Notre Dame graduate and test pilot) is a different person.[^5] A William C. Bailey III appears in FEC records with occupations unrelated to the chief executive's; those rows are excluded from the donation figures below.[^6] + +### Air Force service and early industry career + +The company biography gives the military portion as fourteen years that began in B-52 maintenance and moved to research and development engineering at the [[National Air and Space Intelligence Center]] (NASIC) and at [[Phillips Laboratory]], now the [[Air Force Research Laboratory]].[^1] NASIC is the successor to the [[Foreign Technology Division]] at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]]. A 2017 [[Business Council of Alabama]] member profile states that his career began in the [[United States Air Force]] as a "B-52 mechanic."[^7] Radiance's own December 2001 and September 2002 web pages on foreign materiel exploitation (the 2002 page lists "Hardware Reverse Engineering" and "ELINT, COMINT, FISINT, and MASINT Analysis") name Bill Bailey as the contact for the Intelligence Community support area.[^8] + +### Radiance Technologies + +Radiance began operating on March 15, 1999 under the founders George Clark, John Dennis and Scott Dublin.[^9] On January 29, 2013 the company announced that its board had appointed Bailey president effective January 15, 2013; he had been a Radiance employee for twelve years and had moved up from senior vice president and manager of the Intelligence Systems Group. George Clark, one of the original founders, remained chairman of the board, and the company had ended 2012 with approximately $140 million in revenue.[^10] A later company biography describes Bailey as chief executive of a "$200M 100% employee-owned small business" with "core competencies in developing advanced technologies, integrating systems, performing technical intelligence, and providing engineering services to the Department of Defense."[^1] + +Under his tenure the company won the NOVASTAR contract from NASIC (announced August 19, 2022; a five-award indefinite delivery vehicle, with Radiance's vehicle FA860422DB008 carrying a $4,797,000,000 ceiling to August 18, 2027). Bailey said the award reflected "20 years of hard work" with "our customer, NASIC."[^11] On April 22, 2022 Radiance hired [[Travis Taylor]]; Bailey was quoted calling Taylor "an outstanding and highly qualified scientist."[^12] On May 12, 2022 the company announced [[Jay Stratton]] as "SME for Intel Strategy" and member of "the CEO's Strategy Team", noting that he had most recently been the first director of the [[UAP Task Force]].[^13] + +On March 17, 2025 Radiance opened a Research and Innovation Center in [[Cummings Research Park]]; Bailey said there was "no better place to start a company in this world than Huntsville, Alabama," credited the congressional delegation by name ([[Richard Shelby]], [[Robert Aderholt]], [[Dale Strong]], [[Katie Britt]], [[Tommy Tuberville]]), and described the 100 percent employee ownership as "the rocket fuel."[^14] On April 21, 2026 he was quoted announcing Darien Hammett's promotion to chief operating officer.[^15] + +### Radiance Ignite Technologies + +The October 14, 2024 announcement of the joint venture of Radiance and [[Ignite Fueling Innovation]] names [[Clayton Hinchman]] president and chairman and Bailey vice chairman.[^4] The Alabama Secretary of State record shows the venture's formation on July 10, 2024.[^4] + +### Louisiana ties + +Radiance operates in Shreveport and Baton Rouge. On August 25, 2025 Louisiana Economic Development announced a $370.65 million secure microchip packaging facility in Lincoln Parish with Radiance, Louisiana Tech University and the Louisiana Tech University Foundation; the state committed $20 million in matching funds to the foundation and $17 million to Louisiana Tech. Bailey said the partnership was "a win-win opportunity that will benefit Radiance, Tech, Ruston and the entire state."[^16] Bailey gave $25,000 to Conservative Louisiana on March 31, 2026 and $27,100 in four contributions to the Letlow Victory Fund (August 12, 2022 to March 19, 2026).[^6] + +### Berry v. Bailey + +Heath Berry and four other former Radiance employees sued Bailey, the Radiance directors Robert E. (Bud) Cramer, Jim Scanlon, Jed Deason, Jim Poss, Carol Tevepaugh and John F. Thompson, [[Argent Trust Company]], Argent Financial Group and an Argent officer. The suit was begun in Madison County, Alabama, and removed to the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama]] on April 25, 2024 as case 5:24-cv-00522 (Judge Corey L. Maze).[^3] The plaintiffs filed a second amended verified complaint on August 21, 2024, pleading eight counts: direct and derivative breach of fiduciary duty against Bailey (Counts I and III), against the board members (II and IV) and against the Argent defendants (V and VI), and two ERISA counts against all defendants (VII and VIII), on behalf of participants in the Radiance Employee Stock Ownership Plan and holders of stock appreciation rights.[^3] + +The plaintiffs alleged that in early 2023 Bailey began exploring a sale of Radiance; that after offers from Axient and BlueHalo the board retained Jefferies, producing about fourteen offers narrowed to five, each "in a range of two times (2X) the ESOP's last appraised value"; that Bailey did not want a sale because he would not remain chief executive; that he fired Radiance president Tim Tinsley in the middle of due diligence; and that he told the board that "product(s) and programs" would lift the valuation when those products and programs "did not even exist." The complaint alleges the board then voted to table the sale and that a "brain-drain" of senior staff followed.[^3] These are the plaintiffs' allegations in a case dismissed without a ruling on the facts. + +The Radiance defendants moved to dismiss on September 4, 2024, calling the suit "a nuisance suit from five former Radiance Technologies, Inc. employees" who now work for competitors, and stating that Radiance had sued two of them (Radiance Technologies, Inc. v. Berry, 47-CV-2024-90092, Madison County Circuit Court; Radiance Technologies, Inc. v. Baker, 5:24-cv-00794, N.D. Ala.).[^3] On September 18, 2025 the court granted the motions to dismiss: the plaintiffs lacked standing for the direct state-law claims, ERISA preempted the remaining state-law claims, and the ERISA claims failed for non-exhaustion of the plan's administrative remedies. The court dismissed all claims without prejudice and closed the case.[^3] + +### Political contributions + +The FEC records itemized contributions under the name William C. Bailey, with employer Radiance Technologies and occupations of chief executive, president, chairman, vice president or senior vice president, from April 24, 2006 (a $1,000 contribution to [[Mike DeWine]]'s U.S. Senate committee) through June 30, 2026: 137 itemized rows totaling $818,118.51. Annual totals run $2,500 (2006), $3,000 (2008), $2,400 (2009), $3,500 (2010), $6,900 (2011), nothing itemized from 2012 through 2017, $4,000 (2018), $12,400 (2019), $14,550 (2020), $26,700 (2021), $64,557 (2022), $106,965 (2023), $108,876 (2024), $253,271 (2025) and $208,500 (January through June 2026).[^6] + +By committee, the largest totals are Grow the Majority ($270,000, five rows, May 3, 2024 to June 30, 2026); [[Steve Scalise]]'s Scalise Leadership Fund ($115,000, eight rows, May 4, 2021 to April 27, 2026); the Tuberville Victory Fund ($35,000, three rows, October 21, 2023 to March 31, 2025); the Letlow Victory Fund of [[Julia Letlow]] ($27,100, four rows, August 12, 2022 to March 19, 2026); Britt Senate Victory ($26,000, April 28, 2025); Conservative Louisiana ($25,000, March 31, 2026); the Johnson Leadership Fund of [[Mike Johnson]] ($20,000, December 31, 2023); the Strong Victory Fund ($17,000, two rows, February 28 and April 27, 2026); and [[Jerry Carl]] for Congress ($15,570.71, three rows, May 22, 2022 to September 26, 2025).[^6] + +Contributions to members of Congress and senators with intelligence, armed services or appropriations roles are itemized as follows: [[Mike Rogers]] for Congress, $14,500 (seven rows, June 29, 2020 to March 18, 2025) and Mike Rogers Victory, $1,000 (October 10, 2023); [[Dale Strong]] for Congress, $14,100 (five rows, June 11, 2021 to March 19, 2024); [[Katie Britt]], Britt for Alabama Inc., $11,200 (five rows, December 31, 2021 to May 2, 2023), Team Katie, $5,800 (October 26, 2022) and Britt Senate Victory, $5,000 (September 27, 2024); [[Tommy Tuberville]], Tuberville for Senate Inc., $9,500 (three rows, March 29, 2021 to July 25, 2025); [[Mike Turner]], Citizens for Turner, $9,200 (four rows, June 30, 2008 to July 31, 2024); [[Robert Aderholt]] for Congress, $7,057 (three rows, June 21, 2021 to September 30, 2025); [[Mo Brooks]] for Congress, $5,300 (two rows, April 25, 2019 and October 5, 2020); and [[Richard Shelby]], Shelby for U.S. Senate, $2,400 (April 2, 2009). Earlier recipients include [[Jeff Sessions]] (Friends of Sessions Senate Committee, $5,000, January 8, 2020) and [[Doug Jones]] (Doug Jones for Senate Committee, fifteen rows totaling $3,200, August 14, 2019 to October 31, 2020).[^6] + +The Radiance PAC (committee C00372979, first filed February 12, 2002) has listed E. Scott Dublin (2002 to 2018), Seth Crochet (2020 to 2024) and Robert Seth Brasher (2026) as treasurer; Bailey is not listed as treasurer. The PAC's own itemized gifts include $37,100 to Rogers, $51,250 to Turner and $25,000 to the Turner Victory Fund.[^6] The Business Council of Alabama lists Bailey on its 2026 board, and [[256 Today]] reported on February 12, 2026 that he is a member of the campaign finance committee of Tuberville's campaign.[^17][^18] + +### UAP-related claims touching Radiance + +Radiance's president Tim Tinsley told [[KLAS-TV]]'s [[George Knapp]] on October 13, 2022, about a hypothetical request to take apart a UFO, "Why not. I'm waiting for one of those," and "No, we provide customer solutions"; Taylor said "Jay and I are working on growing the capabilities, doing reverse engineering of foreign materials." The report states that Radiance "isn't able to confirm the allegations" about crash-retrieval briefings.[^19] The report does not quote Bailey. + +On December 3, 2023 [[Liberation Times]] published [[Daniel Sheehan]]'s statement that [[Lockheed Martin]], [[Raytheon]] and "now Radiance Technologies" were "given particular discrete aspects of the technology to try to figure it out." The same article states that the outlet was unable to substantiate the claim, that multiple sources described it as untrue, and that Stratton and Taylor were "in no way involved in any coverup."[^20] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Radiance Technologies, Inc., "William C. Bailey, Jr., Chief Executive Officer" (leadership page), Wayback capture of November 14, 2025. https://web.archive.org/web/20251114213806/https://www.radiancetech.com/about-us/leadership/bill-bailey/ +[^2]: Alabama Secretary of State, business entity record for Radiance Technologies, Inc., ID 000-195-724 (restated articles, directors, entered May 19, 2014). https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=000195724&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= +[^3]: Berry v. Bailey, No. 5:24-cv-00522-CLM (N.D. Ala.): Doc. 33, second amended and restated verified complaint (August 21, 2024); Doc. 42, Radiance defendants' motion to dismiss (September 4, 2024); Doc. 68, memorandum opinion (September 18, 2025); CourtListener docket 68716598 (filed 2024-04-25, terminated 2025-09-18). https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.alnd.189482/gov.uscourts.alnd.189482.68.0.pdf ; https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68716598/berry-v-bailey/ +[^4]: PR Newswire, "Radiance Technologies and Ignite Announce Joint Venture," October 14, 2024 (release 302275375); Alabama Secretary of State, Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC, ID 001-144-448. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-and-ignite-announce-joint-venture-302275375.html +[^5]: Potomac Officers Club, speaker profile of William Bailey (Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office). https://potomacofficersclub.com/speakers/william-bailey-3/ +[^6]: Federal Election Commission, Schedule A (individual contributions, employer Radiance Technologies) and committee record C00372979, retrieved through the FEC API in October 2026. Itemized rows counted: contributor name William or Bill Bailey (excluding "III"), occupations chief executive, president, executive, chairman, vice president or senior vice president; memo entries excluded. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/committee/C00372979/ +[^7]: Business Council of Alabama, "Radiance Technologies Shines in the Employee-Owned World," September 7, 2017. https://www.bcatoday.org/tag/bill-bailey/ +[^8]: Radiance Technologies web pages "Foreign Materiel Exploitation" (Wayback, October 27, 2001) and "Intelligence Community Support" (Wayback, September 27, 2002). https://web.archive.org/web/20020927213934/http://www.radiancetech.com:80/ServicesForeignMaterialExp.html +[^9]: Radiance Technologies, "About Us," Wayback capture of July 11, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170711221013/https://www.radiancetech.com/about-us/ +[^10]: Radiance Technologies, Inc., "William C. 'Bill' Bailey, Jr. Appointed President of Radiance Technologies," January 29, 2013. https://www.radiancetech.com/william-c-bill-bailey-appointed-president-of-radiance-technologies +[^11]: Radiance Technologies, "Radiance Technologies Wins NOVASTAR Contract for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center," August 2022; USAspending, IDV FA860422DB008. https://www.radiancetech.com/radiance-technologies-wins-novastar-contract-for-the-national-air-and-space-intelligence-center/ +[^12]: ExecutiveGov, April 22, 2022, on the hiring of Travis Taylor. https://www.executivegov.com/?p=233066 +[^13]: PR Newswire, "John F. Stratton Jr. Joins Radiance Technologies as SME for Intel Strategy," May 12, 2022 (release 301546258), Wayback capture. https://web.archive.org/web/20220512145721id_/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/john-f-stratton-jr-joins-radiance-technologies-as-sme-for-intel-strategy-301546258.html +[^14]: Huntsville Business Journal, "The right stuff: local defense company celebrates success," March 19, 2025. https://huntsvillebusinessjournal.com/news/2025/03/19/the-right-stuff-local-defense-company-celebrates-success +[^15]: 256 Today, "Radiance Technologies promotes Darien Hammett to chief operating officer," April 21, 2026. https://256today.com/radiance-technologies-promotes-darien-hammett-to-chief-operating-officer/ +[^16]: Louisiana Economic Development, "Radiance Technologies Announces $370 Million Microchip Facility in North Louisiana," August 25, 2025. https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/radiance-technologies-announces-370-million-microchip-facility-in-north-louisiana-to-bolster-and-secure-national-supply-chains +[^17]: Business Council of Alabama, 2026 Board of Directors. https://www.bcatoday.org/bca-board-of-directors +[^18]: 256 Today, "North Alabama business leaders anchor Tuberville's campaign finance committee," February 12, 2026. https://256today.com/north-alabama-business-leaders-anchor-tubervilles-campaign-finance-committee/ +[^19]: KLAS-TV 8 News Now (George Knapp), "Is this company working with alien technology in Nevada?" October 13, 2022. https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/is-this-company-working-with-alien-technology-in-nevada/ +[^20]: Liberation Times, Daniel Sheehan interview, December 3, 2023. Sole source for the Sheehan passages so cited. https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/daniel-sheehan-exposes-five-powerful-republicans-blocking-ufo-disclosure-act-as-the-clock-ticks-down diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bruce Eckerson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bruce Eckerson.md index 9f0a18be..046b2d12 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bruce Eckerson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bruce Eckerson.md @@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indic --- ### Footnotes -[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Sole source for the passages so cited. Contemporaneous reporting describes Eckerson as the county's elected district attorney who resisted for six months the CHP's pressure to prosecute Sinclair and engaged a retired CHP lieutenant, Bob Kovach, to review its evidence: "Highway Patrol's Crash investigation questioned," United Press International, September 25, 1983 (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Highway-Patrols-Crash-investigation-questioned/7300433310400/). \ No newline at end of file +[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Contemporaneous reporting describes Eckerson as the county's elected district attorney who resisted for six months the CHP's pressure to prosecute Sinclair and engaged a retired CHP lieutenant, Bob Kovach, to review its evidence: "Highway Patrol's Crash investigation questioned," United Press International, September 25, 1983 (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Highway-Patrols-Crash-investigation-questioned/7300433310400/). Sole source for the passages so cited. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles Docter.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles Docter.md index cdea44a3..c5c730a4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles Docter.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles Docter.md @@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ Docter told the [[House Committee on the Judiciary]] that in July 1987, two mont ### Footnotes -[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, pp. 169-170, 211-214. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport (which spells the name Docter throughout; "Deeter" in later accounts is a transcription error). The firm's role as counsel of record appears in the reporter listings for *In re INSLAW, Inc.,* 97 B.R. 685 and 106 B.R. 331 (Bankr. D.D.C. 1989), not examined. +[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, pp. 169-170, 211-214. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport (which spells the name Docter throughout; "Deeter" in later accounts is a transcription error). The firm's role as counsel of record appears in the reporter listings for *In re INSLAW, Inc.,* 97 B.R. 685 and 106 B.R. 331 (Bankr. D.D.C. 1989). diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Marks.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Marks.md index 81ba37c3..23cff3d7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Marks.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Marks.md @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Marks was senior lecturer in psychology at Otago in 1982, one of five founding m ### Footnotes -[^1]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0 (abstract and dates only; the text is behind a paywall). +[^1]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0. [^2]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. *The Psychology of the Psychic.* Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1980, pp. 12-41, 129, 151, 177, 185, read through the archive.org search index of the item psychologyofpsyc0000mark_j8m3 (page fragments only). [^3]: Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf [^4]: Puthoff, H. E., and Russell Targ, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," and Tart, Charles T., "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," January 1979, "submitted for publication to Nature," CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5; published as Tart, Puthoff and Targ, *Nature,* vol. 284, 1980, p. 191, not seen. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Hyman, Ray. "Evaluation of Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena," September 11, 1995, in *An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications,* American Institutes for Research, September 29, 1995, p. 3-71, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200180006-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Marks, D. F., "Sensory cues invalidate remote viewing experiments," *Nature,* vol. 292, 1981, p. 177, and Marks, D., and C. Scott, "Remote viewing exposed," *Nature,* vol. 319, 1986, p. 444, titles and authors from the journal's pages only. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dick Cheney.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dick Cheney.md index 6ff0c9dc..5a3dd733 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dick Cheney.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dick Cheney.md @@ -59,4 +59,4 @@ Cheney was chief executive of [[Halliburton]] in the late 1990s. [[Ray Hunt]] of [^3]: *Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair,* H. Rept. 100-433, S. Rept. 100-216, November 1987, minority report. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/18221 [^4]: Halliburton Company, Schedule 14A proxy statement, 2004, Securities and Exchange Commission. [^5]: Rangwala, Glen. "The interview with Hussein Kamel," February 2003, quoting the UNSCOM and IAEA note of the meeting of August 22, 1995; Barry, John. *Newsweek,* March 3, 2003. -[^6]: O'Brien, Cathy, and Mark Phillips. *Trance Formation of America.* 1995. Sole source for the passage so cited. +[^6]: O'Brien, Cathy, and Mark Phillips. *Trance Formation of America.* 1995. Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dyer Grossman.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dyer Grossman.md index 71c77b80..1dd928b6 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dyer Grossman.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dyer Grossman.md @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that Grossman co-drafted the charter of Brother Paul's ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It places the boarding school in New York; the district attorneys' statement places it in New Jersey. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It places the boarding school in New York; the district attorneys' statement places it in New Jersey. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Wright, Marilyn. "Porno Ring Uses Church, Tax Laws" and related articles. *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1976-1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041 [^3]: National District Attorneys Association, Task Force on Sexual Abuse of Children, statement and letter of Robert F. Leonard to Benjamin Civiletti, March 4, 1977, in *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* Serial No. 12, 1977. [^4]: *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, reprinted in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 1977. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward Jay Epstein.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward Jay Epstein.md index ca77938e..4e2ea400 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward Jay Epstein.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward Jay Epstein.md @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Epstein died on January 9, 2024, at his home in New York City, aged 88. The fami ### Footnotes [^1]: "Edward Jay Epstein," obituary placed by the family, Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel, Dignity Memorial, January 2024. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/edward-epstein-11625388 -[^2]: Internet Archive catalog records for Epstein's books: *Inquest* (New York: Viking Press, 1966), https://archive.org/details/inquestwarrencom00epst; *Legend* ([New York]: Reader's Digest Press, 1978), https://archive.org/details/legendsecretworl00epst; *The Rise and Fall of Diamonds* (Simon and Schuster, 1982), https://archive.org/details/risefallofdiamon0000epst; *Deception* (Simon and Schuster, 1989), https://archive.org/details/deceptioninvisib00epst; *The Assassination Chronicles* (Carroll & Graf, 1992), https://archive.org/details/assassinationchr0000epst; *Dossier* (Random House, 1996), https://archive.org/details/dossiersecrethis00edwa; *The Big Picture* (Random House, 2005), https://archive.org/details/bigpicturenewlog00epst; *How America Lost Its Secrets* (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017), https://archive.org/details/howamericalostit0000epst. Metadata only; the texts of Inquest, Legend, Deception and Dossier are lending-restricted and were not read. +[^2]: Internet Archive catalog records for Epstein's books: *Inquest* (New York: Viking Press, 1966), https://archive.org/details/inquestwarrencom00epst; *Legend* ([New York]: Reader's Digest Press, 1978), https://archive.org/details/legendsecretworl00epst; *The Rise and Fall of Diamonds* (Simon and Schuster, 1982), https://archive.org/details/risefallofdiamon0000epst; *Deception* (Simon and Schuster, 1989), https://archive.org/details/deceptioninvisib00epst; *The Assassination Chronicles* (Carroll & Graf, 1992), https://archive.org/details/assassinationchr0000epst; *Dossier* (Random House, 1996), https://archive.org/details/dossiersecrethis00edwa; *The Big Picture* (Random House, 2005), https://archive.org/details/bigpicturenewlog00epst; *How America Lost Its Secrets* (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017), https://archive.org/details/howamericalostit0000epst. [^3]: Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, "Countering Criticism of the Warren Report," January 1967, paragraph 6 (reference to Epstein's article in the December 1966 issue of Esquire), CIA document C00352448. https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-00352448 [^4]: Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, "Countering Criticism of the Warren Report," January 1967, to Chiefs, Certain Stations and Bases, paragraphs 2, 3, 6 and 7, CIA document C00352448 (released 2025). https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-00352448 [^5]: Epstein, Edward Jay. "Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald," *Reader's Digest* condensation, 1978, editors' introduction, JFK record 104-10404-10388 (CIA copy 00364632). https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-00364632 @@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ Epstein died on January 9, 2024, at his home in New York City, aged 88. The fami [^13]: Reuben, William A. "The Documents That Weren't There," *The Nation*, 1985, quoting Epstein in *The New Republic*, CIA-RDP90-00965R000605300023-6. https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp90-00965r000605300023-6 [^14]: Shane, Scott. "Nailing Hammer: Epstein's 'Dossier,'" *Baltimore Sun*, September 8, 1996. https://www.baltimoresun.com/1996/09/08/nailing-hammer-epsteins-dossier/ [^15]: Silver, Daniel. "Reprobate" (review of Epstein, *Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer*, Random House, 418 pp.), *Commentary*. https://www.commentary.org/articles/daniel-silver/dossier-by-edward-jay-epstein/ -[^16]: Grove, Lloyd. "Edward Jay Epstein, Yet Another Journalist Who Accepted Favors From Jeffrey Epstein," *The Daily Beast*, September 14, 2019. https://www.thedailybeast.com/edward-jay-epstein-yet-another-journalist-who-accepted-favors-from-jeffrey-epstein/ Epstein's own article, "My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein," *Air Mail*, September 14, 2019, is paywalled and was read only to its first paragraphs. https://airmail.news/issues/2019-9-14/my-tea-with-jeffrey-epstein -[^17]: Epstein, Edward Jay. "My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein," *Air Mail*, September 14, 2019, opening paragraphs (the remainder is behind a subscription wall and was not read). https://airmail.news/issues/2019-9-14/my-tea-with-jeffrey-epstein +[^16]: Grove, Lloyd. "Edward Jay Epstein, Yet Another Journalist Who Accepted Favors From Jeffrey Epstein," *The Daily Beast*, September 14, 2019. https://www.thedailybeast.com/edward-jay-epstein-yet-another-journalist-who-accepted-favors-from-jeffrey-epstein/ Epstein's own article, "My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein," *Air Mail*, September 14, 2019. https://airmail.news/issues/2019-9-14/my-tea-with-jeffrey-epstein +[^17]: Epstein, Edward Jay. "My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein," *Air Mail*, September 14, 2019. https://airmail.news/issues/2019-9-14/my-tea-with-jeffrey-epstein [^18]: Email chain "Re: Dsk," March 8, 2012, EFTA02012785. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02012785.pdf [^19]: Email chain, April 14, 2012, EFTA01767728. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01767728.pdf [^20]: Email chain "Re: Jeffrey Epstein," April 16 to 17, 2012, EFTA00415113. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00415113.pdf diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Castro.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Castro.md index 05929f8d..e699af95 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Castro.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Castro.md @@ -30,5 +30,5 @@ After Bosch's arrest Castro was "CORU Chief from Miami." He was reported plannin [^1]: Dinges, John, and Saul Landau. *Assassination on Embassy Row*. McGraw-Hill, 1980, p. 250; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "CORU," August 16, 1978. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 13. [^2]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, teletype to Director, "Bombing of Cubana Airlines DC-8 Near Barbados, West Indies, October 6, 1976," November 2, 1976, JFK Assassination Records Collection. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 10. -[^3]: *Miami New Times* retrospective on the 1975 Miami bombings, not read in full; *United States v. Otero-Hernandez,* 418 F. Supp. 572 (M.D. Fla. 1976). +[^3]: *Miami New Times* retrospective on the 1975 Miami bombings; *United States v. Otero-Hernandez,* 418 F. Supp. 572 (M.D. Fla. 1976). [^4]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU)," January 24, 1977. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 12. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md index ef33d7fb..0cd26f08 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md @@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ He remained the unit's operations officer through Grill Flame and [[Center Lane] [^1]: US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "INSCOM Project Grill Flame: Progress Report #1," February 21, 1979, with enclosures, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100070001-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^2]: US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "Briefing - Project Center Lane," c. 1984, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. -[^3]: Monroe Institute and International Remote Viewing Association biographical notices, and Atwater, F. Holmes. *Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul.* Hampton Roads, 2001, not read; McMoneagle, Joseph. *The Stargate Chronicles.* Hampton Roads, 2002. +[^3]: Monroe Institute and International Remote Viewing Association biographical notices, and Atwater, F. Holmes. *Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul.* Hampton Roads, 2001; McMoneagle, Joseph. *The Stargate Chronicles.* Hampton Roads, 2002. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jean-Marc Connerotte.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jean-Marc Connerotte.md index 8ab19ba9..46783f00 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jean-Marc Connerotte.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jean-Marc Connerotte.md @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ After a public appeal by Connerotte in September 1996, eight witnesses gave test ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying X-witness material is Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux,* Houtekiet, 1999, not examined. Its date for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) and its placing of the bodies of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks at Sars-la-Buissière are contradicted by the commission's chronology and by the reports of their recovery at Jumet on September 3, 1996. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying X-witness material is Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux,* Houtekiet, 1999. Its date for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) and its placing of the bodies of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks at Sars-la-Buissière are contradicted by the commission's chronology and by the reports of their recovery at Jumet on September 3, 1996. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, chronology of August 1996; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf [^3]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire...,* rapport complémentaire, Doc. 713/8-96/97, February 16, 1998, chapter V. https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/comm/dutroux/49K0713008.pdf [^4]: Sénat de Belgique. Proposition visant à instituer une commission d'enquête parlementaire chargée d'enquêter sur l'éloignement de deux enquêteurs de la cellule d'enquête bruxelloise « Neufchâteau », déposée par M. Frans Lozie, Doc. 2-563/1, October 9, 2000, développements; translated from the French. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jim Channon.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jim Channon.md index e20fab6a..a95f15be 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jim Channon.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jim Channon.md @@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ James B. Channon, an infantry officer of the [[United States Army|Army]] from 19 ### Footnotes [^1]: Channon, James B., Lieutenant Colonel. *The First Earth Battalion,* Task Force Delta concept paper, Headquarters, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia, 1979, foreword by Colonel D. H. Malone; scan at archive.org/details/FirstEarthBattalionManual, front matter and foreword read. -[^2]: Service dates and Esalen visits from Ronson, Jon. *The Men Who Stare at Goats.* Simon and Schuster, 2004, as summarized; not verified against service records. +[^2]: Service dates and Esalen visits from Ronson, Jon. *The Men Who Stare at Goats.* Simon and Schuster, 2004. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John B. Alexander.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John B. Alexander.md index 1a8634b1..87a533c7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John B. Alexander.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John B. Alexander.md @@ -88,12 +88,12 @@ The *[[Deseret News]]* reporter [[Zack Van Eyck]], in a story reprinted in *The ### Footnotes [^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. -[^2]: *Military Review,* vol. 60, 1980, annual index, archive.org item sim_military-review_1980_60_index; the December 1980 issue itself was not obtained. Author note as summarized in search results, not read in the original. +[^2]: *Military Review,* vol. 60, 1980, annual index, archive.org item sim_military-review_1980_60_index. [^3]: Alexander, John B. "The New Mental Battlefield: 'Beam Me Up, Spock,'" *Military Review,* vol. 60, no. 12, December 1980, pp. 47-54, read in a Wayback Machine copy of the Army University Press PDF. [^4]: Buzby, Brian, memoranda for the record, "Initial Grill Flame Briefing to MG Stubblebine as CG, INSCOM, 30 June 1981" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220001-0), "Meeting With MG Stubblebine on 30 November 1983" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220010-0), and "Meeting with MG Stubblebine on 6 January 1984" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220009-2). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. -[^5]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities,* 2011, as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 17-22, 28-29, 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. The book was not opened (lending-only). Sole source for the passages so cited. +[^5]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities,* 2011, as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 17-22, 28-29, 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^6]: DOE F 5631.20, May 8, 1985; Houck note of May 21, 1985; Shannon "Attendees" page, as reproduced in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 15, 166, 188 (page images read directly). -[^7]: Vallee, Jacques. *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 26-27, and in Basterfield, Keith, "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/. The book was not opened. +[^7]: Vallee, Jacques. *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 26-27, and in Basterfield, Keith, "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/. [^8]: Jones, C. B. Scott, letter to John H. Gibbons, June 13, 1994, with press release and "The Alexander UFO Religious Crisis Survey," OSTP document 9401410, Clinton Presidential Library, OSTP FOIA 01-22, item 17, https://avalonlibrary.net/Grant_Cameron/Clinton_Presidential_Library_collection/OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022/ (file "1994 06 13_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons"). [^9]: Career details from Alexander's own books and publishers' biographical notes, not verified against service records. [^10]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joseph Douce.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joseph Douce.md index 507dd452..b6392b48 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joseph Douce.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joseph Douce.md @@ -28,5 +28,5 @@ The writer S. Dovey described the CCL as a support group for pedophiles in the 1 ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It describes Doucé as a Belgian priest arrested and convicted in the 1990s of possessing and distributing child pornography; he was a Protestant pastor, and he was abducted and killed in 1990 without having been tried. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It describes Doucé as a Belgian priest arrested and convicted in the 1990s of possessing and distributing child pornography; he was a Protestant pastor, and he was abducted and killed in 1990 without having been tried. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: "L'affaire Doucé: un pasteur défenseur des homosexuels éliminé." *Le Monde,* August 10, 2006; translated from the French. https://www.lemonde.fr/ete-2007/article/2006/08/10/l-affaire-douce-un-pasteur-defenseur-des-homosexuels-elimine_802544_781732.html diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Justin Gleichauf.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Justin Gleichauf.md index a7a3a5f7..bda92b4a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Justin Gleichauf.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Justin Gleichauf.md @@ -17,19 +17,18 @@ created: 2026-09-21 updated: 2026-09-21 --- -Justin F. Gleichauf was an officer of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s [[Domestic Contact Service]], the overt component that interviewed American businessmen and travellers for foreign intelligence. Agency records describe him as "the former Chief of the [[Miami]] and [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] Field Offices."[^1] In an article the agency published in 2001 he described the Miami office's debriefing of Cuban refugees before the missile crisis of 1962.[^2] +Justin F. Gleichauf was an officer of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s [[Domestic Contact Service]], the overt component that interviewed American businessmen and travellers for foreign intelligence. Agency records describe him as "the former Chief of the [[Miami]] and [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] Field Offices."[^1] ### The Wackenhut File -As chief of the Miami office Gleichauf signed the memorandum of December 13, 1967, recording the office's first contact with Wackenhut Services, Inc., made by Gus C. Guerrero, and the [[Wackenhut Corporation]] of [[Coral Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] became a standing contact, organization number A154531, whose reports on [[Chile]], [[Panama]], [[Colombia]], and [[Ecuador]] he signed as field office chief through the end of 1970; from 1971 the sheets carry B. E. Mainwaring as chief. On September 21, 1970, [[George R. Wackenhut]] invited him to a demonstration of a tracking transmitter "less than the size of a half pack of cigarettes" made by the subsidiary Electro-Finders, which he reported to the [[Technical Services Division]]; in May 1972, as chief of the Dallas office, he forwarded the company's brochure for the system from "an old friend" there. A process sheet of April 8, 1970, covering "Presidential Elections/Student Riots at National University/Maintenance Problems with Soviet Supplied Trolley Cars and Jeeps/Hire Soviet Helicopter to be Used During Construction of Pipeline/Recent Insurgency (Colombia)," is signed by J. F. Hennessey with Gleichauf as chief. Another, "Status of Lorenzo D. ('Wimpy') Barry ([[Dominican Republic]])," dated November 13, 1970, gives Gleichauf as both case officer and field office chief, with a copy "passed to JMCOSBA locally."[^3] +As chief of the Miami office Gleichauf signed the memorandum of December 13, 1967, recording the office's first contact with Wackenhut Services, Inc., made by Gus C. Guerrero, and the [[Wackenhut Corporation]] of [[Coral Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] became a standing contact, organization number A154531, whose reports on [[Chile]], [[Panama]], [[Colombia]], and [[Ecuador]] he signed as field office chief through the end of 1970; from 1971 the sheets carry B. E. Mainwaring as chief. On September 21, 1970, [[George R. Wackenhut]] invited him to a demonstration of a tracking transmitter "less than the size of a half pack of cigarettes" made by the subsidiary Electro-Finders, which he reported to the [[Technical Services Division]]; in May 1972, as chief of the Dallas office, he forwarded the company's brochure for the system from "an old friend" there. A process sheet of April 8, 1970, covering "Presidential Elections/Student Riots at National University/Maintenance Problems with Soviet Supplied Trolley Cars and Jeeps/Hire Soviet Helicopter to be Used During Construction of Pipeline/Recent Insurgency (Colombia)," is signed by J. F. Hennessey with Gleichauf as chief. Another, "Status of Lorenzo D. ('Wimpy') Barry ([[Dominican Republic]])," dated November 13, 1970, gives Gleichauf as both case officer and field office chief, with a copy "passed to JMCOSBA locally."[^2] ### Wackenhut -By 1974 Gleichauf was employed at the company's headquarters, 3280 Ponce de Leon Boulevard. A Domestic Contact Service report of March 19, 1974, numbered OO-A(S)-322 06270-74, on "Possible Identification and Surveillance References of 'CIA Agents'" by the security authorities of a country whose name is redacted, came from him. The case officer, E. B. Ames, wrote: "Mr. Gleichauf, who as you know is the former Chief of the Miami and Dallas Field Offices, currently is employed with a company with extensive contractual arrangements overseas. He learned the information contained in this report quite by chance from a co-worker who returned from [redacted] last week." The report said the authorities "have already identified six 'CIA agents.'" The service's Miami office closed its Wackenhut case on June 30, 1977.[^1][^4] +By 1974 Gleichauf was employed at the company's headquarters, 3280 Ponce de Leon Boulevard. A Domestic Contact Service report of March 19, 1974, numbered OO-A(S)-322 06270-74, on "Possible Identification and Surveillance References of 'CIA Agents'" by the security authorities of a country whose name is redacted, came from him. The case officer, E. B. Ames, wrote: "Mr. Gleichauf, who as you know is the former Chief of the Miami and Dallas Field Offices, currently is employed with a company with extensive contractual arrangements overseas. He learned the information contained in this report quite by chance from a co-worker who returned from [redacted] last week." The report said the authorities "have already identified six 'CIA agents.'" The service's Miami office closed its Wackenhut case on June 30, 1977.[^1][^3] ### Footnotes [^1]: Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Collection Division, case file 65805, "Wackenhut Corp.," JFK Assassination Records Collection, record 104-10291-10017, released 2023. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10291-10017.pdf, pp. 4, 6-7. -[^2]: Gleichauf, Justin F. "Red Sky in the Morning: The Cuban Missile Crisis," *Studies in Intelligence,* 2001. Cited from memory, not read for this page. -[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Contact Service, case file 65805, record 104-10291-10016, pp. 24, 29, 30; Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Contact Service, case file 65805, "Wackenhut Corporation," JFK Assassination Records Collection, record 104-10291-10016, released 2023. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10291-10016.pdf, pp. 35, 45, 55. -[^4]: Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Collection Division, case file 65805, "Wackenhut Corp.," JFK Assassination Records Collection, record 104-10291-10017, released 2023. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10291-10017.pdf, p. 3. +[^2]: Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Contact Service, case file 65805, record 104-10291-10016, pp. 24, 29, 30; Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Contact Service, case file 65805, "Wackenhut Corporation," JFK Assassination Records Collection, record 104-10291-10016, released 2023. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10291-10016.pdf, pp. 35, 45, 55. +[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Collection Division, case file 65805, "Wackenhut Corp.," JFK Assassination Records Collection, record 104-10291-10017, released 2023. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10291-10017.pdf, p. 3. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Laetitia Delhez.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Laetitia Delhez.md index 9b4446f8..eb59f5f8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Laetitia Delhez.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Laetitia Delhez.md @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that she was taken while waiting at a bus stop after v ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its full plate number conflicts with the commission's statement that the witness gave three digits, and its date for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) is contradicted by the commission's chronology. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its full plate number conflicts with the commission's statement that the witness gave three digits, and its date for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) is contradicted by the commission's chronology. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, p. 112 and the chronology of August 1996, pp. 264-266; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf [^3]: "Nihoul acquitté pour les enlèvements." *La Dernière Heure,* June 17, 2004; translated from the French. https://www.dhnet.be/actu/faits/2004/06/17/nihoul-acquitte-pour-les-enlevements-MF73NPYQVBC25I2Y6P54BXIQDA/ [^4]: "Notorious child rapist-murderer convicted." NBC News and Associated Press, June 17, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5233011 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Logan Grumbach.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Logan Grumbach.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6352f034 --- /dev/null +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Logan Grumbach.md @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +--- +category: "People" +tags: + - Person + - DefenseContractor + - MissileDefense + - StrategicForesight + - HuntsvilleAlabama + - IgniteFuelingInnovation +alias: + - Joshua Logan Grumbach + - Joshua L. Grumbach + - Dr. Logan Grumbach +summary: "Joshua Logan Grumbach is a Huntsville engineer and futurist, former Boeing and Lockheed Martin missile defense manager, and Ignite Fueling Innovation vice president for space, intelligence and missile defense since May 2024." +location: "Huntsville, Alabama" +relations: + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc.]]" + start: "2023-05" + role: "lead scientist/engineer and futurist (May 2023 to April 2024); Vice President and business unit lead for space, intelligence and missile defense (May 2024 onward)" + fn: 1 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Lockheed Martin]]" + start: "2022-01" + end: "2023-05" + role: "Glide Phase Interceptor kill vehicle lead (2022); Next Generation Interceptor advanced programs systems engineering manager (2022 to 2023)" + fn: 1 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Boeing]]" + start: "2019-01" + end: "2022-01" + role: "Missile Defense National Team engineer and manager" + fn: 1 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[University of Alabama in Huntsville]]" + start: "2019" + role: "adjunct instructor" + fn: 1 + - type: member_of + with: "[[International Council on Systems Engineering]]" + role: "Ignite lists him as associate director" + fn: 2 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Grumbach Enterprises, LLC]]" + start: "2023-03-16" + role: "affiliation given as Gent Technologies, LLC, Athens, Alabama in a March 16, 2023 paper; the company was a registered federal vendor November 21, 2017 to November 8, 2021" + fn: 4 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- + +### Education + +According to his curriculum vitae at the [[University of Alabama in Huntsville]], Joshua "Logan" Grumbach holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering (August 2013), an M.S. in engineering in mechanical engineering (May 2015), an M.S. in aerospace systems engineering (May 2019) and a Ph.D. in aerospace systems engineering (May 2022), all from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The CV lists an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance.[^1] + +### Career before Ignite + +From August 2013 to February 2016 Grumbach was a mechanical engineer at [[Optical Sciences Corporation]] in Huntsville, designing hardware-in-the-loop test equipment for the [[Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center]] and the [[Missile Defense Agency]] (facilities including the Redesigned Kill Vehicle and Advanced Sensors laboratories) and modeling the point of impact of destructive flight tests for the [[United States Navy]]. From February 2016 to January 2019 he was lead aerospace and propulsion engineer at [[Archarithms, Inc.]], and lead for divert and attitude control module design, integration and test on the Missile Defense Agency's Redesigned Kill Vehicle, including a 2.5-month hot-fire test at the [[White Sands Test Facility]] involving personnel of [[NASA]], the agency, [[Boeing]], [[Raytheon]] and [[Aerojet Rocketdyne]].[^1] + +At Boeing's Missile Defense National Team in Huntsville he held several positions between January 2019 and January 2022: senior aerospace and systems engineer working with [[Army Futures Command]] on ground test scenarios and intelligence reports for the Ballistic Missile Defense System; scenario design lead (September 2019 to July 2020), "analyzing signals, creating threat capability forecasts" for ground tests; system of systems integrator (July 2020 to January 2021); and responsible engineer for discrimination test content and, from November 2020, manager. At [[Lockheed Martin]] he was kill vehicle integrated product team lead for the Glide Phase Interceptor (January to November 2022) and systems engineering manager for advanced programs on the Next Generation Interceptor (November 2022 to May 2023), analyzing "threat data to forecast threat capabilities in 2045."[^1] + +### Ignite Fueling Innovation + +From May 2023 Grumbach served [[Ignite Fueling Innovation]] as lead scientist/engineer and futurist. His CV describes the post as lead scientist/engineer on "a direct congressional tasking through the United States Space Force (USSF) and elements of the Intelligence Community (IC)," with the "Congressional tasking" continuing through May 2024. + +The CV states that he "pioneered a methodology for assessing novel technology potentials for adversarial technological and strategic surprise utilizing technology readiness assessments and futures methodologies (Framework Foresight and the Manoa Methdology)." It says he led "the development of a 500+ page futures study for the USSF focused on China as the adversary," covering technology assessments, strategic and policy initiatives for the United States and China, and workforce development recommendations, and that "the report is to be delivered to Congress in the June timeframe." It lists support for "the integration of a CONUS sensor gap analyses conducted by Federally Funded Research Centers (FFRDCs) and National Labs," and authorship of "a series of technical whitepapers baselining the current state and perceived benefits of new and emerging technologies including quantum radar, neutrino science, brain-computer interface, and metamaterials" for [[United States Space Force]] science and technology investment.[^1] + +The same entry states that he presented "new and novel technologies, sensors, and reports to senior government leadership at the Senior Executive Staff and Congressional Staff level" and "served as the lead technical representative in discussions with the Director of the Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC) and the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of. Defense for Mission Capabilities." The [[Missile and Space Intelligence Center]] is the organization the CV abbreviates "MSIC." The entry also lists him as "chief technical coordinator for a partnership with a multi-billion-dollar US company including assessing strategic advantages, capabilities, and business opportunities for the partnership"; the CV does not name the company.[^1] + +Since May 2024 he has been vice president and business unit lead for Ignite's space, intelligence and missile defense portfolio: 12 contracts with 10 customers (including the Missile Defense Agency, Space Force, NASA, the Army and intelligence agencies), about 90 personnel and approximately 50 percent of company revenue (about $15 million). The CV credits him with establishing Ignite Labs (four software products, in use from the Army Aviation and Missiles Center to the Space Force Concepts and Technologies Delta), a Fellows Program and Ignite's internal research and development program, and records a recovered Space Force program making up about 10 percent of company revenue, now developing the "Space Force Operating Environment." It lists a copyright for "Tool for High-Level Analysis of Literature and Exploratory Search (THALES) v8.0," January 31, 2025, held by Ignite.[^1] Ignite's leadership page says he leads its Space Force and intelligence portfolios, including support to the [[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]] full-motion video mission and a partnership with [[Virgin Galactic]] on "Spaceflight as a Service."[^2] + +### Grumbach Enterprises and Gent Technologies + +[[Grumbach Enterprises, LLC]], doing business as Gent Technologies, was a registered federal vendor in the System for Award Management from November 21, 2017 until the registration expired on November 8, 2021, with a primary NAICS code for engineering services (541330) and additional codes including 541715 (research and development in the physical, engineering and life sciences) and 541380 (testing laboratories). The vendor profile gives its unique entity identifier as HK4QM8ZHFU57 and its CAGE code as 802U0.[^3] A search of USAspending by that identifier shows no prime awards. His 2023 paper in the journal Systems Engineering gives his affiliation as "Gent Technologies, LLC, Athens, Alabama."[^4] + +### Publications + +According to his CV, he published four papers in Systems Engineering, three with L. Dale Thomas: "Integration Principles for Complex Systems" (September 28, 2020), "Systems Integration Implications of Component Reuse" (July 18, 2022) and "Quantitative Validation of Complex Systems Integration Principles" (September 20, 2022), and, as sole author, "Adapting a Strategic Foresight Framework to Reuse Integration" (March 16, 2023). It also lists "Read Before Flight" (August 2023).[^1] + +### Teaching and affiliations + +His 2019 appointment as adjunct instructor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Alabama in Huntsville covers introduction to engineering, systems thinking, strategic foresight and future studies, introduction to computational tools and, at graduate level, introduction to systems engineering. He holds the Project Management Professional and Professional in Business Analysis certifications. Ignite's page lists him as associate director of the [[International Council on Systems Engineering]] and a member of the [[Association of Professional Futurists]].[^1][^2] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Joshua "Logan" Grumbach, curriculum vitae, University of Alabama in Huntsville, https://www.uah.edu/images/fsdir/cv/5172/logan-grumbach-cv-5172.pdf +[^2]: Ignite Fueling Innovation, "Our Leadership," https://igniteimpossible.com/our-leadership/ +[^3]: GovTribe, vendor profile "Grumbach Enterprises, LLC" (data from SAM.gov and the Small Business Administration, updated May 1, 2022), https://govtribe.com/vendors/grumbach-enterprises-llc-802u0 ; USAspending.gov, award search by unique entity identifier HK4QM8ZHFU57. +[^4]: Crossref record, doi:10.1002/sys.21669, "Adapting a strategic foresight framework to reuse integration," Systems Engineering, March 16, 2023, https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1002/sys.21669 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Luis Elizondo.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Luis Elizondo.md index 348ff380..c1551989 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Luis Elizondo.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Luis Elizondo.md @@ -11,24 +11,24 @@ relations: start: 2008 end: 2017-10-04 role: "GS-15 civilian; information-sharing work with DHS and state, local and tribal law enforcement from 2008, counterintelligence and security for AAWSAP from 2009, Director of National Programs, Special Management Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense (Guantanamo portfolio); resignation effective October 4, 2017, as he wrote" - fn: 4 + fn: 5 - type: employed_by with: "[[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]]" start: 2017 end: 2020-12 role: "chief of security and special programs, in his account; salary cut in half during the period; relationship ended by a call from Tom DeLonge a few days before Christmas 2020" - fn: 19 + fn: 20 - type: reported_to with: "[[Garry Reid]]" start: 2017 end: 2017-10-04 role: "top boss in the Pentagon chain of command, whom Elizondo wrote he kept out of the loop on AATIP; Elizondo wrote that Reid opened an Air Force Office of Special Investigations inquiry after the resignation" - fn: 19 + fn: 20 - type: subject_of with: "[[NewsNation]]" role: "NewsNation reported on June 30 and July 29, 2026 on disputes between Elizondo and its correspondent Ross Coulthart and the researcher UAPGerb over his role in the Legacy Program and a rumored disclosure post" start: 2026-06-30 - fn: 11 + fn: 12 updated: 2026-10-03 created: 2026-10-03 --- @@ -62,58 +62,59 @@ Elizondo's involvement with AATIP was not without personal cost. He and his fami Frustrated by the bureaucratic stonewalling, the refusal of the [[United States Air Force|US Air Force]] to cooperate, and the inability to brief senior leadership like Secretary of Defense [[James Mattis]], Elizondo resigned from the Pentagon on October 4, 2017. His resignation letter to Secretary Mattis, which was later made public, explicitly stated that the Department was not taking the potential threat posed by UAP seriously.[^1] -Working with [[Christopher Mellon]] and [[Jim Semivan]], Elizondo went public. He was the primary source for a landmark New York Times article in December 2017 that disclosed the existence of AATIP. The article carried the Navy videos later known as "FLIR1" (Tic Tac) and "[[GIMBAL]]" (the article carried two videos; "GOFAST" followed in March 2018). [[Politico]] reported in 2021 that the [[Washington Headquarters Services]] declassification division approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government; the Department of Defense stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, which had been circulating in the public domain after "unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^2][^3] This event ignited a global conversation and marked a pivotal moment for the disclosure movement.[^1] +Working with [[Christopher Mellon]] and [[Jim Semivan]], Elizondo went public. He was the primary source for a landmark New York Times article in December 2017 that disclosed the existence of AATIP. The article carried the Navy videos later known as "FLIR1" (Tic Tac) and "[[GIMBAL]]" (the article carried two videos; "GOFAST" followed in March 2018). [[Politico]] reported in 2021 that the [[Washington Headquarters Services]] declassification division approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government; the Department of Defense stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, which had been circulating in the public domain after "unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^2][^3] The Office of the Secretary of Defense file released to [[The Black Vault]] under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2019 contains an August 23, 2017 email in which Elizondo asked Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to "consider our request for unrestricted release"; an August 24, 2017 reply from Russo that if the service-level classification authority verified that removing the metadata made the videos unclassified, "please feel free to move forward with release"; and a DD Form 1910 whose publication-data block reads "Not Applicable. Not for publication. Research and analysis ONLY and info sharing with other USG and industry partners for the purposes of developing a database to help identify, analyze and ultimately defeat UAS threats." Joseph Gradisher, a Navy spokesman, said in 2019 that neither the cognizant Navy offices nor the review office had a record of correspondence responding to a request for unrestricted release of the videos in 2017.[^4] This event ignited a global conversation and marked a pivotal moment for the disclosure movement.[^1] Post-resignation, Elizondo joined [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]] (TTSA), founded by musician [[Tom DeLonge]], and has worked relentlessly to advocate for UAP transparency. His efforts, in concert with Mellon and others, have been crucial in briefing members of Congress, which led directly to the creation of the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] (AARO) and the passage of historic UAP disclosure legislation within the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).[^1] ### Recruitment, offices and resignation, in Elizondo's account -Elizondo wrote that in 2008 he returned to the Department of Defense in the [[Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence]], working on information sharing among the department, the [[Department of Homeland Security]] and state, local and tribal law enforcement, from an eleventh-floor corner office in a building in [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]] that the Pentagon rented and that housed divisions of [[Boeing]] including Phantom Works, at the GS-15 grade, and that in early 2009 his assistant announced two visitors, Jay Stratton and a colleague he calls "Rosemary Caine," who asked for his counterintelligence and security experience for "a highly classified program led out of our office at DIA," which Stratton said he had helped create under the name AAWSAP, later AATIP, and which they said reported "directly to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and to Congress." After two more meetings he was taken to a tenth-floor office in a Virginia building where he met James Lacatski, who asked "What do you think about UFOs?"; at a second meeting Lacatski told him the program had the support of the DIA director, Lieutenant General [[Michael D. Maples]], and had been funded by Harry Reid, Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye. Elizondo wrote that an Army friend he calls "John Robert," who served with him in Korea in the 1990s and acted as liaison between another intelligence agency and AAWSAP, had referred him.[^4] +Elizondo wrote that in 2008 he returned to the Department of Defense in the [[Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence]], working on information sharing among the department, the [[Department of Homeland Security]] and state, local and tribal law enforcement, from an eleventh-floor corner office in a building in [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]] that the Pentagon rented and that housed divisions of [[Boeing]] including Phantom Works, at the GS-15 grade, and that in early 2009 his assistant announced two visitors, Jay Stratton and a colleague he calls "Rosemary Caine," who asked for his counterintelligence and security experience for "a highly classified program led out of our office at DIA," which Stratton said he had helped create under the name AAWSAP, later AATIP, and which they said reported "directly to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and to Congress." After two more meetings he was taken to a tenth-floor office in a Virginia building where he met James Lacatski, who asked "What do you think about UFOs?"; at a second meeting Lacatski told him the program had the support of the DIA director, Lieutenant General [[Michael D. Maples]], and had been funded by Harry Reid, Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye. Elizondo wrote that an Army friend he calls "John Robert," who served with him in Korea in the 1990s and acted as liaison between another intelligence agency and AAWSAP, had referred him.[^5] -He wrote that after the program lost support at DIA, in 2010, he moved its remnants into his own portfolio as Director of National Programs, Special Management Staff, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which managed national-level special access programs for the National Security Council and the White House and, in his case, Guantanamo Bay; that his base was office 3C503A in the Pentagon; that he "dual-used" existing funds so that a video sent for analysis could be tested both as a possible Russian MiG-25 and as a UAP; and that the only contractors who remained with Stratton and himself were Puthoff, a physician he calls Will Livingston and [[Eric Davis]]. He named as his superiors in this period [[Neill Tipton]], whom he described as running the Intelligence Sharing and Foreign Intelligence Relationship Office, and Tipton's boss John Pede.[^5] +He wrote that after the program lost support at DIA, in 2010, he moved its remnants into his own portfolio as Director of National Programs, Special Management Staff, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which managed national-level special access programs for the National Security Council and the White House and, in his case, Guantanamo Bay; that his base was office 3C503A in the Pentagon; that he "dual-used" existing funds so that a video sent for analysis could be tested both as a possible Russian MiG-25 and as a UAP; and that the only contractors who remained with Stratton and himself were Puthoff, a physician he calls Will Livingston and [[Eric Davis]]. He named as his superiors in this period [[Neill Tipton]], whom he described as running the Intelligence Sharing and Foreign Intelligence Relationship Office, and Tipton's boss John Pede.[^6] -Elizondo wrote that in 2016 the Joint Staff declined to give Stratton's OPLAN Interloper an Alternative Compensatory Control Measures designation, that in 2017 he sought a briefing of Secretary of Defense James Mattis through a SECDEF liaison, a White House advisor named Brad Byers and a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] liaison officer he calls "Shari Smith," that Tipton agreed to take over AATIP and accepted a draft memo but delayed signing it; and that he resigned in a letter to Mattis "effective 4 October 2017," after more than twenty-two years of service, with a second, shorter letter to his chain of command.[^6] He wrote that his immediate supervisor on the Guantanamo portfolio, John Garrity, telephoned that day to say that Garry Reid, whom he described as controlling security, law enforcement and security clearances for the department, wanted to see him; that Reid said he would have to tell people Elizondo was "acting crazy"; and that Reid seized his computers and files, questioned his staff and began an inquiry through the Air Force [[Office of Special Investigations]] which, he wrote, "found no impropriety in my actions."[^7] +Elizondo wrote that in 2016 the Joint Staff declined to give Stratton's OPLAN Interloper an Alternative Compensatory Control Measures designation, that in 2017 he sought a briefing of Secretary of Defense James Mattis through a SECDEF liaison, a White House advisor named Brad Byers and a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] liaison officer he calls "Shari Smith," that Tipton agreed to take over AATIP and accepted a draft memo but delayed signing it; and that he resigned in a letter to Mattis "effective 4 October 2017," after more than twenty-two years of service, with a second, shorter letter to his chain of command.[^7] He wrote that his immediate supervisor on the Guantanamo portfolio, John Garrity, telephoned that day to say that Garry Reid, whom he described as controlling security, law enforcement and security clearances for the department, wanted to see him; that Reid said he would have to tell people Elizondo was "acting crazy"; and that Reid seized his computers and files, questioned his staff and began an inquiry through the Air Force [[Office of Special Investigations]] which, he wrote, "found no impropriety in my actions."[^8] -After the [[New York Times]] story of December 16, 2017, Elizondo wrote, the Pentagon spokesperson Dana White confirmed his role in AATIP to Politico, but in 2019 the spokesperson [[Christopher Sherwood]] told reporters that "Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program," which Elizondo wrote Sherwood privately acknowledged was untrue; that a [[Freedom of Information Act]] response said his electronic files had been deleted as having "no historic value," and that an email transferring AATIP duties to Tipton in 2017 was released in May 2024 after a FOIA appeal; and that after a Defense Department inspector general review Garry Reid was reassigned to DIA as a "special advisor." Elizondo wrote that a Pentagon spokesperson later confirmed that he "provides technical advice on a variety of classified topics for the US Space Force."[^8] The Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office found in 2024 that AATIP "was never an official DoD program" (see Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program). +After the [[New York Times]] story of December 16, 2017, Elizondo wrote, the Pentagon spokesperson Dana White confirmed his role in AATIP to Politico, but in 2019 the spokesperson [[Christopher Sherwood]] told reporters that "Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program," which Elizondo wrote Sherwood privately acknowledged was untrue; that a [[Freedom of Information Act]] response said his electronic files had been deleted as having "no historic value," and that an email transferring AATIP duties to Tipton in 2017 was released in May 2024 after a FOIA appeal; and that after a Defense Department inspector general review Garry Reid was reassigned to DIA as a "special advisor." Elizondo wrote that a Pentagon spokesperson later confirmed that he "provides technical advice on a variety of classified topics for the US Space Force."[^9] The Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office found in 2024 that AATIP "was never an official DoD program" (see Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program). ### NewsNation, 2025 and 2026 -NewsNation's January 16, 2025 article on [[Jake Barber]] stated that "other whistleblowers, including Lue Elizondo and [[David Grusch]], have alleged a secret government UFO program exists but Barber says he knows it's true because he's part of it," and the full-special article of the same month stated that Grusch and Elizondo "say they've been told about it, they believe it exists, but they weren't a part of it themselves."[^9][^10] +NewsNation's January 16, 2025 article on [[Jake Barber]] stated that "other whistleblowers, including Lue Elizondo and [[David Grusch]], have alleged a secret government UFO program exists but Barber says he knows it's true because he's part of it," and the full-special article of the same month stated that Grusch and Elizondo "say they've been told about it, they believe it exists, but they weren't a part of it themselves."[^10][^11] -On June 30, 2026 NewsNation reported that its special correspondent [[Ross Coulthart]] had said on his "[[Reality Check (NewsNation)|Reality Check]]" podcast that "There are people who bitterly resent and don't think it's a good idea that Lue be appointed to a position of power in UAP transparency, because they think that he was part of a previous agenda that was essentially to try to control the narrative, to restrict what the public is entitled to know about the UAP disclosure," and "I've spoken to people in the [[Legacy Program]] who knew Lue." Elizondo told NewsNation's [[Chris Cuomo]] that "I've committed myself to transparency to the degree that I could," that "I didn't say I worked for the Legacy Program," that "we cannot confirm or deny" statements are not "some sort of implicit 'yes,'" and that "I think Ross is an excellent investigative journalist." The article gives Elizondo's account that he directed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and "resigned in 2017 in protest."[^11] +On June 30, 2026 NewsNation reported that its special correspondent [[Ross Coulthart]] had said on his "[[Reality Check (NewsNation)|Reality Check]]" podcast that "There are people who bitterly resent and don't think it's a good idea that Lue be appointed to a position of power in UAP transparency, because they think that he was part of a previous agenda that was essentially to try to control the narrative, to restrict what the public is entitled to know about the UAP disclosure," and "I've spoken to people in the [[Legacy Program]] who knew Lue." Elizondo told NewsNation's [[Chris Cuomo]] that "I've committed myself to transparency to the degree that I could," that "I didn't say I worked for the Legacy Program," that "we cannot confirm or deny" statements are not "some sort of implicit 'yes,'" and that "I think Ross is an excellent investigative journalist." The article gives Elizondo's account that he directed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and "resigned in 2017 in protest."[^12] -On July 29, 2026 NewsNation reported that the anonymous researcher known online as [[UAPGerb]] (named Sam in the article), speaking to Coulthart, said Elizondo was part of a "controlled narrative" and noted speculation that he was "being positioned for a role with the National Security Council or as an adviser to the White House"; the article states "Elizondo has not confirmed the rumors." In a [[YouTube]] video Elizondo called the claims false, confirmed he was moving to [[Washington, D.C.]] because "fighting for UAP disclosure is a full-time job," and told Coulthart "please, for the love of God, be more careful with who you decide to have on your program." The article states that Elizondo said one narrative, which he claims the researcher made up, was that he and [[James Clapper]], the former [[Director of National Intelligence]], "had colluded to create a network" for "soft disclosure," and quotes Elizondo: "That is 1,000% not accurate. In fact, we never had such a conversation, and Jim Clapper and I never met to have that conversation."[^12] +On July 29, 2026 NewsNation reported that the anonymous researcher known online as [[UAPGerb]] (named Sam in the article), speaking to Coulthart, said Elizondo was part of a "controlled narrative" and noted speculation that he was "being positioned for a role with the National Security Council or as an adviser to the White House"; the article states "Elizondo has not confirmed the rumors." In a [[YouTube]] video Elizondo called the claims false, confirmed he was moving to [[Washington, D.C.]] because "fighting for UAP disclosure is a full-time job," and told Coulthart "please, for the love of God, be more careful with who you decide to have on your program." The article states that Elizondo said one narrative, which he claims the researcher made up, was that he and [[James Clapper]], the former [[Director of National Intelligence]], "had colluded to create a network" for "soft disclosure," and quotes Elizondo: "That is 1,000% not accurate. In fact, we never had such a conversation, and Jim Clapper and I never met to have that conversation."[^13] ### Resignation and the December 2017 placement -Elizondo's resignation took effect October 4, 2017, according to the Pentagon; a Pentagon official told Politico that Mattis's receipt of the letter could not be confirmed. His letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis cited "bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets" and the "overwhelming evidence" at "both the classified and unclassified levels," and, [[Keith Kloor]] wrote in *[[The Intercept]]*, "does not mention AATIP or Elizondo's role as its director."[^13][^14] [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]] wrote that the previous day had been his last day of work, and that on October 4, 2017 [[Leslie Kean]] met him, Hal Puthoff and Jim Semivan in a hotel bar near the Pentagon at the request of Christopher Mellon; Kean told Lewis-Kraus that Elizondo "had incredible gravitas."[^15] Elizondo spoke onstage at the To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science launch later in October 2017.[^15] In an August 2017 email reviewed by Politico he proposed an unclassified "community of interest" database; "Washington Headquarters Services" approved three [[United States Navy|Navy]] videos "for unlimited distribution" within government, and Elizondo, Mellon and others concluded that more was needed. Politico reported in 2021 that the Pentagon "officially acknowledged the existence of the AATIP program and Elizondo's role in it."[^2] In December 2017 Politico quoted Elizondo: "We tried to work within the system. We were trying to take the voodoo out of voodoo science," and he described sightings "often reported in the vicinity of nuclear facilities, either ships at sea or power plants"; the Times quoted his resignation letter's phrase "unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities."[^16] +Elizondo's resignation took effect October 4, 2017, according to the Pentagon; a Pentagon official told Politico that Mattis's receipt of the letter could not be confirmed. His letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis cited "bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets" and the "overwhelming evidence" at "both the classified and unclassified levels," and, [[Keith Kloor]] wrote in *[[The Intercept]]*, "does not mention AATIP or Elizondo's role as its director."[^14][^15] [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]] wrote that the previous day had been his last day of work, and that on October 4, 2017 [[Leslie Kean]] met him, Hal Puthoff and Jim Semivan in a hotel bar near the Pentagon at the request of Christopher Mellon; Kean told Lewis-Kraus that Elizondo "had incredible gravitas."[^16] Elizondo spoke onstage at the To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science launch later in October 2017.[^16] In an August 2017 email reviewed by Politico he proposed an unclassified "community of interest" database; "Washington Headquarters Services" approved three [[United States Navy|Navy]] videos "for unlimited distribution" within government, and Elizondo, Mellon and others concluded that more was needed. Politico reported in 2021 that the Pentagon "officially acknowledged the existence of the AATIP program and Elizondo's role in it."[^2] In December 2017 Politico quoted Elizondo: "We tried to work within the system. We were trying to take the voodoo out of voodoo science," and he described sightings "often reported in the vicinity of nuclear facilities, either ships at sea or power plants"; the Times quoted his resignation letter's phrase "unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities."[^17] ### Pentagon statements beside his account -December 2017: Politico's [[Bryan Bender]] wrote that Pentagon spokeswoman [[Dana White]] "confirmed to Politico that the program existed and was run by Elizondo." June 1, 2019: spokesperson Christopher Sherwood told *The Intercept* that AATIP "did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena" but that "Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program while he worked in OUSDI," that he "cannot confirm" White's statement, and that Elizondo "worked for other organizations in DoD." June 13, 2019: [[Susan Gough]] told [[The Black Vault]] that Reid's July 24, 2009 memorandum was authentic and "makes no change to previous statements," and that "Elizondo did interact with the DIA office managing the program while the program was still ongoing, but he did not lead it." Bender wrote on June 2, 2019 that he expected "a much more definitive statement from the Pentagon" and that The Intercept's "assertions and innuendo" were wrong. Elizondo, in the Intercept article, did not respond to requests for comment; he told Kloor earlier in 2019 that he was a government contractor "but it's not what you think it is."[^14][^17] +December 2017: Politico's [[Bryan Bender]] wrote that Pentagon spokeswoman [[Dana White]] "confirmed to Politico that the program existed and was run by Elizondo." June 1, 2019: spokesperson Christopher Sherwood told *The Intercept* that AATIP "did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena" but that "Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program while he worked in OUSDI," that he "cannot confirm" White's statement, and that Elizondo "worked for other organizations in DoD." June 13, 2019: [[Susan Gough]] told [[The Black Vault]] that Reid's July 24, 2009 memorandum was authentic and "makes no change to previous statements," and that "Elizondo did interact with the DIA office managing the program while the program was still ongoing, but he did not lead it." Bender wrote on June 2, 2019 that he expected "a much more definitive statement from the Pentagon" and that The Intercept's "assertions and innuendo" were wrong. Elizondo, in the Intercept article, did not respond to requests for comment; he told Kloor earlier in 2019 that he was a government contractor "but it's not what you think it is."[^15][^18] ### Galileo Project -On October 30, 2021 Elizondo and Mellon became research affiliates of [[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s [[Galileo Project]]; Elizondo was quoted: "Deliberate and methodical research, along with strict rigor will help ensure the tenets of the scientific method are followed."[^18] The October 2021 announcement credits both with "two years of patient public and private lobbying" behind the June 2021 ODNI report.[^18] +On October 30, 2021 Elizondo and Mellon became research affiliates of [[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s [[Galileo Project]]; Elizondo was quoted: "Deliberate and methodical research, along with strict rigor will help ensure the tenets of the scientific method are followed."[^19] The October 2021 announcement credits both with "two years of patient public and private lobbying" behind the June 2021 ODNI report.[^19] ### Footnotes [^1]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024. [^2]: Bender, Bryan. *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 [^3]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). -[^4]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 3 to 14 (Caine indexed at p. 5; Reid, Bigelow and Maples at pp. 13 to 14). Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one. -[^5]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 82 to 93 (Higgins, Tipton and Pede at pp. 87 to 89; Will at p. 90; office 3C503A at p. 93). -[^6]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 147 to 202 (Interloper at pp. 147 and 186; Byers at pp. 189 and 217; Tipton at p. 192; resignation letter at p. 202). -[^7]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 202 to 203 and 211. -[^8]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 209 to 217 and 238 (Dana White at p. 210; Sherwood at p. 217; deletion at p. 212; Space Force statement at p. 238); photograph captions on the email released in May 2024. -[^9]: NewsNation, "UAP whistleblower says UFO retrieval program exists: NewsNation exclusive," January 16, 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/uap-whistleblower-ufo-retrieval-program/ -[^10]: NewsNation, "Whistleblower reveals UAP retrieval program; object caught on video," January 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/hfr-uap-recovery-video-egg-shaped-object-exclusive/ -[^11]: Alicia Sitz, "UAP whistleblower Luis Elizondo neither confirms nor denies he was part of government secrecy efforts," NewsNation, updated June 30, 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/luis-elizondo-denies-uap-secrecy-efforts/ -[^12]: Steph Whiteside and Alicia Sitz, "Elizondo responds to researcher's 'controlled narrative' role rumors," NewsNation, updated July 29, 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/elizondo-uap-role-controlled-narrative/ -[^13]: Kloor, Keith. "UFOs Won't Go Away." *Issues in Science and Technology,* March 1, 2019. https://issues.org/ufos-wont-go-away/ -[^14]: Kloor, Keith. *The Intercept,* June 1, 2019. https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/ -[^15]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously -[^16]: Bender, Bryan. "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2018id_/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111 ; Cooper, Helene, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean. *The New York Times,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html -[^17]: Greenewald, John, Jr. The Black Vault, June 14, 2019. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing -[^18]: The Galileo Project, October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy). -[^19]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 202 to 217 (resignation at p. 202; Garry Reid indexed at pp. 143 to 144, 202 to 203, 209, 212, 215 to 217, 238 to 239) and pp. 205 to 207, 218 and 219 (offer from Tom DeLonge, salary cut and end of the arrangement). +[^4]: [[The Black Vault]], FOIA release of Office of the Secretary of Defense case 18-F-0644, August 2019 (emails of August 23 and 24, 2017 between Luis Elizondo and Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with the DD Form 1910; the form's text is poorly legible in the scan and is quoted as transcribed in the research notes), https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf ; Joseph Gradisher quoted in "U.S. Navy Confirms Videos Depict Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Not Cleared for Public Release," The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/ +[^5]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 3 to 14 (Caine indexed at p. 5; Reid, Bigelow and Maples at pp. 13 to 14). Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one. +[^6]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 82 to 93 (Higgins, Tipton and Pede at pp. 87 to 89; Will at p. 90; office 3C503A at p. 93). +[^7]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 147 to 202 (Interloper at pp. 147 and 186; Byers at pp. 189 and 217; Tipton at p. 192; resignation letter at p. 202). +[^8]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 202 to 203 and 211. +[^9]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 209 to 217 and 238 (Dana White at p. 210; Sherwood at p. 217; deletion at p. 212; Space Force statement at p. 238); photograph captions on the email released in May 2024. +[^10]: NewsNation, "UAP whistleblower says UFO retrieval program exists: NewsNation exclusive," January 16, 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/uap-whistleblower-ufo-retrieval-program/ +[^11]: NewsNation, "Whistleblower reveals UAP retrieval program; object caught on video," January 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/hfr-uap-recovery-video-egg-shaped-object-exclusive/ +[^12]: Alicia Sitz, "UAP whistleblower Luis Elizondo neither confirms nor denies he was part of government secrecy efforts," NewsNation, updated June 30, 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/luis-elizondo-denies-uap-secrecy-efforts/ +[^13]: Steph Whiteside and Alicia Sitz, "Elizondo responds to researcher's 'controlled narrative' role rumors," NewsNation, updated July 29, 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/elizondo-uap-role-controlled-narrative/ +[^14]: Kloor, Keith. "UFOs Won't Go Away." *Issues in Science and Technology,* March 1, 2019. https://issues.org/ufos-wont-go-away/ +[^15]: Kloor, Keith. *The Intercept,* June 1, 2019. https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/ +[^16]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously +[^17]: Bender, Bryan. "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2018id_/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111 ; Cooper, Helene, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean. *The New York Times,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html +[^18]: Greenewald, John, Jr. The Black Vault, June 14, 2019. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing +[^19]: The Galileo Project, October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy). +[^20]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 202 to 217 (resignation at p. 202; Garry Reid indexed at pp. 143 to 144, 202 to 203, 209, 212, 215 to 217, 238 to 239) and pp. 205 to 207, 218 and 219 (offer from Tom DeLonge, salary cut and end of the arrangement). diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Manfred Gale.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Manfred Gale.md index 074a49b3..b7467c4b 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Manfred Gale.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Manfred Gale.md @@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ Gale's Army title was "Advisor for RDA Analysis, ODCSRDA." On August 8, 1979, th ### Footnotes [^1]: *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. -[^2]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 27 November 1979," S-1168/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1, and "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 10 January 1980," S-1008/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1, both signed Jack Vorona, chairman. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Stoner, William L., Major, GS, "Memorandum of Conversation, Subject: Gale Briefing to ZA, Science Evaluation Group Final Report on GRILL FLAME, 14 Jan 80," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7), not read. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. +[^2]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 27 November 1979," S-1168/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1, and "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 10 January 1980," S-1008/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1, both signed Jack Vorona, chairman. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Stoner, William L., Major, GS, "Memorandum of Conversation, Subject: Gale Briefing to ZA, Science Evaluation Group Final Report on GRILL FLAME, 14 Jan 80," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^903]: "Grill Flame Review Panel Members," undated roster, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230008-7; Office of the Under Secretary of the Army, memorandum for Mr. Manny Gale, July 17, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230004-1; K. Lytle, Major, Military Assistant, memorandum for Mr. Gale, Advisor for RDA Analysis, ODCSRDA, "Briefing for Dr. Ruth Davis and Mr. Nealsen," August 8, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230013-1; Snyder to Gale, undated (catalogued May 11, 1979, but referring to October and a visit of September 28), CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230038-4, and November 19, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230042-9; "Findings," "Recommendations," "Estimated Costs," unsigned, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230043-8; SSO Meade to SSO ACSI DA, "Grill Flame DoD Science Evaluation Team Report," LTC Watt, November 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230047-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Masha Drokova.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Masha Drokova.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..56dff823 --- /dev/null +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Masha Drokova.md @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +--- +category: "Finance & Business" +tags: + - Person + - VentureCapital + - Russia + - EpsteinFiles +alias: + - Masha Drokova + - Maria Drokova + - Mariia Drokova + - Maria Aleksandrovna Drokova + - Masha Bucher + - Mariia Bucher +summary: "Former Nashi commissar in Moscow, founder of the San Francisco fund Day One Ventures, and a correspondent of Jeffrey Epstein from March 2017 to June 2019 who arranged press contacts and introductions." +location: "San Francisco" +relations: + - type: member_of + with: "[[Nashi]]" + role: "commissar and Moscow branch leader; described as a commissar at age 18 in February 2008" + start: 2008-02-26 + fn: 1 + - type: founded + with: "[[Day One Ventures]]" + role: "Managing Member of the general partner of Day One Ventures Fund I, L.P. (Form D signed January 12, 2018)" + start: 2018-01-12 + fn: 5 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Day One Ventures Management LLC]]" + role: "exempt reporting adviser, SEC file 802-118147, San Francisco" + fn: 6 + - type: represented + with: "[[Jeffrey Epstein]]" + role: "described by Epstein on July 21, 2017 as helping him with public relations ('masha is helpiing me with PR'); arranged press interviews and contacts, March 2017 to June 2019" + start: 2017-07-21 + end: 2019-06-06 + fn: 10 + - type: subject_of + with: "[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]" + role: "named in an FD-1023 confidential human source report of October 19, 2020 (sole source)" + start: 2020-10-19 + fn: 20 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- + +### Nashi + +Maria Drokova, called Masha, was described by [[The Christian Science Monitor]] on February 26, 2008 as an 18-year-old "commissar" of the pro-Kremlin youth movement [[Nashi]], speaking "excellent English." She told the paper, "My grandfather was a state official, my father was a state official; I want to be useful for my state," and gave Nashi's ideology as "freedom and justice." The same article reported that Nashi claimed about 100,000 members and counted the state-owned company [[Gazprom]] among its donors; [[Andrei Zolotov]] of [[Russia Profile]] said Nashi was "organized by people whose only religion is success and mimicry."[^1] + +[[The Moscow Times]] reported on March 13, 2017 that she led the group's Moscow regional branch, that [[Vladimir Putin]] honored her "for service to the fatherland" in 2008, and that she kissed him on the cheek at a youth festival in 2009 (the photograph that gave the 2012 documentary "Putin's Kiss" its title). The same report states that the 2010 beating of the journalist [[Oleg Kashin]], which many at the time attributed to Nashi activists, shook her faith in the group; Kashin appears in the 2012 Danish documentary about her.[^2] Her own account in February 2026 was that she "saw Putin's corruption and evil up close" by her late teens.[^3] + +### Move to the United States + +On March 12, 2017 she posted from [[San Francisco]] that she had received a [[United States]] green card ("The most beautiful green I've ever seen"), thanking her immigration lawyer.[^2] The Epstein correspondence begins thirteen days later (below). [[Forbes]] reported in February 2026 that she has said she gave up Russian citizenship after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.[^4] + +### Day One Ventures + +Day One Ventures Fund I, L.P. (CIK 1727427) filed its first Form D on January 16, 2018 (signed January 12, 2018) as "Mariia Drokova, Managing Member of the General Partner of the Issuer"; it reports a first sale on December 25, 2017, $11,807,200 sold and 8 investors, under Rules 506(b) and Section 3(c)(7). Amendments reported $13,458,213 sold to 12 investors (October 30, 2018) and $19,182,213 to 25 investors (October 29, 2019).[^5] + +Day One Ventures Fund II, L.P. (a [[Cayman Islands]] issuer) filed a Form D on November 24, 2020, reporting a first sale on October 22, 2020, $52,550,000 sold and 33 investors. Fund III (Texas) filed a Form D on February 16, 2024 naming "Mariia Bucher" as managing member of its general partner with the first sale yet to occur, and a D/A on April 16, 2025 reporting a first sale of February 26, 2024, $7,443,000 and 23 investors.[^5] [[TechCrunch]] reported on February 10, 2026 that Day One closed a $150 million third fund in 2024, for $450 million in total assets under management; Forbes reported that Day One credits itself with early backing of xAI, World and Valar Atomics, and gave its founding as 2018 with a $20 million seed fund.[^3][^4] Day One Ventures Management LLC is an active exempt reporting adviser (SEC file 802-118147), San Francisco, with no disclosures flagged on the IAPD record.[^6] + +A 2018 announcement of a $2.6 million seed round for the startup [[Invisible Technologies|Invisible]], preserved in the [[Epstein Files|Epstein Library]], lists [[Backed Ventures]], [[Loup Ventures]], [[Horizons Alpha]] and Day One Ventures as investors.[^7] The Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2019 named her in venture capital, according to the Deutsche Bank presentation quoted below. TechCrunch notes that the Epstein files carry her primarily under the name Drokova; later filings and press use Bucher.[^3] + +### Correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein, 2017 + +The first document in the [[Jeffrey Epstein]] Library mentioning her is dated March 25, 2017: a sender whose name is redacted wrote to Epstein, "Would you like to be connected to Masha Drokova?" and later "Masha Drokova doesn't want to be assistant. She made her first million at age of 20, now she just invests in companies and creates her own VC, collected abt 10 MLn USD since 6 months." On April 5, 2017 the same writer asked whether to schedule her for Wednesday or Thursday; Epstein replied "yes for masha."[^8] A schedule kept by [[Lesley Groff]] lists "1:00pm Appt w/Masha Drokova" on May 18, 2017, and on May 23 Drokova wrote, "Thank you for the interesting meeting last week. You are fun."[^9] + +In the same May 23 message she told Epstein that he needed "a media who's be able to write about researches you're supporting" and recommended the site Futurism, "25M unique good quality audience per month," naming its founder [[Alex Klokus]] by LinkedIn link.[^9] Between May 27 and June 7, 2017 she wrote to him, "I think you need to talk to the audience directly. Media is an outdated dying resource," listing options that began with a "leak" to a top newspaper on how much he spent donating to science, an exclusive interview and a documentary; Epstein answered "good first draft" and "I like your plan for media, how to operationalize."[^10] On July 21, 2017 Epstein wrote to a scientist, copying her, "masha is helpiing me with PR, I told her she might want to speak to you."[^10] + +On August 24, 2017 she wrote that a news site was "almost done with their article" and needed answers to use as his quotes; the article's title, as linked, was "Private Donor Helps Fund Scientists After Trump's Proposed 'Anti-Science' Budget Cuts." She added, "it's just a start. we'll do more and push them up to the top in google search." Epstein replied, "good work. thx."[^11] On September 4 she reported that the article's author had received warnings from the site asking for its removal; on September 5 the thread is titled "Fixed. The article is back."[^11] + +Between September 8 and October 6, 2017 the documents record her arranging or proposing interviews and contacts for Epstein with reporters at several outlets, among them a Futurism editor interview set for September 18 at 1:30 p.m. ("His name is Alex Klokus," she told Groff that morning), a Nature correspondent, and two business and technology reporters, one of whom met him on September 28.[^9][^12] On October 11 Epstein wrote of one resulting article that it "was good not great."[^12] + +### Message of September 24, 2017 + +In an email thread of Sunday, September 24, 2017, Epstein asked "where are you?" and Drokova answered "In Moscow." Later that day she wrote to Epstein, "btw, do you know any adequate Russian oligarchs?" Epstein replied, "adequate? len blavatni[k]" (the last letter is cut off in the copy). Drokova's next message in the thread reads: "I've heard good things about him too. could you connect me with him? I'm looking for right investors for my fund. adequate Russians with Western mentality is the easiest target. if smart American introduce one Russian to another Russian, the first one will pay double attention :) meeting Len through Russian friends would be that helpful." The copies preserve the thread; no document read records whether an introduction to [[Len Blavatnik]] followed.[^13] + +### The September 30, 2017 instruction + +On Saturday, September 30, 2017 Epstein wrote to [[Richard Kahn]] and Drokova: "rich send masha 25k, masha feel free to give some to" a third party (name omitted here). Drokova replied the same morning, "It's not needed, really," and wrote that she had her own ways to support the third party. She added, "Please don't worry about m[e] helping with reporters. It is interesting and I enjoy it. Learning from yo[u] is worth much more." Epstein answered that he appreciated it and wanted the third party not to know the source; Drokova wrote that she would give the third party an amount of her own money "without a need to lie that it's not from you." On October 4, 2017 Kahn wrote to Epstein, "reminder we still do not have her banking info please advise." No later document read shows whether the 25k was sent.[^14] Through a spokesperson in February 2026 she said she never provided bank details to Epstein's accountant; she has also said she was not paid for her work for Epstein.[^3] + +### Bryan Johnson, October 2017 + +On October 2, 2017 Drokova forwarded to Epstein a "Note from Alex (Futurism founder)": "I was sitting with Bryan Johnson today, who was telling me about everything he's working on at Kernel ... I feel like they would mutually [benefit] from a conversation, if Jeffrey was interested!" Epstein replied, "always interested."[^15] Klokus, as Futurism's chief executive, wrote that evening to [[Bryan Johnson]] and Drokova that he had "spoken with Masha about the potential value of him and Jeffrey chatting. Masha has spoken with Jeffrey," and "@Masha: I'll let you take it from here." Klokus is not on any Epstein recipient line in the library.[^15] Epstein, in Florida, proposed a call; a Zoom meeting was scheduled for October 6, moved from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Epstein's request and then delayed to 5:15 p.m. by Groff. Drokova wrote at 5:14 p.m., as quoted in a later message, "I managed to free up earlier and join Jeffrey and Bryan too." No document records the call's occurrence, length or content, and no later Johnson correspondence with Epstein about it or a payment was found.[^15] + +### Palm Beach, December 2017 + +On December 25, 2017 Epstein wrote: "plese coordinate with masha and her friend to visit and stay in palm beach we pay all," adding "Breakers or four seasons." Drokova answered, "book 4seasons." A [[Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach]] invoice (no. 359665) lists the guest as "Ms. Maria Drokova," arrival December 25 and departure December 27, 2017, balance due $0.00.[^16] On December 29 an assistant to Epstein wrote that the "total for reimbursement is 7027.48" and that the check would be mailed. A [[Deutsche Bank]] Trust Company Americas check no. 1146, dated December 29, 2017, drawn on the account of Jeffrey Epstein, payable to "Mariia Drokova" for $7,027.48 (printed with asterisk fill) with the memo "PB Expense reimbursement," is in the library.[^16] On April 13, 2018 an assistant wrote that Drokova "did not cash her reimbursement check 1146 issued no 12/29/17 in the amount of 7,027.48"; Kahn answered on April 16, "if you have not already reached out then don't chase her.. if reached out and no response please just let it be."[^16] + +### Introductions, 2018 and 2019 + +The Library records Drokova introducing Epstein, by email, to a number of founders, investors, researchers and reporters between October 2017 and June 2019, usually with the line "Please meet each other" and followed by scheduling mail from Groff; the individuals are not named on this page. She wrote on February 8, 2018 of a portfolio founder, "One of my favorite portfolio founders ... is in New York next week."[^7][^17] Among the other correspondence, Epstein introduced her to scientists and technologists, one of whom she then contacted about a Day One investment, writing, "I run Day One Ventures fund and based in San Francisco."[^17] On May 12, 2018 she wrote that her "fund is growing in all meanings, portfolio almost doubled in valuation over the last four months," and on May 16, 2019 (Skype log), "I would never create my fund without the ideas and knowledge you shared with me and I do much love my work."[^17] + +On December 23, 2018 Epstein wrote, "re your ten woman swat team make a list of 20 candiddates. plus 10 smartest guys. lets begin." On December 24 Drokova replied with a list of named professionals, women and men, each with an occupation, and a set of five shared qualities ("Smart," "Ambitious," "Learning fast," "High level of energy," "Trust their instincts"). Epstein wrote on December 27, "lets test your list. . get everyone sskype or video contact. I will spend 10 minutes with each , both men and women." Over the following days she sent individual introduction emails to Epstein and persons on the list, and on December 31 wrote, "Tell me honestly what you think of everyone you met so I can better curate the rest of list." The names on the list are omitted from this page.[^18] + +### Deutsche Bank presentation, September 12, 2019 + +Page 39 of a Deutsche Bank presentation to the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York|United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York]] dated September 12, 2019 (marked as pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 6(e)) contains a row with recipient "Maria Drokova," date 12/29/2017, amount "$7,027," column "C," account name "Jeffrey Epstein." The bank's text on the page states: "Maria 'Masha' Drokova is the Founder and General partner of a venture capital firm called Day One Ventures. She was recently named to Forbes' 2019 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital. She has garnered attention because she previously led a Russian patriotic youth movement called Nashi, which has been implicated in harassing people critical of President Putin's regime."[^19] + +### FBI report, October 2020 + +An FD-1023 report of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] ([[Los Angeles]]; contact October 16, 2020; report date October 19, 2020) records a confidential human source (CHS) stating that Drokova "is based in [[Silicon Valley]]," runs Day One Ventures, and "used to be Russian President Vladimir Putin's main contact in the Russian Youth movement." The source said that when they spoke Drokova "did not talk at all about technology; instead, she looked at CHS and said, 'You knew Epstein, didn't you.'" and called Epstein a "wonderful man" for whom it was "a crying shame what had being done to him." The source concluded that "Day One Ventures was in Silicon Valley to steal technology." The conclusion is the source's; the document contains no corroboration.[^20] + +### Public statements + +After the February 2026 release, Drokova (publishing as Masha Bucher) posted on X that she first connected with Epstein while looking for protection from the Russian government: "He made me feel I could be safe from the regime, someone with power and connections who could shield me from those threats." She wrote, "I was naive; I didn't dig deep enough early on," said she believed his account of his 2008 plea (that "a girl had lied about her age"), apologized "to my founders, team, and investors" and wrote, "I now see clearly how profoundly dark and evil he was." She said she introduced Epstein to four journalists, never visited his island, and was not paid for her work, and that she has given up her Russian passport and met with some of Epstein's victims.[^3] A Russian journalist disputed her account that she and her family were at risk.[^4] Asked earlier by [[The Washington Post]] (2022) about an email that touted Russian oligarch connections, she denied writing it and said, "I'm not a spy, even though that sounds romantic."[^3] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Christa Case Bryant, "Nashi and the Young Guard: two paths toward building support for Putin," The Christian Science Monitor, February 26, 2008, https://csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2008/0226/p13s01-woeu.html +[^2]: "Former Pro-Putin Activist Celebrates U.S. Green Card on Instagram," The Moscow Times, March 13, 2017, https://themoscowtimes.com/news/former-pro-putin-activist-celebrates-us-green-card-on-instagram-57408 +[^3]: Julie Bort, "VC Masha Bucher, Epstein associate and Day One founder, explains herself," TechCrunch, February 10, 2026, https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/vc-masha-bucher-epstein-associate-and-day-one-founder-explains-herself ; Rya Jetha, "Epstein fallout: VC Masha Bucher breaks her silence after revelations," San Francisco Standard, February 10, 2026, https://sfstandard.com/2026/02/10/epstein-vc-masha-bucher-breaks-silence-revelations/ (quotations from her post on X as reproduced by those outlets; the spokesperson statement and 2022 Washington Post denial as reported there) +[^4]: Iain Martin, "How Jeffrey Epstein helped his publicist become a big-time venture capitalist," Forbes, February 4, 2026 (Forbes Australia edition February 6, 2026), https://www.forbes.com.au/?p=176227 . Forbes states she did not comment before publication. +[^5]: SEC Form D filings: Day One Ventures Fund I, L.P., CIK 1727427, accessions 0001727427-18-000001 (filed January 16, 2018), 0001727427-18-000002 (October 30, 2018), 0001727427-19-000001 (October 29, 2019), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1727427/000172742718000001/primary_doc.xml ; Fund II, CIK 1831965, 0001831965-20-000001, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1831965/000183196520000001/primary_doc.xml ; Fund III, CIK 2009720, 0002009720-24-000001 and 0002009720-25-000001, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2009720/000200972025000001/primary_doc.xml +[^6]: SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure, Day One Ventures Management LLC, SEC file 802-118147, firm search, https://api.adviserinfo.sec.gov/search/firm?query=Day%20One%20Ventures (disclosure flag "N"; scope ACTIVE). +[^7]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA02617074 (Invisible seed round announcement, 2018) and EFTA02237418, EFTA02526434 (February 8 to 17, 2018), https://www.justice.gov/epstein +[^8]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA01051501, EFTA01051107, EFTA01050997, EFTA01050152 (March 25 to April 5, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein . The introducer's identity is redacted in every copy read. +[^9]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA01047005 (Data Set 9, May 23, 2017); EFTA00451355 (May 18, 2017 schedule); EFTA02223354 (Data Set 11, September 18, 2017); EFTA01017255 (Groff schedule, September 18, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein . The September 18 interview is a scheduled item; no document records that it occurred. +[^10]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA01043912, EFTA00697281, EFTA01045132, EFTA00663730 (May 27 to June 7, 2017, "Plant Neurobiology - Invitation to collaborate"); EFTA01040034 (July 21, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein +[^11]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA02341792, EFTA02393920, EFTA00703262 (August 24, 2017); EFTA01035000 (September 4, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein +[^12]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA02614477, EFTA00501845 (September 20, 2017); EFTA00460201, EFTA02225143 (September 30 to October 9, 2017); EFTA00992990 (October 11, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein +[^13]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA02362053 (September 24, 2017, message beginning "yes! super energized because of that," Drokova to Epstein, containing the "adequate Russian oligarchs" sentence) and EFTA02362021 (September 24, 2017, Drokova to Epstein, "Re:", quoting Epstein's "adequate? len blavatni" and her request for the connection), https://www.justice.gov/epstein . Both read as page images; the quoted text appears with the "=" line-break artifacts of the underlying email export removed. +[^14]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA00997798 (Richard Kahn to Epstein, "Masha," October 4, 2017, forwarding the September 30 message); EFTA02597093 (Drokova to Epstein, September 30, 2017, 10:47 AM); EFTA02598199, EFTA01003089 (further copies), https://www.justice.gov/epstein +[^15]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA00999952 (Data Set 9, October 2, 2017); EFTA01000443 (October 3, 2017); EFTA02227011 (Data Set 11, October 3, 2017, 12:11:32 PM); EFTA00460043, EFTA00460518, EFTA02226959, EFTA02226363 (October 5 to 6, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein +[^16]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA00937443, EFTA00466145 (December 25 to 27, 2017); EFTA02233814 (December 29, 2017, "Please issue reimbursement check for Masha..."); EFTA00316379 (check no. 1146); EFTA02241817 (April 13 to 16, 2018), https://www.justice.gov/epstein +[^17]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA00967226, EFTA00965760 (November 1 to 3, 2017); EFTA01058821 (May 12, 2018); EFTA01612654 (Skype log, May 16, 2019), https://www.justice.gov/epstein +[^18]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA01010555 (December 23 to 24, 2018) and related EFTA01010299, EFTA01010171, EFTA01009982, EFTA01009870 (December 27 to 31, 2018), https://www.justice.gov/epstein +[^19]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA01681902, page 39 of a Deutsche Bank presentation to the U.S. Attorney, SDNY, September 12, 2019, https://www.justice.gov/epstein . The description of Drokova is the bank's. +[^20]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA00090314, FBI FD-1023, "CHS reporting document," Los Angeles, date of contact October 16, 2020, date of report October 19, 2020, https://www.justice.gov/epstein . diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Michel Bourlet.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Michel Bourlet.md index a08c60e8..f7ff47a7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Michel Bourlet.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Michel Bourlet.md @@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ Bourlet's team was replaced in 1997 after accusations that it had fed details to ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying X-witness material is Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux* (Houtekiet, 1999), not examined. It describes Bourlet as assigned to the case by Connerotte, which inverts their roles, and gives August 13, 1996, for Dutroux's arrest, contradicted by the commission's chronology. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying X-witness material is Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux* (Houtekiet, 1999). It describes Bourlet as assigned to the case by Connerotte, which inverts their roles, and gives August 13, 1996, for Dutroux's arrest, contradicted by the commission's chronology. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport complémentaire, Doc. 713/8-96/97, February 16, 1998, chapter V; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/comm/dutroux/49K0713008.pdf [^3]: Sénat de Belgique. Proposition visant à instituer une commission d'enquête parlementaire chargée d'enquêter sur l'éloignement de deux enquêteurs de la cellule d'enquête bruxelloise « Neufchâteau », déposée par M. Frans Lozie, Doc. 2-563/1, October 9, 2000, développements; translated from the French. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Bennewitz.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Bennewitz.md index dbfa0376..12d899b5 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Bennewitz.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Bennewitz.md @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Moore wrote in FOCUS in 1989 that in September 1982 there were, as far as he kne The Albuquerque Tribune of Friday, April 8, 1983 printed on page 6, as a jump from page A-1 under the headline "U.S. reports tell of sightings," an account of Air Force reports on Kirtland. It described Bennewitz as "president of a local electronics firm" living adjacent to the northern boundary of the Manzano base, and reported that he said he saw four "saucer or hat-shaped objects lined up behind the outside fence" of the Manzano area on February 2, 1980, and filmed them from about 2,500 yards. It quoted an Air Force report written months later as saying he produced still photographs and 2,600 feet of 8mm film "depicting unidentified aerial objects flying over and around Manzano Weapons Storage Area and Coyote Canyon Test Area," and reported that the investigator, Miller, a former Project Blue Book investigator, concluded only that "no conclusions could be made whether these objects pose a threat to Manzano-Coyote Canyon areas." It reported that on November 19 (1980) Bennewitz was told the Air Force would not investigate and "was not in a position to evaluate the information and photographs he has collected," and that former Senator [[Harrison Schmitt]] had inquired why the Air Force declined; the AFOSI forms above date the corresponding statement to Doty and November 17, 1980.[^17] -The Tribune quoted George Pearce, the Kirtland public affairs officer, as saying Bennewitz "said he was in contact with alien beings through his computer and wanted us to investigate," and that he told Bennewitz Project Blue Book had ended in 1969, and quoted Colonel John Aday, Kirtland chief of public affairs, as saying UFOs are no threat to national defense and that he had "no idea" what the 1980 sightings were. It reported that Bennewitz had briefed UFO enthusiasts in Albuquerque earlier that week, saying there was an alien base inside a mesa near [[Dulce, New Mexico|Dulce]], that the aliens intended to enslave the earth, that he had seen aliens on a video screen, "green and about 4 feet tall," and that cattle mutilations supplied the aliens' needs through gene splicing; the paper said he planned a book. It also reported that the Kirtland sightings were described in Air Force reports sent to the [[Mutual UFO Network]] in December 1982, and quoted MUFON international director Walter Andrus, by telephone from [[Seguin, Texas]], as saying MUFON had filed Freedom of Information Act requests and that the reports had been held confidential until MUFON received the documents; the paper gave MUFON as having more than 1,000 members, about a dozen in New Mexico.[^17] A search of the newspaper archive also lists an [[Albuquerque Journal]] item of April 9, 1983, page 5, and an [[Alamogordo Daily News]] item of April 11, 1983, page 12, which were not read. +The Tribune quoted George Pearce, the Kirtland public affairs officer, as saying Bennewitz "said he was in contact with alien beings through his computer and wanted us to investigate," and that he told Bennewitz Project Blue Book had ended in 1969, and quoted Colonel John Aday, Kirtland chief of public affairs, as saying UFOs are no threat to national defense and that he had "no idea" what the 1980 sightings were. It reported that Bennewitz had briefed UFO enthusiasts in Albuquerque earlier that week, saying there was an alien base inside a mesa near [[Dulce, New Mexico|Dulce]], that the aliens intended to enslave the earth, that he had seen aliens on a video screen, "green and about 4 feet tall," and that cattle mutilations supplied the aliens' needs through gene splicing; the paper said he planned a book. It also reported that the Kirtland sightings were described in Air Force reports sent to the [[Mutual UFO Network]] in December 1982, and quoted MUFON international director Walter Andrus, by telephone from [[Seguin, Texas]], as saying MUFON had filed Freedom of Information Act requests and that the reports had been held confidential until MUFON received the documents; the paper gave MUFON as having more than 1,000 members, about a dozen in New Mexico.[^17] ### Moore's account diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Vanden Boeynants.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Vanden Boeynants.md index a9c4868d..f5418ed8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Vanden Boeynants.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Vanden Boeynants.md @@ -32,6 +32,6 @@ The network ties included Societe Generale de Banque, where Lippens had interest Vanden Boeynants faced no charges from X-Dossier allegations, with testimonies barred from Dutroux's 2004 trial due to reliability issues with X-witnesses' DID. The 1997 dossier leak detailed his name, but investigations halted after his 2001 death from natural causes. No assets or records were seized linking him to crimes. The 2005 Wikileaks summary reiterated claims, but no legal action occurred post-mortem.[^1] ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It places his premiership in 1978-1981 and a kidnapping in 1974; contemporaneous reporting gives two terms, from 1966 and 1978, and the kidnapping of January 1989. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It places his premiership in 1978-1981 and a kidnapping in 1974; contemporaneous reporting gives two terms, from 1966 and 1978, and the kidnapping of January 1989. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: "Aldo Moro, Paul Vanden Boeynants, Baron Empain: ces kidnappings célèbres ayant marqué le monde politique et économique." RTBF, October 10, 2020; translated from the French. https://www.rtbf.be/article/aldo-moro-paul-vanden-boeynants-baron-empain-ces-kidnappings-celebres-ayant-marque-le-monde-politique-et-economique-10604463 [^3]: Tempest, Rone. "Mystery, Doubts Shroud Kidnaping of Belgian." *Los Angeles Times,* February 4, 1989. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-04-mn-1507-story.html diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Peter Diamandis.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Peter Diamandis.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f83e84b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Peter Diamandis.md @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +--- +category: "Technologists" +tags: + - Person + - Entrepreneur + - Longevity + - VentureCapital + - SpaceIndustry + - Transhumanism +alias: + - Peter Diamandis + - Peter H. Diamandis + - Peter H Diamandis + - Peter Diamandis, MD + - Dr. Peter Diamandis +summary: "Founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, described in his biographies as co-founder of Singularity University, BOLD Capital Partners and Human Longevity; director of Planetary Resources and Celularity; emailed by Epstein's office in 2013." +location: "Santa Monica, California" +relations: + - type: founded + with: "[[XPRIZE Foundation]]" + role: "Founder and Chairman, reportable compensation $254,129 for 2024" + fn: 1 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Singularity University]]" + role: "director of Singularity Education Group, with Ray Kurzweil, Naveen Jain and Erik Anderson" + start: 2017-11 + fn: 2 + - type: founded + with: "[[BOLD Capital Partners]]" + role: "named as executive officer on the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020 fund Form D filings" + start: 2015-11 + fn: 5 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Planetary Resources]]" + role: "director, with Bryan Johnson, per the October 2015 Form D" + start: 2015-10 + fn: 7 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Celularity]]" + role: "director per the 2017 and 2018 Form D filings" + start: 2017-09 + fn: 12 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Fountain Life]]" + role: "director per Form D filings of 2021 and 2023" + start: 2021-01 + fn: 13 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Hyperloop Technologies]]" + role: "director per the June 2015 Form D" + start: 2015-06 + fn: 14 + - type: funded + with: "[[Solari Capital]]" + role: "limited partner, per Diamandis in Fortune" + start: 2026-09 + fn: 15 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- + +### XPRIZE Foundation + +Peter Diamandis, who according to his SALT biography earned degrees in Molecular Genetics and Aerospace Engineering from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and holds an M.D. from [[Harvard Medical School]], is the founder and chairman of the [[XPRIZE Foundation]] (formally X Prize Foundation Inc), a [[Culver City, California]] public charity (EIN 52-1876879, [[Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] ruling date June 1, 1999). Its Form 990 for tax year 2024 reports total revenue of $47,528,889, contributions and grants of $41,198,091, expenses of $49,132,340 and total assets of $146,450,974; Part VII lists Diamandis as "Founder & Chairman," 40 hours a week, with reportable compensation from the organization of $254,129 and other compensation of $41,922. The same Part VII lists him with comparable figures for each year from 2016 ($267,211) through 2022 ($259,828).[^1] + +The 2024 board consists of [[Amir Ansari]], [[Anu Jain]], [[David Blundin]], [[Don Walker]], [[Eric Esrailian]], [[Gil Elbaz]], [[Gregg Maryniak]] (secretary), [[Helene Desmarais]] (until April), [[James Gianopulos]], [[Jeffrey Shames]], [[John Frank]], [[Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks]], [[Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux]], [[Lauren Selig]], [[Mark Siegel]], [[Robert Weiss]] (vice chairman), [[Salim Ismail]] and [[Vanessa Speer]]; [[Anousheh Ansari]] is chief executive officer, with reportable compensation of $1,017,714. Ismail is listed from tax year 2018, Blundin in 2022 and 2024, and [[Avi Reichental]] in 2022.[^1] The 990 data read for 2016 through 2024 contain no Schedule L transaction and no text reference to [[BOLD Capital Partners]], [[Abundance]], [[Singularity University]], [[Human Longevity, Inc.|Human Longevity]] or [[Fountain Life]].[^1] Donor names on Schedule B are not public for this organization. + +### Singularity University and Futurism + +The 2008 founding of Singularity University by Diamandis and [[Ray Kurzweil]] at the [[NASA Ames Research Center]] is described on the [[Singularitarianism]] page. [[Singularity Education Group]] (CIK 1723877, [[Moffett Field, California]]), the operating entity, filed a Form D on November 30, 2017 listing as directors Kurzweil, Diamandis, [[Erik Anderson]] and [[Naveen Jain]], with [[Rob Nail]] as chief executive officer; it reported $22,465,475 sold of a $33,440,670 offering to 42 investors, first sale December 22, 2015.[^2] + +The 2017 About page of [[Futurism, LLC|Futurism]], then run by [[Alex Klokus]], listed Diamandis (XPRIZE) among its "experts" beside [[Kaila Colbin]] of Singularity University and [[Joseph Lubin]] of [[ConsenSys]].[^3] A press release of [[Recurrent Ventures]] dated July 26, 2021 states that Futurism, "Founded in 2014," "was acquired by Singularity University in 2019 as an independent media organization."[^3] Klokus's biography on the [[SALT Conference]] site says he "built and sold" Futurism.[^4] + +### BOLD Capital Partners + +The BOLD Capital Partners Form D filings begin on November 13, 2015 (BOLD Capital Partners, L.P., Culver City, $200,000,000 offering, none sold at filing), with Diamandis, [[Teymour Boutros-Ghali]], [[Emilio Diez Barroso]] and [[Neal Bhadkamkar]] as executive officers. Diamandis is named again on BOLD Capital Partners S2 (March 18, 2016), BOLD Capital Partners II (December 8, 2017, $200,000,000) and BOLD Capital Select (June 3, 2020, $100,000,000). BOLD Capital Partners III (October 29, 2021, $250,000,000), the 2022 to 2026 special-purpose vehicles for [[Viome]] and others, and BOLD Capital Partners SX2 (May 23, 2025) name the other three men only.[^5] A capture of the firm's About page dated July 17, 2019 calls Diamandis "a General Partner of BOLD," says he received "a Masters in Aeronautics from MIT and a MD from Harvard Medical School," and lists the companies he has "co-founded" as XPRIZE Foundation, Human Longevity Inc., Celularity and Singularity University.[^6] The SALT biography of Diamandis gives BOLD as "a venture fund with $250M investing in exponential technologies."[^4] + +### Planetary Resources, Human Longevity and Bryan Johnson + +The Form D of [[Planetary Resources]], Inc. ([[Redmond, Washington]]) filed October 21, 2015 lists [[Eric Anderson]] as chairman and director, [[Chris Lewicki]], [[Michael Murray]] and [[Joseph Landon]] as executive officers, and Peter Diamandis and [[Bryan Johnson]] as directors; it reports $12,233,209 sold of a $19,988,688 offering to 16 investors, first sale October 6, 2015. Amended filings of May 26 and November 16, 2016 carry the same two directors and report $20,734,417 and $34,783,603 sold to 28 and 29 investors.[^7] [[Fortune]] reported on October 20, 2014 that Johnson's $100 million fund had invested in Planetary Resources, [[Vicarious]], [[Matternet]] and Human Longevity.[^8] + +Human Longevity, Inc. ([[San Diego]]) filed Form D notices from 2019 through 2024 naming [[David Karow]], [[James Hu]] and [[Wei-Wu He]] (and from 2024 [[James Huang]] and [[Helmut Schuehsler]]); Diamandis is not named in them. They report $20,060,630 sold to one investor (first sale June 14, 2019), $6,919,380 to 11 investors (2021), $10,500,000 to four (2023) and $31,999,999 to 18 (August 21, 2024).[^9] Human Longevity, Inc. is the plaintiff in Human Longevity, Inc. v. [[J. Craig Venter Institute]], Inc., No. 3:18-cv-01656, filed July 20, 2018 in the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California]].[^10] + +### Other Form D directorships + +Diamandis is named as a director or executive officer on Form D filings for [[Panjia]], LLC (November 16, 2011) and [[Humin]], Inc. (June 18, 2012), both with [[Ankur Jain]] and [[William A. Owens]]; [[Hyperloop Technologies]], Inc. (June 11, 2015, with [[Shervin Pishevar]], [[David Sacks]], [[Joe Lonsdale]] and [[Jim Messina]], $8,694,990 sold to 10 investors); [[Planetary Power]], Inc. (September 14, 2015); [[Celularity]] Inc. (September 28, 2017: $40,000,004 sold to 16 investors, with [[Robert Hariri]], [[John Sculley]], [[Bill Maris]] and [[Andrew von Eschenbach]]; and November 13, 2018: $77,699,988 sold to five investors); [[Verijet]] Holding Company, LLC (December 19, 2019); [[C19 Corp.]] (April 3, 2020) and [[Vaxxinity]], Inc. (March 17, 2021; $1,352,949,307 sold to 81 investors as filed), both with [[Mei Mei Hu]]; Fountain Life Holdings, LLC (January 21, 2021; $2,140,000 sold) and Fountain Life, LLC (December 14, 2023; $87,120,522 sold to 61 investors), both with [[Tony Robbins]]; [[Lifeforce Digital]] Inc. (February 17, 2022, with Robbins); and XPV Fund 1, LP (April 22, 2025; $300,000,000 offered under [[Rule 506(c)]], with David Blundin).[^11][^12][^13][^14] + +Abundance Lila II, LLC ([[Miami|Miami, Florida]]), a pooled investment fund, reported $53,150,000 sold to 56 investors on a Form D filed July 21, 2026, first sale July 6, 2026, with Diamandis as executive officer and director; Abundance X Capable, LLC ([[Santa Monica]]) filed on October 1, 2026 reporting $3,750,000 sold to two investors. Both were signed by [[Kenneth Machida]], head of finance.[^11] + +### AJ Scaramucci and Solari Capital + +[[Bustle]] reported on August 1, 2017 that [[AJ Scaramucci]] ([[Alexander Scaramucci]], the oldest son of [[Anthony Scaramucci]]) was, according to his [[LinkedIn]] page, an "entrepreneur in residence" working "with Peter Diamandis across all of his ventures: XPRIZE, Human Longevity Inc., Planetary Resources, Bold Capital Partners, Singularity University, [[Abundance 360]]."[^15] His SALT biography says he was an entrepreneur-in-residence "alongside Dr. Peter Diamandis building Cellularity," and lists Planetary Resources among his earlier roles.[^4] Fortune reported on September 24, 2026 that Scaramucci traced his thesis to reading Diamandis's book "Abundance" in April 2012, reached Diamandis through Chris Lewicki of Planetary Resources, and by 2015 was an entrepreneur-in-residence "building the CAR-T cell therapy startup Cellularity and the education venture [[Abundance Group]]." Diamandis told Fortune that he had known Scaramucci "for the better part of 15 years," that Scaramucci had been a member of his "Strike Force" (an entrepreneur-in-residence program in which, in Diamandis's words, an entrepreneur travels with him and sits in on board meetings "12-15 hours a day"), and that he was "happy to be a limited partner in" [[Solari Capital]], whose backers Fortune also lists as [[Ron Conway]], [[Jim Breyer]], [[Stephen Pagliuca]] and [[Eric Schmidt]].[^15] + +A Form D of [[Theo Rewards, Inc.|Theo Rewards, Inc.]] (February 3, 2020) lists Klokus and an "Ankur Jain" as co-chief executives; the Panjia and Humin filings above carry the same name with Diamandis. The filings do not identify the two as one person.[^16] + +### SALT and the UAP speakers + +The SALT Conference speaker page for Diamandis is tagged "SALT [[Las Vegas]] 2019"; SALT Las Vegas 2019 also lists AJ Scaramucci and Anthony Scaramucci. Speaker pages for [[Avi Loeb]] ("SALT New York 2022") and [[Garry Nolan]] ("SALT iConnections New York 2023") are on the same site, as are pages for Alex Klokus and AJ Scaramucci for those events.[^4] No record located in a search of the SEC's EDGAR system, the XPRIZE 990 filings or the SALT site connects Diamandis or a Diamandis entity to a UAP organization. + +### Epstein correspondence + +Documents in the [[Department of Justice]] [[Jeffrey Epstein]] library show [[Lesley Groff]], signing as "Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein," writing to Diamandis at 12:55 p.m. on May 1, 2013: "Jeffrey wants you to please contact him whenever you come to New York...he would love to get together." Diamandis, signing as "Chairman/CEO, X PRIZE Foundation," answered: "Please meet Connie Fox who runs my insane (but wonderful) life. Connie, Can you figure out when I'm next in NYC & schedule time with Jeffrey?" [[Connie Fox]] replied that evening that Diamandis would be in New York around June 14 and 15, "but his travel has not been confirmed," and proposed circling back at the beginning of June; on May 2 she wrote "Great, thank you" to the next message. The documents read record no meeting and no money.[^17] + +A November 8, 2010 email from [[Al Seckel]] to Epstein forwards a message from [[Neil Jacobstein]], president of Singularity University, asking for a conversation about a science and technology education grant that "leverages our team projects"; no grant appears in the documents read.[^17] Epstein's mailbox also received two Futurism newsletters, dated October 9 and October 12, 2017, each advertising "a live AMA on October 13th" with Kurzweil and Diamandis.[^17] + +On October 2, 2017 [[Masha Drokova]] forwarded to Epstein a note from Klokus about a meeting with Diamandis's fellow Planetary Resources director Bryan Johnson, and on October 6, 2017 Epstein, Johnson and Drokova were scheduled for a video call arranged by Groff and Kernel's executive assistant; see Bryan Johnson. The library search returns about 316 documents carrying Diamandis's name, most of them duplicate copies, newsletters and mailings; about 270 carry his name on a sender, recipient or quoted-sender line.[^17] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: X Prize Foundation Inc, Form 990, EIN 52-1876879, tax years 2016 (object ID 201713199349312736), 2017 (201843199349314589), 2018 (201913229349300866), 2020 (202123199349331027), 2021 (202223199349330172), 2022 (202323199349328517), 2024 (202543219349322039), Part I, Part VII Section A, Schedule R; IRS e-file XML via https://gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202543219349322039_public.xml and the IRS index at https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/2025/index_2025.csv. Organization data: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/521876879.json. +[^2]: Singularity Education Group, Form D, CIK 1723877, accession 0001723877-17-000001, filed November 30, 2017. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723877/000172387717000001/primary_doc.xml +[^3]: Futurism, "About," Wayback Machine capture of June 16, 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20170616122143id_/https://futurism.com/about ; Recurrent Ventures, "Recurrent Ventures Acquires Futurism from Singularity University," July 26, 2021, https://recurrent.io/recurrent-ventures-acquires-futurism-from-singularity-university/ +[^4]: SALT speaker pages (the Diamandis biography gives the MIT degrees, the M.D., the title "Founder & Executive Chairman" of XPRIZE and BOLD as "a venture fund with $250M"): Peter H. Diamandis, https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/peter-diamandis ; AJ Scaramucci, https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/aj-scaramucci ; Alex Klokus, https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/alex-klokus ; Avi Loeb, https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/avi-loeb ; Garry Nolan, https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/garry-nolan +[^5]: SEC Forms D: BOLD Capital Partners, L.P. (CIK 1653181, 0001653181-15-000001); S2 (1669652, 0001669652-16-000001); II (1724470, 0001724470-17-000001); SX (1809563, 0001809563-20-000001); Select (1813841, 0001813841-20-000001); III (1881895, 0001881895-21-000002); SX2 (2062969, 0002062969-25-000001); SPVs CIK 1945831, 1952354, 1949294, 1897646, 2032792, 2017417, 2127274. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653181/000165318115000001/primary_doc.xml +[^6]: BOLD Capital Partners, "About," Wayback Machine capture of July 17, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190717010732id_/https://www.boldcapitalpartners.com/about/ +[^7]: Planetary Resources, Inc., Form D, CIK 1656177, accession 0001656177-15-000001, filed October 21, 2015; Forms D/A 0001656177-16-000002 (May 26, 2016) and 0001656177-16-000003 (November 16, 2016). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1656177/000165617715000001/primary_doc.xml +[^8]: JP Mangalindan, "Crazy, insane start-ups are this tech investor's meat and potatoes," Fortune, October 20, 2014. https://www.fortune.com/2014/10/20/crazy-fund-startups +[^9]: Human Longevity, Inc., Forms D, CIK 1781303, accessions 0001781303-19-000001 (July 1, 2019), 0001781303-22-000002 (October 11, 2022), 0001781303-23-000001 (April 7, 2023), 0001781303-24-000001 (D/A, August 21, 2024). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1781303/000178130319000001/primary_doc.xml +[^10]: CourtListener docket header, Human Longevity, Inc. v. J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc., No. 3:18-cv-01656 (S.D. Cal., filed July 20, 2018). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7596559/human-longevity-inc-v-j-craig-venter-institute-inc/. +[^11]: SEC Forms D: Abundance Lila II, LLC (CIK 2145163, 0002145163-26-000001); Abundance X Capable, LLC (CIK 2157998, 0002157998-26-000001); XPV Fund 1, LP (CIK 2065311, 0002065311-25-000001); Lifeforce Digital Inc. (CIK 1911639, 0001911639-22-000001). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2145163/000214516326000001/primary_doc.xml +[^12]: Celularity Inc., Forms D, CIK 1716918, accessions 0001716918-17-000001 (September 28, 2017) and 0001716918-18-000001 (November 13, 2018). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1716918/000171691817000001/primary_doc.xml +[^13]: SEC Forms D: Fountain Life Holdings, LLC (CIK 1836992, 0001836992-21-000001); Fountain Life, LLC (CIK 2003777, 0001137439-23-001464); Verijet Holding Company, LLC (CIK 1795587, 0001795587-19-000001). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2003777/000113743923001464/primary_doc.xml +[^14]: SEC Forms D: Hyperloop Technologies, Inc. (CIK 1634332, 0001634332-15-000002); C19 Corp. (CIK 1808960, 0001808960-20-000001); Vaxxinity, Inc. (CIK 1851657, 0001851657-21-000002); Planetary Power, Inc. (CIK 1653035, 0001653035-15-000001); Panjia, LLC (CIK 1534799, 0001534799-11-000001); Humin, Inc. (CIK 1551111, 0001551111-12-000001). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1634332/000163433215000002/primary_doc.xml +[^15]: Joseph D. Lyons, "Alexander Scaramucci, The Mooch's Oldest Son, Is Working In Los Angeles," Bustle, August 1, 2017, https://www.bustle.com/p/who-is-alexander-scaramucci-the-moochs-son-is-entrepreneur-73739 (secondary, citing LinkedIn and the Daily Mail); Nick Lichtenberg, "Exclusive: AJ Scaramucci comes out of stealth with a $350 million bet on 'Programmable Reality,'" Fortune, September 24, 2026, https://fortune.com/2026/09/24/exclusive-aj-scaramucci-comes-out-of-stealth-with-a-350-million-bet-on-programmable-reality/ +[^16]: Theo Rewards, Inc., Form D, CIK 1801852, accession 0001801852-20-000001, filed February 3, 2020. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801852/000180185220000001/primary_doc.xml +[^17]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library (Epstein Files Transparency Act release): EFTA00391312, Data Set 9, Groff and Diamandis, May 1, 2013, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00391312.pdf ; EFTA00391056, Data Set 9, Connie Fox, May 1, 2013, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00391056.pdf ; EFTA00391062, Data Set 9, May 2, 2013, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00391062.pdf ; EFTA02417160, Data Set 11, Seckel to Epstein, November 8, 2010, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02417160.pdf ; EFTA02386439 (October 9, 2017) and EFTA02343891 (October 12, 2017), Data Set 11, Futurism newsletters to jeevacation@gmail.com, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02386439.pdf and https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02343891.pdf ; the Drokova, Klokus and Johnson chain (EFTA00999952 and others) is cited on the Bryan Johnson page. The count of about 316 documents is from a name search of the library run on October 3, 2026. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ron Blackburn.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ron Blackburn.md index 6d340263..b20ac414 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ron Blackburn.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ron Blackburn.md @@ -40,6 +40,6 @@ Ron Blackburn is a retired [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] lieutenant colo ### Footnotes -[^1]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities,* 2011, as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, p. 20, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. The book was not opened. +[^1]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities,* 2011, as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, p. 20, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. [^2]: Houck and Shannon notes as reproduced in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 15 and 188 (page images read directly; originals not seen). -[^3]: Vallee, Jacques. Journal entries of February, May and August 1990, as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 21 and 66-67 and the sections on EMP testing and on Ed Dames, which gives volume numbers only for the May and "1990" mesa entries (*Forbidden Science: Volume Four*); the February and August 1990 entries fall in the period of that volume. The books were not opened. No Blackburn publication or Air Force Weapons Laboratory record was found. Sole source for the passages so cited. +[^3]: Vallee, Jacques. Journal entries of February, May and August 1990, as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 21 and 66-67 and the sections on EMP testing and on Ed Dames, which gives volume numbers only for the May and "1990" mesa entries (*Forbidden Science: Volume Four*); the February and August 1990 entries fall in the period of that volume. No Blackburn publication or Air Force Weapons Laboratory record was found. Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ryan Graves.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ryan Graves.md index 28462014..4418f055 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ryan Graves.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ryan Graves.md @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Senate lobbying records name no client or registrant called Americans for Safe A [^1]: Ryan Graves, witness biography, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing of July 26, 2023. https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116282/witnesses/HHRG-118-GO06-Bio-GravesR-20230726.pdf [^2]: House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency," July 26, 2023, Serial No. 118-53. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg53022/html/CHRG-118hhrg53022.htm -[^3]: Hafner, Katherine. "...Claim UFO sightings: Unidentified objects seen flying up to 30,000 feet." *Daily Press* (Newport News), May 30, 2019, p. A1, via newspapers.com image 593332765 (a *Virginian-Pilot* staff story; the first words of the headline and the page 5 jump were not read). +[^3]: Hafner, Katherine. "...Claim UFO sightings: Unidentified objects seen flying up to 30,000 feet." *Daily Press* (Newport News), May 30, 2019, p. A1, via newspapers.com image 593332765 (a *Virginian-Pilot* staff story). [^4]: OpenCorporates, Americans for Safe Aerospace, District of Columbia N00007627058 and North Carolina 3088984, retrieved October 3, 2026. https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_dc/N00007627058 ; https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nc/3088984 . The incorporation date is hidden behind a login; the earliest dated filing shown is March 16, 2023. [^5]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, Americans For Safe Aerospace, EIN 922948733. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/922948733.json [^6]: Internal Revenue Service, Form 990-EZ, Americans for Safe Aerospace, tax periods ended December 31, 2024 and 2025 (object IDs 202502389349200045 and 202611399349200506), as recorded on the vault page for the organization. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sabine Dardenne.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sabine Dardenne.md index 96d99951..2cdc71cc 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sabine Dardenne.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sabine Dardenne.md @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The cell in which she was held was the one in which [[Julie Lejeune]] and [[Meli ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its dates for the abduction (May 26, 1996) and for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) are contradicted by the commission's report; its placing of the abduction at Farciennes is not supported by the report, which records the investigation as run from Tournai. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its dates for the abduction (May 26, 1996) and for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) are contradicted by the commission's report; its placing of the abduction at Farciennes is not supported by the report, which records the investigation as run from Tournai. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, pp. 86-88 and the chronology of August 1996; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf [^3]: "Nihoul acquitté pour les enlèvements." *La Dernière Heure,* June 17, 2004; translated from the French. https://www.dhnet.be/actu/faits/2004/06/17/nihoul-acquitte-pour-les-enlevements-MF73NPYQVBC25I2Y6P54BXIQDA/ [^4]: "Notorious child rapist-murderer convicted." NBC News and Associated Press, June 17, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5233011 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Stefano Delle Chiaie.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Stefano Delle Chiaie.md index 1d0c270b..740b0b28 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Stefano Delle Chiaie.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Stefano Delle Chiaie.md @@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ He was arrested in [[Caracas]] on March 27, 1987, and sent to Italy two days lat [^1]: Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sul terrorismo in Italia e sulle cause della mancata individuazione dei responsabili delle stragi, audizione del signor Stefano Delle Chiaie, stenographic record no. 25, Rome. [^2]: Dinges, John. *The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents*. New Press, 2004, pp. 130-133. -[^3]: Press obituaries and secondary accounts of the 1987 arrest and the 1989 and 1991 acquittals, not read in the original reporting; the manner of his transfer from Venezuela, by extradition or by handover, is given differently in the accounts. +[^3]: Press obituaries and secondary accounts of the 1987 arrest and the 1989 and 1991 acquittals; the manner of his transfer from Venezuela, by extradition or by handover, is given differently in the accounts. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tim Gallaudet.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tim Gallaudet.md index 354c2f13..65d8e175 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tim Gallaudet.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tim Gallaudet.md @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ He spoke at the first Sol symposium on November 17 to 18, 2023 in [[Palo Alto, C A March 9, 2025 question-and-answer session after the [[South by Southwest]] premiere of "The Age of Disclosure" is catalogued with Gallaudet, Nolan, [[Karl Nell]], [[Hal Puthoff]], [[Jim Semivan]] and the producer [[Dan Farah]].[^10] -In June 2026 Loeb gave DefenseScoop a roster of twelve members of a UAP Science Advisory Council that includes Gallaudet (oceanography), Nolan, Skafish, [[Michael Shermer]] and [[Ben Lamm]]. Gallaudet told DefenseScoop that he hoped to apply his ocean-science and government-leadership experience "to help the council most effectively accomplish its mission and support the new UAP Governance Board."[^2] +In June 2026 Loeb gave DefenseScoop a roster of twelve members of a UAP Science Advisory Council that includes Gallaudet (oceanography), Nolan, Skafish, [[Michael Shermer]] and [[Ben Lamm]]. Gallaudet told DefenseScoop that he hoped to apply his ocean-science and government-leadership experience "to help the council most effectively accomplish its mission and support the new UAP Governance Board."[^2] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^11] ### Footnotes @@ -83,3 +83,4 @@ In June 2026 Loeb gave DefenseScoop a roster of twelve members of a UAP Science [^8]: House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, joint hearing, November 13, 2024. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg57440/html/CHRG-118hhrg57440.htm [^9]: The Sol Foundation, home page, "People" section, https://thesolfoundation.org/ , read October 3, 2026. [^10]: Anomaly Archives, "Nell, Karl E.," appearances list. https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/nell-karl/ +[^11]: Sol Foundation, release "Sol Foundation Co-Founders Named to UAP Science Advisory Council," June 22, 2026 (modified July 13, 2026), https://thesolfoundation.org/sol-foundation-co-founders-named-to-uap-science-advisory-council/ ; Avi Loeb, "More Details on the UAP Science Advisory Council," Medium (avi-loeb.medium.com), June 16, 2026, read in a Wayback Machine copy; Federal Register search for "UAP Science Advisory Council," https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?conditions%5Bterm%5D=%22UAP+Science+Advisory+Council%22 (count 0 on October 3, 2026). diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Timnit Gebru.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Timnit Gebru.md index 856ac5c5..9c76a811 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Timnit Gebru.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Timnit Gebru.md @@ -38,6 +38,6 @@ With the philosopher [[Émile P. Torres]], who coined the acronym, Gebru develop ### Footnotes [^1]: Newton, Casey. "The withering email that got an ethical AI researcher fired at Google." *Platformer,* December 2020, publishing Gebru's email and Jeff Dean's email to employees in full. https://www.platformer.news/the-withering-email-that-got-an-ethical/ -[^2]: Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" *Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency,* 2021, pp. 610-623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922 (text not examined). +[^2]: Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" *Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency,* 2021, pp. 610-623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922. [^3]: Distributed AI Research Institute. Press release, December 2, 2021. https://dair-institute.org/press-release/ [^4]: Gebru, Timnit, and Émile P. Torres. "The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence." *First Monday* 29, no. 4, April 2024. https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tony Van den Boggaert.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tony Van den Boggaert.md index 4c08082f..7527df6a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tony Van den Boggaert.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tony Van den Boggaert.md @@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ Louf said that from about the age of twelve Van den Bogaert acted as her pimp, t [^1]: Frenkiel, Olenka. "Belgium's silent heart of darkness." *The Observer,* May 5, 2002. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview [^2]: Sénat de Belgique. Proposition visant à instituer une commission d'enquête parlementaire chargée d'enquêter sur l'éloignement de deux enquêteurs de la cellule d'enquête bruxelloise « Neufchâteau », déposée par M. Frans Lozie, Doc. 2-563/1, October 9, 2000. The proposal does not name the "so-called protector." -[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. The same book's statement that he died by suicide in 1995 is contradicted by *The Observer*'s 2002 report that he was living on the Belgian-Dutch border, and is not repeated here. +[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its statement that he died by suicide in 1995 is contradicted by *The Observer*'s 2002 report that he was living on the Belgian-Dutch border. Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Uri Geller.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Uri Geller.md index 06ac33db..168ab947 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Uri Geller.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Uri Geller.md @@ -46,5 +46,5 @@ Targ's log of the sessions of August 4 to 11, 1973, in an "electrically shielded [^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997. [^2]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017. -[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Research and Development, memorandum ORD-413-73, "Briefing by Stanford Research Institute," January 24, 1973, CIA-RDP96-00787R000400070029-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. "Experiments - Uri Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973," CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110003-2, not read. +[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Research and Development, memorandum ORD-413-73, "Briefing by Stanford Research Institute," January 24, 1973, CIA-RDP96-00787R000400070029-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. "Experiments - Uri Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973," CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110003-2. [^4]: Targ, Russell. "Experiments: Uri Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973," memorandum of August 13, 1973, CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110003-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Alex Klokus.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Alex Klokus.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a604aada --- /dev/null +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Alex Klokus.md @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +--- +category: "Finance & Business" +tags: + - Person + - Finance + - VentureCapital + - UAP + - SkyWatcher + - EpsteinFiles +alias: + - Alex Klokus + - Alexander Klokus + - Alexander Lockwood Klokus + - Klokus, Alex + - Klokus, Alexander +summary: "Venture investor and former chief executive of Futurism, managing member with Alexander Scaramucci of the SALT Fund adviser, and authorized member of ENNEA LLC, the owner of the SKYWATCHER trademark application." +location: "Miami, Florida" +relations: + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Futurism, LLC]]" + role: "chief executive officer; signed the company's Form D as CEO on December 19, 2016" + start: 2016 + fn: 1 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Futurism, LLC]]" + role: "listed as executive officer and director on the Form D" + start: 2016-12-19 + fn: 1 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Theo Rewards, Inc.]]" + role: "co-chief executive officer and chief financial officer on the Form D signed January 31, 2020" + start: 2020-01-31 + fn: 8 + - type: member_of + with: "[[SALT Fund Management LLC]]" + role: "managing member, acquired September 2021, ownership code D, control person, per Form ADV executed March 30, 2026" + start: 2021-09 + fn: 2 + - type: member_of + with: "[[SALT Fund I, L.P.]]" + role: "executive officer and managing member of the general partner on the Form D of March 16, 2021" + start: 2021-03-16 + fn: 12 + - type: member_of + with: "[[Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP]]" + role: "signed the Form D of August 23, 2022 as managing member of the general partner" + start: 2022-08-23 + fn: 13 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Radial Health, Inc.]]" + role: "director on the Form D filed April 30, 2024" + start: 2024-04-30 + fn: 9 + - type: member_of + with: "[[ENNEA LLC]]" + role: "sole listed member and authorized person on the Florida registration of June 16, 2025; signed the November 2025 co-existence agreement as authorized representative" + start: 2025-06-16 + fn: 3 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- + +Alex Klokus (filed as Alexander Klokus and, on one Form D, Alexander Lockwood Klokus) is named in securities filings as an officer or director of [[Futurism, LLC]], [[Theo Rewards, Inc.]], [[Tomorrow Farms Inc.]], [[Shuttle Labs LLC]], [[Radial Health, Inc.]] and [[Microcapital, Inc.]], and as a managing member of the general partners of [[SALT Fund I, L.P.]] and [[Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP]] and of their adviser, [[SALT Fund Management LLC]]. Florida records list him as the member and authorized signer of [[ENNEA LLC]], the Delaware company that owns the SKYWATCHER trademark application associated with [[Sky Watcher]], the group announced by [[Jake Barber]].[^1][^2][^3] + +### Futurism + +The Form D of Futurism, LLC ([[Brooklyn]], [[New York City|New York]]; Delaware file number 5743300) was signed by "Alexander Klokus," title chief executive officer, on December 19, 2016. It lists Klokus and [[Dan Sutera]] as executive officers and directors and "Johnson Bryan" and [[Michael G. Clark]] as directors (first name "Johnson," last name "Bryan," as entered on the form; the filing gives no middle name or other identifier). It reports a total offering and amount sold of 6,000,652 dollars, one investor, first sale November 22, 2016, and exemption Rule 506(b). It is the only filing under the company's [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] number.[^1] The 15 calendar days after a first sale allowed by 17 CFR 230.503(a)(1) for filing a Form D ran to December 7, 2016; the form was filed 27 days after the first sale.[^1][^4] + +An archived copy of futurism.com/about dated June 16, 2017 lists Klokus as chief executive officer, with Dan Sutera as president, and lists [[Peter Diamandis]] of the [[XPRIZE Foundation]] among its "Experts."[^5] A press release of July 26, 2021 by [[Recurrent Ventures]] is titled "Recurrent Ventures Acquires Futurism from [[Singularity University]]" and does not name Klokus in the text read.[^6] The speaker biography for Klokus on the [[SALT Conference]] website states that he "built and sold both the media company Futurism and the sleep and wellness business Gravity."[^7] + +### Theo Rewards and portfolio companies + +The Form D of Theo Rewards, Inc. (New York; filed February 3, 2020, signed by Klokus January 31, 2020) lists "Alexander Lockwood Klokus" as executive officer, director, co-chief executive officer and chief financial officer, and [[Ankur Jain]] as co-chief executive officer and secretary; 300,000 dollars offered and sold, one investor, first sale January 23, 2020.[^8] + +Further Form D filings list Klokus with "Scaramucci Alexander" or "Alexander Scaramucci" ([[Alexander Scaramucci]]) as officers or directors. Tomorrow Farms Inc. (New York; filed May 24, 2022) names [[Ben Berman]] chief executive officer and signer, Scaramucci treasurer and Klokus secretary (8,500,000 dollars offered, 8,255,000 sold, 21 investors; the filing as Tomorrow Farms, PBC, of April 29, 2024, 11,849,995 offered, 4,765,635 sold, six investors). Shuttle Labs LLC (filed November 28, 2022) lists "AJ Scaramucci" and "Alex Klokus" as executive officers (25,000 dollars sold). Radial Health, Inc. (filed April 30, 2024; 8,499,990 dollars offered, 7,797,992 sold, 13 investors, first sale April 15, 2024) lists Klokus, Scaramucci and [[Elliot Cohen]] as directors and [[John Capecelatro]] as chief executive officer. Microcapital, Inc. (filed November 7, 2024; 1,535,000 dollars sold, four investors) lists Klokus and Scaramucci as directors.[^9][^10] [[Fortune]] reported on September 24, 2026 that "public filings list Alex Klokus as a third co-founder" of Radial Health.[^11] + +### SALT Fund, Kyber and the adviser + +The Form D of SALT Fund I, L.P. filed March 16, 2021 lists "Alexander Scaramucci" and "Alexander Klokus," both executive officers and managing members of the general partner, and was signed "Alexander Scaramucci." It reports 25,000,000 dollars offered and a first sale yet to occur; an amendment of July 6, 2021 reports a first sale on March 17, 2021, 40,000,000 dollars offered, 34,585,000 dollars sold and 91 investors.[^12] The Form D of Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP (signed August 23, 2022, filed August 24, 2022) was signed "Alexander Klokus, Managing Member of Kyber Capital Crypto GP I LLC"; it names SALT Fund Management, LLC as investment manager and reports a first sale yet to occur, an indefinite offering and nothing sold.[^13] + +SALT Fund Management LLC (CRD 316587), an exempt reporting adviser since September 9, 2021, lists on Schedule A of the Form ADV executed March 30, 2026 "Scaramucci, Alexander, Joseph" (CRD 6960736) and "KLOKUS, ALEXANDER" (CRD 7432068), each "MANAGING MEMBER," each acquired 09/2021, each ownership code D ("50 percent but less than 75 percent"), each control person. The execution page is signed "ALEXANDER KLOKUS." The two codes are reported here as filed. The filing states private fund assets of 132,930,715 dollars.[^2] See SALT Fund Management LLC for the fund list and the related filings. + +The speaker biography on the SALT conference website describes him as "Founder and Managing Partner at the SALT Fund" and "Founder & Managing Partner, Kyber Capital."[^7] The SEC investment adviser database returned no record for an individual under CRD 7432068 when queried on October 3, 2026.[^2] + +### FTX records + +The creditor matrix filed January 25, 2023 in the [[FTX]] Chapter 11 case (Bankr. D. Del. 22-11068, Doc 574, page 102 of 116) carries a row for creditor "THE SALT FUND" with contact lines "AJ SCARAMUCCI," "ALEX KLOKUS" and a third individual, and a second row "THE SALT FUND / AJ SCARAMUCCI." No amount or claim type appears on the page. The notice-parties service list served in June 2024 (Doc 18381, Exhibit B) lists "The Salt Fund" with email addresses at the thesaltfund.com domain for Scaramucci and Klokus. "SALT Fund Management, LLC" is a row under "Interested Parties" in the debtors' updated list (Doc 14607-1, May 10, 2024).[^14][^15][^16] + +At the trial of [[Sam Bankman-Fried]], Government Exhibit 285 was described on October 17, 2023 as an updated calendar invitation from a thesaltfund.com address to an ftx.com address "among others," subject "Updated invitation: SALT fund," for September 17, 2021 at Bluestone Lane, 55 Hudson Yards; the testimony names no SALT principal.[^17] + +### ENNEA LLC, SKYWATCHER and the Esalen gathering + +The Florida foreign-LLC application for ENNEA LLC, faxed June 16, 2025 by the registered-agent firm, is signed "ALEX KLOKUS" as sole listed person with the title Member. The annual report filed April 17, 2026 is signed "ALEX KLOKUS, CEO," and the amended annual report of July 15, 2026 "ALEX KLOKUS, AUTHORIZED SIGNER."[^3] The co-existence agreement effective November 19, 2025 between ENNEA LLC and Waterkress Creative LLC carries the typed signature "Alex Klokus," title "ENNEA LLC Authorized Representative"; its Adobe Acrobat Sign audit trail records the document emailed to an ennea.io address on November 25, 2025 and signed at 12:17:02 PM GMT.[^18] See ENNEA LLC for the Delaware, USPTO and website records. + +The USPTO applications for SKYWATCHER (serial 98864113, filed November 20, 2024), ENNEA (98873547, filed November 26, 2024) and PSIONIC (99091501, filed March 19, 2025) name ENNEA LLC as owner and were signed by the attorney of record, [[Robert Drolet]]; none carries an owner-signed declaration, and the owner telephone on them is the number printed on the 2016 Form D of Futurism, LLC and on the 2026 Form ADV of SALT Fund Management LLC.[^19] [[Skywatcher Technologies Corporation]] was incorporated in Delaware (file number 10021279) on November 27, 2024.[^20] [[Jason Colavito]] wrote on January 19, 2025, reporting [[Steven Greenstreet]], that Barber's website "is owned by Alex Klokus, the co-founder of the SALT conference"; [[NewsNation]]'s [[Ross Coulthart]] gave the founders as "Jake Barber, James Fowler and financier Alex Klokus."[^21] The registration record for skywatcher.ai names "Skywatcher Technologies," not Klokus, as registrant.[^22] No Form D by an issuer named Skywatcher or Ennea was found in EDGAR full-text searches on October 3, 2026.[^23] + +The website ennea.io, registered January 5, 2024, announced "The Explorer's Club by Ennea. Inaugural gathering at the [[Esalen Institute]] October 14th-18th, 2024," with no named organizer.[^24] The Anomaly Archives catalogue lists [[Karl Nell]] and Klokus in a SALT iConnections session titled "Zero Doubt" Non-Human Intelligence on Earth on May 21, 2024.[^25] + +### Jeffrey Epstein records + +On May 23, 2017 [[Masha Drokova]] wrote to [[Jeffrey Epstein]]: "You've mentioned that you need a media who's be able to write about researches you're supporting. I know the most raising media in the intersection of science and futurism. Here's https://futurism.com/ ... 25M unique good quality audience per month ... Founder https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexklokus" (EFTA01047005).[^26] On September 11 and 12, 2017 Drokova told Epstein that a Futurism editor wanted an interview on "Trump's cuts on science and your philanthropy"; Epstein answered "yes happy to do in person." The schedules sent by [[Lesley Groff]] on September 18, 2017 list at 1:30 PM "Interview w/Futurism Editor, Alex Klokus. Masha to join the interview," and at 9:50 AM that day Drokova had written to Groff "His name is Alex Klokus." The entries are scheduled items; no document records that the interview took place or what was said.[^27] + +On October 2, 2017 at 2:58 PM Drokova forwarded to Epstein a "Note from Alex (Futurism founder)": "I was sitting with Bryan Johnson today, who was telling me about everything he's working on at Kernel. Much of it closely aligned with our conversations we had with Jeffrey. I feel like they would mutually [benefit] from a conversation, if Jeffrey was interested!" Epstein replied at 19:35 UTC: "always interested."[^28] The same evening, at 8:39 PM, Klokus wrote to [[Bryan Johnson]] and Drokova: + +"Hello to you both, You're both already briefed, so I'll keep this short. Bryan is building Kernel, and today I spoke with Masha about the potential value of him and Jeffrey chatting. Masha has spoken with Jeffrey, and will be working with his team to hopefully coordinate time to connect before Bryan leaves on Weds. @Masha: I'll let you take it from here." + +It is signed "Alex Klokus, CEO, Futurism" and survives as a quoted message in a thread of October 3, 2017 (EFTA02227011, Data Set 11), in which Johnson answered "Thank you Alex! Promoting to bcc" and added two assistants to find a time.[^29] The message is addressed to Johnson and Drokova, not to Epstein. Groff's schedules for October 6, 2017 list a Zoom interview with Johnson set for 3:00 PM, moved at Epstein's request to 5:00 PM and then, by Groff's email of 8:52 PM UTC, to 5:15 PM; Drokova wrote at 5:14 PM, "I managed to free up earlier and join Jeffrey and Bryan too." No document records that the call occurred or what was said.[^30] Searches of the library for payments among Epstein and Futurism, Klokus, Johnson or Kernel returned none; the index is OCR text and a zero is not proof of absence.[^31] + +### Radial Health and the 2026 Fortune report + +Fortune reported on September 24, 2026 that AJ Scaramucci had come out of stealth with a 350 million dollar fund called "Programmable Reality," and that "public filings list Alex Klokus as a third co-founder" of Radial Health. The report does not mention Kyber, SALT Fund, Epstein or UAP.[^11] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: SEC EDGAR, Form D, Futurism, LLC, CIK 0001692611, accession 0001692611-16-000001, filed December 19, 2016. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1692611/000169261116000001/primary_doc.xml +[^2]: SEC, Form ADV annual amendment, SALT Fund Management LLC, CRD 316587, SEC file 802-122469, executed March 30, 2026, Item 2.B and Schedule A. https://reports.adviserinfo.sec.gov/reports/ADV/316587/PDF/316587.pdf ; IAPD individual search CRD 6960736. https://api.adviserinfo.sec.gov/search/individual/6960736 +[^3]: Florida Division of Corporations, ENNEA LLC, document M25000008651 (foreign LLC application June 16, 2025; annual report April 17, 2026; amended annual report July 15, 2026), including the attached Delaware certificate of good standing dated June 13, 2025. https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/ByDocumentNumber +[^4]: 17 CFR 230.503(a)(1) and (a)(3), eCFR, retrieved September 30, 2026. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-17/part-230/section-230.503 +[^5]: Futurism, "About," Wayback Machine capture of June 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170616122143id_/https://futurism.com/about +[^6]: Recurrent Ventures, "Recurrent Ventures Acquires Futurism from Singularity University," July 26, 2021. https://recurrent.io/recurrent-ventures-acquires-futurism-from-singularity-university/ +[^7]: SALT, speaker page "Alex Klokus," https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/alex-klokus (page dated August 18, 2021) and https://www.salt.org/speakers/alex-klokus +[^8]: SEC EDGAR, Form D, Theo Rewards, Inc., CIK 0001801852, accession 0001801852-20-000001. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801852/000180185220000001/primary_doc.xml +[^9]: SEC EDGAR, Form D, Radial Health, Inc., CIK 0002021359, accession 0002021359-24-000001. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0002021359&type=D +[^10]: SEC EDGAR, Form D filings: Tomorrow Farms Inc., CIK 0001930812, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1930812/000193081222000001/primary_doc.xml and accession 0000929638-24-001654; Shuttle Labs LLC, CIK 0001955431, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1955431/000195543122000002/primary_doc.xml ; Microcapital, Inc., CIK 0002044152, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2044152/000204415224000001/primary_doc.xml +[^11]: Nick Lichtenberg, "Exclusive: AJ Scaramucci comes out of stealth with a $350 million bet on 'Programmable Reality,'" Fortune, September 24, 2026, fetched October 3, 2026. https://fortune.com +[^12]: SEC EDGAR, Form D, SALT Fund I, L.P., CIK 0001850930, accession 0001850930-21-000001 (March 16, 2021) and 0001850930-21-000002 (D/A, July 6, 2021). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850930/000185093021000001/primary_doc.xml +[^13]: SEC EDGAR, Form D, Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP, CIK 0001935894, accession 0001935894-22-000003; EDGAR submissions record checked October 3, 2026. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1935894/000193589422000003/primary_doc.xml +[^14]: In re FTX Trading Ltd., No. 22-11068 (Bankr. D. Del.), Doc 574, page 102 of 116. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.574.0.pdf +[^15]: In re FTX Trading Ltd., Doc 14607-1, page 7 of 13 (May 10, 2024). https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.14607.1.pdf +[^16]: In re FTX Trading Ltd., Doc 18381, Kroll affidavit of service, Exhibit B, page 7 of 8, service of the order at Docket No. 17380 on June 13, 2024. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.18381.0.pdf +[^17]: United States v. Bankman-Fried, No. 22-cr-673 (S.D.N.Y.), trial transcript of October 17, 2023, pp. 1654-1655, Government Exhibit 285. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940.368.0.pdf +[^18]: USPTO TSDR, ENNEA, serial 98873547, voluntary amendment PRA20251208060057, co-existence agreement and signature audit pages. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn98873547 +[^19]: USPTO TSDR, SKYWATCHER serial 98864113 (https://tsdr.uspto.gov/statusview/sn98864113); ENNEA serial 98873547; PSIONIC serial 99091501. +[^20]: Delaware Division of Corporations, entity search, file 10021279, Skywatcher Technologies Corporation, incorporated November 27, 2024 (entity details page captured October 3, 2026). +[^21]: Jason Colavito, "In Brief: NewsNation Offers a New UFO 'Crash Retrieval' Story," January 19, 2025, https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/in-brief-newsnation-offers-a-new-ufo-crash-retrieval-story (reports Greenstreet at second hand; sole source for that passage); Ross Coulthart, NewsNation Reality Check column, about August 2026, https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check/trump-administration-covert-ufo-program/amp/ +[^22]: RDAP record, skywatcher.ai, created December 6, 2024. https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/skywatcher.ai +[^23]: SEC EDGAR full-text search, Form D, "Skywatcher," "Skywatcher Technologies," "Ennea LLC," October 3, 2026. https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22Skywatcher%22&forms=D +[^24]: ennea.io, Wayback Machine capture of November 4, 2024. http://web.archive.org/web/20241104003430id_/https://www.ennea.io/ ; RDAP record, ennea.io. https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/ennea.io +[^25]: Anomaly Archives catalogue of SALT iConnections New York 2024 sessions (session title "Zero Doubt" Non-Human Intelligence on Earth, May 21, 2024). +[^26]: DOJ Epstein Library, EFTA01047005 (Data Set 9), Masha Drokova to "Jeffrey E.," "Re: Intro," May 23, 2017, 22:25 UTC. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01047005.pdf +[^27]: DOJ Epstein Library, EFTA02629933 (Data Set 11), EFTA00457734 (Data Set 9), EFTA02223354 (Data Set 11), EFTA01017255 (Data Set 9) and EFTA02383710 (Data Set 11), September 11 to 18, 2017. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02223354.pdf +[^28]: DOJ Epstein Library, EFTA00999952 (Data Set 9), "Re: From Futurism," October 2, 2017, 19:35:22 UTC. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00999952.pdf +[^29]: DOJ Epstein Library, EFTA02227011 (Data Set 11), "Re: Connecting: Bryan Johnson / Masha Drokova," Tuesday October 3, 2017, 12:11:32 PM, quoting Johnson (October 3, 3:59 AM) and Klokus (October 2, 8:39 PM). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02227011.pdf +[^30]: DOJ Epstein Library, EFTA00460043 and EFTA00460518 (Data Set 9), EFTA02226959 and EFTA02226363 (Data Set 11), October 5 and 6, 2017. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00460518.pdf +[^31]: DOJ Epstein Library search for "Klokus," "Futurism," "Kernel" and related terms, October 3, 2026 (OCR index; 34 documents name Klokus, all scheduling or the October 2017 chain). https://www.justice.gov/epstein diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Avi Loeb.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Avi Loeb.md index 8499ca84..a7e87a8f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Avi Loeb.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Avi Loeb.md @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ relations: fn: 2 - type: founded with: "[[UAP Science Advisory Council]]" - role: "formed the council in June 2026; routes communication with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence" + role: "announced and chairs the council (June 2026); Loeb states that the White House, AARO, ODNI, the FBI and the Intelligence Community tasked him; no government record establishing it was located" start: 2026-06 fn: 16 created: 2026-10-03 @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ The [[EYOS Expeditions]] release credits a 2019 paper by Loeb and the Harvard un ### Government and advisory roles -Loeb told *[[The Harvard Crimson]]* in July 2026 that he had previously served on the [[President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology]] under [[Donald Trump]], that the director of the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] visited his home after taking office, and that government officials had approached him several times over the previous five years. He announced the [[UAP Science Advisory Council]] in mid-June 2026 after a representative of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] visited him at home; he told the Crimson the [[White House]] gave him a "free hand" in choosing members, that the council has no budget, and that he did not inform Harvard's president [[Alan Garber]] before agreeing to serve. He was also quoted: "I'm supporting the prosperity of the United States and the science I'm pursuing, and I'm not doing it on behalf of a political agenda."[^16] [[Charles Alcock]], director of the Center for Astrophysics, was listed on the Galileo Project's Scientific Advisory Board.[^17] A draft paper dated March 7, 2023, "Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," listed [[Sean Kirkpatrick]] as director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and Loeb as head of the Galileo Project.[^18] +Loeb told *[[The Harvard Crimson]]* in July 2026 that he had previously served on the [[President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology]] under [[Donald Trump]], that the director of the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] visited his home after taking office, and that government officials had approached him several times over the previous five years. He announced the [[UAP Science Advisory Council]] in mid-June 2026 after a representative of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] visited him at home; he told the Crimson the [[White House]] gave him a "free hand" in choosing members, that the council has no budget, and that he did not inform Harvard's president [[Alan Garber]] before agreeing to serve. He was also quoted: "I'm supporting the prosperity of the United States and the science I'm pursuing, and I'm not doing it on behalf of a political agenda."[^16] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^17] [[Charles Alcock]], director of the Center for Astrophysics, was listed on the Galileo Project's Scientific Advisory Board.[^18] A draft paper dated March 7, 2023, "Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," listed [[Sean Kirkpatrick]] as director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and Loeb as head of the Galileo Project.[^19] ### Footnotes @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ Loeb told *[[The Harvard Crimson]]* in July 2026 that he had previously served o [^13]: EYOS Expeditions. "Extraterrestrial Evidence Found: Spheres From Outside Our Solar System Identified by the Interstellar Expedition." https://www.eyos-expeditions.com/?p=2240 [^14]: Loeb, Avi. "Diary of an Interstellar Voyage, Parts 28-30." *The Debrief,* June 2023. https://thedebrief.org/diary-of-an-interstellar-voyage-parts-28-30-june-25-26-2023/ [^15]: Baker, Nicholson. "How We Lost Our Minds About UFOs." *New York Magazine,* January 31, 2024. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/leslie-kean-ufo-sightings-aliens.html -[^16]: Shah, Neil H., Theresa F. Bartelme and Risha Sinha. "Inside Avi Loeb's New UAP Council, Built From His Harvard Orbit." *The Harvard Crimson,* July 11, 2026. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/7/11/avi-loeb-uap-council/. The PCAST service is as stated by the Crimson, not checked against White House records. -[^17]: "Advisory Boards." The Galileo Project website, snapshot of December 25, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221225170229/https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/organization/advisory-boards -[^18]: Loeb, Abraham, and Sean M. Kirkpatrick. "Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," draft of March 7, 2023, as cited on the vault page for Sean Kirkpatrick; https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/LK1.pdf (draft read; its title block gives Loeb as "Head of the Galileo Project, Astronomy Department, Harvard University" and Kirkpatrick as "Director of All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office"). +[^16]: Shah, Neil H., Theresa F. Bartelme and Risha Sinha. "Inside Avi Loeb's New UAP Council, Built From His Harvard Orbit." *The Harvard Crimson,* July 11, 2026. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/7/11/avi-loeb-uap-council/. +[^17]: Sol Foundation, release "Sol Foundation Co-Founders Named to UAP Science Advisory Council," June 22, 2026 (modified July 13, 2026), https://thesolfoundation.org/sol-foundation-co-founders-named-to-uap-science-advisory-council/ ; Avi Loeb, "More Details on the UAP Science Advisory Council," Medium (avi-loeb.medium.com), June 16, 2026, read in a Wayback Machine copy; Federal Register search for "UAP Science Advisory Council," https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?conditions%5Bterm%5D=%22UAP+Science+Advisory+Council%22 (count 0 on October 3, 2026). +[^18]: "Advisory Boards." The Galileo Project website, snapshot of December 25, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221225170229/https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/organization/advisory-boards +[^19]: Loeb, Abraham, and Sean M. Kirkpatrick. "Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," draft of March 7, 2023, as cited on the vault page for Sean Kirkpatrick; https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/LK1.pdf (draft read; its title block gives Loeb as "Head of the Galileo Project, Astronomy Department, Harvard University" and Kirkpatrick as "Director of All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office"). diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bryan Johnson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bryan Johnson.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7b049c08 --- /dev/null +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bryan Johnson.md @@ -0,0 +1,150 @@ +--- +category: "Technologists" +tags: + - Person + - BryanJohnson + - Braintree + - Kernel + - Blueprint + - OSFund + - Longevity + - Neurotechnology + - Transhumanism + - DontDie + - NetworkState + - Epstein + - SiliconValley +alias: + - Bryan R. Johnson + - Bryan Johnson (entrepreneur) + - Johnson, Bryan +summary: "Founder of Braintree, the OS Fund and Kernel and of the Blueprint and Don't Die longevity projects, introduced by email to Jeffrey Epstein in October 2017 by Futurism chief Alex Klokus; a video call followed." +location: "Springville, Utah (raised); Los Angeles, California" +relations: + - type: founded + with: "[[Braintree]]" + start: 2007 + role: "payments company, sold to PayPal in 2013" + fn: 1 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Braintree]]" + start: 2011-07-12 + role: "chief executive officer and director, Form D filed July 13, 2011" + fn: 4 + - type: founded + with: "[[OS Fund]]" + start: 2014-10-20 + role: "venture fund capitalized with 100 million dollars of personal capital" + fn: 7 + - type: partner_of + with: "[[Jeff Klunzinger]]" + start: 2018-05-10 + role: "members of the general partner of OS Fund II, L.P., Form D filed May 10, 2018" + fn: 8 + - type: founded + with: "[[Kernel]]" + start: 2016 + role: "neurotechnology company; Johnson told Crunchbase News in 2020 that he set out in 2016 to build it and had put in 54 million dollars" + fn: 11 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Kernel]]" + start: 2020-06-26 + role: "chief executive officer and director of KRNL, Inc. (formerly Haos LLC), Form D filed June 29, 2020; director on Form D filed December 1, 2023; stepped down from Kernel in 2023 and remains on its board, per the New York Times" + fn: 11 + - type: founded + with: "[[Blueprint]]" + start: 2021 + role: "longevity products company in Los Angeles; sole investor until an October 2025 round" + fn: 15 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- + +Bryan Johnson is an American entrepreneur who founded the payments company [[Braintree]] in 2007, created the venture fund [[OS Fund]] in 2014, founded the neurotechnology company [[Kernel]] in 2016 and, from 2021, built the [[Blueprint]] longevity regimen and the [[Don't Die]] project. He grew up in [[Springville, Utah]], served as a missionary of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] in [[Ecuador]], and, according to the [[New York Times]], left the church after the 2013 sale of Braintree to [[PayPal]]. On October 2, 2017 [[Alex Klokus]], then chief executive of the website [[Futurism, LLC|Futurism]], introduced him by email to [[Jeffrey Epstein]] (through [[Masha Drokova]]), and a Zoom call between the two was scheduled for October 6, 2017.[^1][^2][^3] + +### Utah, Ecuador and Chicago + +A 2010 profile in the [[Chicago]] outlet [[Technori]] describes Johnson as the middle child of a large Mormon family in Springville, [[Utah]], whose parents divorced when he was young and who was raised by his mother and a stepfather who owned a trucking company. At nineteen he left for a two-year mission in Ecuador; he told the interviewer it was "incredibly rewarding, yet difficult" and that he "didn't know the language, I was sick with worms, slept with fleas." He attended [[Brigham Young University]], resold cellular telephones through a student sales network, and co-founded a voice-over-IP startup, [[Inquist]], with his brother and two others, which raised 500,000 dollars in angel money before failing after the [[September 11 attacks]] and the dot-com collapse. A 70 million dollar mixed-use real estate project with [[Fannie Mae]] as an institutional investor failed after cost overruns of 2 million dollars. During those years he sold credit card processing, earning by his own account about 15,000 dollars a month.[^1] + +He moved to Chicago to enroll in the executive MBA program at the [[University of Chicago Booth School of Business]], citing the economist [[Gary Becker]] and Becker's book on the economics of life. He worked door-to-door for the card processor [[RBS Link]] and briefly in a strategy role at [[Sears]], which he called "the most unsatisfying thing I have ever done in my life." He left Sears to found Braintree, flew to Utah to ask his ten largest former customers whether they would switch to a processor of his own, and said six agreed, producing 6,200 dollars a month.[^1] + +The New York Times reported in March 2025, when he was 47, that Johnson had "soon shed his Latter-day Saints roots" after the 2013 sale, had divorced his wife (the couple have three children), and, according to friends, former employees and court documents, had used drugs including [[LSD]], ibogaine and dimethyltryptamine; the Times described him as a former Latter-day Saint missionary.[^2] + +### Braintree and Venmo + +Braintree was incorporated in [[Delaware]] and based at 833 West Jackson Boulevard in Chicago. A Form D filed with the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] on July 13, 2011 (accession 0001524770-11-000001) lists Johnson as chief executive officer and director, [[Dan Manges]] as an executive officer, and [[Ryan Sweeney]] of [[Accel Partners]] as a director; it reports 34,200,097 dollars sold to six investors in an offering whose first sale was June 28, 2011. A second Form D followed on November 21, 2011.[^4] + +On September 26, 2013, [[eBay]]'s PayPal unit announced the purchase of Braintree for about 800 million dollars in cash. [[TechCrunch]] reported that Braintree had raised 69 million dollars from Accel, [[New Enterprise Associates]], [[RRE Ventures]], [[Greycroft]] and others, that it had been asking about 1 billion dollars, and that it had bought the peer-to-peer payments application [[Venmo]] the previous year for 26.2 million dollars. Braintree's chief executive at the time of announcement was [[Bill Ready]].[^5] In an October 2024 interview Johnson said that Braintree had partnered with [[Coinbase]] in 2013 and that "had I not sold Braintree, I just would have been entirely all in on crypto."[^6] + +### OS Fund and its Portfolio + +On October 20, 2014, [[Fortune]] reported that Johnson had created a 100 million dollar fund, the OS Fund, for ventures he described as "crazy" (his stated aim was to take "a company from 'crazy' to 'viable'"), and had already placed 15 million dollars in seven startups. The portfolio then named was [[Planetary Resources]] (asteroid mining), [[Vicarious]] (machine learning modeled on the brain), [[Human Longevity, Inc.]] (a company seeking to extend human lifespan to 120 years) and [[Matternet]] (drone logistics). A relative who was an early employee at his companies was quoted in the article.[^7] + +SEC filings show the fund's later structure. OS Fund II, L.P. (Delaware limited partnership, 250 South Northwest Highway, [[Park Ridge, Illinois]]) filed a Form D on May 10, 2018, signed by Johnson as a member of its general partner, OS Fund II GP, LLC, and amended it on July 10, 2019, October 2, 2019 and October 2, 2020 over signatures of [[Jeff Klunzinger]]. All four filings report total amount sold as zero. OS Fund Biome LLC filed a Form D on December 4, 2018 and an amendment on January 9, 2019 listing Klunzinger and Johnson as promoters (managing members of the managing member of the issuer); the amendment reports 3,450,000 dollars sold to nine investors.[^8] + +Johnson also appears as a director on two Form D/A amendments filed by Planetary Resources, Inc. ([[Redmond, Washington]]), on May 26, 2016 and November 16, 2016, alongside the director [[Peter Diamandis]] (the filings name a director Johnson; they do not state that he is the Kernel founder, an identity assumed here from the Fortune report that the OS Fund invested in the company), [[Eric Anderson]], and, in the November filing, [[Georges Schmit]]. The May amendment reports 20,734,417 dollars sold of a 33,844,416 dollar offering to 28 investors; the November amendment reports 34,783,603 dollars sold of 49,445,177 dollars to 29 investors.[^9] + +A mass mailing sent from Johnson's Kernel address in October 2018, "Impact Investing Just Doesn't Cut It," states that [[Synthego]] "was among OS Fund's first investments in 2015."[^10] + +### Kernel + +Johnson told Crunchbase News in July 2020, "In 2016, I set off to find a way to build technology that would allow us to do high-fidelity imaging of the brain," and the outlet reported that he had financed the company with 54 million dollars since its founding in 2016, before its first outside investment.[^11] + +The entity that filed with the SEC is KRNL, Inc., a Delaware corporation formerly named Haos LLC, with a stated year of incorporation of 2017. Its Form D of June 29, 2020 (accession 0001104659-20-077936), signed by "Bryan R. Johnson, CEO," reports 52,959,990 dollars sold to eight investors, first sale June 26, 2020. The company is matched to KRNL, Inc. by the Culver City address, Johnson's signature as chief executive and the matching amount, not by name on the filing. The raise was announced on July 9, 2020 as a 53 million dollar Series C led by [[General Catalyst]] with participation from [[Khosla Ventures]], [[Eldridge Industries]], [[Manta Ray Ventures]], [[Tiny Blue Dot]] and Johnson himself; [[Quentin Clark]] of General Catalyst joined the board. [[Crunchbase News]] reported total funding of 107 million dollars and that its products, Flux (magnetic fields of collective neural activity) and Flow (cortical blood flow), fed a "Neuroscience-as-a-Service" platform.[^11] + +A second Form D, filed December 1, 2023 (accession 0001104659-23-122797), lists [[Ryan Field]] as chief executive officer and directors [[Jason Johnson]], Bryan Johnson, [[Riaz Valani]], [[Alex Morgan]] and [[Leah von Siemens]] at 10361 Jefferson Boulevard, [[Culver City, California]]. It reports 5,246,256 dollars sold of a 25,000,000 dollar offering to nine investors, first sale November 21, 2023.[^11] + +### Employment Agreements, Taryn Southern and the National Labor Relations Board + +The New York Times reported in March 2025 that confidentiality agreements at Johnson's companies had grown from four and a half pages at Kernel to a twenty-page Blueprint employment agreement, and that [[Taryn Southern]], his former fiancee and a Kernel employee whom Johnson fired in February 2020, sued him in 2021, contending that he had breached a promise to pay her 150,000 dollars in exchange for rent and moving out of their home. The Times reported that Johnson moved the suit to arbitration, that in 2023 an arbitrator ruled she must adhere to her employment separation agreement, and that she was ordered to pay Johnson more than 584,000 dollars in legal fees on his countersuit; the Times also reported that Johnson has not paid the 150,000 dollars. At least three former employees, among them Southern and Johnson's former personal assistant [[Jamie Contento]], filed complaints with the [[National Labor Relations Board]] over the agreements, according to the Times, which saw copies of two of them. The employment lawyer [[Cliff Palefsky]] told the Times that Johnson was "counting on people being afraid."[^2] + +The attorney [[Matt Bruenig]], who has written on the matter on his [[Substack]] NLRB Edge, stated on March 21, 2025 that Southern signed three employment agreements with arbitration clauses, that the arbitrator dismissed the case on the release clause in a separation agreement without reaching the merits of her claim, and that the fee award followed from a fee-shifting clause. Bruenig's account is an advocate's account and cites no NLRB docket numbers. Johnson has disputed the Times account in a post on X, writing that the agreements "have evolved, just like everything else I iterate & improve upon."[^2][^12] + +### The 2017 Epstein Correspondence + +On February 5, 2026, [[NBC News]] reported that the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]]'s Epstein library contained a 2017 email exchange in which Futurism chief executive Alex Klokus introduced Johnson to Epstein by email, after which the two agreed to a video call. Johnson told NBC by email that "It wasn't part of my algorithm to run a background check on people introduced to me by acquaintances," and that during the call he "was left with a deep unsettling feeling and left the call feeling as though Epstein was the most dark and evil person I had ever encountered." In posts on X, as reported by [[UNILAD|UNILAD Tech]], he wrote that the call lasted about ten minutes, that a mutual contact put them in touch because of Epstein's supposed neuroscience work at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and Johnson's work on Kernel, that he "felt sick to my stomach" and told Epstein he never wanted to speak to him again, and, of an offer to meet in person, that "It ended up being a call (first and last time I interacted w him)." Klokus did not respond to NBC's request for comment. The same NBC article named other technology figures with ties to Epstein, including [[Peter Thiel]], [[Elon Musk]], [[Bill Gates]] and [[Reid Hoffman]].[^3][^13] + +The documents in the library date the chain as follows. On May 23, 2017 (EFTA01047005) Masha Drokova told Epstein that Futurism, which she described as media "in the intersection of science and futurism," was run by a founder whose LinkedIn page she linked (Klokus). On September 18, 2017 an in-person "Interview w/Futurism Editor, Alex Klokus" appears on Epstein's schedule at 1:30 p.m., prepared by his assistant [[Lesley Groff]] (EFTA02223354 and others). On October 2, 2017 (EFTA00999952) Drokova forwarded to Epstein a note from Klokus: "I was sitting with Bryan Johnson today, who was telling me about everything he's working on at Kernel ... Bryan is building a neural implant that is intended to enhance cognition." Epstein answered "always interested." At 8:39 p.m. that evening, Klokus wrote to Johnson and Drokova, in a message quoted in EFTA02227011: "Bryan is building Kernel, and today I spoke with Masha about the potential value of him and Jeffrey chatting." On October 3 Johnson wrote that he was "in town until Wednesday afternoon and have a really tight schedule but would like to meet up with Jeffery if possible" (EFTA02227025); Epstein wrote that he was "in florida until friday" (EFTA01000443), and a message signed "Lesley" asked whether a call could be coordinated instead (EFTA02225373). Groff and Kernel's executive assistant arranged a video call for Friday, October 6, 2017; Epstein told Groff to "move barry abd sarah to 4 can we do bryan at 5 instead" (EFTA00460518), Groff's schedule for the day listed "5:00pm ZOOM Interview w/Bryan Johnson and possibly Masha" (EFTA00460043), Epstein chose "zoom" over a regular call (EFTA02225564, invitation "Sync: Bryan/Jeffrey/Masha," host kernel-hi.zoom.us), and Groff asked Johnson to delay it to 5:15 p.m. because Epstein was running late (EFTA02226959). A message from Drokova quoted in EFTA02226363 reads: "I managed to free up earlier and join Jeffrey and Bryan too." No document read records that the call took place or what was said; the schedule moved it from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and then to 5:15 p.m., and Drokova's 5:14 p.m. message says she had freed up time to join. The September 18, 2017 meeting with Klokus is likewise recorded only as a scheduled entry.[^3] + +Later items in the same files: a July 20, 2018 message from a "Bryan Johnson" with the subject "Becoming a zero detective" (EFTA02294943, body not present in the release page read), and the October 26, 2018 mass mailing from a Kernel address addressed to Groff (EFTA00484119). No payment, investment, in-person meeting or later exchange between Epstein and Johnson, Kernel or OS Fund appears in the documents read.[^10][^3] + +A Form D of Futurism, LLC ([[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York]]) filed on December 19, 2016, signed by Klokus as chief executive officer, lists as related persons Klokus and [[Dan Sutera]] (executive officers and directors) and two further directors, [[Michael G. Clark|Michael Clark]] and a person entered with first name "Johnson" and last name "Bryan"; it reports 6,000,652 dollars sold to one investor, first sale November 22, 2016. The filing gives no other identifying detail for that director.[^14] + +In the same library, correspondence between Groff and Peter Diamandis, then chairman and chief executive of the [[XPRIZE Foundation|X Prize Foundation]] and a fellow Planetary Resources director named on the same Form D amendments as Johnson, dates from May 1, 2013 (EFTA00391312), when Groff wrote that Epstein wanted him to make contact "whenever you come to New York".[^3] + +### Blueprint, the Plasma Exchange and the 2025 Reorganization + +Johnson founded Blueprint in 2021 at his [[Los Angeles]] home to sell products tied to his personal regimen. The Times reported about 40 million dollars in revenue in its most recent year, about 40,000 customers, about 30 employees, a monthly shortfall against break-even of at least 1 million dollars, and 25 million dollars invested by Johnson as sole investor. It described a supplement study in which about 1,700 participants each paid more than 2,100 dollars and about 60 percent experienced at least one side effect, and a 49 dollar "longevity mix." In the same month, the Times wrote, he announced a new religion called "Don't Die."[^2] + +In April 2023 Johnson, his teenage son and his father took part in what Fortune called "the world's first multigenerational plasma exchange" at [[Resurgence Wellness]], a [[Texas]] medical spa: the son's plasma went to Johnson, and Johnson's plasma to his father. Fortune put the regimen's cost at about 2 million dollars a year and noted that the [[Food and Drug Administration]] cautions against young-blood infusions, citing a lack of "compelling clinical evidence on its efficacy." Johnson had earlier received plasma from screened anonymous donors.[^15] + +On October 29, 2025 a trade outlet reported that Blueprint had raised 60 million dollars from investors including [[Kim Kardashian]], [[Paris Hilton]], [[Saquon Barkley]], [[Cameron Winklevoss]] and [[Tyler Winklevoss]], [[Jay Shetty]], [[Naval Ravikant]] and [[Steve Aoki]], and that [[Gyre Renwick]], formerly president of [[Modern Health]], had become chief executive.[^16] + +### Don't Die and the Network State + +The Times reported that Johnson announced the "Don't Die" religion in March 2025.[^2] The journalist [[Gil Duran]] wrote in The Nerd Reich on March 28, 2025 that Johnson "regularly pals around with" [[Balaji Srinivasan]], had vowed to create a "Don't Die Network State," and had visited the [[Prospera]] charter city in [[Honduras]] for experimental longevity treatments (which Duran attributes to an earlier article of his own); Duran also reported attending Johnson's Don't Die Summit in [[San Francisco]] in September 2024.[^17] [[Cointelegraph]] Magazine, in an interview recorded at [[Token2049]] in [[Singapore]] and published on October 3, 2024, wrote that Johnson co-founded the [[Network School]] with Srinivasan, a three-month program in [[Malaysia]]'s [[Forest City]], and reported that [[Vitalik Buterin]] had appeared at the school with both men. Johnson said: "Bitcoin fundamentally rejects inflation, and I fundamentally reject aging." Srinivasan, per the article, drew the parallel on stage between Bitcoin resisting state erosion of wealth and Don't Die resisting state erosion of health.[^6] + +### Political Statements + +On November 6, 2024 Johnson wrote on X, in a post timestamped 17:43 UTC: "Congratulations @realDonaldTrump on becoming the 47th President of the U.S. I am with you and @RobertKennedyJr in making America the healthiest, most vibrant, and strongest nation in the world."[^18] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Technori Staff, "How Bryan Johnson Has Taken Braintree to Explosive Growth in Three Years," Technori, December 19, 2010, https://technori.com/2010/12/4506-how-bryan-johnson-has-taken-braintree-to-explosive-growth-in-three-years/sethkravitz/ +[^2]: Kirsten Grind, "Bryan Johnson's efforts to not die include control via confidentiality agreements," New York Times, March 21, 2025 (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/technology/bryan-johnson-blueprint-confidentiality-agreements.html), as republished by the Salt Lake Tribune, https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/03/30/bryan-johnson-efforts-not-die ; the republished text was read, not the Times page. +[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library (Epstein Files Transparency Act release): EFTA01047005, Data Set 9, Masha Drokova to "Jeffrey E.," May 23, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01047005.pdf; EFTA00999952, Data Set 9, Epstein to Drokova, "Re: From Futurism," October 2, 2017 (quoting Drokova's forward of the Klokus note), https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00999952.pdf; EFTA01000443, Data Set 9, same thread, October 3, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01000443.pdf; EFTA02227011, Data Set 11, Drokova to Johnson, October 3, 2017, quoting Klokus's message of October 2, 8:39 p.m., https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02227011.pdf; EFTA02227025, Data Set 11, Johnson to Drokova and Klein, October 3, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02227025.pdf; EFTA02225373, Data Set 11, message signed "Lesley" to Johnson, October 3, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02225373.pdf; EFTA00460518, Data Set 9, Epstein to Groff, October 6, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00460518.pdf; EFTA00460043, Data Set 9, Groff schedule, October 6, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00460043.pdf; EFTA02225564, Data Set 11, Groff and Epstein on Zoom, October 6, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02225564.pdf; EFTA02226959, Data Set 11, Groff to Johnson, October 6, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02226959.pdf; EFTA02226363, Data Set 11, message quoted as from Drokova, October 6, 2017, 5:14 p.m., https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02226363.pdf; EFTA00391312, Data Set 9, Groff and Diamandis, May 1, 2013, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00391312.pdf; EFTA02223354, Data Set 11, Groff and Drokova, September 18, 2017 (Klokus named as the Futurism editor expected at 1:30 p.m.), https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02223354.pdf. Texts read from the PDFs. +[^4]: Braintree, Inc., Form D, filed July 13, 2011, SEC accession 0001524770-11-000001, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1524770/000152477011000001/primary_doc.xml ; second Form D filed November 21, 2011 (CIK 0001524770, EDGAR full-text index). +[^5]: Leena Rao, Sarah Perez and Ingrid Lunden, "eBay's PayPal Acquires Payments Gateway Braintree For $800M In Cash," TechCrunch, September 26, 2013, https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/paypal-acquires-payments-gateway-braintree-for-800m-in-cash +[^6]: Andrew Fenton, "Anti-aging multi-millionaire Bryan Johnson almost devoted his life to crypto," Cointelegraph Magazine, October 3, 2024, https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/anti-aging-multi-millionaire-bryan-johnson-almost-devoted-life-crypto +[^7]: JP Mangalindan, Fortune, October 20, 2014 (article slug "crazy-fund-startups"), https://fortune.com/2014/10/20/crazy-fund-startups +[^8]: SEC EDGAR Forms D: OS Fund II, L.P. (CIK 0001740344), accession 0001740344-18-000001 (filed May 10, 2018) and amendments 0001740344-19-000001, 0001740344-19-000002, 0001740344-20-000002; OS Fund Biome LLC (CIK 0001759179), accessions 0001759179-18-000001 (December 4, 2018) and 0001759179-19-000001 (January 9, 2019), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1740344/000174034418000001/primary_doc.xml and https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1759179/000175917919000001/primary_doc.xml +[^9]: Planetary Resources, Inc. (CIK 0001656177), Form D/A, accessions 0001656177-16-000002 (May 26, 2016) and 0001656177-16-000003 (November 16, 2016), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1656177/000165617716000003/primary_doc.xml +[^10]: Bryan Johnson (bryan@kernel.co) to Lesley Groff, "Impact Investing Just Doesn't Cut It," October 26, 2018, EFTA00484119, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00484119.pdf ; "Becoming a zero detective," July 20, 2018, EFTA02294943, DataSet 11. +[^11]: KRNL, Inc. (CIK 0001815048), Form D accessions 0001104659-20-077936 (June 29, 2020) and 0001104659-23-122797 (December 1, 2023), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1815048/000110465920077936/primary_doc.xml ; "General Catalyst-Backed Kernel Will Use $53M Series C To Tap Into The Human Mind," Crunchbase News, July 9, 2020, https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/general-catalyst-backed-kernel-will-use-53m-series-c-to-tap-into-the-human-mind (read from the Wayback Machine capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2025id_/https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/general-catalyst-backed-kernel-will-use-53m-series-c-to-tap-into-the-human-mind). KRNL, Inc. is matched to Kernel by address, signer and amount; the filing does not name Kernel. +[^12]: Matt Bruenig, "Bryan Johnson's Misrepresentations About Taryn Southern," NLRB Edge, March 21, 2025, https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/bryan-johnsons-misrepresentations . Sole source for the passages so cited on arbitral reasoning; Bruenig is an advocate for the complainants. Johnson's quoted X statement on the agreements is as reported by the Times. +[^13]: David Ingram and Bruna Horvath, "Jeffrey Epstein files reveal deep tech ties, from Musk to Gates," NBC News, February 5, 2026, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/jeffrey-epstein-files-reveal-deep-tech-ties-musk-gates-rcna257092 ; Johnson's X posts as reported by UNILAD Tech, February 3, 2026, https://www.uniladtech.com/news/tech-news/bryan-johnson-respond-jeffrey-epstein-emails-revealed-503367-20260203 +[^14]: Futurism, LLC (CIK 1692611), Form D, accession 0001692611-16-000001, filed December 19, 2016, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1692611/000169261116000001/primary_doc.xml +[^15]: Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, May 23, 2023, https://fortune.com/2023/05/23/bryan-johnson-tech-ceo-spends-2-million-year-young-swapping-blood-17-year-old-son-talmage-70-father/ +[^16]: Courtney Rehfeldt, "Bryan Johnson raises $60 million for longevity startup Blueprint," AthleteTech News, October 29, 2025, https://athletechnews.com/bryan-johnson-raises-60-million-for-longevity-startup-blueprint +[^17]: Gil Duran, "Bryan Johnson, 'Don't Die' Network State Guru, Under Fire," The Nerd Reich, March 28, 2025, https://www.thenerdreich.com/bryan-johnson-dont-die-network-state-guru-under-fire/ . Sole source for the Prospera visit and the characterization of the summit; Duran is a critic of the Network State movement. +[^18]: Bryan Johnson (@bryan_johnson), X, November 6, 2024, 17:43 UTC, https://x.com/bryan_johnson/status/1854218174948057126 (text read through the X syndication endpoint, https://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/tweet-result?id=1854218174948057126) diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christine Odell Cook Miller.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christine Odell Cook Miller.md index f82c485d..ef709d78 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christine Odell Cook Miller.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christine Odell Cook Miller.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ alias: - Christine Miller - Judge Christine Miller - Judge Nettesheim -summary: "Judge of the Court of Federal Claims who, as hearing officer on the Senate's 1995 referral of INSLAW's claims, ruled on July 31, 1997, that every version of PROMIS was in the public domain and INSLAW was owed nothing, ending the affair in the courts." +summary: "Judge of the Court of Federal Claims who, as hearing officer on the Senate's 1995 referral, ruled on July 31, 1997, that every version of PROMIS was in the public domain." born: 1944 location: "Oakland, California" created: 2026-09-22 @@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ In May 1995 the Senate referred [[INSLAW]]'s remaining claims against the govern ### Footnotes [^1]: Federal Judicial Center, "U.S. Court of Federal Claims: Miller, Christine Odell Cook," Biographical Directory. https://www.fjc.gov/history/courts/u.s.-court-federal-claims-miller-christine-odell-cook -[^2]: See [[INSLAW]] and [[PROMIS Software Scandal]] and the Department of Justice press release of August 1997 cited there; the opinion of July 31, 1997, was not examined. +[^2]: See [[INSLAW]] and [[PROMIS Software Scandal]] and the Department of Justice press release of August 1997 cited there. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christine Van Hees.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christine Van Hees.md index c8724922..18e42c64 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christine Van Hees.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christine Van Hees.md @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ On April 23, 1998, the prosecutors-general of Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels found ### Footnotes -[^1]: "Who did not kill Christine Van Hees?" *De Morgen,* September 22, 1998; not examined, cited here as the page's earlier source. +[^1]: "Who did not kill Christine Van Hees?" *De Morgen,* September 22, 1998. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport complémentaire, Doc. 713/8-96/97, February 16, 1998, chapter V; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/comm/dutroux/49K0713008.pdf [^3]: Frenkiel, Olenka. "Belgium's silent heart of darkness." *The Observer,* May 5, 2002. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview [^5]: Smoltczyk, Alexander. "Im Netz der Dossiers." *Der Spiegel,* no. 42/2001, October 14, 2001; translated from the German. https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/im-netz-der-dossiers-a-c9fe5b47-0002-0001-0000-000020353850 *The Observer* gives her age as fifteen in its account of Louf's description, and this page earlier gave fourteen from a source not now identified. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christopher Mellon.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christopher Mellon.md index 5833dde7..325c9087 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christopher Mellon.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christopher Mellon.md @@ -11,23 +11,29 @@ relations: - type: employed_by with: "[[Office of the Secretary of Defense]]" role: "Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and a principal on William Cohen's staff when Cohen was Secretary of Defense, as Elizondo wrote" - fn: 9 + fn: 10 - type: employed_by with: "[[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]]" role: "intelligence staff work for Senator William Cohen; minority staff director from February 2003 under vice chairman Jay Rockefeller; deputy staff director in Elizondo's account" start: 2003-02 - fn: 10 + fn: 11 - type: member_of with: "[[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]]" start: 2017 end: 2020-11 role: "paid adviser and National Security Affairs Advisor; with Puthoff and Semivan, aligned with the organization of Tom DeLonge and Jim Semivan after Elizondo's resignation; left with Puthoff and Steve Justice" - fn: 11 + fn: 12 - type: participant_in with: "[[Sol Foundation]]" start: 2023-11-17 role: "presenter at the first Sol symposium, Palo Alto, November 17 to 18, 2023" - fn: 14 + fn: 15 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Sol Foundation]]" + start: 2022-09-23 + end: 2023-09-15 + role: "'Cristopher Mellon' of Laughlintown, Pennsylvania, one of three initial directors of the Alabama corporation The Sol Foundation (AL SOS 001-041-463) on the Certificate of Formation of September 23, 2022, and 'Christopher Mellon' on the Statement of Intent to Dissolve of September 15, 2023; the filings state no occupation" + fn: 25 updated: 2026-10-03 created: 2026-10-03 --- @@ -45,7 +51,7 @@ Mellon was profoundly disturbed by these revelations, viewing the government's f ### The Legislative Strategy for Disclosure -Following Elizondo's resignation, Mellon became the primary architect of a multi-pronged strategy to force the UAP issue into the open. Recognizing that direct confrontation with the Pentagon was futile, he devised a plan to leverage Congress and the media. He facilitated the transfer of Navy videos later known as "FLIR" (Tic Tac), "[[GIMBAL]]," and "[[GoFast]]" to journalists. The landmark front-page [[New York Times]] story of December 2017, which broke the news of AATIP's existence, carried two of them (FLIR1 and GIMBAL); GOFAST followed in March 2018.[^2][^4] Politico reported in 2021 that the [[Washington Headquarters Services]] declassification division approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government.[^5] The [[Department of Defense]] stated on April 27, 2020 that it had authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, which had been circulating in the public domain after "unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^6] Mellon's own account, in the 2020 film *[[The Phenomenon (2020 film)|The Phenomenon]]*, is that he received the videos "in the Pentagon parking lot from a Defense Department official" and "still [has] the packaging."[^7] See [[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]]. +Following Elizondo's resignation, Mellon became the primary architect of a multi-pronged strategy to force the UAP issue into the open. Recognizing that direct confrontation with the Pentagon was futile, he devised a plan to leverage Congress and the media. He facilitated the transfer of Navy videos later known as "FLIR" (Tic Tac), "[[GIMBAL]]," and "[[GoFast]]" to journalists. The landmark front-page [[New York Times]] story of December 2017, which broke the news of AATIP's existence, carried two of them (FLIR1 and GIMBAL); GOFAST followed in March 2018.[^2][^4] Politico reported in 2021 that the [[Washington Headquarters Services]] declassification division approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government.[^5] The Office of the Secretary of Defense file released to [[The Black Vault]] under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2019 contains an August 23, 2017 email in which [[Luis Elizondo]] asked Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to "consider our request for unrestricted release"; an August 24, 2017 reply from Russo that if the service-level classification authority verified that removing the metadata made the videos unclassified, "please feel free to move forward with release"; and a DD Form 1910 whose publication-data block reads "Not Applicable. Not for publication. Research and analysis ONLY and info sharing with other USG and industry partners for the purposes of developing a database to help identify, analyze and ultimately defeat UAS threats." Joseph Gradisher, a Navy spokesman, said in 2019 that neither the cognizant Navy offices nor the review office had a record of correspondence responding to a request for unrestricted release of the videos in 2017.[^6] The [[Department of Defense]] stated on April 27, 2020 that it had authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, which had been circulating in the public domain after "unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^7] Mellon's own account, in the 2020 film *[[The Phenomenon (2020 film)|The Phenomenon]]*, is that he received the videos "in the Pentagon parking lot from a Defense Department official" and "still [has] the packaging."[^8] See [[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]]. Mellon then focused on a legislative approach, using his deep knowledge of Capitol Hill to engage with key staffers on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees. He and Elizondo worked to educate lawmakers and arrange for them to be briefed directly by credible military eyewitnesses like Commander [[Dave Fravor]] and Lieutenant [[Alex Dietrich]]. Mellon's key strategic insight was to draft specific legislative language that would compel the [[Director of National Intelligence]] to produce an unclassified report on UAP. This language, which he championed through op-eds and private meetings, was eventually included in the committee report accompanying the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, signed into law in December 2020. This led to the landmark June 2021 "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena."[^2] @@ -53,41 +59,49 @@ His legislative efforts continued, culminating in the passage of even more robus ### Mellon in Elizondo's account -Mellon's foreword, dated May 16, 2024, states that he first met Elizondo "at a closed-door Pentagon meeting early in 2017" while he was "an unpaid consultant for the Office of Naval Intelligence," that the mutual friend was Jim Semivan of the CIA, and that the meeting took place in Elizondo's Pentagon office, where Elizondo presented evidence of unidentified aircraft violating military airspace and a report on the 2004 Nimitz encounter; he wrote that he later took part in debriefings with Commander Dave Fravor and Lieutenant Alex Dietrich.[^8] +Mellon's foreword, dated May 16, 2024, states that he first met Elizondo "at a closed-door Pentagon meeting early in 2017" while he was "an unpaid consultant for the Office of Naval Intelligence," that the mutual friend was Jim Semivan of the CIA, and that the meeting took place in Elizondo's Pentagon office, where Elizondo presented evidence of unidentified aircraft violating military airspace and a report on the 2004 Nimitz encounter; he wrote that he later took part in debriefings with Commander Dave Fravor and Lieutenant Alex Dietrich.[^9] -Elizondo wrote that a member of his staff announced "a former very senior-level DoD official" who "had the Office of Naval Intelligence clearances he needed," that Mellon introduced himself as a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, one step from the Secretary of Defense, and that Senator [[William Cohen]]'s closest advisor on Capitol Hill had been Mellon, whom Cohen brought to his staff when he became Secretary of Defense. He wrote that Mellon "even knew we were called AATIP"; that Semivan later told him he had told Mellon of AATIP and where to find it, and added that Mellon was an heir of the Mellon family; that Elizondo listed a series of clearances Mellon would need before a briefing and Mellon returned a week later with all of them; and that after a three-hour briefing on "legacy efforts" Mellon "admitted to us that he had zero visibility into the UAP topic" despite years of oversight of Defense Department special access programs.[^9] In a later passage Elizondo described Mellon as a former "deputy staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee" and as a founding author of the bill that created the [[United States Special Operations Command]].[^10] +Elizondo wrote that a member of his staff announced "a former very senior-level DoD official" who "had the Office of Naval Intelligence clearances he needed," that Mellon introduced himself as a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, one step from the Secretary of Defense, and that Senator [[William Cohen]]'s closest advisor on Capitol Hill had been Mellon, whom Cohen brought to his staff when he became Secretary of Defense. He wrote that Mellon "even knew we were called AATIP"; that Semivan later told him he had told Mellon of AATIP and where to find it, and added that Mellon was an heir of the Mellon family; that Elizondo listed a series of clearances Mellon would need before a briefing and Mellon returned a week later with all of them; and that after a three-hour briefing on "legacy efforts" Mellon "admitted to us that he had zero visibility into the UAP topic" despite years of oversight of Defense Department special access programs.[^10] In a later passage Elizondo described Mellon as a former "deputy staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee" and as a founding author of the bill that created the [[United States Special Operations Command]].[^11] -He wrote that Mellon gave his name to senior officials who might reach Mattis; that after the Joint Staff declined an access designation for OPLAN Interloper and Mellon, Stratton and he concluded that Congress and the press were the only route, Mellon handed "a padded envelope filled with CDs" containing the three unclassified videos to a journalist in a parking lot inside the Beltway, having used his Pentagon contacts to obtain copies; that Mellon, Puthoff and Semivan met [[Leslie Kean]] with Elizondo for four hours after the resignation; that Mellon was "the brainchild" of a Politico story by [[Bryan Bender]]; and that Mellon, Puthoff and Semivan urged him to join To The Stars Academy.[^11] He wrote that Mellon, Stratton and he set a multiyear plan, the "Five Pillars of Engagement," that Mellon proposed having an oversight committee request an unclassified report from the Director of National Intelligence and drafted language posted online, and that "much of the wording" in Senate Report 116-233, which Senator [[Marco Rubio]] sponsored, "came directly from Chris Mellon's pen"; he gave the language as 422 words, signed with the Covid relief bill in late December 2020.[^12] +He wrote that Mellon gave his name to senior officials who might reach Mattis; that after the Joint Staff declined an access designation for OPLAN Interloper and Mellon, Stratton and he concluded that Congress and the press were the only route, Mellon handed "a padded envelope filled with CDs" containing the three unclassified videos to a journalist in a parking lot inside the Beltway, having used his Pentagon contacts to obtain copies; that Mellon, Puthoff and Semivan met [[Leslie Kean]] with Elizondo for four hours after the resignation; that Mellon was "the brainchild" of a Politico story by [[Bryan Bender]]; and that Mellon, Puthoff and Semivan urged him to join To The Stars Academy.[^12] He wrote that Mellon, Stratton and he set a multiyear plan, the "Five Pillars of Engagement," that Mellon proposed having an oversight committee request an unclassified report from the Director of National Intelligence and drafted language posted online, and that "much of the wording" in Senate Report 116-233, which Senator [[Marco Rubio]] sponsored, "came directly from Chris Mellon's pen"; he gave the language as 422 words, signed with the Covid relief bill in late December 2020.[^13] ### To The Stars advisory board and Sol -The Regulation A offering circular of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science filed with the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] on August 15, 2017 names as its Advisory Board "Chris Mellon, Dr. [[Adele Gilpin]], Dr. [[Norman Kahn]], Dr. [[Colm Kelleher]], Dr. Garry Nolan, and Dr. [[Paul Rapp]]." Its biography of Mellon calls him "a private equity investor, political commentator and the Chair of the Science Committee at the [[Carnegie Museum of Natural History]]," and lists service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush administrations and as minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.[^13] +The Regulation A offering circular of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science filed with the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] on August 15, 2017 names as its Advisory Board "Chris Mellon, Dr. [[Adele Gilpin]], Dr. [[Norman Kahn]], Dr. [[Colm Kelleher]], Dr. Garry Nolan, and Dr. [[Paul Rapp]]." Its biography of Mellon calls him "a private equity investor, political commentator and the Chair of the Science Committee at the [[Carnegie Museum of Natural History]]," and lists service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush administrations and as minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.[^14] -Mellon was among the speakers at the first [[Sol Foundation]] symposium, November 17 to 18, 2023 in [[Palo Alto, California]], listed in [[The Debrief]]'s account as "former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon," beside [[Avi Loeb]], [[Jacques Vallee]], [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]], [[Tim Gallaudet]] and [[Karl Nell]].[^14] He signed the November 12, 2024 letter to Congress urging enactment of the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]] as "Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; Former Staff Director, Department of Defense; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence," the signers including [[Garry Nolan]], [[Peter Skafish]] and Luis Elizondo; the letter states that signers joined as individuals and not for their organizations.[^15] The Sol Foundation's website, read October 3, 2026, does not list Mellon among its executive leadership or advisory board, and neither does its 2024 Form 990.[^16] +Mellon was among the speakers at the first [[Sol Foundation]] symposium, November 17 to 18, 2023 in [[Palo Alto, California]], listed in [[The Debrief]]'s account as "former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon," beside [[Avi Loeb]], [[Jacques Vallee]], [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]], [[Tim Gallaudet]] and [[Karl Nell]].[^15] He signed the November 12, 2024 letter to Congress urging enactment of the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]] as "Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; Former Staff Director, Department of Defense; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence," the signers including [[Garry Nolan]], [[Peter Skafish]] and Luis Elizondo; the letter states that signers joined as individuals and not for their organizations.[^16] The Sol Foundation's website, read October 3, 2026, does not list Mellon among its executive leadership or advisory board, and neither does its 2024 Form 990.[^17] ### Family -*Roll Call* described him in 2003 as "yes, of that Mellon family," 45 years old, "whose great-grandfather started the Gulf Oil Co.," and noted that Rockefeller was "the great-grandson of the man who founded [[Standard Oil]]," under the line "[[Rockefeller family|the Rockefellers]] and Mellons are taking over the Senate Select Intelligence Committee." Bryan Bender of Politico wrote in 2021 that he is "a scion of the [[Pennsylvania]] oil and banking family." Other bearers of the surname include Paul Mellon, a major in the [[Office of Strategic Services]] in Europe, his sister [[Ailsa Mellon Bruce]] and her husband the diplomat [[David K. E. Bruce]], and the publisher and donor Richard Mellon Scaife, who funded the [[Arkansas Project]] against Bill Clinton and sat on the [[Heritage Foundation]] board. No source opened states how these persons are related to Christopher Mellon or that he had dealings with them.[^1][^17] +*Roll Call* described him in 2003 as "yes, of that Mellon family," 45 years old, "whose great-grandfather started the Gulf Oil Co.," and noted that Rockefeller was "the great-grandson of the man who founded [[Standard Oil]]," under the line "[[Rockefeller family|the Rockefellers]] and Mellons are taking over the Senate Select Intelligence Committee." Bryan Bender of Politico wrote in 2021 that he is "a scion of the [[Pennsylvania]] oil and banking family." Other bearers of the surname include Paul Mellon, a major in the [[Office of Strategic Services]] in Europe, his sister [[Ailsa Mellon Bruce]] and her husband the diplomat [[David K. E. Bruce]], and the publisher and donor Richard Mellon Scaife, who funded the [[Arkansas Project]] against Bill Clinton and sat on the [[Heritage Foundation]] board. No source opened states how these persons are related to Christopher Mellon or that he had dealings with them.[^1][^18] ### The placement of the December 2017 article -Per Bender (2021): in 2016 [[Tom DeLonge]] "called me up out of the blue," Mellon said, "and then through him I met Jim and Hal"; Mellon, who kept his clearance, then met Luis Elizondo at a Pentagon briefing; by fall 2017 Mellon "was also a paid adviser to DeLonge's TTSA" and acted as Elizondo's "unofficial public relations manager," who "started dangling the story to the New York Times, POLITICO and several other mainstream outlets." According to Leslie Kean's account to [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]], on October 4, 2017 Mellon had her called to a hotel bar near the Pentagon where [[Hal Puthoff]], Jim Semivan and Elizondo briefed her; the Times placement followed. Details and denials are on December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report.[^5][^18] +Per Bender (2021): in 2016 [[Tom DeLonge]] "called me up out of the blue," Mellon said, "and then through him I met Jim and Hal"; Mellon, who kept his clearance, then met Luis Elizondo at a Pentagon briefing; by fall 2017 Mellon "was also a paid adviser to DeLonge's TTSA" and acted as Elizondo's "unofficial public relations manager," who "started dangling the story to the New York Times, POLITICO and several other mainstream outlets." According to Leslie Kean's account to [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]], on October 4, 2017 Mellon had her called to a hotel bar near the Pentagon where [[Hal Puthoff]], Jim Semivan and Elizondo briefed her; the Times placement followed. Details and denials are on December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report.[^5][^19] ### Money and affiliations as recorded -TTSA: paid adviser (Bender); listed as "National Security Affairs Advisor" ([[Keith Kloor|Kloor]], 2019); the company's annual report for 2020 states he resigned from the advisory board in November 2020 (vault page for To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science).[^5][^19] The offering circular dated September 29, 2017 lists "Chris Mellon" first among six Advisory Board members and states that in June 2017 the company granted "employees and advisors" 9,000,000 options and 2,500,000 restricted shares under its stock incentive plan; the text read does not itemize grants by person. No source opened shows a payment from Mellon to TTSA, or the amount he was paid as an adviser.[^3] +TTSA: paid adviser (Bender); listed as "National Security Affairs Advisor" ([[Keith Kloor|Kloor]], 2019); the company's annual report for 2020 states he resigned from the advisory board in November 2020 (vault page for To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science).[^5][^20] The offering circular dated September 29, 2017 lists "Chris Mellon" first among six Advisory Board members and states that in June 2017 the company granted "employees and advisors" 9,000,000 options and 2,500,000 restricted shares under its stock incentive plan; the text read does not itemize grants by person. No source opened shows a payment from Mellon to TTSA, or the amount he was paid as an adviser.[^3] -[[Galileo Project]]: research affiliate from October 30, 2021, with Elizondo ([[Harvard University|Harvard]] release). On April 26, 2024 the Galileo Project announced a 575,000 dollar grant from the [[Richard King Mellon Foundation]] for a third observatory station in [[Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Allegheny]] or [[Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania|Westmoreland County]], Pennsylvania, stating that Mellon "was instrumental in stewarding this grant."[^20][^21] +[[Galileo Project]]: research affiliate from October 30, 2021, with Elizondo ([[Harvard University|Harvard]] release). On April 26, 2024 the Galileo Project announced a 575,000 dollar grant from the [[Richard King Mellon Foundation]] for a third observatory station in [[Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Allegheny]] or [[Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania|Westmoreland County]], Pennsylvania, stating that Mellon "was instrumental in stewarding this grant."[^21][^22] -Lobbying and legislation: Lewis-Kraus wrote that the text Marco Rubio added in June 2020 to the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act, requesting a UAP report from the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense, "drew heavily from proposals by Mellon"; Bender wrote that Mellon, "from his perch on the advisory board of DeLonge's company, ... effectively drafted the legislation later adopted by the Senate requesting the UAP report." Mellon's March 9, 2018 *[[Washington Post]]* op-ed was "The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn't the Pentagon care?"[^5][^18][^19] +The Richard King Mellon Foundation's Form 990-PF for 2024 (EIN 25-1127705), Part XV, lists a grant paid during the year of $575,000 to Harvard University, Boston, with the purpose text "Toward support of Project Argyle." The Foundation's 2024 annual report lists Harvard University, Boston, "Toward support of Project Argyle."[^23] + +Lobbying and legislation: Lewis-Kraus wrote that the text Marco Rubio added in June 2020 to the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act, requesting a UAP report from the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense, "drew heavily from proposals by Mellon"; Bender wrote that Mellon, "from his perch on the advisory board of DeLonge's company, ... effectively drafted the legislation later adopted by the Senate requesting the UAP report." Mellon's March 9, 2018 *[[Washington Post]]* op-ed was "The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn't the Pentagon care?"[^5][^19][^20] ### Statements beside denials -Kloor (2019) quoted Mellon on *[[Fox & Friends]]* on [[Fox News]]: "We know that UFOs exist," and wrote that Mellon did not respond to a request for comment on whether he and Elizondo do contract work for a U.S. agency; Elizondo told Kloor he was a government contractor "but it's not what you think it is." Mellon told Kloor by email in late 2018: "I did not claim the objects were alien... Merely real, intelligently controlled and not ours."[^19][^22] +Kloor (2019) quoted Mellon on *[[Fox & Friends]]* on [[Fox News]]: "We know that UFOs exist," and wrote that Mellon did not respond to a request for comment on whether he and Elizondo do contract work for a U.S. agency; Elizondo told Kloor he was a government contractor "but it's not what you think it is." Mellon told Kloor by email in late 2018: "I did not claim the objects were alien... Merely real, intelligently controlled and not ours."[^20][^24] + +### The Alabama directorship + +The [[Alabama Secretary of State]] record for The Sol Foundation (entity 001-041-463) names "Cristopher Mellon" of Laughlintown, [[Pennsylvania]] as one of three initial directors on the Certificate of Formation filed September 23, 2022, with [[Garry Nolan]] and [[Saul Mercado]]. The Statement of Intent to Dissolve filed September 15, 2023 lists the directors as Nolan, "Christopher Mellon" (spelled with an h) and Mercado. The corporation's registered agent and office were those of [[Ignite Fueling Innovation]] in [[Huntsville]]. The same filing lists Nolan as president, Mercado as secretary and [[Peter Skafish]] as treasurer; Mellon holds no office on it. A board consent to dissolve was executed on August 31, 2023, and the Articles of Dissolution, filed September 15, 2023, state that no plan of distribution was adopted. The filings state no occupation or prior office for any director, and none states that the director is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Laughlintown is also the locality given for "Mellon, Christopher" in the FEC entries below. The California corporation is described on [[Sol Foundation]].[^25] ### Federal Election Commission records -[[Federal Election Commission|FEC]] itemized receipts list a "Mellon, Christopher" of [[Laughlintown]], Pennsylvania (employer "[[Mellon Consulting]]" from 2008 to 2009, "[[A&E Networks]]" in 2020) with contributions of 1,000 to 2,000 dollars to [[John Murtha|Murtha for Congress]] (five entries, March 2008 to September 2009), 5,000 dollars to the [[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee]] (June 23, 2008) and 2,400 dollars to [[Chuck Schumer|Friends of Schumer]] (July 16, 2010), and, on August 25 and 27, 2020, 2,800 dollars to [[Joe Biden|Biden for President]], 35,000 dollars to the [[Biden Victory Fund]] and 32,200 dollars to the [[Democratic National Committee]]. Other "Mellon, Christopher" donors in [[Greenfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania|Greenfield Township]], Pennsylvania and [[Conklin, New York|Conklin]], New York list [[Maines Paper & Food Service]] as employer. No record read states which of these entries belong to the former Pentagon official.[^23] +[[Federal Election Commission|FEC]] itemized receipts list a "Mellon, Christopher" of [[Laughlintown]], Pennsylvania (employer "[[Mellon Consulting]]" from 2008 to 2009, "[[A&E Networks]]" in 2020) with contributions to [[John Murtha|Murtha for Congress]] (seven entries, March 3, 2008 to December 9, 2009, 500 to 2,000 dollars each), 5,000 dollars to the [[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee]] (June 23, 2008) and 2,400 dollars to [[Chuck Schumer|Friends of Schumer]] (July 16, 2010), and, on August 25 and 27, 2020, 2,800 dollars to [[Joe Biden|Biden for President]], 35,000 dollars to the [[Biden Victory Fund]] and 32,200 dollars to the [[Democratic National Committee]]. Other "Mellon, Christopher" donors in [[Greenfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania|Greenfield Township]], Pennsylvania and [[Conklin, New York|Conklin]], New York list [[Maines Paper & Food Service]] as employer. No record read states which of these entries belong to the former Pentagon official.[^26] + +The same query returns further occupation and employer entries. The entries to Murtha for Congress and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee give "President" of "Mellon Consulting." Two entries read "Christopher K. Mellon": April 5, 2008, "Executive," "[[Powercast]]," 1,000 dollars to [[Citizens for Altmire]]; and March 3, 2009, "Consultant," "[[Mellon Strategic Consulting, LLC]]," 500 dollars to Citizens for Altmire. Three entries under "Mr. Christopher Mellon," "Consultant," "Self-Employed," are to [[Tim Murphy for Congress]]: 250 dollars on August 12, 2008, 500 dollars on September 24, 2008 and 250 dollars on April 8, 2009. On March 8, 2015 an entry with occupation "Investor," employer "Self," gives 2,600 dollars to [[Webb 2016]], and on March 16, 2015 the same occupation gives 5,000 dollars to [[Born Fighting PAC]]. The five entries of August 25 and 27, 2020, to Biden for President, the Biden Victory Fund and the Democratic National Committee, give occupation "Producer/Subject Matter Expert" and employer "A&E Networks."[^27] ### Footnotes @@ -96,21 +110,25 @@ Kloor (2019) quoted Mellon on *[[Fox & Friends]]* on [[Fox News]]: "We know that [^3]: To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science Inc. Offering Circular dated September 29, 2017 (Form 253G2, file no. 024-10728). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420417050693/v476177_253g2.htm [^4]: Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/ [^5]: Bender, Bryan. "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 -[^6]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). -[^7]: Banias, MJ. "Ex Intel Official Says He Was the Source of the Pentagon's UFO Videos." *Vice,* October 20, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos/ (sole source for the statement, made on camera to James Fox; Vice could not verify). -[^8]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), Foreword by Christopher Mellon, dated May 16, 2024, pp. xiii to xxii. Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one. -[^9]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 180 to 185 (Semivan at pp. 180 to 182 and 184 to 185; Mellon's visit at pp. 183 to 185). -[^10]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 222 to 224 (deputy staff director at p. 222; the special operations command bill at p. 224). -[^11]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 199 to 209 (CDs at p. 199; Kean at pp. 203 to 204; TTSA at pp. 204 to 205; Bender at p. 209; Mellon leaving TTSA at p. 220). -[^12]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 222 to 230 (Five Pillars at p. 222; report proposal at p. 225; Senate Report 116-233 at p. 229; 422 words at p. 230). -[^13]: To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science Inc., Form 1-A, offering circular Part II and III, accession 0001144204-17-043466 (filed August 15, 2017), "Advisory Board." https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420417043466/v473169_partiiandiii.htm -[^14]: Micah Hanks, "The Sol Foundation, Academia's New UAP Think Tank, Releases Videos of Lectures from Its Inaugural Symposium," *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/ -[^15]: Statement of Tim Gallaudet with signatory letter dated November 12, 2024, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, hearing of November 13, 2024. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf -[^16]: The Sol Foundation, home page, "People" section, https://thesolfoundation.org/ , read October 3, 2026; IRS Form 990 for 2024, EIN 93-3649160, Part VII, https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/933649160/202543269349300004/full -[^17]: Review of Lankford, *The Last American Aristocrat. Kirkus Reviews,* 1996; National Gallery of Art, 1999 Paul Mellon press release; *Philadelphia Inquirer,* July 5, 2014 (Scaife obituary). See the footnotes of [[Mellon Family]]. -[^18]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. "How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously." *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously -[^19]: Kloor, Keith. "The Media Loves This UFO Expert Who Says He Worked for an Obscure Pentagon Program. Did He?" *The Intercept,* June 1, 2019. https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/ -[^20]: "The Galileo Project Welcomes Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo as Research Affiliates," October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy). -[^21]: "Richard King Mellon Foundation awards $575,000 to Galileo Project," April 26, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/news/richard-king-mellon-foundation-awards-575000-galileo-project -[^22]: Kloor, Keith. "UFOs Won't Go Away." *Issues in Science and Technology,* March 1, 2019. https://issues.org/ufos-wont-go-away/ -[^23]: Federal Election Commission, schedule A receipts, contributor name "MELLON, CHRISTOPHER" (OpenFEC API query run October 3, 2026). https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/?contributor_name=MELLON%2C%20CHRISTOPHER +[^6]: [[The Black Vault]], FOIA release of Office of the Secretary of Defense case 18-F-0644, August 2019 (emails of August 23 and 24, 2017 between Luis Elizondo and Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with the DD Form 1910; the form's text is poorly legible in the scan and is quoted as transcribed in the research notes), https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf ; Joseph Gradisher quoted in "U.S. Navy Confirms Videos Depict Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Not Cleared for Public Release," The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/ +[^7]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). +[^8]: Banias, MJ. "Ex Intel Official Says He Was the Source of the Pentagon's UFO Videos." *Vice,* October 20, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos/ (sole source for the statement, made on camera to James Fox; Vice could not verify). +[^9]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), Foreword by Christopher Mellon, dated May 16, 2024, pp. xiii to xxii. Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one. +[^10]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 180 to 185 (Semivan at pp. 180 to 182 and 184 to 185; Mellon's visit at pp. 183 to 185). +[^11]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 222 to 224 (deputy staff director at p. 222; the special operations command bill at p. 224). +[^12]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 199 to 209 (CDs at p. 199; Kean at pp. 203 to 204; TTSA at pp. 204 to 205; Bender at p. 209; Mellon leaving TTSA at p. 220). +[^13]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 222 to 230 (Five Pillars at p. 222; report proposal at p. 225; Senate Report 116-233 at p. 229; 422 words at p. 230). +[^14]: To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science Inc., Form 1-A, offering circular Part II and III, accession 0001144204-17-043466 (filed August 15, 2017), "Advisory Board." https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420417043466/v473169_partiiandiii.htm +[^15]: Micah Hanks, "The Sol Foundation, Academia's New UAP Think Tank, Releases Videos of Lectures from Its Inaugural Symposium," *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/ +[^16]: Statement of Tim Gallaudet with signatory letter dated November 12, 2024, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, hearing of November 13, 2024. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf +[^17]: The Sol Foundation, home page, "People" section, https://thesolfoundation.org/ , read October 3, 2026; IRS Form 990 for 2024, EIN 93-3649160, Part VII, https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/933649160/202543269349300004/full +[^18]: Review of Lankford, *The Last American Aristocrat. Kirkus Reviews,* 1996; National Gallery of Art, 1999 Paul Mellon press release; *Philadelphia Inquirer,* July 5, 2014 (Scaife obituary). See the footnotes of [[Mellon Family]]. +[^19]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. "How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously." *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously +[^20]: Kloor, Keith. "The Media Loves This UFO Expert Who Says He Worked for an Obscure Pentagon Program. Did He?" *The Intercept,* June 1, 2019. https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/ +[^21]: "The Galileo Project Welcomes Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo as Research Affiliates," October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy). +[^22]: "Richard King Mellon Foundation awards $575,000 to Galileo Project," April 26, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/news/richard-king-mellon-foundation-awards-575000-galileo-project +[^23]: IRS Form 990-PF for 2024, Richard King Mellon Foundation, EIN 25-1127705, object ID 202503179349103185, Part XV (grants paid during the year), https://gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202503179349103185_public.xml ; Richard King Mellon Foundation, 2024 Annual Report, "Grant & PRI Recipients," https://www.rkmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Annual-Report.pdf +[^24]: Kloor, Keith. "UFOs Won't Go Away." *Issues in Science and Technology,* March 1, 2019. https://issues.org/ufos-wont-go-away/ +[^25]: Alabama Secretary of State, entity 001-041-463, The Sol Foundation: Certificate of Formation (filed September 23, 2022), board consent (August 31, 2023), Statement of Intent to Dissolve and Articles of Dissolution (both filed September 15, 2023); document copies purchased October 3, 2026, and the entity page fetched the same day. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=001041463&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= +[^26]: Federal Election Commission, schedule A receipts, contributor name "MELLON, CHRISTOPHER" (OpenFEC API query run October 3, 2026). https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/?contributor_name=MELLON%2C%20CHRISTOPHER +[^27]: Federal Election Commission, schedule A receipts, contributor name "MELLON, CHRISTOPHER," city Laughlintown, Pennsylvania, 20 rows (OpenFEC API query rerun October 3, 2026; sub_ids include 4020620091107097394, 4040820091113637717, 4101520081097487423, 4032920161281705749, 4073120151248132201, 4060420221494790667). https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/?contributor_name=MELLON%2C%20CHRISTOPHER&contributor_city=LAUGHLINTOWN diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Clayton Hinchman.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Clayton Hinchman.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d2946fb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Clayton Hinchman.md @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +--- +category: "People" +tags: + - Person + - DefenseContractor + - USArmyVeteran + - Politician + - HuntsvilleAlabama + - IgniteFuelingInnovation +alias: + - Robert Clayton Hinchman + - R. Clayton Hinchman +summary: "Robert Clayton Hinchman is a West Point graduate and medically retired Army captain, chief executive of Ignite Fueling Innovation since May 2020 and a 2018 Republican primary challenger to Mo Brooks." +location: "Huntsville, Alabama" +relations: + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc.]]" + start: "2016" + role: "chief marketing officer (2016 to 2019), chief operating officer (FEC occupation, 2017 to 2018), chairman and chief executive officer (May 2020 onward)" + fn: 4 + - type: founded + with: "[[USi]]" + role: "founder, president and chief executive (acquired by Ignite April 1, 2016)" + fn: 4 + - type: member_of + with: "[[United States Army]]" + role: "infantry officer, 10th Mountain Division and Special Operations Task Force 17; medically retired as captain" + fn: 1 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Elizabeth Dole Foundation]]" + role: "past board member" + fn: 1 + - type: candidate_for + with: "[[Alabama's 5th congressional district]]" + start: "2017-06-20" + end: "2018-06-05" + role: "Republican primary candidate; 34,739 votes (38.7 percent) against incumbent Mo Brooks" + fn: 9 + - type: funded + with: "[[Hinchman for Congress]]" + start: "2018-03-30" + role: "$100,000 entry from Hinchman on Schedule A, line 13A (loan)" + fn: 5 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- + +### Education and Army service + +Robert Clayton Hinchman was born in San Benito, Texas, graduated from high school in Angleton, Texas, and earned his undergraduate degree from the [[United States Military Academy]] at [[West Point]]. His biography published by [[Boots for the Brave]] and the biography on the [[Radiance Ignite Technologies]] website state that he served in the [[United States Army]] as an infantry officer assigned to the [[10th Mountain Division]] and to "Special Operations Task Force 17," earned Airborne and Air Assault wings, and graduated as the honor graduate of [[United States Army Ranger School]].[^1][^2] He medically retired as a captain "due to wounds sustained during an improvised explosive attack while conducting a night raid to kill or capture Al Qaeda in Iraq." His listed decorations are the [[Combat Infantryman Badge]], the [[Bronze Star Medal]], the [[Purple Heart]] and the [[Meritorious Service Medal]].[^1][^2] + +Both biographies give his graduate education as a master's degree from [[Georgetown University]], executive education at the [[Owen Graduate School of Management]] of [[Vanderbilt University]], and completion of the [[Goldman Sachs]] 10,000 Small Businesses program at [[Babson College]].[^2] + +### After the Army + +After his military service Hinchman worked for the [[Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization]] and with nonprofit organizations in [[Washington, D.C.]] He is described as an ambassador to the [[Vail Veterans Program]] and a past board member of the [[Elizabeth Dole Foundation]].[^1] He founded and led USi, a Huntsville company that [[Ignite Fueling Innovation]] bought and merged on April 1, 2016; a [[Business Alabama]] report of July 20, 2017 names him Ignite's chief marketing officer under president and chief executive [[Jason Shelton]].[^3][^4] He served about three years as chief marketing officer, then as president and chief operating officer of Systems, Products, Solutions, Inc. from 2019 to 2020.[^4] His [[Federal Election Commission]] filings give his employer as Ignite and his occupation as chief operating officer in 2017 and 2018 and chief marketing officer in January 2019.[^5] + +Ignite announced on May 22, 2020 that Hinchman would succeed Shelton as chief executive, with Shelton remaining chairman; the Radiance Ignite Technologies website says Hinchman "took over as Chairman and CEO of Ignite in May of 2020."[^6][^2] A Huntsville directory lists him among the members of the [[Huntsville Committee of 100]]. His Federal Election Commission contributor entries from 2025 and 2026 give his employer as Black Patch Distilling Co. LLC.[^7] + +### Radiance Ignite Technologies + +[[Radiance Technologies]] and Ignite announced the joint venture Radiance Ignite Technologies on October 14, 2024 with Hinchman as president and chairman and [[Bill Bailey]], Radiance's chief executive, as vice chairman. The [[Alabama Secretary of State]] record for the limited liability company (formed July 10, 2024) lists Hinchman as registered agent.[^2][^8] + +### 2018 congressional candidacy + +Hinchman filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission on June 20, 2017 as a Republican for [[Alabama's 5th congressional district]], held by [[Mo Brooks]] (candidate H8AL05208; committee [[Hinchman for Congress]], C00648162, treasurer Nicholas Ryan Rockhill). The committee reported 2018 receipts of $253,800.31, disbursements of $259,899.11, individual contributions of $130,537.50, contributions from other political committees of $22,762.81 and $100,000 in loans, and filed a termination report on July 5, 2019.[^5] + +Schedule A entries include $100,000 from Hinchman on March 30, 2018 (line 13A, a loan) and $1,033.08 from Hinchman on January 7, 2019 (line 11D); $250 on August 29, 2017 from Hinchman; $2,700 from Ignite Fueling Innovation Inc Federal PAC on May 18, 2017; $5,000 from the Radiance Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee on March 21, 2018; $1,000 from the [[Dynetics]] Political Action Committee on August 28, 2017; and a net $16,547.62 in five entries (May 17 to June 27, 2018) from a committee named War Veterans Fund. Individual donors on the filings include Ignite president [[Brandon Umphrey]] ($500), Jason Shelton ($500), Ignite chief financial officer [[Trent Poff]] ($250), former [[Camber Corporation]] president [[Joseph Alexander]] ($1,000), [[COLSA Corporation]] president [[Richard Amos]] ($1,500) and [[Newsmax]] chief executive [[Christopher Ruddy]] ($500).[^5] + +In the Republican primary of June 5, 2018, Hinchman received 34,739 votes (38.7 percent) to 54,928 (61.3 percent) for Brooks across the district, a total of 89,667; in [[Madison County, Alabama]] the count was 25,516 to 15,791 and in [[Jackson County, Alabama]] 5,063 to 3,399.[^9] + +### Political contributions after 2018 + +The Federal Election Commission lists a $2,500 contribution from Hinchman to Citizens for Turner, the committee of Representative [[Mike Turner]], on June 27, 2024, nine days after Ignite's political action committee and the Radiance political action committee each gave the committee money (June 18, 2024). Ignite's earlier political action committee also gave $2,700 to the Senate campaign of [[Luther Strange]] on August 23, 2017.[^10] + +### The Sol Foundation filings + +Ignite, of which Hinchman was chief executive from May 2020, served as registered agent for an Alabama corporation named [[The Sol Foundation]], formed September 23, 2022 and dissolved September 15, 2023; Ignite's registered agent of record at the time was Jason Shelton.[^11] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: "Clayton Hinchman," Boots for the Brave, October 8, 2022, https://bootsforthebrave.org/clayton-hinchman/ +[^2]: Radiance Ignite Technologies, "About Us," https://radianceignite.com/about/ +[^3]: "Newly Merged Huntsville Tech Company is Just Warming Up," Business Alabama (BCA Today), July 20, 2017, https://www.bcatoday.org/newly-merged-huntsville-tech-company-is-just-warming-up/ +[^4]: Ignite Fueling Innovation, "Our Leadership," https://igniteimpossible.com/our-leadership/ +[^5]: Federal Election Commission, candidate H8AL05208 and committee C00648162 (Hinchman for Congress): committee record, filings list, candidate totals and Schedule A, https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/committee/C00648162/ and https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/?committee_id=C00648162 +[^6]: "Hinchman CEO of Ignite," Ignite Fueling Innovation, May 22, 2020, https://igniteimpossible.com/hinchman-ceo-of-ignite/ +[^7]: Federal Election Commission Schedule A, contributor employer field, https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/?contributor_name=Hinchman +[^8]: Alabama Secretary of State, Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC, entity 001-144-448, https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=001144448&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= +[^9]: Alabama Secretary of State, "2018 Republican Primary Results," https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/election-2018/2018%20Republican%20Primary%20Results.xlsx (sheets Summary, Madison, Jackson, "CD 5"); Alabama Republican Party certification, June 15, 2018, https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/election-2018/Republican_2018_Primary_Certification_of_Results.pdf +[^10]: Federal Election Commission Schedules A and B, committees C00830901, C00610691 and C00372979, https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/ +[^11]: Alabama Secretary of State, entity records for The Sol Foundation (formed September 23, 2022; dissolved September 15, 2023), https://arc-sos.state.al.us/ diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eefje Lambrecks.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eefje Lambrecks.md index 38b99fa9..90df35ad 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eefje Lambrecks.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eefje Lambrecks.md @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ The commission's chronology records that on the evening of August 22, 1995, at B ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its placing of the bodies at Sars-la-Buissière, exhumed on September 16, 1996, is contradicted by contemporaneous reporting and is not repeated here; it places the hypnosis show at Blankenberge, as does the commission's chronology; *Le Parisien* gives Ostend. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its placing of the bodies at Sars-la-Buissière, exhumed on September 16, 1996, is contradicted by contemporaneous reporting; it places the hypnosis show at Blankenberge, as does the commission's chronology; *Le Parisien* gives Ostend. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, pp. 78-80 and table 7, p. 272; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf [^3]: Fleury, Elisabeth. "Le calvaire d'An et Eefje." *Le Parisien,* April 5, 2004; translated from the French. https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/le-calvaire-d-an-et-eefje-05-04-2004-2004887724.php [^4]: "Nihoul acquitté pour les enlèvements." *La Dernière Heure,* June 17, 2004; translated from the French. https://www.dhnet.be/actu/faits/2004/06/17/nihoul-acquitte-pour-les-enlevements-MF73NPYQVBC25I2Y6P54BXIQDA/ diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Garby Leon.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Garby Leon.md index f9c0be31..daafa86f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Garby Leon.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Garby Leon.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags: - Wilcher - PROMIS - Hollywood -summary: "Hollywood development executive at Joel Silver Productions and Columbia who wrote to Janet Reno in July 1993 demanding an inquiry into Paul Wilcher's death as a parallel to Casolaro's, and who prompted and assisted Cheri Seymour's investigation of the Octopus." +summary: "Hollywood development executive who wrote to Janet Reno in July 1993 demanding an inquiry into Paul Wilcher's death as a parallel to Casolaro's and who assisted Cheri Seymour's investigation of the Octopus." location: "Los Angeles, California" created: 2026-09-22 updated: 2026-09-22 @@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ Leon spent the following year pressing the California journalist [[Cheri Seymour [^1]: Leon, Garby. Letter to Attorney General Janet Reno, July 14, 1993, with the biographical note attached, reproduced at http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/wilcher.html [^2]: See [[Paul Wilcher]] and [[Janet Reno]] and the sources cited there. -[^3]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal,* TrineDay, 2010, acknowledgments (as described in later accounts; the text was not examined). +[^3]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal,* TrineDay, 2010, acknowledgments. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Gregory McKain.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Gregory McKain.md index ee83a866..def8104b 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Gregory McKain.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Gregory McKain.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags: - INSLAW alias: - Greg McKain -summary: "INSLAW programmer whom Jack Rugh of the Justice Department telephoned in February 1985 with a job offer and the word that the trustees expected INSLAW to be liquidated within sixty days, the call Judge Bason treated as evidence of a plan to convert the bankruptcy." +summary: "INSLAW programmer whom Jack Rugh of the Justice Department telephoned in February 1985 with a job offer, the call Judge Bason treated as evidence of a plan to convert the bankruptcy." created: 2026-09-22 updated: 2026-09-22 --- @@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ McKain reported the conversation to [[Bill Hamilton]], who was upset by it and h ### Footnotes [^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, pp. 211-214. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport -[^2]: *In re INSLAW, Inc.,* 88 B.R. 484 (Bankr. D.D.C. 1988). The opinion was not examined; the statements that McKain had worked on PROMIS from the start and Bason's findings on the call's business consequences rest on a reporter summary of it. +[^2]: *In re INSLAW, Inc.,* 88 B.R. 484 (Bankr. D.D.C. 1988). diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/James E. McDonald.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/James E. McDonald.md index 487e5035..e540e64d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/James E. McDonald.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/James E. McDonald.md @@ -101,6 +101,6 @@ The Tucson Daily Citizen of Monday, June 14, 1971 reported under the headline "U [^5]: "James E. McDonald," Physics Today, vol. 24, no. 9 (September 1971), p. 71, https://aip.brightspotcdn.com/PTO.v24.i9.71_2.online.pdf (the notice's statement that he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences is not supported by the 1968 hearing biography, which lists membership on an Academy panel). [^6]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies, Civil Supersonic Aircraft Development (SST), hearings, 92d Cong., 1st sess., March 1 to 4, 1971, testimony of Dr. James E. McDonald, Tuesday, March 2, 1971, pp. 299 to 337, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-92hhrg57453O/pdf/CHRG-92hhrg57453O.pdf (text extracted 2026-10-03; page numbers per the printed running heads). [^7]: U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Federal Transportation Policy: The SST Again (1973), https://jec.senate.gov/reports/92nd%20Congress/Federal%20Transportation%20Policy%20-%20The%20SST%20Again%20(594).pdf -[^8]: "UA Physicist Found Dead In Desert," Tucson Daily Citizen (Tucson), June 14, 1971, p. 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/23335490/ (no byline; Arizona Republic copies of June 15 to 16, 1971 listed in search results were not read). +[^8]: "UA Physicist Found Dead In Desert," Tucson Daily Citizen (Tucson), June 14, 1971, p. 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/23335490/ (no byline). [^9]: Michael Swords, "James McDonald Collection," Sign Historical Group, 1999, https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/https://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/jemcollection.html -[^10]: University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections, collections list, "James E. McDonald papers, MS 412," https://lib.arizona.edu/special-collections/collections/all/a-z/M?page=3 (as returned by a search summary; listing page not opened directly). +[^10]: University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections, collections list, "James E. McDonald papers, MS 412," https://lib.arizona.edu/special-collections/collections/all/a-z/M?page=3. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jimmy Hughes.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jimmy Hughes.md index ae491317..c09af23d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jimmy Hughes.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jimmy Hughes.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags: - Cabazon - Wackenhut - Honduras -summary: "Former security director of the Cabazon tribe's casino and bingo operations, later a missionary in Honduras, charged in 2009 with the 1981 murders of Fred Alvarez, Ralph Boger and Patricia Castro; the case was dismissed in 2010." +summary: "Former security director of the Cabazon tribe's casino and bingo operations, later a missionary in Honduras, charged in 2009 with the 1981 murders of Fred Alvarez, Ralph Boger and Patricia Castro; dismissed in 2010." location: - "Indio, California" - "Honduras" @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Hughes joined the [[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International]] in 198 ### Footnotes -[^1]: "California authorities believe an unsolved 1981 triple murder was a hit job," Associated Press, September 2009 (Fox News mirror), citing the *Los Angeles Times* of 1985 (not examined) and state attorney general's spokesman Evan Westrup. https://www.foxnews.com/story/unsolved-1981-triple-murder-in-california-was-hit-job-authorities-say.amp ; "Authorities say triple tribe murder was hit job," Associated Press, September 2009. https://www.foxnews.com/story/authorities-triple-tribe-murder-was-hit-job.amp +[^1]: "California authorities believe an unsolved 1981 triple murder was a hit job," Associated Press, September 2009 (Fox News mirror), citing the *Los Angeles Times* of 1985 and state attorney general's spokesman Evan Westrup. https://www.foxnews.com/story/unsolved-1981-triple-murder-in-california-was-hit-job-authorities-say.amp ; "Authorities say triple tribe murder was hit job," Associated Press, September 2009. https://www.foxnews.com/story/authorities-triple-tribe-murder-was-hit-job.amp [^2]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. [^3]: "Jimmy Hughes Speaks To KESQ After Charges Dropped," KESQ News Channel 3, Palm Springs, July 2, 2010. https://kesq.com/news/2010/07/02/jimmy-hughes-speaks-to-kesq-after-charges-dropped/ [^4]: Taxin, Amy, with Jennifer Kay. "Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery." Associated Press, in *The Press Democrat,* November 22, 2009. https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2009/11/22/arrest-in-1981-tribal-murders-revives-old-mystery/ diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John E. Mack.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John E. Mack.md index ce422b9b..64feca78 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John E. Mack.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John E. Mack.md @@ -71,6 +71,6 @@ Dean [[Daniel C. Tosteson]] convened a "Special Faculty Committee" in the summer [^6]: Rockefeller to Gibbons, April 26, 1994, http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/2-26-94%20LR%20Letter%20to%20JG/Letter.jpg; *CenterPiece*, February 1994, https://johnemackinstitute.org/CenterPiece_1994_0200.pdf. [^7]: *PEER Perspectives* no. 2 (Winter 1998/99), p. 1, https://johnemackinstitute.org/PEER_Perspectives_2.pdf. [^8]: Ben MacIntyre, "Harvard professor's stories of close encounters, other-world sex, embarrass university," *The San Francisco Examiner* (London *Times* credit), May 5, 1995, p. 16, https://www.newspapers.com/image/461595501/. -[^9]: "Harvard's Mack: The Subject Is Aliens," *Valley News* (West Lebanon, N.H.), May 20, 1995, p. 23, https://www.newspapers.com/image/833962083/. Byline not read. +[^9]: "Harvard's Mack: The Subject Is Aliens," *Valley News* (West Lebanon, N.H.), May 20, 1995, p. 23, https://www.newspapers.com/image/833962083/. [^10]: "'Kooky' or not, Harvard won't censure its 'UFO professor'," Baltimore Sun, August 4, 1995, https://www.baltimoresun.com/1995/08/04/kooky-or-not-harvard-wont-censure-its-ufo-professor/. [^11]: Arnold S. Relman, "The Motivation for the Mack Inquiry," Harvard Crimson, September 13, 1995, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1995/9/13/the-motivation-for-the-mack-inquiry/. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Van de Kamp.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Van de Kamp.md index 75f3354e..ac3628b4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Van de Kamp.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Van de Kamp.md @@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ Three consecutive grand jury foremen and [[Ben Wagner]], an attorney representin --- ### Footnotes -[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Sole source for the passages so cited. Contemporaneous reporting shows the Mariposa County district attorney, Bruce Eckerson, resisting the CHP's call to prosecute Sinclair for six months, not acting on the attorney general's instructions: "Highway Patrol's Crash investigation questioned," United Press International, September 25, 1983 (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Highway-Patrols-Crash-investigation-questioned/7300433310400/). \ No newline at end of file +[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Contemporaneous reporting shows the Mariposa County district attorney, Bruce Eckerson, resisting the CHP's call to prosecute Sinclair for six months, not acting on the attorney general's instructions: "Highway Patrol's Crash investigation questioned," United Press International, September 25, 1983 (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Highway-Patrols-Crash-investigation-questioned/7300433310400/). Sole source for the passages so cited. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Julie Lejeune.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Julie Lejeune.md index 0201f10e..1aa61667 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Julie Lejeune.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Julie Lejeune.md @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ The parliamentary commission recorded that during the search of 128 rue de Phili ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its November 1995 date for Weinstein's death sits uneasily with the commission's listing of him as a fugitive on December 13, 1995. Its dates for the abduction (July 9, 1995, from Charleroi) and for the discovery of the bodies (August 18, 1996) are contradicted by the commission's chronology and are not repeated here; it describes Nihoul's 2004 acquittal as "despite jury conviction," which the verdict does not bear out. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its November 1995 date for Weinstein's death sits uneasily with the commission's listing of him as a fugitive on December 13, 1995. Its dates for the abduction (July 9, 1995, from Charleroi) and for the discovery of the bodies (August 18, 1996) are contradicted by the commission's chronology; it describes Nihoul's 2004 acquittal as "despite jury conviction," which the verdict does not bear out. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, pp. 47-48, table 4 ("Julie et Mélissa, du 24 juin au 24 août 1995") and the chronology of August 1996; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf [^3]: Planchar, Roland. "Arlon, 22 juin 2004, l'épilogue..." *La Libre Belgique,* June 22, 2005. https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/2005/06/22/arlon-22-juin-2004-lepilogue-BW2M2Z52HRFRFJL4PLKBLTDEHE/ [^4]: "Notorious child rapist-murderer convicted." NBC News and Associated Press, June 17, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5233011 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kenneth A. Kress.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kenneth A. Kress.md index ab184164..33a8ec8b 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kenneth A. Kress.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kenneth A. Kress.md @@ -34,15 +34,14 @@ Kenneth A. Kress was a physicist in the CIA's [[CIA Office of Technical Service| ### SCANATE -The office had spent 874 dollars on a few days' work in August 1972 and 2,500 more before it "funded a $50,000 expanded effort in parapsychology" on October 1, 1972. Kress carried the project through the review of April and May 1973, when [[William Colby]] sent it to the Executive Management Committee and the matter went to the director, [[James Schlesinger]]; \"I was soon told not to increase the scope of the project,\" and into the joint program with the Office of Research and Development that began on February 1, 1974. He wrote that at one point "I began to have serious feelings of being involved with a fraud," and had the agency's computer office re-analyze the SRI random-number machine, finding "no evidence of nonrandomness." In July 1974 he designed the test of Pat Price against [[Semipalatinsk]], choosing "the tall crane and the four structures resembling oil well derricks" as the checks, and concluded that "as proof of remote viewing, the data are at best inconclusive." When the program was reviewed in 1975 he was "judged to be a positively biased advocate of paranormal functioning" and removed from evaluation; the research support was dropped as "not productive or even competent." An OTS memorandum of January 1975 nonetheless recorded "definite potential for operational application of paranormal abilities demonstrated by persons in the program," and a dissemination memorandum recommended that Kress, "as project officer of the SRI investigation," control who saw the reports.[^2][^3] +The office had spent 874 dollars on a few days' work in August 1972 and 2,500 more before it "funded a $50,000 expanded effort in parapsychology" on October 1, 1972. Kress carried the project through the review of April and May 1973, when [[William Colby]] sent it to the Executive Management Committee and the matter went to the director, [[James Schlesinger]]; \"I was soon told not to increase the scope of the project,\" and into the joint program with the Office of Research and Development that began on February 1, 1974. He wrote that at one point "I began to have serious feelings of being involved with a fraud," and had the agency's computer office re-analyze the SRI random-number machine, finding "no evidence of nonrandomness." In July 1974 he designed the test of Pat Price against [[Semipalatinsk]], choosing "the tall crane and the four structures resembling oil well derricks" as the checks, and concluded that "as proof of remote viewing, the data are at best inconclusive." When the program was reviewed in 1975 he was "judged to be a positively biased advocate of paranormal functioning" and removed from evaluation; the research support was dropped as "not productive or even competent."[^2] ### The Article -His review, "Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions," appeared in the classified *Studies in Intelligence* in the winter of 1977 and was declassified in 1996. It recorded the briefing of Director [[George H.W. Bush|George Bush]] in 1976, [[Stansfield Turner]]'s public acknowledgment of 1977, and the state of interest at DIA, DARPA, the Navy, and the Air Force, and ended: "This is not to say that parapsychology is a proven intelligence tool; it is to say that the evaluation is not yet complete and more research is needed." In a postscript of January 1999 for its reprinting he mentioned a later "secure line call from a person who identified himself as an FBI agent" and wrote: "Me, I remain a skeptical agnostic." Representative [[Charles Rose]] was briefed at OTS by its chief, [[David Brandwein]], on February 9, 1978.[^2][^4] +His review, "Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions," appeared in the classified *Studies in Intelligence* in the winter of 1977 and was declassified in 1996. It recorded the briefing of Director [[George H.W. Bush|George Bush]] in 1976, [[Stansfield Turner]]'s public acknowledgment of 1977, and the state of interest at DIA, DARPA, the Navy, and the Air Force, and ended: "This is not to say that parapsychology is a proven intelligence tool; it is to say that the evaluation is not yet complete and more research is needed." In a postscript of January 1999 for its reprinting he mentioned a later "secure line call from a person who identified himself as an FBI agent" and wrote: "Me, I remain a skeptical agnostic." Representative [[Charles Rose]] was briefed at OTS by its chief, [[David Brandwein]], on February 9, 1978.[^2][^3] ### Footnotes [^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. [^2]: Kress, Kenneth A. "Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions," *Studies in Intelligence,* vol. 21, no. 4, winter 1977, declassified, document NSA-RDP96X00790R000100010031-3; reprinted with the author's postscript of January 1999 in *Journal of Scientific Exploration,* vol. 13, no. 1, 1999. -[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Technical Service, memoranda of January 1975 on the SRI project and on dissemination, CIA FOIA Reading Room, seen only in catalogue summaries; the documents themselves were not read. -[^4]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Legislative Counsel, "Briefing of Representative Charles Rose (D., N.C.), Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 9 February 1978," OLC 78-0576, CIA-RDP81M00980R000600250087-4, first page only. +[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Legislative Counsel, "Briefing of Representative Charles Rose (D., N.C.), Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 9 February 1978," OLC 78-0576, CIA-RDP81M00980R000600250087-4, first page only. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Leslie Kean.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Leslie Kean.md index ff863830..ccae8934 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Leslie Kean.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Leslie Kean.md @@ -42,6 +42,6 @@ Kean has since covered the subject for the Times, sharing bylines with Blumentha [^1]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. "How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously." *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously. The date of the Reid correction and the July 2020 article are inferred from the text ("published last July") of a May 2021 piece. [^2]: Same, on the 2002 PodestaMattoon engagement, Rothschild's introduction and Podesta's support of the lawsuit. -[^3]: Gibb, Tom. "Reality 'X-file': People in Kecksburg want to resolve what fell from the sky in 1965." *Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,* March 9, 2003, p. 21, via newspapers.com image 90896474. Quotations as printed; the jump on page B-2 was not read. +[^3]: Gibb, Tom. "Reality 'X-file': People in Kecksburg want to resolve what fell from the sky in 1965." *Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,* March 9, 2003, p. 21, via newspapers.com image 90896474. Quotations as printed. [^4]: Baker, Nicholson. "How We Lost Our Minds About UFOs." *New York Magazine,* January 31, 2024. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/leslie-kean-ufo-sightings-aliens.html [^5]: Kloor, Keith. "The Media Loves This UFO Expert Who Says He Worked for an Obscure Pentagon Program. Did He?" *The Intercept,* June 1, 2019. https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/. Kloor does not name the organization or the venue of Kean's 2016 statement; his article is the only source read for it. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Michel Lelievre.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Michel Lelievre.md index 53990a9d..111af499 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Michel Lelievre.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Michel Lelievre.md @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that he was born in 1967, met Dutroux in 1995 through ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its statements that his involvement began only after Dutroux's release in March 1996 and that he was paroled in 2005 are contradicted by his conviction for the August 1995 abduction of An Marchal and by his release in December 2019; its dates for the Dardenne abduction and Dutroux's arrest are contradicted by the commission's chronology. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its statements that his involvement began only after Dutroux's release in March 1996 and that he was paroled in 2005 are contradicted by his conviction for the August 1995 abduction of An Marchal and by his release in December 2019; its dates for the Dardenne abduction and Dutroux's arrest are contradicted by the commission's chronology. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, chronology of August 1996; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf [^3]: Fleury, Elisabeth. "Le calvaire d'An et Eefje." *Le Parisien,* April 5, 2004. https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/le-calvaire-d-an-et-eefje-05-04-2004-2004887724.php [^4]: "Notorious child rapist-murderer convicted." NBC News and Associated Press, June 17, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5233011 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mike Harari.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mike Harari.md index 5e80849a..856baacb 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mike Harari.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mike Harari.md @@ -33,6 +33,6 @@ Ben-Menashe's account of the sale of a modified [[PROMIS]] to [[Guatemala]] stat ### Footnotes [^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network,* Sheridan Square, 1992, chs. "The First Billion" and "Promis." https://archive.org/details/profits-of-war-1992-ari-ben-menashe -[^2]: "Ex-agent of the Mossad Implicated in Drug Deals with Panamanian," *Jewish Telegraphic Agency,* February 1988. https://www.jta.org/archive/ex-agent-of-the-mossad-implicated-in-drug-deals-with-panamanian The quotations attributed to the JTA were not found under that spelling in the printed hearing record. The subcommittee's report, *Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy,* December 1988, does not mention Harari. -[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice, *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua,* March 1993. Harari's birth and death dates, the Lillehammer role, his absence from the 1988 Noriega indictments, his departure from Panama in December 1989, the 2007 medal and the Klein biography are as given in obituary and press summaries not examined in full. +[^2]: "Ex-agent of the Mossad Implicated in Drug Deals with Panamanian," *Jewish Telegraphic Agency,* February 1988. https://www.jta.org/archive/ex-agent-of-the-mossad-implicated-in-drug-deals-with-panamanian The subcommittee's report, *Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy,* December 1988, does not mention Harari. +[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice, *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua,* March 1993. Harari's birth and death dates, the Lillehammer role, his absence from the 1988 Noriega indictments, his departure from Panama in December 1989, the 2007 medal and the Klein biography are as given in obituaries and press accounts. [^4]: U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications. *Drugs, Law Enforcement, and Foreign Policy: Panama,* hearings, 100th Cong., 2nd sess., part 2, February 8-11, 1988, pp. 93-94 (February 9) and 169 (February 10). https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754076926512 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Morris K. Jessup.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Morris K. Jessup.md index b9cadbff..d5b8700b 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Morris K. Jessup.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Morris K. Jessup.md @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Barker acquired an original copy in 1971 from a friend of Jessup to whom Jessup ### Footnotes -[^1]: Morris K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO (New York: Citadel Press, 1955), catalog record, Internet Archive item caseforufo0000mkje (metadata: publisher Citadel, date 1955), https://archive.org/details/caseforufo0000mkje (lending copy, not read). +[^1]: Morris K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO (New York: Citadel Press, 1955), catalog record, Internet Archive item caseforufo0000mkje (metadata: publisher Citadel, date 1955), https://archive.org/details/caseforufo0000mkje. [^2]: Gray Barker, preface dated July 1973, in the same volume, pp. 2 to 6. Barker identified a "confidential source" for the ONR routing and did not name it. [^3]: Unsigned "Introduction" to the Annotated Edition, in the same volume, pp. 7 to 9; Barker's preface states that the original gives no information on its authorship. Sole source for the passages so cited as to the routing of the book through ONR and the identity of the officers named. [^4]: "Appendix: The first letter received by Mr. Jessup from Carlos Allende," and "Days Later," in M. K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO, Varo Edition, transcribed by the Quantum Future Group, Castelnau-Barbarens, 2003, from the Saucerian Press facsimile of 1973, pp. 15 to 18, https://archive.org/details/THECASEFORTHEUFOVaroEditionM.K.Jessup (djvu text, reread 2026-10-03). diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/R.C. Horsch.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/R.C. Horsch.md index 3ea96ff5..dabf1834 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/R.C. Horsch.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/R.C. Horsch.md @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ On September 16, 2026, Deputy Police Commissioner [[Frank Vanore]] said that inv [^72]: Rushing, Ellie, Barbara Laker, Ryan W. Briggs, and Max Marin. "Raymond Horsch was convicted of luring a 9-year-old girl to his car in 2009. Now those court records could be destroyed." *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* September 22, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/crime/raymond-horsch-child-luring-kensington-records-expunged-20260922.html [^73]: *United States v. Horsch,* No. 2:09-cr-00794-RBS (E.D. Pa.), filed December 15, 2009, terminated July 5, 2012; indictment (Doc. 1), motion and order for bench warrant signed by Magistrate Judge Elizabeth T. Hey (Doc. 2), notices of appearance of Jerome M. Brown (Docs. 5 and 7), docket via CourtListener RECAP. https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=Horsch&type=r&court=paed [^74]: *United States v. Horsch,* No. 2:09-cr-00794-RBS (E.D. Pa.), superseding indictment of January 26, 2010, information under 21 U.S.C. sec. 851 of December 23, 2010, change of plea of January 10, 2011, judgments of June 28 and July 3, 2012, and final order of forfeiture of October 22, 2012, docket via CourtListener RECAP. https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=Horsch&type=r&court=paed -[^75]: The Inquirer article of September 22, 2026, and WPVI both give the federal sentence as 54 months; earlier sources give 53 months. The docket entries were not examined. +[^75]: The Inquirer article of September 22, 2026, and WPVI both give the federal sentence as 54 months; earlier sources give 53 months. [^76]: "Hoersch, Helen M.," death notice, *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* April 7, 2004, p. B12. https://www.newspapers.com/image/201102740/ [^77]: "A woman missing since 2016 had close ties to the Olney house that's now the target of a massive investigation," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* June 27, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/olney-raid-missing-women-mystery-drugs-20260627.html [^78]: "What we know about the Olney investigation into missing women," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* June 27, 2026 (which calls Helen M. Hoersch his sister; her 1991 and 2004 notices make her his aunt). https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/olney-investigation-eugene-horsch-missing-women-20260627.html diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Raúl Iturriaga Neumann.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Raúl Iturriaga Neumann.md index 6829bfc6..f303f586 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Raúl Iturriaga Neumann.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Raúl Iturriaga Neumann.md @@ -44,5 +44,5 @@ Iturriaga briefed Townley on the mission against [[Orlando Letelier]] in 1976 an [^2]: Branch, Taylor, and Eugene M. Propper. *Labyrinth*. Viking, 1982, pp. 303, 464. [^3]: Fiscalía Militar Ad-Hoc, Santiago, causa 192-78 (fiscal Héctor Orozco), as reproduced in *Proceso contra Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda y Pedro Espinoza Bravo,* ministro instructor Adolfo Bañados, tomo 1, scan at https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Causa-Contreras-Espinoza-1991.pdf. Quotations translated from the Spanish, declaraciones of Michael Vernon Townley Welch (March 29, 1978) and Pedro Espinoza Bravo (April 24, 1978); resolution of April 10, 1978. [^4]: Fiscalía Militar Ad-Hoc, Santiago, causa 192-78, as reproduced in *Proceso contra Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda y Pedro Espinoza Bravo,* ministro instructor Adolfo Bañados, tomo 1, scan at https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Causa-Contreras-Espinoza-1991.pdf. Quotations translated from the Spanish, declaraciones of Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, April 1 and June 1, 1978. -[^5]: Chilean press reports of the 2010 judgments of Judge Alejandro Solís and the Supreme Court and of the 2022 court resolution on DINA's exterior department (La Tercera, CNN Chile, El Mostrador), not read in full. +[^5]: Chilean press reports of the 2010 judgments of Judge Alejandro Solís and the Supreme Court and of the 2022 court resolution on DINA's exterior department (La Tercera, CNN Chile, El Mostrador). [^6]: Kornbluh, Peter. "A Modicum of Justice for Ronni Karpen Moffitt," *The Nation,* September 2026. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Regina Louf.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Regina Louf.md index 1626fa97..4ec4e482 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Regina Louf.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Regina Louf.md @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Regina Louf, born in Ghent in 1969, was the witness known as X1 in the investiga ### Her Account -She was questioned at length thirteen times under the code name X1. She summarized her family background in two sentences: "My mother was abused by her father, a police commissioner in Knokke. I was rented out by my mother, with my father's knowledge."[^5] Louf said that from early childhood she had been prostituted by her grandmother, [[Cecile Beernaert]], at a villa in [[Knokke-Heist]] near the [[Royal Zoute Golf Club]], that at about twelve she was handed to a pimp, [[Tony Van den Boggaert|Tony Van den Bogaert]], who took her to parties in Brussels attended by [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]], and that the parties moved from sex to torture and murder. Among those she named as clients or participants were the former prime minister [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]] and members of the Lippens family, [[Count Leopold Lippens]] and [[Count Maurice Auguste Lippens]]. She said she had witnessed the 1984 murder of [[Christine Van Hees]] in the abandoned mushroom farm at Auderghem, naming Dutroux, Nihoul, [[Bernard Weinstein]] and the lawyer [[Michel Vander Elst]], and the 1983 death of [[Carine Dellaert]] after childbirth. She described a factory site that investigators connected to [[ASCO Industries NV]], a villa at Faulx-les-Tombes and parties on the Avenue Louise.[^2] She published her account as *Zwijgen is voor daders* in 1998.[^2] +She was questioned at length thirteen times under the code name X1. She summarized her family background in two sentences: "My mother was abused by her father, a police commissioner in Knokke. I was rented out by my mother, with my father's knowledge."[^2] Louf said that from early childhood she had been prostituted by her grandmother, [[Cecile Beernaert]], at a villa in [[Knokke-Heist]] near the [[Royal Zoute Golf Club]], that at about twelve she was handed to a pimp, [[Tony Van den Boggaert|Tony Van den Bogaert]], who took her to parties in Brussels attended by [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]], and that the parties moved from sex to torture and murder. Among those she named as clients or participants were the former prime minister [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]] and members of the Lippens family, [[Count Leopold Lippens]] and [[Count Maurice Auguste Lippens]]. She said she had witnessed the 1984 murder of [[Christine Van Hees]] in the abandoned mushroom farm at Auderghem, naming Dutroux, Nihoul, [[Bernard Weinstein]] and the lawyer [[Michel Vander Elst]], and the 1983 death of [[Carine Dellaert]] after childbirth. She described a factory site that investigators connected to [[ASCO Industries NV]], a villa at Faulx-les-Tombes and parties on the Avenue Louise.[^3] She published her account as *Zwijgen is voor daders* in 1998.[^3] ### The Investigation of Her Testimony @@ -33,12 +33,11 @@ Her account of Van Hees led the Brussels gendarme Aimé Bille to the unsolved fi After Connerotte was removed from the Dutroux case in October 1996 and replaced by Judge Jacques Langlois, the cell came under a Mr. Duterme, who from April 1997 had De Baets's colleagues reread the interviews and report on her credibility and on possible manipulation by De Baets's team; the first report, very negative for De Baets, "totally lacked credibility," and a second was ordered. In the summer of 1997 Langlois ordered a complete rereading of all the related files and removed De Baets and Bille from the investigation. A criminal investigation of the two gendarmes by Judge Pignolet was dropped and a gendarmerie disciplinary inquiry acquitted them completely; they then filed more than eighty complaints alleging that reports in the rereading had been falsified.[^1] -In January 1998 Louf gave up her anonymity, in part to protest the stalling of the inquiry, amid a press campaign against her fed by leaks from police and judicial circles. On April 23, 1998, the day Dutroux briefly escaped, the prosecutors-general of Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels decided that "no proof could be found that Regina Louf could make any contribution whatsoever to these investigations" and closed the related files. The same day, in a confrontation with Louf, the man described as her "so-called protector" admitted that he had had sex with her when she was twelve, with her parents' knowledge, and had once lent her to others; the admission was not pursued, the acts being time-barred.[^1] Her parents had told police that a family friend in his forties, Tony Van den Bogaert, had a key to their home and unlimited access to their twelve-year-old daughter, and he admitted his relationship with her to police; the RTBF program *Au Nom de la Loi* presented the parents as victims of a fantasist without mentioning either admission.[^4] The Van Hees case was closed unsolved in 2014 under the statute of limitations.[^3] +In January 1998 Louf gave up her anonymity, in part to protest the stalling of the inquiry, amid a press campaign against her fed by leaks from police and judicial circles. On April 23, 1998, the day Dutroux briefly escaped, the prosecutors-general of Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels decided that "no proof could be found that Regina Louf could make any contribution whatsoever to these investigations" and closed the related files. The same day, in a confrontation with Louf, the man described as her "so-called protector" admitted that he had had sex with her when she was twelve, with her parents' knowledge, and had once lent her to others; the admission was not pursued, the acts being time-barred.[^1] Her parents had told police that a family friend in his forties, Tony Van den Bogaert, had a key to their home and unlimited access to their twelve-year-old daughter, and he admitted his relationship with her to police; the RTBF program *Au Nom de la Loi* presented the parents as victims of a fantasist without mentioning either admission.[^4] ### Footnotes [^1]: Sénat de Belgique. Proposition visant à instituer une commission d'enquête parlementaire chargée d'enquêter sur l'éloignement de deux enquêteurs de la cellule d'enquête bruxelloise « Neufchâteau », déposée par M. Frans Lozie, Doc. 2-563/1, October 9, 2000, développements. https://www.senate.be -[^2]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying accounts are Louf, Regina, *Zwijgen is voor daders* (1998), and Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux* (Houtekiet, 1999), neither of which was seen. -[^3]: "On ne percera pas le mystère de la champignonnière." *La Libre Belgique,* January 30, 2014 (not examined; reported in search summaries of the article). +[^2]: Smoltczyk, Alexander. "Im Netz der Dossiers." *Der Spiegel,* no. 42/2001, October 14, 2001; translated from the German. https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/im-netz-der-dossiers-a-c9fe5b47-0002-0001-0000-000020353850 +[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying accounts are Louf, Regina, *Zwijgen is voor daders* (1998), and Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux* (Houtekiet, 1999), neither of which was seen. [^4]: Frenkiel, Olenka. "Belgium's silent heart of darkness." *The Observer,* May 5, 2002. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview -[^5]: Smoltczyk, Alexander. "Im Netz der Dossiers." *Der Spiegel,* no. 42/2001, October 14, 2001; translated from the German. https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/im-netz-der-dossiers-a-c9fe5b47-0002-0001-0000-000020353850 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ricardo Morales Navarrete.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ricardo Morales Navarrete.md index de8bc452..b0db3370 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ricardo Morales Navarrete.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ricardo Morales Navarrete.md @@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ An FBI source reported in December 1977 that Morales, back in Miami, was the go- [^3]: Fiscalía Militar Ad-Hoc, Santiago, causa 192-78 (fiscal Héctor Orozco), as reproduced in *Proceso contra Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda y Pedro Espinoza Bravo,* ministro instructor Adolfo Bañados, tomo 1, scan at https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Causa-Contreras-Espinoza-1991.pdf. Quotations translated from the Spanish, declaración of Michael Vernon Townley Welch, March 29, 1978. [^4]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "CORU," August 16, 1978. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 13. [^5]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU)," January 24, 1977. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 12. -[^6]: Deposition of Ricardo Morales Navarrete, Dade County Circuit Court, criminal case 81-17247, index; death date from press accounts, not read in full. +[^6]: Deposition of Ricardo Morales Navarrete, Dade County Circuit Court, criminal case 81-17247, index; death date from press accounts. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Halvorsen.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Halvorsen.md index 297b84e0..7972df6c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Halvorsen.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Halvorsen.md @@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that the case broke when film found in a malfunctionin ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It spells the assistant scoutmaster "Harry O'Cramer"; the hearing record and Louisiana Supreme Court captions give Harry O. Cramer. Robert Lang does not appear in the 1977 hearing record. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It spells the assistant scoutmaster "Harry O'Cramer"; the hearing record and Louisiana Supreme Court captions give Harry O. Cramer. Robert Lang does not appear in the 1977 hearing record. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Wright, Marilyn. *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1976-1977, and *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, both reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977, pp. 439-443; the Tribune piece also in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 1977. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041 [^3]: *State ex rel. Halvorsen v. Blackburn* (La. 1980) and *State ex rel. Halvorsen v. Maggio* (La. 1982), Louisiana Supreme Court, CourtListener case captions. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Kammann.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Kammann.md index 6312a2cb..356046cc 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Kammann.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Kammann.md @@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ He was a fellow of the [[Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of ### Footnotes -[^1]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0 (abstract and dates only; the text is behind a paywall). +[^1]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0. [^2]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. *The Psychology of the Psychic.* Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1980, pp. 12-41, 129, 151, 177, 185, read through the archive.org search index of the item psychologyofpsyc0000mark_j8m3 (page fragments only). [^3]: Lippard, Jim, editorial note to Kammann, Richard, "Statistical Numerology in the Skeptics' Response to the Mars Effect," *Zetetic Scholar,* no. 10, December 1982, pp. 50-65, reprinted at discord.org/lippard/kammann.html (Wayback Machine copy); University of Otago, "Wellbeing at heart of annual prize" (Wayback Machine copy); Kammann, R., M. Farry and P. Herbison, "The analysis and measurement of happiness as a sense of well-being," *Social Indicators Research,* vol. 15, 1984, pp. 91-115; Howard, Bernard, "Ah Yes! I Remember It Well," NZ Skeptics, February 1, 1999, and "A Classic Updated," February 1, 2002, articles.skeptics.nz; Skeptical Inquirer author page for David F. Marks, skepticalinquirer.org/authors/david-f-marks/; MARC record of the archive.org item psychologyofpsyc0000mark_j8m3 ("Kammann, Richard, 1934-1984"). diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Kennett.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Kennett.md index b7f9a213..6ad336c2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Kennett.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Kennett.md @@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ The released CIA collection on the program carries no legible mention of Kennett ### Footnotes [^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997. -[^2]: The archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection, about 13,000 items under the identifiers cia-rdp96-*, searched by title and OCR text; the OCR is imperfect and some fifty items could not be read. +[^2]: The archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection, about 13,000 items under the identifiers cia-rdp96-*, searched by title and OCR text. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Tom McNear.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Tom McNear.md index b64f53fc..a04ca37c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Tom McNear.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Tom McNear.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags: - PSI - Stargate - 1980s -summary: "Tom McNear was a U.S. Army military intelligence captain who became one of the first two soldiers trained by Ingo Swann in Coordinate Remote Viewing beginning in 1981, authored the 1985 DoD CRV manual declassified in 2000, and was assessed by Swann as surpassing his own abilities before requesting transfer from the Fort Meade unit." +summary: "U.S. Army military intelligence captain who became one of the first two soldiers trained by Ingo Swann in Coordinate Remote Viewing in 1981 and authored the 1985 DoD CRV manual declassified in 2000." --- Tom McNear was a Captain in military intelligence and one of the two original [[Ingo Swann]] trainees in [[Coordinate Remote Viewing|CRV]], starting in 1981. He immediately showed considerable talent in remote viewing, though his training progressed slowly[^1]. @@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ The released CIA collection on the program carries no legible mention of McNear. ### Footnotes [^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. -[^900]: The archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection, about 13,000 items under the identifiers cia-rdp96-*, searched by title and OCR text; the OCR is imperfect and some fifty items could not be read. +[^900]: The archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection, about 13,000 items under the identifiers cia-rdp96-*, searched by title and OCR text. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Walter LaBerge.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Walter LaBerge.md index fcdb291e..b219bc0a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Walter LaBerge.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Walter LaBerge.md @@ -20,5 +20,5 @@ Puthoff's letter to Gale of August 3, 1979, enclosed copies of SRI's procedures ### Footnotes -[^1]: Davis, Ruth M., Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology), memorandum for Dr. Jack Vorona, "'Remote Viewing' Project," November 20, 1978, with the letter of Charlie Rose, Chairman, Subcommittee on Evaluation, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to Davis, October 25, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500240017-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Defense Intelligence Agency, "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 27 November 1979," S-1168/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1, and "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 10 January 1980," S-1008/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1, both signed Jack Vorona, chairman. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Stoner, William L., Major, GS, "Memorandum of Conversation, Subject: Gale Briefing to ZA, Science Evaluation Group Final Report on GRILL FLAME, 14 Jan 80," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7), not read. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. +[^1]: Davis, Ruth M., Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology), memorandum for Dr. Jack Vorona, "'Remote Viewing' Project," November 20, 1978, with the letter of Charlie Rose, Chairman, Subcommittee on Evaluation, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to Davis, October 25, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500240017-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Defense Intelligence Agency, "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 27 November 1979," S-1168/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1, and "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 10 January 1980," S-1008/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1, both signed Jack Vorona, chairman. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Stoner, William L., Major, GS, "Memorandum of Conversation, Subject: Gale Briefing to ZA, Science Evaluation Group Final Report on GRILL FLAME, 14 Jan 80," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^2]: Puthoff, H. E., to Manfred Gale, "SRI/Gale Committee Meeting of 24-25 July," August 3, 1979, with the enclosure "Standard Remote Viewing (RV) Procedures: Local Sites," by H. E. Puthoff, R. Targ and E. C. May, August 1979, CIA-RDP96-00787R000100060001-6 (memorandum alone at CIA-RDP96-00788R002000240028-5). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, H. E., R. Targ and E. C. May, Radio Physics Laboratory, SRI International, to Walter B. LaBerge, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, March 19, 1980, SRI 0-4132, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230031-1. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Adam Starchild.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Adam Starchild.md index 242a8f97..49d72602 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Adam Starchild.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Adam Starchild.md @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that Starchild was Malcolm Willis McConahy, an offshor ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. The claim that he faked his death in 1975 is contradicted by the court record of his ownership of the Virgin Islands trust company in 1976 to 1978 and his appearance as counsel in 1985. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. The claim that he faked his death in 1975 is contradicted by the court record of his ownership of the Virgin Islands trust company in 1976 to 1978 and his appearance as counsel in 1985. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Wright, Marilyn. "Porno Ring Uses Church, Tax Laws." *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977, pp. 86-87. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041 [^3]: *National Bank of Detroit v. Shelden,* 730 F.2d 421 (6th Cir. 1984). https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/433085/national-bank-of-detroit-v-francis-d-shelden-the-trust-company-of-the/ [^4]: *Detroit Bank v. Trust Co. of Virgin Islands, Ltd.,* 644 F. Supp. 444 (D.P.R. 1985); *Shelden v. Trust Co. of the Virgin Islands, Ltd.,* 535 F. Supp. 667 (D.P.R. 1982). https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1559036/detroit-bank-v-trust-co-of-virgin-islands-ltd/ -[^5]: CourtListener case captions, *United States v. Starchild,* 1988-1990, not read in full. +[^5]: CourtListener case captions, *United States v. Starchild,* 1988-1990. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alan Standorf.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alan Standorf.md index 1bd554ff..4b3ba45d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alan Standorf.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alan Standorf.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags: - SuspiciousDeath alias: - Alan David Standorf -summary: "Civilian analyst at Vint Hill Farms Station, the Army-run NSA post in Virginia, found beaten to death in his car at Washington National Airport in January 1991, whom Bill Turner named as a source of the BCCI and PROMIS documents in Danny Casolaro's missing briefcase." +summary: "Civilian analyst at Vint Hill Farms Station found beaten to death at Washington National Airport in January 1991, named by Bill Turner as a source of the BCCI and PROMIS documents in Casolaro's briefcase." died: 1991-01 location: "Vint Hill Farms Station, Virginia" created: 2026-09-22 @@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ Alan Standorf was a civilian employee, described by the airport detectives who i ### Footnotes [^1]: Ridgeway, James, and Doug Vaughan. "The Last Days of Danny Casolaro: Murder or Suicide," *The Village Voice,* October 15, 1991, pp. 31-43, part 1, as reprinted at https://survivorbb.rapeutation.com/viewtopic.php?f=218&t=2794 -[^2]: "Son of Slain Journalist Who Exposed Web of CIA Corruption Calling For New Murder Investigation," *CovertAction Magazine,* September 4, 2023 (which gives January 31, 1991, as the date the body was found). https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/04/son-of-slain-journalist-who-exposed-web-of-cia-corruption-calling-for-new-murder-investigation/ The rank, the Riconosciuto introduction and the BCCI documents are as given in later accounts not examined. +[^2]: "Son of Slain Journalist Who Exposed Web of CIA Corruption Calling For New Murder Investigation," *CovertAction Magazine,* September 4, 2023 (which gives January 31, 1991, as the date the body was found). https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/04/son-of-slain-journalist-who-exposed-web-of-cia-corruption-calling-for-new-murder-investigation/ The rank, the Riconosciuto introduction and the BCCI documents are as given in later accounts. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Albert Stubblebine.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Albert Stubblebine.md index 89d5f951..f07f65ef 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Albert Stubblebine.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Albert Stubblebine.md @@ -72,4 +72,4 @@ Stubblebine died February 6, 2017 - his 87th birthday - at his home in [[New Mex [^5]: Buzby, Brian, memoranda for the record, "Initial Grill Flame Briefing to MG Stubblebine as CG, INSCOM, 30 June 1981" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220001-0), "Meeting With MG Stubblebine on 30 November 1983" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220010-0), and "Meeting with MG Stubblebine on 6 January 1984" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220009-2). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "Briefing - Project Center Lane," c. 1984, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^6]: Memorandum for the record, "Initial Grill Flame Briefing to MG Stubblebine as CG, INSCOM, 30 June 1981," July 1, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220001-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^7]: Canadian Subsidiary Technology Inc., board of directors page, Wayback capture of February 6, 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20050206131007id_/http://canadiansub.com/Board.html. Promotional biography; sole source for the quoted title. -[^8]: Elizondo and the Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf, quoting Hansen; the book was not opened. Sole source for the passage so cited. +[^8]: Elizondo and the Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf, quoting Hansen. Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alexander Scaramucci.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alexander Scaramucci.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d1593dc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alexander Scaramucci.md @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +--- +category: "Finance & Business" +tags: + - Person + - VentureCapital + - Cryptocurrency + - Longevity +alias: + - AJ Scaramucci + - Alexander Joseph Scaramucci + - Alex Scaramucci + - Alexander J. Scaramucci + - Scaramucci, Alexander +summary: "Venture investor, co-managing member of SALT Fund Management LLC with Alex Klokus and managing member of the general partner of the Solari Capital funds, formerly an entrepreneur-in-residence under Peter Diamandis; son of Anthony Scaramucci." +location: "Palm Beach Gardens" +relations: + - type: relative_of + with: "[[Anthony Scaramucci]]" + role: "oldest son, per Bustle (2017) and Fortune (2026)" + fn: 1 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Peter Diamandis]]" + role: "entrepreneur-in-residence, by 2015 per Fortune (2026); 'I work with Peter Diamandis across all of his ventures' per his LinkedIn as quoted by Bustle (2017)" + start: 2015 + fn: 2 + - type: member_of + with: "[[SALT Fund Management LLC]]" + role: "Managing Member, control person, ownership code D, since September 2021 (Form ADV, CRD 316587)" + start: 2021-09 + fn: 5 + - type: member_of + with: "[[SALT Fund I, L.P.]]" + role: "Executive Officer, managing member of the general partner; Form D filed March 16, 2021, signed by him" + start: 2021-03-16 + fn: 6 + - type: member_of + with: "[[Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP]]" + role: "managing member of the general partner and investment manager (Form D, August 24, 2022)" + start: 2022-08-23 + fn: 7 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Tomorrow Farms Inc.]]" + role: "Treasurer, Executive Officer and Director (Form D, May 24, 2022)" + start: 2022-05-24 + fn: 8 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Radial Health, Inc.]]" + role: "Director (Form D, April 30, 2024)" + start: 2024-04-30 + fn: 8 + - type: member_of + with: "[[Solari Capital]]" + role: "Managing Member of the general partner of the Solari funds; Diamandis a limited partner per Fortune" + start: 2024-12 + fn: 9 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- + +### Identity + +Bustle reported on August 1, 2017 that Alexander Scaramucci is "the oldest child of the former [[White House]] communications director" [[Anthony Scaramucci]], "also known as AJ according to The Daily Mail," then 24.[^1] [[Fortune]] reported on September 24, 2026 that he is the son of "a chemical engineer" and "serial entrepreneur Anthony Scaramucci".[^2] + +The [[Financial Industry Regulatory Authority]] and [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] individual record (CRD 6960736, "Alexander Joseph Scaramucci") lists the examinations Series 7 (July 10, 2018), Series 63 (August 9, 2018) and the Securities Industry Essentials exam (September 13, 2018), no current or previous employments and no disclosures.[^3] + +### Diamandis + +Bustle quoted his LinkedIn page in 2017: after [[Tufts University]] and more than a year at [[Google]] he was an entrepreneur-in-residence, "I work with Peter Diamandis across all of his ventures: XPRIZE, Human Longevity Inc., Planetary Resources, Bold Capital Partners, Singularity University, Abundance 360."[^1] In the Fortune interview he said he read [[Peter Diamandis]]'s book "Abundance" in April 2012, entered through Chris Lewicki, then chief executive of [[Planetary Resources]], and "by 2015" was an entrepreneur-in-residence under Diamandis, "building the CAR-T cell therapy startup [[Celularity|Cellularity]] and the education venture Abundance Group." Diamandis told Fortune he had known him "for the better part of 15 years," that he was in Diamandis's "Strike Force" program, and that he was "happy to be a limited partner in Solari Capital"; the article lists Diamandis among Solari's backers.[^2] The [[SALT Conference]] speaker page for AJ Scaramucci (tagged [[Las Vegas]] 2019, New York 2022, Asia 2022 and New York 2023) gives a similar biography; Diamandis's page carries the tag SALT Las Vegas 2019.[^4] + +### SALT Fund Management and Kyber + +SALT Fund Management LLC (CRD 316587, SEC file 802-122469; [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]] Gardens, Florida) has reported as an exempt reporting adviser since September 9, 2021. Schedule A of its annual amendment executed March 30, 2026 lists "Scaramucci, Alexander, Joseph" and "KLOKUS, ALEXANDER" ([[Alex Klokus]], CRD 7432068), each "MANAGING MEMBER," each acquired September 2021, each with ownership code D (50 percent but less than 75 percent) and control person status; the form was signed by Klokus. Item 2.B reports private fund assets of $132,930,715. The funds listed include Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I ($54,529,900 gross assets, 14 owners), SALT Fund I ($38,519,622, 106 owners), a gene therapy fund ($16,432,917), a longevity series ($14,044,756), a food series ($7,180,412) and a mental health series ($2,223,108).[^5] + +[[SALT Fund I, L.P.]] filed a Form D on March 16, 2021, signed "/s/ Alexander Scaramucci," naming Scaramucci and Klokus as executive officers and offering $25,000,000 with the first sale yet to occur; an amendment of July 6, 2021 reports a first sale on March 17, 2021, $40,000,000 offered, $34,585,000 sold and 91 investors.[^6] The series funds (food, longevity, gene therapy, mental health), filed between November 2021 and June 2022 under general partner entities including SALT Equity Partners I LLC, do not name either man as a related person.[^6] + +Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP filed a Form D signed August 23, 2022 (EDGAR August 24, 2022), naming Kyber Capital Crypto GP I LLC as general partner, SALT Fund Management LLC as investment manager, and Klokus and "Alexander Joseph Scaramucci" as managing members; it reports the first sale as "yet to occur," an "Indefinite" offering of more than one year and $0 sold. EDGAR lists no later Form D for the fund.[^7] The $54,529,900 and 14 owners are the figures reported on the March 2026 Form ADV.[^5] + +### Other issuers + +Form D filings name him alongside Klokus as a director or officer of [[Tomorrow Farms Inc.|Tomorrow Farms]] Inc. (May 24, 2022: Ben Berman chief executive, Scaramucci treasurer, Klokus secretary; $8,255,000 sold to 21 investors; a second filing for Tomorrow Farms, PBC, April 29, 2024, $4,765,635 sold to 6 investors), Shuttle Labs LLC (November 28, 2022, $25,000 sold), [[Radial Health, Inc.|Radial Health]] Inc. (April 30, 2024, directors Klokus, Scaramucci and Elliot Cohen; $7,797,992 sold to 13 investors) and Microcapital Inc. (November 7, 2024, $1,535,000 sold to 4 investors).[^8] Fortune reports that "public filings list Alex Klokus as a third co-founder" of Radial Health.[^2] + +[[Solari Capital]] funds (Fund III, ABTC I and II, General Medicine I, Northwood Space I, Treasure Trove I and Radial Health I, filed December 2024 to May 2026) name only Alexander Scaramucci as managing member of the general partner. Fund III offered $75,000,000 and reported $42,900,000 sold to 39 investors (D/A December 19, 2025), and reports a finder, CF Advisory Pte. Ltd, paid on committed capital.[^9] Fortune reported that Solari has deployed about $350 million and describes SALT as "the investor conference and media business Scaramucci co-chairs."[^2] + +### FTX bankruptcy documents + +The creditor matrix filed January 25, 2023 in the bankruptcy of [[FTX|FTX Trading Ltd.]] (Bankr. D. Del. 22-11068, Doc. 574, page 102 of 116) lists creditor "THE SALT FUND" with contact lines "AJ SCARAMUCCI," "ALEX KLOKUS" and a third individual, and a second row "THE SALT FUND / AJ SCARAMUCCI"; no amount or claim type is stated. "SALT Fund Management, LLC" appears on the debtors' updated Interested Parties list of May 10, 2024 (Doc. 14607-1, page 7), and "The Salt Fund" with email addresses at the thesaltfund.com domain appears on the Notice Parties Service List served June 13, 2024 with the order approving the sale of FTX's Anthropic shares (Doc. 18381, Exhibit B).[^10] [[SkyBridge Capital]], the firm of Anthony Scaramucci, has a separate row in the matrix.[^10] + +### Jeffrey Epstein Library + +Searches of the [[Jeffrey Epstein]] Library conducted October 3, 2026 for "AJ Scaramucci," "Alexander Scaramucci," "SALT Fund" and "Kyber Capital" returned zero documents. The search for "Scaramucci" returns 46 documents, which concern Anthony Scaramucci and SkyBridge (2018 emails and news items); none of them shares a document with Peter Diamandis, [[Masha Drokova]], Alex Klokus or [[Bryan Johnson]]. The index is built from OCR text, so a zero is a negative search result and not a record of absence.[^11] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Joseph D. Lyons, "Alexander Scaramucci, The Mooch's Oldest Son, Is Working In Los Angeles," Bustle, August 1, 2017, https://www.bustle.com/p/who-is-alexander-scaramucci-the-moochs-son-is-entrepreneur-73739 . The article relies on his LinkedIn page and the Daily Mail for the name "AJ." +[^2]: Nick Lichtenberg, "Exclusive: AJ Scaramucci comes out of stealth with a $350 million bet on 'Programmable Reality'," Fortune, September 24, 2026, https://fortune.com/2026/09/24/exclusive-aj-scaramucci-comes-out-of-stealth-with-a-350-million-bet-on-programmable-reality/ +[^3]: SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure, individual CRD 6960736, https://api.adviserinfo.sec.gov/search/individual/6960736 (retrieved October 3, 2026). +[^4]: SALT speaker pages: https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/aj-scaramucci ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/peter-diamandis ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/alex-klokus +[^5]: SALT Fund Management LLC, Form ADV annual amendment, CRD 316587, SEC file 802-122469, executed March 30, 2026, Schedule A, Item 2.B and Schedule D Item 7.B.(1), https://reports.adviserinfo.sec.gov/reports/ADV/316587/PDF/316587.pdf +[^6]: SEC Form D, SALT Fund I, L.P., CIK 1850930, accessions 0001850930-21-000001 (March 16, 2021) and 0001850930-21-000002 (D/A, July 6, 2021), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850930/000185093021000001/primary_doc.xml ; series fund filings CIK 1886369, 1886363, 1925158, 1925312. +[^7]: SEC Form D, Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP, CIK 1935894, accession 0001935894-22-000003, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1935894/000193589422000003/primary_doc.xml ; EDGAR submissions record, https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001935894.json (retrieved October 3, 2026). +[^8]: SEC Form D: Tomorrow Farms Inc., CIK 1930812, 0001930812-22-000001, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1930812/000193081222000001/primary_doc.xml , and 0000929638-24-001654; Shuttle Labs LLC, CIK 1955431, 0001955431-22-000002; Radial Health, Inc., CIK 2021359, 0002021359-24-000001; Microcapital, Inc., CIK 2044152, 0002044152-24-000001, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2044152/000204415224000001/primary_doc.xml +[^9]: SEC Form D filings naming "Alexander Scaramucci" for Solari Capital funds, December 2024 to May 2026 (EDGAR full-text search q="Alexander Scaramucci"); Fund III D/A filed December 19, 2025. +[^10]: In re FTX Trading Ltd., Bankr. D. Del. No. 22-11068: Doc. 574, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.574.0.pdf ; Doc. 14607-1, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.14607.1.pdf ; Doc. 18381, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.18381.0.pdf +[^11]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library search (https://www.justice.gov/epstein), terms "Scaramucci" (46 documents), "AJ Scaramucci," "Alexander Scaramucci," "SALT Fund," "Kyber Capital" (zero documents each), searched October 3, 2026; co-appearance check across 2,257 downloaded documents with Diamandis, Drokova, Klokus and Johnson: zero. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alvin Ross.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alvin Ross.md index 173c0ecf..7e04c5d2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alvin Ross.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alvin Ross.md @@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ His motion for bail after the reversal, filed from the penitentiary at [[Marion, [^1]: Dinges, John, and Saul Landau. *Assassination on Embassy Row*. McGraw-Hill, 1980, p. 14. [^2]: *United States v. Sampol,* 636 F.2d 621 (D.C. Cir. 1980). [^3]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "CORU," August 16, 1978. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 13.; "USA v. Guillermo Novo Sampol et al., 78-CR-367," case synopsis, latinamericanstudies.org, not verified against the docket. -[^4]: "Michael Moffitt, who survived a car bomb that killed his wife," United Press International, May 13, 1981; "New Tactics Led to Acquittal in Letelier Case," CIA Reading Room, CIA-RDP90-00552R000403680028-2, as summarized. +[^4]: "Michael Moffitt, who survived a car bomb that killed his wife," United Press International, May 13, 1981; "New Tactics Led to Acquittal in Letelier Case," CIA Reading Room, CIA-RDP90-00552R000403680028-2 [^5]: Motion for bail and for reassignment, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir., 1981), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-bail.pdf; Motion for bail, defendant Alvin Ross Diaz, Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C., 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-alvin-bail.pdf; Petition of the United States for Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir., October 29, 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-rehearing.pdf, footnote 3; Orders of transfer, *United States v. Contreras Sepulveda et al.,* Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C., August 1978 and 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-transfer-2.pdf and Letelier-transfer.pdf. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Anthony Scaramucci.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Anthony Scaramucci.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cc3a9cef --- /dev/null +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Anthony Scaramucci.md @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +--- +category: "Finance & Business" +tags: + - Person + - Finance + - HedgeFunds + - Cryptocurrency + - ConferenceOrganizer +alias: + - Anthony Scaramucci + - Anthony Scaramucci Jr. + - The Mooch + - Scaramucci, Anthony +summary: "Founder of SkyBridge Capital and co-chairman of SALT, White House communications director for ten days in July 2017, defendant in FTX bankruptcy adversary proceeding 24-50209, and father of AJ Scaramucci." +location: "New York" +relations: + - type: founded + with: "[[SkyBridge Capital]]" + role: "founder and managing partner; manager and control person on Form ADV (CRD 148152) since 05/2018" + start: 2005 + fn: 2 + - type: founded + with: "[[SALT Conference]]" + role: "SALT was founded in 2009 by SkyBridge Capital, per salt.org; Scaramucci is co-chairman" + start: 2009 + fn: 3 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[White House]]" + role: "White House Communications Director, appointment announced July 21, 2017 with a stated start of August 15, 2017; departure announced July 31, 2017" + start: 2017-07-21 + end: 2017-07-31 + fn: 9 + - type: subject_of + with: "[[FTX Trading Ltd. v. SkyBridge Capital II, LLC]]" + role: "defendant, Adv. Pro. 24-50209 (Bankr. D. Del.), filed November 8, 2024" + start: 2024-11 + fn: 5 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- + +### SkyBridge Capital + +Anthony Scaramucci describes himself in the biography on the [[SALT Conference]] website as founder and managing partner of [[SkyBridge Capital]], founded in 2005; earlier he co-founded the investment partnership [[Oscar Capital Management]] (sold to [[Neuberger Berman]] in 2001) and was a vice president in private wealth management at [[Goldman Sachs]]. The same biography lists the books "The Little Book of Hedge Funds," "Goodbye Gordon Gekko," "Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole" (2016) and "Trump: The Blue-Collar President," and memberships in the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] and [[Business Executives for National Security]].[^1] + +The annual amendment of the Form ADV of SkyBridge Capital II, LLC (CRD 148152, [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] file number 801-71056) printed March 31, 2026 lists on Schedule A Scaramucci (CRD 1983175) as "MANAGER, MEMBER" since May 2018 with control person status and ownership code C; [[Brett Messing]] (manager, president, co-chief investment officer since July 2021); [[Raymond Nolte]] (co-chief investment officer since February 2019); [[Prowes Holding|Prowes Holding S.A.]] (June 2022); and "ISLAND BAY VENTURES, INC" ([[Delaware]]), member since September 2022 with ownership code C (25% but less than 50%). Beneath Island Bay the schedule lists "PAPER BIRD INC" and, as its shareholder since September 2022, [[Sam Bankman-Fried]] (CRD 6204362). Item 7.B lists among the adviser's private funds "SKYBRIDGE FTX LP," general partner "SKYBRIDGE FTX GP LLC."[^2] + +### SALT + +The SALT Conference site states that SALT "was founded in 2009 by SkyBridge Capital, a leading fund of funds, but now operates as a standalone entity"; its operating company is SALT Venture Group, LLC, 527 Madison Avenue, New York.[^3] The speaker pages for Scaramucci carry the tags [[Las Vegas]] 2019, [[Abu Dhabi]] 2019, SALT Talks, New York 2021 and 2022, Asia 2022, Abu Dhabi 2023, New York 2023 and Asia 2023, with a "Host" tag for SALT Talks season 3.[^1] Pages for [[Peter Diamandis]] (Las Vegas 2019), [[Avi Loeb]] (New York 2022) and [[Garry Nolan]] (iConnections New York 2023) appear on the same site, as do pages for [[Alex Klokus]] (New York 2021 and 2022, iConnections Asia 2022, iConnections New York 2023) and [[AJ Scaramucci]] (Las Vegas 2019, New York 2022, Asia 2022, New York 2023).[^1] [[Karl Nell]] appears in the May 21, 2024 iConnections New York programme described on the Karl Nell page. + +### FTX Ventures and the FTX bankruptcy + +[[ForkLog]] reported on September 9, 2022 that [[FTX Ventures]] would acquire 30 percent of SkyBridge Capital, quoting a press release that the investment would give SkyBridge "additional revolving capital" and that SkyBridge would "purchase $40 million of cryptocurrency to hold on its balance sheet"; Bankman-Fried told [[CNBC]], "We've gotten to know the team over the last year."[^4] + +On November 8, 2024 [[FTX|FTX Trading Ltd.]], [[Island Bay Ventures|Island Bay Ventures Inc.]] and [[Clifton Bay Investments|Clifton Bay Investments LLC]] (formerly [[Alameda Research|Alameda Research Ventures LLC]]) filed Adv. Pro. No. 24-50209 in the [[United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware]] against SkyBridge Capital II, LLC, [[SkyBridge GP Holdings|SkyBridge GP Holdings LLC]], [[Digital Macro Fund|Digital Macro Fund LP]] (formerly SkyBridge Coin Fund LP), [[SALT Venture Group|SALT Venture Group LLC]], Scaramucci and Messing. The complaint alleges three 2022 transactions: a January 2022 sponsorship agreement under which FTX agreed to pay $12 million for SALT conferences and podcast episodes in 2022 to 2024; a March 2022 investment of $10 million by Alameda Research Ventures in the SkyBridge Coin Fund; and a payment on September 7, 2022 of $45 million by Island Bay for 30 percent membership interests in SkyBridge II and SkyBridge GP. It seeks "in excess of $100 million," pleading claims against Scaramucci and Messing for breach of contract and of fiduciary duty.[^5] The defendants' memorandum of January 29, 2025 (document 30) asks the court to compel arbitration of the claims relating to the SkyBridge acquisition and the SALT sponsorship (Counts 5 to 9 and 12 to 13) and to stay the remaining claims (Counts 1 to 4, 10 and 11), and argues that the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the state law claims (Counts 7 to 9). The opposition of April 8, 2025 (document 52) is captioned for the "FTX Recovery Trust" as plaintiff.[^5] + +The FTX creditor matrix (document 574, page 102, filed January 25, 2023) lists a creditor "THE SALT FUND" with contact lines "AJ SCARAMUCCI," "ALEX KLOKUS" and a third individual, and a separate row "SKYBRIDGE CAPITAL."[^6] + +### AJ Scaramucci + +[[Bustle]] reported on August 1, 2017 that Alexander Scaramucci, "also known as AJ according to The [[Daily Mail]]," was Anthony Scaramucci's oldest child, aged 24, and per his LinkedIn page an "entrepreneur in residence" working with Peter Diamandis across [[XPRIZE Foundation|XPRIZE]], [[Human Longevity, Inc.|Human Longevity]], [[Planetary Resources]], [[BOLD Capital Partners]], [[Singularity University]] and Abundance 360.[^7] [[Fortune]] reported on September 24, 2026 that AJ Scaramucci describes himself as "the oldest of five children" and refers to his father as the serial entrepreneur Anthony Scaramucci, and that his firm [[Solari Capital]] has deployed about $350 million, with Diamandis among its backers; the article says SALT, "which Scaramucci co-chairs," functions as "an informal investor-relations function for the portfolio" and draws about 10,000 attendees a year across five to seven events.[^7] + +The Form ADV of [[SALT Fund Management LLC|SALT Fund Management LLC]] (CRD 316587), filed March 30, 2026, lists [[Alexander Scaramucci|Alexander Joseph Scaramucci]] (CRD 6960736) and Alexander Klokus (CRD 7432068) as managing members, each acquired September 2021, each with ownership code D (50% but less than 75%) and control person status.[^8] [[SALT Fund I, L.P.|SALT Fund I, L.P.]] filed a Form D on March 16, 2021 naming both as executive officers and "Managing Member of the General Partner," offering $25,000,000; an amendment of July 6, 2021 reports $34,585,000 sold to 91 investors.[^8] The same two names appear on Form D filings for [[Tomorrow Farms Inc.|Tomorrow Farms]] (May 24, 2022), [[Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP|Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP]] (August 23, 2022), [[Shuttle Labs LLC|Shuttle Labs]] (November 28, 2022), [[Radial Health, Inc.|Radial Health]] (April 30, 2024) and [[Microcapital, Inc.|Microcapital]] (November 7, 2024).[^8] + +### White House + +The White House announced on July 21, 2017 that [[Donald Trump]] would appoint Scaramucci, "a successful entrepreneur, financier, and founder of SkyBridge Capital," then senior vice president and chief strategy officer of the [[Export-Import Bank of the United States]], as communications director, with a stated official start date of August 15, 2017. On July 31, 2017 the press secretary issued a statement that Scaramucci "will be leaving his role" and that "Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff [[John Kelly]] a clean slate and the ability to build his own team."[^9] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: SALT speaker pages: https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/anthony-scaramucci ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/aj-scaramucci ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/alex-klokus ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/peter-diamandis ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/avi-loeb ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/garry-nolan +[^2]: SkyBridge Capital II, LLC, Form ADV Part 1A, annual amendment printed March 31, 2026, CRD 148152, SEC file 801-71056, Schedule A and Section 7.B.(1) (Private Fund Reporting). https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/148152 (PDF stored as data/K2/adv148152.pdf). +[^3]: SALT, "About," https://www.salt.org/about +[^4]: ForkLog, "FTX Ventures to acquire a stake in SkyBridge Capital," September 9, 2022, https://forklog.com/en/ftx-ventures-to-acquire-a-stake-in-skybridge-capital/ (quoting the press release; the original release was not located). +[^5]: FTX Trading Ltd. et al. v. SkyBridge Capital II, LLC et al., Adv. Pro. No. 24-50209 (JTD), In re FTX Trading Ltd., No. 22-11068 (Bankr. D. Del.), Complaint, Doc. 1, filed November 8, 2024, paras. 1 to 4. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.194806/gov.uscourts.deb.194806.1.0_1.pdf ; Doc. 30, Defendants' Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Compel Arbitration and to Dismiss and/or Stay, filed January 29, 2025, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.194806/gov.uscourts.deb.194806.30.0.pdf ; Doc. 52, Plaintiff's Memorandum of Law in Opposition, filed April 8, 2025, in the caption of which the plaintiff is "FTX Recovery Trust," https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.194806/gov.uscourts.deb.194806.52.0.pdf +[^6]: In re FTX Trading Ltd., No. 22-11068 (Bankr. D. Del.), Doc. 574 (creditor matrix), p. 102 of 116. Doc. 574 filed January 25, 2023, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.574.0.pdf ; the entry carries no street address, amount or claim type. +[^7]: Joseph D. Lyons, "Alexander Scaramucci, The Mooch's Oldest Son, Is Working In Los Angeles," Bustle, August 1, 2017, https://www.bustle.com/p/who-is-alexander-scaramucci-the-moochs-son-is-entrepreneur-73739 (secondary, citing LinkedIn and the Daily Mail); Nick Lichtenberg, "Exclusive: AJ Scaramucci comes out of stealth with a $350 million bet on 'Programmable Reality,'" Fortune, September 24, 2026, https://fortune.com/2026/09/24/exclusive-aj-scaramucci-comes-out-of-stealth-with-a-350-million-bet-on-programmable-reality/ +[^8]: SEC Form ADV, SALT Fund Management LLC, CRD 316587, filed March 30, 2026, Schedule A; SEC Forms D: SALT Fund I, L.P. (CIK 1850930, accessions 0001850930-21-000001 and -000002), Tomorrow Farms Inc. (CIK 1930812, 0001930812-22-000001), Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP (CIK 1935894, 0001935894-22-000003), Shuttle Labs LLC (CIK 1955431, 0001955431-22-000002), Radial Health, Inc. (CIK 2021359, 0002021359-24-000001), Microcapital, Inc. (CIK 2044152, 0002044152-24-000001). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850930/000185093021000001/primary_doc.xml +[^9]: "President Donald J. Trump Appoints Anthony Scaramucci to be White House Communications Director," https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-appoints-anthony-scaramucci-white-house-communications-director/ ; "Statement by the Press Secretary on the Departure of Anthony Scaramucci," July 31, 2017, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-press-secretary-the-departure-anthony-scaramucci (both opened in the review run; quotations are from those pages). diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ben Rich.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ben Rich.md index 59668b09..1609e40a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ben Rich.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ben Rich.md @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Notes attributed to the physicist [[Eric Davis]] include a letter dated April 25 [^1]: Huntington Library, "Ben R. Rich papers, 1940-1995," Online Archive of California, biographical note, series descriptions and acquisition note (gift of Michael and Karen Rich, July 15, 2008), https://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c86d5rqx/admin/ [^2]: Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), acknowledgments and chapters on Have Blue, the Skunk Works name, Paradise Ranch, the U-2 and Blackbird, from the Internet Archive text of a scanned copy, https://archive.org/details/skunk-works-apersonal-memoir-of-my-years-at-lockheed-ben-rrich (line references 44 to 52, 129, 180 to 200, 800 to 810, 1040 to 1056, 1440 to 1456, 2428 to 2456, 2912 to 2950, 4725 to 4745, 5825 and 7757). [^3]: "Ben Rich," in National Academy of Engineering, Memorial Tributes, Volume 8 (Washington: National Academies Press, 1996), https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/5427/chapter/39 (chapter listed; page text not rendered in the copy opened). The 1989 Collier Trophy and Department of Defense Medal are as stated by Merlin (note 4). -[^4]: Peter W. Merlin, "Taking E.T. Home: Birth of a Modern Myth," SUNlite 5, no. 6 (November-December 2013), pp. 16 to 19, https://web.archive.org/web/20150321193509/home.comcast.net/~tprinty/UFO/SUNlite5_6.pdf (Merlin thanks the Huntington Library for access to the Rich papers). The Harzan and Keller statements are as reported by Merlin from the interviews of 2012 and 2013, which were not opened. +[^4]: Peter W. Merlin, "Taking E.T. Home: Birth of a Modern Myth," SUNlite 5, no. 6 (November-December 2013), pp. 16 to 19, https://web.archive.org/web/20150321193509/home.comcast.net/~tprinty/UFO/SUNlite5_6.pdf (Merlin thanks the Huntington Library for access to the Rich papers). The Harzan and Keller statements are as reported by Merlin from the interviews of 2012 and 2013. [^5]: Roy J. Harris Jr., "The Skunk Works: Hush-Hush Projects Often Emerge There," The Wall Street Journal, October 13, 1980, CIA-RDP90-00806R000100660006-2, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp90-00806r000100660006-2 [^6]: "EWD NOTES 10/16/02," paper-clipped letter of Will Miller to Eric Davis, April 25, 2002, pp. 3 to 4, https://documents2.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wilsonleak.pdf (provenance and authorship of the notes unverified). [^7]: Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume I, February 2024, pp. 8, 29 and 32, https://media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/DOPSR-CLEARED-508-COMPLIANT-HRRV1-08-MAR-2024-FINAL.PDF (the report does not name either officer, does not say whether the two passages concern the same person, and does not connect either passage to Rich or to any company). diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Charlie Rose.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Charlie Rose.md index 07ac80f8..4a7a6eed 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Charlie Rose.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Charlie Rose.md @@ -42,25 +42,21 @@ In October 1993, private consultant [[Henry "Skip" Clements]] provided Rose and Charles Rose, a Democrat, represented North Carolina's seventh district in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] from 1973 to 1997 and chaired the evaluation subcommittee of the [[House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence]]. He died on September 3, 2012, at 73.[^4] -On October 25, 1978, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Evaluation, Rose wrote to [[Ruth Davis]], Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Advanced Technology: "I have recently had occasion to become acquainted with some interesting research involving paranormal phenomena, specifically that relating to remote viewing. Clearly, while this phenomenon might well result in opportunities for the collection of intelligence otherwise denied us, we have a strong obligation also to learn what Soviet research is underway and what emergent capabilities they may have so that we may protect our own classified activities from this potential source of surveillance. I would therefore like to see the Department of Defense undertake those efforts deemed necessary and appropriate to investigate remote viewing and other related phenomena. As research continues in such areas it will be incumbent on us to understand and safeguard our citizens' proper concerns about their individual rights and the appropriate role of government. I am ready to assist in this venture as best I can." Davis forwarded the letter to Jack Vorona with her memorandum of November 20 setting the questions for the oversight groups DIA was to establish.[^900] +On October 25, 1978, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Evaluation, Rose wrote to [[Ruth Davis]], Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Advanced Technology: "I have recently had occasion to become acquainted with some interesting research involving paranormal phenomena, specifically that relating to remote viewing. Clearly, while this phenomenon might well result in opportunities for the collection of intelligence otherwise denied us, we have a strong obligation also to learn what Soviet research is underway and what emergent capabilities they may have so that we may protect our own classified activities from this potential source of surveillance. I would therefore like to see the Department of Defense undertake those efforts deemed necessary and appropriate to investigate remote viewing and other related phenomena. As research continues in such areas it will be incumbent on us to understand and safeguard our citizens' proper concerns about their individual rights and the appropriate role of government. I am ready to assist in this venture as best I can." Davis forwarded the letter to Jack Vorona with her memorandum of November 20 setting the questions for the oversight groups DIA was to establish.[^5] ### Briefings -On February 9, 1978, the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s legislative counsel met Rose and his aide Dick Giza at the agency's front entrance for four briefings, one of them at the [[CIA Office of Technical Service|Office of Technical Service]], the office that had funded the SRI remote-viewing work, "largely handled by the Chief of OTS, Mr. David S. Brandwein." In July 1979 the chairman of the Defense Department's Grill Flame committee, Jack Vorona of the DIA, missed its meeting because he "was briefing Congressman Rose on DoD efforts and interest in parapsychology"; Rose and Representative Young "were primarily interested in the funding of such projects within the DoD." The committee's minutes of January 10, 1980, recorded that "as a result of that interest, arrangements were made to present the INSCOM briefing," that "Congressional concern and support were expressed for funding the program in FY 80, 81, and 82," and that "Congressman Rose will be on the CIA Life Science Panel." The Army's assistant chief of staff for intelligence, Major General Edmund Thompson, wrote in an eyes-only memorandum: "Congressman Rose is a topic worth discussion. It has been about three months since he was briefed on program specifics, and we should keep in mind his oft-repeated desire to be kept up to date on a continuing basis. A situation as before in which the last briefing was done at his instigation, forcing us to be reactors rather than action takers, should be avoided." INSCOM's chronology lists him briefed on January 16, 1980, February 11, 1981, and, "on human use issue," April 16, 1981 (Watt's memorandum of the April briefing says he had last briefed Rose in January 1980, so the February briefing was given by someone else).[^5][^6][^7] +On February 9, 1978, the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s legislative counsel met Rose and his aide Dick Giza at the agency's front entrance for four briefings, one of them at the [[CIA Office of Technical Service|Office of Technical Service]], the office that had funded the SRI remote-viewing work, "largely handled by the Chief of OTS, Mr. David S. Brandwein." In July 1979 the chairman of the Defense Department's Grill Flame committee, Jack Vorona of the DIA, missed its meeting because he "was briefing Congressman Rose on DoD efforts and interest in parapsychology"; Rose and Representative Young "were primarily interested in the funding of such projects within the DoD." The committee's minutes of January 10, 1980, recorded that "as a result of that interest, arrangements were made to present the INSCOM briefing," that "Congressional concern and support were expressed for funding the program in FY 80, 81, and 82," and that "Congressman Rose will be on the CIA Life Science Panel." The Army's assistant chief of staff for intelligence, Major General Edmund Thompson, wrote in an eyes-only memorandum: "Congressman Rose is a topic worth discussion. It has been about three months since he was briefed on program specifics, and we should keep in mind his oft-repeated desire to be kept up to date on a continuing basis. A situation as before in which the last briefing was done at his instigation, forcing us to be reactors rather than action takers, should be avoided." INSCOM's chronology lists him briefed on January 16, 1980, February 11, 1981, and, "on human use issue," April 16, 1981 (Watt's memorandum of the April briefing says he had last briefed Rose in January 1980, so the February briefing was given by someone else).[^6][^7][^8] -At 2 p.m. on January 16, 1980, Lieutenant Colonel [[Murray Watt]] "briefed Congressman Charlie Rose (Chairman, Evaluation Subcommittee of The House Permanent Committee on Intelligence) on the INSCOM GRILL FLAME Project," at Rose's request "via Dr. Jack Vorona," with Major General Thompson, Vorona, "Jake Stewart, NSC Staff Member," and "Dick Giza, Office of Congressman Rose" present. "Congressman Rose stated that he wanted the briefing taped so that other members of the House Subcommittee would have the opportunity to review the proceedings"; "Page 3 of Incl 1 was not provided to the audience at the direction of MG Thompson." Rose "was very receptive to the briefing (which lasted a little over an hour). He stated that we had made more progress than he had realized and encouraged us to continue with our program. He expressed strong concern about the Soviet threat that might be posed in this field and hoped that the U.S. Intelligence Community would rapidly make some 'break-throughs' of parapsychology."[^901] +At 2 p.m. on January 16, 1980, Lieutenant Colonel [[Murray Watt]] "briefed Congressman Charlie Rose (Chairman, Evaluation Subcommittee of The House Permanent Committee on Intelligence) on the INSCOM GRILL FLAME Project," at Rose's request "via Dr. Jack Vorona," with Major General Thompson, Vorona, "Jake Stewart, NSC Staff Member," and "Dick Giza, Office of Congressman Rose" present. "Congressman Rose stated that he wanted the briefing taped so that other members of the House Subcommittee would have the opportunity to review the proceedings"; "Page 3 of Incl 1 was not provided to the audience at the direction of MG Thompson." Rose "was very receptive to the briefing (which lasted a little over an hour). He stated that we had made more progress than he had realized and encouraged us to continue with our program. He expressed strong concern about the Soviet threat that might be posed in this field and hoped that the U.S. Intelligence Community would rapidly make some 'break-throughs' of parapsychology."[^9] ### April 16, 1981 -At 10:30 that morning Lieutenant Colonel Murray Watt, the project manager, briefed him at Fort Meade with Thompson, Giza, a committee staffer, Annette Smiley, and officers of the Army's congressional liaison. "Congressman Rose opened the meeting with the comments that he was concerned that research into this field had to continue in an orderly manner and that the program had to be funded properly." He had lately visited SRI and been briefed by [[Hal Puthoff]] and the DIA representative there, and "had come away with the impression that perhaps the Army would like to break off future contacts with SRI-I"; Thompson and Watt "informed the Congressman that Army was still very much interested in working with SRI-I," and Thompson said that [[Ingo Swann]] "had expressed similar thoughts to him." Rose "stated, again, that Remote Viewing potentially was a most valuable asset for the intelligence community and that work in that area had to continue," was "willing to help in any way that he could, but mentioned the commitment one makes when one 'signs his name on the line,'" and "expressed concern with us being operational on what might be a premature basis." He "told us to keep-up the outstanding work," and the meeting ended at 11:45.[^6] - -### Afterward - -A 1979 magazine article identified him as chairman of the House subcommittee on intelligence evaluation and oversight, and CIA files preserve his public remark that "I've seen some incredible examples of remote viewing, so much so that I think we ought to pay close attention to developments in this field and especially to what the Soviets are doing." When the program was made public in 1995 he was reported as declining to discuss it: "Most of what I have seen in this area has been classified."[^8] +At 10:30 that morning Lieutenant Colonel Murray Watt, the project manager, briefed him at Fort Meade with Thompson, Giza, a committee staffer, Annette Smiley, and officers of the Army's congressional liaison. "Congressman Rose opened the meeting with the comments that he was concerned that research into this field had to continue in an orderly manner and that the program had to be funded properly." He had lately visited SRI and been briefed by [[Hal Puthoff]] and the DIA representative there, and "had come away with the impression that perhaps the Army would like to break off future contacts with SRI-I"; Thompson and Watt "informed the Congressman that Army was still very much interested in working with SRI-I," and Thompson said that [[Ingo Swann]] "had expressed similar thoughts to him." Rose "stated, again, that Remote Viewing potentially was a most valuable asset for the intelligence community and that work in that area had to continue," was "willing to help in any way that he could, but mentioned the commitment one makes when one 'signs his name on the line,'" and "expressed concern with us being operational on what might be a premature basis." He "told us to keep-up the outstanding work," and the meeting ended at 11:45.[^7] ### The Finders -In October 1993 the Florida consultant [[Henry Skip Clements|Henry "Skip" Clements]], who had obtained the 1987 Customs reports of Ramon J. Martinez on The Finders, met Rose and Representative Tom Lewis of Florida, and the two "subsequently applied pressure to the Department of Justice"; the acting assistant attorney general, John C. Keeney, tasked the FBI with a preliminary inquiry on October 26, 1993.[^9] +In October 1993 the Florida consultant [[Henry Skip Clements|Henry "Skip" Clements]], who had obtained the 1987 Customs reports of Ramon J. Martinez on The Finders, met Rose and Representative Tom Lewis of Florida, and the two "subsequently applied pressure to the Department of Justice"; the acting assistant attorney general, John C. Keeney, tasked the FBI with a preliminary inquiry on October 26, 1993.[^10] ### Footnotes @@ -68,10 +64,9 @@ In October 1993 the Florida consultant [[Henry Skip Clements|Henry "Skip" Clemen [^2]: Wikipedia, "Charlie Rose (politician)." [^3]: Witkin, Gordon, Peter Cary, and Angel Martinez. "Through a glass, very darkly: Cops, spies and a very odd investigation." U.S. News & World Report, December 27, 1993 / January 3, 1994. Also: FBI Vault, "The Finders," FOIA case number 1372462-0, vault.fbi.gov/the-finders. [^4]: Congress.gov, member record, Charles Rose; "Former U.S. Rep. Charlie Rose, 12-term N.C. congressman, dies at 73," *Washington Post,* September 2012, headline and lede only. -[^5]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Legislative Counsel, "Briefing of Representative Charles Rose (D., N.C.), Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 9 February 1978," OLC 78-0576, CIA-RDP81M00980R000600250087-4, first page only. Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, November 28, 1978 (enclosed in Progress Report #1), July 12, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130008-9), November 27, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1), and January 10, 1980 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. -[^6]: Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefing for Congressman Rose, 16 April 1981," April 17, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190007-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. -[^7]: Thompson, E. R., Major General, memorandum "GRILL FLAME Steering Committee" to Dr. La Berge, eyes only, undated, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250013-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. -[^8]: *Omni,* 1979, and press accounts of the November 1995 disclosure, seen only in search summaries; the CIA file quoting him was not read. -[^9]: Witkin, Gordon, Peter Cary, and Angel Martinez. "Through a glass, very darkly: Cops, spies and a very odd investigation," *U.S. News & World Report,* December 27, 1993; Keeney, John C., memorandum to Larry A. Potts, October 26, 1993, as cited on the vault pages for Clements and The Finders. -[^900]: Davis, Ruth M., Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology), memorandum for Dr. Jack Vorona, "'Remote Viewing' Project," November 20, 1978, with the letter of Charlie Rose, Chairman, Subcommittee on Evaluation, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to Davis, October 25, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500240017-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Title only for the 1980 briefing. -[^901]: Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefing for Congressman Rose, 16 January 1980," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190001-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. +[^5]: Davis, Ruth M., Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology), memorandum for Dr. Jack Vorona, "'Remote Viewing' Project," November 20, 1978, with the letter of Charlie Rose, Chairman, Subcommittee on Evaluation, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to Davis, October 25, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500240017-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Title only for the 1980 briefing. +[^6]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Legislative Counsel, "Briefing of Representative Charles Rose (D., N.C.), Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 9 February 1978," OLC 78-0576, CIA-RDP81M00980R000600250087-4, first page only. Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, November 28, 1978 (enclosed in Progress Report #1), July 12, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130008-9), November 27, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1), and January 10, 1980 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. +[^7]: Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefing for Congressman Rose, 16 April 1981," April 17, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190007-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. +[^8]: Thompson, E. R., Major General, memorandum "GRILL FLAME Steering Committee" to Dr. La Berge, eyes only, undated, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250013-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. +[^9]: Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefing for Congressman Rose, 16 January 1980," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190001-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. +[^10]: Witkin, Gordon, Peter Cary, and Angel Martinez. "Through a glass, very darkly: Cops, spies and a very odd investigation," *U.S. News & World Report,* December 27, 1993; Keeney, John C., memorandum to Larry A. Potts, October 26, 1993, as cited on the vault pages for Clements and The Finders. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Diana Walsh Pasulka.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Diana Walsh Pasulka.md index a4793165..133505b5 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Diana Walsh Pasulka.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Diana Walsh Pasulka.md @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Pasulka posted on September 11, 2023 that she was joining the board of the [[Sol [^1]: Signatory entry, "Diana Walsh Pasulka, Ph.D., Professor," in the letter of November 12, 2024, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf [^2]: Open Library author search for "Pasulka," records for *American Cosmic* (Oxford University Press, 2019), *Encounters* (St. Martin's Press, 2023), and *Heaven Can Wait* (Oxford University Press). https://openlibrary.org/search.json?author=Pasulka -[^3]: Nathaniel Rich, "Ufologists, Unite!," *The New York Review of Books*, April 18, 2024, reviewing *American Cosmic* and *Encounters*. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/ufologists-unite-american-cosmic-d-w-pasulka/ (the review's account is the sole source for the passages so cited; the books themselves were not opened). +[^3]: Nathaniel Rich, "Ufologists, Unite!," *The New York Review of Books*, April 18, 2024, reviewing *American Cosmic* and *Encounters*. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/ufologists-unite-american-cosmic-d-w-pasulka/. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^4]: Micah Hanks, "The Sol Foundation: How a New Think Tank of Academics is Applying 'Cutting-Edge Research' to the UAP Mystery," *The Debrief*, September 12, 2023 (embedding her post of September 11, 2023). https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-how-a-new-think-tank-of-academics-is-applying-cutting-edge-research-the-uap-mystery/ [^5]: Micah Hanks, *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/ [^6]: Signatory letter of November 12, 2024, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (the statement of Tim Gallaudet), https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Dr. John Philip Nichols.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Dr. John Philip Nichols.md index 3efaf587..5909cb68 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Dr. John Philip Nichols.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Dr. John Philip Nichols.md @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ On July 1, 1981, Tribal Vice Chairman [[Fred Alvarez]], 32, his friend [[Ralph B ### Footnotes -[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Sole source for the passages so cited. The CIA claim is not supported by his FBI file. The venture's name and date are corrected by the special counsel's report, and the book dates the murders to June 29, 1981. +[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. The CIA claim is not supported by his FBI file. The venture's name and date are corrected by the special counsel's report, and the book dates the murders to June 29, 1981. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of INSLAW, Inc.,* March 1993, pp. 54-64. [^3]: Federal Bureau of Investigation. File on John Philip Nichols, FOIPA Request No. 1344360-000, files 183A-LA-1746 and 198D-LA-96, released August 3, 2016. https://archive.org/details/JohnPhilipNichols [^4]: "Only On 3: 'Octopus Murder' Suspect Caught On Hidden Camera." KESQ, September 29, 2009, https://kesq.com/news/2009/09/29/only-on-3-octopus-murder-suspect-caught-on-hidden-camera/ ; "Jimmy Hughes Speaks To KESQ After Charges Dropped." KESQ, July 2, 2010. https://kesq.com/news/2010/07/02/jimmy-hughes-speaks-to-kesq-after-charges-dropped/ diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Garry Nolan.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Garry Nolan.md index 9d7d41f4..77a819d1 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Garry Nolan.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Garry Nolan.md @@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ The Regulation A offering circular of [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]] Nolan co-founded the [[Sol Foundation]] with [[Peter Skafish]] and was introduced in 2023 as its "Executive Director of the Board." He said that because of his Stanford position he could not hold an officer role in an outside company and took no salary.[^9] The foundation's 2024 Form 990 lists him as a director at zero hours and zero compensation, and the [[Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] master file gives his Redwood City address as the care-of address for the organization's records.[^9][^10] The foundation's website, read October 3, 2026, lists him as "Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Board."[^11] The November 2023 symposium was hosted by the Nolan Laboratory and the Stanford School of Medicine.[^12] He signed the November 12, 2024 letter to Congress urging passage of the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]], listing his chair as the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professorship in Pathology.[^13] -In Encounters (2023), [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]] identified the figure she had called "James Master" in American Cosmic, a "world leading scientist" who had analyzed an alleged artifact, as Nolan.[^14] In June 2026 Nolan, Skafish and [[Tim Gallaudet]] were named among twelve members of a UAP Science Advisory Council led by [[Avi Loeb]].[^15] +In Encounters (2023), [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]] identified the figure she had called "James Master" in American Cosmic, a "world leading scientist" who had analyzed an alleged artifact, as Nolan.[^14] In June 2026 Nolan, Skafish and [[Tim Gallaudet]] were named by [[Avi Loeb]] among twelve members of a UAP Science Advisory Council that Loeb leads.[^15] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^16] -The [[Federal Election Commission]] database lists contributions from a Garry Nolan of Redwood City, California who gives Stanford as his employer: $250 to [[Hillary Clinton]]'s 2016 campaign committee on April 7, 2016, $2,900 to [[Mike Levin]]'s congressional campaign on March 22, 2021, and small amounts through [[ActBlue]] to other Democratic candidates, most recently on October 28, 2024.[^16] +The [[Federal Election Commission]] database lists contributions from a Garry Nolan of Redwood City, California who gives Stanford as his employer: $250 to [[Hillary Clinton]]'s 2016 campaign committee on April 7, 2016, $2,900 to [[Mike Levin]]'s congressional campaign on March 22, 2021, and small amounts through [[ActBlue]] to other Democratic candidates, most recently on October 28, 2024.[^17] ### Footnotes @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ The [[Federal Election Commission]] database lists contributions from a Garry No [^11]: The Sol Foundation, home page, "People" section, https://thesolfoundation.org/ , read October 3, 2026. [^12]: Micah Hanks, *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/ [^13]: Signatory entry in the letter of November 12, 2024, statement of Tim Gallaudet, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, hearing of November 13, 2024. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf -[^14]: Nathaniel Rich, "Ufologists, Unite!," *The New York Review of Books*, April 18, 2024 (sole source for the passage so cited; Encounters not opened). https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/ufologists-unite-american-cosmic-d-w-pasulka/ +[^14]: Nathaniel Rich, "Ufologists, Unite!," *The New York Review of Books*, April 18, 2024. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/ufologists-unite-american-cosmic-d-w-pasulka/ Sole source for the passages so cited. [^15]: "New science advisory council forms to help US government 'resolve the UAP mystery,'" *DefenseScoop*, June 17, 2026. https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/17/new-science-advisory-council-forms-to-help-us-government-resolve-the-uap-mystery/ -[^16]: Federal Election Commission, Schedule A receipts, contributor name "NOLAN, GARRY," city Redwood City, queried October 3, 2026 (twenty-five records, 2016 to 2024; employer given as Stanford University or Stanford University School of Medicine). The identity of the donor with the Stanford professor rests on the employer field only. +[^16]: Sol Foundation, release "Sol Foundation Co-Founders Named to UAP Science Advisory Council," June 22, 2026 (modified July 13, 2026), https://thesolfoundation.org/sol-foundation-co-founders-named-to-uap-science-advisory-council/ ; Avi Loeb, "More Details on the UAP Science Advisory Council," Medium (avi-loeb.medium.com), June 16, 2026, read in a Wayback Machine copy; Federal Register search for "UAP Science Advisory Council," https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?conditions%5Bterm%5D=%22UAP+Science+Advisory+Council%22 (count 0 on October 3, 2026). +[^17]: Federal Election Commission, Schedule A receipts, contributor name "NOLAN, GARRY," city Redwood City, queried October 3, 2026 (twenty-five records, 2016 to 2024; employer given as Stanford University or Stanford University School of Medicine). The identity of the donor with the Stanford professor rests on the employer field only. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gerald Richards.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gerald Richards.md index ce0368ef..c44b6db8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gerald Richards.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gerald Richards.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Richards was also described as a masseuse, magician and hypnotist, a Republican ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It gives his sentence as two to twenty years, contradicted by contemporaneous reports of a two-to-ten-year term, and describes him as a high school gym teacher; its account of immunity is contradicted by his own testimony that he pleaded guilty. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It gives his sentence as two to twenty years, contradicted by contemporaneous reports of a two-to-ten-year term, and describes him as a high school gym teacher; its account of immunity is contradicted by his own testimony that he pleaded guilty. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Wright, Marilyn. *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1976-1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041 [^3]: Wright, Marilyn, *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* and *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, both reprinted in *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* Serial No. 12, 1977, and in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 1977. [^4]: Testimony of Gerald S. Richards, Chicago, May 27, 1977, in *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, 1977, pp. 34-41. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gerard John Schaefer.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gerard John Schaefer.md index 8c71d217..34de4e87 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gerard John Schaefer.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gerard John Schaefer.md @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ In prison he wrote the stories later published with [[Sondra London]] as Killer [^1]: "Crime: Bluebeard on the Beach," *Time,* May 28, 1973, p. 31 (the 1968 evaluation, the Broward rejection, Chief Scott, the trunk, and the arrest 22 days into the Martin County job). https://time.com/archive/6844470/crime-bluebeard-on-the-beach/ [^2]: London, Sondra. "Killer Cop," introductory essay to Schaefer, G.J., as told to Sondra London, *Killer Fiction,* Feral House, 1997 (reissued 2011); reproduces the investigator Littman's interview of Trotter and Wells, Schaefer's Bundy letter, the litigation and Rolling's letters. Archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20180514185819/http://sondralondon.com/tales/cop/index.htm -[^3]: "The Butcher of Blind Creek: Gerard John Schaefer," *CrimeCult,* November 16, 2024, a compilation drawing on *Palm Beach Post* coverage of May 1973 and Lane, Brian, *Real-Life Crimes,* Eaglemoss, 1992-93; the underlying clippings, on newspapers.com, were not examined. https://www.crimecult.com/p/gerard-john-schaefer -[^4]: The Wackenhut attribution is Lane, Brian, "Gerard Schaefer," *Real-Life Crimes,* Eaglemoss, London, 1992-93, p. 162, as cited in later accounts and not examined directly; the Crime Library profile of Schaefer, intermittently offline, gives the employer as "Florida Light and Power." No account describes his duties, names who hired him, or connects him to other Wackenhut personnel. -[^5]: The letter's date and the pictures of mutilated women are in the CrimeCult account. The Brunswick East origin, the Moroccan acquaintance of summer 1970 and the "village in the Sahara" after a "wog massacre" are given only in Kendrick, Patrick, *American Ripper: The Enigma of America's Serial Killer Cop,* BluewaterPress, 2020, pp. 224-225, as summarized in later accounts; the book was not available for examination, and the letter is not mentioned in London's essay or in any 1973 press account located. A count of 37 Polaroids is attributed to "'Grave' Site Probed for More Victims," *Fort Lauderdale News,* May 24, 1973, not examined. Kendrick's earlier *Extended Family* is a novel drawing on the case; "Up Close: Patrick Kendrick," *The Big Thrill,* August 2020. https://www.thebigthrill.org/2020/08/up-close-patrick-kendrick/ +[^3]: "The Butcher of Blind Creek: Gerard John Schaefer," *CrimeCult,* November 16, 2024, a compilation drawing on *Palm Beach Post* coverage of May 1973 and Lane, Brian, *Real-Life Crimes,* Eaglemoss, 1992-93. https://www.crimecult.com/p/gerard-john-schaefer +[^4]: The Wackenhut attribution is Lane, Brian, "Gerard Schaefer," *Real-Life Crimes,* Eaglemoss, London, 1992-93, p. 162, as cited in later accounts; the Crime Library profile of Schaefer, intermittently offline, gives the employer as "Florida Light and Power." No account describes his duties, names who hired him, or connects him to other Wackenhut personnel. +[^5]: The letter's date and the pictures of mutilated women are in the CrimeCult account. The Brunswick East origin, the Moroccan acquaintance of summer 1970 and the "village in the Sahara" after a "wog massacre" are given only in Kendrick, Patrick, *American Ripper: The Enigma of America's Serial Killer Cop,* BluewaterPress, 2020, pp. 224-225, as summarized in later accounts, and the letter is not mentioned in London's essay or in any 1973 press account located. A count of 37 Polaroids is attributed to "'Grave' Site Probed for More Victims," *Fort Lauderdale News,* May 24, 1973. Kendrick's earlier *Extended Family* is a novel drawing on the case; "Up Close: Patrick Kendrick," *The Big Thrill,* August 2020. https://www.thebigthrill.org/2020/08/up-close-patrick-kendrick/ [^6]: Gilmore, Tim. "Stalking Ottis Toole, chapter 109: Framing Ottis Toole," *Jax Psycho Geo,* correcting the account in Matthews, Joe, and Les Standiford, *Bringing Adam Home,* 2011. https://jaxpsychogeo.com/north/springfield-ottis-toole-house/ottis-toole/stalking-ottis-toole-chapter-109/ -[^7]: *Schaefer v. Newton,* 57 F.3d 1073 (7th Cir. 1995) (unpublished order affirming summary judgment; text not examined). The Rivera conviction and the hot-water account are in the CrimeCult compilation. +[^7]: *Schaefer v. Newton,* 57 F.3d 1073 (7th Cir. 1995) (unpublished order affirming summary judgment). The Rivera conviction and the hot-water account are in the CrimeCult compilation. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Guillermo Novo.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Guillermo Novo.md index 86443b78..677ed4a2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Guillermo Novo.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Guillermo Novo.md @@ -52,6 +52,6 @@ Defense counsel told the jury in opening that "the CIA and not the Chilean gover [^3]: Fiscalía Militar Ad-Hoc, Santiago, causa 192-78, as reproduced in *Proceso contra Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda y Pedro Espinoza Bravo,* tomo 2, scan at https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Causa-Contreras-Espinoza-1991-2.pdf. Quotations translated from the Spanish, CNI ficha on Guillermo Novo Sampol; declaración of Admiral McIntyre, 1978; Fiscalía Militar Ad-Hoc, Santiago, causa 192-78 (fiscal Héctor Orozco), as reproduced in *Proceso contra Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda y Pedro Espinoza Bravo,* ministro instructor Adolfo Bañados, tomo 1, scan at https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Causa-Contreras-Espinoza-1991.pdf. Quotations translated from the Spanish, declaración of Michael Vernon Townley Welch, March 29, 1978. [^4]: Fiscalía Militar Ad-Hoc, Santiago, causa 192-78, as reproduced in *Proceso contra Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda y Pedro Espinoza Bravo,* ministro instructor Adolfo Bañados, tomo 1, scan at https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Causa-Contreras-Espinoza-1991.pdf. Quotations translated from the Spanish, memorandum "Caso Letelier" to Colonel Manuel Contreras, signature read as Gregorio Amunátegui, undated. [^5]: *United States v. Sampol,* 636 F.2d 621 (D.C. Cir. 1980). -[^6]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "CORU," August 16, 1978. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 13. "Wrong Man Freed in Letelier Case," *Washington Post,* October 21, 1981, as summarized. +[^6]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "CORU," August 16, 1978. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 13. "Wrong Man Freed in Letelier Case," *Washington Post,* October 21, 1981 [^7]: Brief for Appellants, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir. 1979), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-appeal.pdf, points on cross-examination and discovery, citing trial transcript pp. 1233, 1262, 1348-1360, 1474, 4657-4668, 5019, 5061; Brief for Appellee, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir. 1979), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-brief-appellee.pdf, citing trial transcript pp. 1584-1590, 4995, 5024-5031, and footnote 72; Motion for change of venue, *United States v. Contreras Sepulveda et al.,* Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C. 1978), with newspaper clippings attached as exhibits, legible only in fragments, https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-venue.pdf. [^8]: Petition of the United States for Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir., October 29, 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-rehearing.pdf, footnote 4; Transcript of sentencing, *United States v. Guillermo Novo Sampol,* Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C., June 26, 1981), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-novo-sentence.pdf; Motion for bail and for reassignment, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir., 1981), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-bail.pdf; Motion for bail, defendant Alvin Ross Diaz, Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C., 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-alvin-bail.pdf; Orders of transfer, *United States v. Contreras Sepulveda et al.,* Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C., August 1978 and 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-transfer-2.pdf and Letelier-transfer.pdf. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Hal Puthoff.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Hal Puthoff.md index eb79ac72..62aceb21 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Hal Puthoff.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Hal Puthoff.md @@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ Puthoff became a founding member and scientific advisor to To the Stars Academy [^4]: Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. *Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing,* Report RV-79-1, final technical report, contract 77F104420, Systemetrics, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1, 1979, parts 1 and 2, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100440001-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. The sponsor of the contract is not named in the report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf [^5]: Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. "Standard Remote-Viewing Protocol (Local Targets)." SRI International, November 1978, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500400001-4 (copy at CIA-RDP96-00788R001300050001-3). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, H. E., to Manfred Gale, "SRI/Gale Committee Meeting of 24-25 July," August 3, 1979, with the enclosure "Standard Remote Viewing (RV) Procedures: Local Sites," by H. E. Puthoff, R. Targ and E. C. May, August 1979, CIA-RDP96-00787R000100060001-6 (memorandum alone at CIA-RDP96-00788R002000240028-5). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, H. E., R. Targ and E. C. May, Radio Physics Laboratory, SRI International, to Walter B. LaBerge, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, March 19, 1980, SRI 0-4132, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230031-1. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^6]: Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 15, 25, 28-29, 57-58, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. The Shannon page image was read directly; podcast and conference statements are quoted there at second hand. Sole source for the passages so cited. -[^7]: Vallee, Jacques. Journal, 1989 telephone conversation with Puthoff, as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 26-27 (volume not named there; the year falls in *Forbidden Science: Volume Three*). The book was not opened. -[^8]: Pilkington, Mark. *Mirage Men.* 2010, chapter "The Man in the White Coat" (the Denny's statement is Pilkington's narration), https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf. Sole source for the passage. +[^7]: Vallee, Jacques. Journal, 1989 telephone conversation with Puthoff, as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 26-27 (volume not named there; the year falls in *Forbidden Science: Volume Three*). +[^8]: Pilkington, Mark. *Mirage Men.* 2010, chapter "The Man in the White Coat" (the Denny's statement is Pilkington's narration), https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^9]: Rockefeller, Laurance S., letter of October 17, 1996 with "Suggested Invitees for the Meeting of Scientists," Clinton Presidential Library, Office of Science and Technology Policy FOIA 01-22, item 72, https://avalonlibrary.net/Grant_Cameron/Clinton_Presidential_Library_collection/OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022/ (file "1996 10 17_Laurance Rockefeller to John Gibbons"). The OSTP routing slip addresses the letter to Gibbons; the invitation text and invitee list are enclosures. [^10]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source. [^11]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/ diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ignacio Novo.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ignacio Novo.md index 0fa8c92f..4496ff3c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ignacio Novo.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ignacio Novo.md @@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ The indictment of August 1, 1978, charged him with two counts of false declarati [^3]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York office, reports of interviews of Ricardo Cañete by Special Agent Larry E. Wack, May 10 to May 18, 1977, scans at https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/canete.pdf [^4]: Motion for a Severance, defendant Ignacio Novo Sampol, *United States v. Contreras Sepulveda et al.,* Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C. 1978), with order granting, https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-severance-ignacio.pdf; Petition of the United States for Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir., October 29, 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-rehearing.pdf, footnote 1; Brief for Appellee, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir. 1979), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-brief-appellee.pdf, statement of the case. [^5]: *United States v. Sampol,* 636 F.2d 621 (D.C. Cir. 1980). -[^6]: "Wrong Man Freed in Letelier Case," *Washington Post,* October 21, 1981, as summarized. +[^6]: "Wrong Man Freed in Letelier Case," *Washington Post,* October 21, 1981 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/James R. Schlesinger.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/James R. Schlesinger.md index 2305f7ba..2f8a9669 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/James R. Schlesinger.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/James R. Schlesinger.md @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ During the [[Yom Kippur War]] of 1973, [[Henry A. Kissinger]] told Schlesinger t ### Footnotes [^1]: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Legacy Management, "Secretaries of Energy." https://www.energy.gov/lm/secretaries-energy -[^2]: Blanton, Thomas, ed. "The CIA's Family Jewels," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 222, June 21, 2007, with Schlesinger's memorandum of May 9, 1973 (scanned image, text not examined). https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm +[^2]: Blanton, Thomas, ed. "The CIA's Family Jewels," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 222, June 21, 2007, with Schlesinger's memorandum of May 9, 1973. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm [^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Family Jewels," CIA FOIA Reading Room, released 2007; Weiner, Tim. *Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.* Doubleday, 2007, pp. 316-327. [^4]: Kress, Kenneth A. "Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions." *Studies in Intelligence,* vol. 21, no. 4, winter 1977, declassified. [^5]: House Committee on Armed Services, Special Subcommittee on Intelligence, report on the inquiry into the alleged involvement of the CIA in the Watergate and Ellsberg matters, October 23, 1973. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jay Stratton.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jay Stratton.md index 98122dfc..914db635 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jay Stratton.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jay Stratton.md @@ -12,7 +12,12 @@ relations: - type: director_of with: "[[UAP Task Force]]" role: "first director, per Elizondo, after the Secretary of Defense announced the task force" - fn: 3 + fn: 5 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Radiance Technologies]]" + start: 2022-05-12 + role: "subject matter expert for intelligence strategy, member of the chief executive's strategy team, per the company release of May 12, 2022" + fn: 6 updated: 2026-10-03 summary: "In early 2009, Jay Stratton, along with a colleague, approached Luis Elizondo to recruit him for a highly classified program at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)." --- @@ -34,11 +39,22 @@ After Elizondo's resignation from the Pentagon, Stratton remained in the governm ### Stratton in Elizondo's account -Elizondo described Stratton in early 2009 as "a serious male in his midthirties," who "helped create something called the AAWSAP," and who with a colleague he calls "[[Rosemary Caine]]" arrived at his Arlington office wearing blue credentials identifying them as government intelligence officials.[^2] He wrote that Stratton "investigated the incident before I joined the team" and "had written a detailed AAWSAP/AATIP report" on the Nimitz encounter of November 2004, and that pilots later told Stratton they had been debriefed by intelligence officers and saw no follow-up.[^4] He wrote that Stratton drafted the operation plan "Interloper," "a classic 'honey pot,'" with dates, call signs, ship names and radar data, which the Joint Staff declined to give a compartment designation in late 2016, and that Stratton proposed the term unidentified aerial phenomena in place of UFO.[^5] After the resignation, Elizondo wrote, Stratton fielded briefing requests from members of Congress, Navy intelligence leadership tasked him with building a whole-of-government task force with members from the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], the [[National Reconnaissance Office]], [[NASA]] and the Federal Aviation Administration, the Secretary of Defense announced the UAP Task Force "after a couple of years" and named Stratton its first director, and the [[Legacy Program]] then "started quietly pushing back on Jay."[^3] +Elizondo described Stratton in early 2009 as "a serious male in his midthirties," who "helped create something called the AAWSAP," and who with a colleague he calls "[[Rosemary Caine]]" arrived at his Arlington office wearing blue credentials identifying them as government intelligence officials.[^2] He wrote that Stratton "investigated the incident before I joined the team" and "had written a detailed AAWSAP/AATIP report" on the Nimitz encounter of November 2004, and that pilots later told Stratton they had been debriefed by intelligence officers and saw no follow-up.[^3] He wrote that Stratton drafted the operation plan "Interloper," "a classic 'honey pot,'" with dates, call signs, ship names and radar data, which the Joint Staff declined to give a compartment designation in late 2016, and that Stratton proposed the term unidentified aerial phenomena in place of UFO.[^4] After the resignation, Elizondo wrote, Stratton fielded briefing requests from members of Congress, Navy intelligence leadership tasked him with building a whole-of-government task force with members from the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], the [[National Reconnaissance Office]], [[NASA]] and the Federal Aviation Administration, the Secretary of Defense announced the UAP Task Force "after a couple of years" and named Stratton its first director, and the [[Legacy Program]] then "started quietly pushing back on Jay."[^5] + +### Radiance Technologies + +[[Radiance Technologies]] announced on May 12, 2022 the hiring of Stratton, as "John F. Stratton Jr.," for the position of subject matter expert for intelligence strategy. The release states that he was "recently retired" from his role as Defense Intelligence Senior Executive with the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]], with more than 32 years in the national intelligence community, that as a member of the chief executive's strategy team he would lead and develop efforts in scientific and technical intelligence, and that "Most recently, he was the first Director of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force (UAPTF)." It quotes Radiance president [[Tim Tinsley]] and quotes Stratton: "I am very excited to join Radiance Technologies."[^6] + +[[George Knapp]] of [[KLAS-TV]] reported on May 24, 2022 that "In January 2021 ... Stratton was surprisingly transferred out of the job" at the Task Force, and that Stratton "has never spoken publicly about his work and is not commenting now."[^7] In a report posted October 13, 2022, Knapp wrote that Stratton urged Radiance to hire [[Travis Taylor]], and quoted Taylor: "Jay and I are working on growing the capabilities, doing reverse engineering of foreign materials."[^8] [[Liberation Times]] reported on December 3, 2023, in an article in which the attorney [[Daniel Sheehan]] alleged that the CIA supplies Radiance with non-human materials, that "multiple sources" had told it the allegation was untrue and that Stratton and Taylor "are long-time advocates for more transparency on this topic and are in no way involved in any coverup." Details are on [[Radiance Technologies]].[^9] ### Footnotes + [^1]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024. [^2]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 5 to 14. Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one. -[^3]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 211 and 223 (task force and first director at p. 223). -[^4]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 71 to 73. -[^5]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 143, 147 and 186 (Interloper at pp. 143 and 186; the term UAP at p. 186). +[^3]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 71 to 73. +[^4]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 143, 147 and 186 (Interloper at pp. 143 and 186; the term UAP at p. 186). +[^5]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 211 and 223 (task force and first director at p. 223). +[^6]: "John F. Stratton Jr. Joins Radiance Technologies as SME for Intel Strategy," Radiance Technologies, PR Newswire, May 12, 2022, read in the Internet Archive capture of the same date. https://web.archive.org/web/20220512145721/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/john-f-stratton-jr-joins-radiance-technologies-as-sme-for-intel-strategy-301546258.html +[^7]: George Knapp, "More UFO hearings? Congress might consider hearing from these 2 men," 8 News Now (KLAS), May 24, 2022. https://digital-release.8newsnow.com/?p=1136519 +[^8]: George Knapp, "Is this company working with alien technology in Nevada?" KLAS 8 News Now, posted October 13, 2022 (Pacific time). https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/is-this-company-working-with-alien-technology-in-nevada/ +[^9]: Christopher Sharp, "Daniel Sheehan Exposes Five Powerful Republicans Blocking UFO Disclosure Act, As The Clock Ticks Down," Liberation Times, December 3, 2023. Sole source for the Sheehan allegation and the denial so cited. https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/daniel-sheehan-exposes-five-powerful-republicans-blocking-ufo-disclosure-act-as-the-clock-ticks-down diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/John David Norman.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/John David Norman.md index 2227d26e..52a136d1 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/John David Norman.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/John David Norman.md @@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ Two names in the address book seized from the [[The Finders|Finders]] members [[ [^2]: Testimony of George Bliss and Michael Sneed, U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, Chicago, May 27, 1977, 95th Congress, 1st session. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit [^3]: *Norman v. Elrod,* 76 Ill. 2d 426, 394 N.E.2d 1043 (Ill. 1979). [^4]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. -[^5]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, "The Finders," FBI Records: The Vault, released November 2019, https://vault.fbi.gov/the-finders (image-only scan; the cross-references were not examined in it). +[^5]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, "The Finders," FBI Records: The Vault, released November 2019, https://vault.fbi.gov/the-finders. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Karl Nell.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Karl Nell.md index 12e888ea..0a5a997d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Karl Nell.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Karl Nell.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ relations: start: 2021 end: 2022 role: "Army liaison, as stated by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal; worked with David Grusch there" - fn: 2 + fn: 4 - type: employed_by with: "[[Lockheed Martin]]" role: "Lockheed Missiles and Space, senior systems engineer and SATCOM lead, per his own biography (dates not stated in the version opened)" @@ -35,41 +35,40 @@ relations: with: "[[Sol Foundation]]" start: 2023-11-17 role: "keynote speaker at the 2023 symposium; speaker at the 2024 symposium; author of the Sol paper 'The UFO Enigma' (May 2025); not listed on the foundation's website roster read October 3, 2026" - fn: 4 + fn: 5 - type: employed_by with: "[[StarDustX Materials]]" role: "chief executive officer, per the Sol paper's author note (May 2025)" - fn: 9 + fn: 2 created: 2026-10-03 updated: 2026-10-03 --- -Karl E. Nell is a retired colonel of the [[United States Army]] and an aerospace executive. A biography published by the investor conference organizer [[SALT]] describes more than thirty years in firms including [[Bell Labs|Bell Telephone Laboratories]], [[Lockheed Martin]] Missiles and Space, [[TASC]], [[CACI]] and [[ENSCO]], service as vice president and general manager of a national-security research division, deputy chief technology officer of a "$2-billion company," and "Distinguished Fellow" of the Congressionally chartered [[IT Acquisition Advisory Council]]. It adds that he commanded "at every grade level through colonel," including activation of an expeditionary military intelligence brigade supporting the [[XVIII Airborne Corps]] and the [[Joint Special Operations Command]], and was selected by name for an active-duty assignment advising the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army.[^1] The author note to his 2025 Sol Foundation paper lists him as modernization advisor to the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, deputy chief of staff for [[United States Africa Command]], commander of the [[336th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade]] and technical intelligence operations officer for the [[Combined Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center]] in [[Iraq]], and says his last active-duty assignment was as Army director supporting the UAP Task Force and that he is chief executive officer of StarDustX Materials, Inc., "a multimillion-dollar VC-backed startup focused on metamaterial analysis and design."[^9] +Karl E. Nell is a retired colonel of the [[United States Army]] and an aerospace executive. A biography published by the investor conference organizer [[SALT]] describes more than thirty years in firms including [[Bell Labs|Bell Telephone Laboratories]], [[Lockheed Martin]] Missiles and Space, [[TASC]], [[CACI]] and [[ENSCO]], service as vice president and general manager of a national-security research division, deputy chief technology officer of a "$2-billion company," and "Distinguished Fellow" of the Congressionally chartered [[IT Acquisition Advisory Council]]. It adds that he commanded "at every grade level through colonel," including activation of an expeditionary military intelligence brigade supporting the [[XVIII Airborne Corps]] and the [[Joint Special Operations Command]], and was selected by name for an active-duty assignment advising the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army.[^1] The author note to his 2025 Sol Foundation paper lists him as modernization advisor to the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, deputy chief of staff for [[United States Africa Command]], commander of the [[336th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade]] and technical intelligence operations officer for the [[Combined Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center]] in [[Iraq]], and says his last active-duty assignment was as Army director supporting the UAP Task Force and that he is chief executive officer of StarDustX Materials, Inc., "a multimillion-dollar VC-backed startup focused on metamaterial analysis and design."[^2] A second published biography states that he is a graduate of the [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Boston University]], the [[Air Force Institute of Technology]] and the [[United States Army War College]], and that he was chief executive of a startup developing "iterative meta-materials generation."[^3] ### UAP Task Force -[[Leslie Kean]] and [[Ralph Blumenthal]] wrote on June 5, 2023 that Nell was "a recently retired Army Colonel and current aerospace executive who was the Army's liaison for the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022 and worked with Grusch there." Kean and Blumenthal quote him as saying that [[David Grusch]]'s "assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence." They also quote a 2022 performance evaluation by [[Laura A. Potter]], Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, Department of the Army, calling him "an officer with the strongest possible moral compass."[^2] The SALT biography states that his engagements with senior Defense Department leaders and with Congress "directly contributed to the creation and inclusion of UAP legislation within the National Defense Authorization Acts of 2022 and 2023."[^1] +[[Leslie Kean]] and [[Ralph Blumenthal]] wrote on June 5, 2023 that Nell was "a recently retired Army Colonel and current aerospace executive who was the Army's liaison for the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022 and worked with Grusch there." Kean and Blumenthal quote him as saying that [[David Grusch]]'s "assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence." They also quote a 2022 performance evaluation by [[Laura A. Potter]], Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, Department of the Army, calling him "an officer with the strongest possible moral compass."[^4] The SALT biography states that his engagements with senior Defense Department leaders and with Congress "directly contributed to the creation and inclusion of UAP legislation within the National Defense Authorization Acts of 2022 and 2023."[^1] ### Sol Foundation and the Senate amendment -Nell was a keynote speaker at the first [[Sol Foundation]] symposium, held November 17 to 18, 2023 in [[Palo Alto, California]] ([[The Debrief]] called him a "top keynote speaker"), and returned in November 2024 to the [[Fort Mason Center]] in [[San Francisco]], where he and [[Garry Nolan]] held a fireside conversation on what they called the "UAP/NHI Hilbert Problems."[^4][^5] A catalogue of his appearances lists a Sol Foundation video titled "Karl Nell on The Schumer Amendment & Controlled Disclosure," a reference to the Senate amendment on UAP records sponsored by [[Chuck Schumer]] and Senator [[Mike Rounds]] in July 2023.[^3] A 2023 post on [[Der Standard]]'s UFO blog, "Out there," titled "Ufo-Bombe mit kurzer Lunte: Die Sol Foundation," is reported by a search-engine summary to say that Nell presented himself as a principal author of that amendment; the post sits behind the site's consent wall, was not read, and the claim is not made on this page.[^6] The text of the amendment to S. 2226 as posted by the [[Senate Democrats]] names Schumer, Rounds, [[Marco Rubio]] and [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] as its proponents; its header carries the [[Senate Office of the Legislative Counsel]] file code "BAG23A78 JDP S.L.C." and names no other drafter.[^7] +Nell was a keynote speaker at the first [[Sol Foundation]] symposium, held November 17 to 18, 2023 in [[Palo Alto, California]] ([[The Debrief]] called him a "top keynote speaker"), and returned in November 2024 to the [[Fort Mason Center]] in [[San Francisco]], where he and [[Garry Nolan]] held a fireside conversation on what they called the "UAP/NHI Hilbert Problems."[^5][^6] A catalogue of his appearances lists a Sol Foundation video titled "Karl Nell on The Schumer Amendment & Controlled Disclosure," a reference to the Senate amendment on UAP records sponsored by [[Chuck Schumer]] and Senator [[Mike Rounds]] in July 2023.[^3] The text of the amendment to S. 2226 as posted by the [[Senate Democrats]] names Schumer, Rounds, [[Marco Rubio]] and [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] as its proponents; its header carries the [[Senate Office of the Legislative Counsel]] file code "BAG23A78 JDP S.L.C." and names no other drafter.[^7] ### Statements and later appearances At a May 21, 2024 SALT iConnections session in [[New York]], Nell and [[Alex Klokus]] appeared under the title "'Zero Doubt' Non-Human Intelligence on Earth."[^3] The same catalogue lists a March 9, 2025 question-and-answer session after the [[South by Southwest]] premiere of the film "The Age of Disclosure," with the producer [[Dan Farah]], [[Jim Semivan]], [[Tim Gallaudet]], [[Hal Puthoff]] and Nolan, and a 2025 appearance at the [[Archives of the Impossible]] conference.[^3] -Nell does not appear among the signatories of the November 12, 2024 letter urging the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]].[^8] His Sol paper of May 2025 argues for enactment of the Act's review-board and eminent-domain provisions "or by executive order."[^9] +Nell does not appear among the signatories of the November 12, 2024 letter urging the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]].[^8] His Sol paper of May 2025 argues for enactment of the Act's review-board and eminent-domain provisions "or by executive order."[^2] ### Footnotes [^1]: "Karl Nell," SALT speaker biography. https://www.salt.org/speakers/karl-nell -[^2]: Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Non-Human Craft," *The Debrief*, June 5, 2023. https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/ +[^2]: Karl E. Nell, "The UFO Enigma: A Call for US Government Disclosure," The Policy Papers of the Sol Foundation, Spring 2025, Executive Summary and "About the Author." https://thesolfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-UFO-Enigma_Sol-Foundation.pdf [^3]: Anomaly Archives, "Nell, Karl E.," biography and list of appearances. https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/nell-karl/ -[^4]: Micah Hanks, *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/ -[^5]: Chrissy Newton, *The Debrief*, December 20, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/academics-investors-and-uap-seekers-unite-at-the-2024-sol-foundation-symposium/ -[^6]: "Ufo-Bombe mit kurzer Lunte: Die Sol Foundation," *Der Standard*, 2023. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000196294/ufo-bombe-mit-kurzer-lunte-die-sol-foundation (consent wall; body not read; the claim comes from a search-engine summary only). +[^4]: Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Non-Human Craft," *The Debrief*, June 5, 2023. https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/ +[^5]: Micah Hanks, *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/ +[^6]: Chrissy Newton, *The Debrief*, December 20, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/academics-investors-and-uap-seekers-unite-at-the-2024-sol-foundation-symposium/ [^7]: Amendment intended to be proposed to S. 2226, 118th Congress, first session, "To provide for the expeditious disclosure of unidentified anomalous phenomena records," opened October 3, 2026. https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment.pdf [^8]: Signatory letter of November 12, 2024, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf -[^9]: Karl E. Nell, "The UFO Enigma: A Call for US Government Disclosure," The Policy Papers of the Sol Foundation, Spring 2025, Executive Summary and "About the Author." https://thesolfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-UFO-Enigma_Sol-Foundation.pdf diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Laurance Rockefeller.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Laurance Rockefeller.md index c64c70a8..0ac80bd3 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Laurance Rockefeller.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Laurance Rockefeller.md @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ The Laurance S. Rockefeller Fund of New York, which received its Internal Revenu [^14]: Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, press release, "Princeton's PEAR Laboratory to Close," February 10, 2007, http://pearlab.icrl.org/press-statement.html. [^15]: John E. Mack Institute, "History," https://johnemackinstitute.org/history/, and "Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER)," http://johnemackinstitute.org/2003/01/program-for-extraordinary-experience-research-peer/. [^16]: Ben MacIntyre, "Harvard professor's stories of close encounters, other-world sex, embarrass university," *The San Francisco Examiner* (London *Times* credit), May 5, 1995, p. 16, https://www.newspapers.com/image/461595501/. -[^17]: "Harvard's Mack: The Subject Is Aliens," *Valley News* (West Lebanon, N.H.), May 20, 1995, p. 23, https://www.newspapers.com/image/833962083/. Byline not read. +[^17]: "Harvard's Mack: The Subject Is Aliens," *Valley News* (West Lebanon, N.H.), May 20, 1995, p. 23, https://www.newspapers.com/image/833962083/. [^18]: C. B. Scott Jones, Human Potential Foundation, to John H. Gibbons, February 17, 1994, with Gibbons's handwritten note dated 2/24/94, Office of Science and Technology Policy file, http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-2-17-94.htm. [^19]: John H. Gibbons, memorandum for the President, "Inquiry from Laurance Rockefeller," August 4, 1995, http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-8-4-95.htm. [^20]: Grant Cameron, "Extraterrestrial Politics in the Clinton White House (1993-2001) and the Laurance Rockefeller Initiative," introduction and notes iii and xiii, http://www.x-ppac.org/OSTP.html. The index of the scanned documents is at http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller_Initiative_Documents.htm. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Lee Rawls.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Lee Rawls.md index e5a2f8ca..ff75901a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Lee Rawls.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Lee Rawls.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ tags: alias: - W. Lee Rawls - William Lee Rawls -summary: "Justice Department legislative affairs chief under Thornburgh who advised him how to thwart the House Banking Committee's BNL inquiry and corresponded with the House Judiciary Committee during its INSLAW investigation; later chief of staff to Senator Frist and to FBI Director Mueller." +summary: "Justice Department legislative affairs chief under Thornburgh who advised him on the House Banking Committee's BNL inquiry and corresponded with the House Judiciary Committee during its INSLAW investigation." died: 2010-12 location: "Washington, D.C." created: 2026-09-22 @@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ Rawls was chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist from 2003 to 2005 [^1]: "W. Lee Rawls, Justice Department official and Senate aide," obituary, *The Washington Post,* December 2010; Princeton Alumni Weekly memorial, Class of 1966; "Lee Rawls, Former Chief of Staff to FBI Director Mueller, Dies," *Tickle the Wire,* December 2010. The three obituaries agree on the career; none was opened in full, and the biographical details rest on their summaries. [^2]: Friedman, Alan. *Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq,* Bantam, 1993, pp. 193-194. -[^3]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair,* H. Rept. 102-857, September 10, 1992, correspondence of May and July 1991 (the letters' contents were not examined). https://archive.org/details/InslawAffairInvestigativeReport +[^3]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair,* H. Rept. 102-857, September 10, 1992, correspondence of May and July 1991. https://archive.org/details/InslawAffairInvestigativeReport diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Melissa Russo.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Melissa Russo.md index 75d29ecf..a187fefa 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Melissa Russo.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Melissa Russo.md @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The parliamentary commission found that during the December 1995 search of the M ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its account of the abduction (July 22, 1995, from Charleroi, "for over a year" of captivity), Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) and the exhumation (September 16, 1996) is contradicted by the commission's chronology and is not repeated here. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its account of the abduction (July 22, 1995, from Charleroi, "for over a year" of captivity), Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) and the exhumation (September 16, 1996) is contradicted by the commission's chronology. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, pp. 47-48, table 4, and the chronologies of December 1995, March 1996 and August 1996; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf [^3]: Planchar, Roland. "Arlon, 22 juin 2004, l'épilogue..." *La Libre Belgique,* June 22, 2005. https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/2005/06/22/arlon-22-juin-2004-lepilogue-BW2M2Z52HRFRFJL4PLKBLTDEHE/ [^4]: "Notorious child rapist-murderer convicted." NBC News and Associated Press, June 17, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5233011 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Nancy Stern.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Nancy Stern.md index 41bc7c9d..e2ffddc0 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Nancy Stern.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Nancy Stern.md @@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ The released CIA collection on the program carries no legible mention of a Nancy ### Footnotes [^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997. -[^2]: Grill Flame security agreements, volunteer consent statements, participant counseling statements, "Information About Remote Viewing for Participants" forms, and DIA Sun Streak access forms, 1977 to 1988, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100150005-8 to R002100150079-7; names as printed in the item titles, the signature lines being largely illegible in OCR. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. The archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection, about 13,000 items under the identifiers cia-rdp96-*, searched by title and OCR text; the OCR is imperfect and some fifty items could not be read. +[^2]: Grill Flame security agreements, volunteer consent statements, participant counseling statements, "Information About Remote Viewing for Participants" forms, and DIA Sun Streak access forms, 1977 to 1988, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100150005-8 to R002100150079-7; names as printed in the item titles, the signature lines being largely illegible in OCR. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. The archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection, about 13,000 items under the identifiers cia-rdp96-*, searched by title and OCR text. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Pat Price.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Pat Price.md index a743d80a..82c41aff 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Pat Price.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Pat Price.md @@ -67,4 +67,4 @@ Within the government's remote viewing program, Price's Semipalatinsk session wa [^1]: Stanford Research Institute, "Project SCANATE, Exploratory Research in Remote Viewing," 1973, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100480002-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* final report, part two, research report, December 1, 1975, SRI Project 3183, 153 pp., CIA-RDP96-00791R000100410001-2. The report codes its subjects; S3 and S1 are identified as Swann and Price by matching their responses to the named sessions in the SCANATE report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* final report, part one, executive summary, SRI Project 3183, covering January 1974 to February 1975, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100420001-1. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^2]: Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* final report, part two, research report, December 1, 1975, SRI Project 3183, 153 pp., CIA-RDP96-00791R000100410001-2. The report codes its subjects; S3 and S1 are identified as Swann and Price by matching their responses to the named sessions in the SCANATE report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. "An Analysis of a Remote Viewing Experiment of URDF-3," report of the four sessions of July 9 to 15, 1974, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200240001-0, cited by Kress as the work of Dr. Stillman of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, December 4, 1975. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. "Review of Perceptual Augmentation Techniques," unsigned review of SRI progress reports 1 to 3, c. August 1974, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200230001-6. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Brandwein, David S., Director, Office of Technical Service, memoranda "Stanford Research Institute Parapsychology Research," February 20, 1976 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020001-9), and "OTS Support to Research in Parapsychology," October 7, 1976 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020016-3); memorandum for the record, "Briefing for House Permanent Select Committee re OTS Involvement in ESP Research," OTS memo 287-77, November 17, 1977 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020020-8); memorandum for the record, "Discussions with OTS on the SRI Project," June 22, 1974 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110016-8). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^3]: Targ, Russell, and Harold Puthoff. "Information Transmission under Conditions of Sensory Shielding," *Nature,* vol. 251, October 18, 1974, pp. 602-607, read in the CIA Reading Room copy CIA-RDP96-00787R000100220001-8 on archive.org. Targ, Russell. "Remote Viewing at Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s: A Memoir," *Journal of Scientific Exploration,* vol. 10, no. 1, 1996, pp. 77-88, reprinted from Targ and Katra, *Mind-to-Mind* (1996); read in a Wayback Machine copy of the journal's PDF. -[^901]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0 (abstract and dates only; the text is behind a paywall). Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf Puthoff, H. E., and Russell Targ, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," and Tart, Charles T., "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," January 1979, "submitted for publication to Nature," CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5; published as Tart, Puthoff and Targ, *Nature,* vol. 284, 1980, p. 191, not seen. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. *Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing,* Report RV-79-1, final technical report, contract 77F104420, Systemetrics, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1, 1979, parts 1 and 2, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100440001-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. The sponsor of the contract is not named in the report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. +[^901]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0. Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf Puthoff, H. E., and Russell Targ, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," and Tart, Charles T., "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," January 1979, "submitted for publication to Nature," CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5; published as Tart, Puthoff and Targ, *Nature,* vol. 284, 1980, p. 191, not seen. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. *Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing,* Report RV-79-1, final technical report, contract 77F104420, Systemetrics, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1, 1979, parts 1 and 2, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100440001-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. The sponsor of the contract is not named in the report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Peter Skafish.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Peter Skafish.md index b34b205e..0f1d69eb 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Peter Skafish.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Peter Skafish.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ alias: - Peter Skafish - Dr. Peter Skafish - Skafish -summary: "Sociocultural anthropologist (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) who co-founded the Sol Foundation with Garry Nolan in 2023, signed its 2024 Form 990 as secretary, and joined a UAP Science Advisory Council in June 2026." +summary: "Anthropologist (PhD, Berkeley) who co-founded the Sol Foundation with Garry Nolan in 2023, signed its 2024 Form 990 as secretary, and was named to Avi Loeb's UAP Science Advisory Council in June 2026." location: "California" relations: - type: founded @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The foundation's website, read on October 3, 2026, lists him as "Co-Founder & Ex Skafish signed the November 12, 2024 letter to Congress urging passage of the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]], identifying himself as "Co-Founder, Sol Foundation; Sociocultural Anthropologist; Researcher; Author." The signers included Garry Nolan, [[Avi Loeb]], [[John B. Alexander]], [[Christopher Mellon]], [[Tim Gallaudet]], [[Luis Elizondo]], [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]] and [[Yuan Fung]] of the [[UAP Disclosure Fund]].[^9] -In June 2026 Loeb gave [[DefenseScoop]] a list of twelve members of a "UAP Science Advisory Council" that included Skafish, listed under anthropology, with Nolan, Gallaudet, [[Michael Shermer]], [[Ben Lamm]] and others. An official of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] said the council was among advisory groups to an interagency UAP Governance Board.[^10] +In June 2026 Loeb gave [[DefenseScoop]] a list of twelve members of a "UAP Science Advisory Council" that included Skafish, listed under anthropology, with Nolan, Gallaudet, [[Michael Shermer]], [[Ben Lamm]] and others. An official of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] told DefenseScoop that an interagency UAP Governance Board is supported by outside advisory groups including the council.[^10] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^11] ### Footnotes @@ -72,3 +72,4 @@ In June 2026 Loeb gave [[DefenseScoop]] a list of twelve members of a "UAP Scien [^8]: The Sol Foundation, "All Publications," entry for Peter Skafish, Vol. 1 No. 6, November 2024, https://thesolfoundation.org/all-publications/ , read October 3, 2026. [^9]: Signatory letter dated November 12, 2024, in the statement of Tim Gallaudet, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, November 13, 2024. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf [^10]: "New science advisory council forms to help US government 'resolve the UAP mystery,'" *DefenseScoop*, June 17, 2026. https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/17/new-science-advisory-council-forms-to-help-us-government-resolve-the-uap-mystery/ +[^11]: Sol Foundation, release "Sol Foundation Co-Founders Named to UAP Science Advisory Council," June 22, 2026 (modified July 13, 2026), https://thesolfoundation.org/sol-foundation-co-founders-named-to-uap-science-advisory-council/ ; Avi Loeb, "More Details on the UAP Science Advisory Council," Medium (avi-loeb.medium.com), June 16, 2026, read in a Wayback Machine copy; Federal Register search for "UAP Science Advisory Council," https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?conditions%5Bterm%5D=%22UAP+Science+Advisory+Council%22 (count 0 on October 3, 2026). diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Roderick Sinclair.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Roderick Sinclair.md index 131ecb59..4027e2a8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Roderick Sinclair.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Roderick Sinclair.md @@ -30,6 +30,6 @@ The writer Cheri Seymour wrote that nurses at Fremont Hospital, where Sinclair w ### Footnotes -[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its description of a civil ruling ordering Mariposa County to pay 70 percent of the claim, and of Eckerson as appointed to replace the CHP report, is contradicted by the court record and by contemporaneous reporting. +[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Its description of a civil ruling ordering Mariposa County to pay 70 percent of the claim, and of Eckerson as appointed to replace the CHP report, is contradicted by the court record and by contemporaneous reporting. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: *LaBarge v. County of Mariposa,* 798 F.2d 364 (9th Cir. 1986). [^3]: "Highway Patrol's Crash investigation questioned." United Press International, September 25, 1983. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Highway-Patrols-Crash-investigation-questioned/7300433310400/ diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ronald Pandolfi.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ronald Pandolfi.md index 348e852e..364d3e7e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ronald Pandolfi.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ronald Pandolfi.md @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ The Congressional Research Service recorded that in April 1996 "a CIA analyst, R [[Bob Oechsler]] wrote in *[[Alien Update]]* that, "After validating my meeting with [[Everett Hineman]], the CIA Deputy Director for Science & Technology, Pandolfi asked Admiral [[Bobby Ray Inman|Inman]] if he had in fact talked to me about UFOs," and that Inman "did not deny that such a conversation took place, but was unwilling to discuss any details."[^12] -The blogger [[Robert Schaeffer]], quoted by [[Jason Colavito]] in 2019, reported that the television producer [[Robert Kiviat]] was engaged by [[Joe Firmage]] to develop a series on Firmage's anti-gravity claims "and also the story of the Aviary UFO history as seen through the eyes of Pandolfi," and quoted Kiviat as saying that "Pandolfi was not willing to state his claims publicly." Colavito wrote that Kiviat sued Firmage, Pandolfi and [[Daniel Marriott]] for $300,000. The complaint was not read, and the defendants' answers were not found.[^13] +The blogger [[Robert Schaeffer]], quoted by [[Jason Colavito]] in 2019, reported that the television producer [[Robert Kiviat]] was engaged by [[Joe Firmage]] to develop a series on Firmage's anti-gravity claims "and also the story of the Aviary UFO history as seen through the eyes of Pandolfi," and quoted Kiviat as saying that "Pandolfi was not willing to state his claims publicly." Colavito wrote that Kiviat sued Firmage, Pandolfi and [[Daniel Marriott]] for $300,000.[^13] ### Footnotes @@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ The blogger [[Robert Schaeffer]], quoted by [[Jason Colavito]] in 2019, reported [^3]: Maccabee, Bruce, letter to John H. Gibbons, January 2, 1997, OSTP FOIA 01-22, item 73b, same collection. [^4]: Congressional Research Service, "China: Possible Missile Technology Transfers under U.S. Satellite Export Policy: Actions and Chronology," report 98-485 F, entries for April 1996 and September 1998, https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/98-485F.html (Shelby statement of September 2000 at note 77); and CRS report RL30220, https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/19990608_RL30220_8a89fcc3410f43e494c171a03c54353429cabd96.html. [^5]: U.S. House of Representatives, Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, *Report* (Cox Report), 1999, section "Issues" on CIA and Hughes, https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/congress/1999_r/cox/appbod.htm. -[^6]: Gerth, Jeff. "Old Concerns Over Data Transfer to China Get New Attention," *The New York Times,* December 7, 1998, read in an excerpt (first paragraphs) reproduced at https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/pandolfi-ron/; the Times page itself returned an access block and was not opened. +[^6]: Gerth, Jeff. "Old Concerns Over Data Transfer to China Get New Attention," *The New York Times,* December 7, 1998, reproduced at https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/pandolfi-ron/. [^7]: "CIA being investigated for information given to Hughes," *The Kansas City Star* (Washington Post wire), December 5, 1998, p. A10, https://www.newspapers.com/image/685529422/. Byline not visible in the view read. [^8]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* reproduced at http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source for the code name. [^9]: "E B E's," UFO BBS files UFO1024 and UFO1030, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1024.ufo; Pilkington, Mark. *Mirage Men,* 2010, PDF at https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf. Text searches of those files and of the book for "Pandolfi" returned no matches. -[^10]: Elizondo and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, section on EarthTech, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passage. -[^11]: Basterfield, Keith. "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" December 21, 2016, quoting Vallee, *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* p. 480 (the quoted note refers to Alexander's February 2011 book), https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/. The book was not opened; Google Books and the Internet Archive offer no readable copy. For Shannon's list, Loose Threads Report p. 15. -[^12]: Oechsler, Bob, *Alien Update,* as quoted in Elizondo and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, p. 47, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. The book was not opened. Sole source for the passage. +[^10]: Elizondo and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, section on EarthTech, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited. +[^11]: Basterfield, Keith. "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" December 21, 2016, quoting Vallee, *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* p. 480 (the quoted note refers to Alexander's February 2011 book), https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/. For Shannon's list, Loose Threads Report p. 15. +[^12]: Oechsler, Bob, *Alien Update,* as quoted in Elizondo and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, p. 47, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^13]: Colavito, Jason, quoting Schaeffer, Robert, and Kiviat, Robert, March 23, 2019, https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/alien-autopsy-producer-sues-ufo-contactee-former-cia-scientist-and-ex-congressman-over-stalled-ufo-documentary. Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Stoner.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Stoner.md index c73483b2..adf638e9 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Stoner.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Stoner.md @@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ On January 25, 1980, Gale asked Stoner to distribute the 27 copies of the report ### Footnotes [^1]: *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Defense Intelligence Agency, "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 27 November 1979," S-1168/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1, and "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 10 January 1980," S-1008/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1, both signed Jack Vorona, chairman. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Stoner, William L., Major, GS, "Memorandum of Conversation, Subject: Gale Briefing to ZA, Science Evaluation Group Final Report on GRILL FLAME, 14 Jan 80," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. -[^2]: Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7), not read. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. +[^2]: Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Allan R. Tessler.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Allan R. Tessler.md index 5caf1dfd..760fb169 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Allan R. Tessler.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Allan R. Tessler.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags: alias: - Alan Tessler - Allan Tessler -summary: "Senior managing partner of the New York firm Shea and Gould whom Bill Hamilton's affidavit named as Earl Brian's and Hadron's merger lawyer and as a relative of INSLAW's investor Daniel Tessler, who denied any relation; later a merchant banker, L Brands director and Hudson Institute chairman." +summary: "Senior managing partner of Shea and Gould whom Bill Hamilton's affidavit named as Earl Brian's and Hadron's merger lawyer; later a merchant banker, L Brands director and Hudson Institute chairman." location: "Jackson, Wyoming" created: 2026-09-22 updated: 2026-09-22 @@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ Allan R. Tessler, a Cornell graduate and editor of the Cornell Law Quarterly who ### Footnotes -[^1]: Hudson Institute, "Allan R. Tessler, Chairman Emeritus," institutional biography, archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20211204105456/https://www.hudson.org/experts/679-allan-r-tessler-mdash-i-chairman-emeritus--i ; the executive committee dates are from a Cornell University Library finding aid for the Shea and Gould records, not examined. +[^1]: Hudson Institute, "Allan R. Tessler, Chairman Emeritus," institutional biography, archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20211204105456/https://www.hudson.org/experts/679-allan-r-tessler-mdash-i-chairman-emeritus--i ; the executive committee dates are from a Cornell University Library finding aid for the Shea and Gould records. [^2]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, pp. 90-94 and addendum. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Ben Wagner.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Ben Wagner.md index 1b202374..70a6d6d9 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Ben Wagner.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Ben Wagner.md @@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ Shortly before his first scheduled court appearance on behalf of D.I.G., Wagner --- ### Footnotes -[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Sole source for the passages so cited. No independent record of his disappearance has been found; the California State Bar record has not been checked. He is not the Benjamin B. Wagner who was U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California from 2009 to 2016. \ No newline at end of file +[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. No independent record of his disappearance has been found; the California State Bar record has not been checked. He is not the Benjamin B. Wagner who was U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California from 2009 to 2016. Sole source for the passages so cited. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Bernard Weinstein.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Bernard Weinstein.md index 3e759e75..3269bb76 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Bernard Weinstein.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Bernard Weinstein.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ tags: - Person - Belgium - Dutroux -summary: "European Union national living at Jumet and accomplice of Marc Dutroux, owner of the blue Ford Fiesta seen in 1995 surveillance of Dutroux, whose body was found at Dutroux's Sars-la-Buissière property; Dutroux was convicted of his murder in 2004." +summary: "Accomplice of Marc Dutroux living at Jumet, owner of the blue Ford Fiesta seen in 1995 surveillance; his body was found at Dutroux's Sars-la-Buissière property and Dutroux was convicted of his murder in 2004." location: "Jumet, Belgium" relations: - type: partner_of @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that Weinstein came to Belgium from France in the earl ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its date for his death (November 1995) conflicts with the commission's listing of him as a fugitive on December 13, 1995, and its placing of An Marchal's and Eefje Lambrecks's bodies with his is contradicted by the reports of their recovery at Jumet; it describes the three victims of November 1995 as teenagers, where the commission's table has adults. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its date for his death (November 1995) conflicts with the commission's listing of him as a fugitive on December 13, 1995, and its placing of An Marchal's and Eefje Lambrecks's bodies with his is contradicted by the reports of their recovery at Jumet; it describes the three victims of November 1995 as teenagers, where the commission's table has adults. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, pp. 47-48, the list of files, and the chronologies of November and December 1995; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf [^3]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire...,* rapport complémentaire, Doc. 713/8-96/97, February 16, 1998, pp. 48-49 and the section on the POSA observations of late August 1995, which dates the observation report once to November 30, 1995, and otherwise to August 30, 1995, consistent with Michaux's identification of September 4; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/comm/dutroux/49K0713008.pdf [^4]: "Sars-la-Buissière: la maison de M. Dutroux vendue à Lobbes." RTBF and Belga, December 12, 2008. https://www.rtbf.be/article/sars-la-buissiere-la-maison-de-m-dutroux-vendue-a-lobbes-5193373 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Claudius Vermilye.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Claudius Vermilye.md index 1a9b67ef..22446d26 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Claudius Vermilye.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Claudius Vermilye.md @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that Vermilye's films went to Richards for development ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. The Record-Eagle lists Boys Farm, Inc., as a separate entity from the Church of the New Revelation, and the hearing record shows only that his name was found in Halvorsen's files; Richards's testimony names "Mail-O-Matic operations in Rocky Mount" and "F & F Distributors" in other connections. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. The Record-Eagle lists Boys Farm, Inc., as a separate entity from the Church of the New Revelation, and the hearing record shows only that his name was found in Halvorsen's files; Richards's testimony names "Mail-O-Matic operations in Rocky Mount" and "F & F Distributors" in other connections. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: "Former Clergyman Is Convicted of Acts Against His Wards." United Press International, *The New York Times,* June 4, 1977, p. 33. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/04/archives/former-clergyman-is-convicted-of-acts-against-his-wards.html [^3]: Wright, Marilyn. *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1976-1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041 [^4]: Moseley, Ray, with Michael Sneed and George Bliss. *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, reprinted in *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* Serial No. 12, 1977, and in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, 1977. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Hassan Yassin.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Hassan Yassin.md index 9e372950..295b1219 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Hassan Yassin.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Hassan Yassin.md @@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ He was a cousin of the arms dealer [[Adnan Khashoggi]] and was described, in the ### Footnotes -[^1]: Hassan, Rashid. "Testament to Saudi Arabia's modern history, Hassan Yassin dies," *Arab News,* May 18, 2026. https://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/testament-to-saudi-arabias-modern-history-hassan-yassin-dies-2644043 Victoria College is from an earlier Arab News profile not examined. +[^1]: Hassan, Rashid. "Testament to Saudi Arabia's modern history, Hassan Yassin dies," *Arab News,* May 18, 2026. https://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/testament-to-saudi-arabias-modern-history-hassan-yassin-dies-2644043 [^2]: Beaty, Jonathan, and S. C. Gwynne. *The Outlaw Bank,* Random House, 1993, p. 352, as cited on [[Adnan Khashoggi]]; House Report 102-857 and the Bua report, searched in full, contain no reference to him. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/José Zara.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/José Zara.md index c2461f47..2f4ac02c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/José Zara.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/José Zara.md @@ -31,5 +31,5 @@ He had been charged, with Iturriaga, as an author of the killing of [[Ronni Moff ### Footnotes [^1]: Basso Prieto, Carlos. "José Zara Holger fue detenido de nuevo: esta vez por crimen de Ronni Moffitt," *El Mostrador,* August 27, 2025. -[^2]: Chilean press reports of the 2010 judgments of Judge Alejandro Solís and the Supreme Court (La Tercera, El Mostrador), not read in full. +[^2]: Chilean press reports of the 2010 judgments of Judge Alejandro Solís and the Supreme Court (La Tercera, El Mostrador). [^3]: Kornbluh, Peter. "A Modicum of Justice for Ronni Karpen Moffitt," *The Nation,* September 2026.; The Clinic, interview of October 15, 2025, as quoted in press summaries. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Melchior Wathelet.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Melchior Wathelet.md index f80b9694..ace8ce35 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Melchior Wathelet.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Melchior Wathelet.md @@ -26,6 +26,6 @@ In the [[X-Dossier]], compiled under Judge [[Jean-Marc Connerotte]] and Prosecut ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It describes Wathelet as minister of the interior from 1988 to 1995 under Prime Minister Vanden Boeynants, which the commission's description of him as former minister of justice contradicts, and dates his European Court judgeship from 1999, contradicted by the commission's description of him as a sitting judge in 1997. Its birth year, 1951, is not repeated. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It describes Wathelet as minister of the interior from 1988 to 1995 under Prime Minister Vanden Boeynants, which the commission's description of him as former minister of justice contradicts, and dates his European Court judgeship from 1999, contradicted by the commission's description of him as a sitting judge in 1997. Its birth year, 1951, is not repeated. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, list of persons heard, conclusions on the Julie and Melissa file, and tables 3 and 4; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf -[^3]: Court of Justice of the European Communities, *Annual Report,* list of former members: "Melchior Wathelet, Judge (1995-2003)," as shown in the search index of the Court's annual reports; the report text was not examined. +[^3]: Court of Justice of the European Communities, *Annual Report,* list of former members: "Melchior Wathelet, Judge (1995-2003)." diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Peter Zokosky.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Peter Zokosky.md index 47773555..c603bdde 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Peter Zokosky.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Peter Zokosky.md @@ -46,5 +46,5 @@ He was an investor in the Cabazon Indian Reservation and a skeet range, though h --- ### Footnotes -[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Sole source for the passages so cited. The special counsel's report records the Picatinny meeting date as disputed and found no support for the presence of Contra leaders or Earl Brian at Lake Cahuilla. +[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. The special counsel's report records the Picatinny meeting date as disputed and found no support for the presence of Contra leaders or Earl Brian at Lake Cahuilla. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of INSLAW, Inc.,* March 1993, pp. 56-64. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Raymond Woodall.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Raymond Woodall.md index ec1e7459..93433ae2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Raymond Woodall.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Raymond Woodall.md @@ -28,5 +28,5 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that Woodall ran an escort service that began with adu ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It spells the assistant scoutmaster "Harry O'Cramer"; the hearing record and Louisiana Supreme Court captions give Harry O. Cramer. Robert Lang does not appear in the 1977 hearing record. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It spells the assistant scoutmaster "Harry O'Cramer"; the hearing record and Louisiana Supreme Court captions give Harry O. Cramer. Robert Lang does not appear in the 1977 hearing record. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Wright, Marilyn. *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1976-1977, and *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, both reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977, pp. 439-443; the Tribune piece also in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 1977. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/Old Bailey.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/Old Bailey.md index 0b9264da..d104821f 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/Old Bailey.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/Old Bailey.md @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ David Copeland, the London nail bomber, was convicted at the Old Bailey on June ### Footnotes [^1]: City of London Corporation, "Central Criminal Court." https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/law-historic-governance/central-criminal-court -[^2]: Central Criminal Court Act 1834, 4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 36, legislation.gov.uk record (text not examined). https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/4-5/36/contents +[^2]: Central Criminal Court Act 1834, 4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 36, legislation.gov.uk record. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/4-5/36/contents [^3]: Weiner, Tim. *Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.* Doubleday, 2007; Murphy, David E., Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey. *Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War.* Yale University Press, 1997. [^4]: Gonzalez, Henry B. "Details on Iraq's Procurement Network," *Congressional Record,* House, August 10, 1992. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/congress/1992_cr/h920810g.htm [^5]: "Britain's 'Iraqgate': Major Woes," *The Christian Science Monitor,* November 12, 1992. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Executive Office for United States Attorneys.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Executive Office for United States Attorneys.md index 31489279..37a7a3be 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Executive Office for United States Attorneys.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Executive Office for United States Attorneys.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags: alias: - EOUSA - Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys -summary: "The Justice Department office that supervises the U.S. Attorneys, which signed INSLAW's 1982 PROMIS contract and whose project staff, Brewer, Videnieks and Rugh, ran the dispute that Judge Bason found was a scheme to take the software by fraud." +summary: "Justice Department office supervising the U.S. Attorneys, which signed INSLAW's 1982 PROMIS contract and whose staff, Brewer, Videnieks and Rugh, ran the dispute Judge Bason found to be a scheme to take the software." start: 1953 location: "Washington, D.C." created: 2026-09-22 @@ -24,6 +24,6 @@ In March 1982 [[INSLAW]] signed a three-year, ten-million-dollar contract with t ### Footnotes -[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua,* March 1993, p. 186 (Moscato "now Acting Director of EOUSA"). The 1953 order, the list of duties (Justice Manual, Title 3) and the succession of directors other than Moscato are as given in reference summaries of the office; the Justice Manual and the *United States Government Manual* entries were not examined. +[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua,* March 1993, p. 186 (Moscato "now Acting Director of EOUSA"). The 1953 order, the list of duties (Justice Manual, Title 3) and the succession of directors other than Moscato are as given in reference summaries of the office. [^2]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair,* H. Rept. 102-857, September 10, 1992. https://archive.org/details/InslawAffairInvestigativeReport [^3]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, pp. 185-186, 211-214. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Foreign Technology Division.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Foreign Technology Division.md index 832c740a..458f65c3 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Foreign Technology Division.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Foreign Technology Division.md @@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ relations: start: 1961 end: 1969-12-17 role: "named in Air Force Regulation 80-17 of September 19, 1966 as the unit supporting and analyzing Project Blue Book" - fn: 5 + fn: 8 - type: contractor_to with: "[[Battelle Memorial Institute]]" reverse: true start: 1951-12 role: "scientific support contract for UFO reports under the Air Technical Intelligence Center (Project Bear, Project Stork)" - fn: 8 + fn: 5 created: 2026-10-03 updated: 2026-10-03 --- @@ -59,25 +59,37 @@ On May 21, 1951 the Air Force established the [[Air Technical Intelligence Cente ### Blue Book and the contractors -[[Project Grudge]] and [[Project Blue Book]], the Air Force's UFO reporting projects, ran at ATIC under [[Edward J. Ruppelt]]. In December 1951 Ruppelt arranged a contract with an unnamed Midwestern research organization (the [[Battelle Memorial Institute]]) to provide scientists, a questionnaire and a punch-card statistical study; its product, Special Report No. 14, was issued in May 1955 under ATIC's cover.[^3][^4] The memorandum on the [[Robertson Panel]] of February 16, 1953 lists among the evidence presented "Progress Reports of Project STORK (code name for Battelle Memorial Institute contract work supporting ATIC)."[^8] The [[Department of Defense]]'s [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] calls this contract "Project BEAR (Late 1951 to Late 1954)" and states that the contractor's report was released "under the cover of ATIC to maintain its anonymity."[^4] On February 15, 1954 Lieutenant General [[Donald L. Putt]], signing as "Commander," forwarded to the ATIC commander, Colonel [[George L. Wertenbaker]], a report on a December 16, 1953 sighting by the [[Lockheed Aircraft Company|Lockheed]] chief engineer [[Kelly Johnson]] and Lockheed flight test personnel, writing that the report "was handed to me by Lockheed personnel with the explanation that Mr. Johnson was most reluctant to write the report in the first place and then refused to forward it on to you"; the Blue Book file for the case contains only that report and a record card reading "lenticular cloud" (see [[Lockheed Skunk Works]]).[^6] A [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] memorandum of October 11, 1960 describes the Battelle repository called Project White Stork as concentrating "on subjects of interest to the Air Force's Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Field," and records that the Agency's [[Office of Scientific Intelligence]] was considering funding it.[^7] +[[Project Grudge]] and [[Project Blue Book]], the Air Force's UFO reporting projects, ran at ATIC under [[Edward J. Ruppelt]]. In December 1951 Ruppelt arranged a contract with an unnamed Midwestern research organization (the [[Battelle Memorial Institute]]) to provide scientists, a questionnaire and a punch-card statistical study; its product, Special Report No. 14, was issued in May 1955 under ATIC's cover.[^3][^4] The memorandum on the [[Robertson Panel]] of February 16, 1953 lists among the evidence presented "Progress Reports of Project STORK (code name for Battelle Memorial Institute contract work supporting ATIC)."[^5] The [[Department of Defense]]'s [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] calls this contract "Project BEAR (Late 1951 to Late 1954)" and states that the contractor's report was released "under the cover of ATIC to maintain its anonymity."[^4] On February 15, 1954 Lieutenant General [[Donald L. Putt]], signing as "Commander," forwarded to the ATIC commander, Colonel [[George L. Wertenbaker]], a report on a December 16, 1953 sighting by the [[Lockheed Aircraft Company|Lockheed]] chief engineer [[Kelly Johnson]] and Lockheed flight test personnel, writing that the report "was handed to me by Lockheed personnel with the explanation that Mr. Johnson was most reluctant to write the report in the first place and then refused to forward it on to you"; the Blue Book file for the case contains only that report and a record card reading "lenticular cloud" (see [[Lockheed Skunk Works]]).[^6] A [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] memorandum of October 11, 1960 describes the Battelle repository called Project White Stork as concentrating "on subjects of interest to the Air Force's Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Field," and records that the Agency's [[Office of Scientific Intelligence]] was considering funding it.[^7] ### The Foreign Technology Division in the 1966 regulation and review -Air Force Regulation 80-17 of September 19, 1966 provides that "The Air Force Systems Command will support the program with current resources within the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to continue the Project Blue Book effort." Base commanders were to investigate each sighting, with the exception that "FTD at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, independently or with the help of pertinent Air Force activities, may conduct any other investigation." FTD was to "Analyze and evaluate all information and evidence reported to bases on those UFOs which are not identified at the base level," to "Use other Government agencies, private industrial companies, and contractor personnel to assist in analyzing and evaluating UFO reports, as necessary," and to "prepare a final case report on each sighting reported to it," sending significant findings to Systems Command at [[Andrews Air Force Base]] and from there to Air Force headquarters.[^5] The [[Air Force Scientific Advisory Board]]'s ad hoc committee under [[Brian O'Brien]], which met on February 3, 1966 and included [[Carl Sagan]], heard briefings from "the AFSC Foreign Technology Division, which is the cognizant Air Force agency that collates information on UFO sightings and monitors investigations of individual cases"; the memorandum of September 28, 1965 by Major General [[E. B. LeBailly]] that requested the review records a determination by the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations that FTD "should continue to exercise its presently assigned responsibilities concerning UFOs," and the committee's distribution list includes the Commander of FTD.[^9] AARO's 2024 report dates the O'Brien Committee to 1964.[^4] +Air Force Regulation 80-17 of September 19, 1966 provides that "The Air Force Systems Command will support the program with current resources within the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to continue the Project Blue Book effort." Base commanders were to investigate each sighting, with the exception that "FTD at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, independently or with the help of pertinent Air Force activities, may conduct any other investigation." FTD was to "Analyze and evaluate all information and evidence reported to bases on those UFOs which are not identified at the base level," to "Use other Government agencies, private industrial companies, and contractor personnel to assist in analyzing and evaluating UFO reports, as necessary," and to "prepare a final case report on each sighting reported to it," sending significant findings to Systems Command at [[Andrews Air Force Base]] and from there to Air Force headquarters.[^8] The [[Air Force Scientific Advisory Board]]'s ad hoc committee under [[Brian O'Brien]], which met on February 3, 1966 and included [[Carl Sagan]], heard briefings from "the AFSC Foreign Technology Division, which is the cognizant Air Force agency that collates information on UFO sightings and monitors investigations of individual cases"; the memorandum of September 28, 1965 by Major General [[E. B. LeBailly]] that requested the review records a determination by the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations that FTD "should continue to exercise its presently assigned responsibilities concerning UFOs," and the committee's distribution list includes the Commander of FTD.[^9] AARO's 2024 report dates the O'Brien Committee to 1964.[^4] The [[Condon Committee]]'s bibliography cites an English translation of a Russian conference on the twinkling of stars prepared by the "Translation Services Branch Foreign Technology Division, WP-AFB, Ohio."[^10] [[J. Allen Hynek|Hynek]]'s 1969 correspondence with the FTD commander and his consultancy to the division from 1970 are described on the page for J. Allen Hynek. ### The Ufimtsev translation -[[Ben Rich]] wrote in his 1994 memoir that in 1975, after a July [[Pentagon]] briefing on Soviet air defenses, his mathematician [[Denys Overholser]] found, in a paper by the Soviet scientist [[Pyotr Ufimtsev]] titled "Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction," a method of calculating the radar cross section of a shape, and that the paper "had only recently been translated by the Air Force Foreign Technology Division from the original Russian language." Rich wrote that Overholser admitted the paper was "so obtuse and impenetrable that only a nerd's nerd would have waded through it all," and that Ufimtsev "had provided us with an 'industrial-strength' theory" for the faceted [[F-117 Nighthawk|F-117]] design.[^13] +[[Ben Rich]] wrote in his 1994 memoir that in 1975, after a July [[Pentagon]] briefing on Soviet air defenses, his mathematician [[Denys Overholser]] found, in a paper by the Soviet scientist [[Pyotr Ufimtsev]] titled "Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction," a method of calculating the radar cross section of a shape, and that the paper "had only recently been translated by the Air Force Foreign Technology Division from the original Russian language." Rich wrote that Overholser admitted the paper was "so obtuse and impenetrable that only a nerd's nerd would have waded through it all," and that Ufimtsev "had provided us with an 'industrial-strength' theory" for the faceted [[F-117 Nighthawk|F-117]] design.[^11] ### After Blue Book -An Air Force memorandum of October 20, 1969 signed by Brigadier General [[C. H. Bolender]] recommending Blue Book's termination stated that "reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with [[JANAP 146]] or [[Air Force Manual 55-11]], and are not part of the Blue Book system," as the reporter [[Billy Cox]] quoted it in 2015.[^11] Secretary of the Air Force [[Robert C. Seamans Jr.]] announced the termination of Blue Book on December 17, 1969.[^4] [[Dale Graff]], a civilian scientist at FTD, later managed remote viewing taskings for the [[Stargate Project]] from Wright-Patterson (see his page). +An Air Force memorandum of October 20, 1969 signed by Brigadier General [[C. H. Bolender]] recommending Blue Book's termination stated that "reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with [[JANAP 146]] or [[Air Force Manual 55-11]], and are not part of the Blue Book system," as the reporter [[Billy Cox]] quoted it in 2015.[^12] Secretary of the Air Force [[Robert C. Seamans Jr.]] announced the termination of Blue Book on December 17, 1969.[^4] [[Dale Graff]], a civilian scientist at FTD, later managed remote viewing taskings for the [[Stargate Project]] from Wright-Patterson (see his page). ### Foreign materiel exploitation and the reverse engineering allegations -Notes attributed to the physicist [[Eric Davis]] of October 16, 2002 record Vice Admiral [[Thomas R. Wilson]] saying that when program managers told him in June 1997 that they ran "a reverse engineering program" he first thought they meant "recovered Soviet/Chinese, etc. hardware ... like a missile or intell platform or aircraft" and "actually came to meeting expecting to find a sensitive foreign collection and reverse engineering operation," with "UFOs" used as a cover for that; the notes have him adding that the managers "said they weren't that either." Wilson told the [[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]] in 2020 that the notes were "all fiction."[^12] The Foreign Technology Division's recorded mission after 1961 was the exploitation of captured foreign aircraft and the evaluation of Soviet systems.[^2] AARO's report states that "AARO found no empirical evidence for claims that the USG and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology."[^4] +Notes attributed to the physicist [[Eric Davis]] of October 16, 2002 record Vice Admiral [[Thomas R. Wilson]] saying that when program managers told him in June 1997 that they ran "a reverse engineering program" he first thought they meant "recovered Soviet/Chinese, etc. hardware ... like a missile or intell platform or aircraft" and "actually came to meeting expecting to find a sensitive foreign collection and reverse engineering operation," with "UFOs" used as a cover for that; the notes have him adding that the managers "said they weren't that either." Wilson told the [[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]] in 2020 that the notes were "all fiction."[^13] The Foreign Technology Division's recorded mission after 1961 was the exploitation of captured foreign aircraft and the evaluation of Soviet systems.[^2] AARO's report states that "AARO found no empirical evidence for claims that the USG and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology."[^4] + +### Advisory and assistance contractors, 2025 to 2026 + +A presolicitation posted on SAM.gov on April 10, 2025 describes the Advisory Support and Technical Requirement Administration (ASTRA) as "a five (5) year MAC IDIQ contract for Advisory & Assistance Services (A&AS) capabilities to provide a broad range of professional support to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) Scientific and Technical Intelligence analysis mission."[^14] The solicitation, FA860425RB017, states that ASTRA contractor personnel "shall augment the NASIC workforce by providing support for the production of technical intelligence through collection, analysis, planning, processing, dissemination, archiving, and associated activities for NASIC, the USAF, the DoD, and National Level intelligence efforts."[^15] On May 6, 2026 the Department of Defense announced that [[Apogee Engineering]] (FA8604-26-D-B003), [[KBR Wyle Services]] (FA8604-26-D-B009), [[Riverside Research Institute]] (FA8604-26-D-B005) and [[Systems Planning and Analysis]] (FA8604-26-D-B006) "were awarded an $866,000,000 ceiling, multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for advisory and assistance services" for the center, with work "performed at Dayton, Ohio" and completion expected "by June 30, 2034."[^16] The awards of [[Radiance Technologies]] for the center are recorded on its own page under other contract vehicles. + +On June 8, 2026 [[WiSC Enterprises]] posted a position at Wright-Patterson to "support intelligence and defense operations at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC)" in "Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), Foreign Materiel Exploitation (FME), and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) mission areas," requiring an "Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI adjudication" and stated to be "contingent upon contract award."[^17] [[The War Zone]] reported on June 15, 2023 that the center "includes a dedicated Foreign Materiel Exploitation Squadron."[^18] + +### The Jonathan Grey account + +[[The Debrief]] reported on June 5, 2023, in an article by [[Leslie Kean]] and [[Ross Coulthart]], that "Jonathan Grey is a generational officer of the United States Intelligence Community with a Top-Secret Clearance who currently works for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), where the analysis of UAP has been his focus." The article states that Grey is identified "under the identity he uses inside the agency," and quotes him: "The non-human intelligence phenomenon is real. We are not alone. Retrievals of this kind are not limited to the United States. This is a global phenomenon, and yet a global solution continues to elude us." The same article quotes [[Christopher Mellon]] as saying that "classified briefings are often presented for Jonathan Grey and his team at NASIC." The account of Grey's employment rests on that article alone and has not been independently confirmed.[^19] + +Department of Defense spokesperson Sue Gough told The War Zone, in an article of June 15, 2023, that "to date, AARO has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently."[^18] AARO's 2024 historical report, quoted above, states that it "found no empirical evidence for claims that the USG and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology."[^4] ### Footnotes @@ -85,12 +97,18 @@ Notes attributed to the physicist [[Eric Davis]] of October 16, 2002 record Vice [^2]: National Air and Space Intelligence Center, "National Air and Space Intelligence Center Heritage," fact sheet, https://www.nasic.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Article/611728/national-air-and-space-intelligence-center-heritage/ (read from the Wayback Machine raw copy). [^3]: Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956), chapter nine, Project Gutenberg ebook 17346, https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17346/pg17346.txt [^4]: Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume I, February 2024, pp. 7 to 9, 17 to 19 and 28 to 29, https://media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/DOPSR-CLEARED-508-COMPLIANT-HRRV1-08-MAR-2024-FINAL.PDF (read from the Wayback Machine raw copy). -[^5]: Air Force Regulation 80-17, 19 September 1966, paragraphs 3b to 3e, Condon Report Appendix B, https://files.ncas.org/condon/text/appndx-b.htm +[^5]: Durant memorandum of February 16, 1953 on the Robertson Panel, Condon Report Appendix U, https://files.ncas.org/condon/text/appndx-u.htm (Tab C: "Progress Reports of Project STORK (code name for Battelle Memorial Institute contract work supporting ATIC)"). [^6]: Martin Shough, "A Study of the Lockheed Sightings," National Aviation Reporting Centre on Anomalous Phenomena, July 2014, appendix reproducing the letters of Putt (February 15, 1954) and Johnson (January 23, 1954), https://mail.project1947.com/fig/Lockheed_Case_Dec_16_1953.pdf [^7]: Chief, Intelligence Production Faculty, CIA Intelligence School, "Weekly Activities Report No. 36," October 11, 1960, CIA-RDP78-04836A000100040080-9, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp78-04836a000100040080-9 -[^8]: Durant memorandum of February 16, 1953 on the Robertson Panel, Condon Report Appendix U, https://files.ncas.org/condon/text/appndx-u.htm (Tab C: "Progress Reports of Project STORK (code name for Battelle Memorial Institute contract work supporting ATIC)"). +[^8]: Air Force Regulation 80-17, 19 September 1966, paragraphs 3b to 3e, Condon Report Appendix B, https://files.ncas.org/condon/text/appndx-b.htm [^9]: Special Report of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project "Blue Book," March 1966, with Tab A (LeBailly memorandum of September 28, 1965) and distribution list, Condon Report Appendix A and Section V, chapter 2, https://files.ncas.org/condon/text/appndx-a.htm and https://files.ncas.org/condon/text/s5chap02.htm [^10]: Condon Report, Section VI, chapter 4, references, https://files.ncas.org/condon/text/s6chap04.htm -[^11]: Billy Cox, "The hunt for missing pieces," Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 3, 2015, reproduced at https://mail.project1947.com/articles/The_hunt_for_missing_pieces.pdf (the Bolender memorandum itself was not opened). -[^12]: "EWD NOTES 10/16/02, Eric Davis Meeting with Adm. Wilson," p. 12, https://documents2.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wilsonleak.pdf ; Wilson's 2020 statement to Billy Cox as reproduced in The Black Vault, https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/the-admiral-wilson-leak-an-analysis/ . -[^13]: Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), chapter on the origin of stealth, https://archive.org/details/skunk-works-apersonal-memoir-of-my-years-at-lockheed-ben-rrich (text lines 437 to 440 and 516 to 552). Sole source for the passage so cited; the translation itself was not located. +[^11]: Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), chapter on the origin of stealth, https://archive.org/details/skunk-works-apersonal-memoir-of-my-years-at-lockheed-ben-rrich (text lines 437 to 440 and 516 to 552). Sole source for the passage so cited; the translation itself was not located. +[^12]: Billy Cox, "The hunt for missing pieces," Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 3, 2015, reproduced at https://mail.project1947.com/articles/The_hunt_for_missing_pieces.pdf. +[^13]: "EWD NOTES 10/16/02, Eric Davis Meeting with Adm. Wilson," p. 12, https://documents2.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wilsonleak.pdf ; Wilson's 2020 statement to Billy Cox as reproduced in The Black Vault, https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/the-admiral-wilson-leak-an-analysis/ . +[^14]: SAM.gov, presolicitation PZIEC2025, "Advisory Support & Technical Requirement Administration (ASTRA)," posted April 10, 2025, https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v2/opportunities/e5b70042473345cba9a3663d5abda25d +[^15]: SAM.gov, solicitation FA860425RB017, "Advisory Support and Technical Requirement Administration," https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v2/opportunities/857041a4d1e1402fa2aa69bfb5f296fe +[^16]: "Contracts for May 6, 2026," Air Force section, U.S. Department of Defense contract announcements, reproduced at https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2026/05/dod-contracts_4479042.htm +[^17]: WiSC Enterprises, "Program Management Analyst - Junior," ClearanceJobs listing 8962579, posted June 8, 2026, https://api.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8962579/program-management-analyst-junior ; https://careers-wiscenterprises.icims.com/jobs/1675/program-management-analyst---junior/job +[^18]: Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway, "Aliens Or Not, Secret Crash Retrieval Programs Are A Very Real Thing," The War Zone, June 15, 2023, https://www.twz.com/aliens-or-not-secret-crash-retrieval-programs-are-a-very-real-thing +[^19]: Leslie Kean and Ross Coulthart, "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin," The Debrief, June 5, 2023, https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/ . Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/No Lives Matter.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/No Lives Matter.md index dbef1996..2d4c346e 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/No Lives Matter.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/No Lives Matter.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags: - Netherlands - Sweden start: "2022" -summary: "No Lives Matter (NLM) is a misanthropic, accelerationist violent extremist network founded by Dutch national Justin B. (alias 'CXRPSE') as a 764 splinter group, linked to stabbing attacks across Europe and designated a terrorist organization by Dutch prosecutors." +summary: "Misanthropic, accelerationist violent extremist network founded by Dutch national Justin B. (alias CXRPSE) as a 764 splinter group, linked to stabbing attacks across Europe and designated a terrorist organization by Dutch prosecutors." created: 2026-05-21 updated: 2026-05-21 --- @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ The following institutional analyses of NLM are cited in the secondary literatur ### Footnotes -[^1]: Ali Winston, "The Violent Rise of 'No Lives Matter,'" *Wired*, March 13, 2025. https://www.wired.com/story/no-lives-matter-764-violence/ (paywalled; summarized via WIRED social media post https://x.com/WIRED/status/1899867013868085440). +[^1]: Ali Winston, "The Violent Rise of 'No Lives Matter,'" *Wired*, March 13, 2025. https://www.wired.com/story/no-lives-matter-764-violence/. [^2]: "Eindhoven suspect says he left sadistic online 'Com' shortly before his arrest," *NL Times*, October 28, 2025. https://nltimes.nl/2025/10/28/eindhoven-suspect-says-left-sadistic-online-com-shortly-arrest. See also Weening Strafrechtadvocaten case summaries: https://www.strafrechtadvocaten.nl/en/verdachte-achter-sadistische-onlinegroep-bekeerde-zich-en-had-leven-net-op-orde-rtl-nl/ [^3]: "Founder of No Lives Matter Arrested on Child Abuse and Terrorism Charges," Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, 2025. https://globalextremism.org/post/founder-of-no-lives-matter-arrested-on-child-abuse-and-terrorism-charges/ [^4]: "No Lives Matter Updates Extremist Messaging and Publishes Tactical Guides," New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, August 21, 2024. https://www.njohsp.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1430/2. Archived: https://archive.org/details/no-lives-matter-nlm diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Junta Coordinadora Revolucionaria.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Junta Coordinadora Revolucionaria.md index 83f4ea99..c26a0652 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Junta Coordinadora Revolucionaria.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Junta Coordinadora Revolucionaria.md @@ -30,5 +30,5 @@ Arrests of the junta's couriers in [[Paraguay]] in 1975, interrogated before an ### Footnotes [^1]: "Primer Comunicado de la Junta Coordinadora Revolucionaria," 1974, text as republished by latinamericanstudies.org. -[^2]: "La Junta de Coordinación Revolucionaria (1972-1979). Una experiencia de internacionalismo armado en el Cono Sur," academic article indexed at Dialnet, as summarized; not read in full. +[^2]: "La Junta de Coordinación Revolucionaria (1972-1979). Una experiencia de internacionalismo armado en el Cono Sur," academic article indexed at Dialnet. [^3]: Dinges, John. *The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents*. New Press, 2004, pp. 90-94. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Americans for Safe Aerospace.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Americans for Safe Aerospace.md index 94c17d27..6e86f01a 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Americans for Safe Aerospace.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Americans for Safe Aerospace.md @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ The organization's website describes it as "a nonprofit led by military pilots" ### Incorporation and registrations -OpenCorporates, an aggregator that states its pages are not the primary source and that the company registry should be consulted, lists Americans for Safe Aerospace as a "Domestic Nonprofit Corporation," number N00007627058 (previous number EXTUID_4339256), status "Active In Good Standing," registered address 1620 I Street NW, Suite 900, [[Washington, D.C.]] 20006, registered agent Corporation Service Company at 1156 15th Street NW, Suite 605. The record's business classification text reads "Americans for Safe Aerospace is a charitable organization that is dedicated to aerospace safety and national security by providing public education on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and supporting pilots and other aerospace workers impacted by UAP." Its recent filings are dated March 16, 2023 ("Initial"), June 9, 2023 ("Amendment"), March 28, 2024 ("Biennial Report (2024)"), July 2, 2025 ("Good Standing") and March 19, 2026 ("Biennial Report (2026)"). The record shows ten officers, with names visible only to registered users. The incorporation date and the officers' names were not retrievable without a login, and the District of Columbia Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection's own CorpOnline entity page, which was not opened, is the primary record.[^5] +OpenCorporates, an aggregator that states its pages are not the primary source and that the company registry should be consulted, lists Americans for Safe Aerospace as a "Domestic Nonprofit Corporation," number N00007627058 (previous number EXTUID_4339256), status "Active In Good Standing," registered address 1620 I Street NW, Suite 900, [[Washington, D.C.]] 20006, registered agent Corporation Service Company at 1156 15th Street NW, Suite 605. The record's business classification text reads "Americans for Safe Aerospace is a charitable organization that is dedicated to aerospace safety and national security by providing public education on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and supporting pilots and other aerospace workers impacted by UAP." Its recent filings are dated March 16, 2023 ("Initial"), June 9, 2023 ("Amendment"), March 28, 2024 ("Biennial Report (2024)"), July 2, 2025 ("Good Standing") and March 19, 2026 ("Biennial Report (2026)"). The record shows ten officers, with names visible only to registered users.[^5] A [[North Carolina]] foreign nonprofit corporation record, number 3088984, status "Current Active," shows an "Application for Certificate of Authority" dated July 16, 2025, a registered agent at 4030 Wake Forest Road, Suite 349, Raleigh (Registered Agents Inc.), a head office at 1620 I Street NW, Suite 900, and four officers on record, names behind a login.[^5] @@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ The [[ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer]] organization record for EIN 92-2948733 giv ASA's Form 990-EZ for calendar year 2024 (signed August 26, 2025, by Ryan Graves) reports gross receipts of 63,084 dollars, contributions, gifts and grants of 55,773 dollars, sales of inventory of 7,311 dollars (cost of goods sold 4,363), total revenue of 58,721 dollars, total expenses of 9,446 dollars (including 747 dollars to independent contractors and no salaries), and net assets of 2,895 dollars at the start and 52,170 dollars at the end of the year. The Schedule A reports that substantial contributors gave 45,000 dollars of the year's support; the contributor schedule is restricted from public release. The return states the primary exempt purpose as "To advance aerospace safety and national security through education research and nonpartisan engagement supporting pilots and aerospace professionals in reporting and analyzing UAP, disseminating safety information and partnering with scientific and government stakeholders to close domain-awareness gaps," and reports "over 200 reports" received through "a secure program for pilots and the public to report UAP sightings," with high-priority cases referred "to government channels including Senate committees and the [[Pentagon]] directly," and a membership that grew "from zero to over 8000 members." It lists Ryan Graves as executive director (30 hours per week), [[Haley Morris]] as secretary and [[Brad Crispin]] as treasurer (10 hours per week each), none compensated. It answers no to lobbying activities and to political campaign activity.[^2] -ASA's Form 990-EZ for calendar year 2025 (return dated May 18, 2026) reports gross receipts of 77,745 dollars, contributions of 74,508 dollars, total revenue of 75,266 dollars, total expenses of 92,750 dollars (salaries and other compensation 52,736 dollars, fees to independent contractors 2,372 dollars, other expenses 37,642 dollars including 18,516 dollars for travel), and net assets of 41,468 dollars at the start and 23,984 dollars at the end of the year; the beginning figure differs from the 52,170 dollars reported for the end of 2024 and the return refers to a "filed 2024 amended" statement. Program service expenses total 72,497 dollars. The return reports "over 800 reports," membership of "over 30,000," and the same three officers with no compensation. Schedule A reports substantial contributors of 37,617 dollars of the year's support.[^3] The IRS Exempt Organizations index lists a second Form 990-EZ filing for tax period 2024 in 2026 (object ID 202621399349200202), apparently the amended return.[^7] +ASA's Form 990-EZ for calendar year 2025 (return dated May 18, 2026) reports gross receipts of 77,745 dollars, contributions of 74,508 dollars, total revenue of 75,266 dollars, total expenses of 92,750 dollars (salaries and other compensation 52,736 dollars, fees to independent contractors 2,372 dollars, other expenses 37,642 dollars including 18,516 dollars for travel), and net assets of 41,468 dollars at the start and 23,984 dollars at the end of the year; the beginning figure differs from the 52,170 dollars reported for the end of 2024 and the return refers to a "filed 2024 amended" statement. Program service expenses total 72,497 dollars. The return reports "over 800 reports," membership of "over 30,000," and three officers with no compensation: Ryan Graves (executive director, 30 hours a week, with an employee benefit program entry of 6,246 dollars), Jay Simpson (secretary, 10 hours) and Stan Strom (treasurer, 10 hours). The 2024 return, original and amended, listed Graves with Haley Morris (secretary) and Brad Crispin (treasurer), so the secretary and treasurer named differ between the two years.[^7] Schedule A reports substantial contributors of 37,617 dollars of the year's support.[^3] The IRS Exempt Organizations index lists a second Form 990-EZ filing for tax period 2024 in 2026 (object ID 202621399349200202), apparently the amended return.[^8] ### Founder's 2023 testimony -At the July 26, 2023 hearing of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs of the [[House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]], [[Ryan Graves]] testified that "more than thirty witnesses have come forward and almost 5,000 Americans have joined us in the fight for transparency at safeaerospace.org," and that "the majority of witnesses are commercial pilots at major airlines." Representative [[Anna Paulina Luna]] asked him about a 2003 sighting at [[Vandenberg Air Force Base]]; he said the information came through "one of the witnesses that have approached me at Americans for Safe Aerospace."[^8] +At the July 26, 2023 hearing of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs of the [[House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]], [[Ryan Graves]] testified that "more than thirty witnesses have come forward and almost 5,000 Americans have joined us in the fight for transparency at safeaerospace.org," and that "the majority of witnesses are commercial pilots at major airlines." Representative [[Anna Paulina Luna]] asked him about a 2003 sighting at [[Vandenberg Air Force Base]]; he said the information came through "one of the witnesses that have approached me at Americans for Safe Aerospace."[^9] -The July 2023 hearing witness list names Graves as "Executive Director, Americans for Safe Aerospace," and his congressional biography describes the organization as "the first military pilot led nonprofit dedicated to UAP as a matter of national security, aerospace safety, and science."[^8][^9] +The July 2023 hearing witness list names Graves as "Executive Director, Americans for Safe Aerospace," and his congressional biography describes the organization as "the first military pilot led nonprofit dedicated to UAP as a matter of national security, aerospace safety, and science."[^9][^10] ### Advisors @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ The website lists as advisors [[Alex Dietrich]] (former [[United States Navy|Nav ### Lobbying and campaign records -A search of Senate [[Lobbying Disclosure Act]] records on October 2, 2026 returned no filing in which Americans for Safe Aerospace appears as registrant or client, and none of the 65 filings whose specific issues mention "UAP" names it. No [[Federal Election Commission|FEC]] committee under that name was located. FEC receipts under the name Ryan Graves belong to several unrelated individuals (Colorado, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington addresses and employers) and none is attributed to the founder.[^10] +A search of Senate [[Lobbying Disclosure Act]] records on October 2, 2026 returned no filing in which Americans for Safe Aerospace appears as registrant or client, and none of the 65 filings whose specific issues mention "UAP" names it. No [[Federal Election Commission|FEC]] committee under that name was located. FEC receipts under the name Ryan Graves belong to several unrelated individuals (Colorado, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington addresses and employers) and none is attributed to the founder.[^11] ### Footnotes @@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ A search of Senate [[Lobbying Disclosure Act]] records on October 2, 2026 return [^4]: Americans for Safe Aerospace, website, home page and policy pages, retrieved October 2, 2026. https://www.safeaerospace.org [^5]: OpenCorporates, Americans for Safe Aerospace, District of Columbia N00007627058 and North Carolina 3088984, retrieved October 3, 2026. https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_dc/N00007627058 ; https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nc/3088984 [^6]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, EIN 922948733, retrieved October 3, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/922948733.json -[^7]: Internal Revenue Service, Tax Exempt Organization Search index for 2026. https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/2026/index_2026.csv -[^8]: House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, hearing of July 26, 2023, Serial No. 118-53, statements and questioning of Ryan Graves and David Fravor. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg53022/html/CHRG-118hhrg53022.htm -[^9]: Ryan Graves, witness biography, July 26, 2023. https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116282/witnesses/HHRG-118-GO06-Bio-GravesR-20230726.pdf -[^10]: Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database search by client and registrant name and by issue text, October 2, 2026. https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=Americans+for+Safe+Aerospace ; Federal Election Commission, OpenFEC API, committee search "safe aerospace" and schedule A contributor name "Graves, Ryan," October 2, 2026. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/ +[^7]: Internal Revenue Service, Form 990-EZ, Americans for Safe Aerospace, tax period 2024 (object ID 202502389349200045, signed August 26, 2025, in https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/2025/2025_TEOS_XML_09A.zip) and amended return (object ID 202621399349200202), compared with the tax period 2025 return (object ID 202611399349200506, https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/2026/2026_TEOS_XML_05A.zip), officer listings. +[^8]: Internal Revenue Service, Tax Exempt Organization Search index for 2026. https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/2026/index_2026.csv +[^9]: House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, hearing of July 26, 2023, Serial No. 118-53, statements and questioning of Ryan Graves and David Fravor. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg53022/html/CHRG-118hhrg53022.htm +[^10]: Ryan Graves, witness biography, July 26, 2023. https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116282/witnesses/HHRG-118-GO06-Bio-GravesR-20230726.pdf +[^11]: Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database search by client and registrant name and by issue text, October 2, 2026. https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=Americans+for+Safe+Aerospace ; Federal Election Commission, OpenFEC API, committee search "safe aerospace" and schedule A contributor name "Graves, Ryan," October 2, 2026. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/ diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Apogee Engineering.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Apogee Engineering.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7fbe6b28 --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Apogee Engineering.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +category: "Organizations" +tags: + - Organization + - DefenseContractor + - ColoradoSprings + - IntelligenceSupport +alias: + - Apogee + - Apogee USA + - Apogee Engineering LLC + - Apogee Engineering, LLC +summary: "Colorado Springs defense contractor and one of four holders of the $866 million NASIC ASTRA advisory and assistance contract, awarded May 6, 2026." +location: "Colorado Springs, Colorado" +relations: + - type: contracted_with + with: "[[National Air and Space Intelligence Center]]" + start: 2026-07-01 + role: "holder of IDIQ FA8604-26-D-B003, Advisory Support and Technical Requirement Administration (ASTRA), $866,563,163 ceiling" + fn: 1 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- +Apogee Engineering, LLC is a contractor based in [[Colorado Springs]], [[Colorado]], registered in federal contracting records under the unique entity identifier KC9TJYEW3KC4.[^1] Its federal prime awards in [[USAspending.gov]] number about 380 and include a General Services Administration task order of $303,758,079.92 (47QFSA20F0088, "SOF ATL SUPPORT SERVICES") and a $72,305,017.18 order (47QFCA19F0049).[^2] + +### NASIC advisory and assistance contract + +On May 6, 2026 the [[Department of Defense]] announced that Apogee Engineering LLC (FA8604-26-D-B003), [[KBR Wyle Services]] of Chantilly, Virginia (FA8604-26-D-B009), [[Riverside Research Institute]] of Fairfax, Virginia (FA8604-26-D-B005), and [[Systems Planning and Analysis]] of Alexandria, Virginia (FA8604-26-D-B006) "were awarded an $866,000,000 ceiling, multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for advisory and assistance services" for the [[National Air and Space Intelligence Center]]. The announcement states that work "will be performed at Dayton, Ohio," that completion is expected "by June 30, 2034," that "four offers were received," and that $20,000 of fiscal 2026 operations and maintenance funds were obligated at award; the contracting activity is the [[Air Force Life Cycle Management Center]] at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]].[^3] + +The contract is titled Advisory Support and Technical Requirement Administration (ASTRA). Its presolicitation of April 10, 2025 describes "a five (5) year MAC IDIQ contract for Advisory & Assistance Services (A&AS) capabilities to provide a broad range of professional support to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) Scientific and Technical Intelligence analysis mission."[^4] The solicitation (FA860425RB017, responses due October 8, 2025) states that ASTRA contractor personnel "shall augment the NASIC workforce by providing support for the production of technical intelligence through collection, analysis, planning, processing, dissemination, archiving, and associated activities for NASIC, the USAF, the DoD, and National Level intelligence efforts."[^5] + +USAspending records the Apogee indefinite-delivery vehicle as FA860426DB003 with a ceiling of $866,563,163.00, a period of performance from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2031, full and open competition with no set-aside, and Apogee marked "Not Designated a Small Business." The first Apogee task order, FA860426FB148, runs July 1 to July 31, 2026 and is valued at $5,000; parallel $5,000 orders were issued to Riverside Research Institute (FA860426FB149), Systems Planning and Analysis (FA860426FB150) and KBR Wyle Services (FA860426FB153).[^6] + +### Earlier Dayton work + +Apogee's earlier Ohio place-of-performance awards include GST0511BM00018 (December 4, 2010 to December 3, 2014, $3,438,218.79, "PLANNING, ANALYSIS, AND OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ASC/WIR"), GS05T13BMC0004 (January 17, 2013 to January 16, 2015, $2,055,928.65, "WIE INFORMATION ASSURANCE") and GS04Q15DBP0006 (December 4, 2014 to December 3, 2016, $4,841,330.18, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and special operations forces advisory bridge support).[^2] + +[^1]: USAspending.gov, award record CONT_IDV_FA860426DB003_9700, recipient block, https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/awards/CONT_IDV_FA860426DB003_9700/ (accessed October 3, 2026). +[^2]: USAspending.gov, spending_by_award search, recipient "APOGEE ENGINEERING", all contract and IDV award types, October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2026, https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ (accessed October 3, 2026). +[^3]: "Contracts for May 6, 2026," Air Force section, U.S. Department of Defense contract announcements, reproduced at https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2026/05/dod-contracts_4479042.htm. +[^4]: SAM.gov, presolicitation PZIEC2025, "Advisory Support & Technical Requirement Administration (ASTRA)," posted April 10, 2025, https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v2/opportunities/e5b70042473345cba9a3663d5abda25d. +[^5]: SAM.gov, solicitation FA860425RB017, "Advisory Support and Technical Requirement Administration," https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v2/opportunities/857041a4d1e1402fa2aa69bfb5f296fe. +[^6]: USAspending.gov, award record CONT_IDV_FA860426DB003_9700 and spending_by_award search for the description "ADVISORY SUPPORT AND TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT ADMINISTRATION (ASTRA)," https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/awards/CONT_IDV_FA860426DB003_9700/. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Associated Press.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Associated Press.md index 2205898f..eb474c07 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Associated Press.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Associated Press.md @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ On June 6, 2025 a panel of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District [^6]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, organization search for "associated press," https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/search.json?q=associated+press (queried October 1, 2026). [^7]: Associated Press, *Covering Tyranny: The AP and Nazi Germany, 1933-1945* (New York, May 10, 2017), Introduction, pp. 1-4, and chapter 2 (Lochner), https://www.almendron.com/blog/wp-content/images/2017/06/ap-in-germany-report.pdf (copy of the AP's published report; the AP's own page ap.org/about/history/ap-in-nazi-germany returned "Page not found" on October 1, 2026). [^8]: Associated Press, *Covering Tyranny*, 2017, Key findings, pp. 5-6. -[^9]: Harriet Scharnberg, "Press statement by Harriet Scharnberg on AP's review 'Covering Tyranny. The AP and Nazi Germany: 1933-1945,'" May 12, 2017, https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/static/2016-1/Material/Press_Statement_Scharnberg_on_AP_May_2017.pdf ; her article is "The A and P of Propaganda. Associated Press and Nazi Photojournalism," *Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History* 13, no. 1 (2016), http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2016/id=5324 (article not opened; cited through the statement). +[^9]: Harriet Scharnberg, "Press statement by Harriet Scharnberg on AP's review 'Covering Tyranny. The AP and Nazi Germany: 1933-1945,'" May 12, 2017, https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/static/2016-1/Material/Press_Statement_Scharnberg_on_AP_May_2017.pdf ; her article is "The A and P of Propaganda. Associated Press and Nazi Photojournalism," *Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History* 13, no. 1 (2016), http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2016/id=5324. [^10]: Associated Press, *Covering Tyranny*, 2017, chapter 3, "The AP GmbH Photo Service," pp. 67-68 (Cooper to Lochner, December 1938, with the AP's commentary; Cooper to Brooks, 1939; Lochner on Brandt, 1937), and the report's passage on the news-agency cartel (Cooper, general manager from 1925 to 1948). [^11]: Associated Press, *Covering Tyranny*, 2017, chapter 4, "New York Photos: the Gatekeepers," pp. 72-73 (Brooks to Stratton; Stratton's reply). [^12]: Associated Press, *Covering Tyranny*, 2017, Key findings, p. 6. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/BDM Corporation.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/BDM Corporation.md index 35aa72a4..fed2f44b 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/BDM Corporation.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/BDM Corporation.md @@ -168,10 +168,10 @@ The General Accounting Office's online bid protest index returns decisions whose [^24]: Schnabel, Jim. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi," The Independent (London), Sunday Review, August 27, 1995, pp. 10-13, as transcribed by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001-7 (also CIA-RDP96-00791R000100030073-5), read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00791r000200090001-7. [^25]: "Addendum to MFR, dtd 10 Dec 85," CIA-RDP96-00788R001700030001-1, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001700030001-1. [^26]: Canadian Subsidiary Technology Inc. board of directors page, Wayback capture of February 6, 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20050206131007id_/http://canadiansub.com/Board.html. The page is a promotional biography written for the company; sole source for the quoted title. -[^27]: Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group page of this vault, drawing on Elizondo and the Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 16-22, 166, 187-188, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf, which quotes Alexander, *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities* (2011); the book was not opened. Sole source for the passages so cited. +[^27]: Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group page of this vault, drawing on Elizondo and the Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 16-22, 166, 187-188, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf, which quotes Alexander, *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities* (2011). Sole source for the passages so cited. [^28]: Elizondo and the Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf, quoting Hansen, *The Trickster and the Paranormal* (2001), and a transcript of Inman; neither original was opened. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^29]: BDM International, Inc., Schedule 14D-9, filed November 26, 1997 (letter to stockholders; "Background of the Offer"; Stockholders Agreement; severance and employment arrangements; press release of November 21, 1997), accession 0000950152-97-008353, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/870763/0000950152-97-008353.txt; TRW Inc., Schedule 14D-1, same date, accession 0000950152-97-008369, Item 9 (about 930 million dollars), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/870763/0000950152-97-008369.txt. [^30]: TRW Inc., Form 8-K, accession 0000950152-97-008891, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100030/0000950152-97-008891.txt. [^31]: BDM International, Inc., Form 15-12G, filed December 29, 1997, accession 0000950152-97-008867, EDGAR filing index https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/870763/0000950152-97-008867-index.html. -[^32]: Defense Technical Information Center, discover.dtic.mil searches of October 3, 2026 for BDM with "nonlethal," "psychological operations," "directed energy" and "low intensity conflict" (page 1 of each), results at https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA096430, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA196443.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA198959.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA314647.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA318677.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA328260.pdf and https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA281500.pdf; entries read as search snippets only, the reports themselves not opened. -[^33]: General Accounting Office, bid protest decisions search for "BDM," gao.gov, October 3, 2026, page 1, not date-filtered; entries read as search snippets only, the decisions themselves not opened. +[^32]: Defense Technical Information Center, discover.dtic.mil searches of October 3, 2026 for BDM with "nonlethal," "psychological operations," "directed energy" and "low intensity conflict" (page 1 of each), results at https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA096430, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA196443.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA198959.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA314647.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA318677.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA328260.pdf and https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA281500.pdf. +[^33]: General Accounting Office, bid protest decisions search for "BDM," gao.gov, October 3, 2026, page 1, not date-filtered. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.md index 459c4829..677f5231 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.md @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ Frazier's January/February 2007 editorial in the Skeptical Inquirer was titled " [^1]: Frazier, Kendrick. "History of CSICOP," in Gordon Stein, ed., *The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal* (Prometheus Books, 1996), pp. 168-180, published at skepticalinquirer.org. https://skepticalinquirer.org/history-of-csicop/ [^2]: *The Zetetic,* vol. 1, no. 1, Fall/Winter 1976: Truzzi, editorial, pp. 3-6; Kurtz, "The Aims of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal"; "Committee News Notes" and list of Fellows; Hyman, review of *The Geller Papers.* https://archive.org/details/skeptical-inquirer-1-25 [^3]: *Geller v. Randi,* 40 F.3d 1300 (D.C. Cir. 1994) (No. 93-7140). https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F3/040/40.F3d.1300.93-7140.html -[^4]: Frazier, Kendrick. "It's CSI Now, Not CSICOP," *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 31, no. 1, January/February 2007 (title read; text is behind a subscription wall). https://skepticalinquirer.org/2007/01/its-csi-now-not-csicop/ +[^4]: Frazier, Kendrick. "It's CSI Now, Not CSICOP," *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 31, no. 1, January/February 2007. https://skepticalinquirer.org/2007/01/its-csi-now-not-csicop/ [^5]: Lindsay, Ronald A. "The Fourth Decade of CSI: Change, Renewal, and the Launch of CSICon," *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 50, no. 3, May/June 2026. https://skepticalinquirer.org/2026/04/the-fourth-decade-of-csi-change-renewal-and-the-launch-of-csicon/ [^6]: Alcock, James E. "Fifty Years of the Modern Skeptical Movement," *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 50, no. 1, January/February 2026. https://skepticalinquirer.org/2025/12/fifty-years-of-the-modern-skeptical-movement/ [^7]: "Skeptics Criticized on Paranormal Issue," *The New York Times,* June 25, 1978, copy in CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080024-8. https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00787r000200080024-8 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/ENNEA LLC.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/ENNEA LLC.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..24302395 --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/ENNEA LLC.md @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +--- +category: "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena" +tags: + - Organization + - PrivateSector + - UAP + - SkyWatcher + - Trademark +alias: + - ENNEA LLC + - ENNEA + - Ennea + - Explorer's Club by Ennea + - The Explorer's Club by Ennea +summary: "Delaware LLC (file 2861775, certificate date of formation January 1, 2024) that owns the SKYWATCHER, ENNEA and PSIONIC trademark applications and is registered in Florida under Alex Klokus." +location: "Miami, Florida" +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- + +ENNEA LLC is a Delaware limited liability company registered in [[Florida]] as a foreign LLC in June 2025, whose authorized person is [[Alex Klokus]]. It is the named owner in the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] applications for SKYWATCHER (serial 98864113, filed November 20, 2024), ENNEA (98873547, filed November 26, 2024) and PSIONIC (99091501, filed March 19, 2025), and the operator, by the record of its website, of "The Explorer's Club by Ennea," whose inaugural gathering was held at the [[Esalen Institute]] from October 14 to 18, 2024.[^1][^2][^3][^4] + +### Formation and registration + +A Delaware certificate of good standing for ENNEA LLC dated June 13, 2025 (authentication number 203947585), attached to the Florida application, states that the company "was formed on the first day of January, A.D. 2024." The footer of the certificate gives the Delaware file number 2861775.[^5] A Delaware Division of Corporations name search on October 3, 2026 returned only that file number for the name. Other Delaware entities in Klokus's filings carry file numbers between about 5,000,000 and 6,800,000 ([[Futurism, LLC]] 5743300; [[Tomorrow Farms Inc.]] 6775125; Kyber Capital Crypto GP I LLC 6794772), and [[Skywatcher Technologies Corporation]], incorporated November 27, 2024, carries 10021279. The certificate date and the file number are recorded here as they appear; no Delaware document explaining the combination was opened, and January 1 is a Delaware state holiday.[^5][^6] + +The Florida Division of Corporations record for document M25000008651 shows a foreign limited liability company, state of formation Delaware, filed June 16, 2025, status active, federal employer identification number 33-2209329, registered agent VCORP Agent Services, Inc. The application, faxed by the agent on June 16, 2025, is signed "ALEX KLOKUS" with the title Member and lists him as the only person. The annual report filed April 17, 2026 is signed "ALEX KLOKUS, CEO" and lists him as sole authorized person with the title MBR. The amended annual report of July 15, 2026 changes the principal address to the registered agent's Plantation address and the mailing address to 12555 Biscayne Boulevard #1083, and is signed "ALEX KLOKUS, AUTHORIZED SIGNER." The earlier principal and mailing addresses are residential and are not reproduced here.[^2] + +The registered address on all three trademark applications is the VCORP Agent Services address, 108 West 13th Street, Suite 100, [[Wilmington, Delaware]], a commercial registered-agent address also given on unrelated applications and also the registered agent address of [[Sky Watcher|Skywatcher Technologies]] Corporation. The domain skywatcher.ai, registered December 6, 2024, lists as registrant "Skywatcher Technologies" at the same 12555 Biscayne Boulevard #1083 mailbox that appears as ENNEA LLC's mailing address on the Florida record of July 2026.[^2][^6][^7] + +### Trademark applications + +All filings in the public files of SKYWATCHER and PSIONIC, and the filings in the ENNEA file read here, are signed by the attorney of record, [[Robert Drolet]] of [[Fort Lauderdale]]. None contains an owner-signed declaration; owner email is redacted in the public copies, and the SKYWATCHER application is an intent-to-use filing with no specimen. The owner telephone on the applications is the number printed on the Form D of Futurism, LLC (December 19, 2016) and the Form ADV of [[SALT Fund Management LLC]] (March 30, 2026): 203-571-7341. The 2016 number may have been reassigned, and no document says it is Klokus's line today.[^3][^7] + +The SKYWATCHER application (Class 35, "Business management") received an extension of time to file a statement of use on February 11, 2026 and a petition to revive was filed September 14, 2026. The ENNEA application drew a refusal under Section 2(d) on May 14, 2025 citing ENNEAPLAN (registration 6,057,943), and was suspended by a letter of January 3, 2026. The PSIONIC application drew a Section 2(d) refusal on August 27, 2025 citing SIONIC (registrations 5,572,170 and 5,572,173), a final refusal on March 6, 2026, and a request for reconsideration on September 9, 2026 that added the identification "business administration and operational management of scientific research programs" and the exclusion "none of the foregoing being financial consulting, financial advisory, investment advisory, wealth management, banking, or accounting services."[^3][^8] + +The response to the ENNEA office action, filed November 12, 2025, submits as evidence two third-party screenshots. One, a [[Facebook]] post of January 28, 2025 by the "Disclosure Team" account, has a highlighted snippet reading "Ennea, which is a sister organization to Skywatcher and comprised of ..." The other is an [[Instagram]] reel by the same account captioned: "Matthew Pines reveals he is working as an outside advisor for the @skywatcherhq team and Ennea. Ennea is an invitational community of patrons, entrepreneurs, scientists, and mystics working at the forefront of consciousness. Matthew will be helping with the Skywatcher team's strategy going forward." The caption is the Disclosure Team's, not ENNEA's, and was selected and filed by ENNEA's attorney to show that the services are sold "through online platforms coordinating efforts of like-minded entities."[^8] + +### Co-existence agreement + +The agreement effective November 19, 2025 between ENNEA LLC ("a limited liability company under the laws of Delaware," Party 1) and Waterkress Creative LLC, owner of ENNEAPLAN, was filed with the USPTO on December 7, 2025 as a voluntary amendment. Section 2 states: "Party 1 Mark will be used to commercialize ENNEA initiatives, wherein ENNEA is an organization focused on the research and investigation of scientific anomalies. The organization has an active community of scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors focused on conducting research necessary to usher in a new scientific paradigm." Under Section 3 ENNEA agrees not to use the mark for marketing consultancy, brand development or advertising services. The signature block reads "Alex Klokus," title "ENNEA LLC Authorized Representative," and for Waterkress Amy Youssef. The Acrobat Sign audit shows the document created November 25, 2025 by Drolet, "emailed" to an ennea.io address "for signature," and signed at 12:17:02 PM GMT; the Waterkress signature is dated November 23, 2025.[^9] + +### ennea.io and the Explorer's Club + +The domain ennea.io was registered January 5, 2024 and transferred March 11, 2024; the registrant name is redacted and mail is handled by Google Workspace. Captures of May 22 and August 9, 2024 show the tagline "The central node for capital, research, and relationships fueling contrarian ideas." with an email sign-up box. Captures from November 4, 2024 show the title "The Explorer's Club by Ennea. Inaugural gathering at the Esalen Institute October 14th-18th, 2024." and the text: "An invitational community of patrons, entrepreneurs, scientists, and mystics working at the forefront of consciousness." "What if a higher form of intelligence has been visiting this planet? And remains here right now, to this day?" "Our inaugural event is a highly curated, patron-funded, invite-only experience focused on exploring how new discoveries related to consciousness, higher intelligence, and the mysterious energy field that connects our universe will usher in a new scientific paradigm." The application form at /explorersclub/request asks name, phone, email, "Are you a Patron or Practitioner/Researcher?", "Why do you want to join?" and "Relevant links." No captured page names an organizer, address or legal entity.[^10][^4] + +No Form D, Senate lobbying filing, federal contract recipient record or [[Federal Election Commission]] contributor under the name ENNEA, Ennea LLC or Skywatcher was found in searches of October 3 to 4, 2026, and the company files no public Form 990 on the Florida record. No source opened names the patrons.[^11] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: USPTO TSDR status pages: SKYWATCHER https://tsdr.uspto.gov/statusview/sn98864113 ; ENNEA https://tsdr.uspto.gov/statusview/sn98873547 ; PSIONIC https://tsdr.uspto.gov/statusview/sn99091501 (retrieved October 3 to 4, 2026). +[^2]: Florida Division of Corporations, ENNEA LLC, document M25000008651: application June 16, 2025, annual report April 17, 2026, amended annual report July 15, 2026. https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/ByDocumentNumber +[^3]: USPTO TSDR documents for serials 98864113 (NEWAPP November 20, 2024, document FTK20241120175737; ESU20260211124648) and 98873547 and 99091501; USPTO attorney search for Robert Drolet, October 4, 2026. +[^4]: ennea.io, Wayback Machine capture of November 4, 2024. http://web.archive.org/web/20241104003430id_/https://www.ennea.io/ ; request form http://web.archive.org/web/20241104023419/https://www.ennea.io/explorersclub/request +[^5]: Delaware Secretary of State, Division of Corporations, certificate of good standing, ENNEA LLC, June 13, 2025, authentication 203947585, attached to Florida document M25000008651 (page 4 of the file saved October 3, 2026); Delaware entity name search, October 3, 2026. +[^6]: OpenCorporates, Delaware 10021279 (Skywatcher Technologies Corporation, agent VCORP Agent Services, Inc.), https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/10021279 ; Delaware Division of Corporations entity details screenshot, October 3, 2026 (incorporated November 27, 2024). +[^7]: RDAP record, skywatcher.ai, created December 6, 2024, registrant "Skywatcher Technologies." https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/skywatcher.ai ; SEC EDGAR, Form D of Futurism, LLC, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1692611/000169261116000001/primary_doc.xml ; Form ADV CRD 316587, Item 1.F. https://reports.adviserinfo.sec.gov/reports/ADV/316587/PDF/316587.pdf +[^8]: USPTO TSDR, serial 98873547, response to office action ROA20251112203504 (pages 37 to 45); serial 99091501, request for reconsideration RFR20260909060159. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn98873547 +[^9]: USPTO TSDR, serial 98873547, voluntary amendment PRA20251208060057 (seven pages: agreement and Dropbox Sign and Adobe Acrobat Sign audit pages). https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn98873547 +[^10]: RDAP record, ennea.io. https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/ennea.io ; Wayback Machine captures https://web.archive.org/web/20240522145320id_/https://ennea.io/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20240809024219id_/https://ennea.io/ +[^11]: SEC EDGAR full-text and Form D searches ("Ennea LLC," "ennea.io," "Skywatcher"); lda.gov client name searches; USAspending recipient search; OpenFEC employer searches; October 3 to 4, 2026. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Elm Guest House.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Elm Guest House.md index fed86092..43fc221b 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Elm Guest House.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Elm Guest House.md @@ -40,6 +40,6 @@ In October 2012 the Labour MP [[Tom Watson]] asked Prime Minister [[David Camero ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It gives twenty-three men detained where the inquiry gives twenty people arrested including the Kasirs, and describes Cyril Smith as confirmed as a visitor, where the inquiry found no politician or VIP identified. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It gives twenty-three men detained where the inquiry gives twenty people arrested including the Kasirs, and describes Cyril Smith as confirmed as a visitor, where the inquiry found no politician or VIP identified. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. *Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse Linked to Westminster: Investigation Report,* February 2020, Part B.3, "The 1980s," paras. 9-12. https://web.archive.org/web/2021/https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports-recommendations/publications/investigation/westminster/part-b-allegations-child-sexual-abuse-linked-westminster/b3-1980s.html [^3]: Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. *Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse Linked to Westminster,* February 2020, Part D.7, "Allegations connected to Elm Guest House," paras. 70-74. https://web.archive.org/web/2021/https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports-recommendations/publications/investigation/westminster/part-d-police-responses-allegations-westminster-child-sexual-abuse/d7-allegations-connected-elm-guest-house.html diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Father Bud's Boys Farm.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Father Bud's Boys Farm.md index 7c3e6bd4..4eee2a78 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Father Bud's Boys Farm.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Father Bud's Boys Farm.md @@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that film was mailed from the farm to Richards for dev [^3]: *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, reprinted in *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* Serial No. 12, 1977, and in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, 1977. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit [^4]: Testimony of Kenneth Wooden, in *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* Serial No. 12, 1977. [^5]: Testimony of Gerald S. Richards, May 27, 1977, in *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* 1977, p. 41. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit -[^6]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. The incorporation under the Church of the New Revelation and the letter to Halvorsen are not borne out by the hearing record, which lists Boys Farm, Inc., separately and records only Vermilye's name in Halvorsen's files. +[^6]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. The incorporation under the Church of the New Revelation and the letter to Halvorsen are not borne out by the hearing record, which lists Boys Farm, Inc., separately and records only Vermilye's name in Halvorsen's files. Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.md index 46baebab..678550cc 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.md @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Hughes was a high-standing member of FGBMFI and a keynote speaker at a dinner ev --- ### Footnotes -[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Sole source for the passages so cited. It counts five FGBMFI members at the 1970 meeting. It describes Micheletti as placed in office by the generals. +[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. It counts five FGBMFI members at the 1970 meeting. It describes Micheletti as placed in office by the generals. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: Slosser, Bob. "The Prophecy." CBN. https://cbn.com/article/relationships/prophecy [^3]: Congressional Research Service. *Honduran Political Crisis, June 2009-January 2010,* R41064, February 1, 2010. https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R41064.html [^4]: "Jimmy Hughes Speaks To KESQ After Charges Dropped." KESQ, July 2, 2010. https://kesq.com/news/2010/07/02/jimmy-hughes-speaks-to-kesq-after-charges-dropped/ \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Galileo Project.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Galileo Project.md index 7d167d72..ccc38dff 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Galileo Project.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Galileo Project.md @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ In June 2023 an expedition of the Galileo Project, led by Loeb as chief scientis ### UAP Science Advisory Council, 2026 -*[[The Harvard Crimson]]* reported on July 11, 2026 that a week before the government's latest release of declassified files a representative of the [[Director of National Intelligence|Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] visited Loeb at his home with a request, and that Loeb then formed a UAP Science Advisory Council "in support of [[Donald Trump|President Trump]]'s directive on UAP transparency"; of its 18 publicly named members, 12 had ties to Harvard and four were Galileo Project research affiliates. Members include the [[Skeptic Society|Skeptic]] magazine founder [[Michael Shermer]], a Galileo affiliate, and the billionaire [[Ben Lamm]], whose company Colossal Biosciences "helps fund the [[Wyss Institute]] at Harvard." Loeb said the council has no budget and communicates through him and a parallel [[UAP Governing Board]] whose membership is not public, and that the council has asked the Pentagon to declassify 50 items without a response.[^18] +*[[The Harvard Crimson]]* reported on July 11, 2026 that a week before the government's latest release of declassified files a representative of the [[Director of National Intelligence|Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] visited Loeb at his home with a request, and that Loeb then formed a UAP Science Advisory Council "in support of [[Donald Trump|President Trump]]'s directive on UAP transparency"; of its 18 publicly named members, 12 had ties to Harvard and four were Galileo Project research affiliates. Members include the [[Skeptic Society|Skeptic]] magazine founder [[Michael Shermer]], a Galileo affiliate, and the billionaire [[Ben Lamm]], whose company Colossal Biosciences "helps fund the [[Wyss Institute]] at Harvard." Loeb said the council has no budget and communicates through him and a parallel [[UAP Governing Board]] whose membership is not public, and that the council has asked the Pentagon to declassify 50 items without a response.[^18] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^19] ### Footnotes @@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ In June 2023 an expedition of the Galileo Project, led by Loeb as chief scientis [^5]: "Advisory Boards." The Galileo Project website, read October 3, 2026. https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/organization/advisory-boards ; standalone page https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/philanthropic-advisory-board . The /organization/affiliates page requires a login. [^6]: "FAQ," Version 2, January 26, 2022, and "Organization." The Galileo Project website, read October 3, 2026. https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/FAQ [^7]: Bruker Corporation, Schedule 14A definitive proxy statement filed April 22, 2022, pp. on director biography and "2021 Transactions with Related Persons." https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109354/000119312522115070/d256158ddef14a.htm -[^8]: Inverse, "Galileo Project: A new hunt for alien objects in the universe," July 2021. https://www.inverse.com/science/new-project-to-hunt-for-alien-objects-in-the-universe. The figure originates in *Science*'s coverage as cited by Inverse; the *Science* article itself was not opened. +[^8]: Inverse, "Galileo Project: A new hunt for alien objects in the universe," July 2021. https://www.inverse.com/science/new-project-to-hunt-for-alien-objects-in-the-universe. The figure originates in *Science*'s coverage as cited by Inverse. [^9]: "Laura Domine from Stanford University receives Keto-Galileo Postdoctoral Fellowship," May 12, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221225170229/https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/news/laura-domine-stanford-university-receives-keto-galileo%C2%A0postdoctoral-fellowship [^10]: "Brinson Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Galileo Project," August 15, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221225170229/https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/news/brinson-prize-postdoctoral-fellowship-galileo-project -[^11]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, organization 680656415. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/680656415.json. The underlying 990-PF PDFs could not be downloaded; grants to Harvard were not checked. +[^11]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, organization 680656415. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/680656415.json. [^12]: The Galileo Project. "The Galileo Project Welcomes Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo as Research Affiliates," October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy). [^13]: "Richard King Mellon Foundation awards $575,000 to Galileo Project," April 26, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/news/richard-king-mellon-foundation-awards-575000-galileo-project [^14]: EYOS Expeditions. "Extraterrestrial Evidence Found: Spheres From Outside Our Solar System Identified by the Interstellar Expedition." https://www.eyos-expeditions.com/?p=2240; Loeb, Avi. "Diary of an Interstellar Voyage, Part 2." *The Debrief.* https://thedebrief.org/diary-of-an-interstellar-voyage-part-2/ @@ -97,3 +97,4 @@ In June 2023 an expedition of the Galileo Project, led by Loeb as chief scientis [^16]: "Charles Hoskinson embarks on ocean expedition to search for alien technology." *DL News.* https://dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/cardano-charles-hoskinson-expedition-search-for-alien-tech/ [^17]: "Latest News." The Galileo Project website, snapshot of 2025. https://web.archive.org/web/2025/https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/news [^18]: Shah, Neil H., Theresa F. Bartelme and Risha Sinha. "Inside Avi Loeb's New UAP Council, Built From His Harvard Orbit." *The Harvard Crimson,* July 11, 2026. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/7/11/avi-loeb-uap-council/ +[^19]: Sol Foundation, release "Sol Foundation Co-Founders Named to UAP Science Advisory Council," June 22, 2026 (modified July 13, 2026), https://thesolfoundation.org/sol-foundation-co-founders-named-to-uap-science-advisory-council/ ; Avi Loeb, "More Details on the UAP Science Advisory Council," Medium (avi-loeb.medium.com), June 16, 2026, read in a Wayback Machine copy; Federal Register search for "UAP Science Advisory Council," https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?conditions%5Bterm%5D=%22UAP+Science+Advisory+Council%22 (count 0 on October 3, 2026). diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Ignite Fueling Innovation.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Ignite Fueling Innovation.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a337e5e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Ignite Fueling Innovation.md @@ -0,0 +1,227 @@ +--- +category: "Organizations" +tags: + - Organization + - DefenseContractor + - Huntsville + - Alabama + - SDVOSB + - SolFoundation +alias: + - Ignite Fueling Innovation + - Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. + - Ignite + - Alatec, Inc. + - Alatec + - ALATEC + - Alatec Incorporated +summary: "Huntsville, Alabama service-disabled veteran-owned defense contractor, formed 2001 as Alatec, Inc., with about $197 million in federal obligations since fiscal 2008 and registered agent of the Alabama corporation The Sol Foundation from 2022 to 2023." +location: "Huntsville, Alabama" +relations: + - type: founded + with: "[[Radiance Ignite Technologies]]" + start: 2024-07-10 + role: "joint venture with Radiance Technologies; Alabama certificate of formation July 10, 2024; announced October 14, 2024 with Clayton Hinchman as president and chairman" + fn: 7 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Clayton Hinchman]]" + reverse: true + role: "chief marketing officer (2017), chief executive officer (May 2020); registered agent on the Alabama record in 2026" + fn: 25 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Jason Shelton]]" + reverse: true + end: 2022-11-09 + role: "president and chief executive officer (2017); individual registered agent shown at a Discovery Drive address until the change recorded November 9, 2022" + fn: 6 + - type: contractor_to + with: "[[Missile Defense Agency]]" + start: 2010-09-27 + end: 2016-06-15 + role: "functional, execution and non-matrix administrative support, orders 0002 ($21,844,756) and 0003 ($45,296,027)" + fn: 21 + - type: contractor_to + with: "[[TRADOC Analysis Center]]" + start: 2007-05-03 + role: "modeling and simulation, analysis and information technology support at White Sands Missile Range (CombatXXI, OneSAF) under Army orders" + fn: 21 + - type: contractor_to + with: "[[U.S. Air Force]]" + start: 2019-05-29 + role: "Transportation Family of Systems (FA877119F0021, $36,220,973) and later orders" + fn: 21 + - type: represented + with: "[[Sol Foundation]]" + start: 2022-09-23 + end: 2023-09-15 + role: "registered agent and registered office of the Alabama corporation The Sol Foundation (AL SOS 001-041-463), between its formation and its dissolution" + fn: 4 + - type: contractor_to + with: "[[Radiance Technologies]]" + start: 2013-10-31 + end: 2016-03-31 + role: "subcontractor under Army order 0003 of indefinite-delivery contract W9113M13D0006, subaward of $906,327 reported November 4, 2013; a second subaward of $98,665 reported June 11, 2026 under Air Force order FA860426FB159" + fn: 22 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Julie Praino]]" + reverse: true + start: 2026-08 + role: "Senior Vice President for business development, capture and proposals" + fn: 12 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Logan Grumbach]]" + reverse: true + start: 2023 + role: "strategic threat capabilities analyst (2023), Vice President (May 2024); Space Force and intelligence portfolios" + fn: 12 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Lonnie Dunbar]]" + reverse: true + start: 2024 + role: "program manager (2024), Vice President (2025)" + fn: 12 + - type: funded + with: "[[Citizens for Turner]]" + start: 2024-06-18 + role: "Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. Federal Political Action Committee (C00830901), $2,500" + fn: 10 + - type: funded + with: "[[Susie Lee]]" + start: 2025-05-08 + role: "Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. Federal Political Action Committee (C00830901), $2,500 to Susie Lee for Congress" + fn: 10 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- + +Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. is an [[Alabama]] domestic corporation based in [[Huntsville]], formed on February 2, 2001 in Madison County and known as Alatec, Inc. until a name change recorded on May 16, 2016. The Alabama Secretary of State record (entity 000-214-606) gives its status as "Exists" and its nature of business as "PERFORM ENGINEERING/TECHNICAL SERVICES." Authorized capital is $250,000 and paid-in capital $100,000. The incorporators listed are [[John Hamburg]], [[Dan Cleary]], [[Mike Jury]] and [[Larry Anderson]].[^1] + +### Office address + +The Federal Election Commission registration of Ignite's first political action committee (C00610691, treasurer Brandon R. Umphrey) gives the committee's address as 530C Discovery Dr NW, Huntsville, with Ignite as the connected organization. USAspending recipient addresses on Ignite awards of 2022 and 2024 read "530C Discovery Dr," one with "Ste 450."[^2] + +### Alabama registry record + +The Secretary of State record shows a Certificate of Formation (7 pages), Articles of Amendment dated May 23, 2016 (3 pages) recording that the legal name was "Changed From Alatec, Inc." on May 16, 2016, and further Articles of Amendment dated September 4, 2019 (3 pages) and March 26, 2024 (1 page). The page prints incorporators only and lists no officers; annual reports for 2000 through 2024 are listed.[^1] + +The registered-agent history on the same record reads as follows. On August 12, 2010 the agent was changed from Larry D. Anderson. On August 5, 2016 an agent (Anderson, at an address on Pratt Avenue) was replaced. On January 4, 2019 the agent was changed from [[Jason Shelton]], at an address on Jan Davis Drive NW. On November 9, 2022 a Registered Agent Change (2 pages) records the agent as changed from Shelton at a Discovery Drive NW address in Huntsville, with the agent's mailing address changed from the same address. The current agent is [[[[Clayton Hinchman]]|Robert Clayton Hinchman]], with a registered office on The Bridge Street in Huntsville.[^1] + +### Huntsville conference, June 2022 + +The Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies held its Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena Conference at the Rocket City Tavern in Huntsville on June 3 to 5, 2022. [[Garry Nolan]] was a panelist on "The National Security Implications of Scientifically Studying UAP," moderated by Joseph DiNoto (described in the program as a former intelligence community officer supporting "special operations, space, and missile defense forces") with [[Rich Hoffman]] (an Army Materiel Command Headquarters contractor at [[Redstone Arsenal]] and executive board member of the coalition) and two other panelists.[^3] + +### The Sol Foundation filings in Alabama + +The Alabama Secretary of State holds a name reservation (RES036922) for "The Sol Foundation," issued for the exclusive use of Garry Nolan for one year beginning July 28, 2022. A Certificate of Formation for a domestic nonprofit corporation of that name (entity 001-041-463) was filed September 23, 2022. It gives a Discovery Drive NW address in Huntsville as both principal office and registered office, and names Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. as registered agent; the Sol filing names no individual as agent. Ignite's own record shows its individual agent, Jason Shelton, at a Discovery Drive NW address in Huntsville until the change recorded November 9, 2022, which is 47 days after the Sol formation. The stated purpose of the Sol corporation is "The Sol Foundation supports research into and the understanding of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena."[^4][^5] + +The Alabama corporation filed a Statement of Intent to Dissolve and Articles of Dissolution on September 15, 2023, a year and three weeks after its formation. The Articles of Dissolution have the box "No plan of distribution was adopted" checked, name no recipient of assets and do not state whether the corporation held any. See [[Sol Foundation]] for the directors and officers named in the filings.[^5] + +The Alabama name search run on October 3, 2026 for the address text returned no entity by that name, and the search form does not search by address. No other entity at the Discovery Drive address was identified.[^1] + +### Leadership + +A [[Business Alabama]] report of July 20, 2017 describes the company as led by president and chief executive officer Jason Shelton, chief operating officer [[Brandon Umphrey]], chief marketing officer Clayton Hinchman and chief financial officer [[Trent Poff]]. The same report says that the company was "known as ALATEC until last year's purchase of and merger with [[USi]]," that it had about 250 employees serving federal and commercial customers in 17 states, that it was founded by "a group of retired military officers," that in 2006 it won its first two prime contracts, for modeling and simulation analytics at [[White Sands Missile Range]], New Mexico and at [[Fort Leavenworth]], Kansas, and that it established an employee stock ownership plan in 2012.[^6] + +By October 2024 the announcement of the [[Radiance Ignite Technologies]] joint venture identified Hinchman as chief executive officer of Ignite.[^7] The Alabama record lists Hinchman as the registered agent in 2026.[^1] + +Shelton joined Alatec in 2009 with responsibility for business development, after working at [[Camber Corporation]], and served 12 years in the [[U.S. Army]] and Army National Guard as an Air Defense Artillery officer working "principally in Joint and Coalition integration of missiles and radar systems around the globe."[^8] On May 22, 2020 Ignite announced that Hinchman would succeed him as chief executive officer, with Shelton remaining chairman of the board and Rich McAdams as president.[^9] The Federal Election Commission lists Shelton as "Chairman" of Ignite on contributions to the company's committee in 2016 and 2018.[^10] + +Hinchman graduated from the [[United States Military Academy]], served as an infantry officer with the [[10th Mountain Division]] and Special Operations Task Force 17, and retired medically as a captain after wounds from an improvised explosive device during a night raid in Iraq. His decorations include the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and the Meritorious Service Medal; he was an honor graduate of Ranger School. He worked for the [[Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization]] and Washington nonprofits, served on the board of the [[Elizabeth Dole Foundation]], holds a master's degree from [[Georgetown University]], founded and led the company USi until Ignite acquired it on April 1, 2016, served as Ignite's chief marketing officer for three years, then as president and chief operating officer of Systems, Products, Solutions, Inc. before becoming Ignite's chief executive officer in May 2020.[^9][^11] Ignite's Our Leadership page states that the company has "a minority-owned Employee-Owned Stock Owner Plan (ESOP)."[^12] + +Hinchman was a Republican candidate for Alabama's 5th congressional district in the 2018 cycle (Federal Election Commission candidate H8AL05208, statement of candidacy first filed June 20, 2017). His committee, Hinchman for Congress (C00648162), reported receipts of $253,800.31 and loans of $100,000 for the cycle; Ignite's committee contributed $2,700 to it on May 18, 2017, and the Radiance Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee contributed $5,000 on March 21, 2018.[^10] In the Republican primary of June 5, 2018 he received 34,739 votes (38.7 percent) to 54,928 (61.3 percent) for [[Mo Brooks]], of 89,667 cast in the district.[^13] + +Trent Poff has been chief financial officer since 2016 and is listed as vice chairman; he joined in 2014 and was previously at Camber. Jessica Wilkerson is chief operations officer (vice president from June 2023), with 17 years as an Army civilian at Program Executive Office Missiles and Space, Program Executive Office Aviation and the Aviation and Missile Command; her team supports the TRADOC Analysis Center at White Sands Missile Range, Program Executive Office Missiles and Space and the Space and Missile Defense Command. Stephen Mitchell has been chief information officer since January 2024 and works on Army Materiel Command information technology contracts.[^12] + +[[Julie Praino]] is Senior Vice President, a position Ignite's release of August 31, 2026 says she took in August 2026 to lead business development, capture and proposal development. The release says she supported air and missile defense programs including the [[Upgraded Early Warning Radar]], [[Terminal High Altitude Area Defense]], the [[AN/TPY-2]] radar and [[PATRIOT]] through industry partners including [[Raytheon]], held profit and loss responsibility for a portfolio above $600 million, and holds degrees from [[Bates College]] (physics), [[Boston University]] (electrical engineering) and [[Boston College]] (MBA).[^12] She is one of five named inventors on U.S. patent application 2020/0407525 A1, "Porous Polymer Membranes Comprising Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes," published December 31, 2020 from an application filed November 27, 2018 under a provisional of November 27, 2017. The other named inventors include Jerry Shan and Richard Castellano of [[Rutgers University]] and Francesco Fornasiero of [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]]. The applicants are Rutgers and Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. Its government interest statement reads: "This invention was made with government support under grant number BA12PHM123 awarded by The Defense Threat Reduction Agency." Assignment records show two of the inventors assigning their rights to Chasm Technologies Inc. (later [[Chasm Advanced Materials]]) on May 28 and 29, 2020, and the [[United States Department of Energy]] holding a confirmatory license from Lawrence Livermore National Security recorded July 27, 2020. The specification says the nanotubes were functionalized by Chasm Technologies before use.[^14] The same grant number appears in a 2017 American Physical Society abstract by Castellano, Shan, Eric Meshot and Fornasiero.[^15] Lawrence Livermore's Biosecurity Center describes the [[Defense Threat Reduction Agency]]-funded effort as a breathable membrane for protective clothing against chemical and biological agents.[^16] + +[[Logan Grumbach]] joined Ignite as a strategic threat capabilities analyst in 2023 and was promoted to Vice President in May 2024, according to the company, leading its [[United States Space Force]] and intelligence portfolios, including support to the Space Force "Space Security and Defense Program," support to the [[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]] full-motion GEOINT mission, and the partnership with [[Virgin Galactic]] "to establish Spaceflight as a Service for government missions." The company says he spent 15 years in missile defense at [[Lockheed Martin]] and [[Boeing]] on programs including Next Generation Interceptor, Glide Phase Interceptor, Multi-Object Kill Vehicle, Redesigned Kill Vehicle, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense and Long Range Discrimination Radar, holds a Ph.D. in aerospace systems engineering and is a part-time instructor at the [[University of Alabama in Huntsville]].[^12] + +His curriculum vitae at the University of Alabama in Huntsville lists him from May 2023 to May 2024 as lead scientist/engineer and futurist on "a direct congressional tasking through the United States Space Force (USSF) and elements of the Intelligence Community (IC)," including a 500-plus page futures study for the Space Force "to be delivered to Congress," technical whitepapers on "quantum radar, neutrino science, brain-computer interface, and metamaterials," and briefings to "Congressional Staff" and the Director of the Missile and Space Intelligence Center; the CV does not name the "multi-billion-dollar US company" with which it says he was chief technical coordinator for a partnership.[^17] + +[[Lonnie Dunbar]] III joined Ignite in 2024 as a program manager and became Vice President in 2025, with a portfolio the company describes as "IT, space, electronic warfare, programmatic, and facility efforts" for customers including the Space and Missile Defense Command, the [[Missile and Space Intelligence Center]], the Air Force [[350th Spectrum Warfare Wing]] and [[United States Special Operations Command]]. According to the company he served in the Army Signal Corps for over 24 years, including with the [[White House Communications Agency]], and as a sergeant major was senior enlisted leader of the [[Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence]]. The Army published his remarks in that role in 2024.[^12][^18] + +### Federal contractor record + +[[USAspending]] lists the recipient as Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. (unique entity identifier MU8VTWFS9QP8; a second identifier, Y2C9YZS13BT3, carries the name with a doubled space; DUNS 013188409), with alternate names Alatec Inc. and Alatec Incorporated, and with the business types small business, veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business and subchapter S corporation.[^19] The company's own 2015 site described it as an ISO 9001:2008 certified service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, and a 2014 capture of its "About" page listed its customers as the [[Missile Defense Agency]], the [[United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command]], the [[TRADOC Analysis Center]] (TRAC), [[NASA]], the [[United States Army Materiel Command]] and the [[United States Army Fires Center of Excellence]].[^20] + +USAspending contract obligations by fiscal year (queried October 3, 2026, awarding sub-agency totals; fiscal year 2026 is partial):[^21] + +| Fiscal year | Total | Army | Missile Defense Agency | Air Force | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| 2008 | $7,501,119 | $7,501,119 | | | +| 2009 | $8,358,726 | $8,358,726 | | | +| 2010 | $10,613,383 | $9,415,383 | $1,198,000 | | +| 2011 | $15,919,279 | $7,147,233 | $8,769,545 | | +| 2012 | $19,486,606 | $8,031,048 | $11,455,558 | | +| 2013 | $22,652,928 | $9,480,823 | $13,172,105 | | +| 2014 | $18,684,259 | $6,048,584 | $12,635,675 | | +| 2015 | $15,579,415 | $3,058,446 | $12,520,969 | | +| 2016 | $8,762,863 | $1,756,926 | $7,005,937 | | +| 2017 | $1,935,095 | $2,438,420 | -$503,325 | | +| 2018 | $1,105,030 | $1,102,530 | $0 | | +| 2019 | $6,065,012 | $1,102,441 | $897,566 | $4,065,005 | +| 2020 | $8,567,316 | $2,624,971 | | $5,942,345 | +| 2021 | $8,206,781 | $2,140,530 | -$6,248 | $6,072,498 | +| 2022 | $10,454,171 | $2,091,876 | | $8,364,795 | +| 2023 | $9,654,738 | $1,707,483 | | $7,947,255 | +| 2024 | $6,270,254 | $2,440,275 | | $3,829,980 | +| 2025 | $11,692,890 | $1,681,197 | | $10,008,693 | +| 2026 | $5,602,193 | $91,847 | $500 | $5,509,846 | + +The fiscal-year totals (spending over time endpoint) sum to $197,112,058; the agency columns come from the awarding sub-agency endpoint and differ from the totals by small residuals. By awarding agency over the whole period the figures are the Department of the Army $78.2 million, the Missile Defense Agency $67.1 million and the Air Force $51.7 million, with $3,001 from the Navy and $5,000 from the General Services Administration. Small residuals, including Navy, General Services Administration and Defense Contract Management Agency amounts, are omitted from the columns.[^19][^21] + +Largest awards by type: + +- Missile Defense Agency: order 0003, $45,296,027, October 26, 2012 to June 15, 2016, "functional, execution and non-matrix administrative support"; order 0002, $21,844,756, September 27, 2010 to October 26, 2012, same description; and HQ085926FF788, $500, December 29, 2025 to December 28, 2035, "Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) initial order."[^21] +- Army, TRAC and White Sands: contract W91QF407D0004 (May 3, 2007, $0 obligated at the contract level) is described as "TRAC-WSMR missions related to analysis, studies, modeling, simulation and information technology." Orders under it and later vehicles carry descriptions such as "ONESAF scenario modeling and exercise support" (order 0043, $1,266,116, 2009 to 2010), "Combat XXI support" (order 0060, $1,951,043, 2011 to 2012), "Brigade combat team analysis support service" (order 0024, $773,937, 2008), "JIEDDO modeling and simulation support" (order 0036, $266,650, 2009), "Analytical engineering support services" (W9115122F0264, $1,158,538, June 1, 2022 to April 30, 2023), "Labor - TRAC WSMR CombatXXI" (W9115124F0091, $1,081,193, May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2025) and "TRAC security task order" (W9115125F0060, $620,383, 2025).[^21] +- Air Force: FA877119F0021, $36,220,973, May 29, 2019 to November 28, 2024, "Transportation Family of Systems (Trans FOS)"; FA877125F0010, $11,262,704, November 29, 2024 to August 31, 2026, "support services for the cargo and personnel movement product line"; and FA460025F0048, $4,255,740, May 16, 2025 to March 31, 2027, "Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Ops Center."[^21] + +Of 151 award records read under the recipient name, the only description containing an intelligence term is one 2011 Army order of $849,933 described as "IEW support." No award description names the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] or unidentified anomalous phenomena, and no NASA Marshall Space Flight Center award appeared. No document opened ties any award to Redstone Arsenal.[^21] + +### Subcontract and teaming record + +USAspending subaward records show Ignite as a subcontractor to [[Radiance Technologies]] on an Army order issued by the Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal: prime order 0003 under indefinite-delivery contract W9113M13D0006, base period labor, $5,197,210, October 31, 2013 to March 31, 2016, performed in Huntsville, with a subaward of $906,326.71 reported November 4, 2013 described as "provide independent programmatic and engineering support, create/develop program documentation, conduct scientific and engineering studies... and analyze and assess work performed by other contractors." A second Radiance subaward to Ignite, $98,665, was reported on June 11, 2026 under Air Force order FA860426FB159, "ICAM Collection Development and Support" (Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Dayton, $12,955,000 total, June 12, 2026 to March 11, 2029).[^22] + +Ignite also appears as a subawardee to Torch Technologies on Army Space and Missile Defense Command contract W9113M18FD009 (Future Warfare Center, Decision Support Directorate) from 2018 to 2023, to [[Science Applications International Corporation]] on NASA orders from 2019 to 2023 (the mentor-protege relationship reported in 2017), to Parsons Government Services and ITA International on General Services Administration orders, to [[Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation]] on Army order W31P4Q25F0049 (Strike Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance, July 2, 2025, $185,259), and to ManTech, IBM, General Dynamics Information Technology and Boeing on other orders. Repeated monthly reports make the totals unreliable.[^22] + +### Award descriptions and capability claims + +Of Ignite's 214 prime award records (summed award amount $202.5 million: Army $83.65 million, Missile Defense Agency $67.15 million, Air Force $51.74 million), the awarding offices are Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command offices at Fort Huachuca, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Hood and Fort Sill, the Missile Defense Agency, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and the 55th Contracting Squadron. No awarding office is the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]], the Missile and Space Intelligence Center or the [[National Air and Space Intelligence Center]]. Descriptions include "Hybrid Threat, Complex Operational Environment (HTCOE) development and analysis support" (order 0011, $904,812, 2014), "Cognitive Behaviors for Units and Soldiers" (order 0042, $450,105, 2009), "IEW support" (order 0065, $849,933, 2011) and, in 2025, "Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Ops Center" (FA460025F0048, $4,255,740, performed in San Antonio). The company's capabilities page lists "Cognitive EW," "All-Source Intelligence Analysis" and "Threat Modeling and Red Teaming."[^7][^23] + +Ignite's September 24, 2026 announcement states that it was selected as an awardee on the $14 billion Contract Operations for Missile Evaluation and Testing (COMET) contract supporting the Missile and Space Intelligence Center "through our joint venture with Radiance Technologies," to provide "Scientific and Technical Intelligence (S&TI), foundational military intelligence, and analytical-enabling services to MSIC located at Redstone Arsenal," and lists the Defense Intelligence Agency among its customers.[^23] + +### Political committee contributions + +Ignite's second committee, Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. Federal Political Action Committee (C00830901, registered January 6, 2023), reported contributions to [[Citizens for Turner]] ($2,500, June 18, 2024), the Letlow Victory Fund ($2,500, August 26, 2024), Securing the Republic for Our Next Generation ($5,000, September 25, 2024), the Calvert Victory Fund ($5,000, March 6, 2025), [[Susie Lee]] for Congress ($2,500, May 8, 2025), the Scalise Leadership Fund ($5,000, August 19, 2025) and Conservative Louisiana ($5,000, March 26, 2026). The Radiance Technologies committee reported contributions to Citizens for Turner on June 18, 2024 and to Susie Lee for Congress on May 8, 2025, the same dates as the Ignite committee's. Hinchman personally contributed to [[Mike Rogers]] committees from November 14, 2023 to June 1, 2026 and $2,500 to Citizens for Turner on June 27, 2024.[^10] + +### Radiance Ignite Technologies + +Radiance Technologies and Ignite announced the joint venture Radiance Ignite Technologies, headquartered in Huntsville, on October 14, 2024. The announcement named Hinchman, chief executive officer of Ignite, as president and chairman of the venture and [[Bill Bailey]], chief executive officer of Radiance, as vice chairman, and said the venture would offer capabilities in technical intelligence, directed energy, space operations, electromagnetic spectrum operations, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and systems engineering.[^7] The Alabama record for Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC (entity 001-144-448) gives a formation date of July 10, 2024, about three months before the announcement, and shows a Certificate of Formation of that date (4 pages), Hinchman as registered agent with a registered office on The Bridge Street in Huntsville, and no principal address or nature of business.[^24] A USAspending search for the recipient name returned no awards on October 3, 2026.[^21] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entity Records, Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc., entity 000-214-606, fetched October 3, 2026. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=000214606&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= ; name search "530C Discovery" and related queries, https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpname.mbr/output +[^2]: Federal Election Commission, Form 1, Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. Federal PAC (C00610691), https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00610691/1219703/ and https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/c00610691/1236793 ; USAspending awards W9115124F0369 and W9115122F0075, https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W9115124F0369_9700_W9115120D0012_9700 +[^3]: Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, "AAPC 2022 Presenters" and agenda, https://web.archive.org/web/2022id_/https://www.explorescu.org/_files/ugd/8374d8_1cadf190ff174763bc827f1884849c7a.pdf ; "Upcoming 2022 Science-Based Conference on Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena," May 4, 2022, https://www.explorescu.org/post/upcoming-2022-science-based-conference-on-anomalous-aerospace-phenomena ; Micah Hanks, The Debrief, https://thedebrief.org/scientific-conference-on-anomalous-aerospace-phenomena-to-convene-this-summer/ +[^4]: Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entity Records, The Sol Foundation, entity 001-041-463, fetched October 3, 2026. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=001041463&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= +[^5]: Alabama Secretary of State, document copies for The Sol Foundation, entity 001-041-463 (name reservation RES036922; Certificate of Formation filed September 23, 2022; Statement of Intent to Dissolve and Articles of Dissolution filed September 15, 2023), purchased October 3, 2026. +[^6]: "Newly Merged Huntsville Tech Company is Just Warming Up," Business Alabama (BCA Today), July 20, 2017. https://www.bcatoday.org/newly-merged-huntsville-tech-company-is-just-warming-up/ +[^7]: "Radiance Technologies and Ignite Announce Joint Venture," PR Newswire, October 14, 2024, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-and-ignite-announce-joint-venture-302275375.html ; carried the same day by 256 Today, https://256today.com/radiance-technologies-and-ignite-announce-joint-venture ; read October 3, 2026. +[^8]: "Our Leadership," Ignite Impossible, https://igniteimpossible.com/our-leadership/ +[^9]: "Hinchman CEO of Ignite," Ignite, May 22, 2020, https://igniteimpossible.com/hinchman-ceo-of-ignite/ ; Radiance Ignite Technologies, "About Us," https://radianceignite.com/about/ +[^10]: Federal Election Commission API, schedules A and B and candidate and committee records for H8AL05208, C00648162, C00610691, C00830901 and C00372979, queried October 3, 2026. +[^11]: "Clayton Hinchman," Boots for the Brave, October 8, 2022, https://bootsforthebrave.org/clayton-hinchman/ +[^12]: Ignite Fueling Innovation, "Our Leadership," https://igniteimpossible.com/our-leadership/ ; "Ignite Welcomes Julie Praino as Senior Vice President," August 31, 2026, https://igniteimpossible.com/news/ +[^13]: Alabama Secretary of State, "2018 Republican Primary Results," https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/election-2018/2018%20Republican%20Primary%20Results.xlsx (sheet Summary, CD 5) +[^14]: U.S. Patent Application Publication 2020/0407525 A1 (application 16/767,507; WO 2019/104313 A1), including its legal events listing. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200407525A1/en +[^15]: American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 2017, session E14.5. https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD17/Session/E14.5 +[^16]: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Innovative Nanotube Membrane Helps Protect Soldiers in Hazardous Environments." https://gs.llnl.gov/biosecurity-center/second-skin +[^17]: Joshua "Logan" Grumbach, curriculum vitae, University of Alabama in Huntsville, https://www.uah.edu/images/fsdir/cv/5172/logan-grumbach-cv-5172.pdf +[^18]: "Soldiers hold touchpoint with SMD Center of Excellence experts," Army.mil. https://www.army.mil/article/274602/soldiers_hold_touchpoint_with_smd_center_of_excellence_experts +[^19]: USAspending.gov, recipient profile, Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc., https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/recipient/bfaed4e4-6d4d-c02d-4f49-a5d0d96f41ce-C/ , and spending by awarding agency since fiscal 2008, queried October 3, 2026. +[^20]: Alatec, Inc., "About Us," Internet Archive capture of July 17, 2014, https://web.archive.org/web/20140717055729/http://alatecinc.com/about-us ; home page capture of August 1, 2015, alatecinc.com. +[^21]: USAspending.gov API, endpoints search/spending_over_time, search/spending_by_category/awarding_subagency (per fiscal year, October 1 to September 30) and search/spending_by_award (recipient name searches "Ignite Fueling Innovation," "Alatec" and "Radiance Ignite"), run October 3, 2026. Obligations are as reported to USAspending; order numbers shown without a prefix are the order numbers printed in the award record. A recipient of a similar name, Alatech Healthcare, L.L.C., is a different entity and is excluded. +[^22]: USAspending.gov API, spending_by_award with subawards=true, recipient search "Ignite Fueling Innovation" and "Alatec"; awards CONT_AWD_0003_9700_W9113M13D0006_9700, CONT_AWD_FA860426FB159_9700_FA860422DB008_9700 and CONT_AWD_W31P4Q25F0049_9700_GS00Q14OADS606_4732, queried October 3, 2026. +[^23]: Ignite Impossible, "Capabilities," https://igniteimpossible.com/capabilities/ ; "Ignite Named Awardee on MSIC COMET through Joint Venture," September 24, 2026, https://igniteimpossible.com/ignite-named-awardee-on-msic-comet-through-joint-venture/ +[^24]: Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entity Records, Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC, entity 001-144-448, fetched October 3, 2026. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=001144448&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= +[^25]: Alabama Secretary of State, Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc., registered agent field, fetched October 3, 2026 (see note 1); "Radiance Technologies and Ignite Announce Joint Venture," PR Newswire, October 14, 2024 (see note 9); Business Alabama, July 20, 2017 (see note 2). diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Lockheed Skunk Works.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Lockheed Skunk Works.md index 286afbc5..c69c5bb8 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Lockheed Skunk Works.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Lockheed Skunk Works.md @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Rich's lecture line from 1983 that the Skunk Works had a contract to take E.T. h [^1]: Roy J. Harris Jr., "The Skunk Works: Hush-Hush Projects Often Emerge There," The Wall Street Journal, October 13, 1980, CIA-RDP90-00806R000100660006-2, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp90-00806r000100660006-2 [^2]: Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), https://archive.org/details/skunk-works-apersonal-memoir-of-my-years-at-lockheed-ben-rrich (text lines 180 to 200, 1440 to 1456, 2937 to 2950, 3462 to 3480 and the footnote at 9208). [^3]: Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, The CIA and the U-2 Program, chapter 6, pp. 274 to 275, https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB434/docs/U2%20-%20Chapter%206.pdf -[^4]: Martin Shough, "A Study of the Lockheed Sightings," National Aviation Reporting Centre on Anomalous Phenomena, July 2014, summary, sections 1 and 7 and appendix (letters of Putt, February 15, 1954, and Johnson, January 23 and December 18, 1953; statements of Ware and others), https://mail.project1947.com/fig/Lockheed_Case_Dec_16_1953.pdf (scans at nicap.org/docs/lockufo3.pdf, not opened). +[^4]: Martin Shough, "A Study of the Lockheed Sightings," National Aviation Reporting Centre on Anomalous Phenomena, July 2014, summary, sections 1 and 7 and appendix (letters of Putt, February 15, 1954, and Johnson, January 23 and December 18, 1953; statements of Ware and others), https://mail.project1947.com/fig/Lockheed_Case_Dec_16_1953.pdf (scans at nicap.org/docs/lockufo3.pdf). [^5]: Huntington Library, "Ben R. Rich papers, 1940-1995," Online Archive of California, https://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c86d5rqx/admin/ [^6]: "EWD NOTES 10/16/02, Eric Davis Meeting with Adm. Wilson," pp. 3 to 4 and 8 to 13, https://documents2.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wilsonleak.pdf ; Wilson's 2020 statement to Billy Cox as reproduced in The Black Vault, https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/the-admiral-wilson-leak-an-analysis/ . Provenance of the notes unverified; Davis has not commented. [^7]: Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha, "Was It Scrap Metal or an Alien Spacecraft? The Army Asked an Elite Defense Lab to Investigate," The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2025 (print edition of June 23, 2025, as "A UFO Legend Lands Up at Elite Defense Lab"), read from an archived copy at https://gwern.net/doc/www/www.wsj.com/9c50364a40ee3cbeb3463a6068c4884ff0f637cc.html diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/National Review.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/National Review.md index b877bd5a..5847eb49 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/National Review.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/National Review.md @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer lists the Institute's total revenue as 519,459 d [^10]: Hunt, *Undercover,* pp. 76-77 (page numbers taken from the running heads of the scanned text). [^11]: Central Intelligence Agency, Memorandum for the Director of Central Intelligence from the Director of Security, "Article in the National Review Bulletin of 15 November 1958 concerning the book 'Dr. Zhivago,'" November 24, 1958, CIA Reading Room document 0005796341 (scan partly illegible). https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-0005796341 [^12]: CIA Reading Room document CIA-RDP74-00297R000900080057-6, text excerpt from *National Review.* https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp74-00297r000900080057-6 -[^13]: FBI file on William F. Buckley Jr., headquarters file part 1, memorandum L. B. Nichols to Mr. Tolson, October 20, 1950, with Buckley's letter of October 19, 1950, and later routing note; summary memorandum on the main file; memorandum on the October 26, 1962 tour (the scan is partly illegible; the dates of the proposed 1950 visit in the first memorandum are not relied on). https://archive.org/details/foia_Buckley_William_F.-HQ-1 +[^13]: FBI file on William F. Buckley Jr., headquarters file part 1, memorandum L. B. Nichols to Mr. Tolson, October 20, 1950, with Buckley's letter of October 19, 1950, and later routing note; summary memorandum on the main file; memorandum on the October 26, 1962 tour. https://archive.org/details/foia_Buckley_William_F.-HQ-1 [^14]: FBI file on William F. Buckley Jr., headquarters file part 2, "Special Inquiry - White House" memorandum and teletype of June 2, 1969. https://archive.org/details/foia_Buckley_William_F.-HQ-2 [^15]: FBI file on William F. Buckley Jr., headquarters file part 2, 1969 inquiry teletype listing associates and board members (names partly redacted; scan partly illegible). [^16]: FBI file on William F. Buckley Jr., headquarters file part 1, biographical summary (the scan is partly illegible). https://archive.org/details/foia_Buckley_William_F.-HQ-1 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Ocean Living Institute.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Ocean Living Institute.md index 02abc1f0..dbccea81 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Ocean Living Institute.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Ocean Living Institute.md @@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that Richards handed over the letter in August 1976, p ### Footnotes [^1]: Wright, Marilyn. "Porno Ring Uses Church, Tax Laws." *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977, pp. 86-87. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041 -[^2]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It gives New Jersey as the state of incorporation; Starchild's continued activity under that name in 1976 to 1985 is documented in the federal trust litigation. +[^2]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It gives New Jersey as the state of incorporation; Starchild's continued activity under that name in 1976 to 1985 is documented in the federal trust litigation. Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Program for Extraordinary Experience Research.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Program for Extraordinary Experience Research.md index a9c35ed7..b452ffe6 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Program for Extraordinary Experience Research.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Program for Extraordinary Experience Research.md @@ -60,6 +60,6 @@ In the summer of 1994 Dean [[Daniel C. Tosteson]] of [[Harvard Medical School]] [^7]: *CenterPiece*, February 1994, https://johnemackinstitute.org/CenterPiece_1994_0200.pdf. [^8]: *PEER Perspectives* no. 2 (Winter 1998/99), pp. 1 and 12, https://johnemackinstitute.org/PEER_Perspectives_2.pdf. [^9]: Ben MacIntyre, "Harvard professor's stories of close encounters, other-world sex, embarrass university," *The San Francisco Examiner* (London *Times* credit), May 5, 1995, p. 16, https://www.newspapers.com/image/461595501/. -[^10]: "Harvard's Mack: The Subject Is Aliens," *Valley News* (West Lebanon, N.H.), May 20, 1995, p. 23, https://www.newspapers.com/image/833962083/. Byline not read. +[^10]: "Harvard's Mack: The Subject Is Aliens," *Valley News* (West Lebanon, N.H.), May 20, 1995, p. 23, https://www.newspapers.com/image/833962083/. [^11]: "'Kooky' or not, Harvard won't censure its 'UFO professor'," Baltimore Sun, August 4, 1995, https://www.baltimoresun.com/1995/08/04/kooky-or-not-harvard-wont-censure-its-ufo-professor/. [^12]: Arnold S. Relman, "The Motivation for the Mack Inquiry," Harvard Crimson, September 13, 1995, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1995/9/13/the-motivation-for-the-mack-inquiry/; Crimson, April 19, 1995, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1995/4/19/mack-scientist-or-tale-spinner-pat-first/. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Radiance Ignite Technologies.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Radiance Ignite Technologies.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..53aaf1b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Radiance Ignite Technologies.md @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +--- +category: "Organizations" +tags: + - Organization + - DefenseContractor + - JointVenture + - ServiceDisabledVeteranOwned + - HuntsvilleAlabama +alias: + - RI Tech + - RITech + - Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC + - Radiance Ignite Technologies LLC + - Radiance Ignite +summary: "Huntsville, Alabama joint venture of Radiance Technologies and Ignite Fueling Innovation: formation July 10, 2024 on the Alabama record, announcement October 14, 2024, described as an SBA approved SDVOSB mentor protege joint venture." +location: "Huntsville, Alabama" +relations: + - type: director_of + with: "[[Clayton Hinchman]]" + reverse: true + start: 2024-10-14 + role: "president and chairman; registered agent on the Alabama record" + fn: 4 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Bill Bailey]]" + reverse: true + start: 2024-10-14 + role: "vice chairman" + fn: 4 + - type: contractor_to + with: "[[Missile and Space Intelligence Center]]" + start: 2026-07-21 + role: "team on the Contract Operations for Missile Evaluation and Testing multi-award task order contract, per the Radiance release of September 9, 2026" + fn: 6 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- +Radiance Ignite Technologies is a Huntsville, Alabama joint venture of [[Radiance Technologies]] and [[Ignite Fueling Innovation]], Inc.; its website describes it as "An SBA Approved SDVOSB Mentor Protege Joint Venture" and states that "Radiance Technologies and Ignite have joined forces."[^1] No record opened states which of the two companies is the mentor and which the protege, and the Small Business Administration agreement is not publicly listed. + +### Alabama record + +The [[Alabama Secretary of State]] lists Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC as entity 001-144-448, a domestic limited liability company with status "Exists," place of formation Alabama and formation date July 10, 2024. The one scanned document is a Certificate of Formation of four pages dated July 10, 2024. The press announcement of the venture is dated October 14, 2024, three months and four days later; both dates are recorded here as they appear in their sources. The registered agent is [[Clayton Hinchman]], with a registered office in Huntsville. The principal address is "Not Provided" and the nature of business is blank; the record lists no members, managers or organizer.[^2] + +The registered office is the same suite on The Bridge Street that the Alabama record gives for Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. (entity 000-214-606, formerly Alatec, Inc.), while Radiance Technologies, Inc. lists a registered office on Bob Heath Drive in Huntsville. Ignite's record shows its registered agent's address as a Discovery Drive address until November 9, 2022; the Alabama corporation The Sol Foundation (001-041-463), formed September 23, 2022, gave Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. at that Discovery Drive address as its registered agent.[^2][^3] + +### Announcement + +On October 14, 2024 Radiance and Ignite announced "the formation of a new joint venture, Radiance Ignite Technologies." The release, issued by Radiance through PR Newswire, lists capabilities in technical intelligence, directed energy, space operations, electromagnetic spectrum operations, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and systems engineering, and states: "From developing advanced foreign materiel exploitation techniques to creating next-generation predictive analysis tools for space operations, Radiance Ignite Technologies will offer a comprehensive suite of services designed to meet the evolving needs of modern defense and intelligence communities."[^4] + +[[Bill Bailey]], Radiance chief executive, is quoted as vice chairman of the venture: "Teaming up with Ignite will bring together the best of both worlds to tackle the toughest challenges our government faces." Clayton Hinchman, Ignite chief executive, is quoted as president and chairman: "This joint venture serves as an incredible opportunity to combine our collective expertise and capabilities while leveraging Ignite's SDVOSB status."[^4] The Huntsville outlet 256 Today carried the announcement the same day.[^5] + +### Leadership + +The venture's About page lists Hinchman as president and chairman and Bailey as vice chairman. It states that Hinchman became chairman and chief executive of Ignite in May 2020, medically retired from the [[U.S. Army]] as a captain after wounds sustained in Iraq, and holds degrees from the [[United States Military Academy]] and [[Georgetown University]]. It states that Bailey joined Radiance in 2001 and served as a research and development engineer at the [[Foreign Technology Division|National Air and Space Intelligence Center]] and [[Phillips Laboratory]].[^1] + +### Capabilities and awards + +The website lists six capability areas: intelligence (missile warning and tracking, threat modeling, all-source analysis), missile defense, space (including space domain awareness), artificial intelligence and machine learning (including a "Signals Intelligence Alert & Predication System"), electromagnetic spectrum operations and directed energy.[^1] + +The only award attributed to the venture in the records opened is its position as one of three teams that include Radiance on the Contract Operations for Missile Evaluation and Testing (COMET) multi-award task order contract of the [[Missile and Space Intelligence Center]], announced by Radiance on September 9, 2026, with a period of performance from July 21, 2026 to January 1, 2037 and a task area titled foreign materiel exploitation.[^6] A [[USAspending]] search of prime awards and subawards for "Radiance Ignite," "RI Tech" and "RITech" (October 3, 2026) returned no recipient of that name; the website does not state the venture's unique entity identifier.[^7] + +### COMET solicitation + +The Contract Operations for Missile Evaluation and Testing (COMET) requirement of the Missile and Space Intelligence Center ([[Defense Intelligence Agency]], [[Redstone Arsenal]]) was advertised on [[SAM.gov]] through the [[Virginia Contracting Activity]]. A draft solicitation was posted on May 28, 2025 (HHM402-25-R-0025), a second draft on November 24, 2025, and the request for proposals (notice HHM40226COMET, form number HHM40225R0025) on March 2, 2026; the response date of April 3, 2026 was extended to April 10, 2026. The notices describe a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a five-year base ordering period and a five-year option, full and open competition, task orders of cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price and time-and-materials types, a Top Secret facility clearance and TS/SCI clearances for personnel. The contracting officer named in the notices is Noryem Maldonado.[^8] + +The solicitation states that "Awards will be made to all Offerors determined to be 'Qualifying Offerors'", that no comparative ranking, tradeoff or best-value determination is made at the contract award level, that no cost or price evaluation is conducted for the award, and that "twenty (20%) of the IDIQ awards are set aside for Small Business", with a 30 percent small business participation requirement. Its clauses include the limitations on subcontracting provision stating that "In a joint venture comprised of a small business protege and its mentor approved by the Small Business Administration, the small business protege shall perform at least 40 percent of the work performed by the joint venture."[^9] + +### Foreign materiel exploitation + +The draft performance work statement for the contract ("PWS DIA MSIC MATOC Draft v1," posted February 13, 2025) lists five task areas and defines the second as follows: "Foreign Materiel Exploitation (FME) involves the reverse engineering of foreign weapon systems to analyze and understand their capabilities and vulnerabilities. The Center's exploitation laboratories are equipped with advanced capabilities in several critical areas, including software reverse-engineering (SWRE), radiofrequency (RF), electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) analysis, materials science, computed tomography (CT) imaging, and microelectronics." It adds that "A foundational component of FME is Explosive Ordnance Exploitation (EOE)", involving Explosive Ordnance Disposal personnel, and that key support includes "transportation, storage, lifecycle management, and program management". The center's mission is stated as scientific and technical intelligence analysis of "foreign weapon systems".[^10] The Radiance release of September 9, 2026 names the same five task areas.[^6] + +### Other awardee announcements + +[[Parsons]] announced a position on COMET on August 26, 2026 (trade press dated the announcement August 25 and 27), Modern Technology Solutions Inc. on September 2, 2026, Radiance Technologies on September 9, 2026, and Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation on September 17, 2026. [[SAIC]] is identified as the lead of one team in the Radiance release. The Radiance release states that the contract's period of performance runs from July 21, 2026 to January 1, 2037, and the Huntsville Business Journal of September 10, 2026 reported the Radiance award separately from the contract announcements of the [[United States Department of Defense]] for that week.[^11] + +### Earlier Radiance and Ignite contracts + +USAspending lists two subawards from Radiance Technologies to Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc. (formerly Alatec, Inc.): $906,326.71 dated November 4, 2013 under an Army [[Space and Missile Defense Command]] contract (W9113M13D0006, order 0003) for "independent programmatic and engineering support" and related studies, and $98,665 dated June 11, 2026 under Air Force order FA860426FB159 (identity, credential and access management software sustainment). Ignite is also listed as a subawardee under prime contracts held by SAIC (2023 to 2026), Parsons Government Services (2024 to 2026) and Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation (2025), three of the companies that announced COMET positions.[^12] In 2017 a profile published by the [[Business Council of Alabama]] reported that Ignite had entered a [[NASA]] Shared Services Center mentor-protege agreement with SAIC and had had an employee stock ownership plan since 2012.[^13] + +In June 2023 Radiance announced that it had joined [[Peraton]] on the $284 million SIA 3 Countering Advanced Conventional Weapons Analytical Requirements task order for the same center; Karl Walli of Radiance said Radiance had supported the center for over 15 years.[^14] + +### Federal registration + +The Alabama Secretary of State record for entity 001-144-448 was fetched again on October 3, 2026 and was unchanged: formation date July 10, 2024, one scanned document (Certificate of Formation, four pages), no members or managers listed. USAspending contains no prime award or subaward under the venture's name.[^15] The company website describes an "SBA Approved SDVOSB Mentor Protege Joint Venture"; the [[Small Business Administration]] rules for such ventures are at 13 C.F.R. 125.8 (joint ventures) and 125.9 (mentor-protege program), the latter providing that SBA must approve the mentor-protege agreement before the two firms may submit an offer as a joint venture and receive the exclusion from affiliation.[^16] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Radiance Ignite Technologies website (home, About Us, Capabilities), fetched October 3, 2026. https://radianceignite.com/ +[^2]: Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entity Records, entity 001-144-448 (Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC) and entity 000-214-606 (Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc.), fetched October 3, 2026. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=001144448&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= +[^3]: Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entity Records, The Sol Foundation, entity 001-041-463, fetched October 3, 2026. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=001041463&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= +[^4]: "Radiance Technologies and Ignite Announce Joint Venture," PR Newswire, October 14, 2024. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-and-ignite-announce-joint-venture-302275375.html +[^5]: Bud McLaughlin, "Radiance Technologies and Ignite announce joint venture," 256 Today, October 14, 2024. https://256today.com/radiance-technologies-and-ignite-announce-joint-venture +[^6]: "Radiance Technologies Wins Position on $14B MSIC COMET Contract," PR Newswire, September 9, 2026. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-wins-position-on-14b-msic-comet-contract-302874291.html +[^7]: USAspending.gov API, spending_by_award (contract types, indefinite-delivery vehicles, grants) and recipient autocomplete queries for the three names, fetched October 3, 2026. https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ +[^8]: SAM.gov opportunity notices HHM40225RCOMET (draft, posted May 28, 2025; updated February 6, 2026) and HHM40226COMET (March 2, March 9 and April 8, 2026) with attachment lists, retrieved October 3, 2026 from https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v2/opportunities/fe798b1b676243fcbd7259dc310cadef (also /80fbd320650b4030ae6690b9ee15bb24, /b94b4c2e3ecb4c64ab9ecda8713afd67, /c9a58d32cebd4bc8b545a8f92b6b08ac). Trade coverage: Elodie Collins, "DIA Issues $14B COMET Proposals Solicitation to Support Missile & Space Intelligence Center," GovConWire, March 4, 2026. https://www.govconwire.com/articles/dia-comet-14b-rfp-misc-missile-defense +[^9]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "UPDATED COMET Solicitation" (355 pages, posted March 9, 2026), Standard Form 33 and Sections A, I, L (4.5) and M (2.1), SAM.gov resource 360893303db9408a993d38d9270da5fd. +[^10]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "PWS DIA MSIC MATOC Draft v1" (44 pages, posted February 13, 2025), sections 1.1 to 1.1.5, SAM.gov resource 0354abfac6d94ecf93c5589637d7638b. +[^11]: "Parsons Awarded Position on $14B Billion COMET Missile and Space Intelligence Effort," GlobeNewswire, August 26, 2026 (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/26/3351158/0/en/parsons-awarded-position-on-14b-billion-comet-missile-and-space-intelligence-effort.html); Loren Blinde, "Parsons wins spot on COMET contract," Intelligence Community News, August 28, 2026 (https://intelligencecommunitynews.com/parsons-wins-spot-on-comet-contract/); Jane Edwards, "MTSI Wins Spot on DIA COMET Missile & Space Intel Support Contract," GovConWire, September 3, 2026 (https://www.govconwire.com/articles/mtsi-dia-comet-missile-space-intel-contract-spot); "INTUITIVE Awarded Position on DIA MISC COMET IDIQ," Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation, September 17, 2026 (https://irtc-hq.com/intuitive-awarded-position-on-dia-misc-comet-idiq/); "Defense contract roundup: Radiance Technologies wins position on $14B MSIC COMET contract," Huntsville Business Journal, September 10, 2026 (https://huntsvillebusinessjournal.com/news/2026/09/10/defense-contract-roundup-radiance-technologies-wins-position-on-14b-msic-comet-contract/); Sawyer Knowles, "Huntsville's Radiance Technologies secures $14 billion missile intelligence contract," 256 Today, September 14, 2026 (https://256today.com/huntsvilles-radiance-technologies-secures-14-billion-missile-intelligence-contract/). +[^12]: USAspending.gov API, spending_by_award with subawards=true, keyword "Ignite Fueling Innovation", 185 subaward rows, retrieved October 3, 2026. Rows cited: 13S-3010 (prime W9113M13D0006 order 0003, Radiance Technologies, Inc., November 4, 2013, $906,326.71); IDIQ-00038 TO 26FB159 (prime FA860426FB159, Radiance Technologies Inc, June 11, 2026, $98,665). https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ +[^13]: "Newly Merged Huntsville Tech Company is Just Warming Up," Business Council of Alabama, July 20, 2017. https://www.bcatoday.org/newly-merged-huntsville-tech-company-is-just-warming-up/ +[^14]: "Radiance Technologies Joins Peraton to Deliver S&TI Solutions to MSIC," PR Newswire, June 2, 2023. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-joins-peraton-to-deliver-sti-solutions-to-msic-301841456.html +[^15]: Alabama Secretary of State, entity 001-144-448, fetched October 3, 2026; USAspending.gov API recipient and subaward searches, October 3, 2026. +[^16]: Radiance Ignite Technologies website, https://radianceignite.com/ (fetched October 3, 2026); 13 C.F.R. 125.8 and 125.9, eCFR text as of September 30, 2026. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-13/part-125 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Radiance Technologies.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Radiance Technologies.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e9c0821a --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Radiance Technologies.md @@ -0,0 +1,270 @@ +--- +category: "Organizations" +tags: + - Organization + - DefenseContractor + - TechnicalIntelligence + - EmployeeOwned + - HuntsvilleAlabama + - UFO + - ForeignMaterielExploitation + - ESOP + - WrightPatterson +alias: + - Radiance Technologies, Inc. + - Radiance Technologies Inc + - Radiance Technologies Inc. + - Radiance Tech + - Radiance + - CDES, Inc. +summary: "Employee-owned Huntsville, Alabama defense contractor with National Air and Space Intelligence Center awards, employer of Jay Stratton and Travis Taylor from 2022, and named by Daniel Sheehan in December 2023." +location: "Huntsville, Alabama" +relations: + - type: contractor_to + with: "[[National Air and Space Intelligence Center]]" + start: 2001 + role: "subcontractor on a first task in 2001; prime on the Advanced Technical Exploitation Program II contract announced October 6, 2014 ($960 million) and on a General Services Administration blanket purchase agreement with a $997 million ceiling (September 2019)" + fn: 7 + - type: contractor_to + with: "[[Missile and Space Intelligence Center]]" + start: 2026-07-21 + role: "awardee on the Contract Operations for Missile Evaluation and Testing multi-award task order contract (ceiling above $14 billion), announced September 9, 2026" + fn: 3 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Travis Taylor]]" + reverse: true + start: 2022-04-22 + role: "principal research scientist" + fn: 12 + - type: founded + with: "[[Radiance Ignite Technologies]]" + start: 2024-07-10 + role: "joint venture member with Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc.; formation recorded July 10, 2024, announced October 14, 2024" + fn: 11 + - type: head_of + with: "[[Bill Bailey]]" + reverse: true + role: "president in 2014; chief executive in 2022 and 2026; vice chairman of Radiance Ignite Technologies" + fn: 8 + - type: head_of + with: "[[Tim Tinsley]]" + reverse: true + role: "president, as described in releases and reports of 2022" + fn: 14 + - type: funded + with: "[[Mike Rogers]]" + start: 2003-09-09 + role: "disbursements by the Radiance Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee to Mike Rogers for Congress (C00367862, Alabama, candidate H2AL03032)" + fn: 17 + - type: funded + with: "[[Mike Turner]]" + start: 2007-08-10 + role: "disbursements by the Radiance Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee to Citizens for Turner (C00373001, Ohio, candidate H2OH03067)" + fn: 17 + - type: founded + with: "[[George Clark]]" + reverse: true + start: 1999-03-15 + role: "founder and later president, with John Dennis and Scott Dublin" + fn: 19 + - type: founded + with: "[[John Dennis]]" + reverse: true + start: 1999-03-15 + role: "founder; incorporator on the 2014 restated articles" + fn: 19 + - type: founded + with: "[[Scott Dublin]]" + reverse: true + start: 1999-03-15 + role: "founder" + fn: 19 + - type: employed_by + with: "[[Curtis Rowland]]" + reverse: true + start: 2018-11-20 + role: "chief intelligence strategist, then executive vice president and chief strategy officer (March 2, 2020); previously chief scientist of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center" + fn: 28 + - type: funded + with: "[[Clayton Hinchman]]" + start: 2018-03-21 + role: "Radiance Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee disbursement of $5,000 to Hinchman for Congress (C00648162), Alabama 5th District candidacy, 2018 cycle" + fn: 47 + - type: funded + with: "[[Robert Aderholt]]" + start: 2002-04-05 + role: "Radiance Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee disbursements totaling $65,300 in 22 records to Robert Aderholt for Congress through October 27, 2023" + fn: 42 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- +Radiance Technologies is a 100 percent employee-owned prime contractor headquartered in [[Huntsville]], [[Alabama]], that describes its work as cybersecurity, systems engineering, prototyping and integration, and operational and strategic intelligence, including scientific and technical intelligence.[^1] Its Alabama corporate record shows incorporation in Madison County on June 1, 1998 under the name CDES, Inc., with a legal name change to Radiance Technologies, Inc. on February 2, 1999; company releases give 1999 as the founding year.[^2] A release dated September 9, 2026 gives more than 1,200 employee-owners.[^3] + +### Corporate record + +The [[Alabama Secretary of State]] entity record (000-195-724, status "Exists," nature of business "ANY LAWFUL ACTIVITY") lists five directors (John A. Dennis, William C. Bailey, A. Brown Ballard, James E. Deason and Gary L. Rigney) and one incorporator (John Dennis), entered May 19, 2014 with restated articles. Authorized capital is $10,000 and paid-in capital $1,000. The recorded mergers into the corporation are Missile Systems & Technologies, Inc. (November 3, 2004), Open Source Publishing Incorporated, a Virginia corporation (July 20, 2005), Symbiont Enterprises, Inc. (June 6, 2007) and Ares Corporation, a Virginia corporation (May 2, 2008). The registered agent was changed on November 25, 2025 from Paige R. Nix to Seth P. Crochet at 310 Bob Heath Drive, Huntsville. A company release of July 31, 2025 is titled as the promotion of Crochet to executive vice president and general counsel.[^2][^4] + +The website of the joint venture [[Radiance Ignite Technologies]] describes William C. Bailey, Jr. as having joined Radiance in 2001, with fourteen years of military service that included work as a research and development engineer at the [[Foreign Technology Division|National Air and Space Intelligence Center]] (NASIC) and at [[Phillips Laboratory]], now the [[Air Force Research Laboratory]].[^5] Company releases record the acquisition of Phased n Research (March 31, 2025), the acquisition of [[Verus Research]] (June 2, 2025), a campus expansion at Jan Davis Drive in [[Cummings Research Park]] (ribbon cutting March 18, 2025), the appointment of the former [[SAIC]] chief executive Tony Moraco to the board of directors (August 12, 2025), and a partnership with Bright Path Research, a service-disabled veteran-owned joint venture with Offset Strategic Services (February 2025).[^6] + +### Federal awards + +The [[USAspending]] award search for the recipient name "Radiance Technologies" (queried October 3, 2026; contract award types; October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2026) returned 499 prime award records. Summed by awarding agency, the listed award amounts are: [[U.S. Army]] $1,644,356,533; [[U.S. Air Force]] $774,964,427; [[Defense Contract Management Agency]] $111,297,241; [[DARPA]] $86,496,102; [[Defense Logistics Agency]] $51,410,244; Department of the Interior $20,589,351; [[U.S. Navy]] $19,948,933; [[NASA]] $15,851,589; [[Missile Defense Agency]] $6,361,339; General Services Administration $2,727,219; Department of Homeland Security $896,246. The sum is of per-award totals with no de-duplication of indefinite-delivery vehicles and their orders.[^7] + +The largest records are an Army systems engineering and technical assistance task order (W50RAJ20F0014, $280,784,689, September 30, 2020 to September 30, 2025), an Army task order for 2016 to 2021 (0007, $92,337,830), an Air Force contract for Distributed, Automated, and Intelligent Hardware and Software Security (FA875019C1508, $91,915,261, August 20, 2019 to August 19, 2025), a Defense Contract Management Agency record for Cyber Platforms and Capabilities-Efficiency (FA875018F0024, $87,351,560) and a series of Army space, missile defense and high-energy laser task orders (identifiers beginning W9113M, 45 records, $558,301,239).[^7] + +Records with identifiers beginning FA8604 number 141 and total $391,367,960; their descriptions cite ATEP II and the "[[NOVASTAR]], National Air and Space Intelligence Center Science and Technical Intelligence Analytic Capability Support Contract," "RF Signatures Production and Tool Support" (FA860424FB319, $6,525,500, September 29, 2024 to September 28, 2028), "Non-Cooperative Target Identification (NCTI) Analysis and Production Support" (FA860425FB103, $2,599,919) and "High Fidelity Sensor Characterization Research and Development" (FA860425FB064, $5,168,200). The largest ATEP II records are FA860419F6091 ($13,443,110, March 28, 2019 to October 17, 2022), FA860423F6135 ($11,365,108, January 8, 2023 to January 7, 2024) and FA860420F6118 ($10,380,920).[^7] None of the award descriptions uses the phrases "foreign materiel exploitation" or "reverse engineering" except an Army Small Business Innovation Research Phase I record (W31P4Q11C0140, $99,993, February 1, 2011 to October 15, 2011) titled "Anti-Reverse Engineering (RE) Techniques."[^7] + +### National Air and Space Intelligence Center work + +A Radiance release dated October 6, 2014 states that Radiance, "along with its Dayton partners," was awarded a $960,000,000 indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for the Advanced Technical Exploitation Program II (ATEP II), covering research, development, system sustainment and intelligence production using geospatial-intelligence and non-nuclear measurement and signature intelligence data at NASIC at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]]. The release quotes Radiance president Bill Bailey.[^8] + +A September 23, 2019 report in the [[Huntsville Business Journal]] states that Radiance was awarded a General Services Administration blanket purchase agreement for scientific and technical intelligence support to NASIC, with a five-year base period, five one-year options and a $997 million ceiling, most work to be performed at Wright-Patterson in [[Beavercreek, Ohio]]. The team named is [[Battelle Memorial Institute]], [[COLSA Corp.]], [[Northrop Grumman]], [[Parsons Government Services]] and [[Teledyne Brown Engineering]]. Bryan Johnson, then Radiance chief operating officer, is quoted: "Our win is the culmination of years of hard work that started with a single task supporting NASIC as a subcontractor in 2001."[^9] NASIC is the successor organization to the Foreign Technology Division, whose history at Wright-Patterson includes [[Project Blue Book]]. + +### Missile and Space Intelligence Center and the COMET contract + +On September 9, 2026 Radiance announced that it had been selected as an awardee on the Contract Operations for Missile Evaluation and Testing (COMET) multi-award task order contract supporting the [[Missile and Space Intelligence Center]] (MSIC), part of the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]]. The release gives the contract value as $14 billion and lists five task areas: foundational and technical intelligence analysis, foreign materiel exploitation, information technology operations, modeling and simulation, and business processes, with a period of performance from July 21, 2026 to January 1, 2037. It states that Radiance leads its own team and holds positions on two other winning teams, one led by SAIC and one through Radiance Ignite Technologies. The Huntsville outlet [[256 Today]], reporting on September 14, 2026 that MSIC is at [[Redstone Arsenal]], gave the ceiling as "more than $14 billion."[^3][^10] + +### Radiance Ignite Technologies + +Radiance and [[Ignite Fueling Innovation]], Inc. are the members of the joint venture Radiance Ignite Technologies (Alabama entity 001-144-448; formation date on the Alabama record July 10, 2024; announced October 14, 2024), which has its own page.[^11] + +### Hires from the UAP Task Force + +Radiance announced on April 22, 2022 (a Friday) that [[Travis Taylor]], described in the announcement as a scientist, author, engineer and television star, had joined as a principal research scientist. Chief executive Bill Bailey was quoted: "Dr. Taylor is an outstanding and highly qualified scientist whose inventive way of thinking will be a great asset for Radiance."[^12] + +A Radiance release dated May 12, 2022, "John F. Stratton Jr. Joins Radiance Technologies as SME for Intel Strategy," announced the hiring of [[Jay Stratton]] (John F. Stratton Jr.), "recently retired" from his role as Defense Intelligence Senior Executive with the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]], as a member of the chief executive's strategy team for scientific and technical intelligence work. It describes him as "the first Director of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force (UAPTF)," and quotes Radiance president [[Tim Tinsley]]: "Jay's extensive experience in the Intelligence Community will be valuable in identifying and cultivating new strategic teaming opportunities within both industry and government."[^13] [[George Knapp]] of [[KLAS-TV]] wrote on May 24, 2022 that "In January 2021 ... Stratton was surprisingly transferred out of the job" at the [[UAP Task Force]], and that Taylor said of Stratton, "he and I have been colleagues for a long time." Knapp wrote that Stratton "has never spoken publicly about his work and is not commenting now."[^14] + +### Statements by company officials + +In an 8 News Now report by Knapp posted October 13, 2022 (Pacific time), Tinsley was asked whether the company would take a contract to take apart a UFO and learn how it works. He answered: "Why not. I'm waiting for one of those." Of work at [[Nellis Air Force Base]] he said, "I can't tell you a lot. I can tell is you is we've supported the Las Vegas community, Nellis Air Force Base, for over 20 years." Asked whether the company worried about the perception that it reverse engineers UFOs, he said, "No, we provide customer solutions. Whatever our customers want us to work on and support, then that's what we'll do." Knapp wrote that Radiance "isn't able to confirm the allegations" about crash retrievals, that Stratton urged Radiance to hire Taylor, and that when Radiance announced the two hires "the news releases didn't hide the connection." Taylor told Knapp: "Jay and I are working on growing the capabilities, doing reverse engineering of foreign materials. If we were to get something to reverse engineer, we would absolutely want to do that."[^15] + +### Allegation by Daniel Sheehan + +On December 3, 2023 [[Liberation Times]] published an interview with the attorney [[Daniel Sheehan]], whom it identified as president of the [[New Paradigm Institute]], about opposition to the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]] in the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. Sheehan said that Representatives [[Mike Rogers]] and [[Mike Turner]] had faced pressure from private defense contractors and the intelligence community, and, asked to name the entities, named [[Lockheed Martin]], [[Raytheon]], Radiance Technologies and the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] Directorate of Operations. An Internet Archive copy of the article from December 2023 adds, after "Directorate of Operations," the words "run by David Marlowe, its current Deputy Director"; the present version of the article does not carry them. Sheehan said that the CIA disperses non-human materials to aerospace companies and that Radiance is one of its newest customers: "Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and, now Radiance Technologies, are given particular discrete aspects of the technology to try to figure it out."[^16] + +The same article states that Liberation Times "has been unable to further substantiate the involvement of these organisations", that "there is no evidence to suggest that Radiance Technologies, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin or the CIA are influencing Representatives Turner or Rogers", and that "multiple sources have told Liberation Times that the allegations made regarding Radiance Technologies are untrue and that two of its employees, Jay Stratton and Travis Taylor are long-time advocates for more transparency on this topic and are in no way involved in any coverup." It reports that Radiance maintains an office in Beavercreek, Ohio, in Turner's district, and cites a 2016 ribbon cutting there by Turner and a 2020 opening of a 104,000 square foot Huntsville facility at which Rogers was a guest of honour.[^16] + +### Political contributions + +The [[Federal Election Commission]] lists Radiance Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee (C00372979, nonqualified PAC, first filed February 12, 2002). Its Schedule B disbursements to Mike Rogers for Congress (C00367862, an Alabama committee whose candidate identifier H2AL03032 is that of Michael Rogers, Alabama, House district 3) total $37,100 across 15 records from September 9, 2003 to February 5, 2024, the last four of $5,000 each (March 13, 2019; February 19, 2020; October 12, 2021; February 5, 2024). Disbursements to [[Citizens for Turner]] (C00373001, an Ohio committee whose candidate identifier H2OH03067 is that of Michael R. Turner, Ohio, House district 10) total $51,250 across 20 records (August 10, 2007 to June 18, 2024). Disbursements to Turner Victory Fund (C00611962, registered in Georgia as a joint fundraising committee, no sponsoring candidate listed in the FEC record) total $25,000 across 5 records (October 1, 2020 to June 23, 2025); no record opened ties that committee to Mike Turner. Two other recipients matched the search term "Rogers," Hal Rogers for Congress ($10,000) and an individual-named committee ($1,000), and are excluded. Liberation Times stated that "since 2010, over $30,000 was given by Radiance Technologies to Representative Rogers and over $60,000 to Representative Turner."[^16][^17] + +### Bid protest + +The [[Government Accountability Office]] docket B-422615.1 lists Radiance Technologies, Inc. as protester on solicitation TORFP-24-005 of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, filed May 24, 2024, with the outcome "Denied" and a decision date of August 30, 2024.[^18] + +### Founding and early customers + +The Alabama record shows incorporation as CDES, Inc. in 1998, while the company's own pages give March 15, 1999 as the date operations began; the 2017 About Us page names [[George Clark]], [[John Dennis]] and [[Scott Dublin]] as the founders, who "launched operations in a 3,000 square foot facility in Executive Plaza" in [[Huntsville, Alabama]] with an initial subcontract supporting the [[United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command]] through the NRC SETAC contract. The page states that the founders' goal "was to be employee-owned" and that the company ended its first calendar year with 11 employees and $1.2 million in revenue.[^19] A 2005 company release quotes Clark as president.[^20] A 2002 company page lists a Hattiesburg, Mississippi signal research facility, an Oxford, Mississippi office and an office in Fairfax, Virginia.[^21] + +### Foreign materiel exploitation pages, 2001 to 2006 + +A Radiance web page captured on October 27, 2001 is titled "Foreign Materiel Exploitation." It states that Radiance "assists the government in understanding the operations of foreign sensor and weapon systems, to ensure that Free World military forces can exploit weaknesses of foreign systems and can avoid strengths," and lists "Reverse Engineering," "RTSS Development," "Capability/Vulnerability Analysis," "Algorithm Analysis" and "Data Link Exploitation," with Bryan Johnson as the contact.[^22] A page captured on September 27, 2002, titled "Intelligence Community Support," lists "Foreign Material Exploitation," "Software Reverse Engineering," "Hardware Reverse Engineering" and "ELINT, COMINT, FISINT, and MASINT Analysis," with Bill Bailey as the contact.[^21] + +A Dayton office page captured in January 2004 describes the office as a branch of the company's Intelligence Systems Division at 2900 Presidential Drive in Fairborn, Ohio: "Our primary customers are the intelligence and research organizations at Wright-Patterson AFB. We specialize in the analysis of foreign weapon systems and the development and implementation of emerging technologies to advance US weapon systems."[^23] A December 2005 programs page lists "Foreign Electronic Systems Capabilities (FESC)" for the [[National Air and Space Intelligence Center]] as a subcontract to Syracuse Research.[^24] A job posting captured May 16, 2006 (HR328, Senior Engineer, Dayton) describes "FME" duties: "Candidate will process, exploit, report and disseminate data collected on various threat systems."[^25] + +### Open Source Publishing and Eliot Jardines + +On August 19, 2005 Radiance announced the acquisition of Open Source Publishing, Incorporated of Leesburg, Virginia, founded in 1996 by [[Eliot Jardines]]; the unit became the Open Source Intelligence Division.[^20] The [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] announced on December 7, 2005 that Jardines had been named the first Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source, and the release states that the firm "was acquired by Radiance Technologies, Inc., where he served as the director of the Radiance Open Source Intelligence Division."[^26] A Congressional Record declaration of September 21, 2009 lists a request by Representative Mike Turner under H.R. 2647 (Air Force research, development, test and evaluation) titled "Open Source Research Centers," with Radiance Technologies at 3100 Presidential Drive, Fairborn, Ohio as the requesting entity; the amount is not stated.[^27] + +### Former National Air and Space Intelligence Center and Missile and Space Intelligence Center officials + +A Radiance release of November 20, 2018 announced that [[Curtis Rowland]] had joined as chief intelligence strategist. It states that he entered federal service in July 1982; that he held "board leadership roles, including on the [[Joint Foreign Materiel Board]] of Directors, Foreign Denial and Deception Committee and the Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee"; and that from 2014 he was chief scientist of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, leading "a team of 3,000."[^28] A release of March 2, 2020 promoted him to executive vice president and chief strategy officer and corporate lead executive for the Dayton office and states that he "led a team of 4,000."[^29] + +Company leadership pages captured in November 2019 give Bailey's background as fourteen years of military service including work as a research and development engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center and Phillips Laboratory, and describe Cindy Santy as having "led scientific and technical intelligence analysis of foreign weapon systems at the Defense Intelligence Agency's Missile and Space Intelligence Center." The page for president Dave Diaddario lists company expertise in "foreign materiel exploitation, anti-tampering technique development/implementation" and describes his earlier work at BAE Systems (formerly MEVATEC) with the Missile Defense Agency and NASA. The page for Bryan Johnson, chief operating officer, describes earlier work leading the Cyber Solutions Group in "system exploitation, software reverse engineering."[^30] + +A release of January 20, 2022 announced Bill Jennings, with more than 35 years in the intelligence community and senior roles at the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, as senior intelligence advisor for the defense sector.[^31] Radiance announced on July 16, 2024 the hiring of Mark Tillman, who had served as a senior defense intelligence analyst in the Defense Intelligence Agency Directorate for Analysis from June 2020 to July 2024, and on March 31, 2025 named him president of the acquired Phased n Research.[^32] A release of April 2, 2026 announced Major General Timothy A. Sejba, United States Space Force (retired), formerly of the [[National Reconnaissance Office]], as a strategic consultant; a release of February 20, 2025 announced General Charles A. Flynn, United States Army (retired), as a strategic consultant.[^33] + +### Contract vehicles at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center + +USAspending shows two multiple-award indefinite-delivery vehicles held by Radiance under Air Force contracting activity FA8604. The Advanced Technical Exploitation Program II vehicle FA860415D7976 had a ceiling of $1,240,000,000 from October 3, 2014 to October 2, 2023; the sibling vehicles were FA860415D7975 (KBR Wyle Services) and FA860415D7977 (Altamira Technologies). The NOVASTAR vehicle FA860422DB008 has a ceiling of $4,797,000,000 from August 19, 2022 to August 18, 2027; the parallel awards are FA860422DB005 (Altamira Technologies), DB006 (Epsilon C5I), DB007 (Modern Technology Solutions) and DB009 (Xandar).[^34] The Radiance release of August 19, 2022 states that NOVASTAR covers "research, development, sustainment, and production across all of NASIC's missions and disciplines" and the "creation, evaluation, and analysis of intelligence data on foreign developments in current and future weapon systems, subsystems, and technologies," and quotes [[Bill Bailey]]: "20 years of hard work by a lot of Radiance employee-owners with our customer, NASIC."[^35] + +The 141 FA8604 records total $391,367,960. By place of performance, 52 records ($175,176,576) list Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ZIP 45433, 43 records ($162,220,419) list Huntsville ZIP 35806 and 37 records ($42,550,315) list Huntsville ZIP 35805. Competition fields on the sampled orders read "FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION AFTER EXCLUSION OF SOURCES SUBJECT TO MULTIPLE AWARD FAIR OPPORTUNITY," with one to four offers received. Descriptions of the 2015 to 2018 orders name subjects such as "FY15 SBIRS AUTOMATED PROCESSING R&D SUPPORT," "FY16 SAR CONTINGENCY OPERATIONAL SUPPORT," "PERSISTENT INFRARED ENHANCED ANALYTICS" and "GROUND TRUTH SUPPORT"; later orders carry titles such as "RF SIGNATURES PRODUCTION AND TOOL SUPPORT, NSC-24-083," "NASIC PLATFORM SERVICES SUSTAINMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, NSC-25-074" and "ICAM COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT" (FA860426FB159, $12,955,000, June 12, 2026 to March 11, 2029).[^34] A September 24, 2019 trade report states that Radiance won a GSA blanket purchase agreement for Intelligence Mission Data support to the center with a ceiling of $376 million, a five-year base and five one-year options, with work at Wright-Patterson, on a team with Battelle, COLSA, Leidos, Parsons and AT&T Government Solutions.[^36] + +### Capability statement of January 2022 + +A Radiance corporate overview dated January 13, 2022 (submitted to the National Advanced Mobility Consortium) lists, under the National Security Sector, "Microelectronics Exploitation," "Integrated Circuit Failure Analysis," "RF Material Interactions Studies," "Weapon System Exploitation" (including "Software/Hardware Exploitation," "FPGA and Complex Devices Exploitation," "Computer Forensics"), and under the Department of Defense Sector "Systems Engineering: Design/Re-Design Reverse Engineering." It lists laboratories named Space Technology Analysis and Concepts, Space Payload Demonstration, Space PNT Resiliency and Air and Missile System Integration; states that the company has "numerous cleared office, laboratory, prototyping and high bay facilities," over 950 employees and 24 indefinite-delivery contracts.[^37] A Radiance posting for an OPIR Extractions Analyst supporting the center at Wright-Patterson (Beavercreek; removed May 9, 2025) lists duties to "plan, conduct and accomplish OPIR extraction exploitation, production, and quality control," requires a TS/SCI clearance and desires being "NASIC certified in BRASS or SBIRS extractions"; a ClearanceJobs posting for a C4ISR Analyst (Beavercreek, Secret with SCI eligibility) describes "all-source analysis on foreign space and counterspace organizations, processes, facilities, equipment, and technologies."[^38] + +### Employee ownership and the Berry v. Bailey litigation + +The Department of Labor Form 5500 dataset lists the Radiance Technologies, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan (sponsor EIN 63-1204084, plan 003, effective January 1, 2008). Schedule H reports employer securities of $17,993,650 at the end of 2017, $50,834,346 (2018), $65,757,103 (2019), $94,399,503 (2020), $117,620,408 (2021), $119,038,268 (2022), $163,931,588 (2023) and $191,284,778 (2024), against total assets of $194,917,315 at the end of 2024 and distributions of $19,127,713 in 2024; beginning-of-year participants numbered 640 (2017) and 1,092 (2024).[^39] + +In Berry v. Bailey (N.D. Ala. 5:24-cv-522, removed April 25, 2024), former employees sued Bailey, the board (Robert E. "Bud" Cramer, Jead Deason, Jim Poss, Jim Scanlon, Carol Tevepaugh, JT Thompson and John F. Thompson) and the trustee Argent Trust Company and its employee Stephen A. Martin. The second amended complaint alleges that in early 2023 Bailey began to "shop" Radiance, that an offer came from Axient (Sagewind) and a second in summer 2023 from BlueHalo, that the board retained Jefferies Financial Group, that about 14 offers were narrowed to five each "in a range of two times (2X) the ESOP's last appraised value," that Bailey dismissed president Tim Tinsley during due diligence, and that Bailey told the board of "product(s) and programs" that "did not even exist" and were "proverbial 'moon shots'." Judge Corey Maze dismissed all claims without prejudice on September 18, 2025 on standing, preemption and exhaustion grounds without reaching the merits; the opinion records that the plaintiffs were held to be beneficial stockholders with standing for derivative claims before those were dismissed on preemption.[^40][^41] + +### Sole-source award under the ESOP pilot program + +Defense Logistics Agency Aviation at Huntsville awarded SPRRA226C0009 to Radiance on April 10, 2026 for range improvement and modernization at the [[Reagan Test Site]] (Kwajalein Atoll) for the Army Space and Missile Defense Command: $30,159,000 obligated against a ceiling of $149,683,593 through April 10, 2031, coded "NOT AVAILABLE FOR COMPETITION." The redacted justification and approval states the authority as "DFARS 206.302-5(b), Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) pilot program, NDAA Provision 874, and amended NDAA Provision 872," approved by an Office of the Under Secretary of War memorandum signed by Col. Steven R. Green Jr. on December 23, 2025. It states that Radiance has invested in "laboratory and integration spaces that meet ICD 705 requirements for classified facilities," that a sources-sought notice of January 20, 2026 drew no responses, and that two small businesses, McDonald Technical Solutions and Polaris Sensor Technologies, answered the synopsis, "Neither of these vendors are ESOP companies." The same document calls Radiance "an employee-owned small business" and states "Radiance, a small business, is the only known source with the current capability to successfully complete the range modernization."[^42] + +### Size status and the Army RCCTO protest + +Radiance protested a small-business recertification requirement in Army task order request for proposals 24-005 (systems engineering and technical assistance for the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office) before the Government Accountability Office (B-422615.1, denied August 30, 2024) and then in the [[United States Court of Federal Claims]] (No. 24-1375C). The court's opinion of December 5, 2024 states that Radiance, the incumbent, "was a small business when it was awarded its OASIS IDIQ contract but admits that it no longer meets that qualification," and dismissed the protest under the task-order bar.[^43] The joint venture Radiance Ignite Technologies was formed on July 10, 2024, between the May 2024 protest and the December 2024 opinion. + +### Political action committee, all recipients + +The Federal Election Commission lists 367 Schedule B disbursements by Radiance Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee (C00372979). By recipient committee the largest totals are [[Robert Aderholt]] for Congress $65,300 (22 records, April 5, 2002 to October 27, 2023), the National Republican Senatorial Committee $55,000 (5), Citizens for Turner $51,250 (20), Terri Sewell for Congress $40,600 (13, to March 31, 2026), Mike Rogers for Congress $37,100 (15), Defend America PAC $33,850 (7), Scalise for Congress $27,700 (3), Turner Victory Fund $25,000 (5), Jo Bonner for Congress $25,000 (14) and Friends of Bud Cramer $25,000 (7, August 14, 2003 to April 9, 2007).[^44] A $10,000 disbursement on January 17, 2005 went to a "Reception Custodial Account (c/o Van Scoyoc Associates, Inc.)."[^44] + +Individual contributions listing Radiance as employer total $2,766,062 over 9,176 records, including $675,991 to the company PAC; William C. Bailey Jr. (name variants of "Bailey, William" with occupation listed as CEO; 230 records from April 25, 2019 to June 30, 2026; sum of itemized receipts as returned, net of 19 negative correction rows: $1,116,488; the FEC does not unify donors, a different William Bailey appears under other occupations, and earlier rows are not counted) gave the largest amounts to the National Republican Congressional Committee ($331,200), Grow the Majority ($270,000) and the Scalise Leadership Fund ($115,000).[^45] + +House earmark declarations name Radiance as the requesting entity for $2,400,000 (Representative Jo Bonner, Navy anti-submarine camera system, September 24, 2008), $800,000 and $9 million (Army "Gunfire Detection System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," Representative Terry Everett, 2008) and $2,000,000 (Representative Jack Kingston, Army, July 2009).[^27] + +### Clayton Hinchman's 2018 candidacy + +[[Clayton Hinchman|Robert Clayton Hinchman]], listed in his own FEC filings as chief operating officer and later chief marketing officer of Ignite Fueling Innovation, is recorded by the Federal Election Commission as a 2018-cycle House candidate (party code GOP) for Alabama's 5th Congressional District (candidate H8AL05208, statement of candidacy first filed June 20, 2017).[^46] His committee (Hinchman for Congress, C00648162) reported $253,800 in receipts for 2018, including a $100,000 candidate loan (March 30, 2018), $2,700 from Ignite Fueling Innovation Inc Federal PAC (May 18, 2017), $5,000 from the Radiance Technologies, Inc. Political Action Committee (March 21, 2018), $1,500 from COLSA president Richard Amos, and contributions from Ignite's president and a human resources manager.[^47] Hinchman became president and chairman of Radiance Ignite Technologies in 2024. + +### Sheehan Twitter Space, December 2023 + +Daniel Sheehan described the company in a Twitter Space of early December 2023, transcribed by the writer Steve Skojec on December 7, 2023. Sheehan said Ohio's 10th District is "the chief field office for Radiance Technologies, which is a high tech aerospace industry that is working on a program called 'Prompt Global Strike,' which is the attempt to back engineer UFO technology which they have apparently secured from the ... another aerospace industry," and that Representative Mike Rogers is chair of the House Armed Services Committee with his "home district ... the 2nd district of Alabama." The Federal Election Commission lists the committee Mike Rogers for Congress (C00367862) under candidate identifier H2AL03032. Skojec wrote that he could not vouch for Sheehan.[^48] + +In June 2023 [[The War Zone]] reported that NASIC includes a Foreign Materiel Exploitation Squadron and quoted a Department of Defense Inspector General report on the point.[^49] That report, No. 98-005 of October 8, 1997, states that the Air Force Test and Evaluation Directorate's Foreign Materiel Office "had an ongoing initiative to involve contractors early in the exploitation process," that the initiative "pertained only to electronic warfare systems," and that the Air Force "had plans to expand the program to other systems"; it put Military Department spending on foreign materiel exploitation projects in fiscal 1996 at "about $117 million."[^50] The War Zone article names no Radiance, and cites a Pentagon statement of no evidence of "possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials."[^49] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Radiance Technologies, "Radiance Technologies Wins Position on $14B MSIC COMET Contract," PR Newswire, September 9, 2026 ("About Radiance Technologies"). http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-wins-position-on-14b-msic-comet-contract-302874291.html +[^2]: Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entity Records, Radiance Technologies, Inc., entity 000-195-724, formation 06/01/1998, transactions through 11/25/2025, fetched October 3, 2026. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=000195724&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= +[^3]: "Radiance Technologies Wins Position on $14B MSIC COMET Contract," PR Newswire, September 9, 2026. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-wins-position-on-14b-msic-comet-contract-302874291.html +[^4]: Radiance Technologies news releases, PR Newswire source listing (titles and dates), fetched October 3, 2026. https://www.prnewswire.com/news/radiance-technologies/ +[^5]: Radiance Ignite Technologies, "About Us," fetched October 3, 2026. https://radianceignite.com/about/ +[^6]: Same PR Newswire listing as above (titles and dates of the Phased n Research, Verus Research, Jan Davis Drive and Moraco releases); Bright Path Research announcement (February 2025), https://brightpathresearch.com/news-BPR-SPA. +[^7]: USAspending.gov API, POST /api/v2/search/spending_by_award/, recipient_search_text "Radiance Technologies," award types A to D, fetched October 3, 2026; raw rows in TEMP/RESEARCH/2026-10-03_uapmoney/data/RT1/rad_awards.json. Recipient UEI R52PJK8DM6T4 (second record YXRLX5PDCWK4). https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ +[^8]: "NASIC picks Radiance for $960 Million Advanced Technical Exploitation Program II," Radiance Technologies, October 6, 2014, Internet Archive capture of February 1, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160201010423/https://www.radiancetech.com/nasic-picks-radiance-for-960-million-advanced-technical-exploitation-program-ii/ +[^9]: "Radiance Wins Contract to Support NASIC; Ceiling of $997M," Huntsville Business Journal, September 23, 2019. https://huntsvillebusinessjournal.com/news/2019/09/23/radiance-wins-contract-to-support-nasic-ceiling-of-997m +[^10]: Sawyer Knowles, "Huntsville's Radiance Technologies secures $14 billion missile intelligence contract," 256 Today, September 14, 2026. https://256today.com/huntsvilles-radiance-technologies-secures-14-billion-missile-intelligence-contract/ +[^11]: Alabama Secretary of State, entity 001-144-448, Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC, fetched October 3, 2026; "Radiance Technologies and Ignite Announce Joint Venture," PR Newswire, October 14, 2024. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=001144448&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= ; https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-and-ignite-announce-joint-venture-302275375.html +[^12]: "Radiance Technologies Appoints TV Personality Dr. Travis S. Taylor as a Principal Research Scientist; CEO Bill Bailey Quoted," ExecutiveGov, April 22, 2022. https://www.executivegov.com/?p=233066 +[^13]: "John F. Stratton Jr. Joins Radiance Technologies as SME for Intel Strategy," Radiance Technologies, PR Newswire, May 12, 2022, read in the Internet Archive capture of the same date. https://web.archive.org/web/20220512145721/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/john-f-stratton-jr-joins-radiance-technologies-as-sme-for-intel-strategy-301546258.html +[^14]: George Knapp, "More UFO hearings? Congress might consider hearing from these 2 men," 8 News Now (KLAS), May 24, 2022. https://digital-release.8newsnow.com/?p=1136519 +[^15]: George Knapp, "Is this company working with alien technology in Nevada?" KLAS 8 News Now, posted October 13, 2022 (Pacific time). https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/is-this-company-working-with-alien-technology-in-nevada/ +[^16]: Christopher Sharp, "Daniel Sheehan Exposes Five Powerful Republicans Blocking UFO Disclosure Act, As The Clock Ticks Down," Liberation Times, December 3, 2023, read in the present version and in an Internet Archive capture of December 2023. Sole source for the Sheehan statements so cited. https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/daniel-sheehan-exposes-five-powerful-republicans-blocking-ufo-disclosure-act-as-the-clock-ticks-down ; https://web.archive.org/web/20231204/https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/daniel-sheehan-exposes-five-powerful-republicans-blocking-ufo-disclosure-act-as-the-clock-ticks-down +[^17]: Federal Election Commission API, committee C00372979, /schedules/schedule_b/ filtered by recipient names "ROGERS" and "TURNER," with committee records C00367862, C00373001 and C00611962 and candidate records H2AL03032 and H2OH03067, fetched October 3, 2026. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_b/?committee_id=C00372979 +[^18]: Government Accountability Office, Bid Protest Docket, Radiance Technologies, Inc. (TORFP-24-005), file number B-422615.1, Internet Archive capture of February 6, 2025. https://www.gao.gov/docket/b-422615.1 +[^19]: Radiance Technologies, "About Us" (George Clark, John Dennis, Scott Dublin; March 15, 1999), Wayback capture of July 11, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170711221013/https://www.radiancetech.com/about-us/ ; "Who We Are," Wayback capture of September 23, 2020 (same three names). https://web.archive.org/web/20200923061034/https://www.radiancetech.com/who-we-are/ +[^20]: Radiance Technologies, "Radiance Technologies Acquires Open Source Publishing," August 19, 2005, Wayback capture of October 24, 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20051024072949/http://www.radiancetech.com:80/company/press_releases.htm +[^21]: Radiance Technologies, "Intelligence Community Support" and "About Us" pages, Wayback captures of September 27, 2002 and April 8, 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20020927213934/http://www.radiancetech.com:80/ServicesForeignMaterialExp.html ; https://web.archive.org/web/20020408023258/http://www.radiancetech.com:80/AboutUs.htm +[^22]: Radiance Technologies, "Foreign Materiel Exploitation," Wayback capture of October 27, 2001. https://web.archive.org/web/20011027170543/http://radiancetech.com:80/ForeignExploit.htm +[^23]: Radiance Technologies, "Dayton Office," Wayback capture of January 3, 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20040103154403/http://www.radiancetech.com:80/dayton.html +[^24]: Radiance Technologies, "Programs Index," Wayback capture of December 15, 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20051215211203/http://www.radiancetech.com:80/programs/default.htm +[^25]: Radiance Technologies, careers posting HR328, Wayback capture of May 16, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060516112649/http://www.radiancetech.com/careers/hr328.shtm +[^26]: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, News Release No. 7-05, "Senior Leadership Positions Announced," December 7, 2005. https://irp.fas.org/news/2005/12/odni120705.html +[^27]: Congressional Record, Extensions of Remarks: May 23, 2008 (E1095), September 25, 2008 (E1904, E1924), July 21, 2009 (E1857), July 29, 2009 (E2063), September 21, 2009 (E2321), earmark declarations. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2009-09-21/html/CREC-2009-09-21-pt1-PgE2321-3.htm +[^28]: Radiance Technologies, "Radiance Technologies Welcomes Defense Intelligence Senior Leader Mr. Curtis Rowland to the Team," November 20, 2018. https://www.radiancetech.com/radiance-technologies-welcomes-defense-intelligence-senior-leader-mr-curtis-rowland-to-the-team/ +[^29]: "Radiance Technologies Promotes Mr. Curtis Rowland to Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer," Defense Daily, March 2, 2020. https://defensedaily.com/press-releases/radiance-technologies-promotes-mr-curtis-rowland-to-executive-vice-president-chief-strategy-officer +[^30]: Radiance Technologies leadership pages (William C. Bailey Jr., Cindy Santy, David L. Diaddario, Bryan Johnson, Peter Weiland, Paige Nix), Wayback captures of November 15, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191115103026/https://www.radiancetech.com/about-us/leadership/bill-bailey/ ; https://web.archive.org/web/20191115110855/https://www.radiancetech.com/about-us/leadership/david-diaddario/ ; https://web.archive.org/web/20191115095530/https://www.radiancetech.com/about-us/leadership/bryan-johnson/ ; https://web.archive.org/web/20191115103945/https://www.radiancetech.com/about-us/leadership/cindy-santy/ +[^31]: "Bill Jennings joins Radiance Technologies as intel advisor," Intelligence Community News, January 20, 2022. https://intelligencecommunitynews.com/bill-jennings-joins-radiance-technologies-as-intel-advisor/ +[^32]: Radiance Technologies, "Radiance Technologies Welcomes Dr. Mark Tillman as Vice President for Simulation Strategy," July 16, 2024; "Radiance Technologies Strengthens Innovation Capability with Strategic Acquisition of Phased n Research," PR Newswire, March 31, 2025. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-strengthens-innovation-capability-with-strategic-acquisition-of-phased-n-research-302416148.html +[^33]: "Radiance Technologies Announces Strategic Partnership with Major General (USSF, Ret.) Tim Sejba," PR Newswire, April 2, 2026. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-announces-strategic-partnership-with-major-general-ussf-ret-tim-sejba-302733113.html ; "Radiance Technologies Announces Strategic Partnership with Flynn Advisors LLC," February 20, 2025. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-announces-strategic-partnership-with-flynn-advisors-llc-302381834.html +[^34]: USAspending.gov, award detail and search records for IDVs FA860415D7976 and FA860422DB008 and 141 FA8604 prime contract records for recipient Radiance Technologies (UEI R52PJK8DM6T4, YXRLX5PDCWK4), queried October 3, 2026; raw rows in TEMP/RESEARCH/2026-10-03_uapmoney/data/DR1/. https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/awards/CONT_IDV_FA860422DB008_9700/ +[^35]: Radiance Technologies, "Radiance Technologies Wins NOVASTAR Contract for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center," August 19, 2022. https://www.radiancetech.com/radiance-technologies-wins-novastar-contract-for-the-national-air-and-space-intelligence-center/ +[^36]: Loren Blinde, "Radiance Technologies wins NASIC intelligence mission data BPA," Intelligence Community News, September 24, 2019. https://intelligencecommunitynews.com/radiance-technologies-wins-nasic-intelligence-mission-data-bpa/ +[^37]: Radiance Technologies, "Radiance Technologies Overview," January 13, 2022 (National Advanced Mobility Consortium applicant capability file). https://www.namconsortium.org/sites/default/files/applicants_capabilities_pdfs/radiance-corporate-overview.pdf +[^38]: Built In, "OPIR Extractions Analyst - Radiance Technologies," https://builtin.com/job/opir-extractions-analyst/4836556 ; ClearanceJobs, "C4ISR Analyst," Radiance Technologies, https://api.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8984151/c4isr-analyst (both opened October 3, 2026). +[^39]: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration, Form 5500 and Schedule H datasets for plan years 2017 to 2024 (Radiance Technologies, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan, EIN 63-1204084, plan 003; 2024 filing acknowledgment 20251014121241NAL0001356787001, received October 14, 2025), fetched October 3, 2026. https://www.askebsa.dol.gov/FOIA%20Files/2024/Latest/F_5500_2024_Latest.zip ; https://www.askebsa.dol.gov/FOIA%20Files/2024/Latest/F_SCH_H_2024_Latest.zip +[^40]: Berry v. Bailey, No. 5:24-cv-522 (N.D. Ala.), Doc. 33 (second amended complaint, filed August 21, 2024; allegations of the plaintiffs) and docket. https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.alnd.189482/gov.uscourts.alnd.189482.33.0.pdf ; https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68716598/berry-v-bailey/ +[^41]: Berry v. Bailey, No. 5:24-cv-522-CLM, Doc. 68, Memorandum Opinion (September 18, 2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-alnd-5_24-cv-00522/pdf/USCOURTS-alnd-5_24-cv-00522-0.pdf +[^42]: SAM.gov, "Redacted J&A for Radiance Technologies," Notice ID SPRRA226R0040, published April 14, 2026, attachment SPRRA226R0040_Redacted.pdf; USAspending.gov award CONT_AWD_SPRRA226C0009_9700, queried October 3, 2026. https://sam.gov/opp/612f3034b1844db384f0f8f06d9e1dcf/view +[^43]: Government Accountability Office, Bid Protest Docket, B-422615.1, and decision B-422615 (published August 30, 2024); Radiance Technologies Inc. v. United States, No. 24-1375C (Fed. Cl. December 5, 2024). https://www.gao.gov/products/b-422615 ; https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-cv-01375/pdf/USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-cv-01375-0.pdf +[^44]: Federal Election Commission, Schedule B disbursements of committee C00372979, all records (367) fetched October 3, 2026. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_b/?committee_id=C00372979 ; recipient committee identifiers: Mike Rogers for Congress C00367862 (candidate H2AL03032), Citizens for Turner C00373001 (H2OH03067), Turner Victory Fund C00611962 (joint fundraising committee). +[^45]: Federal Election Commission, Schedule A, individual contributions with contributor employer "Radiance Technologies" (name variants), 9,176 records fetched October 3, 2026. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/?contributor_employer=Radiance%20Technologies +[^46]: Federal Election Commission, candidate record H8AL05208 (Robert Clayton Hinchman, Alabama 5th District, 2018, party GOP); WAFF, "Clayton Hinchman receives endorsements from local military, business leaders," 2018. https://www.waff.com/story/38320177/clayton-hinchman-receives-endorsements-from-local-military-business-leaders/ ; https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/H8AL05208/ +[^47]: Federal Election Commission, Hinchman for Congress (C00648162), Schedule A and committee totals; Schedule B record of the Radiance PAC disbursement (image 201804239111724609). https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/?committee_id=C00648162 +[^48]: Steve Skojec, "The Banality of Ontological Shock," The Skojec File, December 7, 2023 (transcription of a Twitter Space statement by Daniel Sheehan). Sole source for the passages so cited. https://skojecfile.steveskojec.com/p/the-banality-of-ontological-shock +[^49]: Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway, "Aliens Or Not, Secret Crash Retrieval Programs Are A Very Real Thing," The War Zone, June 15, 2023. https://www.twz.com/aliens-or-not-secret-crash-retrieval-programs-are-a-very-real-thing +[^50]: Inspector General, Department of Defense, "Use of Foreign Materiel Exploitation Results," Audit Report No. 98-005, October 8, 1997, executive summary and Part I. https://media.defense.gov/1997/Oct/08/2001715489/-1/-1/1/98-005.pdf diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/SALT Fund Management LLC.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/SALT Fund Management LLC.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..676f8b92 --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/SALT Fund Management LLC.md @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +--- +category: "Finance & Business" +tags: + - Organization + - Finance + - VentureCapital + - Cryptocurrency + - ExemptReportingAdviser +alias: + - SALT Fund Management LLC + - SALT Fund Management, LLC + - SALT Fund Management + - SALT Fund + - The SALT Fund + - Kyber Capital + - Kyber Capital Crypto +location: "Palm Beach Gardens, Florida" +summary: "Exempt reporting investment adviser (CRD 316587) managing six private funds with 132,930,715 dollars in assets, owned by Alexander Scaramucci and Alex Klokus; named in FTX bankruptcy filings as creditor-matrix contact and interested party." +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- + +SALT Fund Management LLC (also written SALT Fund Management, LLC, and marketed as the SALT Fund and, for its crypto fund, Kyber Capital) is an exempt reporting adviser registered with the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] under file number 802-122469 and CRD 316587 since September 9, 2021, with its address in [[Palm Beach Gardens]], [[Florida]]. Its Form ADV of March 30, 2026 lists [[Alexander Scaramucci]] and [[Alex Klokus]] as its two managing members.[^1] + +### Adviser and owners + +Schedule A of the annual amendment lists "Scaramucci, Alexander, Joseph" (CRD 6960736) and "KLOKUS, ALEXANDER" (CRD 7432068), each with title "MANAGING MEMBER," each acquired 09/2021, each ownership code D ("50 percent but less than 75 percent"), and each control person "Y." The execution page is signed "ALEXANDER KLOKUS," managing member, March 30, 2026. The two ownership bands are reproduced as filed. Item 11 disclosures: none filed. Item 7.A related persons: Kyber Capital Crypto GP I LLC and SALT Equity Partners I LLC. The adviser's telephone number is the number printed on the 2016 Form D of [[Futurism, LLC]] and on the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] filings of [[ENNEA LLC]].[^1] The investment adviser database lists no current employment and no disclosures for Scaramucci (CRD 6960736) and no record for CRD 7432068.[^2] + +Scaramucci is the oldest son of [[Anthony Scaramucci]], according to [[Bustle]] (August 1, 2017, citing his LinkedIn profile and the Daily Mail, which it says calls him AJ) and [[Fortune]] (September 24, 2026, quoting "his father, serial entrepreneur Anthony Scaramucci"). Neither piece mentions the SALT Fund; no Form ADV or Form D opened states a family relationship or links the adviser to [[SkyBridge Capital]].[^3][^4] + +### Funds + +Item 2.B and Schedule D, Section 7.B.(1) of the Form ADV of March 30, 2026 list six funds with total private fund assets of 132,930,715 dollars, the sum of the following gross asset values.[^1] + +Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP (general partner Kyber Capital Crypto GP I LLC): 54,529,900 dollars, 14 owners, 31 percent non-US owners, 1 percent held by the adviser and related persons, no annual audit, custodians Mercury Technologies and [[Silicon Valley]] Bank, administrator Securitize Fund Services; answered as a venture capital fund. + +SALT Fund I, L.P. (general partner SALT Equity Partners I, LLC): 38,519,622 dollars, 106 owners, 22 percent non-US, 6 percent adviser and related persons, 8 percent held by funds of funds, audited by Frank, Rimerman and Co. LLP of [[San Francisco]], administrator Standish Management. + +SALT Fund Gene Therapy, LP: 16,432,917 dollars, 48 owners, 17 percent held by funds of funds, no audit. + +SALT Fund LP Series Longevity: 14,044,756 dollars, 23 owners, 37 percent held by funds of funds, no audit. + +SALT Fund LP Series Food: 7,180,412 dollars, 42 owners, 47 percent held by funds of funds, no audit. + +SALT Fund Series Mental Health, LP: 2,223,108 dollars, 13 owners, 74 percent held by funds of funds, no audit. + +Only SALT Fund I is audited. The funds of funds that hold between 8 and 74 percent of the five SALT funds are not named in the filing. Each fund answers "No Information Filed" for a marketer. Only the March 30, 2026 edition could be retrieved, so year-over-year changes are unknown.[^1][^5] + +### Form D history + +SALT Fund I, L.P. filed a Form D on March 16, 2021 (first sale yet to occur, 25,000,000 dollars offered, signed "/s/ Alexander Scaramucci"; Scaramucci and Klokus listed as executive officers) and an amendment on July 6, 2021 (first sale March 17, 2021, 40,000,000 dollars offered, 34,585,000 dollars sold, 91 investors, duration not more than one year).[^6] Series Food, Series Longevity, Gene Therapy and Series Mental Health each filed one Form D between November 2021 and June 2022 (3,415,000, 12,425,000, 14,199,999 and 7,455,000 dollars sold; 14, 17, 43 and 12 investors) under the general partner entities "Salt GP 2 LLC" and "SALT Equity Partners I LLC," signed by attorneys-in-fact, without naming Scaramucci or Klokus.[^6] + +Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP filed one Form D, signed August 23, 2022 by "Alexander Klokus, Managing Member of Kyber Capital Crypto GP I LLC" and filed August 24, 2022. It names SALT Fund Management, LLC as investment manager, checks first sale "yet to occur," duration "more than one year," offering amount "Indefinite" and amount sold zero. The EDGAR submissions record for the fund, checked October 3, 2026, lists no later Form D or amendment.[^6] + +Rule 503(a)(1) of Regulation D, 17 CFR 230.503, requires a notice of sales on Form D "no later than 15 calendar days after the first sale of securities in the offering." Rule 503(a)(3)(ii) requires an amendment "to reflect a change in the information provided" as soon as practicable after the change, with exceptions for items such as amount sold and number of investors, and Rule 503(a)(3)(iii) requires an amendment "annually, on or before the first anniversary of the filing of the notice of sales on Form D or the filing of the most recent amendment ... if the offering is continuing at that time." A Form D filed before a first sale is permitted. The 2026 Form ADV reports 54,529,900 dollars of gross assets and 14 owners for Kyber, and the EDGAR record shows one Form D, no amendment and an offering marked as lasting more than a year. The filings do not show whether Kyber's owners subscribed under a different exemption, through a related vehicle, or outside the [[United States]] only (31 percent of owners are non-US), and whether the rule was complied with is a question for the Securities and Exchange Commission.[^6][^7] + +### The Passport Foundation + +The Passport Foundation (EIN 26-1580196, [[Wilmington, Delaware]], administered by Foundation Source) reports "SALT FUND I, L.P." among its other investments of its Form 990-PF for each year from 2021 to 2024: 2021 book value 107,101 dollars and fair market value 110,416 dollars; 2022 161,117 and 220,824; 2023 179,839 and 216,521; 2024 209,774 and 201,019, with annual Schedule K-1 expenses of 5,449, 8,486, 7,696 and 7,650 dollars. It is the only investor in any SALT or Kyber fund found in a public filing (the return reports the holding as an other investment, without stating the nature of the interest); the 2024 return lists John H. Burbank III as director and president. Its holding is under one percent of the fund's reported gross assets.[^8] + +### FTX records + +The [[FTX]] creditor matrix filed January 25, 2023 (In re FTX Trading Ltd., No. 22-11068, Bankr. D. Del., Doc 574, page 102 of 116) carries creditor "THE SALT FUND" with contact lines "AJ SCARAMUCCI," "ALEX KLOKUS" and a third individual, and a second row "THE SALT FUND / AJ SCARAMUCCI," without address, amount or claim type; the matrix also has a separate row "SKYBRIDGE CAPITAL." The debtors' Updated Interested Parties List (Doc 14607-1, May 10, 2024, page 7 of 13) lists "SALT Fund Management, LLC" under "Interested Parties." The notice-parties service list attached to the Kroll affidavit (Doc 18381, Exhibit B), served June 13, 2024 with the order approving the sale of FTX's Anthropic shares, lists "The Salt Fund" with email addresses at the thesaltfund.com domain for Scaramucci and Klokus; other rows on that list carry the annotation "(Shareholder of Anthropic)" and this row does not. The claims register could not be retrieved, so no claim amount is known.[^9] + +At the criminal trial of [[Sam Bankman-Fried]] (United States v. Bankman-Fried, No. 22-cr-673, S.D.N.Y.), the government described Exhibit 285 on October 17, 2023 as an updated invitation from a thesaltfund.com address to an ftx.com address "among others," subject "Updated invitation: SALT fund," at Bluestone Lane, 55 Hudson Yards, on September 17, 2021, during testimony on cell-site records; the testimony names no SALT principal.[^10] + +### SALT brand and the SkyBridge adversary proceeding + +The conference organization's site states: "SALT was founded in 2009 by SkyBridge Capital, a leading fund of funds, but now operates as a standalone entity"; its operating company is SALT Venture Group, LLC, 527 Madison Avenue, New York. Correspondence of July 29, 2024 from SkyBridge Opportunity Fund to the Securities and Exchange Commission states that "SALT Venture Group, LLC ('SALT'), a company affiliated with SkyBridge, hosts large investment conferences."[^11] Alex Klokus's speaker biography on the same site calls him "Founder and Managing Partner at the SALT Fund" and carries the footer of SALT Venture Group, LLC. The Form ADV of SALT Fund Management LLC lists neither SALT Venture Group nor SkyBridge as a related person, and no document opened states that SALT Fund Management LLC is owned by, licensed by or affiliated with either.[^1][^11] + +On November 8, 2024 FTX Trading Ltd., Island Bay Ventures Inc. and Clifton Bay Investments LLC filed adversary proceeding 24-50209 in the [[United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware]] against SkyBridge parties including SALT Venture Group LLC, Anthony Scaramucci and [[Brett Messing]]. As pleaded by the plaintiffs, it seeks to avoid and recover transfers of more than 100 million dollars: a 12 million dollar sponsorship agreement with SALT in January 2022; a 10 million dollar investment by [[Alameda Research]] Ventures in the SkyBridge Coin Fund in March 2022; and 45 million dollars paid by Island Bay on September 7, 2022 "in return for 30% membership interests in both SkyBridge II and SkyBridge GP." The complaint text does not mention Klokus, the SALT Fund, Kyber or Alexander Scaramucci. The defendants moved on January 29, 2025 to compel arbitration and dismiss, and the trust opposed on April 8, 2025; neither was opened.[^12] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: SEC, Form ADV annual amendment, SALT Fund Management LLC, CRD 316587, executed March 30, 2026: Items 1.F, 2.B, 7.A and 11; Schedule A; Schedule D 7.B.(1). https://reports.adviserinfo.sec.gov/reports/ADV/316587/PDF/316587.pdf +[^2]: SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure, individual CRD 6960736, https://api.adviserinfo.sec.gov/search/individual/6960736 ; search for CRD 7432068, October 3, 2026. +[^3]: Joseph D. Lyons, "Alexander Scaramucci, The Mooch's Oldest Son, Is Working In Los Angeles," Bustle, August 1, 2017. https://www.bustle.com/p/who-is-alexander-scaramucci-the-moochs-son-is-entrepreneur-73739 +[^4]: Nick Lichtenberg, "Exclusive: AJ Scaramucci comes out of stealth with a $350 million bet on 'Programmable Reality,'" Fortune, September 24, 2026, fetched October 3, 2026. https://fortune.com +[^5]: Frank, Rimerman and Co. LLP as auditor of SALT Fund I, per Form ADV Schedule D 7.B.(1) Q23; custodians and administrators per Q24 to Q27 of the same schedule (March 30, 2026 edition; no earlier edition available through IAPD or the Wayback Machine). +[^6]: SEC EDGAR Form D filings: SALT Fund I, L.P., CIK 0001850930, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850930/000185093021000001/primary_doc.xml and 0001850930-21-000002; Series Food CIK 0001886369; Series Longevity 0001886363; Gene Therapy 0001925158; Series Mental Health 0001925312; Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP, CIK 0001935894, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1935894/000193589422000003/primary_doc.xml ; EDGAR submissions record, https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001935894.json (checked October 3, 2026). +[^7]: 17 CFR 230.503(a)(1) and (a)(3); Form D is 17 CFR 239.500. eCFR, retrieved September 30, 2026. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-17/part-230/section-230.503 +[^8]: Form 990-PF, The Passport Foundation, EIN 26-1580196, object IDs 202223209349100607 (2021), 202323199349110062 (2022), 202423199349106177 (2023), 202523219349107357 (2024). https://gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202523219349107357_public.xml +[^9]: In re FTX Trading Ltd., No. 22-11068 (Bankr. D. Del.): Doc 574, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.574.0.pdf ; Doc 14607-1, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.14607.1.pdf ; Doc 18381, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.18381.0.pdf +[^10]: United States v. Bankman-Fried, No. 22-cr-673 (S.D.N.Y.), transcript of October 17, 2023, pp. 1654 to 1655. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940.368.0.pdf +[^11]: SALT, "About." https://www.salt.org/about ; SALT, speaker page "Alex Klokus." https://www.salt.org/speakers/alex-klokus ; SkyBridge Opportunity Fund, correspondence to the SEC, July 29, 2024, accession 0001193125-24-187498. +[^12]: FTX Trading Ltd. et al. v. SkyBridge Capital II, LLC et al., Adv. Pro. No. 24-50209 (Bankr. D. Del.), complaint filed November 8, 2024, paragraphs 2 and 4. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.194806/gov.uscourts.deb.194806.1.0_1.pdf diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Sky Watcher.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Sky Watcher.md index 4d5cb33a..99687695 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Sky Watcher.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Sky Watcher.md @@ -50,21 +50,51 @@ The website's FAQ states that Skywatcher "is funded through private partnerships ### Officers, investors and filings -No Form D filing by an issuer named Skywatcher was found in a full-text search of the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] EDGAR database restricted to Form D on October 3, 2026, and a search for "Jake Barber" and "Jacob Barber" in Form D filings returned none.[^9] A search of OpenCorporates for the name returned several unrelated state registrations (including Delaware entities named Skywatcher Technologies Corporation, file number 10021279, and Skywatcher Technologies Initiative LLC, file number 4376561, with registered agents and no public officer data), none of which has been tied by any source to Barber, Fowler or Klokus.[^10] Klokus appears as a named officer, director or managing member in Form D filings of other issuers. [[Futurism, LLC]] ([[Brooklyn]], [[New York City|New York]]; Form D signed December 19, 2016; first sale November 22, 2016; total offering 6,000,652 dollars, all sold, one investor) lists [[Alexander Klokus]] and [[Dan Sutera]] as executive officers and directors and [[Johnson Bryan]] and [[Michael G. Clark]] as directors. [[Theo Rewards, Inc.]] (New York; Form D filed February 3, 2020; 300,000 dollars offered and sold) lists "Alexander Lockwood Klokus" as director, co-chief executive officer and chief financial officer and [[Ankur Jain]] as director, co-chief executive officer and secretary. [[SALT Fund I, L.P.]] ([[Palm Beach Gardens]], [[Florida]]) lists Klokus and [[Alexander Scaramucci]] as managing members of the general partner; its Form D of March 16, 2021 shows a 25,000,000 dollar offering with nothing yet sold, and an amended Form D of July 6, 2021 shows a 40,000,000 dollar offering with 34,585,000 dollars sold to 91 investors, first sale March 17, 2021. [[Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP]] (Form D August 24, 2022; indefinite offering, none sold) lists Klokus and "Alexander Joseph Scaramucci" as managing members of the general partner and investment manager, [[SALT Fund Management, LLC]]. [[Tomorrow Farms Inc.]] (New York) lists [[Ben Berman]] as chief executive officer, Scaramucci as treasurer and Klokus as secretary in its Form D of May 24, 2022 (8,500,000 dollars offered, 8,255,000 sold to 21 investors) and, as Tomorrow Farms, PBC, in a Form D filed April 29, 2024 (11,849,995 dollars offered, 4,765,635 sold to six investors). Further filings list Klokus and a Scaramucci together as directors of [[Microcapital, Inc.]] (East Hampton; Form D November 7, 2024; 1,535,000 dollars sold) and [[Radial Health, Inc.]] (Salt Lake City; Form D April 29, 2024; 8,499,990 dollars offered, 7,797,992 sold), and as executive officers ("Alex Klokus" and "AJ Scaramucci") of [[Shuttle Labs LLC]] (New York; Form D November 28, 2022; 25,000 dollars).[^11] The name is recorded here exactly as filed ("Alexander Scaramucci," "Alexander Joseph Scaramucci," "Scaramucci Alexander," "Alexander J Scaramucci," "AJ Scaramucci"); none of the filings gives a middle or alternate name connecting the filer to any other person of the surname, and the filings do not mention Skywatcher.[^11] Separately, a Form D of [[Solari Capital]] funds beginning December 2024 (for example Solari Capital Fund III, L.P., Form D December 19, 2024) lists "Alexander Scaramucci" as managing member of the general partner.[^11] +No Form D filing by an issuer named Skywatcher was found in a full-text search of the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] EDGAR database restricted to Form D on October 3, 2026, and a search for "Jake Barber" and "Jacob Barber" in Form D filings returned none.[^9] An entity named [[Skywatcher Technologies Corporation]] (Delaware file number 10021279) was incorporated on November 27, 2024, according to the Delaware Division of Corporations entity details page captured on October 3, 2026; its registered agent is VCORP Agent Services, Inc., 108 West 13th Street, Suite 100, [[Wilmington, Delaware]], and no officer data is public.[^10] A separate entity, Skywatcher Technologies Initiative LLC (file number 4376561, registered agent Corporation Service Company), is listed by OpenCorporates; no source ties it to Barber, Fowler or Klokus.[^11] Klokus appears as a named officer, director or managing member in Form D filings of other issuers. [[Futurism, LLC]] ([[Brooklyn]], [[New York City|New York]]; Form D signed December 19, 2016; first sale November 22, 2016; total offering 6,000,652 dollars, all sold, one investor) lists [[Alexander Klokus]] and [[Dan Sutera]] as executive officers and directors and [[Johnson Bryan]] and [[Michael G. Clark]] as directors. [[Theo Rewards, Inc.]] (New York; Form D filed February 3, 2020; 300,000 dollars offered and sold) lists "Alexander Lockwood Klokus" as director, co-chief executive officer and chief financial officer and [[Ankur Jain]] as director, co-chief executive officer and secretary. [[SALT Fund I, L.P.]] ([[Palm Beach Gardens]], [[Florida]]) lists Klokus and [[Alexander Scaramucci]] as managing members of the general partner; its Form D of March 16, 2021 shows a 25,000,000 dollar offering with nothing yet sold, and an amended Form D of July 6, 2021 shows a 40,000,000 dollar offering with 34,585,000 dollars sold to 91 investors, first sale March 17, 2021. [[Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP]] (Form D August 24, 2022; indefinite offering, none sold) lists Klokus and "Alexander Joseph Scaramucci" as managing members of the general partner and investment manager, [[SALT Fund Management, LLC]]. [[Tomorrow Farms Inc.]] (New York) lists [[Ben Berman]] as chief executive officer, Scaramucci as treasurer and Klokus as secretary in its Form D of May 24, 2022 (8,500,000 dollars offered, 8,255,000 sold to 21 investors) and, as Tomorrow Farms, PBC, in a Form D filed April 29, 2024 (11,849,995 dollars offered, 4,765,635 sold to six investors). Further filings list Klokus and a Scaramucci together as directors of [[Microcapital, Inc.]] (East Hampton; Form D November 7, 2024; 1,535,000 dollars sold) and [[Radial Health, Inc.]] (Salt Lake City; Form D April 29, 2024; 8,499,990 dollars offered, 7,797,992 sold), and as executive officers ("Alex Klokus" and "AJ Scaramucci") of [[Shuttle Labs LLC]] (New York; Form D November 28, 2022; 25,000 dollars).[^12] The name is recorded here exactly as filed ("Alexander Scaramucci," "Alexander Joseph Scaramucci," "Scaramucci Alexander," "Alexander J Scaramucci," "AJ Scaramucci"); none of the filings gives a middle or alternate name connecting the filer to any other person of the surname, and the filings do not mention Skywatcher.[^12] Separately, a Form D of [[Solari Capital]] funds beginning December 2024 (for example Solari Capital Fund III, L.P., Form D December 19, 2024) lists "Alexander Scaramucci" as managing member of the general partner.[^12] -[[Federal Election Commission]] records list two contributions of 25 dollars (September 12, 2019) and 5 dollars (June 28, 2019) by an "Alex Klokus" of Brooklyn, employer and occupation "self," to [[ActBlue]], and no other contributions under that name; a separate FEC entry of June 15, 2023 lists one contribution of 250 dollars, through ActBlue to [[Yassamin Ansari]] for Congress, by "Alexander Scaramucci" of [[San Francisco]] with employer "Solari; SALT."[^12] The [[United States Senate|Senate]] [[Lobbying Disclosure Act]] database returned no filing for a client or registrant named Skywatcher or Sky Watcher on October 3, 2026, and a [[USAspending.gov]] search of contract awards to a recipient named "SKYWATCHER LLC" returned none.[^13][^14] +[[Federal Election Commission]] records list two contributions of 25 dollars (September 12, 2019) and 5 dollars (June 28, 2019) by an "Alex Klokus" of Brooklyn, employer and occupation "self," to [[ActBlue]], and no other contributions under that name; a separate FEC entry of June 15, 2023 lists one contribution of 250 dollars, through ActBlue to [[Yassamin Ansari]] for Congress, by "Alexander Scaramucci" of [[San Francisco]] with employer "Solari; SALT."[^13] The [[United States Senate|Senate]] [[Lobbying Disclosure Act]] database returned no filing for a client or registrant named Skywatcher or Sky Watcher on October 3, 2026, and a [[USAspending.gov]] search of contract awards to a recipient named "SKYWATCHER LLC" returned none.[^14][^15] + +### Trademark ownership + +The SKYWATCHER service mark application (serial 98864113, Class 35 "Business management," intent to use, standard characters, filed November 20, 2024) names as owner [[ENNEA LLC]], "a limited liability company organized in Delaware," at the VCORP address in [[Wilmington, Delaware]]. The same owner holds applications for ENNEA (serial 98873547, filed November 26, 2024) and PSIONIC (serial 99091501, filed March 19, 2025). Every filing in the public [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] file for SKYWATCHER (the application of November 20, 2024, an extension request of February 11, 2026 and a petition to revive of September 14, 2026) is signed "/[[Robert Drolet]]/," attorney of record, of [[Fort Lauderdale]]; no owner-signed declaration, specimen or owner email appears in the public copy. The owner telephone on the filings is the number printed on the 2016 Form D of Futurism, LLC (signed by Alex Klokus as chief executive officer) and on the March 30, 2026 Form ADV of [[SALT Fund Management LLC|SALT Fund Management, LLC]].[^16] + +ENNEA LLC is registered in Florida (document M25000008651, filed June 16, 2025) with "ALEX KLOKUS" as sole listed person, titled Member on the application, "CEO" on the annual report of April 17, 2026 and "Authorized Signer" on the amended report of July 15, 2026. The co-existence agreement it signed with Waterkress Creative LLC, effective November 19, 2025 and filed with the USPTO on December 7, 2025, carries the typed signature "Alex Klokus," title "ENNEA LLC Authorized Representative," and an Acrobat Sign audit entry "Signer alex@ennea.io entered name at signing as Alex Klokus," November 25, 2025.[^17] The Delaware certificate attached to the Florida application states that ENNEA LLC "was formed on the first day of January, A.D. 2024" and gives the file number 2861775.[^17] + +The domain skywatcher.ai was registered December 6, 2024; its public registration record lists as registrant "Skywatcher Technologies," 12555 Biscayne Boulevard #1083, North Miami, Florida, and does not show Klokus's name. The amended Florida report of July 15, 2026 lists the same mailbox as ENNEA LLC's mailing address.[^17][^18] + +### Dated sequence + +- January 5, 2024: ennea.io registered; ENNEA LLC's Delaware certificate gives its formation as January 1, 2024.[^17][^19] +- May 22 and August 9, 2024: ennea.io captures read "The central node for capital, research, and relationships fueling contrarian ideas."[^19] +- October 14 to 18, 2024: the "Explorer's Club by Ennea" gathering at the [[Esalen Institute]], announced as "patron-funded, invite-only"; no organizer is named on the captured pages.[^19] +- November 20, 2024: SKYWATCHER application filed in ENNEA LLC's name.[^16] +- November 27, 2024: Skywatcher Technologies Corporation incorporated in Delaware.[^10] +- December 6, 2024: skywatcher.ai registered to "Skywatcher Technologies."[^18] +- January 2025: public announcement of Skywatcher with Barber, as described above. +- November 12, 2025: ENNEA LLC's response to a USPTO office action submits a Facebook post by the "Disclosure Team" account (January 28, 2025) whose snippet reads "Ennea, which is a sister organization to Skywatcher and comprised of ...," and an Instagram reel by the same account captioned "Matthew Pines reveals he is working as an outside advisor for the @skywatcherhq team and Ennea." The wording is the Disclosure Team's; the exhibits were selected by ENNEA's attorney.[^20] + +### Dated sequence + +- January 5, 2024: ennea.io registered; ENNEA LLC's Delaware certificate gives its formation as January 1, 2024.[^17][^19] +- May 22 and August 9, 2024: ennea.io captures read "The central node for capital, research, and relationships fueling contrarian ideas."[^19] +- October 14 to 18, 2024: the "Explorer's Club by Ennea" gathering at the [[Esalen Institute]], announced as "patron-funded, invite-only"; no organizer is named on the captured pages.[^19] +- November 20, 2024: SKYWATCHER application filed in ENNEA LLC's name.[^16] +- November 27, 2024: Skywatcher Technologies Corporation incorporated in Delaware.[^10] +- December 6, 2024: skywatcher.ai registered to "Skywatcher Technologies."[^18] +- January 2025: public announcement of Skywatcher with Barber, as described above. +- November 12, 2025: ENNEA LLC's response to a USPTO office action submits a [[Facebook]] post by the "Disclosure Team" account (January 28, 2025) whose snippet reads "Ennea, which is a sister organization to Skywatcher and comprised of ...," and an [[Instagram]] reel by the same account captioned "[[Matt Pines|Matthew Pines]] reveals he is working as an outside advisor for the @skywatcherhq team and Ennea." The wording is the Disclosure Team's; the exhibits were selected by ENNEA's attorney.[^20] ### Field operations -The Skywatcher media page lists two videos. "Skywatcher Part I: The Journey Begins" is described as including interviews with Klokus, Barber, Nolan, [[David Grusch]], Col. [[Karl Nell]] and Baker, followed by an attempt "to replicate the process firsthand." "Skywatcher Part II: Mapping the Unknown" is described as introducing Fowler, "who leads the technology team," a taxonomy of nine UAP classes, and field work with "Dr. Garry Nolan, Alex Klokus, [[Matt Pines]], and others," using "electromechanical signaling ('machine calling') and neuromeditative interaction ('psionic calling')."[^15] The nine classes on its research page include Tetra, [[Tic Tac]], jellyfish and manta ray; its Tic Tac class is described as seen "with the Manta Ray in proximity."[^8] +The Skywatcher media page lists two videos. "Skywatcher Part I: The Journey Begins" is described as including interviews with Klokus, Barber, Nolan, [[David Grusch]], Col. [[Karl Nell]] and Baker, followed by an attempt "to replicate the process firsthand." "Skywatcher Part II: Mapping the Unknown" is described as introducing Fowler, "who leads the technology team," a taxonomy of nine UAP classes, and field work with "Dr. Garry Nolan, Alex Klokus, Matt Pines, and others," using "electromechanical signaling ('machine calling') and neuromeditative interaction ('psionic calling')."[^21] The nine classes on its research page include Tetra, [[Tic Tac]], jellyfish and manta ray; its Tic Tac class is described as seen "with the Manta Ray in proximity."[^8] On April 7, 2025 NewsNation reported Coulthart's statement that Skywatcher used a "secret location known as 'The Range'" and an "electro-mechanical dog whistle," that "every time they use their dog whistle, it's worked 100% of the time in summoning the phenomenon," and that the group said it had hosted representatives of the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] "at its private base."[^2] Coulthart wrote in August 2026 that the base was at [[Sierra Blanca, Texas]], southeast of [[El Paso, Texas]], and that Skywatcher operated there "until July" 2025.[^4] ### Cessation and later reporting -Coulthart wrote that Skywatcher's last post on [[X (social network)|X]] was on December 25, 2025, that nothing had been posted on the website since Fowler left "in mid-August last year to follow what he described as a new opportunity in aerial intelligence," and that "multiple insiders" had told NewsNation that by its last field operation in July 2025 Skywatcher "was working with and reporting to a number of government agencies, including [[NASA]], the [[Department of Defense]] and several intelligence agencies, including the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]."[^4] He stated that a [[Federal Aviation Administration]] notice to airmen posted on November 8, 2025 closed airspace southeast of El Paso through November 7, 2026 as "national defense airspace," that it was canceled on November 14, 2025, and that he had "learned the TFR was initiated by the Defense Department's [[Joint Special Operations Command]] liaison to the FAA and imposed 'to shoot down drones.'"[^4] He added that "Sources in the Trump administration" told him the government was using "the same so-called dog-whistle" and "psionic summoners" in operations at [[White Sands Missile Range]], and that "[[White House]] sources" said [[Donald Trump]] had personally authorized it; these statements are Coulthart's, attributed to unnamed sources.[^4] Coulthart's column also describes a February 10, 2026 closure of airspace over El Paso by the Federal Aviation Administration, rescinded about seven hours later; he wrote that [[The New York Times]] reported the closure followed use by immigration officials of an antidrone laser shared by the [[Pentagon]] against what turned out to be a party balloon, and that the administration had first cited cartel drones; he called the cartel-drone explanation one that "made no sense."[^4] On August 7, 2026 NewsNation published a Coulthart question-and-answer segment titled "Skywatcher didn't disappear, it went government."[^16] +Coulthart wrote that Skywatcher's last post on [[X (social network)|X]] was on December 25, 2025, that nothing had been posted on the website since Fowler left "in mid-August last year to follow what he described as a new opportunity in aerial intelligence," and that "multiple insiders" had told NewsNation that by its last field operation in July 2025 Skywatcher "was working with and reporting to a number of government agencies, including [[NASA]], the [[Department of Defense]] and several intelligence agencies, including the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]."[^4] He stated that a [[Federal Aviation Administration]] notice to airmen posted on November 8, 2025 closed airspace southeast of El Paso through November 7, 2026 as "national defense airspace," that it was canceled on November 14, 2025, and that he had "learned the TFR was initiated by the Defense Department's [[Joint Special Operations Command]] liaison to the FAA and imposed 'to shoot down drones.'"[^4] He added that "Sources in the Trump administration" told him the government was using "the same so-called dog-whistle" and "psionic summoners" in operations at [[White Sands Missile Range]], and that "[[White House]] sources" said [[Donald Trump]] had personally authorized it; these statements are Coulthart's, attributed to unnamed sources.[^4] Coulthart's column also describes a February 10, 2026 closure of airspace over El Paso by the Federal Aviation Administration, rescinded about seven hours later; he wrote that [[The New York Times]] reported the closure followed use by immigration officials of an antidrone laser shared by the [[Pentagon]] against what turned out to be a party balloon, and that the administration had first cited cartel drones; he called the cartel-drone explanation one that "made no sense."[^4] On August 7, 2026 NewsNation published a Coulthart question-and-answer segment titled "Skywatcher didn't disappear, it went government."[^22] -The Defense Department's response to Barber's January 2025 claims, given by spokesperson [[Sue Gough]], was that it "has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently."[^17] On February 24, 2025 NewsNation reported that the department confirmed it was investigating Barber's claims, and Coulthart said that AARO director [[Jon Kosloski]] had indicated his office was talking with whistleblowers such as Barber.[^18] +The Defense Department's response to Barber's January 2025 claims, given by spokesperson [[Sue Gough]], was that it "has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently."[^23] On February 24, 2025 NewsNation reported that the department confirmed it was investigating Barber's claims, and Coulthart said that AARO director [[Jon Kosloski]] had indicated his office was talking with whistleblowers such as Barber.[^24] ### Footnotes @@ -73,16 +103,22 @@ The Defense Department's response to Barber's January 2025 claims, given by spok [^3]: Skywatcher, "About." https://skywatcher.ai/about (retrieved October 3, 2026). [^4]: Ross Coulthart, "Is the Trump administration running a covert UFO program?," NewsNation Reality Check, published about August 2026 (retrieved October 3, 2026 showing "2 months ago"). https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check/trump-administration-covert-ufo-program/amp/ [^5]: Jimmy, "Skywatcher: The Disclosure Team That Disappeared - I Tracked Their Helicopter," UAP Files, August 12, 2026. https://uapf.substack.com/p/skywatcher-the-disclosure-team-that . Sole source for the domain registration and YouTube creation dates cited here. -[^6]: Jason Colavito, "In Brief: NewsNation Offers a New UFO 'Crash Retrieval' Story," January 19, 2025. https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/in-brief-newsnation-offers-a-new-ufo-crash-retrieval-story . Colavito reports Greenstreet's reporting at second hand; the original New York Post article was not located. Sole source for the passage so cited. +[^6]: Jason Colavito, "In Brief: NewsNation Offers a New UFO 'Crash Retrieval' Story," January 19, 2025. https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/in-brief-newsnation-offers-a-new-ufo-crash-retrieval-story . Colavito reports Greenstreet's reporting at second hand; the original New York Post article was not located. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^7]: Skywatcher, home page and FAQ. https://skywatcher.ai/ (retrieved October 3, 2026). [^8]: Skywatcher, "Research." https://skywatcher.ai/research (retrieved October 3, 2026). [^9]: SEC EDGAR full-text search, phrases "Skywatcher," "Sky Watcher," "Skywatcher Technologies," "Jake Barber," forms D, October 3, 2026. https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22Skywatcher%22&forms=D -[^10]: OpenCorporates, search "skywatcher," and entity pages us_de/10021279 and us_de/4376561, retrieved October 3, 2026. https://opencorporates.com/companies?q=skywatcher -[^11]: SEC EDGAR, Form D filings (primary_doc.xml): Futurism, LLC, CIK 0001692611, accession 0001692611-16-000001; Theo Rewards, Inc., CIK 0001801852, 0001801852-20-000001; SALT Fund I, L.P., CIK 0001850930, 0001850930-21-000001 and -000002 (D/A); Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP, CIK 0001935894, 0001935894-22-000003; Tomorrow Farms Inc. / Tomorrow Farms, PBC, CIK 0001930812, 0001930812-22-000001 and 0000929638-24-001654; Microcapital, Inc., CIK 0002044152, 0002044152-24-000001; Radial Health, Inc., CIK 0002021359, 0002021359-24-000001; Shuttle Labs LLC, CIK 0001955431, 0001955431-22-000002; Solari Capital Fund III, L.P., CIK 0002019181, 0002019181-24-000001. Example: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850930/000185093021000001/primary_doc.xml (all retrieved October 3, 2026). Index search: https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22Klokus%22&forms=D -[^12]: Federal Election Commission, OpenFEC schedule A, contributor "Klokus, Alex," September 12, 2019 and June 28, 2019; contributor "Scaramucci, Alexander," June 15, 2023 (employer "Solari; SALT," San Francisco). https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/ -[^13]: U.S. Senate, Lobbying Disclosure Act database, client_name searches "Skywatcher" and "Sky Watcher," October 3, 2026. https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=Skywatcher -[^14]: USAspending.gov API, recipient autocomplete and spending_by_award (contract types A to D) for "SKYWATCHER LLC," October 3, 2026. https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ -[^15]: Skywatcher, "Media." https://skywatcher.ai/media (retrieved October 3, 2026). -[^16]: Ross Coulthart and Meagan Medick, "Ross Coulthart Q&A: Skywatcher didn't disappear, it went government," NewsNation, updated August 7, 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/ross-coulthart-qa-skywatcher-didnt-disappear-it-went-government/ -[^17]: "UAP whistleblower says UFO retrieval program exists: NewsNation exclusive," January 16, 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/uap-whistleblower-ufo-retrieval-program/ -[^18]: Michael Ramsey, "UFO whistleblower Jake Barber's claims being investigated by Pentagon," NewsNation, updated February 24, 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/pentagon-investigates-ufo-claims/ +[^10]: Delaware Division of Corporations, entity details, file 10021279, Skywatcher Technologies Corporation, incorporated November 27, 2024 (captured October 3, 2026); OpenCorporates, https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/10021279 +[^11]: OpenCorporates, search "skywatcher," and entity pages us_de/10021279 and us_de/4376561, retrieved October 3, 2026. https://opencorporates.com/companies?q=skywatcher +[^12]: SEC EDGAR, Form D filings (primary_doc.xml): Futurism, LLC, CIK 0001692611, accession 0001692611-16-000001; Theo Rewards, Inc., CIK 0001801852, 0001801852-20-000001; SALT Fund I, L.P., CIK 0001850930, 0001850930-21-000001 and -000002 (D/A); Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP, CIK 0001935894, 0001935894-22-000003; Tomorrow Farms Inc. / Tomorrow Farms, PBC, CIK 0001930812, 0001930812-22-000001 and 0000929638-24-001654; Microcapital, Inc., CIK 0002044152, 0002044152-24-000001; Radial Health, Inc., CIK 0002021359, 0002021359-24-000001; Shuttle Labs LLC, CIK 0001955431, 0001955431-22-000002; Solari Capital Fund III, L.P., CIK 0002019181, 0002019181-24-000001. Example: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850930/000185093021000001/primary_doc.xml (all retrieved October 3, 2026). Index search: https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22Klokus%22&forms=D +[^13]: Federal Election Commission, OpenFEC schedule A, contributor "Klokus, Alex," September 12, 2019 and June 28, 2019; contributor "Scaramucci, Alexander," June 15, 2023 (employer "Solari; SALT," San Francisco). https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/ +[^14]: U.S. Senate, Lobbying Disclosure Act database, client_name searches "Skywatcher" and "Sky Watcher," October 3, 2026. https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=Skywatcher +[^15]: USAspending.gov API, recipient autocomplete and spending_by_award (contract types A to D) for "SKYWATCHER LLC," October 3, 2026. https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ +[^16]: USPTO TSDR, SKYWATCHER serial 98864113 (documents FTK20241120175737 and ESU20260211124648, petition of September 14, 2026), https://tsdr.uspto.gov/statusview/sn98864113 ; ENNEA serial 98873547 and PSIONIC serial 99091501; SEC EDGAR Form D of Futurism, LLC, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1692611/000169261116000001/primary_doc.xml ; Form ADV CRD 316587, Item 1.F, https://reports.adviserinfo.sec.gov/reports/ADV/316587/PDF/316587.pdf +[^17]: Florida Division of Corporations, ENNEA LLC, document M25000008651 (application June 16, 2025, with Delaware certificate of good standing dated June 13, 2025, authentication 203947585; annual reports April 17 and July 15, 2026), https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/ByDocumentNumber ; USPTO TSDR, ENNEA serial 98873547, voluntary amendment PRA20251208060057, https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn98873547 +[^18]: RDAP record, skywatcher.ai, created December 6, 2024, last changed August 11, 2026. https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/skywatcher.ai +[^19]: ennea.io, Wayback Machine captures of May 22, 2024 (https://web.archive.org/web/20240522145320id_/https://ennea.io/), August 9, 2024 and November 4, 2024 (http://web.archive.org/web/20241104003430id_/https://www.ennea.io/); RDAP record, ennea.io, https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/ennea.io +[^20]: USPTO TSDR, ENNEA serial 98873547, response to office action ROA20251112203504, pages 37 to 45. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn98873547 +[^21]: Skywatcher, "Media." https://skywatcher.ai/media (retrieved October 3, 2026). +[^22]: Ross Coulthart and Meagan Medick, "Ross Coulthart Q&A: Skywatcher didn't disappear, it went government," NewsNation, updated August 7, 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/ross-coulthart-qa-skywatcher-didnt-disappear-it-went-government/ +[^23]: "UAP whistleblower says UFO retrieval program exists: NewsNation exclusive," January 16, 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/uap-whistleblower-ufo-retrieval-program/ +[^24]: Michael Ramsey, "UFO whistleblower Jake Barber's claims being investigated by Pentagon," NewsNation, updated February 24, 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/pentagon-investigates-ufo-claims/ diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Sol Foundation.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Sol Foundation.md index 889480e7..602e5021 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Sol Foundation.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Sol Foundation.md @@ -42,22 +42,49 @@ relations: with: "[[Jennifer Preston]]" reverse: true role: "chief operating officer, as listed on the foundation's website (viewed October 3, 2026; start date not given)" - fn: 11 + fn: 16 - type: director_of with: "[[Aneil Mallavarapu]]" reverse: true role: "'independent board member,' as listed on the foundation's website (viewed October 3, 2026; start date not given)" - fn: 11 + fn: 16 - type: member_of with: "[[Avi Loeb]]" reverse: true role: "Natural Sciences Advisory Board, as listed on the foundation's website (viewed October 3, 2026)" - fn: 11 + fn: 16 - type: member_of with: "[[Jacques Vallee]]" reverse: true role: "emeritus advisor, as listed on the foundation's website (viewed October 3, 2026)" - fn: 11 + fn: 16 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Garry Nolan]]" + reverse: true + start: 2022-09-23 + end: 2023-09-15 + role: "incorporator, director and president of the Alabama corporation The Sol Foundation (AL SOS 001-041-463); name reserved for him July 28, 2022" + fn: 9 + - type: director_of + with: "[[Saul Mercado]]" + reverse: true + start: 2022-09-23 + end: 2023-09-15 + role: "director and secretary of the Alabama corporation, of Wilton, Connecticut" + fn: 9 + - type: member_of + with: "[[Peter Skafish]]" + reverse: true + start: 2023-09-07 + end: 2023-09-15 + role: "treasurer of the Alabama corporation on the Statement of Intent to Dissolve and Articles of Dissolution, September 2023" + fn: 9 + - type: represented + with: "[[Adler & Colvin]]" + reverse: true + start: 2023-09-15 + role: "San Francisco law firm; a paralegal of the firm prepared the Articles of Dissolution of the Alabama corporation" + fn: 9 created: 2026-10-03 updated: 2026-10-03 --- @@ -66,23 +93,35 @@ The Sol Foundation for Advanced Scientific and Policy Research is a [[California ### Incorporation and registry entries -A California business-registry entry last updated September 1, 2023 lists the corporation under its present name on the basis of filings dated July 7, 2023, with three contacts: Nolan, Skafish and [[Jonathan Berte]], the last as chief financial officer.[^4] The [[California Secretary of State]] record as carried by [[OpenCorporates]] shows an entity of type "Nonprofit Corporation, CA, Public Benefit" (entity number 5810665) with an agent address of Stanford University, 269 Campus Drive, Stanford, California 94305, and a further address of 2945 Bell Road, #316, [[Auburn]], California 95603. Four current officers and one inactive officer are recorded but are not displayed without a login, and the incorporation date is likewise withheld in the public view.[^5] +A California business-registry entry last updated September 1, 2023 lists the corporation under its present name on the basis of filings dated July 7, 2023, with three contacts: Nolan, Skafish and [[Jonathan Berte]], the last as chief financial officer.[^4] The [[California Secretary of State]] record as carried by [[OpenCorporates]] shows an entity of type "Nonprofit Corporation, CA, Public Benefit" (entity number 5810665) with an agent address of Stanford University, 269 Campus Drive, Stanford, California 94305, and a further address of 2945 Bell Road, #316, [[Auburn]], California 95603. Four current officers and one inactive officer are recorded.[^5] The [[Internal Revenue Service]] Exempt Organizations Business Master File lists the organization under EIN 93-3649160 as a 501(c)(3) with a ruling date of June 2024, in care of "Attn Nolan" at 5 Hermosa Road, [[Redwood City]], California 94062.[^6] The Form 990 for 2024 gives the Auburn address, a telephone number in the 408 area code, a year of formation of 2023 and California as the state of legal domicile.[^7] The résumé that Grusch submitted to the House Committee on Oversight for its July 26, 2023 hearing lists, under "May 2023-Present," the position "Chief Operating Officer (COO), The Sol Foundation," and describes the employer as a "501c3 federally recognized non-profit," followed by the text "The premier center for research in the natural and social sciences, engineering, and the humanities, but also extends activities to advisory and policy work for the [[U.S. government]]/public outreach."[^3] The IRS ruling date on record for EIN 93-3649160 is June 2024.[^6] Nolan said in September 2023 that Grusch's title had since changed to senior founding advisor, that the earlier title "seemed the right thing at the time," and that Grusch was "a founder of the Sol Foundation."[^2] +The Form CT-1 registration of the California corporation with the California Attorney General's Registry of Charitable Trusts, stamped received May 2, 2024, lists Nolan as chair and director, Skafish as secretary and director and Berte as treasurer and director, gives January 22, 2024 as the date assets were first received, and answers "No" to line 3, which asks whether the organization "is under common control, does it have a close connection with, or is it related to, any other nonprofit or for-profit organization or trust." The Internal Revenue Service determination letter dated June 27, 2024, filed with the registry, gives an effective date of July 7, 2023.[^8] + +### The Alabama corporation + +The [[Alabama Secretary of State]] records a name reservation (RES036922) for "The Sol Foundation" for the exclusive use of Garry Nolan for one year beginning July 28, 2022, and a Certificate of Formation filed September 23, 2022 at 20:12 (fee $200) for a domestic nonprofit corporation, entity 001-041-463, that "has no Members." Its principal office and registered office are an address on Discovery Drive NW in [[Huntsville]] (Madison County), and its registered agent is [[Ignite Fueling Innovation]], Inc. The stated purpose is "The Sol Foundation supports research into and the understanding of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena." An attached mission statement reads "The Sol Foundation creates greater understanding of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and their implications by supporting research in the sciences, humanities, technology, and policy as well as increased public awareness." The attached operation agreement directs assets on dissolution to 501(c)(3) purposes or a government, without naming a recipient.[^9] + +The initial board of three is Garry P. Nolan, Ph.D. of Redwood City, "Cristopher Mellon" of Laughlintown, [[Pennsylvania]], and [[Saul Mercado]], Ph.D. of Wilton, Connecticut. Nolan signed as "Incorporator, Director" on September 23, 2022. The filings state no occupation or prior office for any director; the Pennsylvania locality is the one given for "Mellon, Christopher" in the [[Federal Election Commission]] entries described on the page of [[Christopher Mellon]].[^9] + +A board written consent to dissolve was "fully executed on August 31, 2023." The Statement of Intent to Dissolve, signed in DocuSigned versions dated September 7 and September 12, 2023 and filed September 15, 2023 at 10:55, lists the officers as President Garry P. Nolan, Vice President "None," Secretary Saul Mercado and Treasurer Peter Skafish, and the directors as Nolan, "Christopher Mellon" (spelled with an h on this filing) and Mercado, all in care of the San Francisco office of the law firm [[Adler & Colvin]]. The Articles of Dissolution, filed September 15, 2023 at 10:56 and signed by Nolan as President, Mercado as Secretary and Skafish as Treasurer, have the box "No plan of distribution was adopted" checked and certify that debts were paid and any remaining property was "transferred, conveyed, or distributed in accordance with" the Alabama nonprofit corporation statute. They name no recipient of assets and do not state whether the corporation held any. A senior paralegal of Adler & Colvin is named as preparer. The record names no other officer, and Jonathan Berte does not appear on it.[^9] + +The Alabama corporation was formed 47 days before the change recorded on November 9, 2022 in the registered-agent address of Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc., which had given the same Discovery Drive address for its individual agent until that date.[^10] The IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File extract for Alabama contains no row for a Sol Foundation.[^11] Alabama business-name searches run on October 3, 2026 returned no entity with "Sky Watcher," "Americans for Safe Aerospace," "Scientific Coalition" or "Paradigm Institute" in its name, and none for [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]] among the entities matching "Stars Academy"; the search form matches names only.[^12] + ### Officers and board The Form 990 for the calendar year 2024 lists four people in Part VII: Garry Nolan, director, 0.00 hours a week, no compensation; Peter Skafish, secretary, 1.00 hour a week, reportable compensation $20,000 and other compensation $40,000; Jonathan Berte, treasurer, 0.00 hours, no compensation; and [[Maura Mindrila]], co-CEO, 0.00 hours, other compensation $40,000. Skafish signed the return as secretary on November 16, 2025 and is named as principal officer. The return reports three voting members of the governing body, all independent, no employees and an estimated 25 volunteers.[^7] -Press statements used other titles. Nolan was "Executive Director of the Board" and Skafish "Director of Research" in September 2023, and Skafish was "executive director" in December 2024.[^2][^8] Nolan said in 2023 that his Stanford appointment did not allow him to hold an officer role in an outside company and that he took no salary.[^2] [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]] posted on September 11, 2023 that she was joining the board, and the foundation named [[I. Charles McCullough III]], a former [[Inspector General of the Intelligence Community]], as its legal counsel.[^2] McCullough signed the November 12, 2024 letter to Congress on the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]] under the heading "Former Inspector General of the Intelligence Community," as did Nolan, Skafish, Pasulka and Gallaudet.[^9] McCullough is also counsel to Grusch, whom he represented in a May 2022 urgent-concern complaint to the Intelligence Community Inspector General.[^10] +Press statements used other titles. Nolan was "Executive Director of the Board" and Skafish "Director of Research" in September 2023, and Skafish was "executive director" in December 2024.[^2][^13] Nolan said in 2023 that his Stanford appointment did not allow him to hold an officer role in an outside company and that he took no salary.[^2] [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]] posted on September 11, 2023 that she was joining the board, and the foundation named [[I. Charles McCullough III]], a former [[Inspector General of the Intelligence Community]], as its legal counsel.[^2] McCullough signed the November 12, 2024 letter to Congress on the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]] under the heading "Former Inspector General of the Intelligence Community," as did Nolan, Skafish, Pasulka and Gallaudet.[^14] McCullough is also counsel to Grusch, whom he represented in a May 2022 urgent-concern complaint to the Intelligence Community Inspector General.[^15] -Berte founded the machine-vision company [[Robovision]], which was reported in March 2023 to be assisting Stanford with artificial-intelligence applications for the study of complex diseases.[^2] Mindrila hosted the 2024 symposium as Director of Strategy.[^8] Part IV of the 2024 Form 990 answers yes to maintaining an office, employees or agents outside the [[United States]].[^7] +Berte founded the machine-vision company [[Robovision]], which was reported in March 2023 to be assisting Stanford with artificial-intelligence applications for the study of complex diseases.[^2] Mindrila hosted the 2024 symposium as Director of Strategy.[^13] Part IV of the 2024 Form 990 answers yes to maintaining an office, employees or agents outside the [[United States]].[^7] ### Website roster -The foundation's website, read on October 3, 2026, lists under "Executive Leadership" Garry Nolan ("Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Board"), Peter Skafish ("Co-Founder & Executive Director"), [[Tim Gallaudet]] ("Senior Advisor"), [[Aneil Mallavarapu]] ("Independent Board Member"), [[Jennifer Preston]] ("Chief Operating Officer"), [[Matt Mason]] ("Chief Marketing Officer"), [[Lou Grossi]] ("Chief Information Officer") and [[Christian Peters]] ("Associate Director of Research"). Its "Advisory Board" lists [[Eric Davis]], [[Jeffrey J. Kripal]] and Pasulka (social sciences), Loeb and [[Beatriz Villarroel]] (natural sciences), [[Jacob Haqq-Misra]], [[Alexander Wendt]], [[Jim Semivan]], [[Kirk McConnell]] ("Senior Legislative Affairs Officer") and [[Jacques Vallee]] ("Emeritus Advisor"). The page does not list Grusch, Berte, Mindrila, McCullough or [[Karl Nell]], although Berte, Mindrila and Skafish appear on the 2024 Form 990 and Nell is the author of a Sol paper (see White papers).[^11] +The foundation's website, read on October 3, 2026, lists under "Executive Leadership" Garry Nolan ("Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Board"), Peter Skafish ("Co-Founder & Executive Director"), [[Tim Gallaudet]] ("Senior Advisor"), [[Aneil Mallavarapu]] ("Independent Board Member"), [[Jennifer Preston]] ("Chief Operating Officer"), [[Matt Mason]] ("Chief Marketing Officer"), [[Lou Grossi]] ("Chief Information Officer") and [[Christian Peters]] ("Associate Director of Research"). Its "Advisory Board" lists [[Eric Davis]], [[Jeffrey J. Kripal]] and Pasulka (social sciences), Loeb and [[Beatriz Villarroel]] (natural sciences), [[Jacob Haqq-Misra]], [[Alexander Wendt]], [[Jim Semivan]], [[Kirk McConnell]] ("Senior Legislative Affairs Officer") and [[Jacques Vallee]] ("Emeritus Advisor"). The page does not list Grusch, Berte, Mindrila, McCullough or [[Karl Nell]], although Berte, Mindrila and Skafish appear on the 2024 Form 990 and Nell is the author of a Sol paper (see White papers).[^16] ### Money @@ -92,45 +131,51 @@ The expense lines include $117,000 for management fees, $269,797 for conferences Schedule I lists one grant to an individual: $10,000 as a "research grant for white paper on geopolitical implications of unidentified anomalous phenomena." Its supplemental statement says the organization grants funds to experts "in exchange for white papers," that grantees are selected by the board of directors and that the papers are published on its website. Schedule O describes the November 22 to 23, 2024 symposium at the [[Fort Mason Center]] in [[San Francisco]].[^7] -The [[UAP Disclosure Fund]], a San Francisco 501(c)(4) in care of [[Yuan Fung]] (EIN 99-2834592, IRS ruling date July 2025), has Fung as its executive director on the November 12, 2024 scientists' letter to Congress that Nolan, Skafish, Pasulka, Gallaudet and others signed, and Gallaudet's House biography lists him as an advisory board member of both the Fund and the Sol Foundation.[^12][^9] The [[Sol Foundation Inc]] of [[Carmel, Indiana]] (EIN 99-3863647; 1051 Oswego Road, in care of [[Lawrence Baker]]; IRS ruling date August 2024; private non-operating foundation) is a separate entity. Its Form 990-PF for the period December 24 to December 31, 2024 (submitted November 14, 2025; prepared by [[L M Henderson & Company LLP]] of [[Indianapolis]]) reports $25,000,000 in contributions received, $17,976 in interest and dividends, $89,482 in expenses, $24,928,494 in assets, no grants paid, and three directors, Lawrence Baker, [[Patricia Baker]] and [[Charles Hertlein]], each at one hour a week and unpaid. It lists no website and a telephone number in the 513 area code. Nothing in that filing refers to unidentified anomalous phenomena, to the California corporation or to any of its officers, and no document opened for this entry links the two organizations.[^13] +The [[UAP Disclosure Fund]], a San Francisco 501(c)(4) in care of [[Yuan Fung]] (EIN 99-2834592, IRS ruling date July 2025), has Fung as its executive director on the November 12, 2024 scientists' letter to Congress that Nolan, Skafish, Pasulka, Gallaudet and others signed, and Gallaudet's House biography lists him as an advisory board member of both the Fund and the Sol Foundation.[^17][^14] The [[Sol Foundation Inc]] of [[Carmel, Indiana]] (EIN 99-3863647; 1051 Oswego Road, in care of [[Lawrence Baker]]; IRS ruling date August 2024; private non-operating foundation) is a separate entity. Its Form 990-PF for the period December 24 to December 31, 2024 (submitted November 14, 2025; prepared by [[L M Henderson & Company LLP]] of [[Indianapolis]]) reports $25,000,000 in contributions received, $17,976 in interest and dividends, $89,482 in expenses, $24,928,494 in assets, no grants paid, and three directors, Lawrence Baker, [[Patricia Baker]] and [[Charles Hertlein]], each at one hour a week and unpaid. It lists no website and a telephone number in the 513 area code. Nothing in that filing refers to unidentified anomalous phenomena, to the California corporation or to any of its officers, and no document opened for this entry links the two organizations.[^18] -No filing under the client name Sol Foundation appears in the [[United States Senate]] lobbying disclosure database, and no contribution record under the names of Skafish, Berte or Mindrila appears in the [[Federal Election Commission]] database.[^14] +No filing under the client name Sol Foundation appears in the [[United States Senate]] lobbying disclosure database, and no contribution record under the names of Skafish, Berte or Mindrila appears in the [[Federal Election Commission]] database.[^19] ### Symposia -The first symposium, the "Sol Foundation Initiative for UAP Research and Policy," was held November 17 to 18, 2023 in [[Palo Alto, California]], hosted by the [[Nolan Laboratory]] and the Stanford School of Medicine, by invitation only. Nolan opened it with the words "The objective here is to legitimize and professionalize." Speakers included [[Avi Loeb]], Jacques Vallee, Pasulka, the Canadian member of Parliament [[Larry Maguire]], Tim Gallaudet, Karl Nell and [[Christopher Mellon]]. Grusch joined on the second day by video from Washington and said, "We need to basically create a parallel track of research and independent discovery that aren't necessarily dependent on the U.S. government."[^15] Nell's talk is catalogued as "The Schumer Amendment & Controlled Disclosure," a reference to the Senate UAP amendment sponsored by [[Chuck Schumer]].[^16] Skafish said of the audience, "That audience was as important to me in organizing as the lineup of speakers was," and that the organizers were "very deliberately careful in evaluating the requests for invitations."[^15] +The first symposium, the "Sol Foundation Initiative for UAP Research and Policy," was held November 17 to 18, 2023 in [[Palo Alto, California]], hosted by the [[Nolan Laboratory]] and the Stanford School of Medicine, by invitation only. Nolan opened it with the words "The objective here is to legitimize and professionalize." Speakers included [[Avi Loeb]], Jacques Vallee, Pasulka, the Canadian member of Parliament [[Larry Maguire]], Tim Gallaudet, Karl Nell and [[Christopher Mellon]]. Grusch joined on the second day by video from Washington and said, "We need to basically create a parallel track of research and independent discovery that aren't necessarily dependent on the U.S. government."[^20] Nell's talk is catalogued as "The Schumer Amendment & Controlled Disclosure," a reference to the Senate UAP amendment sponsored by [[Chuck Schumer]].[^21] Skafish said of the audience, "That audience was as important to me in organizing as the lineup of speakers was," and that the organizers were "very deliberately careful in evaluating the requests for invitations."[^20] -The second symposium, November 22 to 23, 2024 at Fort Mason Center, was opened by Mindrila. Speakers named in coverage were Nell, Eric Davis, the religious-studies scholar [[Stephen Finley]], Gallaudet, the journalist [[Leslie Kean]] with [[Ryan Graves]] of [[Americans for Safe Aerospace]], the former Senate staff member Kirk McConnell and the venture investor [[Rizwan Virk]]. Virk presented four funding models for "frontier science" (research grants, awards-based prizes, an incubator and venture funds) and said he was writing a Sol white paper on the subject. Skafish said that year's meeting was convened in light of "a divisive election season and the likely failure of the UAP Disclosure Act."[^8] +The second symposium, November 22 to 23, 2024 at Fort Mason Center, was opened by Mindrila. Speakers named in coverage were Nell, Eric Davis, the religious-studies scholar [[Stephen Finley]], Gallaudet, the journalist [[Leslie Kean]] with [[Ryan Graves]] of [[Americans for Safe Aerospace]], the former Senate staff member Kirk McConnell and the venture investor [[Rizwan Virk]]. Virk presented four funding models for "frontier science" (research grants, awards-based prizes, an incubator and venture funds) and said he was writing a Sol white paper on the subject. Skafish said that year's meeting was convened in light of "a divisive election season and the likely failure of the UAP Disclosure Act."[^13] ### White papers -The foundation's website lists twelve papers (read October 3, 2026). Volume 1: No. 1, Gallaudet, "Beneath the Surface: We May Learn More about UAP by Looking in the Ocean" (March 2024); No. 2, "UAP in Crowded Skies: Atmospheric and Orbital Threat Reduction in an Age of Geopolitical Uncertainty," credited to "The Sol Foundation" (March 2024); No. 3, [[Helen McCaw]], "[[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]]: Policy Implications for the Government of the [[United Kingdom]]" (May 2024); No. 4, "Anomalous Health Threats: Health Security Considerations for UAP," credited to "The Sol Foundation" (July 2024); No. 5, [[Paul Thigpen]], "NHI, UAP, and the Catholic Faith: How Will the Church Respond" (July 2024); No. 6, Skafish, "The Prospect of Executive Branch Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Secrecy: The Harm to Congress and Potential Remedies" (November 2024). Volume 2: No. 1, Rizwan Virk, "Investment in UAP Technology and Ventures: Opportunities, Challenges, and a Way Forward" (March 2025); Nell, "The UFO Enigma: A Call for US Government Disclosure" (May 2025; its cover reads "The Policy Papers of the Sol Foundation, Volume 2, No. 2, Spring 2025"); and three papers by [[Marik von Rennenkampff]]: "Robust Evidence of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena in Pre-Satellite Era Night-Sky Images" (January 2026), "First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Analysis of Possible UAP Materials Employs State-of-the-Art Technologies" (April 2026) and "The Civilizational Risks of a UAP Technology Arms Race: Nonhuman Technology and Global Security" (August 2026). The site also lists, under April 2026, McConnell's "UAP Whistleblower Restitution Fund Would Incentivize Disclosures to Congress." The numbering printed on the site for the 2026 items does not run consecutively with the earlier series.[^17] +The foundation's website lists twelve papers (read October 3, 2026). Volume 1: No. 1, Gallaudet, "Beneath the Surface: We May Learn More about UAP by Looking in the Ocean" (March 2024); No. 2, "UAP in Crowded Skies: Atmospheric and Orbital Threat Reduction in an Age of Geopolitical Uncertainty," credited to "The Sol Foundation" (March 2024); No. 3, [[Helen McCaw]], "[[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]]: Policy Implications for the Government of the [[United Kingdom]]" (May 2024); No. 4, "Anomalous Health Threats: Health Security Considerations for UAP," credited to "The Sol Foundation" (July 2024); No. 5, [[Paul Thigpen]], "NHI, UAP, and the Catholic Faith: How Will the Church Respond" (July 2024); No. 6, Skafish, "The Prospect of Executive Branch Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Secrecy: The Harm to Congress and Potential Remedies" (November 2024). Volume 2: No. 1, Rizwan Virk, "Investment in UAP Technology and Ventures: Opportunities, Challenges, and a Way Forward" (March 2025); Nell, "The UFO Enigma: A Call for US Government Disclosure" (May 2025; its cover reads "The Policy Papers of the Sol Foundation, Volume 2, No. 2, Spring 2025"); and three papers by [[Marik von Rennenkampff]]: "Robust Evidence of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena in Pre-Satellite Era Night-Sky Images" (January 2026), "First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Analysis of Possible UAP Materials Employs State-of-the-Art Technologies" (April 2026) and "The Civilizational Risks of a UAP Technology Arms Race: Nonhuman Technology and Global Security" (August 2026). The site also lists, under April 2026, McConnell's "UAP Whistleblower Restitution Fund Would Incentivize Disclosures to Congress." The numbering printed on the site for the 2026 items does not run consecutively with the earlier series.[^22] -Volume 1, No. 2 gives "Board Director: Dr. Garry Nolan" and "Executive Director: Dr. Peter Skafish" on its back page. Its executive summary says the foundation "commissioned" the report and that it does not present evidence for any theory of UAP. Its bibliography cites Senate Amendment 797 to S. 2226.[^18] Nell's paper argues for enactment of the review-board and eminent-domain provisions of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act "or by executive order," credits [[Mike Rounds]] and Chuck Schumer with the 2024 reintroduction, and describes its author as a retired Army colonel whose last active-duty assignment was as Army director supporting the [[UAP Task Force]] and who is chief executive of [[StarDustX Materials]], Inc., "a multimillion-dollar VC-backed startup."[^19] +Volume 1, No. 2 gives "Board Director: Dr. Garry Nolan" and "Executive Director: Dr. Peter Skafish" on its back page. Its executive summary says the foundation "commissioned" the report and that it does not present evidence for any theory of UAP. Its bibliography cites Senate Amendment 797 to S. 2226.[^23] Nell's paper argues for enactment of the review-board and eminent-domain provisions of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act "or by executive order," credits [[Mike Rounds]] and Chuck Schumer with the 2024 reintroduction, and describes its author as a retired Army colonel whose last active-duty assignment was as Army director supporting the [[UAP Task Force]] and who is chief executive of [[StarDustX Materials]], Inc., "a multimillion-dollar VC-backed startup."[^24] ### UAP Science Advisory Council -In June 2026 Loeb announced that he would lead a "UAP Science Advisory Council" and, in a list he supplied to the news outlet [[DefenseScoop]] (published June 17, 2026), named twelve other members with focus areas, among them Gallaudet (oceanography), Nolan (molecular biology and materials science) and Skafish (anthropology). An official of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] told DefenseScoop that the office, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] and the [[Department of Defense]] had established an interagency UAP Governance Board, that it "met for the first time yesterday" (June 16, 2026), and that the board is supported by outside advisory groups including the council. Loeb said the council would help the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] "resolve the UAP mystery."[^20] +In June 2026 Loeb announced that he would lead a "UAP Science Advisory Council" and, in a list he supplied to the news outlet [[DefenseScoop]] (published June 17, 2026), named twelve other members with focus areas, among them Gallaudet (oceanography), Nolan (molecular biology and materials science) and Skafish (anthropology). An official of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] told DefenseScoop that the office, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] and the [[Department of Defense]] had established an interagency UAP Governance Board, that it "met for the first time yesterday" (June 16, 2026), and that the board is supported by outside advisory groups including the council. Loeb said the council would help the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] "resolve the UAP mystery."[^25] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^26] ### Footnotes [^1]: Micah Hanks, "The Sol Foundation: How a New Think Tank of Academics is Applying 'Cutting-Edge Research' to the UAP Mystery," *The Debrief*, September 12, 2023. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-how-a-new-think-tank-of-academics-is-applying-cutting-edge-research-the-uap-mystery/ [^2]: Same article, interview passages with Nolan and Skafish; Pasulka's post of September 11, 2023 is embedded in the article. [^3]: "David C. Grusch" résumé, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, hearing of July 26, 2023, Experience section. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO06/20230726/116282/HHRG-118-GO06-Bio-GruschD-20230726.pdf -[^4]: Hanks, September 12, 2023, citing a Bizapedia entry updated September 1, 2023 and filings of July 7, 2023. The Bizapedia page itself returned a bot check and was not opened. +[^4]: Hanks, September 12, 2023, citing a Bizapedia entry updated September 1, 2023 and filings of July 7, 2023. [^5]: OpenCorporates, "The Sol Foundation for Advanced Scientific and Policy Research," California entity 5810665, viewed October 3, 2026. https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/5810665 (the California Secretary of State search returned a security block). [^6]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, EIN 933649160, IRS Business Master File extract dated September 16, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/933649160.json [^7]: IRS Form 990 for 2024, EIN 93-3649160, object ID 202543269349300004, submitted November 22, 2025, with Schedules A, B, I and O, as rendered at https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/933649160/202543269349300004/full -[^8]: Chrissy Newton, "Academics, Investors, and UAP Seekers Unite at the 2024 Sol Foundation Symposium," *The Debrief*, December 20, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/academics-investors-and-uap-seekers-unite-at-the-2024-sol-foundation-symposium/ -[^9]: "Biography of the Honorable Tim Gallaudet, PhD," House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, hearing of November 13, 2024, https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Bio-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113.pdf ; and the signatory letter of November 12, 2024 in his submitted statement, https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf; testimony of Gallaudet to Rep. Garcia, joint hearing of November 13, 2024, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg57440/html/CHRG-118hhrg57440.htm ("the Sol Foundation as a senior strategic advisor") -[^10]: Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Non-Human Craft," *The Debrief*, June 5, 2023. https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/ -[^11]: The Sol Foundation, home page, "People" section (Executive Leadership and Advisory Board), https://thesolfoundation.org/ , read October 3, 2026. -[^12]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, EIN 992834592 (UAP Disclosure Fund). https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/992834592.json -[^13]: IRS Form 990-PF for 2024, EIN 99-3863647, object ID 202533189349100938, submitted November 14, 2025. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/993863647 -[^14]: Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database query, client_name "Sol Foundation," October 3, 2026 (fifteen returns, none for this organization); FEC Schedule A queries for the named individuals, October 3, 2026. -[^15]: Micah Hanks, "The Sol Foundation, Academia's New UAP Think Tank, Releases Videos of Lectures from Its Inaugural Symposium," *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/ -[^16]: Anomaly Archives, "Nell, Karl," listing a Sol Foundation video titled "Karl Nell on The Schumer Amendment & Controlled Disclosure." https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/nell-karl/ -[^17]: The Sol Foundation, "All Publications," twelve papers with authors, volume and month, https://thesolfoundation.org/all-publications/ , and paper pages under https://thesolfoundation.org/publications/ , read October 3, 2026. -[^18]: "UAP in Crowded Skies," The White Papers of the Sol Foundation, vol. 1, no. 2, March 2024. https://thesolfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sol_WhitePaper_Vol1N2.pdf -[^19]: Karl E. Nell, "The UFO Enigma: A Call for US Government Disclosure," The Policy Papers of the Sol Foundation, Spring 2025, Executive Summary and "About the Author." https://thesolfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-UFO-Enigma_Sol-Foundation.pdf -[^20]: "New science advisory council forms to help US government 'resolve the UAP mystery,'" *DefenseScoop*, June 17, 2026. https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/17/new-science-advisory-council-forms-to-help-us-government-resolve-the-uap-mystery/ +[^8]: California Department of Justice, Registry of Charitable Trusts, registration CT0293168, document 1700 (Adler & Colvin cover letter of May 1, 2024 and Form CT-1, stamped received May 2, 2024), pages 1 to 3, and IRS determination letter of June 27, 2024 in registry document 9011. https://rct.doj.ca.gov/ +[^9]: Alabama Secretary of State, entity 001-041-463, The Sol Foundation: name reservation RES036922 (July 28, 2022); Certificate of Formation (filed September 23, 2022); board consent (August 31, 2023); Statement of Intent to Dissolve and Articles of Dissolution (both filed September 15, 2023); document copies purchased October 3, 2026, and the entity page fetched the same day. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=001041463&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= +[^10]: Alabama Secretary of State, Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc., entity 000-214-606, Transactions entry of 11/09/2022 (registered agent changed from an individual agent at the Discovery Drive address). https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=000214606&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city= +[^11]: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Alabama extract (eo_al.csv), downloaded October 3, 2026. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/eo_al.csv +[^12]: Alabama Secretary of State, business-name searches run October 3, 2026 (substring match, 200-row cap per query): UAP, Unidentified, "Sol ," Galileo, Anomal, UFO, Disclosure, Aerial Phenomena, Skywatch, Sky Watcher, Americans for Safe Aerospace, Scientific Coalition, Stars Academy, Paradigm Institute. https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpname.mbr/output +[^13]: Chrissy Newton, "Academics, Investors, and UAP Seekers Unite at the 2024 Sol Foundation Symposium," *The Debrief*, December 20, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/academics-investors-and-uap-seekers-unite-at-the-2024-sol-foundation-symposium/ +[^14]: "Biography of the Honorable Tim Gallaudet, PhD," House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, hearing of November 13, 2024, https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Bio-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113.pdf ; and the signatory letter of November 12, 2024 in his submitted statement, https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf; testimony of Gallaudet to Rep. Garcia, joint hearing of November 13, 2024, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg57440/html/CHRG-118hhrg57440.htm ("the Sol Foundation as a senior strategic advisor") +[^15]: Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Non-Human Craft," *The Debrief*, June 5, 2023. https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/ +[^16]: The Sol Foundation, home page, "People" section (Executive Leadership and Advisory Board), https://thesolfoundation.org/ , read October 3, 2026. +[^17]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, EIN 992834592 (UAP Disclosure Fund). https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/992834592.json +[^18]: IRS Form 990-PF for 2024, EIN 99-3863647, object ID 202533189349100938, submitted November 14, 2025. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/993863647 +[^19]: Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database query, client_name "Sol Foundation," October 3, 2026 (fifteen returns, none for this organization); FEC Schedule A queries for the named individuals, October 3, 2026. +[^20]: Micah Hanks, "The Sol Foundation, Academia's New UAP Think Tank, Releases Videos of Lectures from Its Inaugural Symposium," *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/ +[^21]: Anomaly Archives, "Nell, Karl," listing a Sol Foundation video titled "Karl Nell on The Schumer Amendment & Controlled Disclosure." https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/nell-karl/ +[^22]: The Sol Foundation, "All Publications," twelve papers with authors, volume and month, https://thesolfoundation.org/all-publications/ , and paper pages under https://thesolfoundation.org/publications/ , read October 3, 2026. +[^23]: "UAP in Crowded Skies," The White Papers of the Sol Foundation, vol. 1, no. 2, March 2024. https://thesolfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sol_WhitePaper_Vol1N2.pdf +[^24]: Karl E. Nell, "The UFO Enigma: A Call for US Government Disclosure," The Policy Papers of the Sol Foundation, Spring 2025, Executive Summary and "About the Author." https://thesolfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-UFO-Enigma_Sol-Foundation.pdf +[^25]: "New science advisory council forms to help US government 'resolve the UAP mystery,'" *DefenseScoop*, June 17, 2026. https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/17/new-science-advisory-council-forms-to-help-us-government-resolve-the-uap-mystery/ +[^26]: Sol Foundation, release "Sol Foundation Co-Founders Named to UAP Science Advisory Council," June 22, 2026 (modified July 13, 2026), https://thesolfoundation.org/sol-foundation-co-founders-named-to-uap-science-advisory-council/ ; Avi Loeb, "More Details on the UAP Science Advisory Council," Medium (avi-loeb.medium.com), June 16, 2026, read in a Wayback Machine copy; Federal Register search for "UAP Science Advisory Council," https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?conditions%5Bterm%5D=%22UAP+Science+Advisory+Council%22 (count 0 on October 3, 2026). diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Aviary.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Aviary.md index 5401e9aa..a4f6ab86 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Aviary.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Aviary.md @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ The host site's copy contains interpolated comments by its editors, including a Pilkington wrote in *Mirage Men* of a meeting with Kit Green, whose interest in UFOs, Pilkington wrote, dated to "his time as the CIA's 'keeper of the weird' at the Office for Science and Technology" ("really he was a senior science analyst," Pilkington added), and who was "a close and long-standing friend of Rick Doty." Pilkington wrote that at a Denny's restaurant "back in 1986" Green, Puthoff and Vallee "distilled what they knew about the subject into what has become known as the 'core story,'" which Green stated to Pilkington as: "The ETs came here, maybe once, maybe a few times. Either through accident or design, the US government acquired one of their craft."[^2] The passages of the Green interview read do not use the word Aviary.[^2] A document in the Clinton White House science adviser's files, a letter of April 29, 1995 from [[Richard Farley|C. Richard Farley Jr.]], describes Dan Smith of [[Baltimore]] as "a self-proclaimed confidant and asset of Dr. Ronald Pandolfi."[^4] -The blogger [[Robert Schaeffer]] reported in 2019, in a passage quoted by [[Jason Colavito]], that the television producer [[Robert Kiviat]] had been engaged by [[Joe Firmage]] to develop a network series on Firmage's anti-gravity claims "and also the story of the Aviary UFO history as seen through the eyes of Pandolfi." Kiviat said, in the quoted interview, that "Pandolfi was not willing to state his claims publicly." Colavito wrote that Kiviat filed suit against Firmage, Pandolfi and the former congressman [[Daniel Marriott]] seeking $300,000. The complaint was not read, and the defendants' answers were not found.[^5] +The blogger [[Robert Schaeffer]] reported in 2019, in a passage quoted by [[Jason Colavito]], that the television producer [[Robert Kiviat]] had been engaged by [[Joe Firmage]] to develop a network series on Firmage's anti-gravity claims "and also the story of the Aviary UFO history as seen through the eyes of Pandolfi." Kiviat said, in the quoted interview, that "Pandolfi was not willing to state his claims publicly." Colavito wrote that Kiviat filed suit against Firmage, Pandolfi and the former congressman [[Daniel Marriott]] seeking $300,000.[^5] ### Footnotes @@ -100,9 +100,9 @@ The blogger [[Robert Schaeffer]] reported in 2019, in a passage quoted by [[Jaso [^3]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* November/December issue, year not stated in the copy consulted, reproduced with editorial interpolations at think-aboutit.com, Wayback Machine capture of August 31, 2013, http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source for the roster. [^4]: Farley, C. Richard, Jr., letter to John H. Gibbons, April 29, 1995, Clinton Presidential Library, Office of Science and Technology Policy FOIA 01-22, item 46, https://avalonlibrary.net/Grant_Cameron/Clinton_Presidential_Library_collection/OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022/1995%2004%2029_C.%20Richard%20Farley,%20Jr.%20to%20John%20Gibbons%20-%20OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022%20-%20item%20no%2046.pdf. [^5]: Colavito, Jason, quoting Schaeffer, Robert, and Kiviat, Robert. "Alien Autopsy Producer Sues UFO Contactee, Former CIA Scientist, and Ex-Congressman over Stalled UFO Documentary," March 23, 2019, https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/alien-autopsy-producer-sues-ufo-contactee-former-cia-scientist-and-ex-congressman-over-stalled-ufo-documentary. Sole source for the passages so cited. -[^6]: Hastings, Robert. Statement of March 1, 1989, as quoted in "E B E's," part 16, UFO BBS file UFO1035, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1035.ufo. The denials by Moore and Doty and the account of the "real Falcon" are in that file's own narration, not in the Hastings quotation. The original statement was not opened. +[^6]: Hastings, Robert. Statement of March 1, 1989, as quoted in "E B E's," part 16, UFO BBS file UFO1035, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1035.ufo. The denials by Moore and Doty and the account of the "real Falcon" are in that file's own narration, not in the Hastings quotation. [^7]: Timothy Good, ed., *The UFO Report 1990*, "Editor's Foreword" (London, April 1989), pp. vii to viii (October 14, 1988); Barry Taff, UFO BBS file UFO135 ("When the final product aired on October 14 of that year"); Linda Moulton Howe, *An Alien Harvest*, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 193 to 196; Robert Collins and Richard Doty, *Exempt from Disclosure* ("The show finally aired on October 14, 1988"); Internet Archive upload description ("Broadcast 10/14/88"). Mark Pilkington, *Mirage Men*, gives 18 October. -[^8]: Moore, William L., lecture of July 1, 1989, MUFON International UFO Symposium, Las Vegas, as quoted in "E B E's," part 17, UFO BBS file UFO1036, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1036.ufo (which cites Moore 1989b). The speech text itself was not read. +[^8]: Moore, William L., lecture of July 1, 1989, MUFON International UFO Symposium, Las Vegas, as quoted in "E B E's," part 17, UFO BBS file UFO1036, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1036.ufo (which cites Moore 1989b). [^9]: Robert Collins and Richard Doty, *Exempt from Disclosure: The Black World of UFOs* (Peregrine Communications; copyright notice 2010), introduction; Section 1, "Go west as they say," "Summits without the Cocktails, the fall of 1987," "And We Became Birds: 'The Aviary,'" "August 1988: Cloak & Dagger," "September 1988," "April 1989"; Section 2, Chapter 4 and references 4a, 4b and 5, https://archive.org/details/exempt-from-disclosure (OCR text read). Collins's account is the sole source for the passages so cited. [^10]: William L. Moore, "UFOs and the U.S. Government, Part I," address to the MUFON International UFO Symposium, Las Vegas, July 1, 1989, video recorded by Ron Regehr (Internet Archive item bill-moore-1989-mufon, https://archive.org/details/bill-moore-1989-mufon), read in the caption transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfimKiS-po; captions mis-render names ("Dodie," "Chandere") and are corrected here. The printed version in the MUFON UFO Journal of November and December 1989 was not obtained. [^11]: Richard C. Doty, letter of March 3, 1989, http://textfiles.com/ufo/doty.ufo diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Church of New Revelation.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Church of New Revelation.md index 3002a5b1..413d908f 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Church of New Revelation.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Church of New Revelation.md @@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] in Tennessee was incor [^1]: Wright, Marilyn. "Porno Ring Uses Church, Tax Laws." *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977, pp. 86-87. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041 [^2]: *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, reprinted in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, 1977. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit -[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It gives New Jersey as the state of incorporation. The contemporaneous reporting lists Boys Farm, Inc., of Alto, Tennessee, as a separate organization and names Starchild, not Grossman, as the church's president. +[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It gives New Jersey as the state of incorporation. The contemporaneous reporting lists Boys Farm, Inc., of Alto, Tennessee, as a separate organization and names Starchild, not Grossman, as the church's president. Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.md index 49a331e8..17bfc8ec 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.md @@ -20,32 +20,32 @@ relations: reverse: true role: "co-founder, President and interim Chief Executive Officer; majority shareholder through Gravity Holdings, LLC" start: 2017 - fn: 5 + fn: 6 - type: director_of with: "[[Hal Puthoff]]" reverse: true role: "Vice President of Science and Technology and board member; resigned from the board February 2021 and moved to the science advisory board" start: 2017 end: 2021-02 - fn: 5 + fn: 6 - type: director_of with: "[[Jim Semivan]]" reverse: true role: "founder, Vice President Operations and director" start: 2017 - fn: 5 + fn: 6 - type: partner_of with: "[[U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command]]" role: "Cooperative Research and Development Agreement 19-15, Novel and Emerging Technology Exploitation, with the Ground Vehicle Systems Center" start: 2019-10-10 end: 2024 - fn: 13 + fn: 14 - type: funded with: "[[Tom DeLonge]]" reverse: true role: "advances, notes, lines of credit and share conversions" start: 2016 - fn: 9 + fn: 10 updated: 2026-10-03 --- [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]] (TTSA) was a public benefit corporation founded by musician [[Tom DeLonge]] of the band [[Blink-182]]. The organization's goal was to investigate [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) and other fringe scientific topics, and to educate the public about these issues through a combination of scientific research, entertainment, and publishing.[^1] @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ updated: 2026-10-03 Tom DeLonge founded TTSA in 2017 with the goal of bringing the UAP conversation out of the shadows and into the mainstream. He assembled a team of former high-ranking government officials and scientists to lead the organization, including [[Luis Elizondo]], [[Christopher Mellon]], [[Jim Semivan]], and [[Hal Puthoff]].[^1] -The company was structured with three divisions: Science, Aerospace, and Entertainment. The plan was to use the entertainment division to generate revenue that would fund the scientific and aerospace research. TTSA released three Navy videos, "FLIR" ([[Tic Tac]]), "[[GIMBAL]]," and "GoFast," on its [[YouTube]] page. The 2017 [[New York Times]] article that revealed the existence of [[AATIP]] carried two of them (FLIR1 and GIMBAL), and GOFAST followed in March 2018.[^1][^2] [[The Black Vault]] describes the videos as "subsequently released by To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, the source of where the New York Times originally received them." [[Pentagon]] spokesperson [[Christopher Sherwood]] told *[[The Intercept]]* in 2019 that the videos were released "for research purposes ... and not for general public release," and the [[Department of Defense]] stated on April 27, 2020 that it "authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos," which had been "circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017." [[Politico]] reported in 2021 that the [[Washington Headquarters Services]] declassification division had approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government before the Times placement. Mellon said in 2020 that he received the videos in the Pentagon parking lot from a Defense Department official.[^3][^4][^2] +The company was structured with three divisions: Science, Aerospace, and Entertainment. The plan was to use the entertainment division to generate revenue that would fund the scientific and aerospace research. TTSA released three Navy videos, "FLIR" ([[Tic Tac]]), "[[GIMBAL]]," and "GoFast," on its [[YouTube]] page. The 2017 [[New York Times]] article that revealed the existence of [[AATIP]] carried two of them (FLIR1 and GIMBAL), and GOFAST followed in March 2018.[^1][^2] [[The Black Vault]] describes the videos as "subsequently released by To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, the source of where the New York Times originally received them." [[Pentagon]] spokesperson [[Christopher Sherwood]] told *[[The Intercept]]* in 2019 that the videos were released "for research purposes ... and not for general public release," and the [[Department of Defense]] stated on April 27, 2020 that it "authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos," which had been "circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017." [[Politico]] reported in 2021 that the [[Washington Headquarters Services]] declassification division had approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government before the Times placement. The Office of the Secretary of Defense file released to [[The Black Vault]] under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2019 contains an August 23, 2017 email in which [[Luis Elizondo]] asked Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to "consider our request for unrestricted release"; an August 24, 2017 reply from Russo that if the service-level classification authority verified that removing the metadata made the videos unclassified, "please feel free to move forward with release"; and a DD Form 1910 whose publication-data block reads "Not Applicable. Not for publication. Research and analysis ONLY and info sharing with other USG and industry partners for the purposes of developing a database to help identify, analyze and ultimately defeat UAS threats." Joseph Gradisher, a Navy spokesman, said in 2019 that neither the cognizant Navy offices nor the review office had a record of correspondence responding to a request for unrestricted release of the videos in 2017.[^3] Mellon said in 2020 that he received the videos in the Pentagon parking lot from a Defense Department official.[^4][^5][^2] ### Role in UAP Disclosure @@ -64,80 +64,81 @@ While the organization was ultimately not financially successful and many of its ### Registration, offerings and proceeds -To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science Inc., a [[Delaware]] public benefit corporation of [[Encinitas, California]] ([[Securities and Exchange Commission|SEC]] CIK 1710274, file number 24R-00116), filed an offering statement on Form 1-A on August 15, 2017; the SEC qualified it on September 29, 2017, for the sale of Class A common stock with a minimum of 1,000,000 dollars and a maximum of 50,000,000 dollars. Its Regulation A annual reports (Form 1-K) and semiannual reports (Form 1-SA) state the following proceeds.[^5][^6] +To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science Inc., a [[Delaware]] public benefit corporation of [[Encinitas, California]] ([[Securities and Exchange Commission|SEC]] CIK 1710274, file number 24R-00116), filed an offering statement on Form 1-A on August 15, 2017; the SEC qualified it on September 29, 2017, for the sale of Class A common stock with a minimum of 1,000,000 dollars and a maximum of 50,000,000 dollars. Its Regulation A annual reports (Form 1-K) and semiannual reports (Form 1-SA) state the following proceeds.[^6][^7] -First offering: approximately 1,370,000 dollars raised, with proceeds net of offering costs of approximately 1,172,000 dollars during 2018 (offering costs of about 244,000 dollars in 2017 and 199,000 dollars in 2018); 274,046 new Class A shares were issued to investors in 2018.[^6] Second offering (qualified July 12, 2019, up to 30,000,000 dollars): approximately 818,000 dollars raised by its expiry in July 2020 per the fiscal 2020 report (the fiscal 2021 report gives 161,762 shares sold at 5 dollars, 808,810 dollars gross), net proceeds of about 336,000 dollars in 2019 and 167,200 dollars in 2020.[^7] Third offering (qualified September 18, 2020, described as up to 6,000,000 shares in the 2020 report and up to 30,000,000 dollars in the 2021 report, with [[Digital Offering]], LLC as selling agent at a 7.0 percent fee plus warrants for 2.0 percent of gross proceeds): approximately 113,500 dollars raised before the company stopped marketing it on December 18, 2020.[^7] Fourth offering (qualified March 31, 2022): approximately 488,790 dollars raised before termination on November 3, 2022.[^8] The four stated figures sum to approximately 2,790,290 dollars gross (2,781,100 dollars using the 808,810 dollar figure for the second offering). +First offering: approximately 1,370,000 dollars raised, with proceeds net of offering costs of approximately 1,172,000 dollars during 2018 (offering costs of about 244,000 dollars in 2017 and 199,000 dollars in 2018); 274,046 new Class A shares were issued to investors in 2018.[^7] Second offering (qualified July 12, 2019, up to 30,000,000 dollars): approximately 818,000 dollars raised by its expiry in July 2020 per the fiscal 2020 report (the fiscal 2021 report gives 161,762 shares sold at 5 dollars, 808,810 dollars gross), net proceeds of about 336,000 dollars in 2019 and 167,200 dollars in 2020.[^8] Third offering (qualified September 18, 2020, described as up to 6,000,000 shares in the 2020 report and up to 30,000,000 dollars in the 2021 report, with [[Digital Offering]], LLC as selling agent at a 7.0 percent fee plus warrants for 2.0 percent of gross proceeds): approximately 113,500 dollars raised before the company stopped marketing it on December 18, 2020.[^8] Fourth offering (qualified March 31, 2022): approximately 488,790 dollars raised before termination on November 3, 2022.[^9] The four stated figures sum to approximately 2,790,290 dollars gross (2,781,100 dollars using the 808,810 dollar figure for the second offering). ### Losses -The filings report a net loss from operations of 422,670 dollars for 2016; 30,665,436 dollars for 2017, of which stock-based compensation expense was 29,535,799 dollars (including 18,958,333 dollars recognized on the option grant to [[Kari DeLonge]]); 10,660,495 dollars for 2018 (stock-based compensation 9,165,417 dollars); 9,392,988 dollars for 2019; 4,071,560 dollars for 2020 (the fiscal 2020 statement of operations shows an operating loss of 3,935,621 dollars, the figure the fiscal 2021 report gives for 2020); 581,396 dollars for 2021; 1,339,512 dollars for 2022 (the fiscal 2022 statements show a net loss of 1,351,896 dollars, the figure the fiscal 2023 report gives for 2022); 143,387 dollars for 2023; 57,388 dollars for 2024; and 225,736 dollars for 2025. The report for the six months to June 30, 2026 states a net loss of 134,424 dollars against 315,829 dollars for the same period of 2025. The reports for fiscal 2021 through 2025 carry a going-concern paragraph.[^6][^7][^8] +The filings report a net loss from operations of 422,670 dollars for 2016; 30,665,436 dollars for 2017, of which stock-based compensation expense was 29,535,799 dollars (including 18,958,333 dollars recognized on the option grant to [[Kari DeLonge]]); 10,660,495 dollars for 2018 (stock-based compensation 9,165,417 dollars); 9,392,988 dollars for 2019; 4,071,560 dollars for 2020 (the fiscal 2020 statement of operations shows an operating loss of 3,935,621 dollars, the figure the fiscal 2021 report gives for 2020); 581,396 dollars for 2021; 1,339,512 dollars for 2022 (the fiscal 2022 statements show a net loss of 1,351,896 dollars, the figure the fiscal 2023 report gives for 2022); 143,387 dollars for 2023; 57,388 dollars for 2024; and 225,736 dollars for 2025. The report for the six months to June 30, 2026 states a net loss of 134,424 dollars against 315,829 dollars for the same period of 2025. The reports for fiscal 2021 through 2025 carry a going-concern paragraph.[^7][^8][^9] ### Founder shares and the 2019 rescission -In May 2017 the corporation issued 12,500,000 shares of Class A and 5,400 shares of Class B stock to [[Gravity Holdings]], LLC (controlled through the [[DeLonge Family Trust]]), [[JimSem1]], LLC (wholly owned by Jim Semivan) and Harold Puthoff "in exchange for a nominal cash payment and past and anticipated future efforts to support the company's business and objectives"; Gravity Holdings held 60,000,000 Class A shares, 85.7 percent of the class in the first annual report, after receiving 55,000,000 shares on June 1, 2017 for contributing To The Stars, Inc. In April 2019 the company executed a Rescission and Relinquishment Agreement that cancelled 58,174,203 issued shares of Class A stock and 7,359,687 awards or options; the issuances to Gravity Holdings, JimSem1 and Puthoff were reduced to 9,428,240, 786,580 and 392,620 shares, and Kari DeLonge's option (granted June 6, 2017 for 5,000,000 shares at 0.003 dollars) was reduced to 785,240 shares.[^5][^9] +In May 2017 the corporation issued 12,500,000 shares of Class A and 5,400 shares of Class B stock to [[Gravity Holdings]], LLC (controlled through the [[DeLonge Family Trust]]), [[JimSem1]], LLC (wholly owned by Jim Semivan) and Harold Puthoff "in exchange for a nominal cash payment and past and anticipated future efforts to support the company's business and objectives"; Gravity Holdings held 60,000,000 Class A shares, 85.7 percent of the class in the first annual report, after receiving 55,000,000 shares on June 1, 2017 for contributing To The Stars, Inc. In April 2019 the company executed a Rescission and Relinquishment Agreement that cancelled 58,174,203 issued shares of Class A stock and 7,359,687 awards or options; the issuances to Gravity Holdings, JimSem1 and Puthoff were reduced to 9,428,240, 786,580 and 392,620 shares, and Kari DeLonge's option (granted June 6, 2017 for 5,000,000 shares at 0.003 dollars) was reduced to 785,240 shares.[^6][^10] ### Officer and director compensation -The first annual report (fiscal 2017) lists cash compensation of 100,000 dollars to Kari DeLonge (Chief Content Officer, sister of Tom DeLonge), 67,962 dollars to [[Lisa Clifford]] (Secretary) and 31,584 dollars to the firm of [[Louis Tomassino]] (Chief Financial Officer) for accounting and tax services, and states that its subsidiary To The Stars, Inc. "did not compensate its executive officer and sole director, Tom DeLonge in cash" while Gravity Holdings, LLC received 60,000,000 Class A shares and DeLonge was owed 100,000 dollars in royalties for 2017; the three directors as a group received 67,500,000 Class A and 5,400 Class B shares. For fiscal 2018 the highest-paid officers were Kari DeLonge (100,256 dollars), Lisa Clifford (74,617 dollars) and [[Stephen Justice]], Chief Operations Officer (43,792 dollars). For fiscal 2019 the table lists [[J. Christopher Mizer]] (director since May 14, 2019, paid 30,000 dollars in cash and 300,000 restricted shares under an Independent Director Agreement at 5,000 dollars per month) alongside Kari DeLonge (100,000) and Lisa Clifford (45,871). Mizer is also co-founder of [[Vivaris Capital]], LLC, which held a consulting agreement from August 2019 at 10,000 dollars per month; on June 23, 2021 the company terminated it, agreed that 170,000 dollars was owed, and settled for 40,000 dollars in cash plus 108,333 shares at 1.20 dollars. Mizer was paid 30,000 dollars in director's fees in each of 2021 through 2025. Luis Elizondo, Hal Puthoff, Jim Semivan and Christopher Mellon do not appear in the compensation tables; the filings describe their roles but do not report their pay, except for the statements of work with EarthTech International below.[^5][^6][^7][^10] +The first annual report (fiscal 2017) lists cash compensation of 100,000 dollars to Kari DeLonge (Chief Content Officer, sister of Tom DeLonge), 67,962 dollars to [[Lisa Clifford]] (Secretary) and 31,584 dollars to the firm of [[Louis Tomassino]] (Chief Financial Officer) for accounting and tax services, and states that its subsidiary To The Stars, Inc. "did not compensate its executive officer and sole director, Tom DeLonge in cash" while Gravity Holdings, LLC received 60,000,000 Class A shares and DeLonge was owed 100,000 dollars in royalties for 2017; the three directors as a group received 67,500,000 Class A and 5,400 Class B shares. For fiscal 2018 the highest-paid officers were Kari DeLonge (100,256 dollars), Lisa Clifford (74,617 dollars) and [[Stephen Justice]], Chief Operations Officer (43,792 dollars). For fiscal 2019 the table lists [[J. Christopher Mizer]] (director since May 14, 2019, paid 30,000 dollars in cash and 300,000 restricted shares under an Independent Director Agreement at 5,000 dollars per month) alongside Kari DeLonge (100,000) and Lisa Clifford (45,871). Mizer is also co-founder of [[Vivaris Capital]], LLC, which held a consulting agreement from August 2019 at 10,000 dollars per month; on June 23, 2021 the company terminated it, agreed that 170,000 dollars was owed, and settled for 40,000 dollars in cash plus 108,333 shares at 1.20 dollars. Mizer was paid 30,000 dollars in director's fees in each of 2021 through 2025. Luis Elizondo, Hal Puthoff, Jim Semivan and Christopher Mellon do not appear in the compensation tables; the filings describe their roles but do not report their pay, except for the statements of work with EarthTech International below.[^6][^7][^8][^11] ### Related-party financing by Tom DeLonge -[[Our Two Dogs]], Inc., owned by the DeLonge Family Trust (99 percent) and [[Chloe the Dog]], LP (1 percent), advanced 511,414 dollars in 2017, of which 463,414 dollars was reclassified as contributed capital; it also held a loan of 300,000 dollars (April 2016), raised to 600,000 dollars in August 2017 at 6 percent. On March 31, 2019 it forgave the 600,000 dollar principal and 88,123 dollars of interest (688,123 dollars, treated as contributed capital). A licensing agreement of April 26, 2017 with Tom DeLonge, [[Mr. Handsome]], LLC and [[Good In Bed Music]], [[ASCAP]], covering his name, likeness and [[Angels and Airwaves]] works, carries a minimum royalty of 100,000 dollars per year (0.5 to 15 percent of gross sales above that), recorded as cost of revenue and unpaid as of the end of 2017, 2018 and 2019 (accumulated 100,000, 200,000 and 300,000 dollars). In 2018 DeLonge extended a 495,000 dollar revolving line of credit at 8.58 percent, secured by company intellectual property (335,000 dollars outstanding at the end of 2018 and 463,837 dollars at the end of 2019); in July 2019 the company bought a set of metamaterials from DeLonge for 35,000 dollars. Total amounts owed to DeLonge were 791,123 dollars (end of 2017), 1,288,148 dollars (2018), 963,763 dollars (2019) and 727,043 dollars (2020). In June 2021 the line of credit balance (517,435 dollars plus 52,364 dollars interest) and 372,165 dollars in personal advances (including 157,244 dollars used to pay credit card balances) were converted into 784,970 shares of Class A stock, and the fiscal 2021 report states both that 607,121 dollars of 2021 advances were converted at 1.20 dollars per share and that additional advances of 392,200 dollars through December 31, 2021 were converted to 326,834 shares. In March 2026 DeLonge, then described as chief executive, lent 42,000 dollars, repaid in April 2026, and on July 7, 2026 lent 150,000 dollars at 5 percent to be repaid from 5 percent of weekly receipts.[^5][^6][^9][^7][^11] +[[Our Two Dogs]], Inc., owned by the DeLonge Family Trust (99 percent) and [[Chloe the Dog]], LP (1 percent), advanced 511,414 dollars in 2017, of which 463,414 dollars was reclassified as contributed capital; it also held a loan of 300,000 dollars (April 2016), raised to 600,000 dollars in August 2017 at 6 percent. On March 31, 2019 it forgave the 600,000 dollar principal and 88,123 dollars of interest (688,123 dollars, treated as contributed capital). A licensing agreement of April 26, 2017 with Tom DeLonge, [[Mr. Handsome]], LLC and [[Good In Bed Music]], [[ASCAP]], covering his name, likeness and [[Angels and Airwaves]] works, carries a minimum royalty of 100,000 dollars per year (0.5 to 15 percent of gross sales above that), recorded as cost of revenue and unpaid as of the end of 2017, 2018 and 2019 (accumulated 100,000, 200,000 and 300,000 dollars). In 2018 DeLonge extended a 495,000 dollar revolving line of credit at 8.58 percent, secured by company intellectual property (335,000 dollars outstanding at the end of 2018 and 463,837 dollars at the end of 2019); in July 2019 the company bought a set of metamaterials from DeLonge for 35,000 dollars. Total amounts owed to DeLonge were 791,123 dollars (end of 2017), 1,288,148 dollars (2018), 963,763 dollars (2019) and 727,043 dollars (2020). In June 2021 the line of credit balance (517,435 dollars plus 52,364 dollars interest) and 372,165 dollars in personal advances (including 157,244 dollars used to pay credit card balances) were converted into 784,970 shares of Class A stock, and the fiscal 2021 report states both that 607,121 dollars of 2021 advances were converted at 1.20 dollars per share and that additional advances of 392,200 dollars through December 31, 2021 were converted to 326,834 shares. In March 2026 DeLonge, then described as chief executive, lent 42,000 dollars, repaid in April 2026, and on July 7, 2026 lent 150,000 dollars at 5 percent to be repaid from 5 percent of weekly receipts.[^6][^7][^10][^8][^12] ### EarthTech International statements of work -In August 2018 the company entered two statements of work with [[EarthTech International]], Inc., "whose founder and president is company Director Harold E. Puthoff": one for materials analysis ("SOW-MSSA," 35,000 dollars) and one for beamed energy propulsion launch systems ("SOW-BELS," 25,000 dollars), totaling 60,000 dollars, of which 30,000 dollars was paid during 2018. The materials statement of work was described as covering "materials samples the company obtains through reliable reports of advanced aerospace vehicles of unknown origin."[^12] +In August 2018 the company entered two statements of work with [[EarthTech International]], Inc., "whose founder and president is company Director Harold E. Puthoff": one for materials analysis ("SOW-MSSA," 35,000 dollars) and one for beamed energy propulsion launch systems ("SOW-BELS," 25,000 dollars), totaling 60,000 dollars, of which 30,000 dollars was paid during 2018. The materials statement of work was described as covering "materials samples the company obtains through reliable reports of advanced aerospace vehicles of unknown origin."[^13] ### Army Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Exhibit 6.28 to the company's Form 1-A/A of August 3, 2020 is Cooperative Research and Development Agreement No. 19-15, "Novel and Emerging Technology Exploitation (NETE)," between the company and the [[U.S. Army]] [[Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center]], [[Warren, Michigan]]. It was signed on October 10, 2019 by [[Jeffrey L. Langhout]], Director of the Ground Vehicle Systems Center, and by Kari DeLonge as officer of the company. The government principal investigators are [[Ben Soave]] and Dr. [[Joseph Cannon]] (Ground Vehicle Survivability and Protection); the collaborator's principal investigator and preferred contact is Luis Elizondo, listed as "Director of Global Security and Special Programs." The term is 60 months from signature; the milestone table runs technical work from October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2023. -The agreement's work plan states that the collaborator "has access to advanced materiel solutions" and "contacted Government about the innovations within their hold," that "Collaborator leaders are prior Government employees," and that "the [[Office of the Secretary of Defense]] (OSD) can share historical reports of findings and origin of materiel solutions in the possession of the Collaborator." The government is to test "inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural metamaterials, electromagnetic metamaterial wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion," with the company to supply "samples of mechanical and EM sensitive metamaterial collected, obtained, or developed as part of its Field Operations," material analysis data, and beamed energy propulsion and active camouflage hardware. Article 7.2 states that the government "will not provide any federal or other funds to the Collaborator"; the payment schedule reads "None"; the government's anticipated resources are estimated at 750,000 dollars and the collaborator's at 1,000,000 dollars "determined by business needs and funding availability." The document describes the company as incorporated in [[California]]; the SEC registrant is a Delaware corporation. Article 4.8.3 provides that the work "may cover Classified national security information" and refers to a DD Form 254.[^13] +The agreement's work plan states that the collaborator "has access to advanced materiel solutions" and "contacted Government about the innovations within their hold," that "Collaborator leaders are prior Government employees," and that "the [[Office of the Secretary of Defense]] (OSD) can share historical reports of findings and origin of materiel solutions in the possession of the Collaborator." The government is to test "inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural metamaterials, electromagnetic metamaterial wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion," with the company to supply "samples of mechanical and EM sensitive metamaterial collected, obtained, or developed as part of its Field Operations," material analysis data, and beamed energy propulsion and active camouflage hardware. Article 7.2 states that the government "will not provide any federal or other funds to the Collaborator"; the payment schedule reads "None"; the government's anticipated resources are estimated at 750,000 dollars and the collaborator's at 1,000,000 dollars "determined by business needs and funding availability." The document describes the company as incorporated in [[California]]; the SEC registrant is a Delaware corporation. Article 4.8.3 provides that the work "may cover Classified national security information" and refers to a DD Form 254.[^14] -Annual reports from 2021 describe the Army testing of "anomalous materials" provided by the company, slowed by the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. The reports for 2024 and 2025 state that, "as part of their oversight and through the CRADA," [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]] was tasked with analysis of a specimen "to assess whether the specimen is of terrestrial origin and the bismuth in the specimen could act as a terahertz waveguide"; that in April 2024 ORNL "produced a summary of findings that concluded the Materials to be terrestrial in origin" and not meeting "the theoretical requirements to function as a terahertz (THz) waveguide"; that the report "did not offer a firm conclusion as to the origin and purpose of the Materials"; that Hal Puthoff and [[Eric Davis]] met the laboratory in September 2024 and published a memorandum to the company's board in February 2025 which "did not reveal any form of proof of exotic (Extraterrestrial, Ultra-terrestrial, or inter-dimensional) origin, but it did not absolutely rule it out either"; and that the CRADA ended in 2024. The reports state that the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] was "congressionally mandated" in 2022 to explore historical records of unidentified anomalous phenomena incidents.[^11] +Annual reports from 2021 describe the Army testing of "anomalous materials" provided by the company, slowed by the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. The reports for 2024 and 2025 state that, "as part of their oversight and through the CRADA," [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]] was tasked with analysis of a specimen "to assess whether the specimen is of terrestrial origin and the bismuth in the specimen could act as a terahertz waveguide"; that in April 2024 ORNL "produced a summary of findings that concluded the Materials to be terrestrial in origin" and not meeting "the theoretical requirements to function as a terahertz (THz) waveguide"; that the report "did not offer a firm conclusion as to the origin and purpose of the Materials"; that Hal Puthoff and [[Eric Davis]] met the laboratory in September 2024 and published a memorandum to the company's board in February 2025 which "did not reveal any form of proof of exotic (Extraterrestrial, Ultra-terrestrial, or inter-dimensional) origin, but it did not absolutely rule it out either"; and that the CRADA ended in 2024. The reports state that the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] was "congressionally mandated" in 2022 to explore historical records of unidentified anomalous phenomena incidents.[^12] ### Personnel changes reported to the SEC -[[Colm Kelleher]] resigned from the advisory board in October 2019. The annual report for 2020 states that Christopher Mellon resigned from the advisory board in November 2020, that Stephen Justice resigned as Chief Operations Officer in December 2020, that "Luis Elizondo, the Company's Director of Government Programs & Services, was laid off with severance" in December 2020, and that Hal Puthoff resigned from the board in February 2021 and moved to the science advisory board. The report describes these changes as part of a "pivot" to entertainment operations.[^7] +[[Colm Kelleher]] resigned from the advisory board in October 2019. The annual report for 2020 states that Christopher Mellon resigned from the advisory board in November 2020, that Stephen Justice resigned as Chief Operations Officer in December 2020, that "Luis Elizondo, the Company's Director of Government Programs & Services, was laid off with severance" in December 2020, and that Hal Puthoff resigned from the board in February 2021 and moved to the science advisory board. The report describes these changes as part of a "pivot" to entertainment operations.[^8] ### Launch and the December 2017 placement -At a launch event in October 2017 (reported as October 11, 2017, [[Seattle]]), Tom DeLonge invited Luis Elizondo onstage; Elizondo said the group was "planning to provide never-before-released footage from real [[U.S. government]] systems." [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]] reported that on October 4, 2017, a week before, Christopher Mellon had arranged for the journalist [[Leslie Kean]] to meet Hal Puthoff, Jim Semivan and Elizondo at a hotel bar near the Pentagon, where she was told she could have the videos with chain-of-custody documentation "if she could place a story in the Times." [[Bryan Bender]] wrote in 2021 that Mellon, "by then also a paid adviser to DeLonge's TTSA," served as Elizondo's "unofficial public relations manager" and "started dangling the story to the New York Times, POLITICO and several other mainstream outlets."[^14][^4] Bender also wrote that DeLonge, in 2016, "reached out to Christopher Mellon" and that in the same year "one of DeLonge's cold calls unearthed the name" of Elizondo.[^4] The Times and Politico published on December 16, 2017; see [[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]]. Politico's article of that date described the company as "a for-profit company" co-founded by DeLonge, quoted DeLonge's video calling it a "public benefit corporation," reported that its website "claims 2,142 investors, who have purchased slightly more than $2 million worth of shares" with "a minimum purchase of $200 in common stock shares," and placed Mellon at "a recent press conference for To The Stars in [[Las Vegas]]" describing a Navy pilots' sighting; Elizondo was listed as "director of global security and special programs."[^15] +At a launch event in October 2017 (reported as October 11, 2017, [[Seattle]]), Tom DeLonge invited Luis Elizondo onstage; Elizondo said the group was "planning to provide never-before-released footage from real [[U.S. government]] systems." [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]] reported that on October 4, 2017, a week before, Christopher Mellon had arranged for the journalist [[Leslie Kean]] to meet Hal Puthoff, Jim Semivan and Elizondo at a hotel bar near the Pentagon, where she was told she could have the videos with chain-of-custody documentation "if she could place a story in the Times." [[Bryan Bender]] wrote in 2021 that Mellon, "by then also a paid adviser to DeLonge's TTSA," served as Elizondo's "unofficial public relations manager" and "started dangling the story to the New York Times, POLITICO and several other mainstream outlets."[^15][^5] Bender also wrote that DeLonge, in 2016, "reached out to Christopher Mellon" and that in the same year "one of DeLonge's cold calls unearthed the name" of Elizondo.[^5] The Times and Politico published on December 16, 2017; see [[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]]. Politico's article of that date described the company as "a for-profit company" co-founded by DeLonge, quoted DeLonge's video calling it a "public benefit corporation," reported that its website "claims 2,142 investors, who have purchased slightly more than $2 million worth of shares" with "a minimum purchase of $200 in common stock shares," and placed Mellon at "a recent press conference for To The Stars in [[Las Vegas]]" describing a Navy pilots' sighting; Elizondo was listed as "director of global security and special programs."[^16] -Mellon told the Politico writer: "Tom called me up out of the blue and then through him I met Jim and Hal." DeLonge told Bender: "From day one, I figured I needed knights of the round table."[^4] +Mellon told the Politico writer: "Tom called me up out of the blue and then through him I met Jim and Hal." DeLonge told Bender: "From day one, I figured I needed knights of the round table."[^5] ### Pentagon position on Elizondo and the venture -In 2019 Sherwood told *The Intercept* that "Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program while he worked in OUSDI, up until the time he resigned effective 10/4/2017." TTSA spokesperson Kari DeLonge told [[John Greenewald]] that Elizondo ran AATIP "out of the Office for the Secretary of Defense (OSD) under the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI)" after taking it over in 2010; Sherwood's office disputed this. [[Susan Gough]] of the Pentagon told Greenewald on June 13, 2019 that "DIA administered AATIP, and Elizondo was never assigned to DIA." Puthoff, a TTSA co-founder, told Greenewald that as contractor and senior adviser he "continued to attend meetings" under the program.[^3][^16] +In 2019 Sherwood told *The Intercept* that "Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program while he worked in OUSDI, up until the time he resigned effective 10/4/2017." TTSA spokesperson Kari DeLonge told [[John Greenewald]] that Elizondo ran AATIP "out of the Office for the Secretary of Defense (OSD) under the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI)" after taking it over in 2010; Sherwood's office disputed this. [[Susan Gough]] of the Pentagon told Greenewald on June 13, 2019 that "DIA administered AATIP, and Elizondo was never assigned to DIA." Puthoff, a TTSA co-founder, told Greenewald that as contractor and senior adviser he "continued to attend meetings" under the program.[^4][^17] ### Filings (EDGAR) -SEC EDGAR lists the registrant as CIK 0001710274, incorporated in Delaware, with business address 315 S. Coast Highway 101, Suite U38, Encinitas, California, SIC 7819; first Form 1-A filed August 15, 2017, amendments September 1 and 18, 2017, further 1-A filings February 12, 2019, June 23, 2020 and March 16, 2022, and a Form 1-SA filed September 18, 2026 under file number 24R-00116. The registrant's conformed name changed to "To The Stars Inc." on September 28, 2021. The first offering statement (file 024-10728, Form 1-A of August 15, 2017, amended September 1 and 18) was qualified on September 29, 2017, and later offerings were qualified on July 12, 2019 (024-10946), September 18, 2020 (024-11243) and March 31, 2022 (024-11831); annual Forms 1-K were filed from 2018 through April 29, 2026.[^17] +SEC EDGAR lists the registrant as CIK 0001710274, incorporated in Delaware, with business address 315 S. Coast Highway 101, Suite U38, Encinitas, California, SIC 7819; first Form 1-A filed August 15, 2017, amendments September 1 and 18, 2017, further 1-A filings February 12, 2019, June 23, 2020 and March 16, 2022, and a Form 1-SA filed September 18, 2026 under file number 24R-00116. The registrant's conformed name changed to "To The Stars Inc." on September 28, 2021. The first offering statement (file 024-10728, Form 1-A of August 15, 2017, amended September 1 and 18) was qualified on September 29, 2017, and later offerings were qualified on July 12, 2019 (024-10946), September 18, 2020 (024-11243) and March 31, 2022 (024-11831); annual Forms 1-K were filed from 2018 through April 29, 2026.[^18] -The offering circular dated September 29, 2017 describes the company as "a public benefit corporation founded in 2017 by a former senior Intelligence Officer with the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], a distinguished research scientist from the Department of Defense, and an award-winning artist"; offers Class A common stock at 5.00 dollars a share (minimum 200,000 shares, maximum 10,000,000 shares, minimum investment 40 shares or 200 dollars, escrow agent [[Prime Trust|Prime Trust, LLC]]); lists as officers appointed May 25, 2017 Thomas DeLonge (president and chief executive), James Semivan (vice president, operations) and Harold Puthoff (vice president, science and technology), with Semivan and Puthoff also named as directors; and lists an Advisory Board of Chris Mellon, [[Adele Gilpin]], [[Norman Kahn]], Colm Kelleher, [[Garry Nolan]] and [[Paul Rapp]]. Elizondo is not named in the circular. It states that in May 2017 the company issued 12,500,000 shares of Class A and 5,400 shares of Class B common stock to Gravity Holdings, LLC, [[JimSemI|JimSemI, LLC]] and Harold Puthoff for nominal cash and past and anticipated efforts; that on June 1, 2017 Gravity Holdings (whose sole member, with [[Archive West Investments]], is the DeLonge Family Trust) contributed the shares of To The Stars, Inc. in exchange for 55,000,000 Class A shares; and that in June 2017 the company granted "employees and advisors" 9,000,000 options and 2,500,000 restricted shares under its 2017 Stock Incentive Plan.[^18] +The offering circular dated September 29, 2017 describes the company as "a public benefit corporation founded in 2017 by a former senior Intelligence Officer with the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], a distinguished research scientist from the Department of Defense, and an award-winning artist"; offers Class A common stock at 5.00 dollars a share (minimum 200,000 shares, maximum 10,000,000 shares, minimum investment 40 shares or 200 dollars, escrow agent [[Prime Trust|Prime Trust, LLC]]); lists as officers appointed May 25, 2017 Thomas DeLonge (president and chief executive), James Semivan (vice president, operations) and Harold Puthoff (vice president, science and technology), with Semivan and Puthoff also named as directors; and lists an Advisory Board of Chris Mellon, [[Adele Gilpin]], [[Norman Kahn]], Colm Kelleher, [[Garry Nolan]] and [[Paul Rapp]]. Elizondo is not named in the circular. It states that in May 2017 the company issued 12,500,000 shares of Class A and 5,400 shares of Class B common stock to Gravity Holdings, LLC, [[JimSemI|JimSemI, LLC]] and Harold Puthoff for nominal cash and past and anticipated efforts; that on June 1, 2017 Gravity Holdings (whose sole member, with [[Archive West Investments]], is the DeLonge Family Trust) contributed the shares of To The Stars, Inc. in exchange for 55,000,000 Class A shares; and that in June 2017 the company granted "employees and advisors" 9,000,000 options and 2,500,000 restricted shares under its 2017 Stock Incentive Plan.[^19] ### Galileo Project -On October 30, 2021 [[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s [[Galileo Project]] announced Mellon and Elizondo as research affiliates, crediting them with being "pivotal in bringing about the Pentagon's release and confirmation" of the three videos.[^19] +On October 30, 2021 [[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s [[Galileo Project]] announced Mellon and Elizondo as research affiliates, crediting them with being "pivotal in bringing about the Pentagon's release and confirmation" of the three videos.[^20] ### Footnotes [^1]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024. [^2]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ ; Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/; Banias, MJ. *Vice,* October 20, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos/ (Mellon's on-camera statement; Vice could not verify). -[^3]: Kloor, Keith. "The Media Loves This UFO Expert Who Says He Worked for an Obscure Pentagon Program. Did He?" *The Intercept,* June 1, 2019. https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/ -[^4]: Bender, Bryan. "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 -[^5]: To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science Inc., Form 1-K for fiscal 2017, filed April 30, 2018 (accession 0001144204-18-023727), including Exhibits 6.7 to 6.11. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420418023727/0001144204-18-023727.txt ; offering circular, Form 1-A/A filed September 18, 2017 (accession 0001144204-17-048316). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420417048316/0001144204-17-048316.txt -[^6]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2018, filed April 30, 2019 (accession 0001144204-19-022341). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420419022341/0001144204-19-022341.txt -[^7]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2020, filed April 30, 2021 (accession 0001493152-21-010202). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000149315221010202/0001493152-21-010202.txt ; Form 1-K for fiscal 2021, filed May 2, 2022 (accession 0001493152-22-011769). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000149315222011769/0001493152-22-011769.txt -[^8]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2022 and fiscal 2023, liquidity sections; Form 1-SA for the six months ended June 30, 2026, filed September 18, 2026 (accession 0001493152-26-043283). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000149315226043283/0001493152-26-043283.txt -[^9]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2019, filed June 12, 2020 (accession 0001104659-20-072815). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000110465920072815/0001104659-20-072815.txt -[^10]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2022 (accession 0001493152-23-014729), fiscal 2023 (0001493152-24-016672), fiscal 2024 (0001641172-25-005183) and fiscal 2025 (0001493152-26-019571), compensation of directors sections. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001710274&type=1-K -[^11]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2021, 2024 and 2025, sections headed "U.S. Army Cooperative Research and Development Agreement"; Form 1-SA for the six months ended June 30, 2026 (accession 0001493152-26-043283) for the 2026 DeLonge loans and the 1-K for fiscal 2025 for the DeLonge Promissory Note. -[^12]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2018 Items 1 and 5 and the financial statement note on related parties; repeated in the fiscal 2019 report. -[^13]: Exhibit 6.28, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement No. 19-15, to Form 1-A/A filed August 3, 2020 (accession 0001104659-20-089220). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000110465920089220/tm2023098d2_ex6-28.htm -[^14]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. "How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously." *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously. The October 11, 2017 date and the Seattle venue are from a secondary summary, not yet checked against TTSA's own materials. Lewis-Kraus's account of the hotel meeting derives from Kean. -[^15]: Bender, Bryan. "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2018id_/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111 -[^16]: Greenewald, John, Jr. The Black Vault, June 14, 2019. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing -[^17]: SEC EDGAR company page, CIK 1710274 (Atom feed and full-text search, run October 3, 2026). https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1710274&type=1-A -[^18]: To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science Inc. Offering Circular dated September 29, 2017, Form 253G2, file no. 024-10728. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420417050693/v476177_253g2.htm (read October 3, 2026; EDGAR submissions index https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001710274.json). -[^19]: The Galileo Project, October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy). +[^3]: [[The Black Vault]], FOIA release of Office of the Secretary of Defense case 18-F-0644, August 2019 (emails of August 23 and 24, 2017 between Luis Elizondo and Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with the DD Form 1910; the form's text is poorly legible in the scan and is quoted as transcribed in the research notes), https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf ; Joseph Gradisher quoted in "U.S. Navy Confirms Videos Depict Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Not Cleared for Public Release," The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/ +[^4]: Kloor, Keith. "The Media Loves This UFO Expert Who Says He Worked for an Obscure Pentagon Program. Did He?" *The Intercept,* June 1, 2019. https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/ +[^5]: Bender, Bryan. "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 +[^6]: To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science Inc., Form 1-K for fiscal 2017, filed April 30, 2018 (accession 0001144204-18-023727), including Exhibits 6.7 to 6.11. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420418023727/0001144204-18-023727.txt ; offering circular, Form 1-A/A filed September 18, 2017 (accession 0001144204-17-048316). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420417048316/0001144204-17-048316.txt +[^7]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2018, filed April 30, 2019 (accession 0001144204-19-022341). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420419022341/0001144204-19-022341.txt +[^8]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2020, filed April 30, 2021 (accession 0001493152-21-010202). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000149315221010202/0001493152-21-010202.txt ; Form 1-K for fiscal 2021, filed May 2, 2022 (accession 0001493152-22-011769). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000149315222011769/0001493152-22-011769.txt +[^9]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2022 and fiscal 2023, liquidity sections; Form 1-SA for the six months ended June 30, 2026, filed September 18, 2026 (accession 0001493152-26-043283). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000149315226043283/0001493152-26-043283.txt +[^10]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2019, filed June 12, 2020 (accession 0001104659-20-072815). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000110465920072815/0001104659-20-072815.txt +[^11]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2022 (accession 0001493152-23-014729), fiscal 2023 (0001493152-24-016672), fiscal 2024 (0001641172-25-005183) and fiscal 2025 (0001493152-26-019571), compensation of directors sections. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001710274&type=1-K +[^12]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2021, 2024 and 2025, sections headed "U.S. Army Cooperative Research and Development Agreement"; Form 1-SA for the six months ended June 30, 2026 (accession 0001493152-26-043283) for the 2026 DeLonge loans and the 1-K for fiscal 2025 for the DeLonge Promissory Note. +[^13]: Form 1-K for fiscal 2018 Items 1 and 5 and the financial statement note on related parties; repeated in the fiscal 2019 report. +[^14]: Exhibit 6.28, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement No. 19-15, to Form 1-A/A filed August 3, 2020 (accession 0001104659-20-089220). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000110465920089220/tm2023098d2_ex6-28.htm +[^15]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. "How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously." *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously. The October 11, 2017 date and the Seattle venue are from a secondary summary, not yet checked against TTSA's own materials. Lewis-Kraus's account of the hotel meeting derives from Kean. +[^16]: Bender, Bryan. "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2018id_/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111 +[^17]: Greenewald, John, Jr. The Black Vault, June 14, 2019. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing +[^18]: SEC EDGAR company page, CIK 1710274 (Atom feed and full-text search, run October 3, 2026). https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1710274&type=1-A +[^19]: To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science Inc. Offering Circular dated September 29, 2017, Form 253G2, file no. 024-10728. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420417050693/v476177_253g2.htm (read October 3, 2026; EDGAR submissions index https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001710274.json). +[^20]: The Galileo Project, October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy). diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Troop 137.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Troop 137.md index 871e7a38..9b5f3dad 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Troop 137.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Troop 137.md @@ -37,4 +37,4 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that the case broke when film found in a broken-down c [^1]: Wright, Marilyn. *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1976-1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041 [^2]: *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, reprinted in *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* Serial No. 12, 1977, pp. 439-443, and in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 1977. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit -[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It spells the assistant scoutmaster "Harry O'Cramer"; the hearing record and Louisiana Supreme Court captions (*State v. Cramer,* 362 So.2d 581, La. 1978) give Harry O. Cramer. Neither Lang, Sialle, Campbell nor Berlage appears in the 1977 hearing record. +[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It spells the assistant scoutmaster "Harry O'Cramer"; the hearing record and Louisiana Supreme Court captions (*State v. Cramer,* 362 So.2d 581, La. 1978) give Harry O. Cramer. Neither Lang, Sialle, Campbell nor Berlage appears in the 1977 hearing record. Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Wackenhut Corporation.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Wackenhut Corporation.md index 49729144..720e02a5 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Wackenhut Corporation.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Wackenhut Corporation.md @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ The Wackenhut/Cabazon Joint Venture was terminated on October 1, 1984, following [^20]: "[...] bogus $180,000 in Bucks raid," *The Morning Call* (Allentown), December 11, 1974, p. 5. https://www.newspapers.com/image/275702319/ [^21]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Wackenhut Corporation," headquarters file, section 1: SAC Newark to Director, May 4, 1962, enclosing Charles B. Flack Jr. to SA James Oakley, May 1, 1962; Miami report quoting a local newspaper of May 2, 1962; J. B. Adams to Mr. Callahan, 1966, on the company's public offering; and the Preliminary Prospectus of March 25, 1966. https://archive.org/stream/WackenhutCorporation/Wackenhut%20Corp.-HQ-1_djvu.txt [^22]: United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, *Right of Privacy Act of 1967: Hearings*, 90th Congress, 1st session, part 2 (1967), testimony of George R. Wackenhut and his letter to the subcommittee of June 5, 1967. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-90shrg77600p2/pdf/CHRG-90shrg77600p2.pdf -[^23]: Lane, Brian. "Gerard Schaefer," *Real-Life Crimes,* Eaglemoss, 1992-93, p. 162, as cited in later accounts and not examined; the Crime Library profile gives "Florida Light and Power." No account describes his duties or names who hired him. See [[Gerard John Schaefer]]. +[^23]: Lane, Brian. "Gerard Schaefer," *Real-Life Crimes,* Eaglemoss, 1992-93, p. 162, as cited in later accounts; the Crime Library profile gives "Florida Light and Power." No account describes his duties or names who hired him. See [[Gerard John Schaefer]]. [^24]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami office to Director, September 15, 1967, file 92-6054, pp. 3-4, JFK record 124-10293-10312. [^25]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, airtel to SAC Jacksonville, January 13, 1967, and memorandum recording the instruction of April 3, 1967, headquarters file on the Wackenhut Corporation; "Wackenhut Aide Quits; 'Cruel Hoax,'" *The Tampa Tribune,* February 17, 1967, and *St. Petersburg Times* clipping, Tampa file. https://archive.org/details/WackenhutCorporation ; Hougan, Jim. *Spooks*. William Morrow, 1978; House Select Committee on Assassinations, *Report,* vol. 9, pp. 802-805, and testimony of Lewis McWillie, vol. 5. [^26]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami file 80-1229, "The Wackenhut Corporation," with clipping "Wackenhut Is 'Shocked' At Crime's Extent In State," Times-Miami Herald Service, 1967. https://archive.org/details/WackenhutCorporation diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/WiSC Enterprises.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/WiSC Enterprises.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1f5e1d66 --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/WiSC Enterprises.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +category: "Organizations" +tags: + - Organization + - DefenseContractor + - VeteranOwned + - ChantillyVirginia + - IntelligenceSupport +alias: + - WiSC + - WiSC Enterprises LLC + - WiSC Enterprises, LLC +summary: "Chantilly, Virginia veteran-owned ISR and GEOINT support firm, founded in 2008, whose June 2026 posting for a Wright-Patterson analyst lists Foreign Materiel Exploitation among its NASIC mission areas." +location: "Chantilly, Virginia" +relations: + - type: contracted_with + with: "[[Alion Science and Technology]]" + start: 2016-06-16 + role: "subawardee, subaward STM1241301-000, $238,986.15, on Alion award 0085 (AFRL Rome, collection management)" + fn: 3 +created: 2026-10-03 +updated: 2026-10-03 +--- +WiSC Enterprises, LLC is a company in [[Chantilly, Virginia]]. Its website states that it was "Founded in 2008 and veteran-owned" and lists program support in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) standards, SI/SETA, advanced concept technology demonstrations and joint capability technology demonstrations, and NIST compliance. The site gives the unique entity identifier C1CDGX5PGKC1 and the CAGE code 571L0, and describes the firm as a mentor in the [[Department of Defense]] Mentor-Protege Program that "has successfully guided four protege companies."[^1] + +### National Air and Space Intelligence Center posting + +On June 8, 2026 WiSC listed a full-time "Program Management Analyst, Junior" position, valid through August 8, 2026, at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] near Dayton, Ohio. The posting, for work at the [[National Air and Space Intelligence Center]], states that "WiSC Enterprises is seeking a motivated and mission-focused Program Management Analyst, Junior to support intelligence and defense operations at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). This position supports high-priority national security initiatives involving Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), Foreign Materiel Exploitation (FME), and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) mission areas." The position requires an "Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI adjudication" and is marked "contingent upon contract award." Listed duties include supporting "technical exchanges" and "promoting awareness of intelligence research and development initiatives across the Air Force enterprise." The posting names no contract or program.[^2] + +On May 6, 2026 the Department of Defense announced an $866,000,000 ceiling multiple-award contract for advisory and assistance services for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (ASTRA), awarded to [[Apogee Engineering]], [[KBR Wyle Services]], [[Riverside Research Institute]] and [[Systems Planning and Analysis]]; WiSC is not among the named holders.[^4] + +### Federal awards + +USAspending.gov lists one prime record for WiSC, N6833517G0034 ("CYBER BOA"), a [[U.S. Navy]] basic ordering agreement dated March 30, 2017 with no obligated dollars. It lists one subaward, STM1241301-000, dated June 16, 2016, of $238,986.15 under [[Alion Science and Technology]] award 0085 for the [[Air Force Research Laboratory]] Information Directorate, whose description covers collection management and planning systems for sensors feeding the [[Defense Common Ground System]].[^3] + +[^1]: WiSC Enterprises, LLC, "Home" and "About Us," https://www.wiscenterprises.com/ and https://www.wiscenterprises.com/about-us/. +[^2]: ClearanceJobs listing 8962579, "Program Management Analyst - Junior," employer WiSC Enterprises, https://api.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8962579/program-management-analyst-junior; WiSC Enterprises careers portal, job 1675, https://careers-wiscenterprises.icims.com/jobs/1675/program-management-analyst---junior/job. +[^3]: USAspending.gov, spending_by_award search, recipient "WISC ENTERPRISES," prime and subaward levels, https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ . +[^4]: "Contracts for May 6, 2026," Air Force section, U.S. Department of Defense contract announcements, reproduced at https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2026/05/dod-contracts_4479042.htm. diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Rockefeller Initiative.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Rockefeller Initiative.md index 7fe65b1a..87458c08 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Rockefeller Initiative.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Rockefeller Initiative.md @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ On October 17, 1996 Rockefeller wrote to Sagan, who replied on November 6, 1996 [^4]: Rockefeller to Billy Graham, May 7, 1993, and Graham reply, May 20, 1993, attached to http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-8-23-95.htm. [^5]: Gibbons to C. B. Scott Jones, May 26, 1993, http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-5-26-93.htm. [^6]: Ben MacIntyre, "Harvard professor's stories of close encounters, other-world sex, embarrass university," *The San Francisco Examiner* (London *Times* credit), May 5, 1995, p. 16, https://www.newspapers.com/image/461595501/. -[^7]: "Harvard's Mack: The Subject Is Aliens," *Valley News* (West Lebanon, N.H.), May 20, 1995, p. 23, https://www.newspapers.com/image/833962083/. Byline not read. +[^7]: "Harvard's Mack: The Subject Is Aliens," *Valley News* (West Lebanon, N.H.), May 20, 1995, p. 23, https://www.newspapers.com/image/833962083/. [^8]: Rockefeller to Gibbons, August 4, 1993, http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-8-4-93.htm. [^9]: Paradigm Research Group, "September 14-15, 1993 Meeting at Rockefeller's JY Ranch in Wyoming," http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/9-14-93_Meeting.htm. [^10]: Rockefeller to Gibbons, February 14, 1994, scan at http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/3-29-94%20JG%20Fax%20to%20SW/Attachment-JG%20Letter%20to%20LR-Pg1.jpg (also indexed as RID-2-14-94.htm). diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.md index 05cc3e79..1fa48f3b 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.md @@ -112,25 +112,25 @@ After the cancellation, the program's supporters proposed to the [[Department of ### Public disclosure -The program's existence was reported by [[Helene Cooper]], [[Ralph Blumenthal]] and [[Leslie Kean]] in "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program," published by the *[[New York Times]]* on December 16, 2017, after Elizondo's resignation; the article carried two Navy videos, "FLIR1" and "[[GIMBAL]]"; "GOFAST" followed in March 2018.[^1][^6][^12] The Department of Defense stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos that had been circulating in the public domain after "unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017," and Politico reported in 2021 that [[Washington Headquarters Services]] had approved them "for unlimited distribution" within the government.[^12][^13] AARO's Historical Record Report, Volume I, dated February 2024 and cleared for publication on March 6, 2024, dates the modern era of UAP investigation from "the standup of" AAWSAP and AATIP in 2009, after a gap of about forty years since the end of Project Blue Book in 1969.[^2] +The program's existence was reported by [[Helene Cooper]], [[Ralph Blumenthal]] and [[Leslie Kean]] in "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program," published by the *[[New York Times]]* on December 16, 2017, after Elizondo's resignation; the article carried two Navy videos, "FLIR1" and "[[GIMBAL]]"; "GOFAST" followed in March 2018.[^1][^6][^12] The Department of Defense stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos that had been circulating in the public domain after "unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017," and Politico reported in 2021 that [[Washington Headquarters Services]] had approved them "for unlimited distribution" within the government.[^12][^13] The Office of the Secretary of Defense file released to [[The Black Vault]] under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2019 contains an August 23, 2017 email in which [[Luis Elizondo]] asked Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to "consider our request for unrestricted release"; an August 24, 2017 reply from Russo that if the service-level classification authority verified that removing the metadata made the videos unclassified, "please feel free to move forward with release"; and a DD Form 1910 whose publication-data block reads "Not Applicable. Not for publication. Research and analysis ONLY and info sharing with other USG and industry partners for the purposes of developing a database to help identify, analyze and ultimately defeat UAS threats." Joseph Gradisher, a Navy spokesman, said in 2019 that neither the cognizant Navy offices nor the review office had a record of correspondence responding to a request for unrestricted release of the videos in 2017.[^14] AARO's Historical Record Report, Volume I, dated February 2024 and cleared for publication on March 6, 2024, dates the modern era of UAP investigation from "the standup of" AAWSAP and AATIP in 2009, after a gap of about forty years since the end of Project Blue Book in 1969.[^2] ### Placement chain and disputed dates -Politico's December 2017 article names the program the "Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program"; the Times placed the program's start in 2007; Politico's same-day article dated the appropriation to 2009; [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]] wrote that the 22 million dollars were set aside in the 2008 Supplemental Appropriations Bill, with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies the only bidder on the [[Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program]], and that Luis Elizondo took the program over from 2010. Pentagon spokesperson [[Susan Gough]] told [[The Black Vault]] in June 2019 that AATIP was administered by the Defense Intelligence Agency and that Elizondo "was never assigned to DIA"; Hal Puthoff told the same outlet he had worked under the program as contractor and senior adviser.[^14][^15][^16] +Politico's December 2017 article names the program the "Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program"; the Times placed the program's start in 2007; Politico's same-day article dated the appropriation to 2009; [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]] wrote that the 22 million dollars were set aside in the 2008 Supplemental Appropriations Bill, with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies the only bidder on the [[Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program]], and that Luis Elizondo took the program over from 2010. Pentagon spokesperson [[Susan Gough]] told [[The Black Vault]] in June 2019 that AATIP was administered by the Defense Intelligence Agency and that Elizondo "was never assigned to DIA"; Hal Puthoff told the same outlet he had worked under the program as contractor and senior adviser.[^15][^16][^17] -The article was placed after an October 4, 2017 meeting arranged by Christopher Mellon between Leslie Kean and Elizondo, Puthoff and [[Jim Semivan]], and after Mellon, a paid adviser to [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]], had shown the story to several outlets; Politico and the Times published on December 16, 2017. The Times carried two videos (FLIR1 and GIMBAL), GOFAST was published in March 2018, and the Department of Defense, in its April 27, 2020 statement, "authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos" that had been "circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017"; Politico (2021) reports that Washington Headquarters Services had approved them "for unlimited distribution" within the government. See [[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]] for the sequence, the Pentagon statements of Dana White (2017), Christopher Sherwood (June 1, 2019) and Gough (June 13, 2019), and the denials beside each.[^17][^12] +The article was placed after an October 4, 2017 meeting arranged by Christopher Mellon between Leslie Kean and Elizondo, Puthoff and [[Jim Semivan]], and after Mellon, a paid adviser to [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]], had shown the story to several outlets; Politico and the Times published on December 16, 2017. The Times carried two videos (FLIR1 and GIMBAL), GOFAST was published in March 2018, and the Department of Defense, in its April 27, 2020 statement, "authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos" that had been "circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017"; Politico (2021) reports that Washington Headquarters Services had approved them "for unlimited distribution" within the government. See [[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]] for the sequence, the Pentagon statements of Dana White (2017), Christopher Sherwood (June 1, 2019) and Gough (June 13, 2019), and the denials beside each.[^18][^12] ### Contract number and structure -DIA's own briefings identify the awarded contract as HHM402-08-C-0072; the solicitation, HHM402-08-R-0211, is the number used in the Black Vault's index and in DIA's FOIA response letter. A DIA talking paper of May 4, 2009 states that DIA published its request for proposals on August 18, 2008 and "received only one bid." The order, signed September 22, 2008, is firm fixed price with one base year and one option year and names the [[NSA]] Finance and Accounting Office as paying office; block 26 gives a total award amount of 21,948,810 dollars on the copy released in FOIA-00269-2018 and 10,000,000 dollars on the copy attached to modification P00001. DIA's talking points describe the funding as a 10 million dollar supplemental appropriation sponsored by Senators Reid and Inouye in July 2008 and a 12 million dollar add in the fiscal 2010 Defense Appropriations Act.[^4][^5] [[USASpending.gov|USAspending.gov]], which carries contract records from fiscal 2008, returns no award for this contract number or for the contractor, and the first-year payments were "equal amount monthly payments."[^18] +DIA's own briefings identify the awarded contract as HHM402-08-C-0072; the solicitation, HHM402-08-R-0211, is the number used in the Black Vault's index and in DIA's FOIA response letter. A DIA talking paper of May 4, 2009 states that DIA published its request for proposals on August 18, 2008 and "received only one bid." The order, signed September 22, 2008, is firm fixed price with one base year and one option year and names the [[NSA]] Finance and Accounting Office as paying office; block 26 gives a total award amount of 21,948,810 dollars on the copy released in FOIA-00269-2018 and 10,000,000 dollars on the copy attached to modification P00001. DIA's talking points describe the funding as a 10 million dollar supplemental appropriation sponsored by Senators Reid and Inouye in July 2008 and a 12 million dollar add in the fiscal 2010 Defense Appropriations Act.[^4][^5] [[USASpending.gov|USAspending.gov]], which carries contract records from fiscal 2008, returns no award for this contract number or for the contractor, and the first-year payments were "equal amount monthly payments."[^19] ### Planned Special Access Program -Attachment 1 to Reid's June 24, 2009 letter proposed program length "FY09 to FY13 (Preliminary)," with funding "FY09 O&M, FY10-FY13 TBD." An August 24, 2009 DIA briefing slide lists as a program management issue that "program will likely become SAP by June 2010."[^19][^20] +Attachment 1 to Reid's June 24, 2009 letter proposed program length "FY09 to FY13 (Preliminary)," with funding "FY09 O&M, FY10-FY13 TBD." An August 24, 2009 DIA briefing slide lists as a program management issue that "program will likely become SAP by June 2010."[^20][^21] ### Funding of the option year -Modification P00002 (February 2, 2010), which funded option year 1, directed the contractor to identify "impacts to deliverables as a result of reduced funding for Option Year 1." The contract was extended without added funds to December 21, 2010 by modification P00005 (September 28, 2010).[^21] +Modification P00002 (February 2, 2010), which funded option year 1, directed the contractor to identify "impacts to deliverables as a result of reduced funding for Option Year 1." The contract was extended without added funds to December 21, 2010 by modification P00005 (September 28, 2010).[^22] ### Footnotes @@ -147,11 +147,12 @@ Modification P00002 (February 2, 2010), which funded option year 1, directed the [^11]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 192, 202 and 217 (Tipton at p. 192; Sherwood at p. 217); photograph captions on the emails released in May 2024. [^12]: Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/ [^13]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). -[^14]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. "How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously." *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously -[^15]: Greenewald, John, Jr. The Black Vault, June 14, 2019. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing -[^16]: Bender, Bryan. "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs." *Politico,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2018id_/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111 -[^17]: Bender, Bryan. *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 -[^18]: USAspending.gov award search by award identifier, recipient name and keyword (HHM402, "Advanced Aerospace Weapon System," "Advanced Space Studies"), fiscal 2008 to 2026, no results; DIA briefing of December 16, 2008. https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ and https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/DI_Brief_2008.pdf -[^19]: Senator Harry Reid to William J. Lynn III, June 24, 2009, Attachment 1. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/20090624_Reid_to_DEPSECDEF_ref_AAITP_in_SAP.pdf -[^20]: DIA briefing "Aerospace Contract Status," August 24, 2009. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/Contract_Status_24Aug09.pdf -[^21]: Modifications in FOIA-00349-2018. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/FOIA-00349-2018.pdf +[^14]: [[The Black Vault]], FOIA release of Office of the Secretary of Defense case 18-F-0644, August 2019 (emails of August 23 and 24, 2017 between Luis Elizondo and Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with the DD Form 1910; the form's text is poorly legible in the scan and is quoted as transcribed in the research notes), https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf ; Joseph Gradisher quoted in "U.S. Navy Confirms Videos Depict Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Not Cleared for Public Release," The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/ +[^15]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. "How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously." *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously +[^16]: Greenewald, John, Jr. The Black Vault, June 14, 2019. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing +[^17]: Bender, Bryan. "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs." *Politico,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2018id_/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111 +[^18]: Bender, Bryan. *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 +[^19]: USAspending.gov award search by award identifier, recipient name and keyword (HHM402, "Advanced Aerospace Weapon System," "Advanced Space Studies"), fiscal 2008 to 2026, no results; DIA briefing of December 16, 2008. https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ and https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/DI_Brief_2008.pdf +[^20]: Senator Harry Reid to William J. Lynn III, June 24, 2009, Attachment 1. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/20090624_Reid_to_DEPSECDEF_ref_AAITP_in_SAP.pdf +[^21]: DIA briefing "Aerospace Contract Status," August 24, 2009. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/Contract_Status_24Aug09.pdf +[^22]: Modifications in FOIA-00349-2018. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/FOIA-00349-2018.pdf diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group.md index eb5f4e0a..c2ccb004 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group.md @@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ Asked in 2018 about Alexander's conclusion that no program could be found, Putho ### Footnotes -[^1]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities.* Thomas Dunne Books, 2011. The book is lending-only at the Internet Archive and was not opened; Google Books (volume id IaA8mZqhjPkC) refused automated access. Each Alexander passage here is quoted from, and the quotations were checked against, Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Intersection of Science and the Unexplained: The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 16-22, 28, 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited. -[^2]: Memorandum for the record, "CENTER LANE Meeting with MG Rapmund 1 August 1984," IAGPA-F-SD, CIA-RDP96-00788R001500100006-0, reproduced at p. 197 of the Loose Threads Report; the CREST record itself was not opened. +[^1]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities.* Thomas Dunne Books, 2011. Each Alexander passage here is quoted from Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Intersection of Science and the Unexplained: The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 16-22, 28, 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited. +[^2]: Memorandum for the record, "CENTER LANE Meeting with MG Rapmund 1 August 1984," IAGPA-F-SD, CIA-RDP96-00788R001500100006-0, reproduced at p. 197 of the Loose Threads Report. [^3]: Letter of July 26, 1985, BDM/W-SWB-0055-85, from the BDM Corporation to the CIA Office of Training and Education, bound with the CIA reply of August 29, 1985, CIA-RDP89-00955R000100060040-7, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp89-00955r000100060040-7. [^4]: "1985 Accomplishments, Office of Research and Development," CIA-RDP88G01332R000100070015-8, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp88g01332r000100070015-8. The text gives the dates without a year; the document covers fiscal year 1985 and July 15 fell on a Monday in 1985, matching the agenda's "Monday" first session. [^5]: Reproductions of James "Oke" Shannon's handwritten notes (supplied by Grant Cameron) and of Jack Houck's notes and handouts (supplied by Melinda Leslie), including form DOE F 5631.20 dated May 8, 1985 and the "Attendees" page, in the appendices of the Loose Threads Report, pp. 15, 166, 187-188, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. The page images were read directly; the originals were not seen. [^6]: Elizondo and Hermetic Penetrator, Loose Threads Report, pp. 14-33, 52-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Vallee's journal entries are quoted there without volume numbers; the 1989 call falls in the period of *Forbidden Science: Volume Three* (1980 to 1989) and the entries of February and August 1990 in that of Volume Four (*The Spring Hill Chronicles,* 1990 to 1999), neither of which was opened; the Cameron, Dolan and broadcast statements are likewise quoted at second hand. Sole source for the passages so cited. -[^7]: Basterfield, Keith. "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" December 21, 2016, quoting Vallee, *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* pp. 242 and 480 (the p. 480 text, which refers to Alexander's February 2011 book, is a note by Vallee), https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/. The book was not opened. +[^7]: Basterfield, Keith. "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" December 21, 2016, quoting Vallee, *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* pp. 242 and 480 (the p. 480 text, which refers to Alexander's February 2011 book, is a note by Vallee), https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/. [^8]: Blum, Howard. *Out There: The Government's Secret Quest for Extraterrestrials.* Simon and Schuster, 1990, introduction and part 1, read in the Internet Archive item howard-blum-out-there (open full text), https://archive.org/details/howard-blum-out-there. diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Immaculate Constellation.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Immaculate Constellation.md index 173625d0..5be2432b 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Immaculate Constellation.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Immaculate Constellation.md @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Section 3 gives examples drawn from the HUMINT reports. In one, flight deck pers ### Publication of the name -On October 8, 2024 Shellenberger's newsletter [[Public (newsletter)|Public]] published "Pentagon Is Illegally Hiding Secret UFO Program From Congress, Whistleblowers Allege." The article's free section states that existing and former officials had told members of Congress that AARO and the [[Pentagon]] had broken the law by not revealing a significant body of information about UAP, that one of them was a current or former government official acting as a UAP whistleblower who had written a report, that these individuals "have revealed the name of an active and highly secretive DOD 'Unacknowledged Special Access Program,' or USAP," and that "The source of the document told Public that the USAP is a 'strategic intelligence program' that is part of the US military's family of long-standing, highly-sensitive programs." The article states "Public is revealing its name here for the first time," and Shellenberger added that readers "are, of course, welcome to disbelieve the whistleblowers" and that he does "not claim to know what they are." The Pentagon's response is attached at the foot of the article, which is otherwise behind a paywall that was not opened for this page.[^2] +On October 8, 2024 Shellenberger's newsletter [[Public (newsletter)|Public]] published "Pentagon Is Illegally Hiding Secret UFO Program From Congress, Whistleblowers Allege." The article's free section states that existing and former officials had told members of Congress that AARO and the [[Pentagon]] had broken the law by not revealing a significant body of information about UAP, that one of them was a current or former government official acting as a UAP whistleblower who had written a report, that these individuals "have revealed the name of an active and highly secretive DOD 'Unacknowledged Special Access Program,' or USAP," and that "The source of the document told Public that the USAP is a 'strategic intelligence program' that is part of the US military's family of long-standing, highly-sensitive programs." The article states "Public is revealing its name here for the first time," and Shellenberger added that readers "are, of course, welcome to disbelieve the whistleblowers" and that he does "not claim to know what they are." The Pentagon's response is attached at the foot of the article.[^2] Gough told [[NewsNation]] in a statement that evening, reported by [[Ross Coulthart]]: "The Department of Defense has no record, present or historical, of any type of SAP called 'IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION.'" NewsNation reported that Shellenberger had withheld the source's role and gender and had said that the source did not share the intelligence imagery because of fear of what could happen if the source were identified.[^3] @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Shellenberger's testimony quotes Gough on AARO's files: "AARO's files contain al ### Footnotes [^1]: Report submitted by Rep. Nancy Mace and entered in the record of "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth," House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, joint hearing, November 13, 2024, Serial No. 118-135, list of documents submitted for the record: "Report, Pentagon, 'Immaculate Constellation'; submitted by Rep. Mace." https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg57440/html/CHRG-118hhrg57440.htm -[^2]: Shellenberger, Michael. "Pentagon Is Illegally Hiding Secret UFO Program From Congress, Whistleblowers Allege," Public, October 8, 2024 (free section as served by the publication's post API; the paywalled remainder was not opened). https://www.public.news/p/pentagon-is-illegally-hiding-secret +[^2]: Shellenberger, Michael. "Pentagon Is Illegally Hiding Secret UFO Program From Congress, Whistleblowers Allege," Public, October 8, 2024. https://www.public.news/p/pentagon-is-illegally-hiding-secret [^3]: Coulthart, Ross. "Report names 'Immaculate Constellation' UAP program: Journalist," NewsNation, October 8, 2024 (copy at Yahoo News), quoting Department of Defense spokesperson Sue Gough's statement to NewsNation on the evening of Tuesday, October 8, 2024. https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-names-immaculate-constellation-uap-185114329.html [^4]: "Immaculate Constellation" document, 12 pages, introduction and Sections 1 to 7, submitted in the record of the hearing of November 13, 2024 (HHRG-118-GO12-20241113-SD003; the pages are images and were read by optical character recognition). https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/117721/documents/HHRG-118-GO12-20241113-SD003.pdf [^5]: 50 U.S.C. 3373b (unidentified anomalous phenomena reporting procedures), subsections (a)(1), (a)(4)(B) and (b), and 50 U.S.C. 3373(j) (historical record report), text of the Legal Information Institute; the cross-reference to section 1673(b) of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (50 U.S.C. 3373b(b)) appears in Section 9010(e) of S. 2226 as passed by the Senate. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3373b and https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3373 @@ -107,4 +107,4 @@ Shellenberger's testimony quotes Gough on AARO's files: "AARO's files contain al [^8]: Corbell, Jeremy, and George Knapp. "Immaculate Constellation - UFO Whistleblower Goes Public : PART 1 : WEAPONIZED : Episode #74," YouTube, uploaded April 29, 2025, episode description and tags. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAxI-LDrDqA [^9]: Ferriter, Kyle (Metabunk forum, post of April 29, 2025), "Matthew Brown: Immaculate Constellation Report Author/Whistleblower." https://www.metabunk.org/threads/matthew-brown-immaculate-constellation-report-author-whistleblower.14170/ [^10]: Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, February 2024 (cleared March 6, 2024), Section VI, "Process for Protecting Sensitive Programs while Investigating Interviewee Claims," "Unnecessary IC Program Expansion" and "Nexus of Proponents of the USG UAP Reverse-Engineering Allegation." https://media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/DOPSR-2024-0263-AARO-HISTORICAL-RECORD-REPORT-VOLUME-1-2024.PDF. -[^11]: Greenewald, John. "Pentagon Says It Has No Record of 'Immaculate Constellation': NSA Denies Appeal and Won't Say Whether It Does," The Black Vault, September 17, 2026, reporting the NSA response of December 6, 2024 to the request of December 3, 2024, the appeal of December 9, 2024, and ODNI FOIA case DF-2025-00021 (the ODNI document itself, at archive.dni.gov, could not be retrieved). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-says-it-has-no-record-of-immaculate-constellation-nsa-denies-appeal-and-wont-say-whether-it-does/ +[^11]: Greenewald, John. "Pentagon Says It Has No Record of 'Immaculate Constellation': NSA Denies Appeal and Won't Say Whether It Does," The Black Vault, September 17, 2026, reporting the NSA response of December 6, 2024 to the request of December 3, 2024, the appeal of December 9, 2024, and ODNI FOIA case DF-2025-00021. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-says-it-has-no-record-of-immaculate-constellation-nsa-denies-appeal-and-wont-say-whether-it-does/ diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Midland.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Midland.md index c1c8ff99..710af82b 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Midland.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Midland.md @@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that the investigation followed [[Operation Fairbank]] ### Footnotes -[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It dates the operation's closure to March 2015 and places Beech's claimed murders at the Elm Guest House, neither of which the contemporaneous reporting bears out. +[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It dates the operation's closure to March 2015 and places Beech's claimed murders at the Elm Guest House, neither of which the contemporaneous reporting bears out. Sole source for the passages so cited. [^2]: "Carl Beech: Liar, fraudster and paedophile." BBC News, July 26, 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49048972 diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Othello.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Othello.md index ebe8d367..9446f4e4 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Othello.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Othello.md @@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ The writer S. Dovey wrote that the handyman [[Claude Thirault]] came forward thr [^1]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, pp. 47-48 and the chronologies of 1995 and 1996; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf [^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire...,* rapport complémentaire, Doc. 713/8-96/97, February 16, 1998, chapter on the Charleroi gendarmerie and the Othello operation; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/comm/dutroux/49K0713008.pdf -[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passage so cited. It describes Othello as an investigation of Dutroux's car-theft ring. +[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It describes Othello as an investigation of Dutroux's car-theft ring. Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/PSI_RESEARCH_PROGRAMS/First Earth Battalion.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/PSI_RESEARCH_PROGRAMS/First Earth Battalion.md index c28be92e..fcf50943 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/PSI_RESEARCH_PROGRAMS/First Earth Battalion.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/PSI_RESEARCH_PROGRAMS/First Earth Battalion.md @@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ Later accounts date Task Force Delta variously to 1979, as a briefing to command ### Footnotes [^1]: Channon, James B., Lieutenant Colonel. *The First Earth Battalion,* Task Force Delta concept paper, Headquarters, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia, 1979, foreword by Colonel D. H. Malone; scan at archive.org/details/FirstEarthBattalionManual, front matter and foreword read. -[^2]: Ronson, Jon. *The Men Who Stare at Goats.* Simon and Schuster, 2004, and later journalism, as summarized; not read for this page. +[^2]: Ronson, Jon. *The Men Who Stare at Goats.* Simon and Schuster, 2004, and later journalism. diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/PSI_RESEARCH_PROGRAMS/Stargate Project.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/PSI_RESEARCH_PROGRAMS/Stargate Project.md index 1a4ef6a3..7912275f 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/PSI_RESEARCH_PROGRAMS/Stargate Project.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/PSI_RESEARCH_PROGRAMS/Stargate Project.md @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Government officials and liaisons: [^6]: US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "Briefing - Project Center Lane," c. 1984, CIA document CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8. [^7]: US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "The US Army's Interest in Psychoenergetics," undated, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100370005-6. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "INSCOM Project Grill Flame: Progress Report #1," memorandum for the record, February 21, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100070001-3. US Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, "Project Grill Flame AMSAA Phase I Efforts," Interim Note No. 15, July 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100080005-8. "Human Use Review of Project Grill Flame," memoranda of 1979 to 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100440028-3; Defense Intelligence Agency, "Grill Flame - Action Memorandum," December 11, 1981, with the Grill Flame memorandum of understanding and the memorandum of Major General E. R. Thompson of May 8, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100240001-4. [^8]: "Iran Hostage Situation Grill Flame RV Session CC12, Viewer 27.5," c. 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R000800070001-7, one of about 250 session reports in the collection. Buzby, Brian, Lieutenant Colonel, "Purpose: To Provide an Overview of Center Lane," May 4, 1984, with the summary of information on the Buckley case and the CIA memorandum "Comments on Recent CENTER LANE Experience," May 1, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220003-8; "Request for Administrative Review of INSCOM Grill Flame Protocol," c. 1981-83, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100200005-4. -[^9]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Special Intelligence Support Relating to the Kidnapping of BG Dozier," information memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, December 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R000700130001-1; "1983 Briefing Papers - Use of Center Lane, Relocation of BG Dozier in Italy," CIA-RDP96-00788R001700370002-3. "Conversation with BG Dozier," February 22, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R000700130019-2, and "Debriefing, B.G. Dozier, Tape 1102, Grill Flame," February 9, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R000100250014-0, both known from the index and not read. +[^9]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Special Intelligence Support Relating to the Kidnapping of BG Dozier," information memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, December 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R000700130001-1; "1983 Briefing Papers - Use of Center Lane, Relocation of BG Dozier in Italy," CIA-RDP96-00788R001700370002-3. "Conversation with BG Dozier," February 22, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R000700130019-2, and "Debriefing, B.G. Dozier, Tape 1102, Grill Flame," February 9, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R000100250014-0. [^10]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence, "Grill Flame Project Report," October 19, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001000410001-6; "Grill Flame - Activity," memoranda of November 21 to December 4, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001800070002-5. [^11]: Buzby, Brian, Lieutenant Colonel, "Purpose: To Provide an Overview of Center Lane," May 4, 1984, with the summary of information on the Buckley case and the CIA memorandum "Comments on Recent CENTER LANE Experience," May 1, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220003-8; "Request for Administrative Review of INSCOM Grill Flame Protocol," c. 1981-83, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100200005-4. [^12]: US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8; the scan's table columns are reflowed by OCR and some dates are uncertain. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5; Vorona, J., "Comments on 'Report By: The GRILLFLAME Scientific Evaluation Committee,'" memorandum of the Grill Flame Working Group, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300060001-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Buzby, Brian, memorandum "Briefing to Senator Wallop, 5 October 1983," October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270015-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/CRIME_INVESTIGATIONS/X-Dossier.md b/40 - EVENTS/CRIME_INVESTIGATIONS/X-Dossier.md index f10d9a0f..980dca48 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/CRIME_INVESTIGATIONS/X-Dossier.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/CRIME_INVESTIGATIONS/X-Dossier.md @@ -25,11 +25,10 @@ The statements of the X witnesses led to the reopening of the unsolved murders o Connerotte was taken off the Dutroux case in October 1996 by the so-called "spaghetti ruling" and was replaced by Judge Jacques Langlois; the removal was followed by the [[White Marches|White March]] in Brussels.[^1][^3] The gendarme Aimé Bille, assigned to the Van Hees file, found that the original investigation under Judge [[Jean-Claude Van Espen]] had "multiple gaps." From April 1997 Duterme, who now directed the cell, had De Baets's colleagues reread the interviews for possible manipulation, and in the summer of 1997 Langlois ordered a complete rereading of all the related files and removed De Baets and Bille. The parliamentary commission's report of February 16, 1998, said it had first to be established whether the difficulties of the De Baets team and the Van Hees inquiry were linked to protection. A week later the rereading was closed. On April 23, 1998, the prosecutors-general of Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels found that "no proof could be found that Regina Louf could make any contribution whatsoever to these investigations" and closed the related files, except the main file before Langlois. A criminal inquiry into De Baets and Bille was dropped and a gendarmerie disciplinary inquiry acquitted them; they filed more than eighty complaints alleging falsified reports, but were kept from judicial police work. In October 2000 Senator Frans Lozie proposed a parliamentary inquiry into their removal.[^1] -At the Arlon trial in 2004, which ended with Nihoul's acquittal on the charges concerning the children, the investigating judge Langlois presented a case without a "grand complot."[^3] The Van Hees case was closed unsolved in 2014 under the statute of limitations.[^4] +At the Arlon trial in 2004, which ended with Nihoul's acquittal on the charges concerning the children, the investigating judge Langlois presented a case without a "grand complot."[^3] ### Footnotes [^1]: Sénat de Belgique. Proposition visant à instituer une commission d'enquête parlementaire chargée d'enquêter sur l'éloignement de deux enquêteurs de la cellule d'enquête bruxelloise « Neufchâteau », déposée par M. Frans Lozie, Doc. 2-563/1, October 9, 2000, développements. [^2]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the witness accounts derive from Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux* (Houtekiet, 1999), which was not seen. [^3]: "Arlon, 22 juin 2004, l'épilogue." *La Libre Belgique,* June 22, 2005. -[^4]: "On ne percera pas le mystère de la champignonnière." *La Libre Belgique,* January 30, 2014 (not examined; reported in search summaries of the article). diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Oslo Accords.md b/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Oslo Accords.md index f0a6cc1d..b147adac 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Oslo Accords.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Oslo Accords.md @@ -147,6 +147,6 @@ Nettavisen reported on September 29, 2026 that Økokrim found documents relating [^16]: Email, Brad Wechsler to Jeffrey E., May 12, 2015, 16:13 UTC, EFTA00662431, DOJ Epstein Library, Data Set 9. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00662431.pdf [^17]: Email, Susan Waugh (International Peace Institute) to Ms. Groff, "Larry Summers's W9," May 6, 2014, EFTA00369962, DOJ Epstein Library, Data Set 9. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00369962.pdf [^18]: "Økokrim åpner etterforsking av Mona Juul og Terje Rød-Larsen," *NRK*, February 9, 2026 (updated February 12, 2026). https://www.nrk.no/norge/okokrim-apner-etterforsking-av-mona-juul-og-terje-rod-larsen-1.17761823 -[^19]: "Dette er Epstein-siktelsene Økokrim ville holde hemmelig," *VG*, February 27, 2026; "Etterforsker visumbistand: 'Skriv ut dette anbefalingsbrevet,'" *VG*, March 4, 2026 (standfirst only; article behind a subscription wall). https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/vree75/dette-er-epstein-siktelsene-oekokrim-ville-holde-hemmelig ; https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/GxMwwl/epstein-saken-oekokrim-etterforsker-visumbistand +[^19]: "Dette er Epstein-siktelsene Økokrim ville holde hemmelig," *VG*, February 27, 2026; "Etterforsker visumbistand: 'Skriv ut dette anbefalingsbrevet,'" *VG*, March 4, 2026. https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/vree75/dette-er-epstein-siktelsene-oekokrim-ville-holde-hemmelig ; https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/GxMwwl/epstein-saken-oekokrim-etterforsker-visumbistand [^20]: "Leiligheten til korrupsjonssiktede Mona Juul og Terje Rød-Larsen får politiet til å klø seg i hodet," *NRK*, September 26, 2026, by Bjørn Olav Nordahl and others. https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/okokrim-etterforsker-epsteins-overforinger-til-rod-larsen-1.18001797 [^21]: Thomas Paust, "UD vil frigjøre dokumenter funnet i Rød-Larsens kjeller," *Nettavisen*, September 29, 2026. https://www.nettavisen.no/epstein-horingen/okokrim/terje-rod-larsen/ud-vil-frigjore-flere-oslo-dokumenter-funnet-i-kjellerboden-til-mona-juul-og-terje-rod-larsen/s/80-95-117074 diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Queen's Accident.md b/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Queen's Accident.md index 6299f5d6..01f34524 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Queen's Accident.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Queen's Accident.md @@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ The writer [[Cheri Seymour]] wrote that Sinclair had been receiving large daily [^1]: *LaBarge v. County of Mariposa,* 798 F.2d 364 (9th Cir. 1986). The caption spells the sergeant's name Roderic B. Sinclair; the opinion, Roderick. [^2]: "Highway Patrol's Crash investigation questioned." United Press International, September 25, 1983. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Highway-Patrols-Crash-investigation-questioned/7300433310400/ [^3]: Reagan, Ronald. "Statement on the Death of Three Secret Service Agents in California," March 5, 1983. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/statement-death-three-secret-service-agents-california -[^4]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Sole source for the passages so cited. It describes Judge Coyle as ordering Mariposa County to pay 70 percent of the claim and Eckerson as appointed to write a replacement report; the court record places the 70 percent finding in the county's contribution suit against the United States, which was reversed, and contemporaneous reporting shows Eckerson as the elected district attorney resisting the CHP's call for prosecution. +[^4]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. It describes Judge Coyle as ordering Mariposa County to pay 70 percent of the claim and Eckerson as appointed to write a replacement report; the court record places the 70 percent finding in the county's contribution suit against the United States, which was reversed, and contemporaneous reporting shows Eckerson as the elected district attorney resisting the CHP's call for prosecution. Sole source for the passages so cited. diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee.md b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee.md index 191efc79..8eff3735 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee.md @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ On August 3, 1979, Puthoff wrote to Gale on the committee's visit of July 24 and [^2]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 27 November 1979," S-1168/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1, and "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 10 January 1980," S-1008/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1, both signed Jack Vorona, chairman. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8; the scan's table columns are reflowed by OCR and some dates are uncertain. [^3]: Vorona, J., Chairman, Grill Flame Working Group, "Comments on 'Report By: The GRILLFLAME Scientific Evaluation Committee,'" undated, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300060001-2, read in two OCR passes; the addressee line is illegible. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^4]: Stoner, William L., Major, GS, "Memorandum of Conversation, Subject: Gale Briefing to ZA, Science Evaluation Group Final Report on GRILL FLAME, 14 Jan 80," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. -[^5]: Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7), not read. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. +[^5]: Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^6]: "Grill Flame Review Panel Members," undated roster, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230008-7; Office of the Under Secretary of the Army, memorandum for Mr. Manny Gale, July 17, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230004-1; K. Lytle, Major, Military Assistant, memorandum for Mr. Gale, Advisor for RDA Analysis, ODCSRDA, "Briefing for Dr. Ruth Davis and Mr. Nealsen," August 8, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230013-1; Snyder to Gale, undated (catalogued May 11, 1979, but referring to October and a visit of September 28), CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230038-4, and November 19, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230042-9; "Findings," "Recommendations," "Estimated Costs," unsigned, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230043-8; SSO Meade to SSO ACSI DA, "Grill Flame DoD Science Evaluation Team Report," LTC Watt, November 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230047-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^6]: Puthoff, H. E., to Manfred Gale, "SRI/Gale Committee Meeting of 24-25 July," August 3, 1979, with the enclosure "Standard Remote Viewing (RV) Procedures: Local Sites," by H. E. Puthoff, R. Targ and E. C. May, August 1979, CIA-RDP96-00787R000100060001-6 (memorandum alone at CIA-RDP96-00788R002000240028-5). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Cartwright, Frank, Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, to the Chairman, Grill Flame Committee, "Comments on RV and PK Investigations," October 2, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230034-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^7]: Kramar, John W., AMSAA Grill Flame Project Officer, memorandum for record, "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) GRILL FLAME Report, Dated November 1979," February 13, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230026-7 (copies at R002000250025-7 and R001100080007-6). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Watt, Murray B., "Comments Concerning 'GRILL FLAME SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION COMMITTEE REPORT,' dated December 1979," catalogued February 13, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130025-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. White, Chad B., Colonel, ADCSOPS-HUMINT, memorandum for Brigadier General Thomas J. Flynn, "The GRILL FLAME Scientific Evaluation Committee Report," March 10, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230056-4; "Gale Committee Report," briefing slides, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300130001-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, H. E., R. Targ and E. C. May, Radio Physics Laboratory, SRI International, to Walter B. LaBerge, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, March 19, 1980, SRI 0-4132, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230031-1. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/KEY EVENTS.md b/40 - EVENTS/KEY EVENTS.md index 826f997e..5b5f434e 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/KEY EVENTS.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/KEY EVENTS.md @@ -121,4 +121,4 @@ Recent UAP encounters, domestic incidents, and contemporary events. | Terrorism | 4 | | Contra War | 3 | -[^1]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/ Politico reported in 2021 that Washington Headquarters Services approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government: Bender, Bryan. "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 +[^1]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/ Politico reported in 2021 that Washington Headquarters Services approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government: Bender, Bryan. "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 The Office of the Secretary of Defense file released to The Black Vault in August 2019 (case 18-F-0644, https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf) contains an August 23, 2017 email in which Luis Elizondo asked the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to "consider our request for unrestricted release" and a DD Form 1910 whose publication-data block reads "Not Applicable. Not for publication. Research and analysis ONLY and info sharing with other USG and industry partners for the purposes of developing a database to help identify, analyze and ultimately defeat UAS threats" (text as transcribed from a poorly legible scan); Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher said in 2019 that neither the Navy offices nor that review office had a record of correspondence responding to a request for unrestricted release in 2017 (The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/). diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report.md b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report.md index d4098172..10d0fd10 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report.md @@ -41,25 +41,25 @@ On June 1, 2019 Pentagon spokesperson [[Christopher Sherwood]] told Keith Kloor ### The placement, in sequence -In 2016 [[Tom DeLonge]] cold-called [[Christopher Mellon]], who told Bender in 2021: "Tom called me up out of the blue and then through him I met Jim and Hal," meaning [[Jim Semivan]] and Puthoff. Mellon, who had kept his security clearance, then met Elizondo at a Pentagon briefing.[^6] In an email from August 2017, reviewed by Politico, Elizondo described a plan for an unclassified "community of interest" database of unidentified aerial phenomena reports. Politico reported that the [[Washington Headquarters Services]] declassification division approved three Navy videos "for unlimited distribution" within the government, and that Mellon, Elizondo and "others now in DeLonge's orbit" concluded that this was not enough and "needed to kick up a media firestorm."[^6] +In 2016 [[Tom DeLonge]] cold-called [[Christopher Mellon]], who told Bender in 2021: "Tom called me up out of the blue and then through him I met Jim and Hal," meaning [[Jim Semivan]] and Puthoff. Mellon, who had kept his security clearance, then met Elizondo at a Pentagon briefing.[^6] In an email from August 2017, reviewed by Politico, Elizondo described a plan for an unclassified "community of interest" database of unidentified aerial phenomena reports. Politico reported that the [[Washington Headquarters Services]] declassification division approved three Navy videos "for unlimited distribution" within the government, and that Mellon, Elizondo and "others now in DeLonge's orbit" concluded that this was not enough and "needed to kick up a media firestorm."[^6] The Office of the Secretary of Defense file released to [[The Black Vault]] under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2019 contains an August 23, 2017 email in which [[Luis Elizondo]] asked Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to "consider our request for unrestricted release"; an August 24, 2017 reply from Russo that if the service-level classification authority verified that removing the metadata made the videos unclassified, "please feel free to move forward with release"; and a DD Form 1910 whose publication-data block reads "Not Applicable. Not for publication. Research and analysis ONLY and info sharing with other USG and industry partners for the purposes of developing a database to help identify, analyze and ultimately defeat UAS threats." Joseph Gradisher, a Navy spokesman, said in 2019 that neither the cognizant Navy offices nor the review office had a record of correspondence responding to a request for unrestricted release of the videos in 2017.[^7] -Elizondo resigned from the [[Department of Defense]] effective October 4, 2017 per the Pentagon; his resignation letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis cited "bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets" (Kloor, 2019), and *The Intercept* noted the letter does not mention AATIP or Elizondo's role as its director.[^2][^7] On October 4, 2017, at Mellon's request, Kean was called to a meeting in the bar of a hotel near the Pentagon, where Puthoff and Semivan introduced her to Elizondo, whose last day at the Pentagon had been the previous day, according to the account Kean gave [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]] of *[[The New Yorker]]*. Over three hours she was taken through documents. Lewis-Kraus wrote that Kean "was told that she could have the videos, along with chain-of-custody documentation, if she could place a story in the Times."[^4] Kean later gave "all the credit to Elizondo and Mellon for coming forward."[^4] +Elizondo resigned from the [[Department of Defense]] effective October 4, 2017 per the Pentagon; his resignation letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis cited "bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets" (Kloor, 2019), and *The Intercept* noted the letter does not mention AATIP or Elizondo's role as its director.[^2][^8] On October 4, 2017, at Mellon's request, Kean was called to a meeting in the bar of a hotel near the Pentagon, where Puthoff and Semivan introduced her to Elizondo, whose last day at the Pentagon had been the previous day, according to the account Kean gave [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]] of *[[The New Yorker]]*. Over three hours she was taken through documents. Lewis-Kraus wrote that Kean "was told that she could have the videos, along with chain-of-custody documentation, if she could place a story in the Times."[^4] Kean later gave "all the credit to Elizondo and Mellon for coming forward."[^4] -After Elizondo left the Pentagon he and the other AATIP participants named above joined [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]]. At the company's launch event in October 2017 (reported as October 11) DeLonge invited Elizondo onstage and Elizondo announced that the group was "planning to provide never-before-released footage from real [[U.S. government]] systems."[^4][^8] +After Elizondo left the Pentagon he and the other AATIP participants named above joined [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]]. At the company's launch event in October 2017 (reported as October 11) DeLonge invited Elizondo onstage and Elizondo announced that the group was "planning to provide never-before-released footage from real [[U.S. government]] systems."[^4][^9] Kean telephoned Blumenthal, an old friend and former Times staffer then at work on a biography of the [[Harvard University|Harvard]] psychiatrist [[John E. Mack]]. Blumenthal e-mailed executive editor [[Dean Baquet]] to say they wanted to pitch "a sensational and highly confidential time-sensitive story" in which a "senior U.S. intelligence official who abruptly quit last month" had decided to expose "a deeply secret program, long mythologized but now confirmed." After a meeting with representatives of the Times's Washington bureau, the paper agreed and assigned Cooper, its Pentagon correspondent.[^4] Bender wrote in 2021 that Mellon, "by then also a paid adviser to DeLonge's TTSA," acted as Elizondo's "unofficial public relations manager" and "started dangling the story to the New York Times, POLITICO and several other mainstream outlets," over several months; that reporters were shown the videos and unclassified documents on Bigelow's contracts; that the Times "was granted permission to broadcast the videos"; and that Politico "was shown the videos but not provided copies."[^6] ### The videos -The Times article carried two videos, "FLIR1" and "[[GIMBAL]]," captioned "U.S. Department of Defense" and described as "released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program"; the third, "GOFAST," was published in March 2018, according to The Black Vault.[^4][^9] In a 2020 interview for the documentary *[[The Phenomenon (2020 film)|The Phenomenon]]*, Mellon said: "I received the videos, the now famous videos in the Pentagon parking lot from a Defense Department official. I still have the packaging." He added that "somebody bent the rules a little bit, and they did so for the larger good." *[[Vice]]* reported it could not independently verify the account.[^10] +The Times article carried two videos, "FLIR1" and "[[GIMBAL]]," captioned "U.S. Department of Defense" and described as "released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program"; the third, "GOFAST," was published in March 2018, according to The Black Vault.[^4][^10] In a 2020 interview for the documentary *[[The Phenomenon (2020 film)|The Phenomenon]]*, Mellon said: "I received the videos, the now famous videos in the Pentagon parking lot from a Defense Department official. I still have the packaging." He added that "somebody bent the rules a little bit, and they did so for the larger good." *[[Vice]]* reported it could not independently verify the account.[^11] Bender wrote in 2021 that reporters "were shown the declassified videos," and quoted Mellon: "A huge breakthrough occurred because the Navy was confirming the videos were authentic and declassified on the Hill."[^6] -The Navy's formal position on release changed twice. Sherwood told Kloor in 2019 that the videos were released "for research purposes ... and not for general public release."[^2] On April 27, 2020 the Department of Defense issued a "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," which read that the department "has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017," and that the aerial phenomena "remain characterized as 'unidentified.'"[^9] A [[Galileo Project]] announcement of October 30, 2021 credited Mellon and Elizondo with being "pivotal in bringing about the Pentagon's release and confirmation" of the three videos.[^11] +The Navy's formal position on release changed twice. Sherwood told Kloor in 2019 that the videos were released "for research purposes ... and not for general public release."[^2] On April 27, 2020 the Department of Defense issued a "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," which read that the department "has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017," and that the aerial phenomena "remain characterized as 'unidentified.'"[^10] A [[Galileo Project]] announcement of October 30, 2021 credited Mellon and Elizondo with being "pivotal in bringing about the Pentagon's release and confirmation" of the three videos.[^12] ### Later correction and follow-on reporting -In July 2020 Kean and Blumenthal wrote in the Times that Reid "believed that crashes of vehicles from other worlds had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades, often by aerospace companies under government contracts"; the Times appended a correction the next day, and Reid told Lewis-Kraus he "had never seen proof of any remnants" but "was told for decades that [[Lockheed Martin|Lockheed]] had some of these retrieved materials."[^4] In June 2023 Kean and Blumenthal published the first account of the claims of [[David Grusch]] on the website [[The Debrief]], according to *[[New York Magazine]]*.[^12] +In July 2020 Kean and Blumenthal wrote in the Times that Reid "believed that crashes of vehicles from other worlds had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades, often by aerospace companies under government contracts"; the Times appended a correction the next day, and Reid told Lewis-Kraus he "had never seen proof of any remnants" but "was told for decades that [[Lockheed Martin|Lockheed]] had some of these retrieved materials."[^4] In June 2023 Kean and Blumenthal published the first account of the claims of [[David Grusch]] on the website [[The Debrief]], according to *[[New York Magazine]]*.[^13] ### Footnotes @@ -69,9 +69,10 @@ In July 2020 Kean and Blumenthal wrote in the Times that Reid "believed that cra [^4]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. "How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously." *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously. The October 4, 2017 meeting, the offer of the videos for a Times placement, the Blumenthal to Baquet e-mail and the Reid correction are as reported by Lewis-Kraus from interviews with Kean, Reid and others. [^5]: Greenewald, John, Jr. "Pentagon Reinforces Mr. Luis Elizondo Had 'No Responsibilities' on AATIP; Senator Harry Reid's 2009 Memo Changes Nothing." The Black Vault, June 14, 2019. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing [^6]: Bender, Bryan. "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs" (web title "How Harry Reid, a Terrorist Interrogator and the Singer From Blink-182 Took UFOs Mainstream"). *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 (read via Internet Archive copy). Mellon and Elizondo quotations are as given to Bender; the WHS approval is stated from "documents obtained by POLITICO" that are not reproduced. -[^7]: Kloor, Keith. "UFOs Won't Go Away." *Issues in Science and Technology,* March 1, 2019. https://issues.org/ufos-wont-go-away/ -[^8]: The October 11, 2017 date of the Seattle launch event is from a secondary summary and the coordinator's brief; the New Yorker gives only "later that month." Original press materials not yet opened. -[^9]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/); Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/ -[^10]: Banias, MJ. "Ex Intel Official Says He Was the Source of the Pentagon's UFO Videos." *Vice,* October 20, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos/. Sole source for the passages so cited: Mellon's on-camera statement to filmmaker James Fox in *The Phenomenon* (2020). -[^11]: The Galileo Project. "The Galileo Project Welcomes Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo as Research Affiliates," October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy). -[^12]: Baker, Nicholson. "How We Lost Our Minds About UFOs." *New York Magazine,* January 31, 2024. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/leslie-kean-ufo-sightings-aliens.html +[^7]: [[The Black Vault]], FOIA release of Office of the Secretary of Defense case 18-F-0644, August 2019 (emails of August 23 and 24, 2017 between Luis Elizondo and Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with the DD Form 1910; the form's text is poorly legible in the scan and is quoted as transcribed in the research notes), https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf ; Joseph Gradisher quoted in "U.S. Navy Confirms Videos Depict Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Not Cleared for Public Release," The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/ +[^8]: Kloor, Keith. "UFOs Won't Go Away." *Issues in Science and Technology,* March 1, 2019. https://issues.org/ufos-wont-go-away/ +[^9]: The October 11, 2017 date of the Seattle launch event is from a secondary summary and the coordinator's brief; the New Yorker gives only "later that month." Original press materials not yet opened. +[^10]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/); Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/ +[^11]: Banias, MJ. "Ex Intel Official Says He Was the Source of the Pentagon's UFO Videos." *Vice,* October 20, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-guy-says-he-was-the-source-of-the-pentagons-ufo-videos/. Sole source for the passages so cited: Mellon's on-camera statement to filmmaker James Fox in *The Phenomenon* (2020). +[^12]: The Galileo Project. "The Galileo Project Welcomes Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo as Research Affiliates," October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy). +[^13]: Baker, Nicholson. "How We Lost Our Minds About UFOs." *New York Magazine,* January 31, 2024. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/leslie-kean-ufo-sightings-aliens.html diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GIMBAL.md b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GIMBAL.md index 5cede0c4..ee00bcb5 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GIMBAL.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GIMBAL.md @@ -3,23 +3,25 @@ category: "Modern Incident" summary: "Unclassified Navy video of an F/A-18 Super Hornet crew's encounter with an object rotating against the wind, published in December 2017 and authorized for release by the Pentagon on April 27, 2020." date: 2015-01-21 location: "Atlantic Ocean, off East Coast of the United States" +updated: 2026-10-03 --- -The [[GIMBAL]] is one of three unclassified Navy [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena|UAP]] videos; the [[New York Times]] published it in December 2017 ([[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]]).[^1] Politico reported in 2021 that [[Washington Headquarters Services]] had approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government, and the [[Pentagon]] stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos "circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^1][^2] The video, which was captured by the crew of an F/A-18 Super Hornet from the [[USS Roosevelt]] Carrier Strike Group in 2015, shows a UAP exhibiting flight characteristics that are not possible with any known aircraft.[^3] +The [[GIMBAL]] is one of three unclassified Navy [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena|UAP]] videos; the [[New York Times]] published it in December 2017 ([[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]]).[^1] Politico reported in 2021 that [[Washington Headquarters Services]] had approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government, and the [[Pentagon]] stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos "circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^1][^2] The Office of the Secretary of Defense file released to [[The Black Vault]] under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2019 contains an August 23, 2017 email in which [[Luis Elizondo]] asked Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to "consider our request for unrestricted release"; an August 24, 2017 reply from Russo that if the service-level classification authority verified that removing the metadata made the videos unclassified, "please feel free to move forward with release"; and a DD Form 1910 whose publication-data block reads "Not Applicable. Not for publication. Research and analysis ONLY and info sharing with other USG and industry partners for the purposes of developing a database to help identify, analyze and ultimately defeat UAS threats." Joseph Gradisher, a Navy spokesman, said in 2019 that neither the cognizant Navy offices nor the review office had a record of correspondence responding to a request for unrestricted release of the videos in 2017.[^3] The video, which was captured by the crew of an F/A-18 Super Hornet from the [[USS Roosevelt]] Carrier Strike Group in 2015, shows a UAP exhibiting flight characteristics that are not possible with any known aircraft.[^4] ### The Sighting -The GIMBAL video was recorded during a series of encounters between the USS Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and multiple UAP off the coast of the Southeastern [[United States]]. In the video, the pilots track a single object from a fleet of five. The object is described as a white, elongated shape, but when the camera mode is switched, it appears as a black, lenticular, or "flying saucer" shape with a bulge on its top and bottom.[^3] +The GIMBAL video was recorded during a series of encounters between the USS Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and multiple UAP off the coast of the Southeastern [[United States]]. In the video, the pilots track a single object from a fleet of five. The object is described as a white, elongated shape, but when the camera mode is switched, it appears as a black, lenticular, or "flying saucer" shape with a bulge on its top and bottom.[^4] -The most remarkable aspect of the video is the object's ability to rotate in mid-air against a 120-knot headwind without losing altitude. The object slows, parks itself in the air, and then rotates, or "gimbals," in a way that defies the known laws of aerodynamics. The pilots can be heard expressing their astonishment and disbelief at the object's performance.[^3] +The most remarkable aspect of the video is the object's ability to rotate in mid-air against a 120-knot headwind without losing altitude. The object slows, parks itself in the air, and then rotates, or "gimbals," in a way that defies the known laws of aerodynamics. The pilots can be heard expressing their astonishment and disbelief at the object's performance.[^4] ### Analysis and Significance -The GIMBAL video is significant because it provides clear, high-fidelity evidence of a UAP exhibiting several of [[The Five Observables]], including low observability (no heat signature), antigravity (hovering against a strong headwind), and instantaneous acceleration. The object's ability to rotate without any apparent means of propulsion or control surfaces is a key piece of evidence that it is not a conventional aircraft.[^3] +The GIMBAL video is significant because it provides clear, high-fidelity evidence of a UAP exhibiting several of [[The Five Observables]], including low observability (no heat signature), antigravity (hovering against a strong headwind), and instantaneous acceleration. The object's ability to rotate without any apparent means of propulsion or control surfaces is a key piece of evidence that it is not a conventional aircraft.[^4] -The release of the GIMBAL video, along with the [[Tic Tac]] and [[GoFast]] videos, was a watershed moment in the UAP disclosure movement. It provided the public and Congress with undeniable evidence that the U.S. military was encountering objects with capabilities far beyond our own, and it helped to legitimize the UAP issue as a serious national security concern.[^3] +The release of the GIMBAL video, along with the [[Tic Tac]] and [[GoFast]] videos, was a watershed moment in the UAP disclosure movement. It provided the public and Congress with undeniable evidence that the U.S. military was encountering objects with capabilities far beyond our own, and it helped to legitimize the UAP issue as a serious national security concern.[^4] ### Footnotes [^1]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/ [^2]: Bender, Bryan. "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 -[^3]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024. +[^3]: [[The Black Vault]], FOIA release of Office of the Secretary of Defense case 18-F-0644, August 2019 (emails of August 23 and 24, 2017 between Luis Elizondo and Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with the DD Form 1910; the form's text is poorly legible in the scan and is quoted as transcribed in the research notes), https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf ; Joseph Gradisher quoted in "U.S. Navy Confirms Videos Depict Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Not Cleared for Public Release," The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/ +[^4]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024. diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GoFast.md b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GoFast.md index 3781a90d..7d7e39b3 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GoFast.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GoFast.md @@ -9,21 +9,23 @@ category: "Modern Incident" summary: "Unclassified Navy video of an F/A-18 Super Hornet crew's encounter with an object moving at extreme speed low over the ocean, first published in March 2018 and authorized for release April 27, 2020." date: 2015-01-21 location: "Atlantic Ocean, off East Coast of the United States" +updated: 2026-10-03 --- -The [[GoFast]] is one of three unclassified Navy [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena|UAP]] videos; it appeared in March 2018, after the two videos the [[New York Times]] published in December 2017 ([[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]]).[^1] Politico reported in 2021 that [[Washington Headquarters Services]] had approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government, and the [[Pentagon]] stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos "circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^1][^2] The video, which was captured by the crew of an F/A-18 Super Hornet from the [[USS Roosevelt]] Carrier Strike Group in 2015, shows a small, fast-moving object that appears to be traveling at an incredible speed just above the surface of the water.[^3] +The [[GoFast]] is one of three unclassified Navy [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena|UAP]] videos; it appeared in March 2018, after the two videos the [[New York Times]] published in December 2017 ([[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]]).[^1] Politico reported in 2021 that [[Washington Headquarters Services]] had approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government, and the [[Pentagon]] stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos "circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^1][^2] The Office of the Secretary of Defense file released to [[The Black Vault]] under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2019 contains an August 23, 2017 email in which [[Luis Elizondo]] asked Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to "consider our request for unrestricted release"; an August 24, 2017 reply from Russo that if the service-level classification authority verified that removing the metadata made the videos unclassified, "please feel free to move forward with release"; and a DD Form 1910 whose publication-data block reads "Not Applicable. Not for publication. Research and analysis ONLY and info sharing with other USG and industry partners for the purposes of developing a database to help identify, analyze and ultimately defeat UAS threats." Joseph Gradisher, a Navy spokesman, said in 2019 that neither the cognizant Navy offices nor the review office had a record of correspondence responding to a request for unrestricted release of the videos in 2017.[^3] The video, which was captured by the crew of an F/A-18 Super Hornet from the [[USS Roosevelt]] Carrier Strike Group in 2015, shows a small, fast-moving object that appears to be traveling at an incredible speed just above the surface of the water.[^4] ### The Sighting -The GoFast video was recorded during the same series of encounters as the [[GIMBAL Video]], which took place off the coast of the Southeastern [[United States]]. The video shows a small, round object that is being tracked by the aircraft's targeting pod. The pilots can be heard expressing their astonishment at the object's speed, with one exclaiming, "Whoa, got it! Whoo-hoooo! What the f--- is that thing?"[^3] +The GoFast video was recorded during the same series of encounters as the [[GIMBAL Video]], which took place off the coast of the Southeastern [[United States]]. The video shows a small, round object that is being tracked by the aircraft's targeting pod. The pilots can be heard expressing their astonishment at the object's speed, with one exclaiming, "Whoa, got it! Whoo-hoooo! What the f--- is that thing?"[^4] ### Analysis and Significance -The GoFast video is significant because it appears to show a UAP exhibiting hypersonic velocity at a very low altitude, a feat that is not possible with any known conventional aircraft. While some analysts have suggested that the object's speed may be an illusion caused by a parallax effect, the pilots who witnessed the event were clearly impressed by its velocity.[^3] +The GoFast video is significant because it appears to show a UAP exhibiting hypersonic velocity at a very low altitude, a feat that is not possible with any known conventional aircraft. While some analysts have suggested that the object's speed may be an illusion caused by a parallax effect, the pilots who witnessed the event were clearly impressed by its velocity.[^4] -The release of the GoFast video, along with the [[Tic Tac]] and [[GIMBAL]] videos, was a crucial moment in the UAP disclosure movement. It provided another piece of credible evidence that the U.S. military was encountering objects with extraordinary capabilities, and it helped to fuel the public and congressional demand for greater transparency on the UAP issue.[^3] +The release of the GoFast video, along with the [[Tic Tac]] and [[GIMBAL]] videos, was a crucial moment in the UAP disclosure movement. It provided another piece of credible evidence that the U.S. military was encountering objects with extraordinary capabilities, and it helped to fuel the public and congressional demand for greater transparency on the UAP issue.[^4] ### Footnotes [^1]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/ [^2]: Bender, Bryan. "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 -[^3]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024. +[^3]: [[The Black Vault]], FOIA release of Office of the Secretary of Defense case 18-F-0644, August 2019 (emails of August 23 and 24, 2017 between Luis Elizondo and Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with the DD Form 1910; the form's text is poorly legible in the scan and is quoted as transcribed in the research notes), https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf ; Joseph Gradisher quoted in "U.S. Navy Confirms Videos Depict Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Not Cleared for Public Release," The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/ +[^4]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024. diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/Tic Tac.md b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/Tic Tac.md index 75458b74..1f695082 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/Tic Tac.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/Tic Tac.md @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ category: "Modern Incident" summary: "UAP encountered by the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in November 2004 and captured on video as 'Tic Tac'; the FLIR1 video was published in December 2017 and authorized for release April 27, 2020." date: 2004-11-14 location: "Pacific Ocean, off San Diego, California" +updated: 2026-10-03 --- The [[Tic Tac]] refers to a specific [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena|UAP]] encountered by the [[USS Nimitz]] Carrier Strike Group in November 2004. The object was designated the "Tic Tac" by the pilots and crew due to its resemblance to the white, oblong candy. The series of encounters is considered a cornerstone case in modern UAP investigation due to the high-fidelity data collected by multiple military sensor platforms and the corroborating testimony from numerous highly credible and trained observers.[^1] @@ -24,10 +25,11 @@ Later that day, a second flight, piloted by Lieutenant Chad Underwood, was launc The incident was investigated by [[Jay Stratton]] for the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AATIP). The analysis concluded that the Tic Tac exhibited performance characteristics well beyond any known technology, including hypersonic velocity and instantaneous acceleration, which would subject a conventional craft to thousands of G-forces. The lack of official follow-up at the time of the incident, and the subsequent dismissal by some in the chain of command, highlighted the deep-seated stigma surrounding the UAP topic within the military.[^1] -The "FLIR1" (Tic Tac) video was one of two published by the [[New York Times]] in December 2017 ([[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]]).[^2] Politico reported in 2021 that [[Washington Headquarters Services]] had approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government, and the [[Pentagon]] stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos "circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^2][^3] The publication of the video, along with the testimony of Commander Fravor and Lieutenant Dietrich, was a seminal event in the UAP disclosure movement. It provided credible, verifiable evidence that forced a public and congressional conversation about the reality of UAP and the potential national security threat they represent.[^1] +The "FLIR1" (Tic Tac) video was one of two published by the [[New York Times]] in December 2017 ([[December 2017 New York Times AATIP Report]]).[^2] Politico reported in 2021 that [[Washington Headquarters Services]] had approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government, and the [[Pentagon]] stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos "circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^2][^3] The Office of the Secretary of Defense file released to [[The Black Vault]] under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2019 contains an August 23, 2017 email in which [[Luis Elizondo]] asked Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to "consider our request for unrestricted release"; an August 24, 2017 reply from Russo that if the service-level classification authority verified that removing the metadata made the videos unclassified, "please feel free to move forward with release"; and a DD Form 1910 whose publication-data block reads "Not Applicable. Not for publication. Research and analysis ONLY and info sharing with other USG and industry partners for the purposes of developing a database to help identify, analyze and ultimately defeat UAS threats." Joseph Gradisher, a Navy spokesman, said in 2019 that neither the cognizant Navy offices nor the review office had a record of correspondence responding to a request for unrestricted release of the videos in 2017.[^4] The publication of the video, along with the testimony of Commander Fravor and Lieutenant Dietrich, was a seminal event in the UAP disclosure movement. It provided credible, verifiable evidence that forced a public and congressional conversation about the reality of UAP and the potential national security threat they represent.[^1] ### Footnotes [^1]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024. [^2]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/ [^3]: Bender, Bryan. "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 +[^4]: [[The Black Vault]], FOIA release of Office of the Secretary of Defense case 18-F-0644, August 2019 (emails of August 23 and 24, 2017 between Luis Elizondo and Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with the DD Form 1910; the form's text is poorly legible in the scan and is quoted as transcribed in the research notes), https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf ; Joseph Gradisher quoted in "U.S. Navy Confirms Videos Depict Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Not Cleared for Public Release," The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/ diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Remote Viewing.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Remote Viewing.md index 06ce1ff4..7480bb6e 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Remote Viewing.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Remote Viewing.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags: - intelligence description: Remote viewing is a claimed psychic ability to perceive information about a distant or unseen target, often used for intelligence gathering. category: "Psi Phenomenon" -summary: "Remote Viewing is a controversial mental faculty or technique in which an individual is said to be able to acquire information about a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception (ESP) or 'sensing with the mind." +summary: "Controversial technique in which an individual is said to acquire information about a distant or unseen target through extrasensory perception or sensing with the mind." --- [[Remote Viewing]] is a controversial mental faculty or technique in which an individual is said to be able to acquire information about a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception (ESP) or "sensing with the mind." The term was coined by [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Russell Targ]] at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] to describe a new, more scientific and sober approach to clairvoyance, distinguishing it from older, more sensationalized terms like ESP or psychic perception. It was the central focus of the [[Stargate Project|Stargate Project]], a U.S. government-sponsored program investigating psychic phenomena for military and intelligence applications.[^1] @@ -54,5 +54,5 @@ David Marks and [[Richard Kammann]]'s Nature letter of August 17, 1978, reported [^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997. [^2]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024. [^3]: Targ, Russell, and Harold Puthoff. "Information Transmission under Conditions of Sensory Shielding," *Nature,* vol. 251, October 18, 1974, pp. 602-607, read in the CIA Reading Room copy CIA-RDP96-00787R000100220001-8 on archive.org. Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments," *Nature,* vol. 274, 1978, pp. 680-681, not obtained; quoted from Puthoff, Targ, and Tart, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," with Tart, "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," submitted to *Nature,* January 1979, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5, archive.org mirror. US Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, "Project Grill Flame AMSAA Phase I Efforts," Interim Note No. 15, July 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100080005-8. -[^901]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0 (abstract and dates only; the text is behind a paywall). Puthoff, H. E., and Russell Targ, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," and Tart, Charles T., "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," January 1979, "submitted for publication to Nature," CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5; published as Tart, Puthoff and Targ, *Nature,* vol. 284, 1980, p. 191, not seen. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. *Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing,* Report RV-79-1, final technical report, contract 77F104420, Systemetrics, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1, 1979, parts 1 and 2, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100440001-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. The sponsor of the contract is not named in the report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. +[^901]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0. Puthoff, H. E., and Russell Targ, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," and Tart, Charles T., "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," January 1979, "submitted for publication to Nature," CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5; published as Tart, Puthoff and Targ, *Nature,* vol. 284, 1980, p. 191, not seen. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. *Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing,* Report RV-79-1, final technical report, contract 77F104420, Systemetrics, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1, 1979, parts 1 and 2, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100440001-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. The sponsor of the contract is not named in the report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^902]: Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. "Standard Remote-Viewing Protocol (Local Targets)." SRI International, November 1978, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500400001-4 (copy at CIA-RDP96-00788R001300050001-3). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, H. E., to Manfred Gale, "SRI/Gale Committee Meeting of 24-25 July," August 3, 1979, with the enclosure "Standard Remote Viewing (RV) Procedures: Local Sites," by H. E. Puthoff, R. Targ and E. C. May, August 1979, CIA-RDP96-00787R000100060001-6 (memorandum alone at CIA-RDP96-00788R002000240028-5). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Singularitarianism.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Singularitarianism.md index afb099c7..4ecc9f67 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Singularitarianism.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Singularitarianism.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ alias: - Singularitarianism - Technological Singularity - The Singularity -summary: "Singularitarianism is the belief, named by Vernor Vinge in 1993 and popularized by Ray Kurzweil's 2005 book and his Singularity University, that accelerating technology will soon produce a machine superintelligence and an irreversible transformation of human life." +summary: "Singularitarianism is the belief, named by Vernor Vinge in 1993 and popularized by Ray Kurzweil's 2005 book and his Singularity University, that accelerating technology will produce machine superintelligence and an irreversible transformation of human life." location: "Silicon Valley, California" created: 2026-06-20 updated: 2026-06-20 @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Kurzweil's vision fuses the intelligence forecast with the older transhumanist p ### Institutions -In 2008 Kurzweil cofounded Singularity University with the X Prize founder Peter Diamandis, locating it at the NASA Research Park at Ames in Mountain View, California, as a corporate-funded teaching and incubation venture aimed at "exponential technologies"; its early backers included Google, and it was later renamed Singularity Group. The Singularity Summit, an annual conference Kurzweil helped launch in 2006, was organized for several years by the [[Machine Intelligence Research Institute]], founded by [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]].[^9][^10] +In 2008 Kurzweil cofounded Singularity University with the X Prize founder [[Peter Diamandis]], locating it at the NASA Research Park at Ames in Mountain View, California, as a corporate-funded teaching and incubation venture aimed at "exponential technologies"; its early backers included Google, and it was later renamed Singularity Group. The Singularity Summit, an annual conference Kurzweil helped launch in 2006, was organized for several years by the [[Machine Intelligence Research Institute]], founded by [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]].[^9][^10] Within that community the singularity idea split in mood. The optimistic, Kurzweilian strand anticipates the transition as broadly benevolent, while the artificial-intelligence-risk strand around Yudkowsky, [[Nick Bostrom]], whose *Superintelligence* (2014) gave the intelligence-explosion scenario its most influential academic statement, and the [[Effective Altruism]] and [[Rationalist Community|rationalist]] networks treats an uncontrolled intelligence explosion as a potential extinction event to be guarded against. The critics [[Émile P. Torres]] and [[Timnit Gebru]] grouped singularitarianism with transhumanism, [[Extropianism]], cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and longtermism under the acronym "TESCREAL," arguing the cluster forms a single ideology favored among the technology elite.[^11][^12] diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/New Zealand.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/New Zealand.md index 7a8d3dd3..a7cf3acc 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/New Zealand.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/New Zealand.md @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ At the University of Otago in Dunedin, the psychologists [[David Marks]] and [[R [^4]: New Zealand Ministry of Justice, Crown Law terrorism case summary, August 2020; "Christchurch mosque attacks: Life without parole for Brenton Tarrant." Radio New Zealand, August 27, 2020. [^5]: Royal Commission of Inquiry. *Ko tō tātou kāinga tēnei: Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch masjidain on 15 March 2019.* New Zealand Government, 2020. [^6]: "New Zealand designates Proud Boys, The Base as 'terrorist' groups." *Al Jazeera,* June 30, 2022. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/30/new-zealand-designates-proud-boys-the-base-as-terrorist-groups -[^7]: OpenSanctions, "Order of Nine Angles (O9A)," New Zealand terrorist designation list entry. https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/nz-terr-order-of-nine-angles-o9a/ The New Zealand Gazette notice was not examined. +[^7]: OpenSanctions, "Order of Nine Angles (O9A)," New Zealand terrorist designation list entry. https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/nz-terr-order-of-nine-angles-o9a/ [^8]: "Documents reveal how Peter Thiel was granted New Zealand citizenship." *The Guardian,* February 1, 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/01/documents-reveal-how-peter-thiel-was-granted-new-zealand-citizenship [^9]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. *The Psychology of the Psychic.* Prometheus Books, 1980; their letter "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments," *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681 (abstract only examined). [^10]: "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women." *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 2, 2026. diff --git a/80 - SOURCES/Wilson-Davis Memo.md b/80 - SOURCES/Wilson-Davis Memo.md index 6f8c17d6..0adaf357 100644 --- a/80 - SOURCES/Wilson-Davis Memo.md +++ b/80 - SOURCES/Wilson-Davis Memo.md @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ The file named in the book's appendix opens on congress.gov as a 15-page scan wh [^4]: Peter W. Merlin, "Taking E.T. Home: Birth of a Modern Myth," SUNlite 5, no. 6 (November-December 2013), p. 16 (Rich "until shortly before his death from cancer in January 1995"), https://web.archive.org/web/20150321193509/home.comcast.net/~tprinty/UFO/SUNlite5_6.pdf [^5]: "Tribute to VADM Thomas R. Wilson, USN," Congressional Record 148, no. 108 (August 1, 2002), pp. S7890 to S7891, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2002-08-01/html/CREC-2002-08-01-pt2-PgS7890-3.htm [^6]: "Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, USN (Ret)," National Intelligence University Foundation biography, https://niuf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/WilsonBio.pdf -[^7]: Greenewald, "The 'Admiral Wilson Leak,'" sections reproducing the Greer lecture transcript of September 12, 2001, the Larry King Live broadcast of July 4, 2008, Billy Cox's reports of August 2008 and June 2020 in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, and statements submitted by Wilson, Puthoff and Greer, at the URL above. The Cox articles themselves were not opened. +[^7]: Greenewald, "The 'Admiral Wilson Leak,'" sections reproducing the Greer lecture transcript of September 12, 2001, the Larry King Live broadcast of July 4, 2008, Billy Cox's reports of August 2008 and June 2020 in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, and statements submitted by Wilson, Puthoff and Greer, at the URL above. [^8]: Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume I, February 2024, p. 8, https://media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/DOPSR-CLEARED-508-COMPLIANT-HRRV1-08-MAR-2024-FINAL.PDF [^9]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 41 to 45 (Davis and the memo, indexed at pp. 42 to 44; the footnote on Wilson's posts is at p. 42). Page numbers throughout this page are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one. [^10]: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing record, May 17, 2022, item SD001, https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114761/documents/HHRG-117-IG05-20220517-SD001.pdf (downloaded October 3, 2026; 15 pages, scanned images; page 1 read directly). The submitter of the item is not stated in the file. Cross-reference: Daily Digest, Congressional Record, May 17, 2022, p. D542, as cited in note 2.