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### Incorporation and registrations
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### Founder's 2023 testimony
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### Advisors
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### Lobbying and campaign records
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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]
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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]
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### Footnotes
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[^4]: Americans for Safe Aerospace, website, home page and policy pages, retrieved October 2, 2026. https://www.safeaerospace.org
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[^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
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[^6]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, EIN 922948733, retrieved October 3, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/922948733.json
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[^7]: Internal Revenue Service, Tax Exempt Organization Search index for 2026. https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/2026/index_2026.csv
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[^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
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[^9]: Ryan Graves, witness biography, July 26, 2023. https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116282/witnesses/HHRG-118-GO06-Bio-GravesR-20230726.pdf
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[^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/
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[^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.
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[^8]: Internal Revenue Service, Tax Exempt Organization Search index for 2026. https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/2026/index_2026.csv
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[^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
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[^10]: Ryan Graves, witness biography, July 26, 2023. https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116282/witnesses/HHRG-118-GO06-Bio-GravesR-20230726.pdf
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[^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/
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category: "Organizations"
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tags:
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- Organization
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- DefenseContractor
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- ColoradoSprings
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- IntelligenceSupport
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alias:
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- Apogee
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- Apogee USA
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- Apogee Engineering LLC
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- Apogee Engineering, LLC
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summary: "Colorado Springs defense contractor and one of four holders of the $866 million NASIC ASTRA advisory and assistance contract, awarded May 6, 2026."
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location: "Colorado Springs, Colorado"
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relations:
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- type: contracted_with
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with: "[[National Air and Space Intelligence Center]]"
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start: 2026-07-01
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role: "holder of IDIQ FA8604-26-D-B003, Advisory Support and Technical Requirement Administration (ASTRA), $866,563,163 ceiling"
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created: 2026-10-03
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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]
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### NASIC advisory and assistance contract
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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[^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).
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[^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).
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[^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.
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[^4]: SAM.gov, presolicitation PZIEC2025, "Advisory Support & Technical Requirement Administration (ASTRA)," posted April 10, 2025, https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v2/opportunities/e5b70042473345cba9a3663d5abda25d.
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[^5]: SAM.gov, solicitation FA860425RB017, "Advisory Support and Technical Requirement Administration," https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v2/opportunities/857041a4d1e1402fa2aa69bfb5f296fe.
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[^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/.
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[^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).
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[^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).
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[^8]: Associated Press, *Covering Tyranny*, 2017, Key findings, pp. 5-6.
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[^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).
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[^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.
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[^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).
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[^11]: Associated Press, *Covering Tyranny*, 2017, chapter 4, "New York Photos: the Gatekeepers," pp. 72-73 (Brooks to Stratton; Stratton's reply).
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[^12]: Associated Press, *Covering Tyranny*, 2017, Key findings, p. 6.
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[^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.
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[^25]: "Addendum to MFR, dtd 10 Dec 85," CIA-RDP96-00788R001700030001-1, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001700030001-1.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^30]: TRW Inc., Form 8-K, accession 0000950152-97-008891, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100030/0000950152-97-008891.txt.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^33]: General Accounting Office, bid protest decisions search for "BDM," gao.gov, October 3, 2026, page 1, not date-filtered.
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[^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/
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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/
|
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[^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/
|
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[^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/
|
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[^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/
|
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[^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
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category: "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena"
|
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tags:
|
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- Organization
|
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- PrivateSector
|
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- UAP
|
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- SkyWatcher
|
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- Trademark
|
||||
alias:
|
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- ENNEA LLC
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- ENNEA
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- Ennea
|
||||
- Explorer's Club by Ennea
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- 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."
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location: "Miami, Florida"
|
||||
created: 2026-10-03
|
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updated: 2026-10-03
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---
|
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|
||||
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]
|
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|
||||
### 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]
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||||
|
||||
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.
|
||||
|
|
@ -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
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -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.
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -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/
|
||||
|
|
@ -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).
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
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).
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[^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
|
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|
@ -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
|
||||
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|
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|
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|
|||
### 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.
|
||||
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@ -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/.
|
||||
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|
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---
|
||||
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
|
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[^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
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category: "Organizations"
|
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tags:
|
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- Organization
|
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- DefenseContractor
|
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- TechnicalIntelligence
|
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- EmployeeOwned
|
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- HuntsvilleAlabama
|
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- UFO
|
||||
- ForeignMaterielExploitation
|
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- ESOP
|
||||
- WrightPatterson
|
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alias:
|
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- 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]
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### Capability statement of January 2022
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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]
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### Employee ownership and the Berry v. Bailey litigation
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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]
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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]
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### Sole-source award under the ESOP pilot program
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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]
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### Size status and the Army RCCTO protest
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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.
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### Political action committee, all recipients
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### Clayton Hinchman's 2018 candidacy
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[[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.
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### Sheehan Twitter Space, December 2023
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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]
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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]
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### Footnotes
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[^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
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[^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=
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[^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
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[^4]: Radiance Technologies news releases, PR Newswire source listing (titles and dates), fetched October 3, 2026. https://www.prnewswire.com/news/radiance-technologies/
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[^5]: Radiance Ignite Technologies, "About Us," fetched October 3, 2026. https://radianceignite.com/about/
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[^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.
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[^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/
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[^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/
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[^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
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[^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/
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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/
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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/
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[^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
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||||
[^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
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[^22]: Radiance Technologies, "Foreign Materiel Exploitation," Wayback capture of October 27, 2001. https://web.archive.org/web/20011027170543/http://radiancetech.com:80/ForeignExploit.htm
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[^23]: Radiance Technologies, "Dayton Office," Wayback capture of January 3, 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20040103154403/http://www.radiancetech.com:80/dayton.html
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[^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
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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/
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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/
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||||
[^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/
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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).
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||||
[^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
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[^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/
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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).
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[^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
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[^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/
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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
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- ExemptReportingAdviser
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alias:
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- SALT Fund Management LLC
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- SALT Fund Management, LLC
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- SALT Fund Management
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- SALT Fund
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- The SALT Fund
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- Kyber Capital
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- Kyber Capital Crypto
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location: "Palm Beach Gardens, Florida"
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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."
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created: 2026-10-03
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updated: 2026-10-03
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---
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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]
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### Adviser and owners
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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]
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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]
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### Funds
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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]
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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.
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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.
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SALT Fund Gene Therapy, LP: 16,432,917 dollars, 48 owners, 17 percent held by funds of funds, no audit.
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SALT Fund LP Series Longevity: 14,044,756 dollars, 23 owners, 37 percent held by funds of funds, no audit.
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SALT Fund LP Series Food: 7,180,412 dollars, 42 owners, 47 percent held by funds of funds, no audit.
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SALT Fund Series Mental Health, LP: 2,223,108 dollars, 13 owners, 74 percent held by funds of funds, no audit.
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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]
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### Form D history
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### The Passport Foundation
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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]
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### FTX records
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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]
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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]
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### SALT brand and the SkyBridge adversary proceeding
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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]
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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]
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### Footnotes
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[^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
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[^2]: SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure, individual CRD 6960736, https://api.adviserinfo.sec.gov/search/individual/6960736 ; search for CRD 7432068, October 3, 2026.
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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).
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[^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).
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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.
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[^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
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### Officers, investors and filings
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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]
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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]
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[[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]
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[[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]
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### Trademark ownership
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### Dated sequence
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- January 5, 2024: ennea.io registered; ENNEA LLC's Delaware certificate gives its formation as January 1, 2024.[^17][^19]
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- May 22 and August 9, 2024: ennea.io captures read "The central node for capital, research, and relationships fueling contrarian ideas."[^19]
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- 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]
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- November 20, 2024: SKYWATCHER application filed in ENNEA LLC's name.[^16]
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- November 27, 2024: Skywatcher Technologies Corporation incorporated in Delaware.[^10]
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- December 6, 2024: skywatcher.ai registered to "Skywatcher Technologies."[^18]
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- January 2025: public announcement of Skywatcher with Barber, as described above.
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- 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]
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### Dated sequence
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- January 5, 2024: ennea.io registered; ENNEA LLC's Delaware certificate gives its formation as January 1, 2024.[^17][^19]
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- May 22 and August 9, 2024: ennea.io captures read "The central node for capital, research, and relationships fueling contrarian ideas."[^19]
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- 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]
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- November 20, 2024: SKYWATCHER application filed in ENNEA LLC's name.[^16]
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- November 27, 2024: Skywatcher Technologies Corporation incorporated in Delaware.[^10]
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- December 6, 2024: skywatcher.ai registered to "Skywatcher Technologies."[^18]
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- January 2025: public announcement of Skywatcher with Barber, as described above.
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- 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]
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### Field operations
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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]
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|
||||
### 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]
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|
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### Footnotes
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||||
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|
|||
[^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/
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||||
[^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/
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@ -42,22 +42,49 @@ relations:
|
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### Website roster
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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]
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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]
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### Money
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### Symposia
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### White papers
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### UAP Science Advisory Council
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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]
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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]
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### Footnotes
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[^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/
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[^2]: Same article, interview passages with Nolan and Skafish; Pasulka's post of September 11, 2023 is embedded in the article.
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[^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
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[^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.
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[^4]: Hanks, September 12, 2023, citing a Bizapedia entry updated September 1, 2023 and filings of July 7, 2023.
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[^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).
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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/
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||||
[^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")
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[^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/
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[^11]: The Sol Foundation, home page, "People" section (Executive Leadership and Advisory Board), https://thesolfoundation.org/ , read October 3, 2026.
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[^12]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, EIN 992834592 (UAP Disclosure Fund). https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/992834592.json
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[^13]: IRS Form 990-PF for 2024, EIN 99-3863647, object ID 202533189349100938, submitted November 14, 2025. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/993863647
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[^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.
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[^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/
|
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[^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/
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[^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.
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[^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/
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[^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=
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[^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=
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[^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
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[^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
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||||
[^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/
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||||
[^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")
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[^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/
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[^16]: The Sol Foundation, home page, "People" section (Executive Leadership and Advisory Board), https://thesolfoundation.org/ , read October 3, 2026.
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[^17]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, EIN 992834592 (UAP Disclosure Fund). https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/992834592.json
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[^18]: IRS Form 990-PF for 2024, EIN 99-3863647, object ID 202533189349100938, submitted November 14, 2025. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/993863647
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[^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.
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[^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/
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[^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.
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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/
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[^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).
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### Footnotes
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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).
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^11]: Richard C. Doty, letter of March 3, 1989, http://textfiles.com/ufo/doty.ufo
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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.
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[^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.
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role: "co-founder, President and interim Chief Executive Officer; majority shareholder through Gravity Holdings, LLC"
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start: 2017
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fn: 5
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with: "[[Hal Puthoff]]"
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role: "Vice President of Science and Technology and board member; resigned from the board February 2021 and moved to the science advisory board"
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start: 2017
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end: 2021-02
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with: "[[Jim Semivan]]"
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role: "founder, Vice President Operations and director"
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start: 2017
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- type: partner_of
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with: "[[U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command]]"
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role: "Cooperative Research and Development Agreement 19-15, Novel and Emerging Technology Exploitation, with the Ground Vehicle Systems Center"
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start: 2019-10-10
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end: 2024
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- type: funded
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with: "[[Tom DeLonge]]"
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role: "advances, notes, lines of credit and share conversions"
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---
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[[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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### Role in UAP Disclosure
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### Registration, offerings and proceeds
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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]
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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]
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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).
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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).
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|
||||
### 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]
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||||
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]
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|
||||
### 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]
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||||
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]
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||||
|
||||
### 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]
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|
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### 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]
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[[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]
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### EarthTech International statements of work
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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]
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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]
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### Army Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
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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.
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### Personnel changes reported to the SEC
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[[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]
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[[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]
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### Launch and the December 2017 placement
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### Pentagon position on Elizondo and the venture
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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]
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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]
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### Filings (EDGAR)
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|
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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### Galileo Project
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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]
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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]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024.
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[^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).
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[^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/
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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.
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||||
[^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.
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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.
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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
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[^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
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||||
[^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).
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||||
[^19]: The Galileo Project, October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy).
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||||
[^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/
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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
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||||
[^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
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[^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
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^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
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[^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.
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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).
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[^20]: The Galileo Project, October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy).
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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.
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[^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.
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[^20]: "[...] bogus $180,000 in Bucks raid," *The Morning Call* (Allentown), December 11, 1974, p. 5. https://www.newspapers.com/image/275702319/
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[^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
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[^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
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[^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]].
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[^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]].
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[^24]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami office to Director, September 15, 1967, file 92-6054, pp. 3-4, JFK record 124-10293-10312.
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[^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.
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[^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
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category: "Organizations"
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alias:
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- WiSC
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- WiSC Enterprises LLC
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- WiSC Enterprises, LLC
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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."
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location: "Chantilly, Virginia"
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relations:
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- type: contracted_with
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with: "[[Alion Science and Technology]]"
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start: 2016-06-16
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role: "subawardee, subaward STM1241301-000, $238,986.15, on Alion award 0085 (AFRL Rome, collection management)"
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fn: 3
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created: 2026-10-03
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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]
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### National Air and Space Intelligence Center posting
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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]
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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]
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### Federal awards
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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]
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[^1]: WiSC Enterprises, LLC, "Home" and "About Us," https://www.wiscenterprises.com/ and https://www.wiscenterprises.com/about-us/.
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[^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.
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[^3]: USAspending.gov, spending_by_award search, recipient "WISC ENTERPRISES," prime and subaward levels, https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ .
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[^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.
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