To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences (TTSA) was incorporated as a public benefit corporation in 2017 in San Diego. Founded by Tom DeLonge (Blink-182/Angels & Airwaves), Dr. Hal Puthoff, and Jim Semivan (former CIA Senior Intelligence Service officer). KEY PERSONNEL: Luis Elizondo (Director of Government Programs), Steve Justice (COO, former Lockheed Skunk Works director of advanced systems), Christopher Mellon (advisory board, former Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense for Intelligence), Dr. Garry Nolan (Stanford, advisory board), Dr. Colm Kelleher (BAASS veteran). THE VIDEOS: TTSA released Gimbal and GoFast videos in December 2017. The Tic Tac/FLIR1 was released concurrently with the New York Times story. These releases were coordinated between Elizondo, Mellon, and NYT journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal — the mechanism that made disclosure happen. Pentagon confirmed all three videos authentic in 2020 as “unexplained.” ARMY DEAL: TTSA struck an R&D agreement with US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command to provide metamaterials, beamed energy propulsion data, and active camouflage technology. The Army’s spokesperson confirmed interest in testing claimed metamaterial properties. FUNDRAISING: TTSA offered $50M in public stock via Regulation A+ crowdfunding. By October 2018 only $1M had been sold. SEC filing revealed a $37.4M deficit — largely from a stock incentive plan. Elizondo, Justice, and Mellon departed 2021. The science division collapsed. LEGACY: TTSA’s entertainment mission survived; its disclosure mission did not scale. But without TTSA’s strategic video release, the 2017 NYT story does not exist, AATIP is not public, and the congressional hearing chain from 2020-2024 does not happen.