Overview
Lockheed Martin has actively promoted UFO disinformation through partnerships with mainstream media figures and the To The Stars Academy, a private nonprofit founded by Tom DeLonge that serves as a semi-official successor to the Pentagon's Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.
Key Figures
Tom DeLonge
- Singer turned UFO advocate who worked with Dr. Steven Greer on the Disclosure Project
- Founded To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (October 2017)
- Board includes former Lockheed Skunkworks executives: Rob Weiss (retired EVP/GM) and Steve Justice (former program manager)
- Close associate: Colm Kelleher, Coast to Coast AM veteran and Bob Bigelow-affiliated scientist
- DeLonge has been repeatedly invited to Coast to Coast AM for UFO discussions
To The Stars Academy Board Members
The board includes:- Rob Weiss — Former executive vice president and general manager of Lockheed Skunkworks
- Steve Justice — Former program manager at Lockheed Skunkworks
- CIA anti-terrorism and biological warfare veterans
- Mellon family member (elite, CIA-linked)
- Hal Puthoff — Remote viewing program founder
- Colm Kelleher — Coast to Coast AM veteran scientist
Pentagon Program Connection
The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ran from 2007 to 2012. Luis Elizondo, the Pentagon officer running it, "dissented" from government service and joined To The Stars Academy where he now helps push DeLonge's UFO disinformation alongside Lockheed.
Media Coverage
December 2017: New York Times and Politico jointly "exposed" the program. The article portrayed it as basic, honest labor with supporters and detractors—described by ISGP as a "total and complete peacetime psywar program: bogus information, bogus conclusions, sketchy research, all leading to more controlled opposition debate to simulate a free and open society."
Historical Context
Lockheed has long been associated with UFO disinformation:
- Ben Rich (Skunkworks founder) made a 1986 written statement on his belief in both man-made and extraterrestrial UFOs, though he never claimed "death bed" confessions about star travel technologies as falsely attributed by Coast to Coast AM's Timothy Good
- The company has been linked to the Rockefeller UFO initiative under Bill Clinton's chief of staff John Podesta (a Soros agent)
Related Concepts
- tom-delonge-ufo-disinformation — DeLonge's role in mainstreaming UFO narratives
- advanced-aviation-threat-identification-program — The Pentagon program that evolved into To The Stars Academy
- disclosure-project-sham — Greer's project and its corporate connections