There has been another development in the unfolding initiative of the
To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. Dr. Hal Puthoff rarely speaks
publicly about his work on a range of exotic projects.
June 8, 2018 in
Las Vegas marked an exception to this policy when he spoke at a joint
conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) and the
International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA). Puthoff’s background is
quite extraordinary and is summarized on the TTS/AAS website as
follows:
- Dr. Harold E. Puthoff is the co-founder and Vice President of
Science and Technology of TTS Academy. Since 1985, Dr. Puthoff has
served as President and CEO of EarthTech International, Inc. (ETI), and
Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin (IASA). He has
published numerous papers on electron-beam devices, lasers and space
propulsion and has patents issued in the laser, communications, and
energy fields. Dr. Puthoff’s professional background spans more
than five decades of research at General Electric, Sperry, the National
Security Agency, Stanford University and SRI International. Dr.
Puthoff regularly advises NASA , the Department of Defense and
intelligence communities, corporations and foundations on leading-edge
technologies and future technology trends. He earned his Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 1967 and won a Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement in
2017 that recognizes individuals that have achieved greatness in their
industry and have excelled in their field for at least 20 years.
In his address to the SSE/IRVA conference Puthoff became the third
member of the TTS/AAS team to publicly discuss the FLIR video released
to and published by the
New York Times on December 16, 2017. As
with Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo, he made it quite clear the
advanced aerospace object was not of human design without saying it was
of extraterrestrial origin.
This is in keeping with TTS/AAS’s strategy to advance the Disclosure
process without breaking any non-disclosure agreements, releasing any
classified documents or directly stating, let alone confirming the
phenomena extraterrestrial in origin. This approach was likely a
condition for receiving clearance – from whom we do not know – to
proceed with the project.
PRG has reviewed all the interviews of and statements by TTA/AAS team members, and this is the message PRG is hearing:
We’re Not Saying it’s Extraterrestrial
But It’s Extraterrestrial
Some of the more notable statements from Dr. Puthoff’s address are highlighted in bold text.
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BENGSTON (Dr. William Bengston, President of the Society for
Scientific Exploration): This certificate says, “Tim Dinsdale Memorial
Award recognizing significant contributions to the expansion of human
understanding through the study of unexplained phenomena. To Harold
Puthoff for the application of sound scientific principles and
methodologies to the study of remote perception; quantum, zero-point
fluctuations; and unidentified aerial objects, and for recognizing the
potential usefulness of these often-shunned phenomena in the real
world.” To Hal.
PUTHOFF: Thank you, thank you. I am very honored to receive this
award. I’ve known many of the previous recipients of the Dinsdale Award
over the years, and they were all really, truly excellent researchers
pushing the boundaries into the frontier areas of science. So to join
their ranks I consider really quite a privilege.
The three areas he named in giving me the award, quantum vacuum
fluctuations – actually I still publish in that area in physics
journals. The second area remote viewing, in fact it’s very
serendipitous that I should receive this award for this particular
meeting since we have this cosponsored event with the Society for
Scientific Exploration on the one hand and IRVA, International Remote
Viewing Association, on the other – I was a founding member of IRVA, so
I’m really excited to see how people have picked up the ball and run
with it in that area.
The third area, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, I have not
published anything in. Why? Because the program I was involved in, in
the Pentagon and in the intelligence community has been Top Secret,
behind-the-scenes and only recently has there been release of
information about the program. So this is the first chance that I’ve
had a chance to actually appear before the public and speak about
details of the program and not go to jail. So I’m going to go along at a rapid clip; I’ve got a lot of information here. So here we go.
The SSE is no stranger to the subject of UFOs. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena is just a new acronym for UFOs. B
ack
a couple of decades ago Peter Sturrock – one of our founding members of
SSE – arranged with (Laurance) Rockefeller to hold a weeklong workshop
at the Rockefeller residence. We brought in the best of the UFO
researchers, and then a panel of independent experts, and had a weeklong
discussion of physical evidence related to UFO objects of which there’s
a significant amount of data. Laurance Rockefeller hosted the whole
thing. It was a wonderful meeting.
Eventually after publishing in the SSE journal (“Physical Evidence
Related to UFO Reports,” Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 12, NO.
2, pp. 179-229), Peter Sturrock put together a book,
The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence
(Warner Books, New York, NY, 1999) and it still one of the best books
you can find out there to take a look at what are the physical aspects
of UFOs that researchers have uncovered.
However, of course the government is also no stranger to the
UFO phenomena. Anyone who follows the field would be familiar with
Project Sign, Grudge and Blue Book, but in 1969 the Condon Committee
shut it all down and said, really we don’t need to be involved in this
area any more. We’re not learning anything. We’re not getting anywhere.
It’s not clear this is a significant area. So for the average person on
the street, that’s where it all kind of ended, at least serious
government interest. In fact, that’s not true.
The very memo that shut down Blue Book written by General Bolender
had as part of its language, “Reports of UFOs which could affect
national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air
Force procedures designed for this purpose.”
Nonetheless, as far as the public was concerned that was it. Even the
Air Force public affairs office put out circulars all the time in
response to questions saying, “We gave this up in 1969.” What, in fact,
did occur was that there were programs going on behind the scenes anyway
as required by the Bolender memo. Now most people did not know about
these programs, they weren’t advertised, they weren’t responded to, FOIA
requests usually went dry. But that all changed last December when the
New York Times
published a front-page story on how there was this program
investigating this area – Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification
Program. (Helene Cooper, Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal. “2 Airmen and
an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’.”
The New York Times, 16 December 2017, page A27.)
It was deeply buried, but the
New York Times had good
sources and they came up with information about the program, and so
there’s been a lot of publicity about it. Since the
New York Times broke the story,
The Washington Post, CNN. Fox News – it’s been picked up all over the place.
One of the reasons why it’s attracted attention at this point is the
quality of the sources going public. Ex-Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid is the one who initiated the program. Top-rated F-18 pilots who
encountered Advanced Aerospace Vehicles at close range were permitted to
come forward and tell their stories, which up till now they hadn’t
because they didn’t want to lose their flight status by reporting what
they had found, at least publicly. And a number of significant
Department of Defense and intelligence community officials have come
forward to talk about the reality of this phenomena and the fact that
there were programs going on. The program was nicknamed Advanced
Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). People have had trouble
trying to get documents out of the Pentagon by saying they want all
documents on AATIP, and they have a hard time because that wasn’t the
actual name of the program. “Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems
Application Program” is the actual name of the program. But AATIP was
the nickname it went by.
It began in June of 2007. The Defense Intelligence Agency was
concerned about the fact that obvious observation had shown that
Advanced Aerospace Vehicles – crafts, or drones of unknown origin, were
flying all over the United States, over waters, in fact globally as was
the case. So a Congressional budget was approved to address the
issue behind the scenes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid from Nevada
was the one who was the initiator of the program, joined by Senator
Inouye and Senator Stevens. These are the people who generally approve
programs that were in the black, under high security, behind the scenes,
and so they set up this program.
Senator Reid has not walked this back since all the news came
out. He’s been very forthright and has given a number of interviews.
This particular statement sort of captures it all, “We don’t know the
answers, but we have plenty of evidence to support the questions. This
is about science and national security. If America doesn’t take the lead
in answering these questions, others will.”
There is a two-fold nature to the threat. First of all, you’ve got
these Advanced Aerospace Vehicles flying around that we don’t know where
they come from, who’s driving them, what the intent is – possibly
off-world even. But the future threat, was actually as far as the
Department of Defense went and the intelligence community, one of the
greater concerns. What happens if potential adversaries achieve
significant breakthroughs by getting hold of advanced technology either
based on their study of the phenomena, or from sensor data, or from
crash retrieved materials? That could provide a problem for the United
States in the sense of threat. There’s reason to be concerned about
that.
This is a document in the program we dug up out of the Soviet Union (“Thread-3”).
It’s a very thick document. It shows that the Soviet Union had a
massive program also trying to get to the root of all of this. In this
document a number of research institutes and military institutes are
listed. Of course, they had the same concerns we did. Is there a threat
from the phenomena or might the Americans make headway before us and
that be a threat?
Just to give you an idea of what’s being observed, which many people have seen because it’s been in the news a lot lately.
Back
in November of 2004, the Nimitz Carrier Group was out on patrol off of
San Diego, and on several occasions an Advanced Aerospace Vehicle would
descend rapidly from 60,000 feet to 50 feet in seconds, then hover, and
then take off like a bullet. When it first happened and happened over a
number of weeks actually, two F-18 pilots were vectored on to the site
where they were being observed by the radars to investigate, and what
they saw was what they called a “Tic-Tac craft” – solid white, smooth,
no edges, about 46-feet in length, uniformly colored, no nacelles,
pylons or wings. The F-18’s could not obtain lock with their radars
because they were stealthy, but Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR)
could pick them up to some degree based on their heat signatures. The
Advanced Aerospace Vehicle appeared to demonstrate advanced
acceleration, aerodynamic and propulsion capability beyond anything that
we knew existed on the planet.
I am going to play a FLIR video that many of you may have seen.
[Video of UAP intercept begins.]
“That is a [expletive deleted] drone, bro.”
“There is a whole fleet of them, look on the ASA!”
“My gosh!”
“They are all going against the wind; the wind is 120 knots from the west. Look at that thing, dude!”
“That’s not . . . I don’t understand. Look at that thing!”
“It’s rotating.”
[End of video.]
Now you might ask yourself, what can you prove from a
videotape? I mean, you can see videotapes all over the Internet and so
on. But this was data fusion. They are gun-camera tapes. There are these
videotapes from the pilots, voice recordings, data link recordings from
Aegis and many other military platforms, expert witnesses. So, in fact,
the data density – and this is what’s changed the field a lot – our
detection capability has gotten so advanced that we’re losing our
inability to see exactly what’s going on.
The FLIR displays were recorded. There are detailed debriefs of the pilots. In that original
New York Times article you can see a page-long debrief of Dave Fravor.
Key Assessments:
- The Advanced Aerospace Vehicle is no-known air vehicle in the inventory of the U.S. or foreign nation as far as we can tell.
- Low-observable characteristics, they are stealthy.
- They exhibit advanced aerodynamic performance that we can’t imagine how they do it.
- Recognize that these are infrared tapes from the pilots, so if there
was some kind of hot propulsion gasses coming out the back you would
have seen it, but we don’t see that.
- They had the advanced capability to remain stationary and then take
off like a shot. Dave Fravor said it was like somebody had suddenly shot
a bullet.
So, how to respond to this? The Defense Intelligence Agency put out a
Broad Area Announcement, in fact it was unclassified. They wanted to
evaluate twelve potential threat areas with regard to these Advanced
Aerospace Vehicles. There’s a list of them. Exactly what you think you’d
want to know: lift, propulsion, signature reduction, human effects and
so on. Now, it turned out that anyone, any aerospace corporation could
apply, could send in a proposal. DIA chose Bigelow Aerospace as the
contractor to address the threat. Now there’s been buzz on the Internet
about, ok well, Senator Reid came from Nevada and Bigelow Aerospace is
in Nevada, so wasn’t this some sort of sweetheart deal? In fact, that’s
not the case. It was a Broad Area Announcement; anybody could go for it.
Bigelow was actually a good choice. He’d spent a lot of his own money
because he was interested in this area up to this point investigating
the phenomena, and he had the best proposal. So he was tasked. He set up
a special organization called Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies –
we call it BAASS – to do all the things you’d expect a program like
this to do. BAASS connected me at EarthTech International to collaborate
as a subcontractor, and I agreed to do that.
Okay, what did I address as a subcontractor? One of the critical
issues there’s so much high-level security and compartmentalization in
this subject area, and there’s a lot of it, it’s difficult for
contractors to obtain expert opinions on advanced technologies because
they would expose why they are interested. So, I acted as a surrogate. I
was contracted to commission mostly unclassified whitepapers from
experts around the globe about where their particular subject areas
would be in (the year) 2050 as like a general survey of aerospace
futures. I decided this would be the best way to get the best knowledge
we had across many technologies without actually exposing why we wanted
to know.
So, I let out 38 contracts over a two-year period. I’ll show you what
the studies were on. You can read them there: positron aerospace
propulsion, IEC fusion as a compact energy source, warp drive, dark
energy, extra dimensions, metallic glasses for aerospace use. Really
cutting edge kinds of things.
Here are some more of the papers that I commissioned: negative mass
propulsion, antigravity for aerospace applications, programmable matter,
invisibility cloaking – these are just the kind of things that we
needed to have maximum technical input from the best people around the
globe. And so, that’s what we did, that’s what I did.
Now we could wait, we told these people they could publish their
reports in physics journals and engineering journals, but of course the
contractors didn’t want to wait for that, so the Defense Intelligence
Agency bundled up these 38 papers and put them out as Defense
Intelligence Reference Documents posted on a JWICS server that anyone in
the government or contractors could get access to. By and large they
have not been released to the public yet; a couple of them leaked out.
So let me give you an example of, how this stuff helps people who are
chasing these really difficult problems. I’m choosing one here:
metamaterials for aerospace use. I’d love to talk about really fancy
materials, but they’re classified. However, there’s a lot of materials
that have been picked up or provided even in the public domain. I’m
going to give an example because it shows exactly what the structure is
for how to deal with this. This is an open source sample. It was sent
anonymously to talk show host Art Bell. The fellow claimed to be in the
military. He said that this sample was picked up in a crash retrieval,
and so he sent it by email. So what does that mean? Chain of custody
non-existent. Provenance questionable. Could be a hoax. Could be some
slag off of some foundry floor or whatever. However, it was an unusual
sample, so we decided to take a look at it.
It was a multilayered bismuth and magnesium sample. Bismuth layers
less than a human hair. Magnesium samples about ten-times the size of a
human hair. Supposedly picked up in the crash retrieval of an Advanced
Aerospace Vehicle. It looks like it’s been in a crash. The white lines
are the bismuth; the darker areas are the magnesium separations. So the
question was what about this material, so naturally we looked in all the
national labs, we talked to metallurgists, we combed the entire
structure of published papers. Nowhere could we find any evidence that
anybody ever made one of these.
Secondly, some attempts were made to try to reproduce this material,
but they couldn’t get the bismuth and magnesium layers to bond.
Thirdly, when we talked to people in the materials field who should
know, they said we don’t know why anybody would want to make anything
like this. It’s not obvious that it has any function.
Well, years later, decades later actually, finally our own science
moves along. We move into an area called metamaterials, and it turns out
exactly this combination of materials at exactly those dimensions turn
out to be an excellent microscopic waveguide for very high frequency
electromagnetic radiation terahertz frequencies. So, the wavelength is
60 microns, which is a pretty small size. But it turns out because of
the metamaterial aspect of this material, those bismuth layers that act
as waveguides can be one twentieth the size of the wavelength, and
usually when you make a waveguide it’s gotta be about the size of the
wavelength. So, in fact this turned out to be a material that would
propagate sub-wavelength waveguide effects. Why somebody wants to do
that we still don’t know the answer to that.
But anyway, it’s amazing we’ve gone through this and this is the kind
of structure we go through a lot. You get a material sample with
unusual characteristics to be evaluated, the method of manufacture is
difficult to assess or reproduce, the purpose of the function is not
readily apparent – as with our sample here, and then as our own
technical knowledge moves forward we finally see a possible purpose or
function comes to light. That sequence is repeated over and over in this
particular area.
I’ll pick a second one here for the engineers or physicists in the
crowd. Probably be more interesting – spacetime metric engineering. This
happens to be the paper that I myself provided. One of the questions
is: can the reported anomalous observables of these Advanced Aerospace
Vehicles be accounted for on the basis of known physics? You hear people
describing craft taking right angle turns at high speeds, other things
with the hovering and rapid acceleration and so on, as if the craft
didn’t have any inertial mass. Well, it turns out although Einstein’s
general relativity is usually used in astrophysical applications and
gravity studies and so on, you can look at it from an engineering
standpoint. So, if you take an engineering approach to general
relativity, what I just showed can be understood. If you could change
the spacetime metric the way general relativity – I’m talking about
textbook, not some fanciful physics – you could even get
faster-than-light travel. Alcubierre warp drive as in Star Trek. Again,
you might think that’s a fanciful kind of thing, but that paper was
published in one of the top general relativity journals, Miguel
Alcubierre, “
The Warp Drive: Hyper-Fast Travel within General Relativity,” Classical and Quantum Gravity
(11:L73-L77,1994). So, if you engineer spacetime metric, you can begin
to line up observables with physics that we know and love even if we
can’t reproduce it.
What about the velocity of light constraint? People are always saying
that. How could you have a wormhole that lets you go from one side of
the universe to the other? Aren’t you beating the speed of light? What
does the physicist and engineer mean by the speed of light? He means
this little equation here where the speed of light is given by 1 over
the square root of the permittivity times the permeability of the
vacuum. So the point is if you reengineer those vacuum parameters, then
you can make the effective speed of light higher in the engineered
region. Those are the solutions in general relativity that are called
wormholes, and again, it’s not science fiction. This is just
right-off-the-shelf, standard text book general relativity applications.
So, what that means is a reduced time interstellar travel is not as
skeptics would say, “You can’t get from there to here.” Advanced ET
civilizations now, or ourselves in the future are not fundamentally
constrained by physical principals. The exotic physics for such can be
addressed in engineering terms – some metric engineering as it were.
Does this have any help? Again, by the way, this paper was also
published as one of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s reference
documents. And since we are permitted to publish in the open literature,
I published that paper in a British interplanetary science journal, an
engineering journal, so if you’re interested in looking at the details,
you can learn as much as you want to know about metric engineering.
(Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metirc)
Engineering, H. Puthoff (2010), Journal of the British Interplanetary
Society, 63, 82-89.)
That helped us understand some of the aspects, I mean you may have
heard the phrase, “dense stars you get red-shift.” It turns out in this
engineered technology you get so called “blue shift.” That is,
frequencies are up-shifted to higher frequencies. So, for example in
this room most of the radiation coming off our bodies, off the walls and
so on is in fact in the infrared. But we see things in the visible
range. What happens when you get into a volume of space where the vacuum
has been engineered in the way I’ve been discussing? It turns out you
get a blue shift. So, in fact the infrared that you don’t ordinarily see
can get blue shifted up into the visible so it’s not surprising that
all these craft should be so luminous. Now the downside from all of this
is the fact that visible light, which doesn’t have any particularly
harmful effects, gets blue shifted up into the ultraviolet, so if you
get too close to a landed craft, you might get a sunburn, or off into
the soft X-ray regions so there’s a chance of radiation poisoning. If
you run across one of these sitting on the ground and it’s powered up, I
recommend you don’t rush up.
Well, that helped us to understand. We as part of this
program looked at some cases that were really good from Brazil. In 1977,
78, it was like Close Encounters of the Third Kind. A thousand
pages of documents all done by the Brazilian Air Force investigative
team, 500 photographs, 15 hours of motion film, a lot of medical
injuries. This is a list of the different kinds of medical injuries that
occurred when people encountered these craft at close range, and it has
some overlap with cases that we’ve investigated during the program, of
injuries occurring.
Despite the progress in the AATIP program, let’s face it, the topic
is inherently anomalous, right? Therefore, despite the reality of the
observations and all the people that we interact with in the
intelligence community and the Pentagon agree – the data is there, it is
real. Nonetheless the topic doesn’t fit smoothly into known profiles of
the government programs for sure. And by virtue of national security
implications it’s a high compartmentalizational topic, therefore a slow
pace of cumulative progress and integration. We call ’em “stovepipes.”
You have a lot of people with lots of detailed information about some
particular aspect, but they don’t talk each other even if it is sitting
at the next desk.
And let’s face it, advocacy of this issue in
government circles is not viewed as career enhancing in part because,
despite the weirdness of the subject, if you don’t make a lot of
progress, you know, it doesn’t look good on your resume that you’re
moving up the line.
So, because of that, there’s a forward story.
Many of us involved in the program decided that there should be an outreach program in the public sector.
So this is the forward story. The goal was to establish a broad-based,
high-quality scientific community-of-interest in the public sector
concerning these Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and other related
leading-edge topics. And so we got together and formed a company called,
To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. It was cofounded by
entrepreneur Tom DeLonge – I’ll talk about him in a minute – senior
intelligence officers from the Department of Defense and CIA and
distinguished research scientists. We all banded together to form this
academy. It was set up as a public benefit corporation so the public can
invest and therefore it’s owned by the public. So this is something
new. Whatever comes out of any of the research or any of the releases of
information is actually going to be owned by the public. It is not
going to disappear into a black hole. A very transparent structure, if
you go to the website you can see everything from the financial
structure to the activities, and we do have a web-based
community-of-interest where things get posted.
For example, the F-18 FLIR tape I showed, we now have three of them up there and probably more to come.
Alright, who are the principals of this organization? Tom DeLonge,
Blink 182 rock star. Frankly, I’d never heard of Blink 182, but my son
told me, “Oh yeah, we know about Blink 182.” But anyway, in addition to
being the rock star that he is, he’s also a director and producer, puts
out books and music and film and so on, and he’s had a lifelong interest
in the UFO area. So, he started talking with various people and he was
kind of the I guess you could say the action-oriented person, who said
“Why don’t you set up something. Why don’t we make this more available
to the public?” and he got to a number of us, and so we all began to
band together. Lou Elizondo, who was in fact the Department of
Defense’s, the Pentagon’s AATIP program director resigned from the
Pentagon and joined us.
Chris Mellon, 20-year career, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Intelligence, Minority Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence, he joined us. We got Jim Semivan, 25-year career and
CIA’s Director of Operation. He was the real James Bond kind of guy.
Steve Justice just retired as program director for the billion-dollar
programs at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. He joined us.
And then, I agreed to be on the Board. So, I joined them. In addition
to my science and engineering background, I’ve had a lot of activity in
classified areas so it was a natural fit for me interacting with all
these people.
We also put together a policy and scientific advisory panel of the
best people we could find. Chris Mellon agreed to be the Chair. Dr. Colm
Kelleher, he was actually the deputy administrator at Bigelow Aerospace
to run the AATIP program out of the Pentagon. Dr. Gary Nolan, top
genetics professor at Stanford University. Dr. Kahn, 30 year career with
the CIA counter biological weapons program. Dr. Rapp, professor of
military and emergency medicine, Uniform Services University. Dr.
Gilpin, consultant on academic biomedical research and research law.
So, we put together a team as panelists to keep us on the straight
and narrow of really top people who have wonderful backgrounds and
really want to see scientific work be done in this area.
So, the goals for the To the Stars Academy are to,
- Promote the concept that such forefront topics as UFOs, SETI,
consciousness studies, even telepathy and psychokinesis should not be
considered taboo for serious scientific consideration. So, it’s a
perfect match to the SSE because that’s our goal in the SSE as well.
- And of course, big ideas that generate funding to underwrite significant research in these areas
- Develop user friendly data bases so information that is generated can be accessed by anyone
- Provide positive support for collaborative government, aerospace industry, and academic efforts to accomplish all of the above.
So, we want to act as the glue in the public sector and create
entertainment properties, books and documentaries and so on so whatever
is learned can be delivered out to the public.
The structure of the organization has a science structure, an
aerospace structure, and an entertainment division. What are the
activities of this organization to date?
Actually we were responsible for legitimizing the topic in the mainstream press. That story that came out in The New York Times and so on, which then got picked up by the Washington Post,
CNN, Fox News, was based on agreed-upon interviews with those of us
I’ve just gone through a list of. And given the quality of sources
coming out from the shadows, for example Ex-Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, top F-18 pilots, significant Department of Defense and
intelligence community officials, the bar has been raised on the
legitimization of this topic in the public arena. We think that’s an
accomplished goal to date.
And via the community-of-interest postings on the website,
we
now have three high quality F-18 video tapes of unidentified aerial
phenomena encounters. They’ve been previously languishing in the
Pentagon servers, nobody doing that much with them. These are still
being generated. One of the tapes is from 2016 off the East Coast of the
United States. There are a lot more tapes. Hopefully we’ll get a lot
more of them posted.
We don’t just produce positive results or what people would think
would be supportive results. One of our scientists, science advisers is
Garry Nolan from Stanford University, who’s a genetics expert. There
had been claims that some small humanoid skeleton found in Chile – the
so called Atacama Humanoid – might be ET. We could see why somebody
might think that if you see the structure. But anyway, Nolan and people
from other universities put together a complete genetics thing and did
the entire genome and found in fact no unfortunately this is not
evidence of ET, it’s a deformed human. That’s up on the website if you
to read the paper. It was published in one of the top genetics journals –
very well peer-reviewed. (Bhattacharya S, Li J, Sockell A, Kan MJ,
Bava FA, Chen SC, Ávila-Arcos MC, Ji X, Smith E, Asadi NB, Lachman RS,
Lam HYK, Bustamante CD, Butte AJ, Nolan GP. “Whole-genome sequencing of
Atacama skeleton shows novel mutations linked with dysplasia.” Genome
Research 2018 Apr;28(4):423-431.)
Meetings are being set up with people from other countries because
other countries, who also have materials, don’t necessarily want to give
them to the U.S. Government because they disappear into a black hole
and they never learn anything. But given our commitment as a public
benefit corporation, that’s not gonna happen with us. They are now
talking to us and we are collaborating on obtaining materials from
foreign countries.
We are negotiating with media outlets to get all this out in the
public in the form of documentaries or TV shows, whatever. So basically
that’s the back story, the forward story and I’m glad to answer any
questions. I’ll answer any I can.
QUESTIONER: Your good friend John Alexander published a book, and I
know I’ll have a chance to ask him this too. Why was it so hard for him
to find who is doing the research, who was holding files on UFOs? In his
book he said “Everybody thought someone else was doing it” and
everybody said in all the departments “it’s not me, it’s somebody else
that is doing it.”
PUTHOFF: It was somebody else doing it.
(Laughter)
PUTHOFF: If materials are being held in Special Access Programs,
casual conversation even with high-level people who know your interest
and they’re interested, too, won’t necessarily reveal the facts.
QUESTIONER: I think Luis Elizondo even said his own boss wasn’t quite sure what he was doing. Is that true?
PUTHOFF: That’s true.
BUCHMAN: My name is Joe Buchman, I was one of the organizers of the
2013 Citizen’s Hearing which was also an attempt to gather the best
evidence on ETs or UFOs. I don’t know if you are aware of those
hearings, if you are, I’d be interested in your take on it. But my
second question though would be about the other tapes. You said there
are a lot of other tapes. Are those classified? If not, or even if they
are, can you characterize them in any way or tell us more about them?
PUTHOFF: They’re not a lot different from this. Some of them were
classified because of where they were taken. But as far as the content
of what we are interested from the technical standpoint, they’re not
that different.
Provided you strike out the location and so on, then there’s a chance of getting them declassified and we are working on that.
BUCHMAN: Specifically regarding the Citizen Hearing, is there any of
the data presented there that you found particularly useful?
Answer: Well, you have to pick and choose among the data. I’m
familiar with the Citizen Hearing and so on and certainly the
depositions by the individuals who were in the launch towers for
missiles . . .
BUCHMAN: Bob Salas.
PUTHOFF: Bob Salas for example – that’s all really good data. And the
FAA administrator who came forward (John Callahan) – all good data.
BUCHMAN: Thank you.
QUESTIONER: Thanks very much for your talk. I wanted to bring up
something as to the nature of the release. I guess the figure was 22
million dollars and then the program was closed? It may be a leap, but I
think it’s common knowledge among UFO researchers that the spending in
actuality is in the billions if not more. So some people in the UFO
research community have raised the question, is this a duck on the pond,
to state a figure as low as 22 million and then state that the program
no longer exists. I was hoping you might have some comments on the
great deal of concern that has arisen from these statements.
PUTHOFF:
That’s a fair concern. This 22 million dollar
program was one particular program. That does not say that there were
not other programs with other funding levels. It isn’t like, suddenly
there was this one program that did not last long and did not have that
much money and it shut down.
Interest is continuing. Negotiations are continuing. The
programs are being looked at. A lot is going on. I and my colleagues
spend a lot of time in Washington talking to committees that are looking
at this from many different angles. So the general view that, “Oh, it
was just one program that came forward and didn’t provide much of value
and then it got cancelled . . .”. That’s not really the case.
Also those figures are associated with the figures that went out to
contractors. But that does not mean that people within the system aren’t
still working on it.
QUESTIONER: For all of us inventors working in our garages, on metric
engineering devices, is there going to be a clearinghouse for people to
trade discoveries? Just the thing about the frequency shift (to blue).
We can all be looking for line shifts with lasers to see if we can
generate generate micro effects. Something like that would be incredibly
valuable. How can that come out?”
PUTHOFF: We have a Maverick Inventor Program at EarthTech
International, my organization, and also at the To The Stars Academy is
putting together a research organization. So, if you are doing some
metric engineering in your lab and you’ve got some laser shifting a
frequency, bring them on; we will look at them.
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Harold E. Puthoff
Biography
In 1967, Puthoff earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from
Stanford University.
[1][2][3]
He then worked with, and invented, tunable lasers and electron beam
devices, concerning which he holds patents, and he is co-author (with R.
Pantell) of
Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics (Wiley, 1969), published in English, French, Russian and Chinese. Puthoff published papers on
polarizable vacuum (PV) and
stochastic electrodynamics topics, which are examples of alternative approaches to general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Puthoff took an interest in the
Church of Scientology in the late 1960s and reached what was then the top
OT VII level by 1971.
[3] Puthoff wrote up his "wins" for a Scientology publication, claiming to have achieved "
remote viewing" abilities.
[4] In 1974, Puthoff also wrote a piece for Scientology's
Celebrity magazine, stating that Scientology had given him "a feeling of absolute fearlessness".
[5] Puthoff severed all connection with Scientology in the late 1970s.
[6]
In the 1970s and '80s Puthoff directed a
CIA/
DIA-funded program at
SRI International to investigate
paranormal abilities, collaborating with
Russell Targ in a study of the purported
psychic abilities of
Uri Geller,
Ingo Swann,
Pat Price,
Joseph McMoneagle and others, as part of the
Stargate Project. Both Puthoff and Targ became convinced Geller and Swann had genuine psychic powers.
[7] However, Geller employed
sleight of hand tricks.
[8]
In 1985, Puthoff founded a for-profit company, EarthTech
International in Austin, TX. At about the same time, he founded an
academically-oriented scientific research organization, Institute for
Advanced Studies at Austin (IASA), also in Austin, TX, where he is
Director.
[9] Independent of the
Institute for Advanced Study
in Princeton, NJ, IASA pursues more focused research on topics
specifically related to energy generation and space propulsion, with
funding from anonymous donors.
Puthoff and EarthTech were granted a US Patent 5,845,220
[10]
in 1998 after five years delay. The claims were disputed that
information could be transmitted through a distance using a modulated
potential with no electric or magnetic field components. The case is
used for educational purposes in patent law
[11] as an example of a
valid
patent where "The lesson of the Puthoff patent is that in a world where
both types of patents are more and more common, even a competent
examiner may fail to distinguish innovation from pseudoscience."
Assessment of scholarship
Uri Geller was studied by
Russell Targ and Puthoff at the
Stanford Research Institute
(SRI). Targ and Puthoff declared to have demonstrated that Geller had
genuine psychic powers, though it was reported that there were flaws
with the controls in the experiments and Geller was caught using
sleight of hand on many other occasions.
[12][13] According to
Terence Hines:
Geller turned out to be nothing
more than a magician using sleight of hand and considerable personal
charm to fool his admirers. The tests at SRI turned out to have been run
under conditions that can best be described as chaotic. Few limits were
placed on Geller’s behavior, and he was more or less in control of the
procedures used to test him. Further, the results of the tests were
incorrectly reported in Targ and Puthoff’s Nature paper.[14]
The psychologists
David Marks and Richard Kammann attempted to replicate Targ and Puthoff’s
remote viewing
experiments. In a series of thirty-five studies, they were unable to
replicate the results so investigated the procedure of the original
experiments. Marks and Kammann discovered that the notes given to the
judges in Targ and Puthoff's experiments contained clues as to which
order they were carried out, such as referring to yesterday's two
targets, or they had the date of the session written at the top of the
page. They concluded that these clues were the reason for the
experiment's high hit rates.
[15][16] Terence Hines has written:
Examination of the few actual
transcripts published by Targ and Puthoff show that just such clues were
present. To find out if the unpublished transcripts contained cues,
Marks and Kammann wrote to Targ and Puthoff requesting copies. It is
almost unheard of for a scientist to refuse to provide his data for
independent examination when asked, but Targ and Puthoff consistently
refused to allow Marks and Kammann to see copies of the transcripts.
Marks and Kammann were, however, able to obtain copies of the
transcripts from the judge who used them. The transcripts were found to
contain a wealth of cues.[17]
According to Marks, when the cues were eliminated the results fell to a chance level.
[18] James Randi
noted that controlled tests by several other researchers, eliminating
several sources of cuing and extraneous evidence present in the original
tests, produced negative results. Students were also able to solve
Puthoff and Targ's locations from the clues that had inadvertently been
included in the transcripts.
[19]
Marks and Kamman concluded: "Until remote viewing can be
confirmed in conditions which prevent sensory cueing the conclusions of
Targ and Puthoff remain an unsubstantiated hypothesis."
[20]
Massimo Pigliucci has written Puthoff's research into zero-point energy is considered to be a
pseudoscience.
[21] According to
Martin Gardner,
Puthoff (and Targ) "imagined they could do research in parapsychology
but instead dealt with 'psychics' who were cleverer than they were".
[22]
Publications
- Pantell, Richard H.; Puthoff, H. E. (1969). Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics. New York: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-65790-5.
- H. E. Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing At Stanford Research Institute, 1996, from the website of Ingo Swann, also said to be an ex-employee of Project SCANATE.
- Puthoff, H. E. (2002). "Searching for the Universal Matrix in Metaphysics". Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology. 2: 22.
- Puthoff, H. E. (2002). "Polarizable Vacuum (PV) Approach to General Relativity". Foundations of Physics. 32 (6): 927–943. doi:10.1023/A:1016011413407. arXiv eprint
- Puthoff, H. E.; Little, S. R.;
Ibison, M. (2002). "Engineering the Zero-Point Field and Polarizable
Vacuum for Interstellar Flight". J. British Interplanetary Society. 55: 137–144. arXiv:astro-ph/0107316
. Bibcode:2002JBIS...55..137P..
This paper has been retracted, as stated in the arXiv entry: "Author
Ibison does not subscribe to some of the speculations in this document".
References
Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology: Harold E. Puthoff
Jack David, Michael Park. (1978). Playback: Canadian Selections.
McClelland and Stewart. p. 68. "Hal Puthoff, has a Ph.D. in electrical
engineering from Stanford University. He worked for the Naval Security
Group in Washington and then for the National Security Agency."
Hugh Urban. (2013). The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion.
Princeton University Press. p. 113. "A physicist with a PhD from
Stanford University, Harold Puthoff joined Scientology in the late 1960s
and quickly advanced to the OT VII level by 1971."
Puthoff, Hal, Success Story, Scientology Advanced Org Los Angeles (AOLA) special publication, 1971.
Celebrity magazine, Minor Issue 9, February 1974.
Harold Puthoff, "Harold Puthoff Responds on Zero-Point Energy," Skeptical Inquirer, September/October1998.
Russell Targ, Harold Puthoff. (2005). Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities. Hampton Roads Publishing Company.
Ben Harris. (1985). Gellerism Revealed: The Psychology and Methodology Behind the Geller Effect. Calgary: Micky Hades International.
Harold Puthoff at the Parapsychological Association
"Patent US5,845,220". European Patent Office. US Patent Office. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
DANIEL C., RISLOVE. "(Page 1304) A CASE STUDY OF INOPERABLE INVENTIONS: WHY IS" (PDF). University of Wisconsin Law School. University of Wisconsin Law School. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
James Randi. (1982). The Truth about Uri Geller. Prometheus Books.
Charles M. Wynn, Arthur W. Wiggins. (2001). Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins.
Joseph Henry Press. p. 163. "In reality, however, Geller, an
experienced magician and showman, simply bends the objects when no one
is watching. But, you may argue, millions of people were watching him on
TV! Geller is a master at an essential tool of the magician:
misdirection or distracting peoples' attention. He is quite good at
projecting an air of innocence that belies his actions. That he can fool
so many people is a tribute to slight-of-hand (sic) artistry, not
psychic power."
Terence Hines. (2003). Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 126
David Marks, Richard Kammann. (1978). Information transmission in remote viewing experiments. Nature 274: 680–81.
David Marks. (1981). Sensory cues invalidate remote viewing experiments. Nature 292: 177.
Terence Hines. (2003). Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 135
David Marks, Richard Kammann. (1980). The Psychology of the Psychic. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1573927987
James Randi. (1997). "Remote viewing" in An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural. St. Martin's Griffin.
C. E. M. Hansel. (1980). ESP and Parapsychology: A Critical Reevaluation. Prometheus Books. p. 293
Massimo Pigliucci. (2010). Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk.
University of Chicago Press. p. 90. "Harold Puthoff is the director of
Austin's Institute for Advanced Studies, but is also a well-known
parapsychologist and conducts research on so-called zero point energy,
the idea that one can extract energy from empty space—a proposition, I
should add, that violates basic principles of thermodynamics and that is
considered pseudoscience by credentialed physicists."
- Ward, Ray (2017). "The Martin Gardner Correspondence with Marcello Truzzi". Skeptical Inquirer. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. 41 (6): 57–59.
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