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I do not think Deep Prasad needs any introduction, but in case you have been living under a rock, he is the CEO of ReactiveQ — a multi-million dollar quantum computing tech start-up based out of Toronto (via VICE), and one of the “Young Guns” in the UFO community.

Not only this, but the University of Toronto said Prasad could be “the next Einstein.” (You can check out the details of that assertion here.)

I had the opportunity to ask Prasad a few questions about TTSA (et al).

Prasad’s ability to simultaneously support and criticize TTSA (et al) is something lacking in the community. It is a symptom of someone who honestly cares.

There are too many hard-liners on these issues, and seldom is that ever the correct position — in anything.

So without further ado…

1.) It appears there are a lot of ‘agendas’ out there in the UFO community. There are the skeptics and there are those who want to believe. But what is it you’d like to bring to the UFO community? Do you have career goals related to UFOs you’d like to accomplish?

To better understand my agenda, I should explain how I think about the world and why I do anything at all.

I am allergic to the word “career” and don’t believe in the term when applied to myself. To be honest, when I got into the world’s first quantum computing incubator right after graduation and became a CEO because of it, I did it because it was the ultimate mix of passion (my love for physics, and more specifically, quantum mechanics) and an ability to make a large scale impact on the world one day.

One can say being a CEO is a career, but I regard it as a means to an end. I am interested in living in a society where our materialistic needs are taken care of, where no one needs to work and everyone is a philosopher, artist, scientist, engineer and so on by choice. A world where we are free to explore the Universe and are a peaceful race interested in attaining knowledge and spiritual and scientific progress indefinitely.

My original plan was to scale my quantum company and live a private life as long as possible, being accountable to no one but my customers. It appears fate had something else in mind for me. My plan now is to keep working on this company, but also to establish hard science in the community.

I would like to scientifically prove that we are not alone in the Universe. I am doing this in two parts simultaneously: 1) Establish which channels are the most promising for getting this kind of evidence and 2) establishing my own scientific “street cred” so that I can attract world leading scientists to the field who otherwise would not pay attention no matter how many books, documentaries, and news articles are released about UFOs.

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2.) There has been a lot of controversy in establishing credentials among members of TTSA. Do you have an opinion on that? Do you think Elizondo is who he says he is?

I believe there should be no surprise that it has been hard establishing credentials, particularly Luis Elizondo’s credentials, given the nature of the claims him and TTSA have made over the past two years.

Should even a fraction of it turn out to be true, it would end up being the most important news mankind has ever discovered. For example, in a CNN interview in 2017, I believe, Luis Elizondo says that he believes there’s compelling evidence that we are not alone, “whatever that means.”

It is the head of the Pentagon UFO program saying this. Not some random person on the internet who decided to watch Secureteam10 videos.

It will take an official validation from the Pentagon confirming Lue is who he says he is for these kinds of claims to have a definitive, psychological impact on the American people and the world at large. This no doubt is something that they (the Pentagon) likely wish to avoid dealing with. I believe Lue is exactly who he says he is and more. In fact, I would like to put it on record that I think he knows more about the phenomena than people can imagine, he has said it himself on Unidentified that he wishes he could say more about what he knows.

3.) What are some of the issues you’ve found with TTSA? Is there anything you feel they could be doing better? It’s apparent that their lack of clarity is an issue. Thoughts?

The biggest issue I’ve found is the lack of scientific evidence being provided, and that it is inversely proportional to the kinds of claims being made by almost everyone in the group.

What I mean by that is this: you have the CEO talking about how a high ranking general told him that we found an alien body during the cold war. You also have one of the top scientists who worked for TTSA’s partner company Earth Tech Intl, Dr. Eric Davis, discussing how Atlantis may be real and that Philip Corso’s claims checks out according to his personal investigations.

This is deeply problematic for many reasons. First of all, the technological progress of fibre optics, transistors and kevlar all followed very logical jumps in science and does not need the existence of alien spaceships to explain their development. Without providing a single shred of evidence, a scientist like Davis takes a huge hit to their credibility for backing such claims.

Further, I recently released ~80% of a scientific report that was done on TTSA’s bismuth magnesium metal alloys which were conducted 7 years ago. Neither Dr. Puthoff or Dr. Davis have ever acknowledged this report or the scientist that Dr. Puthoff had given the metals to for analysis.

The report directly contradicts the claim that the metal alloys are composed of only Bi + MgZn, and the x-ray powder diffraction analysis (XRD) directly contradicts the claim that the layers are bonded in ways that are impossible for us to achieve. If TTSA were actually sitting on “alien engineered metals,” and the scientists knew it, why on Earth would one of their top scientists (Davis), who works for a company responsible for analyzing TTSA’s materials, leave the group when TTSA could be on the verge of becoming the most important company to ever exist?

If the materials were so unearthly, why hide the analysis that were done on them by reputable labs? So, the biggest problem TTSA has is the lack of hard science to back their claims and in reality a track record of only telling half the truth, which looks absolutely terrible in the eyes of the greater scientific community. They don’t even need to publish peer reviewed papers. A straightforward whitepaper detailing what experiments have been done and by who would go a very long way in building credibility.

4.) I can’t be sure what others think about Bob Lazar, but I would like to know what you think about his story. According to George Knapp, there has been a good amount of truth in Lazar’s story, but there are other details that don’t seem to line up. What are your thoughts?

I believe Bob Lazar saw exactly what he said he saw. I don’t believe for a second that he went to MIT and CalTech, given some of the blunders in physics he made and continues to make with respect to Gravity “being a wave.”

For starters, gravity waves, as we observe them, are just oscillations in spacetime moving at the speed of light. This doesn’t mean gravity has been established to be “a wave” as Lazar keeps saying. We simply don’t know if the graviton exists yet and whether it follows a particle-wave duality as photons and electrons do. Once we establish that, then we can say “gravity can behave sometimes as a wave, and sometimes as a particle.”

5.) How do you feel about DeLonge’s strategy in welding hard science with entertainment in order to reach a larger audience? TTSA’s fictional works do support the science division in a sense, but I wonder if it’s the best strategy.

From a psychology perspective, it may actually be a great strategy to disseminate world-view shattering truths in the form of media. But media should come last.

First, the scientific evidence for what is being claimed should be established, then when it dawns on the public that “this alien stuff is for real”, TTSA should release its entertainment products.

Unfortunately, they have produced no hard science of any kind and have produced only entertainment, which UFOlogy is already saturated with. If TTSA is serious about reaching the widest possible audience, they will become darlings of the science world who currently guard the majority of the world’s world-views.

For example, how many people have actually been to space? Almost no one. We take scientist’s word for it that space exists. How many have measured the speed of light for themselves? Again, almost nobody.

We can trust scientists on these things and we have good reason to — they follow the scientific method and peer review each other’s work. Thus, if the scientific community becomes convinced of alien life based on evidence and peer review, that will be enough for the rest of the world to eventually change its views.

I would like to thank Deep for his willingness to field my questions, and for having a sense of nuance with everything he does. Not only is he professional and thoughtful, he is passionate about what he does, and that is what this field needs if it is going to survive and thrive.

I think Deep would agree with me when I say I hope TTSA provides more substantial evidence of their claims in 2020. The entertainment division is great, and I hope it continues, but TTSA needs a way to bolster the science division(s).

Here’s to the future!