The U.S. Army has signed a contract to study and exploit materials from unidentified flying objects. It intends to use what it learns in order to develop new weapons platforms.

No, I'm not joking.

The facts are provided in a newly agreed cooperative research and development contract between the U.S. Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command (specifically, the Ground Vehicle Systems Center) and the UFO technology exploitation group To The Stars Academy. Established by Blink-182 founder Tom DeLonge, To The Stars Academy involves former U.S. government, military, and advanced aerospace engineers in the research and capability exploitation of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UFOs.

The U.S. Army's stamped and signed 26-page contract is quite stunning.

It says that To The Stars Academy has shown the Army that it "is a company with materiel and technology innovations that offer capability advancements for Army ground vehicles. These technology innovations have been acquired, designed, or produced by [To The Stars Academy], leveraging advancements in metamaterials and quantum physics to push performance gains."

"The government is interested," the contract explains, "in a variety of the collaborator's technologies, such as, but not limited to inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural metamaterials, electromagnetic metamaterial wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion." The contract also entails the research of metamaterial exploitation for the purposes of "active camouflage and directed photo projection." On that last point, an Army spokesman tells me that To The Stars Academy has conveyed it has means of supporting "camouflage concealment deception and obscuration" interests.

But what is this metamaterial?

I can confirm that at least some of the source material was retrieved from crash remnants or materials sourced from UFOs. Analysis of these UFOs suggests they are enabled with space-time, cloaking, transmedium travel, and gravity manipulation capabilities. That's not crazy conspiracy talk. In a key credibility submission, the contract adds that "the Office of the Secretary of Defense can share historical reports of findings and origin of materiel solutions in the possession of [To The Stars Academy]."

Translation: historical reports of material exploitation from crashed UFOs. We're not in Kansas anymore, folks.

With a baseline 60-month duration, the contract will give the Army "access to advanced materiel solutions" in To The Stars Academy's possession. To The Stars Academy will provide the government with access to its subject matter experts and metamaterial of both "mechanical and electromagnetic sensitive metamaterial." In turn, To The Stars Academy will share in the government's research findings and have access to its testing facilities. Neither side will pay the other for the contract.

The government's rationale for the contract is simple. "If the government can verify materiel solutions claims by [To The Stars Academy]," it says, "then significant advancements can be made in the capabilities of Army ground vehicle platforms in terms of security, force protection and weight reduction."

Read between the lines here: How do you reduce weight? Gravity manipulation.

Yes, Tom DeLonge has a penchant for saying things that are unbound from established evidence. But he and his organization deserve significant credit here. Because with this formal contract, they have gained the U.S. government's open attestation that it believes To The Stars Academy has access to exceptionally advanced technological capabilities.