Was the “top secret” government program investigating UFOs actually a secret? What’s the real secret right in all of this that I think most people haven’t even realized yet? The answer is as complicated as it is interesting. AATIP, or the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, received 22 million dollars of taxpayer money over 5 years to investigate UFOs which they called UAPs, and study related technologies. The three UAP videos of Gimbal, Go Fast, and FLIR1 were released by Luis Elizondo of AATIP, but not officially cleared for release to the general public. Regardless, these now famous videos were linked to the program investigating the phenomena, and in a recent admission by the U.S. Navy it was stated that these videos show real UAPs, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, which still cannot be explained.

But was this program actually classified and completely secret? Well according to Senator Harry Reid (who had a large role in setting up the program along with Robert Bigelow) around 80% of the program was unclassified. So why then, have people like reporter George Knapp, Luis Elizondo from AATIP and TTSA, and Commander Fravor, all been repeating that AATIP was FOIA exempt? In order to be exempt from the Freedom Of Information Act, information needs to qualify for one of 9 exemptions. To learn how this whole process works and to get up to speed on the statements by Knapp, Elizondo, and Fravor, please watch this video first. Now that we have a solid background this topic, let me explain what I think is happening.

Some of the confusion might be a result of people repeating partially incorrect information they have heard others say, or some of it could also be a result of misinterpretations, but I think there is probably more to it than that. I think that a lot of the program really was FOIA exempt, and let me explain exactly how and why. If the government wanted all UFO reports to be completely exempt from FOIA requests, the best way would be to have all reports sent directly to a private company. The FAA manuals for military and civilian pilots instructed them to report all UFO sightings to BAASS or Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, which would then make all of that information private and not available to the public.

What does that have to do with AATIP being secret or FOIA exempt? Well if AATIP’s main purpose is to study UAPs, and BAASS possess all of the reports of UAP’s, then they would definitely need to cooperate and work closely together. In addition, this government web-page seems to suggest that the Supreme Court ruled that inter-agency correspondence can fall under FOIA exemption number 5, as privileged communication, even if it occurs between the government and an “outside consultant” such as Bigelow or his companies. I believe that this is why the letter shown by Knapp stated that, “Exemptions 1 and 5 apply.”

Image from The Black Vault- John Greenewald’s video explaining how FOIA and exemptions work

Elizondo also cited exemptions 1 and 5 during this presentation in which he went on to say that he doesn’t know exactly why the 3 UAP videos were approved for release, but that he knows why he wanted them to come out. Elizondo said, “I know the purposes that we wanted for them to come out, and that was to establish an unclassified community of interest, that everybody could be part of and look at…” This statement seems extremely important. Who is Elizondo referring to when he says “we wanted” … does he mean TTSA? That would make the most sense because he is giving a presentation on the history of AATIP while representing TTSA, and an “unclassified community of interest” is language that was frequently used by TTSA as I’m sure most readers and TTSA fans are probably aware. Obviously, if TTSA told him to release the videos that would be very significant and carry a lot of implications about the nature of both organizations. And even if he means AATIP when he says, “we” then that still begs the question of why AATIP would want to create a community of interest.

We (as in the American public) also now have a list of all the academic studies that were done by subcontractors for AATIP as was released after a letter from Senator John McCain. I encourage everyone to skim over this document because the technologies they researched are all very interesting and exotic such as wormholes, stargates, and warp drives. But perhaps even more interestingly, the names that are listed on some of these papers such as Hal Puthoff and Eric E. Davis are linked not only to AATIP, but also to Bigelow AND also to TTSA or To The Stars Academy.

Where have we heard of launching small satellites with lasers before? You guessed it, TTSA. They even used a clip from this video demonstration in a promotional video. Let me explain what I think most people are missing with a potential BAASS/AATIP/TTSA connection-

Bigelow made AATIP in conjunction with his friend Harry Reid, all of the money for the program went to Bigelow’s company who then gave some of the money to Hal Puthoff’s company EarthTech International which was used as a subcontractor, and now EarthTech (and Dr. Eric Davis) are the ones who are tasked with analyzing the metamaterials for TTSA that Bigelow bought from MUFON using AATIP taxpayer money. These may be the very same metamaterials that Luis Elizondo talked about, and obviously Elizondo himself is another huge connection between AATIP and TTSA. And here he is with one of the UFO authors who wrote the bombshell 2017 article about AATIP for the NY Times, Leslie Kean.

Leslie Kean and Luis Elizondo. (Can we get an ID on the ring? My guess is Freemason)

Continuing on with the connections, Hal Puthoff is another employee that worked for both BAASS (under AATIP) and now for TTSA. Additionally, the organization involved with the Skinwalker Ranch paranormal investigation was called the National Institute for Discovery Science or NIDS. NIDS was the precursor to BAASS and essentially morphed into it. This makes it interesting that Colm Kelleher, the Deputy Administrator from NIDS, is now a “biotech consultant” for TTSA. So with all of these obvious connections to Robert Bigelow, is it possible that TTSA is a continuation of AATIP? Maybe he was one of the initial investors and secretly set up the company to continue the AATIP program in a much more public way after the government funding dried up. This would also explain the mysterious Tom DeLonge selfie with Luis Elizondo and Robert Bigelow around the same time as TTSA formation.

I explained this theory during a recent discussion I had with Mick West you can watch below, and I also had a friendly debate with him about the Gimbal, Go Fast, and FLIR1/F4.mpg videos and the Nimitz Encounter.

For the context of this article and to preemptively address potential criticisms that might arise, I must concede that deleted group-selfies and speculative theories aren’t exactly hard proof of anything. So for now, we need wait for further developments and attempt to dig up more evidence that further proves the connection between AATIP/BAASS/TTSA even more clearly than something as obvious as hiring the same employees. But I think one thing should be perfectly clear to everyone… If the government wanted to hide secrets away from the prying eyes of FOIA requests, the easiest way would be to hide it in plain sight within a private company that is inherently completely FOIA exempt, and all sensitive communications could also be made FOIA exempt under exemption 5 of inter-agency privileged communications with an outside consultant.

This strategy of unclassified secrecy could work for everything from UFO reports including the MUFON database purchased by Bigelow and all the sightings reported as per the FAA manual, to the alleged UFO debris or metamaterials that were supposedly kept in a modified Las Vegas facility by BAASS.

John Greenewald of The Black Vault has told me he is working on more information coming out soon about the alleged FOIA exemptions for AATIP, and everyone in the UFO community is still patiently waiting on the metamaterial analysis results to be published by TTSA and hopefully other material scientists like Deep Prasad. The only way to verify these findings will be through the process of scientific peer review and also by releasing the materials for further examination to a truly independent laboratory that’s not under the control and payroll of TTSA or Robert Bigelow. Until then, we will have to continue to remain skeptical of the official narrative, and remember to consistently Question Every Detail.