Friday, March 8, 2019

Disclosure Deja Vu: Before Tom DeLonge’s TTSA There Was Joe Firmage’s INTERNASA

https://www.dailygrail.com/2019/03/disclosure-deja-vu-before-tom-delonges-ttsa-there-was-joe-firmages-internasa/?fbclid=IwAR0C3MK_B9tk6nWEXqEWDgUcd02jKs7hSTH0b4Vic2opsz4gTpY_j2eKvZc

In the last 16 months or so the UFO online community has seemed to divide itself into two separate camps: those who are very supportive of Tom DeLonge and the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Scienceand everyone else.
The disagreement between the two groups can turn pretty acrimonious on social media, where DeLonge’s apologists are very actively spreading memes suggesting that UFO Disclosure is ‘just around the corner, while attacking those who beg to differ –don’t believe me? You can put that to the test only by tweeting some rant aimed at DeLonge, Luis Elizondo or their company. You’ll attract the attention of TTSA trolls quicker than it takes to say “alien alloys” three times fast…


But Disclosure die-hard fans should do well in heeding the words of the ‘greybeards’ of the tribe who keep advising them to curb their enthusiasm. And perhaps there’s no better cautionary tale to illustrate this than the story of Joe Firmage.
Firmage is not a name that you hear often in current UFO discussions, and yet he –like Tom DeLonge–was all the rage some 20 years ago.  Back then he was highly regarded as a cybernetic ‘wunderkid’ during the wild years of the dotcom revolution, after having founded the billion-dollar-worth company USWeb in 1995 and becoming a millionaire before turning 30. Like so many other early online ventures, USWeb eventually went down in 2001 when the first dotcom bubble burst, but not before Firmage stepped down as CEO in 1998 –voluntarily, according to him in an interview— due to a series of scandalous revelations which seemed to have made the stockholders shudder: Firmage claimed that just before USWeb had its IPO in 1997, he experienced a sort of ‘visitation’ from a luminous being inside his bedroom:


Another connecting link between DeLonge and Firmage seems to be Hal Puthoff. Puthoff is vice-president of TTSA’s Science and Technology division; he’s also the CEO of EarthTech International, Inc. (ETI), and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin (IASA). In a 1998 interview , Firmage enthusiastically shows to the reporter “a spiral-bound sheaf of Xeroxes–scientific papers written by Harold E. Puthoff.” Whether those papers were specifically commissioned by Firmage’s organization is not specified in the article, but it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to assume Puthoff was willing to collaborate with him, and submit his scientific knowledge in order to speculate on the physics that could allow anti-gravity fields and faster-than-light propulsion, just like he’s currently doing with To the Stars and how he also did for Bigelow’s BAASS when the Vegas tycoon held the AATIP contract –even though such speculations are currently not taken seriously by most science commentators and physicists.


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