The science and aerospace divisions are devoted to the "outer edges of science" such as investigating
unidentified flying objects. To the Stars has detailed the risks involved with this research to potential investors, including possible failure to produce results in areas such as
beamed energy propulsion launch systems and
telepathy. Vice reported that the company's "partnership with the U.S. Army may mean that it fancies itself as a
military contractor", but that the organization "swings between being contenders for military contracts and a UFO research organization".
The VAULT The "Virtual Analytics
UAP Learning Tool" (VAULT) is a public-facing database of UFO sightings. The VAULT team collects, analyses and provides their authentication of UFO sightings, most famously reported in the media as having been obtained through declassified government materials. Three videos from the VAULT taken during the
USS Nimitz UFO incident and the
USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents were publicly confirmed by the US Navy in September 2019 as authentic videos taken by Navy pilots. In April 2020, the same footage released by the company was subsequently declassified and officially released by the Navy. The company, with assistance from
Christopher Mellon, who worked formerly for the
Senate Intelligence Committee and the
Department of Defense, engaged congress and arranged classified
congressional hearings with the pilots involved in the incidents aimed at understanding potential threats to aviators.
ADAM Research Project The company's ADAM Research Project is promoting what they believe to be an "extraterrestrial" metal for commercial and military applications. Steve Justice, To The Stars's COO and former head of Advanced Systems at
Lockheed Martin's
Skunk Works said in a statement that "the structure and composition of these materials are not from any known existing military or commercial application” and that the materials would be studied in an attempt to
reverse engineer them. According to the company, the metals are believed to be from an unidentified flying object, and were previously "retained and studied" by
ufologist Linda Moulton Howe. Today, however, she claims she has had the samples tested by
Carnegie Science's Department of Technical Magnetism in 1996 and again by Harold E. Puthoff and others on several occasions. According to a letter from Puthoff in 2012 the tests were unable to prove the alien origin of the samples or any "interesting/anomalous outcome" but suggested that one additional test was remaining that required special equipment which was not readily available. The five-year contract will focus on "inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion." According to the U.S. Army, no public funding will go to the group, but at least $750,000 will be provided in support and resources for developing and testing To the Stars technologies. The contract states that To the Stars will provide samples in its possession of “
metamaterials”, any data or “obtained vehicles" that use “beamed energy propulsion,” and any information or technology related to “active camouflage” for testing and analysis of potential application on Army ground vehicles. Doug Halleaux, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center, has stated that the US government has approached To the Stars since “If materials represented in the TTSA ADAM project are scientifically evaluated and presented with supporting data as having military utility by the TTSA, it makes sense to look deeper here.” According to Halleaux, the Army is also interested in the results of a collaboration between To the Stars and
TruClear Global, a company that creates custom video screen billboards, aimed at providing "advanced technology solutions to United States Government clientele." == Published works ==