With all due respect to Mr. Elizondo, I am certain your credentials are impeccable and you have served with honor and distinction. What most of us (who have been doing the serious, mostly boring, very hard work of UFO research, for many decades) want to know is this: What, specifically, do you *know* (beyond what is already known, i.e. that UFOs are real) about anomalous UFO phenomena, as a result of your previous work experience? Or, put more clearly, did your previous job involve looking into anomalous UFO phenomena at all?
That last question should not be hard to answer. Many of us here have scientific training, myself included, and would not hesitate to give forth on what we know (for free, and willingly) the *moment* we had that knowledge to offer. If what we know is that important to humanity, there is no reason to hide it behind a paywall. You must know this field is filled with people trying to make a buck, which is not necessarily a bad thing, nor am I saying that is your primary motive but it can be a stain on your reputation if you let it. I would simply caution you (and your team, DeLonge specifically) that your efforts at fundraising the UFO community thus far have not been well received. We have all been burnt in the past by the Steven Greers, and Billy Meiers, and George Adamskis of the UFO research world, and we are sick of it. If you are just going to repackage what is already known, we simply don't want it. If this is the case, make it about entertainment and forego the pretense at "doing good science," because the science is already being done.
There are many great UFO researchers who simply do not seek out the kind of notoriety the TTS/AAS team seems to want to court. There are hard working researchers like Mike Swords, Robert Powell, Richard Thieme, Barry Greenwood, Bill Chalker, Linda Murphy, Mark Rodeghier, Ron Westrum, and many more excellent researchers who seek neither fame nor status in the UFO circus set. The hard work is being done, though most wouldn't know anything about it.
So, please, on behalf of the entire UFO community of sincere seekers and hard workers, tell us something new. Don't BS us and certainly don't tease it out in dribs and drabs. We already know research takes time and money and hard work. We've been doing that on our own for a very long time. But, if you want us to believe and support you and TTS/AAS, don't join the UFO circus as another side act.
