It's also worth mentioning that my understanding is that Ryan Graves is now a member of / consultant for private organisations that seemingly look to be trying to make money from UAP potentially as part of the in/out grift cycle that's seemingly been a part of government UAP/UFO stuff since Bigelow.
He works for Quantum Generative Materials (GenMat)
He seems to be no longer at GenMat, but is instead the CEO of a new startup called "Merged Point," which seems to be a more UAP-focussed version of GenMat. It has a podcast, hosted by Graves, called "merged"
The existence of UAP is no longer in question. Our modern-day tools of war prove this to us. Further understanding requires us to tune our instruments for the task.
With new sensors come new data. Unprecedented advancements in Machine Intelligence assisted scientific discovery are poised to radically advance our scientific velocity.
MERGED POINT will make targeted investments into sensing & AI technologies that enable data driven understanding of UAP.
This is a freshly minted company, and the website is rather sparse, as is the social media presence, which seems to have been created by an SEO company (likely SEO Capital Ventures - the CEO's profile being used as a test "friend" on an otherwise empty page)
In a strange series of connections, that friend, Shelly Herrara-oneal, also posts on the Chris Mellon facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/chriskmellon/posts/734356240913770/
That group is run by two accounts, a "
Christopher K. Mellon" and a "
Carola Tripodo" (an Italian UFOlogist). IN May 2022, the Mellon FB account reposted a tweet by Chris Mellon's verified Twitter account that said the Facebook account was fake.
Christopher K. Mellon
@ChrisKMellon
Apparently, on other platforms (i.e. Facebook), people have created credible-looking fake accounts and are pretending to post and speak for me. I only post on Twitter and through my personal website— the rest are fake.
8:34 AM · May 22, 2022
According to LinkedIn, Merged Point was founded by Ryan Graves,
Mark Troncale,
Bryan Ingram, and
John Fyke,
Bryan Ingram is also the CEO of "MAD Energy Power Systems"
CEO, MAD Energy Power Systems
MAD Energy · Full-time
Sep 2022 - Present · 6 mos
United States
Exclusive power supplier to next generation quantum data pod company Adacen
Which seems originally to be a Crypto-related speculative startup.
Make A Difference Ventures
MAD is launching a security token that will be the power behind their proven clean energy technologies, transforming the planet by eliminating GHG emissions creating a carbon-free future.
Industries: Sustainability
Headquarters:
Sandpoint, United States
Stage: Debt Financing
Their sole mentioned customer there is Adacen, which seems on the face of it to be a datacenter with a terrible website, and known only for partnership with Submer (a liquid immersion server cooling technology). But Ingram described it as the "next generation quantum data pod company Adacen"
"Quantum data pod" is a phrase that only exists on Ingram's Linkedin page, but sounds like something Deep Prasad might talk about.
But back to MAD energy: they've evolved a bit, and now list three things they do:
1 - Firebird LNG - an arrangement to build an LNG facility in Suriname, which does not seem to be under construction yet.
2 - Adacen Data Centers - who they "supply" power" to (which they really can't as they don't make power, perhaps just resell it), MAD is a part owner of Adacen. Probably that investment is it only real connection.
3 - R&D projects, which is:
Quantum Wave Wireless Energy
MAD Energy is working with industry leaders to identify emergent technologies most ready for commercialization to transform the future of energy distribution. Harnessing low-band wave-form technology, the wireless transmission of energy stands to transform the global energy value chain.
Golden Cypher
MAD Energy is supporting the commercialization of next generation quantum resilient encryption technology across multiple sectors, including data security, wireless transmission technology, fintech and industrial, commercial and IoT control.
There's that Quantum buzzword again - "Quantum Wave Wireless Energy" is also an entirely novel phrase. Supposedly "wireless transmission of energy." This all reminds me of V3Solar, which we looked into here, that was claiming power-line transmission of internet (based on eitirely nonsense science) as well as a silly spinning solar cell.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/de...ing-solar-panel-cone-spin-cell-coolspin.1166/
Then I started to watch a video with the founder of MAD, George Wentz,
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2C69axX6Ss
He seems to be presenting a utopian libertarian dream of decentralized power, which seemed to be a weird mixture of solar power, wireless power transmission, hydrogen fuel cells, and using crypto. Towards the end he implies that the Adacen connection is about future power supplies. He also reassures the viewer that they are not a scam.
Their invest page (linked from the YouTube channel)
was a crypto token page, the "MAD Token"
https://web.archive.org/web/20220329155940/https://mad.energy/invest/
But now goes to a
RegD Investment.
That was a deeper dive than I intended. Back to Grave's Merged Point, one of their three "Areas of Focus" is:
ADVANCED ENERGY AND PROPULSION SYSTEMS
Unlocking further understanding of UAP will enable radical breakthroughs in our understanding of critical technologies and entirely new fields of science that are currently unknown to us.
MERGED POINT will target investments into technologies that translate these learnings into critical Energy & Transportation technologies needed to create a sustainable and secure future.
The financial viability of this is of course predicated on "UAP" representing radically new technology (possibly ET) and/or representing "entirely new fields of science"
This unfortunately presents something of a perception of conflict of interest. There's now a strong financial incentive to promote UAP, and we should read articles like the one in The Hill as potentially influenced by that incentive.
