Jack Sarfatti - his ideas about the Tic Tac came from "a phone call from an alien"

This document is a blog post dated March 15, 2021, authored by Keith Basterfield, which examines the theories and personal history of U.S. physicist Jack Sarfatti regarding the 2004 USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' UAP encounters. Sarfatti postulates that the UAP utilizes a low-power warp drive within a meta-material fuselage, controlled by a conscious AI post-quantum computer, allowing for time travel. The post details Sarfatti's academic background, including his education at Cornell and UC Riverside, and his career history, which includes work on the Strategic Defense Initiative. A significant portion of the document explores the origin of Sarfatti's ideas, citing diary entries from Jacques Vallee and articles from FATE magazine. These sources describe Sarfatti's childhood experiences in 1952 and 1953, where he claims to have received phone calls from a 'mechanical voice' identifying itself as a computer on board a flying saucer. These calls allegedly instructed him to theorize about vacuum energy and faster-than-light propulsion. The document also includes comments from readers discussing the nature of these claims, with some suggesting potential military hoaxes or alternative interpretations of the phenomena. The archive entry concludes with a summary of Sarfatti's claims as of March 2020, noting his assertions regarding metamaterials, Novikov loops, and his alleged connections to figures like Caspar Weinberger and the Bechtel corporation.