President Trump's chief science & tech policy adviser Michael Kratsios proclaimed that our technology "can manipulate space and time" and "leave distance annihilated". He offered no details.

Kratsios spoke at the "Endless Frontiers Retreat" on April 14 in Austin, Texas.

https://whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/8716/ 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Cyqiw6HHBk

Gary Franchie sums it up quite nicely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hwhlhaW1G0

The retreat featured officials from the Trump, Biden, Obama and Bush administrations, defense and intelligence experts, scientists and various deep-pocket investors.

@axios has a good breakdown here

https://axios.com/2025/04/15/texas-trump-
kratsios-defense-endless-frontiers-summit

A few things that stood out:

1. The retreat was co-sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which has been claimed by conspiracy theorists to be a "shadow government" pushing for a global "New World Order".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_conspiracy_theory

In 2024, CFR produced a credulous podcast about how UFOs are a national security security threat. The podcast promoted several false or inaccurate narratives.

https://cfr.org/podcasts/ufos-close-encounters-national-security-kind

2. The retreat was also co-sponsored by Rice University and Baylor University.

Rice has recently hosted pseudoscientific presentations from key UFO activists (like Lue Elizondo) and paranormal investigators (Colm Kelleher).

https://x.com/MiddleOfMayhem/status/1875211576552394985

https://youtu.be/uM-HWw3qU1k?t=276

Baylor University was, as recently as 2024, the home of Eric Davis - an astrophysicist and major UFO figure who's written "crackpot" papers about psychic spoon bending, wormholes and time travel.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240226152659/https://casper.research.baylor.edu/people

https://x.com/MiddleOfMayhem/status/1898040029932671404

3. Austin

Austin is the home of Hal Puthoff, another major figure in UFO circles. His Austin-based company Earthtech is made up of Baylor's Eric Davis (above) and his sons. His son's alma mater is University of Texas at Austin (another sponsor of this retreat). Perhaps a coincidence, but ...

https://linkedin.com/in/harold-hal-puthoff-b738304/ https://earthtech.org/team/

https://axios.com/2025/04/15/texas-trump-kratsios-defense-endless-frontiers-summit

https://axios.com/2025/04/08/gallatin-ai-8vc-military-logistics

https://x.com/MiddleOfMayhem/status/1912533535782789181

Thanks to "Ravenlocke" for this research. I'm just the messenger.

Mods, I think this should be pinned. If you are lacking time, just listen to Gary Franchie's video.