It’s assumed that Bigelow affiliates initially enchanted Lockheed with the credibility of former intelligence employees. In 2015, Lockheed executives invited Tom DeLonge to a barbecue for Skunk Works. Bigelow affiliates were there.
They were all involved in helping DeLonge’s pitch for media projects to promote aerospace and the Pentagon to younger audiences. UFOs weren’t discussed until the 2nd or 3rd meeting. Detailed here- https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28377/tom-delonges-ori...
Later, prominent executives from Lockheed Skunk Works and a Major General were talking with DeLonge and John Podesta. All under the assumption that Hillary Clinton would win the Presidency.
Later, Lockheed dropped out. It’s impossible to know the extent of what’s happening but it would be illegal for the US Government to engage in disinformation either directly or indirectly. The claim that DeLonge’s operation is controlled by the CIA is false. The former intelligence people working with him are true believers who lack any actual evidence of aliens.
Most likely, a highly sophisticated private group with complex financial incentives is purposely misleading individuals and groups. They’re exploiting naive former government employees and dubious government scientists who skirt the line of fraud in the pursuit of radical technology. And the Air Force uses it for cover and the CIA for national security vectors and foreign disinformation.