Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist. Working largely
outside academia, Sarfatti specializes in the study of quantum physics and consciousness.

Sarfatti was born in Brooklyn, New York. In Destiny Matrix (2002), Sarfatti wrote that, when he was 13,
he received at least one telephone call from a voice that said it was a conscious computer on a spaceship. The voice said he had been
identified as "one of 400 bright young receptive minds," and that he would be picked up shortly from his building's fire escape.

He and several friends waited, he wrote, but nothing happened.

Dr. Sarfatti secured his admission to Cornell University while coordinating Sandia National Laboratories-
funded parapsychological research studies of New York City gifted children (so-called "superkids.")

In 1960, he obtained his B.A in physics from Cornell University, where he was also a lead tenor in the "Cornell Savoyards" .

Three years later, he published his first paper, "Quantum- Mechanical Correlation Theory of Electromagnetic Fields," in Nuovo Cimento, the journal of the Italian Physical Society.

Following graduate studies at Cornell and Brandeis University, he obtained an M.S. in physics in 1967 from the University of California, San Diego before receiving a Ph.D. in the discipline in 1969 from the University of California, Riverside, where he studied under Fred Cummings.

From 1967 to 1971, Sarfatti was an assistant professor of physics at San Diego State University.
During the 1971–1972 academic year, he held a research fellowship at Birkbeck, University of London, where he worked with David Bohm.

He also studied at the Cornell Space Science Center, the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics
in Munich.

In 1973–1974 he conducted research into mini black holes at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.

At around this time he decided to leave academia, seeing it as too sterile.

Sarfatti's politics have leaned to the right since the early 1980s, when he became dependent on a cadre of "politically conservative thinkers who were drawn to certain New Age ideas" for research funding.

He endorses the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory and perceives the majority of faculty at American universities as constituting "the enemy within."

For over forty years, Sarfatti has maintained a close friendship with conservative talk show host and medical anthropologist Michael Savage.

In May 1978 Sarfatti filed for a patent for a "faster-than-light quantum communication system," which would be able, he said, to transmit a human voice instantly across vast distances without any possibility of eavesdropping.

In February 1986 he argued during a meeting at the New York Academy of Sciences that faster-than-light communication was possible using
time loops, and said he had tried to persuade the Defense Department to fund the research.

In 2010 Sarfatti was among 30 people invited to join a working group, the 100-Year Starship study, financed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA's Ames Research Center, to discuss how interstellar space flight might be achieved.] Sarfatti was invited by Creon Levit of NASA, who told the BBC that Sarfatti is able to discuss unusual ideas without worrying about the effect on his career: "Although his interests and style are outside of the mainstream, he is a fully pedigreed physicist and he knows as much or more than mainstream physicists.

When he talks about "warp drives" , he knows what he's talking about.

Sarfatti believes that he knows how the Tic Tac flies using the technology of "low power warp drive."

Dr. Sarfatti believes that the "Tic Tac" contact was with an advanced intelligence from our future, which was encountered by fighter jets
from the US Navy aircraft carrier Nimitz Battle Group in November 2004 off the coast of San Diego, California.