Our Team
We come from different worlds — military, intelligence, aerospace engineering, classical music, software architecture, and a family archive — but we're united by one purpose: bringing Valerijs Černohajev's work into the light, with the rigor and care it deserves.
Valerijs Černohajev
Valerijs Černohajev (1958–2019) was a Soviet aerospace engineer whose technical archive forms the foundation of the Černohajev corpus. Born in Guryev, Kazakh SSR, he trained at the Riga Civil Aviation Engineering Institute (RKIIGA), graduating in 1981.
Beginning in 2012, Černohajev published his life's work online: twelve integrated technical manuscripts covering propulsion theory, hull materials, power generation, and the framework he called gravitational-charge dualism. His decision to publish from Kazakhstan, outside Russian criminal jurisdiction, came in the weeks before President Putin's expanded treason statute took effect — a deliberate act of disclosure made within a closing window.
He died in Kazakhstan on December 30, 2019.
Natalja Černohajeva-Sticco
Natalja is a classically trained mezzo soprano, concert pianist, and IT engineer specializing in artificial intelligence and robotics. Born in Riga, Latvia, she holds a Master of Engineering and is the daughter of Soviet aerospace engineer Valerijs Černohajev.
As the bridge between her father's archive and its English-language audience, she has worked alongside Gene on the translation and stewardship of the Černohajev manuscripts since the corpus was first recovered from her father's personal papers in 2019.
Gene Sticco
Gene Sticco is the steward of the Černohajev manuscripts and founder of the Anomalous Systems Intelligence & Reconnaissance Program (ASIRP) at the Černohajev Archive and Research Institute (CARI). A retired U.S. Air Force NCO, his current synthesis connects the manuscripts to Thread-III, AAWSAP, and the wider disclosure question.
He is the author of Unconventional, a memoir of his years inside Shell's corporate intelligence apparatus during the Nigeria crisis, and co-author of Engineering Infinity: Earth's First Interstellar Blueprint and Infinity Disclosed. He also publishes ASIRP Dispatch on Substack and is a regular contributor to Total Disclosure Podcast, Disclosure Tonight, and other shows.
Mario Fialho
Mario Fialho is an AI Solutions Architect, software engineer, and father, supporting the Černohajev project with AI-assisted translation of the Soviet-era manuscripts. A U.S. Air Force veteran, his technical work centers on machine learning and natural language processing, with deep experience building large-scale data systems in Python, Spark, and Scala.
Dr. Andis Dembovskis
Dr. Andis Dembovskis is leading the new Russian-language transcription and English translation of the Černohajev manuscripts. Latvian-born and trilingual in Latvian, Russian, and English, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bremen in space communication systems and brings the linguistic and aerospace-technical fluency the manuscripts require.
His career spans the European space sector — the German Aerospace Center (DLR), OHB, Fraunhofer ITWM, and Spire Global, where he signed off more than 120 satellites for launch — and he is the inventor on two granted U.S. patents in satellite-AIS communications. He currently coordinates the EU Horizon Europe Edge SpAIce program with CERN at Agenium Space in Toulouse, France.