The only external verification was done by a collaborator using BlackLight's equipment.
You are probably right about this being uttter garbadge, but this time around there were two more collaborators at Rowan who have no prior relationship with BLP (as Jannsen did). Also, neither BLP's equipment or fuel was used this time. Rowan built the fuel from scratch using commercial sources and 10 BLP recipes (which are actually in their paper). Seems to me that everthing you would need to disprove the BLP claims (not the science but the thermogenic results) is in the Rowan paper. Hopefully some credible lab will do that soon as a public service. I would say that BLP is really hanging out there now. Tic-Toc.