He continues: "All of a sudden, lo and behold, the world finds out we actually had a real programme with $22 million of taxpayer money to actually look at UFOs, but nobody wanted to talk about it."Įlizondo says DeLonge is "not afraid to take a topic that is controversial and hit it head on" and that his involvement is helping to get people talking about it.ĭeLonge says he first experienced stigma himself in the earlier days of Blink-182, which he co-founded with Mark Hoppus and former drummer Scott Raynor in the early 1990s. He says the topic is "fraught with taboo and stigma… because most people jump immediately to the conclusion of tin-foil hats and, quote-unquote, 'Elvis being on the mothership.'" Pic: Matt ThompsonĮlizondo, who is also on the Zoom call, headed up a top secret $22m project - officially called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) - tasked with investigating the possible threat of UFOs, from 2007 to 2012. Image: Luis Elizondo is a former military intelligence official. Investigators followed in the show include former military intelligence official and special agent in-charge, Luis Elizondo, and former deputy assistant secretary of defence and intelligence, Chris Mellon. "But would I leave it for something that I truly think can change the world and have a positive impact and make it a better place, and something that needs to be dealt with, something that's serious?"ĭeLonge, 44, says he realises the theory of UAP might be "unnerving" and "hard to digest" for some, but that he wants to be "in the front seat of something that's going to come out and be the most revolutionary subject".įollowing the launch of Unidentified last year, the show is now back for a second series. "Would I leave rock and roll just to go do something that there's no data for and it's just, like, pie in the sky and we're just imagining things? No! Why would I? I mean, that's insane. "I've been brought into a group of people and I'm a big part of a mechanism that is absolutely profound and already started changing the world. In 2019, the company produced the History Channel television show Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation, about the USS Nimitz UFO incident, which also features DeLonge.Image: Blink-182 headlined Reading and Leeds in 2014 Aside from the entertainment division, the new company has aerospace and science divisions dedicated to ufology and the fringe science proposals of To the Star's co-founder, Harold Puthoff. which has since then been merged into a larger To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences. He’s released a children’s book called The Lonely Astronaut on Christmas Eve as well as many other novels and picture books, and even established his own clothing brand, Atticus Clothing, with Mark Hoppus of Blink-182.Īside from his household name with Angels & Airwaves and Blink-182, Tom’s other grand project has been his entertainment company, To The Stars, Inc. Not only has Tom charted numerous hits with Angels & Airwaves on Itunes and Billboard, he’s been able to segue right into film with projects such as Poet Anderson, co-directed by DeLonge, which won Best Animated Short Film at the Toronto International Short Film Festival. Tom is the lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Angels & Airwaves, and was also the co-lead vocalist, guitarist, and co-founder of the rock band Blink-182. Southern California Native, Tom Delonge, has become the jack of all trades not only as a musician, but also an author, record producer, actor, filmmaker and an entrepreneur. The Coronation Of Their Majesties King Charles III And Queen Camilla: The Official Album War Against All Ĭall Me: 50th Anniversary Alan Menken / Howard Ashman / Lin-Manuel MirandaĬhange The Way You Think About Pain. My Soft Machine įeast of Wire: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition ĭisposable Everything Īll The Rats Bob Marley - Tuff Gong Jamaica Pressings.
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