Tom DeLonge

“DeLonge, a musician of Blink-182 fame and longtime UFO enthusiast,”

“is the co-founder and interim CEO of To the Stars,”

“the relationship between its executive producer, Tom DeLonge, Elizondo, and other former Pentagon officials and members of the intelligence community who appear in the show.”

“which lists DeLonge as executive producer. (He is also prominently featured in the show.)”

“By 1999, as Blink-182's lead singer, DeLonge was a megastar, packing stadiums full of fans across the US and around the world.”

“One of the new songs was Aliens Exist, which owes a lot to the many books and articles on the UAP mystery that DeLonge devoured on his band's endless road trips.”

“He told the Los Angeles Times the track was about aliens that come to Earth and 'fly up your butt. And it's true'.”

“By 2014, DeLonge had also become increasingly fascinated with what is called CE5, Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind. The idea of CE5 is that, by meditating and focusing your mind (and often, by paying thousands of dollars to the 'experts' who teach you how to do it), it is possible to make contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence.”

“DeLonge does not put an exact date on an event that convinced him the phenomenon was real but sometime before quitting the band, he camped out with two friends near the secret Area 51 base in Nevada. It was late on a chilly desert night, somewhere north of a small town named Tonopah, which sits midway between Las Vegas and Reno.”

“We were up mad late, but nothing happened,' DeLonge recalls. 'I kept telling the guys: if anything was going to happen, it would happen at three in morning, because that's the time when things like this happen. Don't ask me why. We put about four logs on the fire, and everything is illuminated by the fire, and we fall asleep round one or two.'”

“At 3 am, the world-famous rock musician, author and filmmaker woke up hearing dozens of strange voices outside his tent. He says he was completely paralysed.”

“In early 2015, DeLonge quit Blink-182, or rather his relationship with the band went on 'indefinite hiatus', in part because he wanted to focus on researching the mystery of UAPs.”

“The other seminal UAP event in 2015 was that punk pop rock star Tom DeLonge quit his band Blink-182.”

“There were hints in interviews he gave just before the split, revealing just how deep down the rabbit hole he had fallen, where he told of meeting people who were secretly gathering testimony at the time for Congressional hearings intended to expose US government UAP projects and a supposed secret US space program.”

“DeLonge told the press he feared his phone was tapped...”

“'Tom DeLonge reached out to Skunk Works with interest in collaborating on a documentary focused on secret machines and advanced development projects,' Lockheed Martin said in a statement. 'Multiple members of the Skunk Works team met with DeLonge to explore his vision for the documentary, as we would with any individual or organisation interested in telling the story of Skunk Works and the technologies we've developed. We ultimately decided to not move forward with our participation in the documentary. During this exploration period, DeLonge attended a Skunk Works employee event.'”

“'When the meeting came, I took the bull by the horns and I pitched him the idea . . . I had for a project that could help the youth lose their cynical view of the government and Department of Defense,' Tom writes in a foreword to his 2016 science-fiction thriller SeKret Machines: Chasing Shadows.”

“He says he was invited back a second time, this time to a secure concrete bunker actually inside Area 51. He says he went through four layers of security: guns, electronic code entry systems, hallways with speakers playing 'white noise, and a series of solid doors flanking my view, each with rotary locks and not a single window in sight'.”

“DeLonge says that he agreed to do the families' event on one condition: that he got five minutes alone with that executive to discuss an issue of his choosing.”

“It is also a fair bet that the executive whom DeLonge subsequently met at the families event was Rob Weiss, the Lockheed executive vice-president and GM of Skunk Works until 2019.”

“DeLonge also claims he told BossMan he knew about ‘some bad things that have happened on this subject’.”

“He says BossMan demanded to know, ‘What kind of bad things has the government done with this subject?’”

“‘If you allow me to do this, what I am trying to do then I am going to ask you for some help. I need advisers. I need people to help guide me so I don’t keep disinforming people’.”

“Lue had left the Pentagon in protest and joined forces with Tom DeLonge, Chris Mellon, Steve Justice and others to form To the Stars Academy”

“They had aligned themselves with the organization that rock star Tom DeLonge and Jim Semivan had put together, called To The Stars Academy (TTSA), and they planned to pursue a triple directive for UAP disclosure: fresh approaches to UAP science and engineering, educating laymen and journalists, and generating film/TV/publishing content about the UAP phenomena, based on true stories, all to educate the public and put an end to the stigma.”

“he made me an offer to join TTSA as chief of security and special programs...The salary offered was much less than I was earning at the Pentagon...To do this, Tom insisted that I relocate to California.”

“DeLonge’s advisory board included Steve Justice, a highly respected aerospace engineer who’d spent thirty-one years working for Lockheed Martin’s highly secretive Skunk Works”

“Dr. Hal Pudoff is a theoretical physicist and program director for numerous CIA and Department of Defense classified programs.”

“Dr. Hal Pudoff is a theoretical physicist and program director for numerous CIA and Department of Defense classified programs.”

“Dr. Pudoff is the creator of the CIA's own revolutionary psychic spy program still used to this day”

“Jim Simivan, a career spy, former senior intelligence service in the CIA's Directorate of Operations.”

“DeLonge was a proud son of Poway, near San Diego. TTSA’s planned location was in Encinitas, about thirty minutes north of the city, along the coast.”

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“DeLonge claims that within two weeks of that meeting he was introduced to senior top brass from across the military, including US Air Force generals, intelligence officials, high-ranking NASA bureaucrats and senior officials in the White House.”

“DeLonge described being told to fly to a regional American airport and found himself sitting down at its hangar restaurant with a man he calls 'The General'.”

“The very first thing The General said to him he found terrifying: ‘“It was the Cold War and we found a lifeform”. And that’s when I start shitting my pants.’”

“He said that two weeks after asking his informants for insiders who could give him the UAP information he needed, he was summonsed to meet a general and a colonel at Colorado Springs (the base for the US Air Force Space Command), who greenlighted his access and his media awareness campaign.”

“who greenlighted his access and his media awareness campaign.”

“DeLonge also expanded, in his interview with George Knapp,10 on that first meeting with ‘The General’ who made the extraordinary and apparently terrifying claims about a recovered alien ‘lifeform’.”

“It is instructive to get across the detail of what DeLonge said in his 100-minute-duration Joe Rogan interview”

“The grand conspiracy that Tom DeLonge painted was that, since the 1940s, the US government has hidden a UAP research program, including developing their own craft, inside private industry corporations.”

“DeLonge claims he was told by these senior officials that the US government had indeed secretly retrieved alien spacecraft . . . and aliens”

“‘The problem is these are extraordinarily advanced civilisations that have been coming here like, forever. That’s why it’s in all the ancient fucking scripts and texts and carved into rocks and all that shit. But, trying to figure it out, trying to connect the dots, and looking at debris that they probably still have, we have no fuckin’ clue how to make this or back-engineer this stuff.’”

“‘Yes, we have cracked gravity, and we are building machinery that has anti-gravity. And yes, I was told that it’s a big deal . . . They may be building things that truly have anti-gravity,’ he said.”

“(Here is where he or his advisers contradicted themselves; remember DeLonge said earlier that his mentors admitted they still had no idea how to back-engineer this alien technology?)”

“I was traveling around the country secretly for 18 months at the time. I was working my way through NASA, the Department of Defense, and various other agencies.”

“they revealed beyond any doubt whatsoever that punk rock star Tom DeLonge truly was in contact with one of America's most senior private aerospace chief executives, a campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, and two very senior recently retired air force generals – and UAPs were discussed”

“I think there were 35 emails back and forth between Tom DeLonge and Podesta's team.”

“He's meeting with, I think General Mike Carey was one of the individuals who eventually introduced him to General William Neal McCasland.”

“Neil McCasland and, and the people that come later, that's 2015, 2016”

“It brings me back to Tom DeLonge when he met Neil McCasland. And after that initial phone call, I think, you know, McCasland had said, you know, I'm worried that you might find a group of people stumbling around an elephant.”

“Knapp has been a vocal defender of Elizondo and DeLonge for the past two years, pushing back on critics who have raised thorny questions about To the Stars.”

“some suspect that DeLonge is being played like a useful idiot — and that his To the Stars Academy is a front for some kind of black ops project.”

“From DeLonge’s account, there was a lot of this bravado alpha male talk from these anonymous men in uniform and the spook world that is downright disturbing; it suggests an egregious disregard for democratic accountability and government oversight.”

“but on reflection DeLonge’s account suggests there is a glint of fanaticism in The General’s embrace of secrecy that suggests he and his colleagues are zealots who are desperate to conceal what are potentially crimes on the Republic.”

“I am in no doubt whatsoever that, whether true or not, these briefings happened.”

“someone who has huge questions about that whole thing, by the way. He's a big skepticism about what they were trying to achieve.”

“i have personally very little doubt of uh Tom deLonge's sincerity and his intelligence and actually a long interest and his standing interest and organically in the topic”

“a few months later, without warning, TTSA cut my salary in half. They said it was temporary, due to "corporate restructuring,"”

“Shortly after, I received an unpleasant Christmas present. Just a few days before Christmas, I got a call from Tom, who was friendly but blunt. Our business relationship was over. Despite all our successes, the business had not brought in the money he expected or needed.”

“Tom DeLonge bar one statement on instagram recently has been quiet in recent years on the topic”

“Tom DeLonge and I spoke very recently.”

“Tom is still very much engaged and interested in the UFO subject. He never let it go.”