"But the only way we get there is if the stigma is gone and we get the best scientists involved and we get the best facilities and the government working together."ĭeLonge says the Pentagon officially releasing the three videos earlier this year "was a big deal" after "a lot of work behind the scenes from To The Stars". "Over time, as science moves and it evolves and we're starting to take these things more seriously and understand some of the other parameters about it, I just think that we're gonna find - I assume, I don't know - but my gut is that we're going to find out there's a lot more to this.
Image: DeLonge still performs with Angels & Airwaves "I mean, 20 years ago, it was very much like, these are craft and they must be from a planet, or they're an alien, and that's kind of where I was when I was in my early 20s in the van. in a way that we don't readily study every day, or we're just beginning to. "Like, what is the temperature of that, or the density of that, or the provable this or that, when things to do with unidentified aerial phenomena might be using forces of nature. you know, it's really hard for people to digest because we're stuck in very physical science. "It kind of became a joke that we all played off of, where I was always talking about it and they knew that was kind of my thing, but that was just the beginning of me really realising that. "Here I am in the back of the van and I'm reading this stuff and I remember I was just like, 'oh my God, oh my God, did you know this?' I remember my band members just thought I was crazy and I was just hounding them. it's kind of something that's been hiding in plain sight, but people never really looked for or read or took seriously. "We didn't have iPhones when we were travelling around in a van so I was reading these books on unidentified aerial phenomena. "It's funny, the first stigma that I experienced was actually in my band, Blink-182," he says. Image: (L-R) Mark Hoppus, DeLonge and Barker formed the best-known Blink-182 line-up Current drummer Travis Barker joined in 1998, a year before the release of their third and biggest album Enema Of The State, and the band now perform with Matt Skiba following DeLonge's departure. 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. Image: Blink-182 headlined Reading and Leeds in 2014
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