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Two years after Mr. DeLonge left the band, he
found a new life trying to make sense of outer space.
found a new life trying to make sense of outer space.
| For decades, the discussion of whether or not U.F.O.s exist has been debated in American pop culture and within science communities. That all reached a fever pitch last week when the United States | By Derrick Bryson Taylor The New York 9-26-19 |
The three videos show mysterious objects in the sky and contain audio of pilots trying to make sense of what they were seeing. They had gained notoriety since being published in 2017 and 2018 by The New York Times and a company called To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences. Founded in 2017, it is run by a team of 12, including several former government employees, who try to advance society’s understanding of scientific phenomena through the lenses of entertainment, science and aerospace.
As news of the Navy’s statement spread, many people took note of the academy, and more specifically one of its founders: Tom DeLonge, who was from 1993 until 2015 a guitarist and singer for the band Blink-182. How, many wondered, did the guy from Blink-182 become involved in U.F.O. research?
