Tom DeLonge Promises His New Music Will Make His UFO Work "Come to Life"

​It continues to be a slow week in the world of fringe history and occult aeronautics, presumably because many branches of the media and our favorite fringe personalities are planning massive project releases for the summer, including a half dozen television series, some new books, and the usual array of web videos and conference appearances. So, for the time being we are in a bit of a holding pattern as we await the launch of the summer’s fringe media assault. 

​As we wait, today let’s take a look at what To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science founder Tom DeLonge had to say about his upcoming History channel series Unidentified documenting his efforts to convince the U.S. government to do more about UFOs, or, to put it less charitably, to implement the plans that DeLonge’s executive vice president and interdimensional space poltergeist researcher Hal Puthoff has been trying to get the government to put in place for more than four decades.
 
This response ran in Altpress as part of a longer interview about the revival of DeLonge’s Angels & Airwaves band, whose new album and tour he plans to use to promote his UFO projects.

My work has been largely unnoticed with my team over the past year. It leaked last week where the U.S. Navy is putting together formal reporting processes through the Department Of Defense for UFOs. Well, To The Stars Academy is the one that set that up. It took us 12 months: We started doing all those briefings. We brought everyone over to Congress and all this different stuff.
 
What’s exciting about Unidentified is that people are going to see in the next couple of weeks what is really going on, the scope of [the] subject and the beginnings of the U.S. government organizing the power that they have to deal with this appropriately because this is a national security issue. And it does affect everyone.
 
I’m really excited for this to come out because it’s not a UFO-hunting show: It’s current military and government people who ran the programs that still hold security clearances and dealing with Congress. Very unlike anything people have seen before. But it’s going to come full circle: After these shows come out, you are going to see all of this stuff come to life in Angels & Airwaves performances. I’m really excited for it.

​What perhaps stands out is that DeLonge speaks of the United States government as beginning to organize a response to UFOs, which of course would suggest that previously it did not. If DeLonge had to go to Congress to advocate for UFO reporting standards and military UFO response plans, that again suggests that they did not exist. Rather than a triumphant story of DeLonge achieving “disclosure,” as he had originally promised, we instead see that he, like Puthoff before him, is a vector of corruption spreading fringe ideas through the government and then presenting the results as confirmation that the government considers their (for profit) work important, and therefore worthy of generating still more profits. I can’t escape the feeling that all of the lobbying of the government is little more than an exercise in creating a faux governmental seal of approval to help legitimize the decidedly less authoritative TV shows, movies, music projects, and vanity science where the real money lies.
 
After all, DeLonge himself said that his governmental lobbying and History reality/documentary series will feed directly into his music. Imagine if Steven Hawking had only released the results of his work on space and time in the liner notes of a concept polka album. That seems to be about where we are with To the Stars, where entertainment and information have merge into a UFO infotainment chimera.