Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge: “UAP Pretty damn happy, more is on the way” 2026 – VIDEO – UFO Declassified Files

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Tom DeLonge has spent the past decade methodically trying to drag UFOs into the mainstream under the more official label of UAPs, turning what started as a pop‑punk frontman’s obsession into a semi‑serious research and advocacy project. He formally pivoted away from Blink‑182 in 2015, telling interviewers he needed to focus on what he called a “national security issue,” and in 2017 he co‑founded To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (now To The Stars Inc.), a company that blends entertainment with aerospace and science work focused on UFOs and “fringe” technology. Through To The Stars, DeLonge recruited former intelligence and defense officials like Luis Elizondo and Chris Mellon and helped bring three Navy cockpit videos of unidentified aerial phenomena to public attention; those clips were first published with the New York Times in 2017–2018 and were later formally acknowledged and declassified by the Pentagon in 2020. He has said he “wouldn’t have left Blink‑182 for something pie in the sky,” insisting he has seen “enormous amounts of data” that convinced him the subject could “change the world.”

Beyond video releases, DeLonge has tried to push the UAP issue across multiple fronts. To The Stars has claimed involvement in studying purported “exotic” material under a U.S. Army research contract and in helping shape whistleblower and reporting language in recent U.S. defense legislation by meeting directly with members of Congress. He has also used books and television to soften up public opinion, co‑authoring the Sekret Machines series, which blends fiction with claims about classified aerospace projects, and executive‑producing the History Channel series Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation, which follows former AATIP personnel as they revisit military encounters with UAPs. Whether or not one buys every claim, DeLonge’s efforts clearly helped move UAPs from a fringe topic into the center of official debate, with U.S. Navy admissions, congressional hearings, and ongoing Pentagon study all arriving after years of pressure from journalists, insiders, and niche outfits like his own.