Sekret Machines
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| Date | 5 April 2016 |
|---|---|
| People | Tom DeLonge, Luis Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Harold Puthoff |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 184 |
| Year | 2016 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2016 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 9 |
Sekret Machines is a multimedia project by musician Tom DeLonge, formerly of Blink-182, made up of novels, non-fiction books and music that he said drew on information from defence and intelligence advisers. Its first novel, Sekret Machines: Book 1 – Chasing Shadows, written with A. J. Hartley, was published in April 2016.[1][2]
The books
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The first novel, a long thriller of about 700 pages, was published by DeLonge's own company, To the Stars, with a tentative release date of 5 April 2016. Hartley, a Shakespeare scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, co-wrote it, and a second novel, A Fire Within, followed in 2018. DeLonge also wrote two non-fiction volumes with occult writer Peter Levenda, Gods (2017) and Man (2019).[1][2][3]
The music
The Angels & Airwaves EP Chasing Shadows was released on 8 April 2016 as a companion to the novel.[1][3]
Claims about advisers
Publicity described the novel as written in collaboration with top government advisers, and DeLonge said it contained truths presented as fiction; the advisers were not publicly named. According to the testimony, the books and related materials included claims such as a man-made flying saucer at Area 51, UAP research run by a major aerospace contractor at a location called "Possum Plant", and a triangular craft called "the Locust". These elements are fictional or unverified.[2]
To the Stars Academy
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DeLonge had founded To the Stars, Inc. in 2015. His contacts with the Air Force establishment and aerospace executives — some revealed in the 2016 WikiLeaks release of John Podesta's emails — led in October 2017 to the founding of To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science with former intelligence official Luis Elizondo, Christopher Mellon and physicist Hal Puthoff. In December 2017 the academy released the Navy UAP videos that drew new attention to the subject.[3][4]
In the testimony
The testimony cites: Dreamland/Area 51 has a man-made flying saucer; The UAP R&D work at Area 51 is entirely a subdivision of a major aerospace contractor within a location called “Possum Plant”; Area 51 had a triangle Astra-TR3B called “the Locust” that exploits curvature in spacetime; S4 near Area 51 had a simulator for the Locust.
People and topics
- Tom DeLonge — Musician who founded To The Stars Academy.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Area 51 — The secret Nevada test site where spy planes and stealth aircraft were developed.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- To The Stars Academy — The company founded by Tom DeLonge in 2017 that released the Navy UAP videos.
- Luis Elizondo — Former Army counterintelligence officer who says he ran AATIP.
- Christopher Mellon — Former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who helped release the Navy UAP videos.
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
On the Timeline
- DeLonge on hidden crashes (April 2016) — DeLonge says advisers told him of multiple crashes hidden by counterintelligence.
- Greer's underground facilities list (18 April 2016) — Steven Greer names underground facilities he claims are tied to secret programs.
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References
- "Tom DeLonge announces Sekret Machines novel", Punknews.org · punknews.org · archived copy
- "Chasing Shadows" by Tom DeLonge and A. J. Hartley, Blackwell's · blackwells.co.uk · archived copy
- Tom DeLonge — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- To the Stars (company) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Tom DeLonge on the Podesta emails — Rolling Stone · rollingstone.com · archived copy
- Tom DeLonge emailed Clinton's adviser about aliens — BuzzFeed News · buzzfeednews.com · archived copy
- Chasing Shadows (EP) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
- en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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