DeLonge on hidden crashes
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Contents 6
| Date | April 2016 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Tom DeLonge |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 184 |
| Year | 2016 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2016 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
Musician Tom DeLonge said in an interview with journalist George Knapp that he had been told there were several UFO crashes, that the government kept them quiet, and that a deliberate counterintelligence effort discouraged people from asking hard questions.[1]
The claims
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DeLonge said the recoveries led to a crash program "much bigger than the Manhattan Project", aimed at understanding the technology and defending against it. He described the counterintelligence side as a kind of game to deflect inquiry. He framed much of this as what he had been told by others.[1]
Background
DeLonge left Blink-182 in 2015 and founded the entertainment company To The Stars. In 2016 he published Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows, a novel co-written with A.J. Hartley, the first part of a multimedia project about UFOs and government secrecy. In 2017 he folded the company into To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, which released three Navy UFO videos that the Pentagon formally declassified in April 2020.[2][3]
Context
There is documented precedent for officials deliberately misleading UFO researchers: in the 1980s the Air Force Office of Special Investigations fed false material to Paul Bennewitz. DeLonge's claims about multiple crashes, though, are second-hand and come from unnamed sources.[1][4]
People and topics
- Tom DeLonge — Musician who founded To The Stars Academy.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
- Bennewitz affair — Bennewitz affair
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- The New York Times — The newspaper that revealed AATIP in December 2017.
- AATIP — The Pentagon UAP effort associated with Luis Elizondo, revealed in December 2017.
- To The Stars Academy — The company founded by Tom DeLonge in 2017 that released the Navy UAP videos.
On the Timeline
- DeLonge on pooled crash material (27 March 2016) — Tom DeLonge says his advisers told him crash material was pooled among government and industry.
- Sekret Machines (5 April 2016) — DeLonge publishes the novel Sekret Machines, which he says advisers helped shape.
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References
- "These people claim UFO artifacts are held by the government and/or contractors", Silva Record (Nov 2019) · silvarecord.com · archived copy
- Tom DeLonge — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- To The Stars Inc. — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Paul Bennewitz — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science — 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
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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