DeLonge's advisers on Joe Rogan
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| Date | 26 October 2017 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Tom DeLonge, John Podesta, Neil McCasland, Rob Weiss, Christopher Mellon, Luis Elizondo |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 187 |
| Year | 2017 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2017 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 17 |
On 26 October 2017 musician and To The Stars Academy founder Tom DeLonge appeared on episode 1029 of The Joe Rogan Experience, where he talked about his UFO project and the senior figures he said were advising him. The episode drew wide attention, much of it sceptical.[1][2]
Background
DeLonge, formerly of the band Blink-182, had been developing UFO-themed books and a documentary. In a March 2016 interview on Coast to Coast AM he described meetings with government and aerospace officials and a group of advisers he said had been assembled for him. In October 2016 WikiLeaks published emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta; they showed DeLonge telling Podesta that he had spent four months working with retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William McCasland — a former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson — who had helped assemble his advisory team, and included calendar invitations to a meeting involving DeLonge, McCasland and Rob Weiss, then head of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works.[3][4]
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On the Rogan show, DeLonge discussed his advisers and contacts in government and industry. The testimony says he implied that they included McCasland and Weiss, as the Podesta emails had suggested. None of those named has publicly confirmed advising him on UFOs. Skunk Works later told The War Zone that DeLonge had approached it about a documentary, that some staff had met him and that it had declined to take part; it said that a former Skunk Works director, Steve Justice, who had joined DeLonge's company, did so independently.[2][4]
To The Stars Academy
DeLonge had founded To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 with Hal Puthoff and former CIA officer Jim Semivan. The company was organised as a public benefit corporation and sold stock to small investors through a Regulation A offering; its filings showed heavy losses. It helped publicise the Navy UAP videos and in 2019 signed a research agreement with the U.S. Army. Luis Elizondo left in late 2020, and in 2022 the company shortened its name to To The Stars.[5]
Assessment
The War Zone questioned DeLonge's account of a government-backed information operation, and NASA said in 2019 that it had no record of visits he described. His claims about senior advisers remain largely unconfirmed by the people involved.[4]
People and topics
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- Tom DeLonge — Musician who founded To The Stars Academy.
- To The Stars Academy — The company founded by Tom DeLonge in 2017 that released the Navy UAP videos.
- John Podesta — Clinton campaign chairman with a long interest in UFO disclosure.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Neil McCasland — Retired Air Force major general named in the Podesta emails.
- Lockheed Martin — The aerospace company whose Skunk Works built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117.
- Rob Weiss — Lockheed Skunk Works executive named in the Podesta emails.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Christopher Mellon — Former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who helped release the Navy UAP videos.
- Luis Elizondo — Former Army counterintelligence officer who says he ran AATIP.
- U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
On the Timeline
- Navy underwater-object program claim (2017) (19 September 2017) — An astronomer with Navy contracts claims the Navy runs a secret underwater-object project.
- Salvatore Pais patents (2 November 2017) — Navy scientist Salvatore Pais files a patent for a triangular craft with claimed antigravity effects.
See every 2017 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Tom DeLonge" (Joe Rogan Experience #1029), IMDb · pro.imdb.com · archived copy
- "Tom DeLonge reveals Nazi UFO with alien technology flew from Argentina and crashed in Roswell", Metal Wani (Nov 2017) · metalwani.com · archived copy
- "Blink-182's Tom DeLonge emailed Clinton's campaign chairman about aliens", BuzzFeed News (Oct 2016) · buzzfeednews.com · archived copy
- "Tom DeLonge's origin story for To The Stars Academy describes a government UFO info operation", The War Zone · twz.com · archived copy
- To the Stars (company) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Tom DeLonge — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Tom DeLonge on the Podesta emails — Rolling Stone · rollingstone.com · archived copy
- Documents on the vetting of 'Skinwalkers at the Pentagon' — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: book review — Bad UFOs (Robert Sheaffer) · badufos.blogspot.com · archived copy
- AARO historical report finds no evidence of alien technology (2024) — Space.com · space.com · archived copy
- AARO Report on the Historical Record, Volume I — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- podpage.com · podpage.com · archived copy
- amazon.com · amazon.com · archived copy
- mysterywire.com · mysterywire.com · archived copy
- sec.gov · sec.gov · archived copy
- sec.gov · sec.gov · archived copy
- sec.gov · sec.gov · archived copy
Further reading
- Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Harold E. Puthoff — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Luis Elizondo — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Christopher Mellon — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Skunk Works — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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