Co-founder and CEO of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA), the organization that facilitated release of three declassified U.S. Navy UAP videos to the New York Times in 2017. A former member of the band Blink-182, DeLonge assembled a team of former senior government and intelligence officials at TTSA, including Luis Elizondo, to push for official acknowledgment of UAP and signed a research-and-development agreement with the U.S. Army in 2019.
Tom DeLonge is best known as co-founder of the punk-rock band Blink-182, which has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. From at least 2015, he devoted increasing energy to UAP research, departing Blink-182 to launch To The Stars Academy in 2017 alongside former AATIP director Luis Elizondo and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Mellon. TTSA channeled three classified Navy videos — FLIR1, GIMBAL, and GOFAST — to the New York Times, triggering an unprecedented wave of official acknowledgment. DeLonge has co-authored the Sekret Machines fiction series with A.J. Hartley and non-fiction volumes with Peter Levenda.