Aliens aren’t just conspiracy forum fuel anymore, they’re creeping into the conversations of some of music’s biggest names, and Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge is still right at the centre of it.
A fun new roundup from Billboard highlights just how deep that rabbit hole goes, pulling together years of artists openly discussing UFO sightings, extraterrestrial theories, and moments that sit somewhere between curiosity and full blown belief.
Tom DeLonge: from pop-punk to UFO advocate
For anyone who’s followed DeLonge beyond Blink-182, this isn’t new territory, he’s been talking about alien life since the late ‘90s, even baking it straight into ‘Aliens Exist’ (an absolute favourite for me):
What started as a lyrical curiosity turned into decades of research, public statements, and involvement with To The Stars Academy, when the U.S. Navy officially released UFO footage in 2020, it only added fuel to everything DeLonge had been saying for years.
Not just DeLonge anymore
What’s changed is the company he’s keeping, according to Billboard, artists across genres have started sharing their own encounters or beliefs.
Demi Lovato has spoken about witnessing “the most incredibly profound sightings both in the sky as well as feet away from me.”
Kesha recalled seeing “little balls of fire in the sky” while completely sober in Joshua Tree:
Machine Gun Kelly claimed in a January 2021 interview for Late Late Show With James Corden: “Homie, I saw life on this planet that was from another planet two nights ago, over a lake in Thousand Oaks. A red orb came out of nowhere, went and disappeared again.”
And Miley Cyrus described locking eyes with something inside a flying object, admitting the moment shook her more than anything else. “I was driving through San Bernardino with my friend, and I got chased down by some sort of UFO,”. It should be noted, she also added:
“I’m pretty sure about what I saw, but I’d also bought weed wax from a guy in a van in front of a taco shop, so it could have been the weed wax. But the best way to describe it is a flying snowplow. It had this big plow in the front of it and was glowing yellow. I did see it flying, and my friend saw it, too. There were a couple of other cars on the road and they also stopped to look, so I think what I saw was real.”
From fringe to mainstream conversation
Even artists who aren’t fully sold are at least open to the idea, Post Malone, Nick Jonas, and Alicia Keys have all shared experiences or beliefs that lean toward something being out there.
Kacey Musgraves is one of the latest to speak up, describing a recent flight where she watched unexplained orbs move in ways that “just didn’t look normal.”
So what does it all mean?
There’s still no hard answers, but the shift is hard to ignore.
What used to sit on the fringes now lives in interviews, podcasts, and casual conversation between artists with massive platforms, whether it’s belief, curiosity, or just trying to make sense of something strange, the conversation isn’t going away.
And if DeLonge’s been right all along, it might only be getting started.
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