If you know two things about guitarist/singer Tom DeLonge you are aware that he has been in and out of Blink-182 several times over the years and that he is super obsessed with aliens and UFOs. So much so that according to his former bandmate in side project Angels & Airwaves, current Foo Fighters drummer Ilan Rubin, he is prone to casually busting out alien autopsy pics at the weirdest times.
Including, it turns out, at Rubin’s 2020 wedding.
In a recent interview on the Go With Elmo podcast, Rubin told a mind-blowing story about DeLonge sharing a picture of what he said was a deceased E.T. to the drummer and another one of his former bosses, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor.
“When my wife and I got married, we finish the ceremony. Everyone kind of goes to the reception or whatever, and she and I go up to the suite for her to kind of get out of the wedding dress and having some champagne,” Rubin told host Elmo Lovano earlier this week. “And we finally get down to the reception, where the first two people I see are Tom and Trent.”
Noting that DeLonge is a “really tall guy” and that at 6’4″ he’s hovering over the 5’7″ Reznor, Rubin said he noticed that DeLonge has his phone out. “I know how this goes: ‘Hey, check this out.’ And I’m thinking, ‘What is he possibly showing him right now?,’” Rubin said, aware that DeLonge loves to share his unique outer space knowledge with friends. “Then I go straight up to them like, ‘Hey guys, how’s it going?’ Tom’s like, ‘Dude, congratulations. I’ll see you in a bit, I’m going to get a drink.’”
Rubin then asked Reznor what DeLonge had shared with him. “He’s like, ‘that dude just showed me a dead alien,’” Reznor confided. “Nobody else could conduct themselves in that way and it be normal, but he’s [Tom’s] just so unapologetically him. It’s infectious. It’s great. I’ll always remember that.”
As Rubin said, the story would be out of this world if it were about anyone else, but DeLonge has a long fascination with all things space and extraterrestrial, including his founding of the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, dedicated to studying UFOs. DeLonge described what he said was his first contact with aliens in a Papermag interview in 2015, where he said that during a camping trip at a secret base on the flight path to the legendary Area 51 in Nevada, he felt a “strange phenomenon” and thought, “OK, they’re at our campsite, they’re not here to hurt us, they’re talking about shit, but I can’t make out what they’re saying. But they’re working on something.”
In 2020, the Pentagon declassified three videos allegedly showing unexplained aerial phenomenon that DeLonge had released through TTSA in 2017. Also in 2017, DeLonge received the UFO Researcher of the Year award from OpenMinds.tv.
Watch Rubin tell his wedding reception alien encounter story below.
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