If UFOs are real, I know a few musicians who will be very interested – National | 24CA News
I’ve at all times dreamed of seeing a real honest-to-God UFO. Like Fox Mulder of The X-Files, I actually need to consider there’s one thing Out There within the possibly two trillion galaxies within the observable universe.
My grandparents lived only a few miles from the situation of the notorious Falcon Lake Incident in 1967. Since then, I’ve been fascinated by the prospect of some form of shut encounter. I’m hoping that Star Trek will as soon as once more be prescient, and a Zefram Cochrane-like pioneer will launch the primary warp drive flight (scheduled for April 5, 2061, a Borg invasion however), attracting the eye of a passing Vulcan ship and thereby provoke First Contact.
I would like there to be a black monolith with good proportions buried beneath my hydrangeas within the yard that warns me to go away Europa alone. I dream of choosing up an Alan Freed broadcast from 1955 on my little transistor radio, mirrored again to us by a civilization someplace inside a 35-light-year radius (I’d want that to the Hitler stuff they needed to take care of in Contact.) And these quick radio bursts? They’d higher be precise interstellar/intergalactic WOW alerts — particularly this one. That can be much more enjoyable than in search of hydroxyl emissions.
But alas, although I hold watching the skies, I’ve by no means seen anymore greater than shootings stars and passing satellites and house stations.
Lately, although, I’ve turn out to be extra optimistic. First got here the New York Times stories on US Navy pilots coping with UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, the brand new re-branding for UFOs). Additional reporting piled up so excessive that this previous week, whistleblowers testified beneath oath in entrance of the House Oversight Congressional Committee relating to an alleged huge coverup, claiming that “non-human” our bodies and extraterrestrial applied sciences have been recovered from crashed autos.
Millions of us await the reality, together with a variety of high-profile musicians.
At the entrance of the road is Tom DeLonge, now again enjoying guitar with Blink-182, has been on the scent of aliens for many years, lengthy earlier than the group received collectively. Back within the band’s early days, he was recognized to spend hours on the tour bus looking the window for UFOs. The band’s 1999 multi-platinum pop-punk basic, Enema of the State featured the tune Aliens Exist.
It’s mentioned that Tom’s relationship with the band — he was estranged from mates Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker for years earlier than a 2022 reunion — was strained due to his passionate pursuit of theories and conspiracies involving aliens and UAPs.
When he separated from Blink, Tom co-wrote a variety of novels and non-fiction books about “sekret machines” (His time period for UAPs; I’ve devoured all of them) and was behind the History Channel sequence, Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. Also throughout his hiatus, he based To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, an organization with each an leisure division and one critically dedicated to aerospace, ufology, and technological analysis. It’s stocked with lecturers, engineers, NASA scientists, and ex-government varieties, together with at the least one ex-CIA dude. The Academy has been relentless in calls for for presidency transparency.
These days, he’s fairly excited in regards to the newest revelations. On Blink-182’s present tour, bandmate Mark Hoppus has advised the group “Tom was right.” Over at To the Stars, everyone seems to be fairly pumped at what could be coming subsequent. Meanwhile, when you ever have an opportunity to speak to Tom, ask him about his theories on “zero-point energy.” Prepare to spend a number of hours on the topic.
Black Francis of The Pixies has some ideas about aliens, too, having written songs on the topic as a part of the band as a solo artist. This stems from a 1965 sighting by his mother and several other of his cousins. “There was a flying saucer floating above the house for half an hour and everyone just stood there and watched it. … It was just hovering. Then the state police came and chased it but they couldn’t catch up with it. My mother’s weird but she’s not that weird. She’s got no reason to make this stuff up.” Later he commented about The Pixies’ mission: “We’ve tried to elevate the sci-fi thing, make it more opera-ish, more of a serious rock thing. We want UFOs to be an acceptable topic. They’re romantic.”
Shaun Ryder of The Happy Mondays claims to have a number of encounters with alien craft, saying “I don’t go looking for aliens. They find me.” At age 15, he and a mate had been strolling to a bus cease when “we just saw these things, zig-zagging about.” (He says he was method too younger to be ingesting something hallucinogenic.) This spurred a lifelong obsession with all issues extraterrestrial — an a number of observations of UAPs (together with from his personal yard) over time. He, too, has made a documentary sequence on the topic.
If aliens are in search of a spot to land, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones says he has it on good authority his Redlands property in West Sussex was a touchdown web site for UFOs again in 1968. I quote: “I’ve seen a few, but nothing that any of the ministries would believe. I believe they exist — plenty of people have seen them. They are tied up with a lot of things, like the dawn of man, for example. It’s not just a matter of people spotting a flying saucer. … I’m not an expert. I’m still trying to understand what’s going on.”
And then there’s Dave Grohl. Foo Fighters is derived from the nickname given to Allied airmen who scrambled to research mysterious balls of fireside — feu — alongside the French-German entrance in World War II. He even named his label Roswell Records after the city in New Mexico the place they need us to consider a climate balloon crashed in 1947. If you consider that, you then most likely assume there’s nothing unusual taking place at Area 51 and nothing bizarre saved in Hanger 18.
Sadly, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, and Lemmy of Motorhead — all believers and witnesses — are now not with us. But wherever their spirits are actually, I’d prefer to consider that the reality has been revealed to them.
Today, sightings are up throughout the board. And when you do encounter a few of these bloody shape-shifting Reptilians, don’t flip your again, particularly in the event that they’re sporting a KEEP CALM AND PROBE ON t-shirt.
Now when you’ll excuse me, there’s a person in a black swimsuit and sun shades who needs to see me a few flashy factor.
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Alan Cross is a broadcaster with Q107 and 102.1 the Edge and a commentator for Global News.
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