Former Blink 182 guitarist Tom DeLonge has a newproject: telling the world the truth about UFOs. DeLonge has alwaysbeen interested in the supernatural, and he’s been researching andreporting the topic as part of a multimedia project called SekretMachines that involves books, movies, music, and other movingparts. His first book, co-written by bestselling author AJ Hartley,is a pageturner novel called Chasing Shadows about a skepticaljournalist who runs a UFO debunking website, a Holocaust survivor,an heiress whose father mysteriously dies, and a Marine pilot whogets recruited into a secret government technology project at Area51. Somehow, their stories all intersect.

Motherboard talked to DeLonge about this project and whether hereally believes all this stuff about aliens. We also dive into theweird and wonderful world of conspiracy theorists in the longestRadio Motherboard episode to date.

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