Rockstar’s UFO Hunting Company is $37 Million in Debt

The “academy” for UFO studies founded by Tom DeLonge, the former Blink-182 frontman, has reportedly racked up a deficit of over $37 million.

The To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences aims to make “transformative discoveries… that will revolutionise the human experience”.

DeLonge, its President and CEO, has spoken in the past about extraterrestrial life and government “mind-control experiments”.

But now, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the Academy has “incurred losses from operations”, and it “has an accumulated deficit… of $37,432,000”.

“These factors,” the filing continues, “raise doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern”.

DeLonge was one of the founders of Blink-182 in 1992. The Californian rock group’s irreverent humour saw them sell over 50 million copies of the six albums they made with him as lead guitarist and singer.

DeLonge ultimately quit in 2015 to move into full-time extraterrestrial research.

His books, including the ongoing Sekret Machines series, are ambiguously billed as fiction and “all too real”.

Following the split with Blink-182, the “All the Small Things” performer founded the To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2017 and also runs a website devoted to paranormal activity, extraterrestrial life called Stranger Times.

DeLonge opened up about his passion for all things extraterrestrial in a detailed interview with The New York Times in 2019.

The performer shared details about one incident that left his mind blown.

When asked if he’s ever actually seen a UFO, DeLonge revealed he had indeed—but can’t say for sure what it was.

“I saw some really anomalous stuff one night out in the desert, zipping across the stars, horizon to horizon, zig zagging. That really blew my mind because no satellites move that way,” he told the newspaper. “But, I can’t tell you what it was. I think like most people, the stuff that I’ve seen is a lot of stuff on the internet where I bet some of it really is true, but you really don’t know which pieces.”

On how he got into UFO researching, DeLonge said he has found science fiction fascinating since he was a kid.