In 2017, three videos came out of US navy fighter pilots coming in contact with flying objects they couldn’t identify. The pilots couldn’t comprehend how these craft were even flying.

After the release of these videos, UFOs, or UAP- unidentified aerial phenomena- as the government calls them, went from a topic mostly treated as a joke to something the public was being told they needed to take seriously. How did this happen? And what does it have to do with former Blink 182 vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge?

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