Blink-181 founding member Tom DeLonge has explained why he left the band in 2015.
Talking to Mic about the split, it turns out DeLonge would rather gaze into the sky at night, say 'where are youuuuu?' and hunt extra terrestrial life.
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"Well it's not so much about Blink. It's about what I'm doing with my life now," he explained.
"When you're an individual like me, dealing with something [aliens] that's a national security issue, and you're being gifted with the opportunity to communicate something you've been passionate about your whole life -something that has the opportunity to change the world over time - being a small part of that is enormously important for my life path."
DeLonge will launch Sekret Machines, a company devoted to educating the masses about the threat of alien existence through books, documentaries and music. So he hasn't hung up his boots altogether.
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Going peak sceptical, DeLonge also details how he disproves of the term 'alien' as he sees it as government lingo.
"First of all, we don't really call it 'aliens'. In pop culture, that's a term people throw out there, and rightfully so because the government spends a lot of time and a lot of money throwing that term out there," he explained.
"I don't think I'm going to be the person that offers the best evidence unless people really trust what I'm doing and believe me. There's been hundreds and hundreds of thousands of eyewitness accounts. Trace evidence that's been analyzed by scientists across the world. Events have happened on the ground. It's all around us. I know of stuff I can't talk about right now."
Personally, I'm invested in this. I'd rather DeLonge find himself in an E.T situation than ever subject us to that voice ever again.
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