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A BAND of alien hunters led by an ex-punk rocker claim they've found evidence of UFOs. The US organisation, bankrolled by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge, says it's acquired "exotic material" from what could be an alien spacecraft. DeLonge, from California, co-founded the group To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2017 with the goal of researching extraterrestrials. The team most famously turfed up classified footage of UFOs recorded by American pilots that were confirmed as real by the US Navy earlier this month. Speaking to the New York Times, a spokesperson for the group gave a tantalising...

For the first time, the U.S. Navy has acknowledged that the three UFO videos that were released by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge and published by The New York Times are of real "unidentified" objects. “The Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those three videos as unidentified," Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Black Vault, a website dedicated to declassified government documents.

Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker has been left critically injured after a Learjet crashed while departing from a South Carolina airport. 4 people were killed, while two people - including Barker and DJ AM, a famed Hollywood DJ - were injured. Barker was transported to a burn center in Augusta, Georgia, where he was listed in critical condition. Barker had performed Friday night at an event alongside Perry Farrell, the former Jane's Addiction singer, as well as Gavin DeGraw and DJ AM. It was not immediately clear whether any of those performers, aside DJ AM were traveling with Barker....

Win or lose, Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] has pulled off something people have tried to do for more than a decade: reuniting the surviving members of Nirvana. Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, who made rock history in Seattle with the late Kurt Cobain, will appear today at a Kerry rally at the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas. Grohl will perform with his band, Foo Fighters. Novoselic, an activist who authored ``Of Grunge and Government,'' will speak. Also expected are Kerry's daughter, Alexandra, stepson, Chris Heinz, and Tom DeLonge of punk band Blink 182.

FUTURE SOUNDTRACK FOR AMERICA Barsuk Records is set to release a fundraising CD compilation, titled future soundtrack for america, a joint project with MoveOn.org and Music For America, on August 10th. The compilation will include R.E.M.'s "The Final Straw (MoveOn mix)." McSweeney's Publishing is also releasing a book with similar fundraising goals that will include a copy of the CD; the future dictionary of america features contributions from an astounding group of almost 200 writers, from Paul Auster to Michael Chabon to Jonathan Franzen to Joyce Carol Oates to Kurt Vonnegut to Wendy Wasserstein. One hundred percent of the proceeds...

Its list of offerings reads like a who's who of entertainment icons: musical superstars, award-winning actors and professional athletes among them. Armed Forces Entertainment has been presenting first-class entertainment to U.S. troops and their families overseas for more than 50 years. Last year alone, it sponsored more than 1,200 shows at 225 sites worldwide —85 of them in Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of Southwest Asia, according to Air Force Col. Janice Long, chief of Armed Forces Entertainment. During the past six months, the program sponsored visits by headliners such as World Wrestling Entertainment, Bruce Willis, Blink-182, Collective Soul, Drew...

Blink-182 Brings High Energy Show to Nimitz Story Number: NNS030902-02 Release Date: 9/2/2003 9:00:00 AM By Operations Specialist 2nd Clas Carla Morton, USS Nimitz Public AffairsABOARD USS NIMITZ, At Sea (NNS) -- Multiplatinum-selling band Blink-182, comprised of singer/bassist Mark Hoppus, singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker came aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Aug. 27 to meet with the crew and put on a rocking show in the hangar bay. Blink-182, a pop/punk band that got their start in San Diego in 1993, is famous for songs such as “All The Small Things” and “What’s My Age Again?” While...