Maeve McDermott

USATODAY

In a political story nobody was expecting, former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge's name showed up in WikiLeaks' latest dump of Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta's emails.

The important policy matters DeLonge wanted to discuss? Aliens, with the released emails hinting at a potential UFO-related project between the two.

In an email — subject line: "Important things" — sent in October 2015, DeLonge introduces himself as "the one who interviewed you for that special documentary not to long ago," offering to set up a meeting with Podesta and two "important" figures.

"I think you will find them very interesting, as they were principal leadership relating to our sensitive topic," DeLonge writes. "Both were in charge of most fragile divisions, as it relates to Classified Science and DOD topics."

DeLonge also sent Podesta an email entitled "General McCasland," about how he was working with a former military official tied to the Roswell incident, claiming he was unearthing important information.

According to a calendar invite, DeLonge and Podesta had a meeting on the books earlier this year.

​More than 5,000 of Podesta's electronic communications have been released by WikiLeaks, the most recent round coming on Tuesday.

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This unusual saga likely began with DeLonge and Podesta's shared fascination with UFOs. DeLonge, who sang about how Aliens Exist with Blink-182 on the 1999 album Enema Of The State, has dedicated the most recent phase of his career to extraterrestrial life.

Earlier this year, he published Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows, a novel written with UNC Charlotte Shakespeare professor A.J. Hartley with information DeLonge says comes from "sources within the aerospace industry and the Department of Defense and NASA." He also opened To the Stars, an office space with a library of UFO literature that DeLonge calls a "transmedia" experience for his music and books.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, DeLonge attributed his departure from Blink-182 to his various other UFO-related projects, with high-level governmental figures on board.

"I couldn't tell the band I was working with people in the government," he said. "That's another big part of this story. People think I want to just put out a novel and make a movie. I have 10 people that I'm working with that are at the highest levels of the Department of Defense and NASA and the military."

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As Bill Clinton's chief of staff, an advisor for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Podesta has pushed for the government to release information on extraterrestrial life — in between running an X-Files fan club in the Clinton White House. “Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the U.F.O. files. #thetruthisstilloutthere," he wrote on Twitter after leaving the Obama administration in 2014.

So, is there something forthcoming from Podesta and DeLonge? Hopefully, the truth is out there.