When founding member Tom DeLonge quit blink-182, fans everywhere said, "say it ain't so."

But now DeLonge has opened to Mic up about the split. It turns out that instead of focusing on all the small things, he had his eyes on some very big things — like extraterrestrial life.

“Well it’s not so much about Blink. It’s about what I’m doing with my life now," he explained in the recently published interview.

"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.”

At one point, the band was an appropriate platform for his mission, but DeLonge said he needed to expand his operations beyond the band. Mark Hoppus, apparently, was not the Dana Scully to his Mulder.

That's why he's launching Sekret Machines, a company that will educate people about the threat of extraterrestrials through books, documentaries and music from his band, Angels & Airwaves.

He has also moved past the word "aliens" — that's just what the government wants you to call them.

“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.

DeLonge hopes that people will begin taking him more seriously so he can further discuss details of the mounting evidence, which he insists is backed up by scientists.

“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.”

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