An organization which investigates claims of UFOs and which was co-founded by the lead singer of rock band Blink-182 says it may have physical evidence confirming their existence.
‘Our company over the last year and a half has actually obtained quite a bit of material,’ Luis Elizondo of To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science told Fox News on Friday.
Elizondo is a former Pentagon employee who worked as under secretary of defense for intelligence.
He resigned from his job after he says that his bosses prevented him from further pursuing research into ‘unusual aerial systems.’
Elizondo joined To the Stars, where he works as director of global security and special programs.
Elizondo told Fox News that his organization is getting closer to a more definitive conclusion as to the nature of the strange phenomena.
‘Some of that material — its providence is frankly hearsay, while other providence of some of this material has been substantiated,’ he said.
The To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences co-founded by Blink 182 lead singer Tom DeLonge claims it’s found material from an alien spaceship
Elizondo said experts working for his group are examining physical, chemical, and atomic properties.
The findings will be put through a rigorous peer-reviewed ‘scientific process,’ he said.
Elizondo was most likely referring to material that is believed to have come from an alien spaceship.
Tom DeLonge, the former front man for rock group Blink-182, co-founded To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
Last week, a spokesperson for To The Stars told the New York Times its newest discovery is ‘exotic material samples from UFOs,’ declining to comment further.
DeLonge himself has posted photos of the flat stony objects on his Instagram page along with comments from himself and a To The Stars Academy official.
‘The structure and composition of these materials are not from any known existing military or commercial application,’ Steve Justice, former head of Advanced Systems at Lockheed Martin’s ‘Skunk Works’ who now leads To the Stars’ Technology and Aerospace team, said of the find, according to DeLong.
‘We currently have multiple material samples being analyzed by contracted laboratories and have plans to extend the scope of this study,’ he added.
They posted pictures of the stony substance on Twitter and DeLonge’s Instagram
A To The Stars Academy leader says, ‘The structure and composition of these materials are not from any known existing military or commercial application’
DeLonge first announced the Academy’s discovery in a July 25 Instagram post, telling his followers they believe the material came from an ‘Unidentified Aerial Vehicle.’
‘We have been able to establish that the material shows highly advanced anomalous engineering capabilities,’ the singer wrote. ‘This acquisition will allow us to expand the scope of our ADAM Research Project and accelerate R&D that could lead to numerous aerospace and engineering breakthroughs.’
At least some of the material obtained by To The Stars, ‘shows distortion and damage that appears to be caused by exposure to very high temperatures, but did not burn,’ according to Justice.
‘We have some very strategic plans to help turn the science of these pieces into advanced capabilities,’ the researcher was quoted saying in another of DeLong’es recent IG posts.
‘Wave Guides, mass reduction, all new meta-materials, and many more potentials are within view of new studies, some of which are already happening, and more studies we are planning.’
The Navy says spectacular footage released in 2017 that shows ‘unexplained aerial phenomena’ is authentic. This footage was captured by Navy Pilots off the coast of Florida in 2015
‘The Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those three videos as unidentified,’ Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Black Vault
DeLonge says he has been fascinated by the prospects of alien life since he was in junior high school.
‘I started becoming very fascinated in the idea of what else is there besides working a 9-to-5 job and coming from a broken family,’ the singer told the New York Times.
‘For some reason I just thought science fiction was just fascinating. My brother and I were so into the whole ‘Star Wars’ thing, obviously, in the early ’80s. It just kind of led to me thinking a little bit broader.’
He said alien hunters like himself have been waiting for the U.S. government to confirm the existence of extra terrestrials, regarding the military’s recent transparency on its pilots’ UFO footage as a step in the right direction.
‘This whole thing could be answered by the government,’ DeLonge added.
‘We’re just waiting for them to come and help us with some of this research.
‘This situation that just happened is literally something I and many other people have been waiting for for not years, but decades.
‘This is what we’ve been hoping it would do so it can really just ignite more smart people and intellectuals to get into this race and help us figure out more about it.’
So far neither the U.S. military has commented on To The Stars’ latest findings.
NASA did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment Monday night.
Last month, the United States Navy confirmed that spectacular footage released in 2017 that appears to show ‘unexplained aerial phenomena’ is authentic, but that the footage was never meant to be made public.
The clips were first published by The New York Times in December of that year and were recorded by Department of Defense officials on two separate occasions.
One clip was recorded near San Diego, California back in 2004, while a second video was captured off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida in 2015.
Several months after those videos were published, To The Stars Academy released an additional video from the 2015 incident, which features a navy pilot remarking: ‘What the f**k is that thing?’
The Navy last month confirmed the authenticity of the videos for the first time.
Footage captured by William Guy last week shows strange lights above the horizon on the waters off North Carolina’s Outer Banks
‘The Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those three videos as unidentified,’ Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Black Vault.
In recent weeks, strange sightings have once again ignited the debate of whether humans are alone in the universe.
A man on a ferry just off North Carolina’s Outer Banks posted a video to YouTube last week showing about a dozen glowing flashes of light over the horizon.
‘Anybody tell me what that is?’ William Guy of Indiana says in the video.
‘We’re in the middle of the ocean, on a ferry, nothing around. Look. Nothing around. No land, no nothing.’
Guy traveled to the waters off North Carolina to assist in repairing the damage caused by flooding during Hurricane Dorian, according to the Charlotte Observer.
Despite the excitement that these may be a UFO, commenters on YouTube noted that the lights are most likely flares used by the military during drill exercises.
The Outer Banks are close to a number of military bases, including Camp Lejeune and Fort Bragg.
Guy, however, isn’t convinced.
‘A lot of people I have talked to here on the island said it was flares, but they also said they have never seen anything like what I captured,’ he wrote on YouTube.