Intelligent Congress?

If the truth is out there, it’s not going to be discovered by this Republican-controlled House of Representatives. This is something that Tom Delonge needs to understand without letting his sympathies and desire to believe cloud his judgment.

Last week, the House Oversight Subcommittee on national security hosted hearings on UFOs, also known as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) where such as former intelligence officer David Grusch and former Navy pilots David Fravor and Ryan Graves testified that they had seen aliens.

Tom DeLonge, the guitarist and vocalist for Blink-182 and Angels and Airwaves has been pursuing proof that Aliens Exist (the title of one Blink song) for decades. He even created a company that has a division for studying fringe science. Now, because of last week’s hearing, bass player and co-lead vocalist of Blink says “Tom was right” at every show of Blink-182’s current reunion tour.

Tom posted a photo on Instagram stating, “Tom was right, aliens fucking exist.” The caption read, “The UFO Hearings today made history. I am so proud of the three witnesses today that blew the lid off the UFO secrecy that has been intact for decades.” He also wrote, “Remember that we at To The Stars changed the world.”

His company released three declassified videos recorded by Navy pilots showing alleged UFOs and in 2019, the U.S. military confirmed the footage to be authentic.

But not so fast, Tom.

David Grusch, the former intelligence officer and so-called whistleblower testified that the government has debris collected from crashed alien spacecraft and federal retrieval teams have collected biological remains from alien bodies. He also testified he’s interviewed dozens of people who claim they’ve been injured by UFOs. Oh my god! That’s amazing…but wait.

Finding people who claim they’ve seen aliens, and even people who swear they’ve been abducted isn’t new or difficult. People have written books about being abducted and experimented on. And just like all those people with claims of seeing aliens, Grusch doesn’t have evidence to support his claims.

Tom needs to slow his roll. The hearings did NOT prove that aliens exist any more than other hearings have proved that Joe Biden is taking bribes from foreign companies through his son, Hunter. Tom may have been studying UFOs and searching for the existence of aliens for years, but he may need to study Congress.

And “UFO” stands for “UNIDENTIFIED flying objects.” Unidentified does not mean aliens. When the government says footage of a UFO is authenticated, they’re authenticating that they can’t identify it. They’re not authenticating that it’s aliens buzzing around over our heads and playing chicken with military aircraft.

A 2021 Gallup poll showed that 40 percent of Americans, without any evidence, believe that some UFOs are alien spacecraft, but keep in mind that nearly 70 percent believe in angels, 66 percent believe Jesus rose from the grave, 25 percent believe God supports their favorite football team, 12 percent believe lizard people run the government, 30 percent believe in Bigfoot, and 61 percent of Republicans believe Trump won in 2020. We believe in a lot of shit without any actual physical proof. And why would God root for the Las Vegas Raiders? C’mon, man. He would be a Saints fan.

For some of those UFOs to be alien spacecraft, they would have to travel trillions of miles through space to get here and evade every satellite orbiting our planet. It’s hard to go outside and scratch your ass without it ending up on Google Earth. This is why I also don’t believe in Bigfoot. We would have proof by now. But I do believe that if lizard people had to choose a government to secretly run, it would be ours.

And if the government is hiding proof that aliens exist and are visiting us, then it’s pretty convenient that they’re only visiting the United States and not other nations where governments wouldn’t be so secretive. Do you really believe Pakistan could conceal proof of alien life? It’s like trying to find proof of President Biden having corruption in Ukraine when it doesn’t exist.

There are mysteries out there and things that can’t be explained, but you can’t explain the unknown simply by claiming it’s aliens, vampires, bigfoots, lizard people, Mary Poppins, or Komodo dragons with wings.

The hearing in the House of Representatives concluded as most hearings in Congress do, without proving a thing. I love Blink-182 and Tom DeLonge’s guitar playing. I saw them in concert about two decades ago, but I’m not trusting them for information on science.

Believing what you hear in a Congressional hearing is like believing what you hear on Fox News or at a Trump rally. The truth is out there, but you’re not going to find it at a Blink-182 concert.

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