UFOs and Rock Stars

Summary

This episode explores musicians' claims of UFO encounters, focusing on Tom DeLonge of Blink 182 and John Lennon. DeLonge has made headlines for his alleged communication with government officials and his involvement in To the Stars Academy. The hosts also discuss a recent journalist scoop and the passing of UFO researcher John Lear.

Key takeaways

• 1Tom DeLonge's controversial UFO claims and conversations with government officials.
• 2DeLonge co-founded To the Stars Academy, promoting arts and sciences related to UFOs.
• 3John Lennon reported a UFO sighting near his Manhattan penthouse in the late 1970s.
• 4Journalist Tim McMillan's recent scoop regarding UFOs is highlighted.
• 5The episode notes the death of John Lear, a significant figure in the UFO community.

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Transcript excerpt

hello all and welcome to our latest episode of need to know i'm ross coulthart now last week's show about the potentially harmful uap contact with humans really struck a nerve and we've got some follow-ups on that in a moment but first let's swing our cameras across to my mate in dusty los angeles bryce sable g'day bryce good deal roscoe thank you it's not that dusty here although we haven't had rain for a while we're not happy to get any for a while so it's it's getting dustier by the moment you know for this show folks what we're going to be doing is pivoting to an area that may seem a little lighter if you will than last week's which probably wouldn't be that hard but it actually does raise some highly important questions the issue that we're going to take on is just simply rock stars who have either experienced the phenomenon themselves or have shown a deep interest in the phenomenon and in our next segment we're going to be talking about link 182's dom tom delong and in the last segment we'll focus on john lennon and his famous ufo sighting and believers there really is something quite interesting in both of those stories that has a pertinence to today's events that is very important but first i just want to acknowledge an amazing story that our friend and colleague tim mcmillan ran on the website the debrief this week tim's pretty good with his scoops and he picked with this one this one up this week and it's a whopper it's a it's a vindication of lou ellison though i i first met lou in person last year at his home in wyoming and...

Excerpt from Need to Know (Coulthart/Zabel), Apr 15, 2022. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.