Tom DeLonge
Awards & Honours
5
Awards Won
1
Honours
5
Covers
1
Records
DeLonge's influence on pop-punk is hard to overstate. Blink-182's Enema of the State alone sold 15 million copies, and the band's catalog continues to stream in the hundreds of millions. He helped push UFO research into the mainstream, with To The Stars Academy directly influencing the Pentagon's UAP Task Force. His ability to pivot from punk rock to serious advocacy shows a rare range. Few musicians have shaped a genre as thoroughly while also changing public discourse on a completely different subject.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
California State Senate Recognition
Honored for contributions to music and UFO research advocacy.
Magazine Covers
Rolling Stone
November 2000
Blink-182: The Wildest Band in the World
Rolling Stone
September 2004
Blink-182: The End of the World as We Know It?
Alternative Press
2015
Tom DeLonge: The Man Behind the Music
Popular Mechanics
2019
Tom DeLonge's UFO Hunt
The New York Times Magazine
2021
The Unlikely UFO Researcher
Records & Feats
Influenced creation of U.S. UAP Task Force
DeLonge's To The Stars Academy advocacy directly contributed to the establishment of the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force in 2020.