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Is there life on Mars? Would a subterranean alien get homesick? Do you remember the time I knew a girl from Mars? Rock music has long been fascinated with the extraterrestrial, so it should come as no surprise that it might finally provide us with some answers.

Blink 182 guitarist Tom DeLonge is co-authoring an “investigative” book called Sekret Machines: Gods with occult historian author Peter Levenda. According to Levenda, “Sekret Machines: Gods is the opening salvo on the complacency of human institutions where the UFO Phenomenon is concerned. It’s designed to shake people up, to make them question their assumptions.”

This is not DeLonge’s first foray into UFO-related literature. Last year he co-wrote a fictional book called Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows. However DeLonge appears to genuinely believe this latest work is non-fiction.

DeLonge has spent much of his post Blink and Angels & Airwaves career taking an interest in the “phenomenon” of UFOs, and it appears that Blink’s song ‘Aliens Exist’ might have been a deadly serious statement of “fact”. In an interview with Mic last year, DeLonge said he quit the band to focus on his research into the extraterrestrial. “I can't tour nine months out of the year with enough time to do the enormity of what I'm setting out to do,” he said.

Gods is the first in a three-part series of investigative books into something DeLonge has described as a “national security issue”. It is out on 7 March. In the meantime...