Sekret Machines
Sekret Machines is a dual-track book series — one fiction, one non-fiction — co-authored by musician and To The Stars founder Tom DeLonge, exploring the history, science, and national-security dimensions of the UFO/UAP phenomenon. The fiction volumes were co-written with novelist A.J. Hartley; the non-fiction volumes with esoteric historian Peter Levenda. DeLonge has stated publicly that the series was informed by briefings from high-level U.S. government and military insiders, explaining on the Joe Rogan Experience that the books deal with "secret international finance, private industry, a secret space program and a bunch of other things," and that his access to the material derived from government officials who saw him as a channel to communicate with the public in ways they could not themselves pursue.
Background
Tom DeLonge, best known as co-founder of the band Blink-182, launched To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) in 2017 as a public-benefit corporation combining entertainment, aerospace research, and UAP advocacy. TTSA served as the vehicle through which two classified Department of Defense videos of UAPs — later acknowledged by the Pentagon — were released to the public on December 16, 2017, the same date Sekret Machines: Man was in active preparation. TTSA advisers acknowledged in the non-fiction volumes include former CIA analyst Christopher "Kit" Green, physicist Hal Puthoff, geneticist Garry Nolan, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Chris Mellon, AATIP director Luis Elizondo, and former Counterintelligence officer Jim Semivan.
Peter Levenda is a researcher of esoteric history and author of the Sinister Forces trilogy, which traces occult currents through American political history. His collaboration with DeLonge represents a convergence of esoteric scholarship and mainstream UAP disclosure advocacy.
Fiction series
The fiction track was co-authored with novelist A.J. Hartley and published by To The Stars:
- Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows (2016) — introduces the fictional framework built around ancient contact, human–NHI interaction, and secret aerospace programs.
- Sekret Machines Book 2: A Fire Within (2018) — continues the narrative, following its characters deeper into covert UAP-related projects.
The subtitles Gods, Man, and War belong to the non-fiction track described below, not to the novels.
Non-fiction series
The non-fiction track, co-authored with Levenda, is subtitled Gods, Man & War and was conceived as a three-volume companion to the novels, each volume corresponding to one pillar of the phenomenon.
Gods (2017)
Sekret Machines: Gods examines ancient cultural and religious evidence for contact between humanity and non-human intelligences. The authors argue that the architectural, textual, and ritual traditions of Egypt, Sumer, India, China, and other civilizations represent attempts to document and institutionalize encounter with beings from the heavens, and that what ancient peoples described in theological language constitutes the oldest stratum of what is now called the UAP phenomenon.
Man (2019)
Sekret Machines: Man takes the phenomenon into the domains of genetics, consciousness, and the brain-computer interface. The book is organized into three sections: Genetics and the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis, Consciousness, and Human-Machine Symbiosis.
The genetics section examines proposals — associated with Francis Crick and others — that DNA was deliberately engineered and seeded on Earth, cross-referencing these with African, Chinese, and Egyptian divinatory and cosmological systems.
The consciousness section surveys the history of the alien abduction phenomenon — from the Hill case (1961) through Budd Hopkins, Whitley Strieber's Communion (1987), and John E. Mack's Abduction (1994) — arguing that the physiological and psychological effects on contactees constitute evidence of a genuine external phenomenon rather than delusion. The book further reports on research by Garry Nolan and Kit Green into UAP biomarkers — neurological, cardiological, and genetic changes in military personnel exposed to UAPs at close range, including John Burroughs in the Rendlesham Forest incident (December 1980) and the civilian victims of the Cash–Landrum incident (December 1980).
The human-machine symbiosis section poses the central theoretical question of the volume: given that humanity is on the verge of creating sentient robotic systems indistinguishable from organic life, it is plausible that the entities reported by abductees — typically characterized as emotionally detached and physiologically non-aging — are themselves machines rather than biological extraterrestrials, produced by a civilization that reached this threshold earlier than humanity. The section also examines remote viewing and telepathy as potential channels for human communication with non-human actors connected to the phenomenon.
The authors explicitly frame the trilogy as multidisciplinary: "While we feel that it is problematic to separate the spiritual, scientific, and security fields from each other when discussing the UFO Phenomenon, we also realize that as human beings we have been trained to think this way."
War (planned)
A third non-fiction volume, Sekret Machines: War, was announced to address the national-security implications of the phenomenon — including AATIP, covert government UAP programs, and military encounter cases. As of publication of Man it had not yet appeared.
Key themes
- Ancient contact: Gods argues that global religious and architectural traditions encode memory of genuine contact with non-human beings.
- Biomarkers of contact: Man documents research by TTSA-affiliated scientists into measurable physiological effects on UAP witnesses, framing these as empirical evidence of the phenomenon.
- Consciousness and the hard problem: The series treats the relationship between consciousness, DNA, and the UAP phenomenon as a scientific frontier, drawing on neurobiology, quantum mechanics, and abduction testimony.
- Machine intelligence hypothesis: The volumes propose that UAP entities may be robotic or artificial in nature, built by civilizations that preceded humanity's current AI development arc.
- Multidisciplinary disclosure: The series is explicitly positioned as part of DeLonge's broader disclosure strategy, coordinating fiction, non-fiction, and the TTSA public-benefit platform.
DeLonge further described how these government contacts approached him because "they don't have a way to make a movie, a book, they don't have a way to make documentaries… they don't have a way to go on a big show like this and communicate with young people," making the Sekret Machines project a deliberate conduit for insider knowledge that could not be released through official channels.
Significance
The Sekret Machines series is notable as one of the few mainstream-published UAP disclosure projects to involve named, credentialed government and scientific insiders as acknowledged collaborators and reviewers rather than anonymous sources. Former Nevada Senator Harry Reid, whose office funded AATIP, is quoted in *Man'*s prologue on the national-security urgency of the phenomenon. The simultaneous release strategy — fiction providing narrative, non-fiction providing evidence — reflects DeLonge's stated belief that public disclosure requires cultural as well as factual preparation.
See also
External links
- "#1029 - Tom DeLonge". open.spotify.com (Podcast). Retrieved 2026-03-15. ＋