Two years ago, under contentious circumstances, Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge was kicked out of the band. Since then, he’s had time to pursue other interests. Like: UFO research! DeLonge, who claims that he’s had contact with aliens, was one of the people whose emails with Hillary Clinton consigliere John Podesta leaked during last year’s big WikiLeaks campaign hack. It looks like he’s been meeting with government officials about the crucial matter of alien-autopsy coverups. And now he’s been recognized for his efforts.

Open Minds Productions, which seems to be a sort of UFO-conspiracy online network, and something called the International UFO Congress, have named DeLonge their UFO Researcher Of The Year. And in a new video package, they’ve detailed all the work he’s done in the UFO-research arena. In a taped message, a twitchy and intense DeLonge has made an acceptance speech. Here’s some of what he said:

There’s a lot that I can’t say, but there’s some that I can. And I’m so appreciative that I’ve been acknowledged for this stuff, but I’m not done. I’m just like you guys. I spent 20 years up all night, reading about Roswell, Dulce, Serpo, Churchill, the crashes here, Nazis building craft there, Antarctica, what’s on Mars, what’s on the back of the moon, anomalous structures. I mean, I’ve done it all. I know it all. I read all the same authors as you guys, hundreds of books. I look at all the same sites. I listen to all the Coast To Coast stuff that you guys do. I’m the same. But I kind of used some of my notoriety to try to do something pretty ambitious, and it worked.

I came out and told you guys about a book I was writing called Sekret Machines, and I said a bunch of stuff, that I was working with some people. Well, I think a lot of people doubted it, and they thought it was crazy that this musician would have this kind of access. And then the WikiLeaks thing happened, and you guys saw that I’m into some serious shit, and I’m making really good progress.

Here’s the video; the acceptance speech starts about five minutes in:

Given everything we’ve seen in 2017 thus far, if the guy from Blink-182 unveils some vast UFO conspiracy, would you even be surprised?