“Aliens Exist” by blink-182

Tucked into blink-182's third album, Enema of the State (1999), "Aliens Exist" is Tom DeLonge letting his lifelong UFO obsession off the leash. He wrote most of it, with Mark Hoppus sharing the credit, and sings lead, dropping nods to CIA meddling and the Majestic 12 over the trio's taut, bratty racket. Jerry Finn produced, Tom Lord-Alge mixed, and DeLonge's guitar, Hoppus's bass and Travis Barker's drums make up the whole attack.

It went over well when the album landed, stayed in the live set until 2002 and came back in 2019. By then some listeners heard it differently: DeLonge's company To the Stars had helped get military footage of unidentified aircraft released in 2017, which pushed the Pentagon to set up an office to look into such sightings.

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