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I SAW A UFO (JOHN LENNON)
John Lennon. There's UFO's over New York and he ain't too surprised. John talks his UFO sighting.
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John Lennon.
New York City.
1975.
John Lennon: Beatles star's ex reveals TRUTH about his UFO sighting 'I know what I saw'
www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1232867/John-Lennon-Beatles-May-Pang-UFO-sighting
While he was with Pang, at a time they were in New York, The Beatles star claimed to have seen a UFO, even referencing the moment in the liner notes for Walls and Bridges and in his song Nobody Told Me, in which he sings: “There’s UFOs over New York / And I ain’t too surprised.”
In a rare interview with The Beatles Bible years later in 2011, Pang opened up on the experience, revealing what she thought to be the truth of the matter.
John Lennon: The Beatles star's ex May Pang spilled all on their UFO sighting (Image: GETTY)
John Lennon: The Beatles star claimed to have seen a UFO in 1974 (Image: GETTY)
“I know what I saw. And the rational explanation is… it was a UFO,” she declared.
“There’s UFOs over New York, as the song goes. And I saw another one in the early ‘80s, and I know other did people did too.”
Asked if anyone else in the city spotted the object that day in 1974, Lennon’s ex replied: “Yes, that event had about 400 reported sightings, I believe.”
On the subject of whether or not Lennon had, in fact, called out to the UFO in the hope it might take him away, Pang clarified: “He didn’t call out to it; he later said he wished it had taken us with it.
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“However, I doubt we’d have been that enthusiastic to go along had the opportunity actually presented itself,” she commented.
In 1974, Lennon detailed the sighting in an interview with Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, describing a “thing with ordinary electric light bulbs flashing on and off around the bottom, one non-blinking red light on top”.
The Beatles star amid he had been gazing out of the window, “just daydreaming around in my usual poetic frame of mind”, when he saw what he claimed was a UFO.
The object, he said, was hovering around 100 feet away over a nearby building.
At the time, Pang said she had walked out onto the terrace and seen the object too.
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“My eye caught this large, circular object coming towards us,” she said.
“It was shaped like a flattened cone and on top was a large, brilliant red light, not pulsating as on any of the aircraft we’d see heading for a landing at Newark Airport.
“When it came a little closer, we could make out a row or circle of white lines that ran around the entire rim of the craft — these were also flashing on and off,” she continued.
“There were so many of these lights that it was dazzling to the mind.
Lennon told the magazine he he tried to take pictures of the UFO with both a polaroid and regular camera but claimed the film had come back blank, looking like it had “been through the radar at customs”.
He said his photographer Bob Gruen had rung the Daily News and the Times the next day, as well as the police, to see if anyone else had reported a sighting.
“Two other people and/or groups said they too saw something,” he said. “Anyway, I know what I saw…”