"I saw a UFO" - John Lennon
The intriguing sentence above can be found on the bottom right of the back cover of John Lennon's album "Walls And Bridges" released in 1974.
The July 1996 issue of the British UFO magazine "Alien Encounters" (issue 9, p. 53) tells May Pang's story in quotes, about a sighting she and Lennon had in the seventies. Here's an extract:
"We had just ordered up some pizzas and since it was such a warm evening, we decided to step out on the terrace," recalled Pang. "There were no windows directly facing us from across the street, so John just stepped outside with nothing on, in order to catch a cool breeze that was coming in right off the East River. I remember I was just inside the bedroom getting dressed when John started shouting for me to come
out on the terrace.
I yelled back that I would be right there but he kept screaming for me to join him in that instant. As I walked out onto the terrace, my eye caught this large, circular object coming towards us. 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 lights that ran around the entire rim of the craft - these were also flashing on and off. There were so many of these lights that it was dazzling to the mind.
It was, I estimate, about the size of a Lear jet and it was so close that if we had something to throw at it, we probably would have hit it quite easily."
"We often had helicopters flying above us but this was as silent as the night and about seventeen storeys above street level."
The object flew off but returned later, by which time she and Lennon had set up a telescope through which they could view it in more detail.
"The light was so brilliant coming from the craft that no additional details could be seen. We did take a couple of pictures but they turned out overexposed."
They also rang a local newspaper to report the sighting and were told at least seven other people had seen the UFO too.
"We even called the police, that's how excited we were, and they told us to keep calm, that others had seen it too."
During what was left of the evening, John kept saying, "I can't believe it... I can't believe it... I've seen a flying saucer!"
3 comments:
I'm not a believer, but I wish I saw what John Lennon saw -- most likely an airplane at an odd angle.
I can't imagine an angle that would make a plane hard to identify but I guess we are all entitled to speculate.
I wonder what he was feeling, when he saw it. I'm not bealiever too but this story seems to be real.
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