The Beatles and music legend John Lennon was apparently starkers when he had an unusual encounter as his nude smoke break on his balcony was interrupted on a hot summer day
John Lennon wrote songs that are out of this world but The Beatles icon believed he once caught glimpse of a ‘UFO’ while completely naked.
The musician was staying with his girlfriend of the time, May Pang, when he decided to go out for a smoke on a hot summer day back in August 23 in 1974. John was living in a New York City apartment, close to the East River at the time.
John went out on his balcony naked in an attempt to cool off and was left stunned by what he saw. The story of the UFO sighting told by May to The Beatles Story in Liverpool.
According to May, John had gone out to see “odd lights flashing” from a “silent circular object, dark in colour and adorned with white pulsating lights.”
May reportedly shouted “It’s a UFO” as the mysterious object was alledgldy right above them.
But it was not just John and May he saw the unidentified flying object as it went slowly through the city and on the river, before going towards Brooklyn.
The couple then reportedly watched it shoot up into the sky.
John reportedly joked and insisted he “wasn’t crazy” when telling the tale, According to The Beatles Story, John and May told police and the newspapers about the UFO and both allegedly confirmed that there were similar reports made.
The potential UFO sighting came just after John had finished work on the album ‘Walls and Bridges’.
The album would later see a note that read: “On 23rd Aug. 1974 at 9 o’clock I saw a U.F.O”, placed on the inner sleeve. John also made refence to the UFO incident in his song John’s song ‘Nobody Told Me’, which was later posthumously released in 1984.
The lyric was: “There’s UFOs over New York and I ain’t too surprised.”
Several years later, psychic Uri Geller told Sky News that he had spoken with John about his encounter and claims the star even gave him a mysterious object. He also confessed to now owning a sketch The Beatles star made of the ‘UFO’.
Uri said his first questions for John were in disbelief as he asked “What did you smoke?”. But John was certain of what he saw.
Speaking to Sky News, Uri said: “So I met him at the hotel, and he was white and shaking. And I said, ‘John, what happened?’ And he put his left hand into his pocket, and he pulls out this item here [pointing at the egg]. And I said, ‘What is this?’ And he handed it to me and it’s really heavy.”
He continued: It’s not a rock. Nobody knows what it’s made out of. I get thousands of e-mails from around the world asking me one question. ‘Uri. Why don’t you give this to a scientist, and they will finally tell you what it’s made out of?’ And I say, ‘No way’. You know why? Because I don’t want to be disappointed that this is made in China. I want to believe John Lennon’s words.”
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