John Lennon's UFO Sighting, New York, 8/23/1974
From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:40:09 -0800
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[Quote From Pang's Book Included below]
Found on PR Newswire at
http://www.prnewswire.com:80/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=3D104&STORY=3D/www/st=
y/9-19-97/321016&EDATE=3D
Is The Mars Mission Part of a NASA Conspiracy? Did John Lennon
Encounter a UFO?
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Among the stories featured on STRANGE UNIVERSE: THE ULTIMATE JOURNEY is
an investigation into the growing Internet conspiracy theory that NASA
is faking the Mars mission -- including the story behind an amazing
transmission from Mars that seems to show a Budweiser bottle cap in the
foreground. The conclusion will surprise you.
It will also feature the exclusive, untold story of John Lennon's
encounter with a UFO in New York City -- a sighting confirmed by NYPD
records. May Pang, Lennon's companion at the time, speaks exclusively
about what she
and Lennon saw and reveals for the first time Lennon's actual pictures
of the craft -- pictures she's kept locked away for twenty-three years.
(snip)
SOURCE Strange Universe
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(snip)
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Lennon's sighting occurred when he was with his personal secretary, May
Pang, in New York, at the time when he and Yoko Ono were separated.
He refers to the experience on the cover of his album "Walls And
Bridges", which was released in 1974, saying that he saw a UFO on
August 23.
Strange Universe's feature on Saturday, September 27 is a repeat from
September 1. I haven't been able to see it myself, but August 31 I
found this informative comment which was posted to the newsgroup
"rec.music.beatles". Sorry about the delay.
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From amaranth56@aol.com (Amaranth56) at AOL http://www.aol.com
Date: 31 Aug 1997 21:42:57 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles
References: 1
>"Mark " <*nospam*> wrote:
>Chris wrote:
>> Just saw a commercial for a show called Strange
>>Universe
>> http://www.strangeuniverse.com
>>and on Monday Sept. 1 they're supposed to have a story on a UFO
sighting John Lennon had. All I heard was a snippet of an interview
with Lennon in which he said he was looking at something a hundred
yards away, and he realized it was a UFO.
>> Anybody have any further info on the incident they're referring to?
(snip)
May Pang tells about this in her book, "Loving John." John wasn't out
with anyone--he and May were in their upper East side apartment when
John saw what he believe to be a UFO and called May over to the window
to see it, too. Supposedly, there were several reports that night of
the sighting. Who knows?
(snip)
19970831214201.RAA00693@ladder01.news.aol.com
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"Amaranth56" is absolutely right. The July '96 issue of the British UFO
magazine "Encounters" tells May Pang's story in quotes presumably
taken from her book, unfortunately without referring to the source
(issue 9, p. 53):
"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."
Eerily the object passed by.
"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!"
Index: John Lennon
Index: 1970s UFO Sightings
Created: Sep 23, 1997
