The most bizarre incident of the Lost Weekend happened on August 23rd, 1974 as John Lennon walked out on to his balcony of his New York apartment... he witnessed a "spaceship" hovering just above his window !!!

May Pang says John had always been fascinated by UFOs... he subscribed to a British UFO Magazine, the 'Flying Saucer Review'.

After the sighting, John became even more fascinated, often discussing UFOs with May.


Caricature of May & John kindly contributed by Roz @ www.UFOnies.com


May Pang's account of the sighting.
(Resourced from her book: 'Loving John')

"I had just stepped out of the shower one Friday night toward the end of August when I heard John shout. "Fung Yee, come here."

May recalls how John sounded "panic-stricken" as he screamed, "Now, Fung Yee. Now!" May immediately ran outside beside John to ask him what was the matter.

Lennon pointed to the sky, "Look up there. Tell me what you see."

May couldn't believe her eyes. She described what she saw as "a saucer shaped object surrounded by blinking white lights gliding through the sky"... she was "astonished". It was difficult for her to believe what she was actually seeing... yet still, she was convinced she was witnessing a UFO! She then began to laugh.

John questioned her laughter, and because they were both naked, she humorously replied, "Suppose it's looking at us. Maybe they think that everyone who lives on the East Side wanders around naked on their balconies on Friday evenings. We look like Adam and Eve."

They went back inside to get a telescope to further study the UFO.

At first, John had worried that May might not have believed him... he thought she'd probably wonder, "What is John on?"

May and John weren't the only ones to witness the UFO. Reports of the UFO had been made to both the local police station and to the newspapers. May had never previously believed in the UFO phenomenon, but after this experience she wrote, "Now I've seen it I do believe it."

What is particularly notable about this account is that May then refers to John describing the UFO as a "spaceship"... so there's little doubt that neither May nor John thought they might have mistaken an aircraft, weather balloon or whatever as a UFO.


Verification on Record

John incorporated the UFO incident on the artwork on his album 'Walls and Bridges'. On the bottom right (of the back cover) is written:
"On 23 August 1974, I saw a UFO J.L."

Lennon also mentions UFO encounters on two of his albums.

From the 'Double Fantasy' album:
Track - Nobody Told Me

"There's UFO's over New York, and I ain't too surprised,
Nobody told me there'd be days like these,
Strange days indeed."

And from Lennon's 'Mind Games' album:
Track - Out of the Blue

"Like a UFO you came to me,
and blew away life's misery."






Alien Encounters

May describes the UFO in more detail in the UFO magazine 'Alien Encounters':
(July 1996 - Issue 9 - Page 53)

"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 Night Aliens Called on Lennon
(As reported by the British Daily Telegraph website in Dec. 2004)

'They came in the darkness and had bug-like faces. Stranger still, they left a weird egg-shaped object behind. Uri Geller recalls his friend John Lennon's encounter with the unknown !!!'

I don't know how this Daily Telegraph article rates in the credibility stakes, but famous psychic Uri Geller claims that John Lennon told him he had been abducted by aliens from his Manhattan apartment !!!

Geller claims Lennon said the aliens were "Bug-like". They had "big bug eyes and little bug mouths and they were scuttling at me like roaches."

Not only did the aliens 'call' on Lennon, the aliens, according to Geller, also gave him a golden egg !!!

The problem with Geller's claims is that part of his story seems in direct conflict to what is recorded by May Pang in 'Loving John'... like this incident.


Geller claims:

"When we first met he was suffering terribly from his separation from Yoko... and John desperately wanted to mend the relationship... he just didn't know how to make the first move.

"The night Lennon and I were introduced, Elton John was playing at Madison Square Gardens. Elton was trying to persuade the ex-Beatle to get up on stage with him, and John was torn, he wanted to perform but he was scared.

"Finally, he turned to me and offered a deal, as though I were a negotiator sent by God: "I'll sing, but you have to make Yoko call me".

"Yoko phoned John out of the blue, 36 hours later. I think John always believed I had beamed a mind-control ray at her. For my part, I think that of all the synchronicities that have shaped my life, that was one of the strangest".

May Pang tells her readers that Yoko called John several times every day during his separation from Yoko. She even says that at one particular time Yoko was averaging an astonishing 15 phone calls a day !!! So neither May nor John would have wanted Geller to intervene only to be further troubled by yet even more of Yoko's persistent calls.

And May also recalls that Lennon's performance with Elton John was, in fact, due to Lennon keeping his promise that he'd appear on stage with Elton if 'Whatever Gets You Thru The Night' became a number 1 single.

Furthermore, the golden egg has never been scientifically analyzed by any credible source. If Geller wanted to lend any credibility to his story then all he had to do was simply hand the golden egg over to a university or to NASA. NASA's scientists could have easily determined if the egg originated from genuine alien sources or merely from the wild imaginings of Geller.

Uri Geller has been debunked endless times by various skeptics societies who claim his famous spoon bending routine to be little more than a night club magician's act.

So this site prefers to accept May Pang's recollections rather than lend any credence to Geller's grandiose "Negotiator Sent by God" extravaganza.

Geller's story does however make for entertaining reading.


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