John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York City

“On the 23rd Aug. 1974 at 9 o’clock I saw a .” (John Lennon) Lennon, who enjoyed outsized success as a member of The Beatles, said he saw the flying object from his apartment in New York City. “It wasn’t a helicopter, and it wasn’t a balloon, and it was so near,” Lennon said. The singer-songwriter said the round object was black or grey in the middle with blinking white lights wrapped around it and a red light on top. He said it flew past his window on a warm summer night and was so close he could have thrown a brick at it. “The thing I noticed was there was no noise, and I could hear the freeway down below – all the cars going. So I realised, ‘Oh, it’s not a helicopter, so then it must be a balloon’,” Lennon said. “But it was so close to the rooftop that it couldn’t be a balloon.” He was abusing drugs and alcohol at the time, but said he was completely sober when the sighting took place. He took photos with two different cameras but no photos came