 Over here, up there, I saw a UFO, and it went down the river, turned right at the United Nations, turned left, and then down the river. It wasn't a helicopter, it wasn't a balloon, and it was so near. And it looked like sort of a round white, innocent, and silent. Silent, and it looked dark, like black or gray in the middle, and had white lights, just looked like light bulbs, you know? Just going off, on, off, on, off, on, blink, blink, blink, round the bell, bottom, and on top was a red light. Imagine in a hundred years from now, we develop technology to go back in time as travelers in time to do a bit of sightseeing and visit places of historical importance from the past, like Leonardo da Vinci's attempted flight of a helicopter or the crucifixion of Christ, for example. Don't you think that one day this could be possible in some sort of realm of reality and within the possibilities allowed by the laws of physics? Maybe not, but then again, maybe so. At 9 o'clock on the 23rd of August 1974, legendary musician and songwriter John Lennon claims to have seen a UFO from the balcony of his apartment. This was during Lennon's now infamous Lost Weekend, which spanned an 18 month period of sheer rock and roll madness, an apparent venture of self-destruction but also enlightenment ordered by his wife Yoko Ono during this period he produced three albums including the iconic Mind Games album. On the cover of John Lennon's album Walls and Bridges, the following odd inscription can be seen. On the 23rd of August 1974, at 9 o'clock I saw a UFO. Lennon described what happened. I was lying naked on my bed when I had this urge, he said. So I went to the window, just dreaming around in my usual poetic frame of mind. There, as I turned my head, hovering over the next building, no more than a hundred feet away was this thing with no ordinary electric light bulbs flashing on and off round the bottom. One non-blinking red light on top. So what did the famous beetle witness, taking part in a bit of rock and roll sightseeing or something else? What do you guys think of this sighting anyway? It certainly left a lasting impression, whatever it may be, suggesting it is not something that is seen most days when he called the police this very night and they told him they had dozens of other reports. What was going on guys? Comments below and as always, thank you for watching. People could miss if they don't look carefully. Down in one of the lower corners of your liner notes it says, I saw a UFO, September something, something, something. What was the story behind that? Where did that happen? Well, I was in New York in an apartment and I was just standing by the roof and I looked left and there was this thing about a hundred yards away. I could have hit it with a stone if I threw it. And it was really, I could have even seen it without my glasses and I'm very short-sighted. I'm thinking, what is it? What is it? You know, is it a helicopter? No, it's making no noise. Is it a balloon? You know, is it the blimp? Because there's all these lights around the bottom of it flashing on and off. It didn't say American Airlines on it. It didn't say it didn't make a noise. And you know one part of me all the time was saying, that's a UFO, you know. But some part of you doesn't want to believe it, you know. Did you go to the authorities with that information? I didn't, because you know, Lennon sees UFO. I mean, that's enough to get me kicked out for it. I suppose. That's why I almost took it off the album. One time I said, pull it off. Hey, I'm going to get people with weird looking eyes coming up to me saying, I've come from the source, you know. And I've seen it too, yeah. And the other bit is they're going to say he's crazy, you know. But I thought, look, I saw it. You know, I don't care why anybody says there it was and nobody can explain what it was to me. I said UFO, you know. Amazing, this is in California. No, this is in New York. New York of all places. It was the height of the buildings. I mean, it was like, you know, if somebody had been in a higher building, they would have looked down on it. Did you try to anybody else that said they saw it too? I got a friend to call the police and call the newspapers the next day to check if anybody else had seen anything. And a couple of people had rung in and seen something in the same area with me. People in New York are sometimes oblivious to reality, you know. Things could be happening around them and they wouldn't even notice it. Well, I'll stick up in New York a bit. I think it's pretty real here, you know. It's just that, you know, I would never have noticed it if I hadn't happened to look out. You know, I looked around me and nobody else was looking out of windows or anything. The cars were going on because it's quiet, very low. It's not the expected sort of martian in the sky. It was below rooftop level and it was just coasting around very quietly. It was like a forest, you know. It's amazing. It was just that much that I saw it.