A Trail of the Saucers Investigation
Like a UFO You Came to Me
On a hot August night in 1974, John Lennon and May Pang had a close encounter with a UFO in New York City, and he talked about it until his final days. (Part 2 of 3)
The story continues now with Part 2 of 3…
Hot August Night
Lennon’s 52nd Street apartment had a view. Only a few feet off the living room, through a window, you could be on the building’s roof which became a deck, and Lennon felt it was private the way he liked it. Plus, the view was stellar from inside and out.
May Pang decided around 8:30 p.m. that she’d get a shower and order up a pizza delivery for later. John was okay with that because he said he had to review ideas being pitched for his new album’s cover. In the end, he used a painting he’d done as eleven year old.
John Lennon insisted throughout his life that he was “very straight” at the time he saw a UFO. Lennon had experimented with most drugs and abused a few. Not, however, on August 23rd, 1974, according to John. When his biographer Ray Coleman asked him if he’d been smoking or drinking, he replied, “No, God’s honest truth. I only do that at…
