A Trail of the Saucers Investigation
There’s UFOs Over New York
On August 23, 1974, John Lennon and May Pang saw a UFO outside his New York City penthouse apartment. He talked about it until his final days. (Part 1 of 3)
Once Upon a Time in New York City
In the last days of August in the summer of 1974 — August 23rd, exactly — John Lennon and his secretary girlfriend May Pang said they saw a UFO outside their rented 52nd Street penthouse apartment.
Editor’s Note: This is part one of a three part Trail of the Saucers investigation.
Lennon put this claim in the liner notes of his upcoming Walls and Bridges album. He released a sketch he’d made immediately after the event. He granted interviews. And shortly before his death in 1980, he recorded a song lyric that said that there were UFOs over New York. He talked directly and publicly about the subject on multiple occasions. Privately, he told an even more personal story that proves to be a Rorschach Test about how you see John Lennon.
There’s been only a smattering of actual reporting about the August 23rd encounter, or even the broader Lennon/UFO connection. People tend to dismiss his sighting because…
