Is there a more hot-button issue than whether or not UFOs exist? Not weather balloons or clandestine missile tests; actual crafts from beyond this world piloted by little grey men (or possibly lizard people who are living in a hologram moon). There's no better way to clear a party than by telling people that you’ve witnessed a UFO racing across the sky. That’s why these musicians who have seen UFOs are the real heroes. Whether their extraterrestrial experiences informed their music, or they kept their close encounters on the DL, all of the musicians on this list have claimed to have seen something from out of this world.
According to a 2012 National Geographic poll, 77 percent of Americans believe that aliens have visited earth at one point or another, and a lot of those people are famous. What is out of the ordinary is that the musicians collected here have spoken openly about their brush with the other world. Telling people that you’ve seen a UFO rarely has positive side effects. Whether you think the truth is out there or not, these musicians are pretty sure they’re trying to be contacted by extraterrestrial life.
Leave a comment about what you think about these musicians who saw a UFO. Should they continue to explore the great unknown, or go back to playing music?
17 Famous Musicians Who Claim to Have Seen UFOs,
Elvis Presley
According to Elvis's biographers, and even The King himself, Elvis had many encounters with aliens. In fact, the first UFO he ever encountered visited him on the day of his birth in 1935. Or so says Larry Geller, hairstylist and friend to Presley. "His father told us he'd gone out to have a cigarette at 2am during the delivery and when he looked up into the skies above their little shack, he saw the strangest blue light. He knew right then and there that something special was happening." But that wouldn't be the last time Presley was surrounded by ETs. Once when he and Geller were driving through the desert (completely sober we're guessing) the duo saw some unusual lights. "They were moving far too quickly to be airplanes, so we just chalked it up to UFOs."
Ian Fraser Kilmister
Leave it to Lemmy to make a visit from extraterrestrials seem like small potatoes. At Rock in Rio in 2011, Lemmy saw a ship flying over a mountain and he was pretty chill about the whole thing. "Came over the horizon at a thousand miles an hour and stopped dead. I know they're out there. I don't have a problem with it." It sounds like the aliens just wanted to hear "Damage Case."
Lupe Fiasco
When rapper Lupe Fiasco was living in Chicago in the early '90s, he allegedly saw something out of this world. Fiasco was 11 when he woke up one morning surrounded by blue light. He was being shocked by electricity. Then, Fiasco saw a "black disc" fly outside his window around 7 a.m. The whole encounter left him with a scar on his ankle.
Robbie Williams
British pop star Robbie Williams claims that he's had multiple encounters with UFOs starting when he was a child. The most outrageous claim he's made is that while he was listening to his song "Arizona," which is about aliens, he was visited by a nosy ball of light.
"I stood on the balcony and there was this big ball of gold light that turned up - we thought it was Venus or Mars or something. Then the song stops playing and it disappears. But then we put Arizona on again and the ball turned back up. It happened four times." It's not that it's impossible that Robbie Williams saw a UFO, it's just that no one (especially not an otherworldly being capable of intergalactic travel) would want to hang out with Robbie Williams while he listened to his own music. Or just in general.
Ryan Adams
In 2013, singer-songwriter Ryan Adams was driving through Glendale, CA one night when a huge object that was being chased by helicopters flew over his head. Unfortunately, Adams didn't snap a pic, but as he said, "Enough people are dead from texting and driving.” Ryan Adams: UFO witness, great songwriter, safe driver.
Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar might not be the best Van Halen frontman, but he's the only one that had his consciousness downloaded by extraterrestrials. In his 2011 autobiography, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, Hagar got into it about his alien encounter in the '70s. "It was real. [Aliens] were plugged into me. It was a download situation. This was long before computers or any kind of wireless. There weren’t even wireless telephones. Looking back now, it was like, 'F*ck, they downloaded something into me!'" He also mentions seeing a "car with no wheels," which is less cool than having your consciousness downloaded.
Thomas DeLonge
The ex-Blink 182 guitarist might be the most vocal proponent of that #UFOLIFE on this list. One of Delonge's most famous UFO sightings happened in 2015 when he was camping out at Area 51 (because of course) and had a very close encounter. "My whole body felt like it had static electricity, and I open my eyes and the fire is still going, and there's a conversation going on outside the tent. It sounded like there were about 20 people there, talking. And instantly my mind goes, OK, they're at our campsite, they're not here to hurt us, they're talking about sh*t, but I can't make out what they're saying. But they're working on something."
Nick Jonas
Nick Jonas claims that he saw a UFO in 2007 while he was hanging out with a buddy in his backyard in Los Angeles. He told the hosts of ITV's This Morning, "I looked up in the sky and there was three flying saucers. I looked at my friend and said ‘Are you seeing this or am I losing my mind?' He was seeing the same thing.” Thank goodness there's a hunk out there who believes in UFOs. We needed somebody with pecs to make us look better/less crazy.
Kesha
It's unclear how Kesha knows, but she does. "Aliens exist. real talk," the singer posted on Twitter.
Kacey Musgraves
The country singer from Golden, TX may have placed seventh on Nashville Star, but she's the number-one country star when it comes to seeing UFOs. Her first experience with extraterrestrial crafts was after friend's wedding ceremony in Mexico. "I was with several other people. I was on the beach after my friend’s wedding, after midnight, and it was the craziest movement of light in the sky. All of us watched it for like 20 minutes. It changed shape, it flew across the sky. It did wacky sh*t that nothing normal would do. I was completely sober, swear to God!" According to Musgraves, the UFO sightings continued in Nashville, and later in Los Angeles.