JOHN LENNON

[auntym]

John Lennon UFO Encounter New York 1974 [/color]







JOHN LENNON'S UFO Sighting interview on Strange Universe [/color]



Published on Sep 26, 2012 by UFO Abductee

STRANGE UNIVERSE was a show about paranormal events,hosted by a
guy named Emmitt Miller. This was a cool program...too bad stuff like this is
not on the air today.

[paulette]

I had seen this before. But I like the statement made in the above video - John was a person that people would listen to and trust. Maybe too much.

"I wish they had taken me." Imagine....

[auntym]

www.davidreneke.com/john-lennons-ufo-drawings-up-for-auction/#

John Lennon’s UFO Drawings Up For Auction

by Dave Reneke
Mar 23rd, 2014




In 1974, former Beatle John Lennon claimed to have seen a UFO in New York City. He was living in an apartment in Manhattan with girlfriend May Pang when he saw the flying saucer.

It wasn’t just a light in the sky and there were other witnesses. This sighting was up-close, of a huge craft, and it happened right outside Lennon’s 52nd Street apartment. He wasn’t afraid to talk about it and, in fact, he famously wrote about it in a song. This was Nobody Told Me and, as Lennon sang it, “There’s UFOs over New York and I ain’t too surprised… Nobody told me there’d be days like these. Strange days indeed.”

The sighting occurred when he was living with May Pang, his so-called “personal secretary” who’d turned into a lover during Lennon’s separation from Yoko Ono. It was a hot August night, August 23, 1974, when John Lennon walked out on his balcony facing the East River to catch a cool breeze. He was completely naked. He started yelling at Pang to come out to the terrace.



Drawing by John Lennon of “Walls and Bridges”- Lennon also drew a picture of a UFO, most likely inspired by his sighting, when sketching out ideas for the cover of his “Walls and Bridges” album. The flying saucer appears in a New York City-type scene with the initials “UFOER” on it. The drawing was done on both sides of a blank record sleeve.


When she did, she saw what he saw. According to her description later, it was a “large, circular object coming towards us. It was shaped like a flattened cone and on top was a large, brilliant red light, not pulsating as on any of the aircraft we’d see heading for a landing at Newark Airport. When it came a little closer, we could make out a row or circle of white lights that ran around the entire rim of the craft — these were also flashing on and off. There were so many of these lights that it was dazzling to the mind.

It was, I estimate, about the size of a Lear jet and it was so close that if we had something to throw at it, we probably would have hit it quite easily.” The sighting lasted from five to ten minutes, and the UFO drifted away and came back before sprinting off into the sky. Apparently, Lennon and Pang weren’t the only ones to see the UFO, multiple other witnesses (at least seven) had called city newspapers. You can read more details in this article by Larry Warren. And you can hear Lennon himself describe it in this radio interview.




CONTINUE READING: www.davidreneke.com/john-lennons-ufo-drawings-up-for-auction/#

[skywalker]

I think Posey said he witnessed that same UFO that Lennon saw. He wrote about it in one of his articles.

[paulette]

I'm fascinated by UFO reports that are cruising around in a city. I tend to think of them on isolated rural roads or over a farm at the end of a road somewhere....

[Deleted]

I dunno...John Lennon sees a UFO you tend to wonder what psychedelic pharmaceutical he was indulging in...LOL I tend to think of them in rural areas too Paulette..well I live in one...still technically...I've never seen one. I heard it..I was in it...but I didn't see it. I was robbed. We need someone like Mother Theresa to see one.......or John Boy Walton....not the Beaver. The people who loved Lennon so...would have been willing to believe no matter what. It's the joe upright citizen and the scientists who need to witness. Maybe....Hawking or Michio Kaku...THAT might do the trick. They never see a thing. Well..figure..they don't look up...they look 'in'. Reminds me of the men in black. 'Beautiful aren't they'.

[auntym]

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4730520/The-night-aliens-called-on-Lennon.html

The night aliens called on Lennon

by Uri Geller
07 Dec 2004


They came in the darkness and had bug-like faces. Stranger still, they left a weird egg-shaped object behind. Uri Geller recalls his friend John Lennon’s encounter with the unknown

There is an egg-like object in my pocket. It was given to me by John Lennon. And it was given to him by . . . well, I’ll come to that.

We were eating in a restaurant in New York City. Yoko was with us, so this was after their big break-up and reconciliation. Yoko was expecting their child, Sean, and John was excited — he was going to love this baby day and night: feed him, change him, teach him to talk, teach him to love music.

He did all of that. And he was going to watch him grow into adolescence, through the tumbles from bicycles and terrors of schooldays, from reading to dating to college. He never got to do that. John started talking about UFOs.

He said he believed life existed on other planets, that it had visited us, that maybe it was observing us right now. He took me to a quieter, darker table, lit a cigarette and pointed its glowing tip at my face.

“You believe in this stuff, right?” he asked me. “Well, you ain’t f---in’ gonna believe this.

“About six months ago, I was asleep in my bed, with Yoko, at home, in the Dakota Building. And suddenly, I wasn’t asleep. Because there was this blazing light round the door. It was shining through the cracks and the keyhole, like someone was out there with searchlights, or the apartment was on fire.

“That was what I thought — intruders, or fire. I leapt out of bed, and Yoko wasn’t awake at all, she was lying there like a stone, and I pulled open the door. There were these four people out there.”

“Fans?” I asked him.

“Well they didn’t want my f---in’ autograph. They were, like, little. Bug-like. Big bug eyes and little bug mouths and they were scuttling at me like roaches.”

He broke off and stared at me.

“I’ve told this to two other people, right? One was Yoko, and she believes me. She says she doesn’t understand it, but she knows I wouldn’t lie to her. I told one other person, and she didn’t believe me.

“She laughed it off, and then she said I must have been high. Well, I’ve been high, I mean right out of it, a lot of times, and I never saw anything on acid that was as weird as those f---in’ bugs, man.

“I was straight that night. I wasn’t dreaming and I wasn’t tripping. There were these creatures, like people but not like people, in my apartment.”

“What did they do to you?” Lennon swore again. “How do you know they did anything to me, man?” “Because they must have come for a reason.”

“You’re right. They did something. But I don’t know what it was. I tried to throw them out, but, when I took a step towards them, they kind of pushed me back. I mean, they didn’t touch me. It was like they just willed me. Pushed me with willpower and telepathy.”

“And then what?”

SEE PHOTO & CONTINUE READING: www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4730520/The-night-aliens-called-on-Lennon.html

[auntym]

www.neonnettle.com/features/444-alien-visitations-what-john-lennon-told-uri-geller-before-his-death

Alien Visitations: What John Lennon Told Uri Geller Before His Death

Lennon's account in New York City of Mantid beings

By: Jack Murphy |@neonnettle
10th June 2015





Back in November of 1979, John Lennon was sat in a restaurant with Uri Geller in New York City, Yoko was present an conversation was focused on their unborn child, Sean. The talk of babies and parenthood came to a sudden halt when John turned to Uri and started to talk about UFO 's.

Geller, who has recalled the conversation in an article he wrote for the Telegraph, said that Lennon believed in life on other planets and also that this planet was being visited by an E.T presence. The conversation took and even weirder turn when Lennon took Uri to another table, lit his cigarette, and began to tell him an extraordinary story. Lennon gave Uri a mysterious egg, which he still has to this day, saying he believed it was a ticket to another planet. A year later, Lennon would be dead.

From Uri Gellers account, the conversation went as follows:

“You believe in this stuff, right?” he asked me. “Well, you ain’t f---in’ gonna believe this.

“About six months ago, I was asleep in my bed, with Yoko, at home, in the Dakota Building. And suddenly, I wasn’t asleep. Because there was this blazing light round the door. It was shining through the cracks and the keyhole, like someone was out there with searchlights, or the apartment was on fire. That was what I thought — intruders, or fire. I leapt out of bed, and Yoko wasn’t awake at all, she was lying there like a stone, and I pulled open the door. There were these four people out there.”

“Well they didn’t want my f---in’ autograph. They were, like, little. Bug-like. Big bug eyes and little bug mouths and they were scuttling at me like roaches.”

“I’ve told this to two other people, right? One was Yoko, and she believes me. She says she doesn’t understand it, but she knows I wouldn’t lie to her. I told one other person, and she didn’t believe me.

“She laughed it off, and then she said I must have been high. Well, I’ve been high, I mean right out of it, a lot of times, and I never saw anything on acid that was as weird as those f---in’ bugs, man.

“I was straight that night. I wasn’t dreaming and I wasn’t tripping. There were these creatures, like people but not like people, in my apartment.”

“How do you know they did anything to me, man?” “Because they must have come for a reason.”

“You’re right. They did something. But I don’t know what it was. I tried to throw them out, but, when I took a step towards them, they kind of pushed me back. I mean, they didn’t touch me. It was like they just willed me. Pushed me with willpower and telepathy.”

“I don’t know. Something happened. Don’t ask me what. Either I’ve forgotten, blocked it out, or they won’t let me remember. But after a while they weren’t there and I was just lying on the bed, next to Yoko, only I was on the covers.

CONTINUE READING: www.neonnettle.com/features/444-alien-visitations-what-john-lennon-told-uri-geller-before-his-death

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The image on the right that Auntym posted is close,,,,,just sayin. The head and a few other details are similar in ways,,,,, I dunno. A few other things he recalled sort of fit too. I'm on the fence .

[auntym]

uri geller's reported death was a hoax...

en.mediamass.net/people/uri-geller/deathhoax.html

[auntym]

here's a treat...john lennon on the dick cavett show, 1971



John Lennon on Dick Cavett (entire show) September 11, 1971 (HD)

Uploaded on Mar 26, 2011

He premieres "Imagine" video here. On September 11th, 1971. 9/11, he would ask for people to imagine peace. Weird.

[paulette]

"She laughed it off, and then she said I must have been high. Well, I’ve been high, I mean right out of it, a lot of times, and I never saw anything on acid that was as weird as those f---in’ bugs, man.

“I was straight that night. I wasn’t dreaming and I wasn’t tripping. There were these creatures, like people but not like people, in my apartment.”

Well. I happen to think this is possible and as we have talked and talked - there may be interest (on the part of any Visitors who come around) to contact people who have open minds to really different realities and experiences.

[auntym]

i believe john lennon too...

i would love to see & hold the metal egg the aliens gave to lennon who then turned around and gave to uri geller because he was afraid of it... thats too bad, but lucky for geller...

i have to say, if that were me, i'd never have given away the gift...

[auntym]

www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a38603/john-lennon-at-75/?mag=esq&list=nl_enl_news&src=nl&date=100915

Oct 9, 2015

Imagining a World Where John Lennon Turned 75

A look at what might have been if the Beatles musician's life wasn't cut short.

by Jon Friedman / www.esquire.com/author/9508/jon-friedman/



Getty New York Times Co.


​John Lennon had big plans for 1981.

He intended to work with his good friend Ringo Starr on a comeback album for the Beatles drummer. Word was, Paul McCartney and George Harrison were game to chip in, too. We might have seen the first full Beatles collaboration since the making of Abbey Road in the summer of 1969.

Lennon also had a daring project in mind for himself. He wanted to go on tour—his first since The Beatles played the U.S. in the summer of 1966. The son of a sailor, who had just discovered the joys and challenges of sailing the previous summer, Lennon hoped to travel from port to port instead of slogging it out in the traditional rock star tour bus. A Beatle back on the road in 1981 was guaranteed to be a major event. John Lennon, a recluse from 1975 to 1980, going from town to town? A media circus.

Lennon was in a very good place when a deranged gunman took his life in front of the Dakota on Dec. 8, 1980. Earlier that year, he released Double Fantasy, a collaboration with his wife Yoko Ono. It marked John's first original music since Walls and Bridges, six years earlier. Ideas were flowing, like they had in the good old days. His fans were excited. He ended up recording so much stuff that another album of new songs, Milk and Honey, came out a few months after Double Fantasy.

The world hoped that the Fab Four would come together one more time. A Beatles reunion obsessed fans and media members from the moment, in April 1970, when Paul McCartney opportunistically broke the news of the seismic split to the world. His motive was to goose interest in his first solo album, McCartney. Lennon's infamous response was to write and sing a scathing rebuke called "How Do You Sleep," which portrayed his former writing partner as a hack songsmith who specialized in creating muzak. (It's a testament to McCartney's iron will that he mustered the strength to get out of bed after Lennon eviscerated him, much less forge a highly successful solo career.)

Time healed the wounds and made the reunion more likely. In 1976, when Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels drolly offered The Beatles $3,200 to reunite and perform on SNL, McCartney happened to be hanging out with Lennon uptown at the Dakota. They toyed with the idea of going on the show that night, but Lennon was ultimately too tired.

There were times when it seemed that Paul, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were all game to team back up. But Lennon was invariably the one with the veto power. When he visited radio station WNEW-FM in New York on Sept. 28, 1974, the musician playfully raised the subject of a reunion when he noted that relations between the four were "warm, very warm."

"Are they getting together?" Lennon asked during his radio appearance… "There's always a chance we'd work together ... I could see us making records … Why not?"

CONTINUE READING: www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a38603/john-lennon-at-75/?mag=esq&list=nl_enl_news&src=nl&date=100915

[auntym]

alien-ufo-sightings.com/2015/04/uri-gellers-legend-about-john-lennon-and-the-alien-egg-fact-or-fiction/

Uri Geller’s legend about John Lennon and the “alien egg”: fact or fiction?

April 10, 2015,
Source www.examiner.com /





If you were old enough to watch TV in the 70’s then you remember the world renowned psychic and magician Uri Geller, who bent spoons with his mind for the entertainment of audiences all over the world. Here is a story about Geller and John Lennon that fits in with the Halloween theme this weekend of ghosts, witches, aliens and magic.

Uri Geller says he believes he is on a mission to prepare the world for the formal appearance on earth of extraterrestrial life forms (he’s from a planet named Hoova). Geller met Lennon and May Pang at Elton John’s Madison Square Garden show in 1974, and has a whopper of a story: that Lennon later told him he was visited by aliens who gave him a magical egg.

This is the subject of this article.

To be clear, alien visits were not implausible to Lennon. He openly admitted in interviews (and the liner notes to Walls and Bridges) to have seen a UFO hovering over his New York City apartment building August 23, 1974, six years before his death in 1980. We have interviewed May Pang about that occurrence several times, and she confirms the incident. There have been those that suggest erroneously that John felt he was being “stalked” by aliens. “No, he never saw another one”, she says. “He did like to read UFO magazines—I still have them, they’re in my closet–he was fascinated with the subject, but certainly not obsessed with it.”

That perspective alone makes this story—a little too “out there” for my taste, and probably yours—-but because Geller’s claims are quite fantastic and readily available on-line in detail, I decided it was time to do some follow up to see if there was any truth whatsoever to the story.

According to this website, Geller’s story ran in December of 2004 in the London Telegraph, and it has appeared in other publications as well. He currently writes columns for a number of major new outlets, such as the London Times, the Weekly News, the Mirror and the Jewish Telegraph.

After reading the story I contacted May Pang, as she was still close friends with Lennon in 1975; so if this happened, John would have certainly told her. From her interview we discovered that it wasn’t just the egg story that was questionable, but Uri’s memory of the night he met John as well.

I also interviewed Steve Roseta, a former magician himself who had very interesting and surprising knowledge of the magical egg and its origins.

Here is a brief synopsis of the story (you can read the full text here), quoting Uri Geller:

There is an egg-like object in my pocket. It was given to me by John Lennon….John started talking about UFOs. He said he believed life existed on other planets, that it had visited us, that maybe it was observing us right now…

He said, “…About six months ago, I was asleep in my bed, with Yoko, at home, in the Dakota Building. And suddenly… there was this blazing light round the door… I leapt out of bed..and pulled open the door. There were these four people out there.

“… They were, like, little. Bug-like. Big bug eyes and little bug mouths and they were scuttling at me like roaches… (Suddenly they were gone.) After a while (I woke up) and I had this thing in my hands. They gave it to me…You have it. Maybe you’ll know (what it is).”

I took the metal, egg-like object and turned it over in the dim light. It seemed solid and smooth, and I could make out no markings. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

“Keep it.” John told me. “It’s too weird for me. If it’s my ticket to another planet, I don’t want to go there.”

Geller ended with, “….when I hold the cold, metal egg in my fist, I have a strong sensation that John knew more about this object than he told me. Maybe it didn’t come with an instruction manual, but I think John knew what it was for. And whatever that purpose was – communication? healing? a first-class intergalactic ticket? — it scared him. I wish I could have warned him … that however scary aliens seem, it’s the humans you have to fear.”

Uri Geller recalls the night he met John Lennon

“When we first met on November 28, 1974, he was suffering terribly from his separation from Yoko. His drug abuse and drinking, linked to the sorrow of Yoko’s recent miscarriage, had driven them apart, and John desperately wanted to mend the relationship.

He just didn’t know how to make the first move. The night Lennon and I were introduced, Elton John was playing at Madison Square Gardens. Elton was trying to persuade the ex-Beatle to get up on stage with him, and John was torn — he wanted to perform but he was scared.

Finally, he turned to me and offered a deal, as though I were a negotiator sent by God: “I’ll sing,” he said, “but you have to make Yoko call me.”

Like all of John’s jokes, this one was a plea from the heart, wrapped in a sardonic quip. Yoko phoned John out of the blue, 36 hours later. I think John always believed I had beamed a mind-control ray at her. For my part, I think that of all the synchronicities that have shaped my life, that was one of the strangest.”

Fact? Or Fiction? Here’s the truth:

May Pang recalls the details of the night of November 28, 1974 and the meeting of Uri Geller very vividly. As you’ll see, they vary significantly from Uri Geller’s recollections.

She said, “That was the night he did the key trick; he bent the key and John was fascinated. John grabbed Peter Boyle and had Uri repeat the trick. Peter handed him a key and he bent it, but there was one problem. Uri couldn’t unbend the key, and Peter had to break into his own apartment since that was his only house key. What’s interesting is that Uri sensed that I was on to him. He knew I was suspicious of him and he refused to do the trick for me. He also did a ‘psychic drawing’ trick for John. But he wouldn’t deal with me.”

She took issue with Uri’s recollections, saying, “First of all, Uri’s sequence of events is wrong; we didn’t meet him till after the show! John and I met him at the after party at The Pierre. John had agreed to perform on stage with Elton long before. It was not possible for Uri to have anything to do with that decision.”

In regards to Uri “willing Yoko to call John through mind control”, May scoffed, “I guess he didn’t realize that John and Yoko talked all the time! But also, Yoko was there at the concert, and she was there at the after-party as well! So she was already talking to John.” And concerning a “recent miscarriage”, May said, “What recent miscarriage??” (Yoko’s last miscarriage was known to be in 1968-69.)

What about the mysterious alien visit and the “alien egg?” May said, “If something strange like that happened…I would have known since I was seeing John quite often, especially during the first 2 years after we broke up (1975-76).”

We received evidence about the origins of the egg from Steve Roseta, (manager of Seattle’s Beatle tribute band Apple Jam and producer of the play “(Just Like) Starting Over”.)

Steve wrote me over email and said “I have something to show you. I think it will answer your question about where the alien egg came from.” Meeting at Tully’s Coffee he put a little a box on the table and opened it. Inside was…..a small, smooth, golden egg, exactly like the one that Uri Geller is holding up in this picture, the one he claims John Lennon gave him in 1975!

Called the “Super Egg”, Steve explained that they are readily available in magic shops. They are elliptically shaped so that the magician can make them appear to magically stand up on their own. The paperwork inside makes it clear that this is a “plaything, a sculpture and an amulet.”

Steve smiled and said “I’ve had this for many years. I used to be a magician when I was 14. I idolized Uri Geller at that time, and actually met him at a show in 1978 in Anchorage, Alaska. He bent a spoon for me. I still have it somewhere. But you know these tricks can be purchased in magic shops. People can learn how to bend spoons.”

In conclusion, I’m always up for a good story about the paranormal. But the story of Lennon and the “alien egg” is definitely fiction. Maybe Uri made the whole thing up. Or maybe Lennon pulled one over on Geller. John loved pranks. (Even Geller admitted above that John had a sardonic humor and liked jokes.) How funny is it that the purported “aliens” happened to be “four bug people” (i.e. Beatles?) Gimme a break.

Perhaps John found one of these eggs in a magic shop and decided to concoct a story that only Uri Geller would believe.

Uri Geller was debunked on the Johnny Carson show in 1973. Johnny Carson was also a former magician and knew how to prove he was a fake. This infamous video has now been removed from You Tube, apparently for copyright infringement. But there’s a great video by James Randi , the most notorious Uri Geller debunker, who shows you how easily trickery can be done. Also Kriss Angel had some criticisms (see this video), about Uri Geller’s claims that he has supernatural powers. He said in one video, “we are all magicians. Plain and simple. We are not supernatural.”

alien-ufo-sightings.com/2015/04/uri-gellers-legend-about-john-lennon-and-the-alien-egg-fact-or-fiction/

[lois]

Thank you for this information . I have never heard the story about an egg before. Wonder why he did not have it checked out to see what it was made of. I would of been more curious than he was.

[Deleted]

I wasn't a particular John Lennon fan, not a Beatles fan at all even though they were my 'era' I believe John Lennon saw a UFO but I think Uri exploited it from there. When I see things like this:

Uri Geller was debunked on the Johnny Carson show in 1973. Johnny Carson was also a former magician and knew how to prove he was a fake. This infamous video has now been removed from You Tube, apparently for copyright infringement. But there’s a great video by James Randi , the most notorious Uri Geller debunker, who shows you how easily trickery can be done. Also Kriss Angel had some criticisms (see this video), about Uri Geller’s claims that he has supernatural powers. He said in one video, “we are all magicians. Plain and simple. We are not supernatural.”

I wouldn't believe him if he said his hair was on fire. I admire magicians. They're fun and skilled, but a magician who claims to be 'more' isn't something I'd ever believe.

[auntym]

mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/03/john-lennon-and-secret-government-files/

John Lennon and Secret Government Files

by Nick Redfern / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/nredfern/
March 6, 2019





Only weeks after John Lennon was shot and killed outside of his New York home in December 1980 by Mark Chapman, a professor of history at the University of California named Joe Wiener began probing the links that existed between Lennon and American authorities: “It began out of simple curiosity, a desire to check out a few rumors that [FBI boss, J. Edgar] Hoover was not Lennon’s greatest fan. It then started snowballing into a crusade when I realized how many obstacles were being thrown in my path,” stated Professor Wiener. Twenty years on, and as a direct result of his research and investigations, Wiener found himself embroiled in one of the most talked about court cases of all time.

On February 18, 2000, in Court 23 at the Federal Court Building in Los Angeles, Judge bob Q. Robbins ordered the FBI to release two letters from a batch of ten documents it was withholding concerning its intense surveillance activities of Lennon. The FBI flatly refused to comply with the order, citing overwhelming national security considerations. Although the FBI had already released a substantial amount of documentation from its files on Lennon by the time the case came to court, what set this final, elusive batch of papers apart from the already-declassified files, is that they almost certainly originated with none other than Britain’s ultra-secret, domestic security service: MI5.



That MI5 has information on file pertaining to the activities of John Lennon is not in dispute at all. MI5 whistleblower David Shayler stated unequivocally that he saw the files in 1993 while serving with the security services, and that they dealt with MI5’s surveillance of Lennon during the late 1960s. According to the documentation, Lennon donated £45,000 to the Trotskyist Workers’ Revolutionary Party (WRP) and gave support to Red Mole, a Marxist magazine edited by student protest leader, Tariq Ali. At the time MI5’s F Branch, the so-called “anti-subversion division,” was already monitoring closely the activities of the WRP and even had its very own “mole” buried deep within the organization. It is strongly suspected by those who have followed this entire controversy that MI5’s mole, whose identity remains a secret to this day, may very well have been Lennon’s contact within the group, too, hence the reason MI5 and the FBI were so keen to keep this information under wraps several decades later.

It is also believed that the MI5 source within the WRP had intercepted at least one letter from Lennon that was destined for the Party. The British Mail On Sunday newspaper took things a step further, referring to an “insider” who had asserted to their staff that not only would Lennon’s correspondence have been closely monitored by MI5, but his telephone would have been tapped, and listening devices would almost certainly have been placed in his home, which at the time in question was a Georgian mansion at Tittenshurst Park, near Ascot. And, as an FBI source stated, “[The British] don’t want these pages released because they show Lennon was being monitored in ways that might now prove to be embarrassing.”

Professor Jon Wiener said, The Sunday Times, a British newspaper that had also reported on the controversy, “somehow failed to consider the possibility that the MI5 files Shayler described contained erroneous information. Lennon never had anything to do with the WRP, widely regarded as the looniest group on the left. In the late sixties Lennon was friendly with the International Marxist Group, who published the underground Red Mole, edited by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn, which had a completely different political orientation from the WRP. A former member of the WRP executive committee, Roger Smith, told the London Observer the MI5 information was wrong: ‘There was absolutely no link between Lennon and us.’”

The Workers Revolutionary Party aside, what of the more controversial rumors suggesting that John Lennon may have donated funds to the IRA? In 1971, when internment without trial was introduced in Northern Ireland, Lennon held a sign at a rally in London that read: “Victory for the IRA against British imperialism.” And Lennon himself stated at the time, “If it’s a choice between the IRA and the British Army, I’m with the IRA.” For its part, the political wing of the IRA, Sinn Fein, has stated with regard to these allegations that Lennon donated funds: “It is not unbelievable.” Similarly, Hunter Davies, a biographer on the Beatles, says, “I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he gave money to the IRA. John liked stirring it up.”



Not everyone is in agreement, however. Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, denied such controversial claims when they were made public, and Lennon’s friend, Beatle chronicler Ray Connolly, said that “daft though he sometimes may have been, naive though he certainly was, and absolutely the softest of touches for all kinds of causes, [John Lennon] was hardly a bogeyman – and absolutely not a supporter of terrorism.” With regard to Lennon’s I’m-with-the-IRA statement, Connolly concluded that, “Knowing him, it was, I’m certain, an emotional, unconsidered retort, about an organization about which he and virtually his entire generation knew hardly anything.”

mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/03/john-lennon-and-secret-government-files/

[auntym]

medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/did-john-lennon-really-see-a-ufo-ba938fe154c5

The Night John Lennon Saw a UFO

One hot August night in 1974, John Lennon and May Pang claimed they saw a UFO in New York City. What say you?

by Bryce Zabel / brycezabel.medium.com/

Aug 21, 2020 ·



Lennon 6 days after UFO sighting | Image: Bob Gruen, Graphic: Stellar Productions


46 Years Ago 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.
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 there are so many other great cases and the obvious problem, Hey, it’s a John Lennon UFO story, right?

August 23, 1974, 9 p.m., New York City



“I was standing, naked, by this window leading on to that roof… just dreaming around in my usual poetic frame of mind… as I turned my head, hovering over the next building, no more than a hundred feet away was this thing with ordinary electric light bulbs flashing on and off round the bottom, one non-blinking red light on top. It was coasting, very quietly, like a tourist! So I just watched. After about twenty minutes it disappeared over the East River and behind the United Nations building.”
— John Lennon




Graphic art by Harrington V. Skorupka, Instagram


“As I walked out onto the terrace, my eye caught this large, circular object coming towards us. It was shaped like a flattened cone, and on top was a large, brilliant red light, not pulsating as on any of the aircraft we’d see heading for a landing at Newark Airport. When it came a little closer, we could make out a row or circle of white lights that ran around the entire rim of the craft — these were also flashing on and off. There were so many of these lights that it was dazzling to the mind.”
— May Pang

If it’s a true story, then John Lennon’s sighting provides real data about the extreme strangeness of the craft he described, the duration of encounter, and the debate about physical reality of objects versus a psychic reality. If something really happened to John Lennon and May Pang then, whatever that was, real or other-real, it’s worth our time.

Skeptics diminish it as just a story told by the stoned leader of a popular music group from a time long ago. Maybe Lennon cooked the whole thing up on a lark as a piece of performance art. If that’s true, the story loses its reason for being, and it makes us like Lennon less.

So there are real stakes in making up our minds about this one.

The calendar now stands at the eve of what would have been his 80th birthday (on October 9, 2020) followed by the 40th anniversary of his murder (December 8, 2020).
Even in death, Lennon’s public belief in this story challenges us to hear him out, and start to make our final judgment.

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