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Celebrities Who Believe

They Were Abducted By

Aliens

by Michael Edward Taylor

Celebrities seem larger than life. While world
famous actors, athletes, writers and musicians
are flesh and blood like the rest of us, they take
on mythic status, putting us both in awe and
envy of their creative endeavors and lifestyle.
For many artists, it's important to leave yourself
open to outside influences, passions, and other
facets that spark the senses, no matter the
scrutiny or criticism that comes their way.
So it shouldn't be too surprising how
many famous stars believe in life among the
stars. When you lead an out-of-this-world
existence, it makes it all the more easy to accept
the concept of aliens and UFOs. Perhaps by
design or by fate, many celebrities have claimed you can put it in your work and explain it to the future...songs like "Crack In The World" and
close encounters--from extraterrestrial world'...And they took me to the fifth "Silver Lights", which is about the second
abductions and beyond (with some believing dimension...outside space and time, and they coming of Christ – Jesus coming back in a
that they're aliens themselves). explained to me what time is all about." spaceship.”
In most cases, those who claim Of course, Morrison also explained that
abduction and celestial encounters gain he was doing copious amounts of drugs during Olivia Newton John
inspiration from their experiences, allowing this timeframe, so that might have something to The Award winning English-Australian
their bizarre memories to feed their creativity, as do with this outlandish tale. singer and actress revealed her claims of an alien
you'll learn from the examples below.
encounter in a 2009 interview with The Sun.
We're not here to question these Yaphet Kotto Newton-John described seeing a UFO when she
accounts. Sure, some seem like a stretch (and a Well this is ironic: one of the star's of was just 15 years old: "I have seen one when I
few have been debunked), but how would we Alien...was (possibly) abducted by an actual was very young. It was unidentified and it was
know one way or the other? Without further ado, alien. Kotto, who played the doomed mechanic flying," noting that the spacecraft moved at
here are celebrities who believe they were Parker in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror epic, "amazing speeds."
abducted by aliens. revealed as much in an interview with Vice. She's been obsessed with the concept of

The actor claimed it started in childhood, aliens and UFOs ever since, claiming that she's
Fran Drescher noticing that the alien creature he met "was at not alone: “In England most people now think
The former sitcom star of The Nanny has least five or six feet tall with an elongated UFOs are possible. Twenty years ago, how
professed to alien encounters, claiming that she head...From that moment on, it was one many people would have thought that?”
and her ex-husband were separately abducted in experience after another...Those sightings One wonders if she ever brought up the
an interview with The Huffington Post: "Peter continued for a good ten to 15 years. I've also subject to her Grease co-star John Travolta, who
and I both saw (aliens) before we knew each had time loss. I have a big loss of time between shares an alien obsession as a Scientologist (the
other, doing the same thing, driving on the road some of these moments, and I'd often wonder if foundation of their religion is the belief that
with our dads — in all seriousness. We were I was taken." At one point Kotto claimed to have aliens populated the Earth millions of years
both in junior high. A few years later, we met, seen a UFO as big as "The Yankee Stadium ago). How else to explain the train wreck
and we realized that we had the same turned upside down." phenomenon that is Battlefield Earth?
experience." Unlike the monster he battled in Alien,
"I think that somehow we were Kotto claims these creatures are here "to make Baron Davis
programmed to meet. We both have this scar. It's sure we don’t kill ourselves...we need to take a Former New York Knicks guard Baron
the exact same scar on the exact same spot. I serious look at what we’re doing and they’re Davis raised eyebrows among sports fans when
said to him, that's what the aliens programmed going to help us do that.” he claimed he was abducted by aliens during a
us to think. But really, that's where the chip is."
2013 podcast. Davis explained that the
One can only wonder if the actress's brash New Sammy Hagar abduction occurred during a drive from Las
Jersey accent frightened the aliens into letting "The Red Rocker" and former Van Halen Vegas to Los Angeles: “I see this light and it’s a
her go. singer has been quite vocal about his belief in big a—truck. And I said, oh f---- this is going to
UFOs, even crediting extraterrestrials with be traffic...and the next thing you know there’s a
Grant Morrison helping his career: “I was just lying in bed when steel thing and these crazy looking people – half
Renowned British comic scribe Grant I felt something weird going on, like someone human, half ugly-looking mother f-----s."
Morrison is known for his reality warped brand was tapping into my brain...I didn’t know how to “They were poking me on the nose,
of storytelling, but to hear him explain it, his real fu***** explain it. But they were downloading looking at my eyes, they had my hands tied and
life is just as otherworldly. In fact, he claims that or uploading – that’s the simplest way to put it.” the next thing you know I was in Montebello
his Vertigo series The Invisibles was inspired by Hagar claims two aliens were behind the dude, burning rubber on the way back to L.A. at
a real-life alien encounter. experiment, saying "Oh, I could see them...they 4 o’clock in the morning.”
At a 1999 comic convention, he shared were playing with a numerical code but it wasn’t After getting barraged with queries and
these revelations, which happened during a 1994 from our numerical system. And then, suddenly, jokes on Twitter, Davis eventually recanted the
trip to Kathmandu. Morrison described being this telepathic connection broke...It scared me whole story, tweeting "that Alien thing is a
besieged by a swarm of aliens in his hotel: "they nearly to death. It was an experience I couldn’t joke." Or is it? Davis also mentioned writing a
took me out of my body...And they took me to understand.” book about his encounter, but nothing has
Alpha Centauri and it was fu****** real...and I “My ego was telling me: They’ve materialized. It remains a mystery.
said to them: 'What the hell’s going on?' And programmed you to be a rock star! So I used it
they said, 'We’ve come to tell you this stuff, so as a tool to write songs about outer space and the (Continued on Page 60)