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John Lennon Told Uri

Geller He’d Met Aliens

FROM the very start of his career, Uri Geller
has astonished and confounded the world of
psychics, magicians and cynical reporters who
thought they’d seen and heard it all.
Mysteriously bending spoons, making
broken clocks and watches tick once more,
reading minds, and including millions of
newspaper readers in experiments, has kept his
name at the forefront of the paranormal. And on
top of his numerous TV appearances, tours and
his busy schedule of psychic experiments and
seminars abroad, he has recently produced his
own monthly magazine, Uri Geller’s
Encounters which features the paranormal.
And it was while talking about his
magazine that Uri told The Weekly News a truly
astonishing story.
Since he shot to fame in the 1960s, he
has met many celebrities, including the former
Beatle, the late John Lennon, in New York. were four thin-looking figures.” Songs With Paranormal
He said that he has just recently decided “He said that the figures came over to
to write about their meeting. him as he just stood there.” Subjects
“I’ve kept this story to myself for many, “Two of them held his hands and the
many years and never told it to anyone,” he other two gently pushed his legs and he was
revealed. gently guided into this tunnel of light. He was 10. Judas Priest – “Lochness”
“When John told me of this event, it was shown all of his life, just like watching a movie,
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so bizarre and weird and so ahead of its time and he told me it was the most outstandingly
that no-one would have believed it, but today beautiful thing he’d ever seen.”“John recalled
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people are telling how they have been taken into something being given to him. That was all he
UFOs and probed by aliens from outer space. remembered, but when he opened his hand there
7. The White Stripes – “Little Ghost”
“I always think if 90% of these stories was this odd-looking, not quite egg-shaped, ball
are made-up fantasies and dreams, and if 10% is of metal – very smooth and very heavy, about an
6. Blue Öyster Cult – “Don’t Fear the
real, that is enough for something being true out inch or so wide.”
Reaper”
there and really happening. “John never asked “I was astounded. I said it sounded like
me to keep his story a secret, so I thought it an alien encounter and he seemed to agree and
5. Neutral Milk Hotel – “Ghost”
would be interesting to tell it in my first said that he couldn’t think of another
magazine. It basically blew my mind because I explanation himself. He was very serious about
4. Johnny Cash – “(Ghost Riders) In the
was already then a believer in extra-terrestrials the incident but also funny about it.”
Sky”
visiting our planet,” Uri said. “Then he put his hand in his pocket,
“There was a minute that I questioned pulled out the object the aliens had given him
3. Radiohead – “Subterranean Homesick
John’s integrity – maybe him being under the and gave it to me.”
Alien”
influence of LSD or drugs – but he wasn’t. “When I touched it I felt a deep sadness
“We were in Manhattan in the mid- – I don’t know why – it was like a loneliness.”
2. Robert Johnson – “Hellhound on My
1970s. John and I were sitting at a table when he “Maybe it was a premonition about his
Trail”
started talking about UFOs – he brought up the murder, but anyway, that was John’s alien story
subject himself. and it happened in the middle of New York.”
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“So I said to him, ‘You know John, not “He gave the object to me and I didn’t
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only do I believe in UFOs, but I’ve seen UFOs want to accept it. I said, ‘Isn’t this precious to
and I’ve photographed them.’John then took me you, because I think you should have it.'”
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