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The sighting occurred when he was with his personal secretary, May Pang, in New York, at the time when he and Yoko Ono were separated. Lennon refers to the experience on the cover of his album “Walls And Bridges”, which was released in 1974, saying that he saw a UFO on August 23. “We had just ordered up some pizzas and since it was such a warm evening, we decided to step out on the terrace,” recalled Pang. “There were no windows directly facing us from across the street, so John just stepped outside with nothing on, in order to catch a cool breeze that was coming in right off the East River. I remember I was just inside the bedroom getting dressed when John started shouting for me to come out on the terrace. I yelled back that I would be right there but he kept screaming for me to join him in that instant. 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. 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.” Eerily, the object passed …