The alleged UFO sighting came up in a 1974 issue of Andy Warhol Interview, posted online by Dangerous Minds. After steering the conversation towards the subject with grace and subtlety — the direct quote is “If you look closely at the wonderful ‘Walls and Bridges,’ out now, album package, you will notice a little notice saying, ‘I saw a U.F.O. . . ‘ why don’t you ask me about that?” — Lennon went on to describe his close encounter, stating that he was lying in bed and felt an urge to look out into the street. “I went to the window, just dreaming around in my usual poetic frame of mind, to cut a long short story, there, 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 . . . what the Nixon is that! I says to myself (for no one else was there).” 

He went on to state that “a friend” spotted the same thing, and that a phone call to the police the next day revealed that two other people had reported similar experiences. Lennon also used to say that he couldn’t get cancer from smoking because of his comfort food macrobiotic diet, according to Elizabeth Partridge, so do with that what you will.