Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, Volume IV, Number 10, November 1974 (snip).

INTERVIEW/INTERVIEW WITH BY/ON JOHN LENNON AND/OR DR. WINSTON O'BOOGIE
By John Lennon

Q. Now that you've been living in N.Y. 3 years, do you still....

A. 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?

Q. Oh, I hadn't noticed, did you really... where you drunk? high? having a primal?

A. No. Actually I was very straight. I was lying naked on my bed, when I had this urge...

Q. Don't we all...?

A. So 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)... Is it a helicopter? No! It makes no noise... ah then, it must be a balloon! (Frantically trying to rationalize it, in all my too human way) but no!! Balloons don't look like that, nor do they fly so low, yes folks, it was flying (very slow, about 30 m.p.h.,) below.... I repeat, below most roof tops (i.e. higher than the ‘old building’ lower than the ‘new’.) all the time it was there, I never took my eyes off it, but I did scream to a friend who was in another room “Come and look at this” etc. etc. My friend came running and bore witness with me. Nobody else was around. We tried to take pictures (shit on my polaroid, it was bust) with a straight camera. We gave the film to Bob Gruen to develop, he brought back a blank film.... said it looked like it had been thru the radar at customs.... well, it stayed around for a bit, then sailed off.......

Q. Did you check to see.......

A. Yeh, yeh, the next day Bob (is it in focus) Gruen rang the Daily News, Times, police to see if any one else reported any thing. Two other people and or groups of/ said they too saw something..... anyway I know what I saw.......

Q. Aren't you afraid of people won't believe you.... crazy Lennon/Maharishi/etc....

A. That's just one of the many burdens I will have to bear in this day of waterbabies, inflation, generation crap, highly influential but not untidy....

Michael Luckman, Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection (2005)
pages 37-38:

Just a few weeks before his assassination, John reportedly handed Uri Geller an object that he claimed he got “from an extraterrestrial entity”. According to Uri, the object which he cherishes is an “odd-looking, not-quite-egg-shaped piece of metal”, resembling brass, “very smooth and very heavy about an inch or so wide. I was astounded. I said it sounded like an alien encounter and he seemed to agree and said that he couldn't think of another explanation himself ”.

John told Uri, “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... There were these four people out there.”

Uri asked John if they were fans. “They were like, little. Bug-like. Big bug eyes and little bug mouths... 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 was straight that night. I wasn't dreaming and I wasn't tripping. There were these creatures like people but not like people... 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”.

When John woke up with “this (egg-shaped) thing in my hands. They gave it to me.” John presented it to Uri, saying, “Keep it, it's too weird for me. If it's my ticket to another planet, I don't want to go there.” Uri said that “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.”

Geller said that he still has the physical evidence from John's alleged alien encounter but is reluctant to have it tested by a laboratory. “I want to keep the mysticism around it,” Uri explained. (For further information go to www.urigeller.com)