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6 Celebrities that believe in aliens in honor of World UFO Day

Look up at the skies tonight in honor of World UFO Day


Jovita Trujillo
Jovita Trujillo - Los Angeles
Senior WriterLos Angeles
UPDATED JULY 3, 2021 12:21 PM EDT

It’s World UFO Day! The mysterious holiday takes place every year on July 2nd and is celebrated to commemorate the 1947 Roswell incident that sparked alien conspiracy theories. What “they” tell us is a United States Army Air Forces balloon at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico but many believed the crash was a flying saucer and the United States government was hiding the truth. But the theory didn’t come from thin air, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release a few days after the crash on July 8th and said they had recovered a “flying disk.” The army quickly retracted the statements and said it was a conventional weather balloon instead. The incident surfaced again in the 1970s when a retired lieutenant colonel told a UFO researched that the weather balloon story was a cover-up. Stories of “alien bodies” recovered at the scene spread like wildfire and movies, books, and eyewitness accounts are everywhere. In honor of World UFO day, here are 6 celebrities that believe in aliens.

Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? [Tom Cruise]
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TOM DELONGE

Former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge has been one of the most vocal celebrities when it comes to aliens. Just take their 1990 song “Aliens Exist” for example. But he’s not just a believer, he has become one of the most prominent UFO researchers in the country. He co-founded To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, a company dedicated to UFO research that has helped shed light on the Pentagon’s UFO program. Plus he claims to have a first-hand encounter. In 2015 Delong said during a recent camping trip with two friends to Nevada Area 51, he awoke at 3 am to voices and was unable to move his body. “My whole body felt like it had static electricity, and I open my eyes and the [campfire] is still going, and there’s a conversation going on outside the tent,” DeLonge said. “It sounded like there were about 20 people there, talking. And instantly my mind goes, ‘OK, they’re at our campsite, they’re not here to hurt us, they’re talking about shit, but I can’t make out what they’re saying. But they’re working on something.’ Then I close my eyes and wake up, and the fire is out, and I have about three hours of lost time.” In April 2020 the Nay published three of DeLonge’s UFO videos and the conversation has been rampant since.

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MILEY CYRUS

Although she admitted she was smoking marijuana she bought inside of a van, Miley Cyrus is convinced she was followed by an alien aircraft and even locked eyes with one of the intergalactic beings. Cyrus told Interview magazine: “I had an experience, actually. I was driving through San Bernardino with my friend, and I got chased down by some sort of UFO. I’m pretty sure about what I saw, but I’d also bought weed wax from a guy in a van in front of a taco shop, so it could have been the weed wax.” She added, “I didn’t feel threatened at all, actually, but I did see a being sitting in the front of the flying object. It looked at me and we made eye contact, and I think that’s what really shook me, looking into the eyes of something that I couldn’t quite wrap my head around.”

KESHA

KESHA

Kesha told the Zach Sang Show just weeks before the release of her album Rainbow, which included her ethereal song “Spaceship,” “I was in Joshua Tree, totally sober, let me preface—completely f***ing sober… I think people would be like, ‘She was on acid’ or something. I wasn’t. I was on nothing. I was a totally sober Sally, just a lady in the desert,” she said. “I look up in the sky and there’s a bunch of spaceships. I swear to God, there were like five to seven, and I don’t know why I didn’t like try to take a picture of it—I just looked at it. I was sitting on a rock, and I was like, ‘What in the hell is that?’ I was trying to figure it out, and then they went away.” Later, “they came back in a different formation,” she said. “I was like, ‘Those are fucking aliens.’ They were spaceships!”

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ELVIS PRESLEY

Elvis Presley may no longer be with us but his alien story is too good to leave off the list. Not only did he say he saw several UFOs during his lifetime, his dad Vernon had a strange experience on the day he was born on January 8, 1935. “His father told us he‘d gone out to have a cigarette at 2 am during the delivery and when he looked up into the skies above their little shack, he saw the strangest blue light. He knew right then and there that something special was happening,” said the singer’s hairstylist and friend, Larry Geller, per NDTV. It’s also believed that he was visited by aliens when he was a child. Michael C Luckman author of Alien Rock: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Extraterrestrial Connection, claimed the singer was “contacted telepathically by two alien beings when he was eight years old,” who showed him glimpses of the future. Luckman also said he had weird experiences while with Elvis, like unusual lights in the desert moving “far too quickly to be airplanes.”

DEMI LOVATO

DEMI LOVATO

Demi Lovato believes in aliens, ghosts, and mermaids. In 2014 they told Seth Meyers they saw an “extremely convincing documentary” on mermaids and explained they might be “alien species that lives in parts of the Indian Ocean we‘ve never explored before.” And in October 2020 Demi said they made contact with them with the help of Dr. Steven Greer. They explained in a lengthy Instagram caption along with photo and video “evidence,” “Over the past couple months I have dug deep into the science of consciousness and experienced not only peace and serenity like I’ve never known but I also have witnessed the most incredibly profound sightings both in the sky as well as feet away from me.” The artist added, “This planet is on a very negative path towards destruction but WE can change that together. If we were to get 1% of the population to meditate and make contact, we would force our governments to acknowledge the truth about extraterrestrial life among us and change our destructive habits destroying our planet.”

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TOM CRUISE

Tom Cruise made it clear that believing we are the only living creatures in the universe is “arrogant.” In 2005 while promoting War of the Worlds a German newspaper asked if he believed in aliens he replied, “Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? Millions of stars, and we‘re supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don’t know,” Cruise said in the interview published in German.