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Woody Harrelson recalls 'freaky' childhood UFO encounter

By T.K. Randall
February 27, 2025 · Comment icon 11 comments
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson. Image Credit: Jay Godwin
The actor detailed his experience with the unknown during a recent interview with Late Show host Stephen Colbert.
Harrelson, who recently performed in an alien abduction sketch on SNL50, recollected a childhood experience with a UFO that had remained firmly entrenched in his memory.

"Yeah. I mean, I'm open-minded," he told host Stephen Colbert on The Late Late Show.

"If you've been abducted, now would be a great time to tell me!" Colbert quipped. "But have you like seen a UFO? 'Cause I have, I've seen stuff I can't explain."

Harrelson went on to describe what happened to him as a teenager living in Ohio in 1974.

"Suddenly I noticed, like everybody's out in the street and so I went out, and we look up," he said.

"It was nighttime and there were these lights that were just kind of blinking and then it would just shoot all the way across the sky. And then there'd be one over there, shoot over here, and there were several."
"They just kept going across the sky."

The actor found it particularly strange that nobody seemed to want to talk about it afterward.

"Nobody talked about it," he said. "Literally, everybody just went inside and said nothing."

"It was so freaky, even for me, as young as I was."

On the topic of aliens, Harrelson remains open-minded.

"Why wouldn't it be true ?" he said.

You can check out the interview below (jump to 2:00 to hear his story).



Source: Mensjournal.com | Comments (11)




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Comment icon #2 Posted by Hazzard 20 days ago
Sounds like it. If we had the exact time and location it would be easy to check.  Ohio around 50 years ago doesnt really help. Maybe this one? https://0-in--the--sky-org-0.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/in-the-sky.org/news.php?amp=1&amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&id=19740812_10_100&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=Från %1%24s&aoh=17406638965974&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fin-the-sky.org%2Fnews.php%3Fid%3D19740812_10_100  
Comment icon #3 Posted by L.A.T.1961 20 days ago
Taken at face value the deion does not fit well with a meteor shower. Meteors do not blink and then move, a known shower has a radiant/point on the sky and move away from that. Its also unusual to have a lot of activity in a short space of time and then nothing. Satellites can blink on and off but their movement is relatively slow unlike meteor's which can cross the sky so fast as to be impossible to follow by eye.
Comment icon #4 Posted by Hazzard 20 days ago
At the moment, as a kid, he could have seen brights stars or planets at the same time as the shower? Memories are notoriously flawed. Especially 50 years later.
Comment icon #5 Posted by Resume 20 days ago
All the weed probably doesn't help with the memory either.
Comment icon #6 Posted by L.A.T.1961 20 days ago
I like to contemplate witness accounts at face value if possible, it saves the what if aspect and simplifies the possibilities created by second guessing.   It is still often possible to find a prosaic answer to what can look like a weird event.   
Comment icon #7 Posted by Hazzard 20 days ago
Absolutely.  If we cant trust our memories from yesterday or last week... forget about being a credible eyewitness telling stories from 20 years ago, or more. A good example would be our two boys, both playing junior icehockey. Their memory of a game situation can be totaly different from reality... as shown when we watch it on TV the next day. Eyewitness testimonies are notoriously flawed and cant be taken as evidence, especially not when it comes to the paranormal. 
Comment icon #8 Posted by Earl.Of.Trumps 20 days ago
I wish Woody could have given more detail but such is life. Good story.
Comment icon #9 Posted by L.A.T.1961 20 days ago
The memory is fallible. But there is a case to argue that out of the ordinary events, considered to be this at the time by the observer, are more closely scrutinized by the observer as part of human defense mechanism. Fight or flight. Creating a more detailed recollection than an everyday event. Taking the ufo subject as an example for a long time orb's or spheres where observed by people but they had their accounts subject to the above problem of poor observation and memory. Yet we know today that some type of atmospheric plasma or ball lightning is a real phenomenon, and those recounting suc... [More]
Comment icon #10 Posted by Hazzard 20 days ago
Not dismissing. I have seen one of those weird orbs/ball lightning/plasma/UFOs myself.  But as some sort of evidence of extraterrestrial visitation, eyewitnesses testimony is worthless. 
Comment icon #11 Posted by Unusual Tournament 20 days ago
Woody’s not great at describing if these things moved continuously in one direction (meteor shower) or if they went back and forth which would signal something more significant than a natural occurrence 


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