Shaun Ryder has been ‘pestered by aliens’ for 50 years and have to be a ‘UFO magnet’
Shaun Ryder has claimed that he still sees UFOs ‘zigzagging across the sky at thousands and thousands of miles an hour’ several years after he made his first claim
‘I’ve seen aliens’(Image: GC Images)
Shaun Ryder claims he has been “mithered” by aliens for 50 years – and says he’s either a UFO ‘magnet’ or he needs ‘putting away’.
The legendary Happy Mondays frontman, 63, has been vocal about his extra-terrestrial experiences since his first at only 15. Back then, the Salford native had started work as a messenger boy at his local post office when he looked up at the pitch black sky around 7am one morning and saw something “zig-zagging up and down and left and right”.
Now, five decades later, he still sees UFOs “zigzagging across the sky at thousands and thousands of miles an hour”.
He said: “They’ve f***ing mithered me since I was 15. I’ve either been mithered to death by aliens and spaceships, or I’m actually mentally deranged and psychotically mad in reality and I need putting away and locking up. Every now and then something just turns up. I look up and there’s something zigzagging across the sky at thousands and thousands of miles an hour.”
The Celebrity Gogglebox star – who’s heading out on tour in March with the Happy Mondays to celebrate the 35th anniversary of their classic Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches album – even fronted a documentary for the History channel in 2013 where he travelled the world looking for spooky sightings.
During the making of Shaun Ryder on UFOs, he became convinced that intergalactic beings were watching him and had landed a ship in his back garden. Speaking about his first sighting in 1978 he said, back when he was little, there weren’t a lot of other explanations about what things in the sky could be.
He said: “This thing was very quick doing zig-zags up and down and left and right, very quick, in big z formations. Then it stayed stationery for a couple of seconds and then it zig-zagged again and then it shot off.
“Maybe if you saw something like that now you’d think, ‘Well maybe it could be one of ours, some secret project.’ But certainly in 1978 we didn’t have anything like that.”
Shaun, who helped define the Madchester era of ecstasy-inspired dance music in the 1980s, also admitted he believes governments are hiding their knowledge of UFOs in ‘conspiracy theory sort of sh*t’.
He said: “Conspiracy theory sort of s*** is that we’ve had that technology since the f***ing ‘80s anyway. I believe that.
“Look, we’re still flying around in the sky as we did when the f***ing Wright Brothers was at it. We’ve come along in leaps and bounds elsewhere and yet certain things like what we’re using to fly people around in is still f***ing 100-year-old or 50-year-old technology.
“Military technology, time travellers and all sorts of things. I’m big on believing that a lot of that s***.”
During the past five decades, Shaun’s other sightings include a small “spider” shaped spaceship scuttle across his windowsill one morning and a large, wobbly, plastic-looking object hovering above an apple tree in his garden.
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