Shaun Ryder says he has seen so many UFOs he got a medical check-up to ensure he was not hallucinating.
The Happy Mondays frontman consulted a specialist because he was worried he may be seeing things. The 62-year-old star spotted his first as a teen in 1978 on his way to catch a bus near his home in Manchester.
He told the I’m ADHD! No You’re Not! (corr) podcast: “So I’m going to the bus stop one morning, it’s like seven o’clock, I’m going for the seven o’clock bus into town.
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“And there’s a lad there, he’s about 11, going to the grammar school. So we’re both going to the bus stop and we both look up and this thing was going ‘zoooooom, zooooom, zoooom, zooom zooom zoooom, flash flash flash, zooom’ and that was like 1978, you know?’”
When he had a second close encounter he decided to get medically checked out to ensure he was not seeing things.
“So I wake up one morning and again it’s seven o’clock in the morning, and I look out and over the apple tree is this craft, right,’’ he said.
“It looks like it’s a Scalextric craft, made out of Scalextric, you know, plastic and grey, you know. And then it had all pink and blue lights around it.
“And I’m looking out of the window slapping myself stupid, you know. And this thing, it then starts making cloud and as the clouds go round it it moves off slowly.
“My house, it’s a field at the back, and across the field it just really really slow made more and more cloud so you couldn’t see anything except the cloud.
“And then it was gone. So, you know, I’m either hallucinating cause you know, whatever. I went and got checked up right. I went to, you know, a specialist who, about hallucinations, and I said, `well I’m not but I’ve seen this craft’.
“Anyway, so I come out, I’ve been checked up and I was, ‘alright, so I don’t know what that was’.”
The singer, who hosted the TV series Shaun Ryder on UFOs, has claimed he has been targeted by aliens throughout his life and a small “spider” spacecraft once invaded his home.
“I don’t go spotting for it, it just f****** appears,” he has said.
“Once these things are on you they make you sound like a t*** because they keep appearing in front of you and coming around where you are. Obviously I have to say something and then everyone thinks I’m a c*** ‘cos I’m off me f****** napper.
“It is how it is. They’re f****** here – they were here before us, probably.’”