While promoting his new memoir, “Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock,” Sammy Hagar shocked MTV’s Eric Spitznagel when he revealed that he believes he has been abducted by aliens.
“Okay, let’s just cut to the chase. I’m just going to come out and ask it. Have you ever been abducted by aliens?” Spitznagel asks during the interview after Hagar reveals that he is really into UFOs but left it out of the book on the advice of Joel Selvin, the man responsible for making the book happen.
“I think I have,” replies Hagar.
“What? Really? I was kidding,” the astonished interviewer replies. “You seriously believe that?”
“Now you’re making me sound like a crazy person,” Hagar laughs.
Hagar says that a story in the book where he has a dream about being contacted by aliens in the foothills above Fontana wasn’t a dream at all.
“That’s right. It was real, Hagar tells Spitznagel. ” were plugged into me. It was a download situation. This was long before computers or any kind of wireless. There weren’t even wireless telephones. Looking back now, it was like, F***, they downloaded something into me! Or they uploaded something from my brain, like an experiment. See what this guy knows.”
Hagar is refering to a passage in the book that reads, “I saw a ship and two creatures inside of this ship… And they were connected to me, tapped into my mind through some kind of mysterious wireless connection.”
During the interview, Hagar goes on to detail an encounter that happened when he was about four-years-old. After seeing what he describes as “a car with no wheels” floating across a field, the rocker says he apparently blacked out and has no memory of what happened afterward. “I just have no memory of it,” he says. “And it wasn’t a dream. It was during the daylight,” he continues.
Hagar says he hasn’t talked about his experiences, because he didn’t know how to explain it. “I didn’t understand the technology,” he says. “But now I’m pretty sure it was a wireless situation. Either a download or upload. They were tapped into my brain and the knowledge was transferred back and forth. I could see them and everything while it was happening. There was a visual involved, almost like … I don’t know.”
“Don’t get me going!” he laughs.
Move over Charlie Sheen. It seems you’re not the only frickin rock star from Mars.
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