Rocker who ‘met an alien’
QUESTION Have any celebrities claimed to have been abducted by aliens?
LOTS of celebrities claim to have seen UFOS or been abducted by aliens.
Sammy ‘the Red Rocker’ Hagar is a flamboyant heavy metal singer and guitarist known for his virtuoso guitar playing and powerful lungs.
Now aged 70, he fronted bands such as Montrose and Van Halen and had a monster solo hit in the eighties with I Can’t Drive 55. He also claims to have been abducted by aliens.
In the Seventies, before hitting the big time, he said blue aliens took him aboard their ship and downloaded information into his brain. they took knowledge from him in return.
In Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock, Hagar wrote: ‘I was lying in bed one night, dreaming. I saw a ship and two creatures inside of this ship. I couldn’t see their faces. they were connected to me, tapped into my mind through some kind of mysterious wireless connection.’
Another claimed abductee was the former actress and Japanese First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama.
In her 2008 book Very Strange things I’ve encountered, Hatoyama wrote: ‘While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus.’
She said her husband, former prime minister Yukio Hatoyama, thought it was a dream, but she believes she was abducted by aliens.
Inevitably, David Bowie, known for his classic songs Life on Mars? and Space oddity (and his less than classic Loving the Alien and Hallo Spaceboy), and his movie the Man Who Fell to earth, was a believer.
He said that he saw so many UFOS as a child that he ‘ simply got used to them’.
As an adult, he claims he saw a UFO hovering over a field that he believed was ‘a projection of my own mind trying to make sense of this quantum topological doorway into dimensions beyond our own’.
elvis Presley claimed he saw UFOS throughout his life. When he was born, his family and the doctor saw an unexplainable light beaming over their home.
He also recalled that when he was eight, he was visited telepathically by aliens who showed him a future vision of ‘a man wearing a white suit singing to a crowd’.
Robbie Williams claimed a UFO visited him after he wrote an alien-themed song: ‘ I had just finished writing a song called Arizona, which is about alien abduction, when there was this glow. It was magic.’
andy Graham, Leeds.
QUESTION Many ancient statues have had their noses damaged or broken off. Was this deliberate or accidental?
THIS question has long troubled archaeologists, who have reached the conclusion it may both be natural and deliberate.
Scoured by wind and sand, flowing water and millennia of human interaction, it’s inevitable that the more delicate parts of statues have fallen off.
But during the archaeological gold rush of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when a wealth of ancient treasures were being discovered, many so- called archaeologists lacked the finer instruments and procedures required for proper excavation and were responsible for damaging several of the treasures they unearthed.
Removal of the nose was a common punishment in ancient times. the Greeks had a term for such nose-docking: rhinokopia.
Byzantine emperor Justinian II was deposed and punished in this way at the end of the 7th century. He regained power and wore a gold nose to hide his disfigurement.
Hacking the nose from a sculpture might have been a way to humiliate a deposed or disgraced ruler, or diminish their legacy.
A black basalt head of the emperor tiberius’s nephew Germanicus in the British Museum shows signs that the nose has been chiselled off. Martin Goulden,
London N12. THE most famous example of this is the Sphinx’s nose.
As a child, I was told that the proboscis was the victim of one of Napoleon’s cannonballs around the time of the Battle of the Nile in 1798. However, sketches of the Sphinx sans
nez were produced by the Dane Frederic Louis Norden in 1737, well before the era of Napoleon.
the egyptian- Arab historian al-Maqrizi wrote in the 15th century that the nose had been destroyed by a Sufi Muslim named Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr.
this was in response to egyptian peasants who were making offerings to the Great Sphinx in 1378 in the hope of controlling the regular flooding of the Nile and guaranteeing a successful harvest.
outraged by this blasphemy, Sa’im al-Dahr was said to have destroyed the nose as an act of iconoclasm — the destruction of a religious image deemed to be heretical. He was executed for vandalism.
Miriam Walker, Chard, Somerset.
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