Peter Farrelly, a Golden Globe-winning filmmaker, has shared his eerie encounter with a “football-field sized” UFO during a Halloween night in 1975. Known for his work on the 2018 film Green Book starring Viggo Mortensen, Farrelly was speaking on the Kevin Pollak Chat Show when he detailed the chilling incident that occurred while he was driving home from the University of Rhode Island at 3am.
He said: “All of a sudden, as it’s coming up on us, suddenly, it’s a massive thing. And it is a rectangular shape craft. I will say, okay, it’s rectangular like, it’s hard to say how big it is because you can’t tell how high it is, but it seems to be a few hundred yards up.
“Maybe it’s 1000ft up – It’s not that high, but it’s rectangular shape and there’s zillions of lights under it, and the lights are going back like sideways.
“All of a sudden, as it’s coming up on us, suddenly, it’s a massive thing. And it is a rectangular shape craft. I will say, okay, it’s rectangular like, it’s hard to say how big it is because you can’t tell how high it is, but it seems to be a few hundred yards up.”
He continued: “I’m telling you, it’s right out of Star Wars. You know, when you see the thing come over you and it just keeps going, and I’m looking up at it like ‘what…’ And I remember my legs…went weak. They were completely rubbery. Like I remember pushing my foot on the gas and it was an effort – I literally lost all the blood in my leg somehow.”
But things took a bizarre twist when he heard a radio advert the next day asking for anyone who saw a UFO the previous night to call a specific number.
Peter called and asked what it was about, only to be told they were merely “taking a poll,” but when he rang the number again two weeks later, he found that it had been disconnected.
He added: “I listened to (that radio station) every morning at the same time. They never asked for that again, so I called that number two weeks later and it was a disconnected number.”
Reflecting on the encounter 38-years later, he said: “This thing still doesn’t exist, this big rectangular thing with no sound, that cruises over. So, you know, I feel confident that it was an unidentified flying object, but whether it was from this planet or whatever, who knows.”
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