George
Clinton UFO Encounter
George Clinton Outtake: MY Encounter with a UFO
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Situated within an otherwise straightforward conversation
with George Clinton was a story that we will never forget. In so many
words, this is a direct account of his alleged encounter with a UFO, while
driving with Bootsy Collins. Not one to mince words, this seemed to be no
joking matter to Clinton, who noted that he went ten whole years without
talking about the event subsequent to its occurrence. Whether this is a part of
the grand mythos of the Dr. Funkenstein universe or a genuine moment in an
already intriguing life, we will let you decide.
GC: We had just come back from Detroit and we
were on our way down to Miami to go fishing, but first we had to go
pick up my son in New Jersey. We got there that morning around 10 o’ clock. We
came past the airport and saw a light. Neither one of us said
anything, but when we got to the spot, both of us looked around. It was like a
beam of light from the clouds coming straight down. Now this is daylight, so
the weird thing in your mind is ‘Damn. Light in daylight’? That’s what was
going on in my mind. So we drove on and forgot about it. Maybe five minutes
later, two blocks ahead of us, we see the light coming through the trees. But
it sparkled this time likeelectricity. As soon as it did that it hit on the
same block that we were on, but on the opposite side of the street. So there
was like one, then two and then the third one hit the car on the
fender on thepassenger side. It looked like how when you break a thermometer,
the mercury runs like oil and water. When it hit the car it splattered like lit
up mercury and rolled off the side of the car.
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Now remember I said that the first one we saw was in
daylight? Well, we didn’t remember this part I’m about to tell you – Bootsy or
myself – for ten years. When it hit the car, I saw some headlights in back of
us and the streetlights were getting darker ahead of us and we’re not seeing
any cars. We were the only ones on the streets for about ten blocks. I
look back behind me and the headlights that I saw before were gone. We were the
only ones on the streets. It’s dark. We get about ten blocks from my house, we pull
up to my apartment and just sit in the car. My daughter comes out to my car and
she says ‘Why y’all look like y’all seen a ghost’? I said to her ‘Give me a
kiss. I’m about to go to bed’. It took us a long time to talk about it, but
about ten years later, I saw something about losing time and I remembered that
five minutes before the light hit the car that the concern was daylight. We had
just gotten there from an all-night session in Detroit, so it couldn’t have
been but 10 o’ clock at first, but by the time we got to the house, we were
dealing with 7 o’ clock at night and it didn’t occur to me until I called
Bootsy. At that point, we both know that some time was missing.
By Paul Pennington
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