Shaquille O’Neal Tells Jimmy Kimmel He Saw a UFO Twenty Years Ago
Article by Aristos Georgiou May 19, 2021 (newsweek.com)
• On May 17th, basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal (pictured above) appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Kimmel brought up the subject of the CBS 60 Minutes segment on UFOs and asked a O’Neal for his take on the issue. “I totally believe in UFOs,” said O’Neal. Aside from joking that his Inside the NBA co-star Charles Barkley looked like an extraterrestrial, O’Neal told Kimmel about an incident that occurred in 1997.
• “I never told anybody this story,” O’Neal began. In 1997, he had been on a double date with three other people and the group were on their way home in Madera, California. “Right when we passed the fairground, I could swear I saw a flying saucer come down with all the lights and it was spinning… and then it took off,” he said. “Everything happened in less than five seconds, and we all looked at each other and was like… [looks shocked.]” “I know that it was a UFO, I don’t care what anybody says,” O’Neal said.
• But O’Neal did give hardcore UFO skeptics a path of denial. O’Neal once said on a podcast that he believed the Earth was flat. Later, O’Neal remarked about his flat Earth theory: “I’m joking, you idiots.” So was O’Neal serious or joking when he claimed to have seen a UFO? “[W]hen I’m being serious, you’ll know.”
Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal has told Jimmy Kimmel that he saw a UFO above
California over two decades ago.
O’Neal made the comments on Monday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! during which the host discussed a “60 Minutes” report looking into the issue of what the government calls “unidentified aerial phenomena” or UAPs.
Kimmel asked a O’Neal for his take on the issue. In response, the former basketball player said, “I totally believe in UFOs,” joking that the reason for this belief was that his Inside the NBA co-star Charles Barkley looked like an extraterrestrial.
“Look at his body—he’s definitely an alien,” O’Neal joked.
O’Neal then went on to tell Kimmel about an incident that purportedly occurred in 1997.
“You know what’s crazy, I never told anybody this story,” O’Neal said.
13:16 minute clip of Shaq discussing seeing a UFO (‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ YouTube)
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UFO or a cryptid or experienced a time shift or anything like that, but I’m very, very open to that existing. And I’m surrounded by friends and family who have seen and encountered UFOs.”
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