Kurt Russell Reveals He Was the Pilot Who Reported the Phoenix Lights UFO Sighting — Watch
Every UFO obsessive knows about the Phoenix Lights, a mass sighting that took place in 1997. As it turns out, Kurt Russell was the pilot who first reported what has since become one of the best-known UFO incidents — something he casually revealed during a recent BBC interview.
“I was flying [his son Oliver] to go see his girlfriend, and we were on approach,” Russell explained. “I saw six lights over the airport in absolute uniform in a V shape. Oliver said to me — I was just looking at him, I was coming in, we’re maybe a half a mile out — and Oliver said, ‘Pa, what are those lights?’
“Then I kind of came out of my reverie and I said, ‘I don’t know what they are.’ He said, ‘Are we okay here?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna call in,’ and I reported it.”
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Russell said he didn’t think much of the incident after that, but eventually noticed his wife Goldie Hawn watching a TV show about it a few years later — a moment he likens to Richard Dreyfuss in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Watch the full clip below.
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