Following the trail of crazy alien shit started by the John Lennon 1974 UFO sighting, I found a fantastic page detailing various information about David Bowie and his experiences with various alien phenomena. Here are my favorite ones.

Roy Stockdill: “But Bowie was convinced their latest home was haunted too, and consulted a white witch. The witch told him - ‘You are a walk-in. You have come from another planet or galaxy. A human being has given you permission to inhabit his body.
‘Walk-ins have a divine mission to bring enlightenment. Usually, a walk-in survives no more than five years before he is destroyed.’…

Also, while I’m at it, let me link back to my post about that movie he did about being an alien, The Man Who Fell to Earth. Okay, back to the quotes:

David Bowie: “I used to work for two guys who put out a UFO magazine in England. About six years ago. And I made sightings six, seven times a night for about a year, when I was in the observatory.”

Rob Leggatt: “Tabloid rumours of rock star weirdness emerged almost as soon as the six-week New Mexico shoot began.. Bowie it was said, spent his spare time locked in a trailer scouring his library of 1,500 mystical books, consorting both with then wife Angie and heiress Sabrina Guinness and listening to ‘Young Americans’ played backward on a special turntable which made the recording sound like a Tibetan chant.”

Shit, I’m TOTALLY gonna play that song backwards later!

The famous science-fiction writer Philip K.Dick goes to see the film, with friends Tim Powers and K.W.Jeter, and he loves it. Since February 1974, Philip K.Dick has been (according to his own accounts) in contact with an alien intelligence, which transmits information to him. He listens to David Bowie albums for a while, along with K.W.Jeter, hoping to discern a sign from the alien realm.

That’s a reference to the Man Who Fell to Earth, referenced above. This next one’s really good too:

Raymond Shearer: “I think that each of us are being used as messengers. Bits and pieces of the puzzle are given to each of us. When enough of these pieces are assembled, an answer to the UFO mystery will be uncovered. I don’t know why they’re doing things this way - I just feel they’re doing it… For several months after my contact I did some crazy, irrational things. At least they were irrational when compared to my former conduct. I think they were programmed into me by the UFO people. They’re after some goal here on earth - whatever it may be. I break out into a cold sweat when I think of being a possible agent or spy for these people.”

I mean, that just sounds so goddamned much like Philip K. Dick’s novel, VALIS… shit!