11 years ago, before Aaron Rodgers became a Super Bowl-winning quarterback and two-time NFL MVP, he had a different kind of life-changing experience. In a recent interview with comedian Pete Holmes on the You Made It Weird podcast, Rodgers talked about the one time he saw a UFO in New Jersey.
It was a couple months before the 2005 NFL Draft, where he was drafted in the first round by the Packers, and he was set to make an appearance on the ESPN show Cold Pizza. He had traveled to New York for the show and was staying with a college teammate, Steve Levy, and his family in Jersey.
“We were winding down at dinner and then there was a weird siren in the distance,” Rodgers said, “So we go outside — it was a snowy night — and we went outside and it was one of those bright nights, where it’s overcast, but there’s enough light from the moon to see things and the next thing you know, we saw something in the sky.”
“It was a large orange, left-to-right-moving object,” he continued. “Because of the overcast nature of the night and the snow, you couldn’t make out, it was behind the clouds we were seeing, but it was definitively large in the night sky, moving from left to right. Again, it was like 12:30 at night here. It was me, Steve, and his brother that saw it.”
Rodgers goes on to say that shortly afterwards, he heard fighter jets in the distance, which is apparently a sign connected to UFOs. “Now, if you know anything about UFO sightings or you’ve done research, you know that a lot of times two things are connected to UFO sightings,” Rodgers said. “One, is the presence of fighter jets. And two, there’s a lot of sightings around nuclear power plants. So to tie it all together, the alarm we heard was from 30 miles out was a nuclear power plant that had an alarm that went off.”
Rodgers’ extraterrestrial experience has seemingly made him a believer in aliens and life on other planets. What do you make of his story?
