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'They touched my face': Goldie Hawn recalls encounter with aliens while on Apple podcast
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Date:2025-04-16 17:26:41
Goldie Hawn doesn't just believe in aliens. The Oscar-winning actor said she's met them.
Speaking on the Oct. 23 episode of the "Time to Walk" podcast on Apple Fitness+, the 77-year-old actor recounted what she believes to be an encounter with extraterrestrials when she was in her 20s.
During the episode, Hawn recalled gazing up at the sky and wishing to be visited by extraterrestrials. A few months later, she said her wish came true when "two or three" beings with triangular heads appeared before her and even "touched my face," Hawn said on the podcast.
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Hawn was 'paralyzed' when otherworldly beings appeared
Hawn was the latest guest to appear on the Apple podcast, which features personal stories, photos, and music from influential celebrities with the goal of inspiring Apple Watch users to walk more.
Before she rose to prominence as an actor, Hawn said on the podcast that she had been working as a dancer in Anaheim, California, when she had the otherworldly encounter. It occurred not long after she had been stargazing and musing on alien life.
"I saw all these stars and all I could think of was, 'How far does this go? How little are we? Are we the only planet in the whole wide universe that has life on it?'" Hawn recalled. 'Then I said, 'I know you’re out there. I know we’re not alone. And I would like to meet you one day.'"
Months later while sleeping in a fellow dancer's car in West Covina, Hawn said she was awoken by a high-pitched sound.
"It was this high, high frequency," Hawn said. "And I looked out the window and I saw these two or three triangular-shaped heads."
The beings, who Hawn described as "silver" with a "slash for a mouth" and a "tiny little nose," were engaged in an animated conversation and even pointed in Hawn's direction.
"Pointing at me in the car as if they were discussing me," Hawn said, "like I was a subject and they were droning (on). I could not move, I was paralyzed."
Afterward, Hawn dismissed the memory as no more than a dream.
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Hawn said alien touch 'felt like the finger of God'
It wasn't until years later that Hawn became aware of others who reported having experiences similar to her own, which made her rethink what she went through.
Hawn said she eventually talked with an astrophysicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who was researching alien encounters. The conversation unlocked memories of Hawn's encounter, some of which she said she had never before recalled.
“Suddenly I remembered something. They touched my face and it felt like the finger of God," Hawn said. "It was the most benevolent, loving feeling. This was powerful. It was filled with light."
But it wasn't the only encounter Hawn recalled experiencing while a guest on the podcast. During a trip years later to the London village of Averbury, Hawn recalled dreaming of six lights coming up on “some little mountains up across the valley” before she and her friend drove to a place similar to her dream where a crop circle had sprung up in the shape of a heart.
"I have collected hearts my whole life," she said. "I built a house of hearts. I have done everything with hearts. I looked at this and I thought, 'I don't know anything. But if this is a sign, I'll take it.'"
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Public interest in UFOs has been growing
Hawn's revelation comes at a time of mounting public interest in extraterrestrials and UFOs.
In July, Congress had its latest forays into the topic of UFOs, which the government now refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). During the hearing, three former military officers testified about mysterious objects sighted by Navy pilots, as well as a clandestine program to retrieve and study downed spacecraft.
Since then, the Pentagon's office to investigate UFOs unveiled a website where the public can access declassified information about reported sightings, while NASA released its own report signaling its intent to further study strange airborne crafts.
Netflix also released a docuseries called "Encounters" at the end of September that explored four famous mass sightings across the world.
Kurt Russell also says he had an encounter
Even Hawn's longtime partner, Kurt Russell, detailed his own otherworldly encounter in 2017 in an interview with the BBC.
Russell, who stars as Santa Claus alongside Hawn in Netflix's "Christmas Chronicles" films and the 1987 classic "Overboard," claimed that he was flying his own private plane in 1997 when he spotted and called in a mysterious mass sighting of UFOs over Arizona. The famous incident came to be known as the Phoenix Lights.
For Hawn, she said on the podcast that she's thankful that 50 years later, she's still fascinated by the idea of life on other planets.
“We can never ever lose our wonder,” Hawn said. “It’s just no fun. It’s really an important aspect of being an adventurer, where nothing is impossible.”
Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY. Reach him at elagatta@gannett.com
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