Ali Jogging in New York's Central Park and one day, boxing legend Muhammad Ali saw a bright light appear over his head and start moving along with him. But this was no big deal for the greatest, who claimed to have seen many UFOs in his lifetime. "If you look up in the sky in the early morning, "he once said "you will see them playing tag between the stars."
Ali even claimed to have seen a massive UFO mothership, that he was watched by ETs and that alien visitations were "of tremendous importance to the whole world."
In a moving tribute online to the boxer and civil rights activist, Mr Green Beckley used extracts from a book he wrote about celebrities with alien experiences to explore Ali's thoughts on UFOs.
In his 2015 book Amazing Flying Saucer Experiences of Celebrities, Rock Stars and the Rich and Famous, Mr Green Beckley wrote: "Of all the famous folks I’ve spent time with discussing UFOs and theories about extraterrestrial civilisations and life in outer space, no one seems to know more about the subject – at least from a firsthand point of view – than retired heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali.
