Hollywood's Alien Believers: From Goldie Hawn to Whoopi Goldberg

It turns out the universe’s biggest mysteries aren’t just fascinating to scientists and late-night conspiracy theorists—they’re captivating some of Hollywood’s most recognizable names too. A growing roster of celebrities has gone public with their belief that extraterrestrial life exists, and some have even claimed direct encounters with beings from beyond our world.

The fascination spans generations and professions. Actress Goldie Hawn recounted a“powerful”encounter in the California desert when she was 20 years old, describing triangular-shaped, silver-colored beings with unusual features.“They touched my face and it felt like the finger of God,”she explained during an October 2023 episode of Apple Fitness+’s“Time to Walk”audio program. She recalled experiencing a high-pitched sound before seeing the entities and feeling paralyzed during the interaction. Singer Miley Cyrus detailed her own sighting to Interview magazine in October 2020, describing what she called“a flying snowplow”with a glowing yellow plow in front.“I did see it flying, and my friend saw it, too,”she said, adding that she made eye contact with a being inside the craft.

The belief extends beyond isolated sightings. Tom DeLonge, the Blink-182 musician, revealed in February 2015 that he’d read 200 books about extraterrestrials and has moved beyond UFO speculation into deeper territory.“I’m way past that,”he told Paper magazine.“If anybody tells you there’s no life in the universe, you should be turned off. That’s just such a dumb thing to say.”Demi Lovato, who created the docuseries Unidentified With Demi Lovato for Peacock, claimed to have witnessed a blue orb hovering about 50 feet away in the Joshua Tree desert in September 2021.

What’s particularly interesting is how mainstream this conversation has become. Whoopi Goldberg declared on The View in July 2023 that she“already knew”aliens existed before a congressional hearing on UFOs made headlines.“We’re not the only ones in the universe. We’re just not,”she asserted. Actress Jennifer Lawrence offered a more cautious perspective, sharing her fear on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in December 2015:“Based on history, when we find each other, we kill each other. I don’t feel like aliens are going to be like,‘Oh, great! Let’s get along.'”

The roster of believers reads like a who’s who of entertainment. Bill Nye the Science Guy tweeted from the Men in Black: International film premiere in June 2019 that with“200 billion stars in our galaxy”and likely“2 trillion planets,”aliens have to exist. Katy Perry told GQ in January 2014,“I believe in aliens. I look up into the stars and I imagine how self-important are we to think that we are the only life form.”Even athletes have chimed in—Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers claimed on the“You Made It Weird”podcast in March 2016 that he spotted a large, orange, left-to-right moving object when he was 20 years old.

Whether driven by genuine conviction, a desire to explore cosmic mysteries, or simply a willingness to entertain possibilities beyond our current understanding, these celebrities have helped shift alien belief from fringe territory into casual dinner conversation. The question they’re all raising—are we truly alone?—remains one of humanity’s most compelling unknowns.