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Maiden drummer recalls a UFO sighting in new memoir

A rock autobiography anecdote gets recycled as UAP news, with zero added evidence.

Nicko McBrain, Iron Maiden’s longtime drummer, has a new book out called ‘Hell Boys and Girls!’. In the promotional interview circuit, he mentions a UFO encounter from his past; no date given, no location pinned down, no other named witness.

This is memoir material, not a sighting report. There’s no radar track, no photo, no contemporaneous note; just a recollection surfacing decades later, timed to a book launch. That doesn’t make it false. It makes it unverifiable.

Grade: anecdote, tier D. Entertaining; also unfalsifiable. File next to every other backstage ghost story touring musicians tell.

Source: Loudwire source