The alien encounter that left Miley Cyrus “shaken” happened in her past.
The 29-year-old “Malibu” singer claimed she spotted a UFO while driving through San Bernardino, California, during an on-call interview with fashion designer Rick Owens, which was published in Interview Magazine in October 2020.
“Actually, I did have an encounter. My friend and I were traveling through San Bernardino when we were followed by a UFO “Owens, 59, recalled his trip to Area 51 in Nevada, and Cyrus went into detail about his experience there.
She went on to say “A flying snowplow is the aptest analogy. It had this gigantic plow in front of it and was glowing yellow. My companion and I both observed it in flight. There were a handful of other automobiles on the road and they also stopped to look, so I guess what I saw was true.”
For around five days after the purported sighting, the pop star was “shaken,” and she stated, “It f—cked me up.”
Cyrus claimed that she did not “feel threatened” during the alleged encounter, but that “seeing into the eyes of something that I couldn’t quite put my head around” left her shaken.
She also agreed with Owens’ opinion that it was “a sort of narcissism” to believe that people are alone in the wide world.
However, the “We Can’t Stop” singer also revealed that she had been using marijuana at the time.
Cyrus suggested that the UFO sighting might have been a hallucination brought on by the “weed wax” she claimed to have bought from a man in a van parked in front of a taco store, but she insisted that other people in the area had seen the same thing.
Cyrus’ father, Billy Ray Cyrus, has also claimed to have seen UFOs, according to Yahoo Entertainment.
The country musician tweeted an image of distant lights in 2011 with the caption: “This is the first time I’ve ever seen an extraterrestrial craft. There appear to be five or six floating disks. This is a great memory for Dad.”
The “Wrecking Ball” singer made news earlier this month when a paparazzo sued her for copyright infringement.
According to Billboard, Cyrus is being investigated for allegedly using an image of herself waving to spectators as she exited a building more than two years ago on her Instagram account without obtaining permission from the original photographer.
Photographer Robert Barbera, who has previously filed similar suits against Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande, and Justin Bieber, filed this claim.
Barbera stated in a federal court complaint filed in Los Angeles that Cyrus has an “immense presence” on Instagram, with 169 million followers as of the time the photo was posted in February 2020. Her sharing the photo “crippled if not ruined” his capacity to earn money from licensing it, he claimed.
Copyright law permits a plaintiff to seek either “actual damages,” or the money lost due to the infringement, or fixed “statutory” damages, which could be up to $150,000 per infringed work, should Cyrus be found guilty. However, the filing did not suggest a specific request for damages.
Cyrus has not yet issued a statement on the matter.