--- title: Aaron Rodgers Is Still Convinced He Saw a U.F.O. description: The Green Bay Packers QB recounted the dark, snowy night 11 years ago. canonical: https://time.com/4270484/aaron-rodgers-ufo-aliens/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-24T14:12:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:11:12.981Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Aaron Rodgers Is Still Convinced He Saw a U.F.O. og:description: He's been doing research og:url: https://time.com/4270484/aaron-rodgers-ufo-aliens/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd61a33f416bab6/69888c55cf40a80f5fc42873/aaron-rodgers-ufo-story.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: aaron rodgers UFO story og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Aaron Rodgers Is Still Convinced He Saw a U.F.O. twitter:description: He's been doing research twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd61a33f416bab6/69888c55cf40a80f5fc42873/aaron-rodgers-ufo-story.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Aaron Rodgers Is Still Convinced He Saw a U.F.O.  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Mar 24, 2016 2:12 PM UTC  Rodgers at the Academy Awards Ceremony this year. Rodgers at the Academy Awards Ceremony this year.Christopher Polk— Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Mar 24, 2016 2:12 PM UTC It’s been 11 years since [Aaron Rodgers says he saw](http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25528331/aaron-rodgers-wild-ufo-story-might-make-you-believe-in-ufos) an Unidentified Flying Object, but the Green Bay Packers Quarterback still remembers it vividly. The [football star](http://time.com/3691192/aaron-rodgers-nfl-mvp/) recounted the sighting on Wednesday’s episode of [the podcast _You Made it Weird_](http://nerdist.com/you-made-it-weird-310-aaron-rodgers/), CBS Sports reports. Rodgers said there were other witnesses with him on that snowy night in 2005, when he heard a siren and went outside to glimpse something otherworldly. “It was a large orange, left-to-right-moving object,” Rodgers said. “Because of the overcast nature of the night and the snow, you couldn’t make out—it was kind of behind the clouds we were seeing, but it was definitively large, moving from left to right. It was me, Steve \[Levy, a former college teammate\], and his brother that saw it. And it goes out of sight and we look at each other and go ‘What in the f— was that?’” Since the incident, Rodgers has been reading up on UFO sightings, and said his own experience matches the general pattern: being near a nuclear plant, and hearing fighter jets directly afterward. “If you know anything about UFO sightings or you’ve done research, you know that a lot of times \[those\] two things are connected to UFO sightings,” he said. \[[_You Made It Weird_](http://nerdist.com/you-made-it-weird-310-aaron-rodgers/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4270484/aaron-rodgers-ufo-aliens/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4270484/aaron-rodgers-ufo-aliens/"},"headline":"Aaron Rodgers Is Still Convinced He Saw a U.F.O.","datePublished":"2016-03-24T14:12:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:11:12.981Z","description":"The Green Bay Packers QB recounted the dark, snowy night 11 years ago.","url":"https://time.com/4270484/aaron-rodgers-ufo-aliens/","keywords":["Sports topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd61a33f416bab6/69888c55cf40a80f5fc42873/aaron-rodgers-ufo-story.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd61a33f416bab6/69888c55cf40a80f5fc42873/aaron-rodgers-ufo-story.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"aaron rodgers UFO story","caption":"aaron rodgers UFO story","creditText":"Christopher Polk— Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4270484/aaron-rodgers-ufo-aliens/","name":"Aaron Rodgers Is Still Convinced He Saw a U.F.O."}}]}] ```