Aaron Rodgers Told a Story on ‘Hard Knocks’ About Seeing a UFO

The New York Jets quarterback told quite the tale on the season finale of HBO’s Hard Knocks.

A season of Hard Knocks with Jets new QB Aaron Rodgers as the star wouldn’t have been complete without an off-the-rails story from the quarterback, and we finally got one in the season finale.

The show gives Rodgers the floor to talk about… UFOs. Rodgers claims he, along with some friends, once witnessed a UFO flying overhead in the middle of the night after hearing an alarm going off in the distance.

“Up in the clouds, we heard this sound and saw this tremendously large object moving through the sky,” Rodgers said. “We just saw this incredibly large object and froze, as anybody would.”

Rodgers also claims he heard fighter jets flying by, seemingly in pursuit of the object. When the event wasn’t covered in the media, Rodgers says he became interested in researching UFOs. That only seems to have emboldened his belief in what he saw, tying the siren to a nuclear power plant nine miles from the house he was staying at.

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“If you know anything about UFOs, there’s a lot of sightings around nuclear energy, around volcanoes, around power plants,” Rodgers says. “Whatever the hell it was, I don’t know, but it was definitely unidentified, it was definitely flying, it was definitely a large object.”

It’s perhaps not surprising that Rodgers would have theories on UFOs, given how open he has been in the past about some of his rather anti-establishment views. That didn’t stop fans from having fun at his expense for the video, though.

Classic Aaron.