John Lennon was left trembling after meeting an alien-like figure, according to his close mate and serial spoon-bender Uri Geller.

The Beatles icon had no doubt an extra terrestrial had visited him.

It was so traumatic he rang his pal Uri Geller at 3 am for comfort.

And when the pair met, Uri was shocked by John’s appearance.

Uri said: “John wakes me up in the middle of the night and he says, ‘Uri, you’ve got to come quickly. Something unbelievable happened to me’.

“So I tell John, ‘It’s three o’clock in the morning!’ But I could feel something was going on and something was desperately wrong with him.

“I told him to meet me halfway. I meet John in a hotel in the lobby. I remember he was standing in the corner. He was white and shaking.”

Uri quizzed John about the incident and tried to calm him down.

He said: “So I asked John, ‘What happened?’

“And he says to me, ‘I was lying in my bed and suddenly I saw light by my bedside and out of this light an extra terrestrial hand stretches out.

“My first question was, ‘What did you smoke?’ But he swore to me that this happened to him.”

John was said to be fascinated by aliens and believed they exist. In 1974 he claimed he saw a UFO from his flat in New York.

John and Uri bonded over their interest in extra terrestrials.