2000s Metal Singer Is Pretty Sure He Saw a UFO

Instead of waiting for the United States government to confirm the existence of extra-terrestrials, we could just ask Randy Blythe.

Blythe, 55, has seen a lot during his tenure as singer and frontman for Richmond, Virginia’s Lamb Of God—that’s what happens when you’re from the same town as GWAR. And while GWAR’s legion of bloodthirsty cosmic barbarians are mostly fictional, Blythe was deadly serious when talking about his own close encounter with Clutch singer Neil Fallon.

“Yes, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen one, by the house I rented down on Oak Island, North Carolina,” Blythe told Fallon in a special Metal Hammerfeature where Randy fielded questions from his fellow musicians. Fallon wanted to know if Blythe had seen a UFO, and the “Into Oblivion” singer said that the alleged encounter happened when he was “a block from the ocean.”

“I was sitting on the front porch there with my friend, T-Roy from Sourvein, and his girlfriend,” said Blythe. “All of a sudden, we saw these two sets of four lights in a kind of square pattern over the ocean, very bright. They went horizontal very quickly, one this way and one that way, then they went up and then down, and then they both shot into the sky at an incredible speed. We were honestly freaked out.”

Blythe reasoned that it couldn’t have been a military vehicle; “they can’t go that fast,” he said, adding that what he saw wasn’t a drone.

“I am not obsessed with aliens or weird conspiracy stuff like some of my friends, but I think it’s improbable that we’re the only intelligent thing in the universe,” added Blythe. “And I definitely saw an unidentified flying object that night.”

In recent years, the term “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP) has been used alongside “unidentified flying objects.” In 2023, lawmakers passed a bill signed by then-President Joe Bidenthat required the National Archives and Records Administration to establish a collection of government documents about UAPs, according to USA Today. In September 2025, Congress held its third UAP-related hearing in as many years, where four witnesses discussed their first-hand experiences of alleged UAP.

One doesn’t need to “phone home” to catch Lamb of God this year. The band will release their tenth album, Into Oblivion, on March 13 via Epic Records. A few days later, they’ll embark on their Into Oblivion North American tour, trekking across North America.

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