Most Bizarre Alien Abduction Stories Of All Time

If there's any phenomenon that everyone might at least grudgingly agree might be of extraterrestrial origin, it's music. In the case of a man born as Herman Blount, he believed that's exactly what happened.

If there's any phenomenon that everyone might at least grudgingly agree might be of extraterrestrial origin, it's music. In the case of a man born as Herman Blount, he believed that's exactly what happened.

He was born in 1914, and according to Another Man, it wasn't until 1953 that he told the world that while he was in college, he had been whisked away to Saturn by extraterrestrials. It was there that he says he learned his ultimate purpose in life, which was to become a spirit guide for mankind. The planet, they told him, was heading in a downward spiral pretty quickly, and he was going to help stop it.

Blount changed his name to first Le Sony'r Ra, then Sun Ra, saying (via The Guardian) that he was shedding his "slave name" to become the entity he was destined to be. According to an interview he gave in 2014, he wasn't a man but was, instead, an angel, and he had come to Earth from his homeworld of Saturn. 

Music historians have written tons of books cataloguing his more than 200 albums of widely varied music, and Paul Youngquist (via Vulture) had an interesting take on the whole angel and aliens from Saturn thing. They suggested he was putting a new spin on "the whole harrowing history of African slavery ... the slave ships of the Middle Passage were the first alien motherships."

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